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Spiritual Surf: The new controversy about . . . yoga
A breakout book puts the favorite workout of celebs and the spiritual on the defensive A disciple of B.K.S. Iyengar says that yoga teachers injure themselves as much as football players: “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body” (New York Times) Recovering yogi Glenn Black: the vast majority of people should give up yoga (Daily Mail) [...]
Write your own Love Scroll
About the rotating panel of very personal experiences to your lower right BY SOUL’S CODE — Have you heard a question that goes like this from competitive friends, motivational speakers or, say — the foremost practitioners of American reality TV, Oprah and Donald Trump? “Where do you want to be five years from now? Which [...]
Spiritual Surf: 10 reasons to feel awesome about 2012
Political activists on both the left and right project dark times ahead. We present a contrarian upside, spiritually-speaking: 1. You can start the year by seeing the Dalai Lama, live (Dateline: Bodh Gaya, India) 2. The world will have more saints in 2012 (Dateline: Vatican City) 3. The Mayans, the New Agers and the movie were wrong: [...]
A New Year’s mantra
A meditation to de-stress for the post-2012 era BY DAVID RICKEY — January in northern California is usually a time of rain, cold, and a psychic hangover from the double-barreled Christmas and New Year holidays, which can tend to be anything but Holy days. After getting swept up in the maelstrom, let’s step back a [...]
Why we celebrate each New Year: It’s in our soul’s code
Buying into 2012 as more “doom and gloom” is a collective projection. A new solar year is a sacred event that can ground you. BY DAVID RICHO, author of Daring to Trust and 14 other books about spirituality and psychology — Annual planting among ancient peoples began with prayer that recalled how the gods performed this same task [...]
Are there two tiers of consciousness?
What is Spiral Dynamics? When to apply your own knowledge to everyday life BY MICK QUINN AND DEBORA PRIETO (Read the first part of this two-part series) — The easiest way to understand the essential nature of Spiral Dynamics (SD) is to picture a ladder that twists into a never-ending spiral, the top end of which [...]
The Soul’s Code Twitter directory
Invites you to express yourself with the most loving minds of our generation, the Soul’s Code community SOUL’S CODE — Allen Ginsberg famously wrote the first line of his Beat revolt-poem, Howl, on the other side of San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill, the geographic formation around which we held clandestine meetings while creating Soul’s Code. “I’ve [...]
Spiritual Surf: What’s new with the Old Testament?
Christmas politics and high-tech wealth creation Professor Gingrich needs a history lesson about the Holy Land: “We are Palestinians” (New York Times) 300-member American journalist association: Ranks death of Bin Laden top religion story of 2011 2012 end-times and climate change? A green Christmas in . . . Ottawa, Canada (Ottawa Citizen) 1-percenter Christmas collateral damage: Foreclosure kills [...]
Memo to Alec Baldwin: How to stay grounded on holiday flights
Flying triggers anxiety in even the most enlightened. Try this in-flight meditation to curb air-rage SOUL’S CODE — Look no further than 30 Rock, and its politically-ambitious star Alec Baldwin’s pre-Christmas meltdown on an American Airlines flight from New York to LA. The pilot ordered the Hunt for the Red October actor removed from the plane [...]
Election year special: The Republican Soul
SPIRITUAL IQ QUIZ — It’s once again time to elect the leader of the Free World. Or in the words of the Tea Party, it’s time to know thy enemy — beat down your enemy, and then pray for your enemy. Hell, maybe some of us are sleeping with the enemy. (“Come on down, James Carville”). Or [...]






















