M.J. Rose

I couldn’t resist another post on China’s most recent absurd act of aggression against the ever-peaceful Tibetan Buddhists…You’d think that brutally overthrowing the Tibetan government 50 years ago would be quite enough!

But reincarnationists, let’s keep the faith – ultimately, a process of such mystical antiquity as the repeating rebirth of a living Buddha is not going to be thwarted by a mundane government order of any kind. Governments are no match for the great inexplicable wheel of karma!

From World News on TimesOnline:

“Tibet’s living Buddhas have been banned from reincarnation without permission from China’s atheist leaders. The ban is included in new rules intended to assert Beijing’s authority over Tibet’s restive and deeply Buddhist people…For the first time China has given the Government the power to ensure that no new living Buddha can be identified, sounding a possible death knell to a mystical system that dates back at least as far as the 12th century.”

Click here for the complete article.

…this bit of science fact causes one to wonder – if birds are this intelligent, perhaps they are reincarnating along with the rest of us?

(Don’t forget to watch the movie clip associated with this story. It will blow your mind.)

Congratulations M.J.! This is a wonderful Starred Publisher’s Weekly Review of her new novel…they are saying that The Reincarnationist “better meets its ambitions than Dan Brown’s ubiquitous book.”

Wow.

The Reincarnationist – Starred Review
M.J. Rose. Mira, $24.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2420-1 Best known as an author of erotic thrillers, Rose (Lip Service) delves into religious myth and past-life discovery in her well-paced ninth novel. In present-day Rome, a terrorist bomb explosion triggers flashbacks of pre-Christian Italy in photographer Josh Ryder. Josh experiences the memories as Julius, a pagan priest defending the sacrosanct monuments of his gods and the life of his vestal virgin lover against the emperor-mandated onslaught of Christianity in A.D. 391. Six months later, Josh has teamed with the Phoenix Foundation, an institute specializing in past-life memories in children, to explore a newly excavated tomb that may contain pagan memory stones that incite past-life regressions and will, by proving the existence of reincarnation, challenge the church. The stakes rise after it becomes clear that dangerous outside forces also want the stones. In a series of memory lurches, the narratives of Josh and Julius slowly wind together to reveal a Da Vinci Code–esque tale of intrigue that’s more believably plotted and better meets its ambitions than Dan Brown’s ubiquitous book. (Sept.)