Inspired by female mystics, Pamela Wilson and Neelam, a medical student drops out, has a peak experience in India, and becomes “Nirmala”

(Read the first part of this two-part series)
GUEST COLUMN: NIRMALA — After being in the presence of Pamela and Neelam, I just couldn’t let this desire for Freedom go. I had the sense [...]

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A guided, deep meditation from Pamela Wilson, one of today’s leading spiritual teachers
A companion piece to Pamela Wilson’s adjoining column, Age of Sorrow, Age of Wakefulness, this meditation invites you deeply into restorative rest and gratitude for every granule of your being. Invite someone close to you to close their eyes, and try reading [...]

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We’ve extended the best, brightest and biggest Soul’s Code photo, video and art contest: Get featured on our homepage, in our next postcard . . . “Take” a shot at snagging a spiritual basket of prizes worth $250!
The idea: Show us a person, place or practice that inspires, or enlightens you. Email us an image [...]

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“Just because CNN is selling economic fear across the board doesn’t mean you have to buy it.”
GUEST COLUMN: VAISHALI — From the Eastern perspective there will never be one single pill, diet, exercise or lifestyle that will cure what ails all people.
Each of our lives fulls of thoughts and episodes and sensations reflect an intensely-experienced [...]

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The collapse of financial institutions are like a Harvard Business School case study: our collective hubris falling away

SPECIAL TO SOUL’S CODE: KATIE DAVIS author of Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment — Through spiritual awakening, we realize that virtually nothing is as it seems. Previously, we believed that we were a tiny fraction of individuality [...]

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Why do the depressed fail at relationships? Communication breakdown. A Stanford psychologist identifies 4 telltale signs
SOUL’S CODE —  A smattering of reports have linked suicides to people who are losing their homes, or reeling from steep losses in financial markets.
For most of us, depression won’t be a life-threatening issue — but it will threaten the [...]

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We surf Oprah . . . so you don’t have to
The L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, has given Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince a four star rating.
Not overly concerned that most of the characters are witches and warlocks, the article praises the movie for its values of “friendship, altruism, loyalty and self-giving.”  Catholic News [...]

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Soul’s Code columnists, spiritual teachers and readers reel out their gut-feelings about the King of Pop’s passage: may his soul be sanctified

SOUL’S CODE — When the Indian “hugging saint”, Amma, perhaps the most-loved person on the planet, enters an ashram or a hall or a tent in her world travels, all rise. Her presence is [...]

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After Charlie’s Angels ended, Farrah embraced the divine
GUEST COLUMN: DR. JEANINE AUSTIN — Farrah Fawcett was a huge beauty icon for all of us who came of age in the ’70s. I didn’t know any 13-year-old girls that didn’t, in some way, try to copy the Farrah feathered hair style. In earnest, I took [...]

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Scientology leader accused of slapping subordinates
David Miscavige, Church of Scientology chairman, has been accused of  hitting staff members on several occasions. Said one alleged witness, “It was random and whimsical. It could be the look on your face. Or not answering a question quickly. But it always was a punishment.” Soul’s Code finds this a [...]

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A motorcycle accident; a ruptured disk; Lyme disease: How a female mystic healed herself

AN ADVANCED EXCERPT FROM RASHANI RÉA’S NEW BOOK, Beyond Brokenness
Suffering is by no means a prerequisite for anything. It’s a part of life. We suffer until we understand the root cause of pain. This is simply how the mystery moved through [...]

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A priest and psychotherapist shares how he and his friends have dealt with recession, job loss and financial poverty
BY DAVID RICKEY — The loss of a job — the proverbial “Pink Slip” — can be a major challenge on several levels. Material survival, physical well-being, emotional balance, and, ultimately, sense of meaning are all threatened [...]

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A scientific approach to life after death?
Religion News reports on a Dallas Morning News interview with neuroscientist David Eagleman, author of Sum: Forty Tales of from the Afterlife. Not your typical scientific doubter, Eagleman plays up the possibility of life on the other side saying, “I think it’s so important that we celebrate our ignorance [...]

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Marriage and family therapists are advancing a new way to disarm people when they lose their cool: the Aikido of Communication
SOUL’S CODE —  Like a scene out of the Michael Douglas movie, Falling Down, a just-divorced aerospace worker in California’s “Inland Empire,” dressed up as a Santa on Christmas Eve 2008 and shot nine [...]

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These aren’t “The Rules” that Oprah loves. DAVID RICHO’s arise out of Buddhism, a Catholic priesthood and depth psychology
SOUL’S CODE —  Shrunken stock portfolios, canceled checks, and an unemployment rate in the double-digits indicate that couples who are distressed in their relationships today will stick together tomorrow.
Stick it out, rather than walk out is a [...]

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“Headscarf martyr” mourned in Egypt
An Egyptian woman stabbed to death in a German courtroom was mourned by a throng of people in Alexandria, Egypt, July 7, 2009. Marwa al-Sherbini, 32 years old and pregnant, was allegedly attacked in court during a case in which a neighbor accused her of being a “terrorist” for wearing traditional [...]

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The current economic crisis is a collective ‘dark night of the soul’  — and a creative destruction of the ego’s fear and trembling

GUEST COLUMN: SMADAR DE LANGE — In 1843, the Danish philosopher Kierkegaard published a book called Fear and Trembling, a title borrowed from a line in Philippians 2:12, “. . . continue to [...]

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Stock market forces might be causing a “correction,” but a larger “force” is at work. It seeks more than a correction. It seeks an evolution
BY DAVID RICKEY — The media is full of polls that reflect what everyone already knows: Americans are clinically depressed by the depressed state of the economy, and their own [...]

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Is it a case of mistaken identity or karmic regression? What it means when a “reincarnated lama” says “No way!”
DAVID RICKEY: The story of  Osel Hita Torres, who had been chosen by the Dalai Lama as a reincarnation of a spiritual leader and then turned his back on the Buddhist order, raises two interesting questions. [...]

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A Danish pop star turned inspirational speaker teaches the power of speaking up
GUEST COLUMN: SUZANN RYE — I believe that anything is possible. . . that anything you set your heart and mind to achieve, you can. And I believe that we are all born with infinite wisdom. If we don’t get too distracted, if we [...]

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