Posted by soulscode on 30 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Soul's Code Canon & reviews
Indian portal Rediff.com has picked the 50 most influential Indian-Americans, a list that highlights several deep thinkers and spiritual leaders.
Akeel Bilgrami, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, who wrote Belief and Meaning and Self-Knowledge and Resentment. Bilgrami once told India Abroad:
“People like […]
Posted by soulscode on 28 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: The Pain Body, Religion Goes Scary
Multimillionaire NFL quarterback Michael Vick goes on record for staging dog fights. If you listen to the first three minutes of that clip, it sounds like an apology. Then, Vick finds God: “In this situation I found Jesus and asked him […]
Posted by soulscode on 20 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Religion Gets Funny, Minor Miracles
A Manchester, Conn. couple have found Jesus—in their kitchen cabinet, according to an NBC report. Malynda and Eric Smith saw the face of Jesus and have decided to keep the cabinet. It’s not quite a chocolate Virgin or God in your eggplant, but a
Posted by soulscode on 20 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Everyone's A Guru, Minor Miracles
A former Buddhist monk is in training to be the U.S. Army’s first Buddhist chaplain, according to an NBC report. Lieutenant Somya Malasri hopes to minister to the estimated 3,300 Buddhists in the U.S. Army. He will not be schooling them in the Kung Fu ways of […]
Posted by soulscode on 19 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Religion Gets Funny
We’ve written before about the cult of consumerism and Steve Jobs’ new Jesus phone, but a Palm Beach Baptist Minister took it to the next level by offering $15 iTunes gift cards to anybody who filled out a join-up (”connection card”) at the church,
Posted by soulscode on 19 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Mystical destinations, MyJournal, California Rose
It’s hard to imagine undertaking an activity that will require long distance walking every day for 30days or more. Before I began the Camino de Santiago (the Way of St. James), I used to think that walking 5 or 6 miles was a […]
Posted by soulscode on 19 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: PhyllistheAuthor
I was in the grocery store when someone in the next aisle answered their cell. Harsh words followed. I tired to ignore the intrusive, one-sided conversation as I maneuvered through the onions and potatoes to the bananas. A stranger was inflicting me with their angst.
That brought me back to the Camino where I delighted in […]
Posted by soulscode on 19 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: The Pain Body, Confessions
More than 80 years after scientists harrassed orphans in an experiment to make them stutter, the great State of Iowa paid out $925,000 to each child who had been subjected to what is now known as, The Monster Study.
So much for the Hippocratic oath’s ethic of […]
Posted by soulscode on 19 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Religion Gets Funny
You’d think the New Life Church in Cedar Grove, West Virginia, would have gotten the message when its building burnt to the ground. But no, the faithful moved the church into a former furniture store and kept on with their worship (while the police continue to investigate the case […]
Posted by soulscode on 19 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Peak Experiences, Mind-Body toolkit
We’ve written about the psychological and spiritual benefits of nudity before, but this time Spencer Tunick has taken it, as they say, to a totally new level. The photographer staged 600 volunteers on a glacier in Switzerland in 50-degree weather to draw attention to global […]
Posted by soulscode on 19 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Religion Gets Funny
When a Bodega chocolate worker stopped believing in God, the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared to her. But the appearance didn’t come down out of the sky, as it did to Juan Diego 500 years ago. The Virgin appeared on the floor of a factory, created from the drippings of […]
Posted by soulscode on 16 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Peru has been hit by two 7+ magnitude earth quakes, various news sources are reporting.
Posted by soulscode on 15 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Everyone's A Guru
There’s something inside the psyches of computer programmers that draws them to the intractabality of Zen koans. Combine that with a passion for sci-fi and faux mysticism and it bestows upon all mankind a prolific online library of teacher-student koan dialogues.
Here’s a sample from The Tao of Programming:
A programmer from a […]
Posted by soulscode on 15 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Everyone's A Guru, Religion Gets Funny
The moral of this story: don’t go wild when you’re burning rubber mats in your back yard and performing Wiccan religious ceremonies, especially when the cops show up. Brenna Raven Moonfire was says she was performing Wiccan ceremonies in her back yard. Cops say she was drunk, disorderly and […]
Posted by soulscode on 15 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Soul's Code Canon & reviews
Sometimes God’s work gets in the way of a person’s relation with God. In no profession is that more true than being a pastor, a new study shows. Six out of every 10 Christians feel their hectic schedules keep them from spending time with God, it reports. […]
Posted by soulscode on 15 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: The Pain Body, Religion Goes Scary
23-year-old Thomas Kyle Nursey parked his Ford F-150 pickup truck inside a Catholic church Tuesday morning, according to news reports. The Floridian decided he wanted to go to church at 3 A.M. and drove his truck up through the front doors to display his anger at God. Police […]
Posted by soulscode on 15 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: The Pain Body, Love & Relationships (families included)
Abusive partners are turning to technology for new ways to torture and torment the other people in their relationships, reports MSNBC. Spyware, keystroke loggers and GPS tracking devices have become part of the abusers arsenal.
It’s a lucrative market fueled by the pain body, to borrow Eckhart Tolle’s poignant […]
Posted by soulscode on 14 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Religion Gets Funny
The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has opened up a new course of study in homemaking for female seminar students, raising ire from various camps, according to AP reports.
“We are moving against the tide in order to establish family and gender roles as described in God’s word for […]
Posted by soulscode on 14 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Religion Goes Scary
A camouflaged bible may be hard for deer to see, but this product’s path to profitability certainly isn’t. The $50 publication is sold by Christian Outdoorsman, a site that caters to Bible-thumping hunters.
A big market, apparently. A survey of licensed hunters and anglers last year commissioned by the U.S. National Wildlife […]
Posted by soulscode on 14 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Religion Gets Funny
Felicia Teske, a resident of Delaware, was eating dinner when she noticed that the slice of eggplant she was about to eat spelled out the name of the Creator. She set it aside and did what any reasonable person would do: Called Action News to get her […]
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