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How To Tell If Myths Ring True…

The character Jac L’Etoile in The Book of Lost Fragrances studies mythology – it is her life’s work to find the truth behind myths. She would be extremely interested in the following article from the Sunday Review:

 

 

 

If Achilles Used Facebook…
By PADRAIG MAC CARRON

 

WHEN we pick up a mythological text like “The Iliad” or “Beowulf,” we like to imagine that the societies they describe existed. Even if the stories are fiction, we believe that they tell us something about ancient Greece or the Anglo-Saxons, and that some of the characters and events were based on reality.

 

Archaeological evidence suggests that at least some of the societies and events in such stories did exist. But is there other evidence, lurking perhaps within the ancient texts themselves?…

 

For the complete piece click here.

 

 

 

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Death Is An Illusion

“The influences of the senses,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson “has in most men overpowered the mind to the degree that the walls of space and time have come to look solid, real and insurmountable; and to speak with levity of these limits in the world is the sign of insanity.”

 

We have posted here often about Biocentrism, Dr. Lanza’s fascinating theory of the universe and reality, and we are still very intrigued. But, if consciousness is everything, how is death explained using the ideas of Biocentrism? Won’t we cease to exist once our consciousness has passed away? The following article explains that there may in fact be no death of our consciousness whatsoever…and therefore no death at all.

 

Is Death An Illusion? Evidence Suggests Death Isn’t the End

 

by Robert Lanza

 

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“After the death of his old friend, Albert Einstein said “Now Besso has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us … know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

 

New evidence continues to suggest that Einstein was right – death is an illusion.

 

Our classical way of thinking is based on the belief that the world has an objective observer-independent existence. But a long list of experiments shows just the opposite. We think life is just the activity of carbon and an admixture of molecules – we live awhile and then rot into the ground.

 

We believe in death because we’ve been taught we die. Also, of course, because we associate ourselves with our body and we know bodies die. End of story. But biocentrism – a new theory of everything – tells us death may not be the terminal event we think. Amazingly, if you add life and consciousness to the equation, you can explain some of the biggest puzzles of science…”

 

For the complete article click here to go to Lanza’s website.

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Lost Fragrances Continued: M.J. Guest Blogs About COTY – AMBRE ANTIQUE…

The latest release in M.J.’s Reincarnationist series, THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES, is ripe with sensual references to perfume and M.J. has done significant research into the mysteries of scent.

 

…And so, she recently spent a few months touring the blogosphere, leaving behind a gorgeous trail of guest posts about lost fragrances.

 

Tune in here often as we post more links to her numerous delicious posts. Your senses will thank you!

 

On that note (pun intended), here’s an intro to M.J.’s Guest Post at Books Devoured on COTY – AMBRE ANTIQUE…

 

 

Francois Coty is considered by many to be perfume royalty… many scents that bare his name have endured well over a century, and are still marketed today….


For her complete post about COTY – AMBRE ANTIQUE click here.

 

 

 

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