Soul's Code Author, Paul Kaihla

Educated in economics and history at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto, where he was a Faculty Scholar, Paul returned to the latter alma matter for a post-grad fellowship. Before and after those academic turns, Paul also studied filmmaking at York University, Finnish language and history at the University of Helsinki, and Russian at a New England military academy. Paul spent a decade at Maclean’s, Canada’s equivalent of Time magazine, where he emerged as the 100-year-old property’s chief investigative journalist. He then joined Media Profile, Canada’s top, independent p.r. and i.r. firm, as a director. In 2000, Paul emigrated to the United States to work as a Senior Writer, online columnist and blogger at Time Inc’s Business 2.0, a new media property based in San Francisco. Over the span of his journalistic career, he won more than a dozen national and international journalism prizes, including three National Magazine Awards in Canada, the Press Freedom Award and a Loeb Award finalist honor in the U.S. In 2008, Paul founded Soul’s Code Inc. and www.soulscode.com When Paul is not being a gym-rat — he is moved by Big Sur and other mystical places, meditative practices like watsu, and sacred spaces like the Finnish sauna. His code: “Allow everything, when you least expect it.”
Recent articles
Pick up artists? Or something more…

Picking up women really is about more than picking up women… at least for these men: The men each begin with a brief introduction, describing their current plight with women. Some are funny and gregarious, others withdrawn and demure, and they vary in levels of traditional attractiveness and professional success. But each shares a general [...]

Andrew Cohen and WIE: a tire fire (the New Age edition)

We’re not in the business of using other people’s pain as a source of entertainment. So let’s reel this out and look at it as a mirror for what happens when any one of us falls into a rabbit hole of unconsciousness. Here is a gallery of intelligent people who took the road less traveled, [...]

Atheism: now fortified with fanaticism

You didn’t think the techno-hipsters at Wired were above resorting to religion to sell magazines, did you? Kudos to writer Gary Wolf for digging up a first class group of crankypants: militant atheists! These guys combine the flexibility of Soviet bureaucrats with the fun factor of a bowl of bran flakes.

Jesus Camp and the Excited States of America

A documentary about fundamentalist day-camping depicts another theological, spiritual and cultural divide between red and blue states BY SOUL’S CODE — Introducing the new documentary, Jesus Camp, and a new tire-fire in America’s religious wars. According to an account in The L.A. Times the filmmakers are being terrorized: When Fischer arrived home Tuesday after a [...]

Barack Obama: ‘My Spiritual Journey’

Barack Obama’s memoir and manifesto, The Audacity of Hope, has echoes of The Cloud of Unknowing BY PAUL KAIHLA — That’s the headline for the excerpt from Obama’s new memoir, which is featured on the cover of Time magazine. An accompanying news story by Joe Klein, the journalist who wrote Primary Colors, compares the junior [...]

Is the new Bond channeling Rumi?

A poem by the Sufi mystic, Rumi, shows up in a love scene in Casino Royale BY PAUL KAIHLA — We’re not about to add the new James Bond movie opening Nov.17, Casino Royale, to our Top 12 Spiritual Cinema list on Soul’s Code but if you’ve seen the trailer, it suggests Bond has been [...]

Ask a Guru: You say you’re with an addict?

After hearing my friend K talk about her marriage this week, I had this thought that psychological pain is a master of disguises. And another thought: Isn’t the path of pain like water damage in a house or apartment? Water can seep into the building from wherever, lurk in the joists and studs for a [...]

Meditation Junkies

Yoga, Prana, Love

Soul’s Code Pain-Body Index

INTRODUCTION: The Soul’s Code Pain Body Index ™ Think of this as the Soul’s Code version of the Body Mass Index, known as BMI. Our Pain Body Index, while far less scientific, measures an individual’s unconscious hurt and anger — the stuff that resides in the psyche’s basement. The term pain body, to give proper [...]