M.J. Rose

Exciting news: M.J. will be touring the blogosphere for the latest release in her Reincarnationist series, THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES, from February 20th through April 13th. Tune in to the blog for blog tour updates and links to her delicious posts about lost fragrances. Your senses will thank you!

Here’s an intro…

M.J. Rose writes: I’ve been fascinated with lost fragrances since long before I started writing The Book of Lost Fragrances…since I found a bottle of perfume on my great grandmother’s dresser that had belonged to her mother in Russia. Here is one of those lost fragrances that stirs the senses and the imagination…(researched and described with the help of the perfume writer Dimitrios Dimitriadis) –

And so, M.J.’s February 20th guest post at the TBR Pile is a review of GUERLAIN’S CUIR DE RUSSIE – click here to read it.

THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES comes out on March 13 from Atria Publishing! I’ve read the book and it’s beautiful and impossible to put down. You will be spellbound as I was.

More goodies:

OBEs, or Out of Body Experiences, are indeed, mysterious. Are they a function of our brain’s neurons? A mystical transformation? A result of otherworldly spirits guiding us to an experience of the other realms? A “near death”? A lucid dream? An astral projection or soul trip to inner space or outer space?

In the following piece from The Daily Grail, some enlightenment on the subject is offered. Enjoy!

How to Have an OBE

The following is a modified excerpt from Paul and Charla Devereux’s book Lucid Dreaming: Accessing Your Inner Virtual Realities (Daily Grail Publishing, 2011).

The techniques used for inducing out-of-body experiences (OBEs) are essentially similar to lucid dream inductions, but with a different emphasis. The power of place (spatial programming) takes on special importance, and ways of developing a dual awareness can be helpful. Most OBE practitioners agree that when inducing the experience, physical relaxation is most important. A state of relaxed alertness is the ideal to be sought.

There seems to be no special dietary advice for OBE induction, though pioneering ‘astral projector’ Sylvan Muldoon recommended fasting and a reduction in the taking of liquids on days when induction is being attempted. On the other hand, dream researcher Patricia Garfield found that she had her strongest (and most frightening) OBE when she had been “inordinately stuffed with food”! As far as posture is concerned, there are likewise no universal rules. Muldoon felt that sleeping on one’s back was best, and failing that, the right side. Garfield felt that lying on one’s back or left side best facilitated OBEs. Robert Monroe, one of the most prominent OBE proponents of the last half century, said that the aspiring OBE practitioner should lie with his or her head towards the north, but Garfield argued that it made no difference what direction one slept in. Perhaps the only golden rule is to simply experiment! You have to find what works for you…

For the complete article, click here to go to The Daily Grail.

Here’s a powerful provocation from artist Jae Rhim Lee. Can we commit our bodies to a cleaner, greener Earth, even after death? Naturally — using a special burial suit seeded with pollution-gobbling mushrooms. Yes, this just might be the strangest TEDTalk you’ll ever see .

Introducing the Infinity Mushroom – the mushroom that eats you after you die…

TedTalks never disappoint! Click the image above to watch.