A meet-up of psychologists, medical researchers, social workers, Buddhist monks and Google’s School for Personal Growth defines Happiness and its causes
DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCO — Forty specialists who have devoted their careers to studying and practicing happiness converged on California’s capital of consciousness to share their secrets about joy and bliss. Happiness is an elusive concept, and as [...]

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“One should not have to lose a child, especially in the violent manner in which mine was murdered, to learn the things that are indispensable to living.”

Linda White’s most recent appearance was at the Happiness & Its Causes Conference in San Francisco, which Soul’s Code was co-sponsored.  A doctor of psychology, Linda specializes in restorative justice, primarily victim-offender [...]

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“Before I learned how to know who I am from the inside-out, I thought I needed to become a model to be beautiful.”
GUEST COLUMN: LAURA HOLLICK — “People feel ugly when they look at beauty magazines.” 
I heard this saying and I thought it was ironic. . . Have you ever felt that way? Have you [...]

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California’s anti-gay measure is a case study in what dictates change: Consciousness. Not politics
BY CYNDI INGLE — Why does mainstream media, and a mass-market audience, get off on public displays of homo-erotic affection — in particular, “girl on girl” action? Madonna slipping Britney some tongue; Ellen marrying her beautiful blonde lover, Portia, and Lindsay Lohan’s [...]

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Bill O’Reilly’s Christmas crusade, Toys ‘R’ Us and twelve pagan ways we celebrate the holidays
GUEST COLUMN: DANNY KENNY — The New Year bodes ill for both Bill O’Reilly and Toys ‘R’ Us, as one is going half off the air and the other could be going out of business whole-hog.  But at least the latter, [...]

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More than 10 million women in the U.S. undergo cosmetic surgery each year.  Is this really necessary?
(Nell is using a pen name to protect her privacy, and when you read the article you’ll understand why!).
GUEST COLUMN: NELL CAMERON — My twins are not identical, if you catch my drift. You don’t? Well to clarify . [...]

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Guidance from a homeless man on a beach and Thoreau: disasters, money meltdowns and loss are blessings in disguise
BY VAISHALI — I was talking with a loved one who rode out Hurricane Ike on Galveston Island on the gulf coast of Texas. The Island took a big hit with a 14-foot storm surge, 120 mph [...]

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When we’re not happy, do you believe it’s because we “think” we know what happiness is? The short answer from Vedic psychology

Raised in an abusive, alcoholic family — and twice diagnosed, “terminal” — Vaishali is a new female mystic who comes by her joy honestly.
GUEST COLUMN: VAISHALI — Happiness. It is the No. 1 thing [...]

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“I spent a month at B.K.S. Iyengar’s yoga retreat, and my body has openings that were never there before”
BY RENEE TAVARES — We’re wrapping it up here, only two more classes with the best yoga teacher I’ve experienced, Geetaji Iyengar, the daughter of B.K.S. I feel my body has openings that weren’t there — [...]

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My life-long dream was to meet the greatest yoga teacher in the world. I’m living it this month at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune, India
BY RENEE TAVARES — I guess you could say that B.K.S. Iyengar is my “personal god,” not that I believe in a god as an individual. But [...]

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When we feel powerless, we project “power” onto Obama. As much as we celebrate a savior — being one, or looking for one — is a delusion

BY DAVID RICKEY — For many of us, (I’ll admit myself into this group) our great hope was pinned on Barack Obama winning this presidential election.
The scale and depth [...]

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Sorry, no punch line. But the similarities are striking
BY JOHN S.  — As I’ve been watching “live” coverage of the brutal second-by-second collapse of the stock market — broken only by occasional reprieves — I have found myself thinking that I was witnessing a surreal representation of a drunk spiraling to his demise.
Cable TV’s cheerleader [...]

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When Republicans look at Bill Maher, they see Lucifer. Democrats see a comic genius. We saw Religulous to escape election withdrawal
BY TERJE FOKSTUEN — As funny as he is, Bill Maher is a cerebral type who lives in his head — at the expense of his heart. He’s missing enough in the soul-department that I [...]

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Did Tolle’s concept of the collective Pain Body drive the election?
BY DAVID RICKEY — September marked the 7th anniversary of what has become known simply as 9/11.
That horrific day flicked a psychic switch for Americans. For most of us, we suddenly had a sense of being a victim, and that completely wiped out any [...]

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Mary Andersen was flying to Norway to start a new life. She got a helping hand from a stranger: Barack Obama. In her own words . . .
For Barack Obama’s inauguration we call your attention to a little-publicized event in 1988, after the future president left his gig as a community organizer in Chicago and [...]

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