Archive for April, 2008

OPRAH WATCH: Her May issue says, “Have Your Own AHA Moment!”

Posted by Soul's Code on 30 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Eckhart Tolle, Oprah

oprah mag coverWe’ve had our fun with Oprah!, the be-all-things-to-all-people TV filter. Her May issue of O! is 348 pages — rivaling the page-count of In Style and the luxury New York fashion magazines. Her roof line: “BEAUTIFUL BOTTOMS: At last! Pants that really […]

THE NEW YORK TIMES takes on PADRE PIO, Father David takes on the post-Christian mind

Posted by Soul's Code on 26 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Mystical destinations, Caroline Myss, Rites & Role models, Minor Miracles

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GUEST COLUMN: DAVID RICKEY

Whereas millions of spiritual seekers see the *mystical* in PADRE PIO, the mainstream media sees — well, the mawkish

Padre Pio died in 1968, was canonized in 2002, and more than a million people will visit Puglia […]

NARENDRA PATEL: The most spiritual architect in America, and ‘green’ pioneer

Posted by Soul's Code on 25 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Mystical destinations

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Narendra Patel is an architect who was born in the Indian province of Gujarat, did his post-grad in Canada — and made his name in Rancho Mirage, CA, the better-half of Palm Springs. He radiates an out-sized aura in proportion to his bantam-physique, and walks […]

TOP 10 SPIRITUAL RESORTS IN THE WEST: A Mexican hideaway called “Present Moment”

Posted by Soul's Code on 25 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Mystical destinations

Mexican spiritual retreatAs this site has morphed from its original incarnation of 9Choirs to Soul’s Code we’ve been stepping up to the brand — and adding more exhibits to the slide shows you see in the column on your right. Instead of *nine* […]

The New York Times puts down the Jewish mystical tradition, the Kabbalah — from the right. SARAH SILVERMAN got there first — from the left

Posted by Soul's Code on 24 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Celebrity Seekers, SPIRITUAL MATERIALISM

The New York Times Magazine threw 5,000 words at the subject of the kabbalah, which its freelancer labels “an esoteric occult offshoot of Judaism dating at least to the 13th century.”

It’s actually a hit-piece on The Kabbalah Centre: The World’s Leader in Kabbalah […]

The “bitter” quote? The bad “elitist” rap? The Democratic Primary is a proxy war between a low-chakra candidate (with beer below) and a high-chakra one

Posted by Soul's Code on 16 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Caroline Myss, Presidential candidates + other Pols

hillary-beer-drinking.jpg John McCain argued that Barack Obama’s reading of blue-collar voters in Pennsylvannia is “elitist,” and represents a “fundamental contradiction of what I believe America’s all about.”

At the umpteenth Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton said Obama is “elitist, out of touch and, frankly, patronizing.”

In the argot of […]

B.K.S. Iyengar and the “Yogathon”

Posted by Soul's Code on 15 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Rites & Role models, Mind-Body toolkit, Yoga

renee.JPGLast year, Vanity Fair magazine called him “the grand master of yoga.”

B.K.S. Iyengar, still alive and well at 88, is the 20th century’s premiere popularizer and translator of Indian yoga. As a sickly teen, Iyengar developed a highly-accessible type of hatha […]

A doctor turned-Buddhist reveals his “Close Encounters with Addiction”

Posted by Soul's Code on 10 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Addiction, Soul's Code Canon & reviews

GUEST REVIEW: CYNDI INGLE

Are you now, or have you ever been, in the realm of the hungry ghosts? It’s one of the six realms in the Buddhist Wheel of Life — the not-so-fun one where people are constantly searching for something outside of themselves […]

PRAYER WALL: “I don’t pray myself, but I know that people at my Mother and Father’s church do pray for them . . .”

Posted by Soul's Code on 10 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: PRAYER WALL

Carl and Pat Turner are elderly and ailing. They require, at turns, the help of siblings, their three children,  neighbors — or hospital inpatient care. This request comes from their daughter . . .

Godfather of American psychology, JAMES HILLMAN, endorses Obama, gives him a clean bill of mental health, disses Hillary (We let Obama Girl do “the work”, below)

Posted by Soul's Code on 10 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: TEACHERS WE TRACK, Presidential candidates + other Pols, Rites & Role models, Minor Miracles


Freud was raised in Vienna, Austria — and died in London.Jung was born in Switzerland three decades later, died in Switzerland two weeks after the outbreak of WWII.

Who can America claim as a founding father of modern pscyh? James Hillman is probably the best candidate: born in […]

THE ‘08 SUMMER OLYMPICS, CHINA and TIBET: The Beijing Olympics will elevate the Tibetans’ cause the same way the 1968 Democratic convention did the anti-war movement

Posted by Soul's Code on 10 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Sacred Days, Rites & Role models

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GUEST COLUMN: SHARON BROCK

The global appeal of the Olympics is vested in a time-honored ideal of one-world peace. To bring the world together through a shared love of human *being*, embodied by the dreams and devotion of […]

DATELINE, SAN FRANCISCO: Protestors in the most secular city in the United States join in an outpouring of support for Tibetan Buddhism

Posted by Soul's Code on 09 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Sacred Days, Minor Miracles

tibettorch.jpgWe can see and hear thousands of angry demonstrators jamming San Francisco’s financial district and waterfront along its famous bay as we write this. It’s a miraculous outpouring of support for the Dalai Lama, and his campaign to reclaim Tibetan self-rule — and his […]

JAMES HILLMAN tells psychologists the best way to be *present* is the Pagan Way, at “A Therapy for Psychotherapy” conference in Santa Barbara, CA

Posted by Soul's Code on 01 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: TEACHERS WE TRACK, Rites & Role models, Soul's Code Canon & reviews

james-hillman.jpgOne of the Gods of American psychology, James Hillman, held sway over hundreds of professional psychs, students and academics at a three-day workshop on “Pagan Psychology” at Santa Barbara’s Pacifica Graduate Institute – a remarkable feat for any 81-year-old.

Our very own Smadar de Lange was there […]