The platypus, a baboon’s behind, and The Housewives Tarot prove that the universe has a wild sense of humour
 GUEST COLUMN: AMY LEASK — As an undergrad, I took an English seminar on women and nature, which included a number of traditional stories from Canada’s “First Nations” communities. Eyebrows went up when we were assigned a [...]

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The California retreat, Harbin Hot Springs, invented a powerful form of deep trance work variously called watsu and water dance

BY PAUL KAIHLA — I first heard of watsu when I went to Harbin Hot Springs with an ex because of its rep for having the best mineral baths north of San Francisco. We were surprised [...]

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Introducing a weekly scan of news and links connected to people and life-issues that are in the root directory of Soul’s Code
SOUL’S CODE — Depression chatter, global-warming warnings and permanent war in the Middle East have created a bull market for the “doomersphere” (credit to the New Yorker for the phrase).
Meet four (online) horseman of [...]

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A reiki master in her late 30’s describes how she used the body-work technique to help conceive her first child
BY DANA L. YOUNG — Can practicing reiki help you if your goal is to become a mother? I had already been practicing reiki when I became pregnant in 2006. I’m in my late 30’s and [...]

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Drawing on “Emotional Intelligence” author Daniel Goleman and a recent Oprah guest, Google launches a School of Personal Growth
PAUL KAIHLA — Apple isn’t the only Silicon Valley anchor-tenant that knows how to execute a stealth launch. For Google, though, this one wasn’t about products — and it seems that the world’s largest search engine and [...]

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“Work was my compulsion; the admiration of others, my addiction. Taking back my life was a labor of love”
DATELINE, British Columbia: DAWN DANCING OTTER — I was raised a Christian. My family, for many generations (so far as I know) has been Christian of one denomination or another. When I was a child, I loved [...]

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From deadbeat dads to the middle initial “H” . . . our Top 10 reasons why Obama and Jesus are, in *deed*, the same person
SOUL’S CODE — When Freud coined the term, transference, he used it to describe the unconscious projection we have about a parent, or some other childhood figure, onto a lover, boss [...]

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A piece of you: Soul’s Code readers report a year’s worth of their spiritual highs
SOUL’S CODE — The late, great 2008 was a perfect storm for pessimists. They glommed onto the fact that it was the worst year for the stock market since The Great Depression ($7 trillion vaporized). And rightfully mourned the bombing into oblivion [...]

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