Archive for March, 2009

How I silence my mind in a hectic world

Posted by Soul's Code on 29 Mar 2009 | Tagged as:

“Every emotion you go through in this rat-race life, I am going through, too”
GUEST COLUMN: NICK RALLS — I try to find love and peace in the everyday world while in the midst of the rat race.  I often reflect on how it might be easier to cut the world off but I know that [...]

SPIRITUAL SURF: Lost says, “Namaste”; Tony Robbins writes “vanity”; Jennifer Aniston’s Dogma; Yuppie Islam and More

Posted by Soul's Code on 25 Mar 2009 | Tagged as:

Lost goes all the way with, Namaste
When the Sopranos was on the air, Soul’s Code liked to call the HBO “family” show the TV series with the most mystical messaging. Sorry Tony, but ABC’s Lost now blows your crew off the screen on that score. The way that Lost routinely plays with the notion of both [...]

A first-person prescription for job-loss

Posted by Soul's Code on 16 Mar 2009 | Tagged as:

As a producer in the revolving-door of media, Heli knows job loss. Here’s how she accepts the day she gets the news
GUEST COLUMN: HELI TUOMI CARLILE— I have a positive approach to job losses. I always try to welcome them as signs from the universe, signs that it’s time to move on to a new [...]

March 25 - 31, 2009: The Great Peace Bed-In

Posted by Soul's Code on 14 Mar 2009 | Tagged as:

On the 40th anniversary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 bed-in, thousands will lie down to give peace a chance
GUEST COLUMN: PIPPA BARTOLOTTI — Have you ever really thought about what you can do for peace?
Many thousands of people are prepared to click an icon and join a peace group.
For instance, on Facebook I [...]

Spiritual Surf: Dalai Lama’s Hell on Earth, Brad Pitt Explores the Soul, Dr. Phil “Creamed”

Posted by Soul's Code on 11 Mar 2009 | Tagged as:

Dalai Lama: Tibet has become “Hell on Earth”
Speaking yesterday in Dharamsala, India, on the 50th anniversary of Tibet’s foiled uprising against Chinese rule, the Dalai Lama warned that Tibetan culture faces extinction and that authoritarian rule has made life in the Himalayan nation “hell on earth.”
It’s one of the boldest announcements that the Peace prize [...]

Gross! The great unifier of the human collective

Posted by Soul's Code on 09 Mar 2009 | Tagged as:

We may be one consciousness but Mary Roach’s Bonk details in naturalistic glory how we are also 6 billion runny noses and rumbling stomachs
GUEST COLUMN: AMY LEASK — I’m on my third book by Mary Roach and I’m riveted. It’s called Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, and it’s a very graphic account [...]

What is your dosha?

Posted by Soul's Code on 07 Mar 2009 | Tagged as:

Ayurvedic medicine made Deepak Chopra rich and famous. It can make your next spa visit an exercise in deep healing
GUEST COLUMN: ALAN ANNAND — You may have heard about Ayurveda, and wondered what it is.  Ayurveda is a holistic system of medicine that has been practiced in India for over 5,000 years.
Literally, the word Ayurveda [...]

A history of consciousness, and how to live in presence

Posted by Soul's Code on 06 Mar 2009 | Tagged as:

Featturing Eckhart Tolle, parapsychologist Rupert Sheldrake, philosopher Teillard de Chardin and psychiatrist Margaret Mahler
BY DAVID RICKEY — If Eckhart Tolle is correct (and I believe he is) that the purpose of life is the evolution of consciousness, how does that happen in an historical and biological perspective? Leaving aside the big question of whether there [...]

Is your ‘essence of being’ the same thing as your ‘inner child’?

Posted by Soul's Code on 05 Mar 2009 | Tagged as:

The Indian poet Nachi Ma’s view of a child’s wisdom isn’t the street-smarts in Slumdog Millionaire.  It’s a theory of consciousness
SPECIAL TO SOUL’S CODE: NACHI MA — I feel that there is lot of wisdom rooted in childhood that is ignored, or not recognized because we never assume or look that way.
When a child is probing us [...]

SPIRITUAL SURF: Commandments beat Aphorisms, Obama—Antichrist or Hitler? Why Islam, and more

Posted by Soul's Code on 04 Mar 2009 | Tagged as:

Supreme Court: Ten Commandments trump Seven Aphorisms
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court determined that Summum, a religious group that blends Egyptian practices like mummification with Gnosticism, could not place a monument in a Utah public park inscribed with its Seven Aphorisms, even though a tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments already stands in the park. [...]

Age of Sorrow, Age of Wakefulness

Posted by Soul's Code on 01 Mar 2009 | Tagged as:

Pamela Wilson, who is featured in the Soul’s Code slideshow Female Mystics, shares her insights about the true nature of depression
SPECIAL TO SOUL’S CODE: PAMELA WILSON — Sorrow has been a constant companion for many of us, and yet we are content with the mind’s interpretation of what it is. What if sorrow is not what it appears [...]