Posted by soulscode on 30 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: The Pain Body, Addiction
You’d think that soaring above the clouds might bring you closer to the Divine, or at least be an uplifting experience. But flying, for many, has become the epitome of a painful experience. Some people are going over the edge, experiencing the phenomenon of Air Rage. […]
Posted by Soul's Code on 29 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Mystical destinations, Mind-Body toolkit
In our mind, a spiritual resort is a place where you can go out of mind. A place that’s therapeutic not just for your body but your most over-worked and over-heated organ in this mad, mad world — your brain. A spiritual resort is a place that chills your brain organ to the point that […]
Posted by soulscode on 27 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: The Pain Body, Mind-Body toolkit
It’s hard not to be excited by a new group of websites showing the destruction of various consumer products. The simple question WillitBlend.com poses gets put to the test with every type of imaginable product and substance. Conceived as a marketing strategy for a […]
Posted by soulscode on 26 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Religion Gets Funny
Posted by Soul's Code on 25 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: The Pain Body, TEACHERS WE TRACK, Celebrity Seekers, Addiction, Eckhart Tolle, Soul's Code Canon & reviews
Here we were about to do a post about Paris Hilton and the psychological phenomenon called “object constancy” — you know, Tinkerbell, her addictions, her revolving door of lovers — and she throws us this perfect curveball.
During her comings and goings to prison, paparazzi […]
Posted by Soul's Code on 24 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Enlightened TV, David Richo
“Ready for the rapture” was a signature phrase in the penultimate episode of The Sopranos, which aired during the second week of June, 2007. We’ve come to love and learn those epiphanic flourishes of dialogue — and this one came from an FBI […]
Posted by soulscode on 16 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Uncategorized, PhyllistheAuthor
Two friends have asked my Baptist husband if after the pilgrimage, he is going to become a Roman Catholic. How much these people missed the point of the Camino. It was not a religious exercise like kissing the hem of the Pope’s robe. It was a spiritual journey.
In fact, I didn’t meet anyone who was […]
Posted by soulscode on 11 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Stella Wasserstein
I stumbled onto this Zen Koan today and thought it worth sharing.
Chokan had a very beautiful daughter named Seijo. He also had a handsome young cousin named Ochu. Joking, he would often comment that they would make a fine married couple. Actually, he planned to give his daughter in marriage to another man. […]
Posted by soulscode on 09 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: PhyllistheAuthor
In response to our pilgrimage, one person asked how could anyone believe in a God who let babies die. Implicit in the question is the belief that death is bad. And it does seem so to those who are left bereft. Yet it may be the greatest good for those who die. For the innocents […]
Posted by soulscode on 07 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Stella Wasserstein
Nothing hurts more in a news story than hearing about kids getting hurt or tortured. In this sick story, reported by the BBC, a woman discovered 26 sewing needles in her body when she had blood in her urine. Ouch! How did she not notice earlier? Her grandparents had stuck her with needles […]
Posted by soulscode on 07 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Stella Wasserstein
I don’t know about this new movement of telling people exactly what you think. At one level, it sounds really cool. You’re being compassionate and respecting them by being honest. There’s no pandering or no assumption that they won’t be able to deal with whatever truth you would unveil to them. But it still sounds […]
Posted by soulscode on 06 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Uncategorized, PhyllistheAuthor
Have you ever noticed how when you buy something like a new car you suddenly see that make of car everywhere? Since our pilgrimage, we see scallop shells—traditional symbol of the pilgrimage—everywhere. Even Coquilles St. Jacques, a favorite scallop recipe, takes on new meaning.
In spite of my heightened sensitivity to scallop shells, on a recent […]
Posted by soulscode on 06 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: MyJournal, DenverJohn
I dreamed about Zombies all last night. At first I was fighting the brain-eating dead in hand to hand combat. Then I was running from them. In the last part of my dream, I was filling up bags with useful things to escape with. I decided that to avoid getting left out in the rain […]
Posted by soulscode on 06 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: PhyllistheAuthor
Many years ago, I read a novel called The Fountain by Charles Morgan. The story turns around a dying man’s withdrawal from life into the divine. As his body fails, little by little the man subtracts himself from the things of earth, from status, possessions, and even the love of his wife. Such release is […]
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