An Irish immigrant and psychologist with a love of sleep, dreams up a new reality from a mystical past
GUEST COLUMN: HELENA DALY — I am as Irish as Irish can be . . . a nomad, a bit of a gypsy from the West of Ireland’s wild rugged beauty. On a visit home a few [...]

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The cosmic side of Courtney Cox; B.F. Skinner and Arthur Koestler redux; Does ABC’s Amazing Race have any grace?

“Amazing Race” had its 2009 premier this week. And so you say, So?!
It just happens to have a lot of spirituality. When a show clones the Victorian-era, global-village meme of Around the World in 80 Days, it’s hard [...]

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Test your knowledge of movies ranging from the transcendental genius of The Last Temptation of Christ to those that just try too hard . . . yes we mean you, The Love Guru
1.  Which composer scored the music for The Mission, the Oscar-winner about conquistador sin and Jesuit redemption that starred Robert De Niro and [...]

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Freedom from slavery celebrated
Jews around the world are celebrating the Feast of Booths, or Sukkot, commemorating the Hebrews’ freedom from slavery and sojourn through the Sinai desert. Always considered relevant, this holy day generates meditations on ecology, mysticism, and helping the homeless.
A day after the annual Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, David Letterman was [...]

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Congratulations to Xuan-An Thai, an upwardly-mobile seeker from Texas who took a clandestine trip to Cuba — and stumbled upon a smokin’ (cigar, that is) smiling Buddha

First, we asked everyone in the world to send Soul’s Code an image of a person, place or thing that inspires or “enlightens” them.
Then, some in our Soul’s [...]

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Pilates is part of the training program of every professional sports team in America. It is also a meditation
BY PAUL KAIHLA — Some people don’t go to a gym at all. Some go to a gym, but they do their own thing, in their own silo of solo, whatever. For two decades, I was one [...]

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SPIRITUAL SURF: Dalai Lama, UN and adidas make “peace”; Transcendental housewives of New York

September 21st, the fall equinox, is the UN’s International Day of Peace — not to be confused with Global Orgasm Day, to be celebrated on December 21st, the winter solstice.
Old enemies team up: Execs from adidas and Puma will shake hands for [...]

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A Stanford University neuroscientist and meditation instructor talks about the transformative power of Buddhism and why happiness is a trainable skill

Dr. Philippe Goldin, a psychologist who heads the Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience Group at Stanford University, runs a National Institutes of Health-funded lab that studies adults with social anxiety disorder, and offers training in mindfulness [...]

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Negative karma happens when we try to store up life’s riches for our own use. Positive grace takes place when lessons happen that an Intelligence wants us to know
DAVID RICKEY — Ever since I was kid, I’ve had an insatiable need to understand how things work. I used to take my toys apart to try [...]

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When the game is betrayal, what goes around, comes around
BY CASSANDRA K — As Sharon Stone found out, karma really is a bitch. (Her crazed, off-hand comments last year suggesting that China’s devastating earthquake was karmic payback for the government’s treatment of Tibet prompted a ban and boycott of her films in China and  . [...]

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Call it non-duality, call it Advaita, call it whatever you want. If the present is all we ever have, why do we feel so lonely?

BY SMADAR DE LANGE — Three top tropes of the New Age are “interconnectedness”, “oneness” and the general notion that ‘reality’ has different ‘levels’, or frames — say, like a video [...]

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How Sacred Contracts author Caroline Myss guided a Soul’s Code reader on her life’s path

GUEST COLUMN: ELLEN FENNER — We all have a moment we can look back on and see divine intervention that we didn’t necessarily recognize at the time. For me it was the day an angel (pictured at right) sat me down [...]

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How to recognize and encourage a deep thinker under the age of five

GUEST COLUMN: AMY LEASK — When I thought she was just coloring, a five-year old on the floor decided to pipe up and state “What makes us human is love.”
Confident, even matter-of-fact, it seemed as though she’d been mulling the question “What makes [...]

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Soul’s Code has sung the praises of female mystics and spiritual teachers since our inception —  meet our inspirations, Pamela Wilson, Byron Katie, Caroline Myss, Katie Davis and Vaishali Love

Test your S-factor, as in, the measure of the soul:
1.  According to transpersonal psych studies, women have an edge when it comes to remembering, understanding and relaying their [...]

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Vegas TV magician claims tarot and divination are not in the cards for him as “Mindfreak” blasts psychics

GUEST COLUMN: DANNY KENNY — In a CNN interview, Criss Sarantakos (a.k.a Angel) told Larry King, “no one has the ability, that I’m aware of, to do anything supernatural, psychic, talk to the dead. And if somebody claims [...]

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GUEST COLUMN: JOANNE EHRICH —I’d always had this thing about Australia’s exotic creatures (when I was a girl, I had a pet cockatiel and parakeet, butterflies with scintillating blue wings and lime-green Aussie beetles in my insect collection).
But it would be a couple of decades before I made my ultimate discovery in the animal kingdom, [...]

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Call it self-pleasuring, call it masturbation, call it whatever you want. But is it “spiritual”?

GUEST COLUMN: ED EHRGOTT — Coming to terms with my identity as a gay man in my early 20’s was the final reason for me to sever my connection to the Catholic Church; for many years, I had no spiritual identity [...]

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Straddling the masculine and the feminine, sexually and spiritually speaking
Second in a two-part series by SMADAR DE LANGE — Many spiritual traditions, such as Kaśmir Śaivism, Hinduism, Sufism, and Judaism celebrate the union of two “separate” bodies as a sacred act that creates the deep experience of “oneness.”
But when we talk about “the juicy stuff,” the age old [...]

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What do men want, sexually and spiritually speaking? A somatic therapist draws on psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the Tao Te Ching and personal experience
The first in a two-part series by SMADAR DE LANGE — What is a man’s deepest longing?
Some believe the simplistic psychological answer: men are predisposed to merge with their primal mothers, to feel [...]

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Deepak Chopra: medical doctor, holistic medicine guru, Ayurvedic expert, author of 30 books . . . and now, under the microscope of our Celebrity Seekers Quiz!
Test your knowingness . . .at the bottom of the page.
1.  Which politician called Deepak “the pioneer of alternative medicine?”
A.  George W. Bush
B.  Hilary Clinton
C.  Bill Clinton
D.  [...]

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