Soul's Code

The California retreat, Harbin Hot Springs, invented a powerful form of deep trance work variously called watsu and water dance
BY PAUL KAIHLA — I first heard of watsu when I went to Harbin Hot Springs with an ex because of its rep for having the best mineral baths north of San Francisco. We were surprised [...]

"My teacher, Eckhart Tolle, gave me nothing. This may sound disrespectful, but it is in fact the greatest testament to the authenticity of his teaching."

GUEST COLUMN: KAREN McPHEE — Although it took me ten years to fully realize this truth, I can honestly say that my teacher, Eckhart Tolle, gave me nothing.

I discover the magic of dance, massage. . .and Rolfing SI!
GUEST COLUMN: CAROLE  LAROCHELLE, Read part 1 and part 2 of this 3 part series — After graduating from university I tried to force myself into a career as an accountant.
I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of working in the business world, but was unhappy sitting at a [...]

After surviving thyroid cancer, Reiki revealed a deeper dimension to my life

ANONYMOUS — Throughout my life, I've received many messages from the Spirit World and, as a child, had a spontaneous out-of-body experience. But there is one specific spiritual event in my adulthood that has profoundly changed my life.

Many years ago, I had cancer, which started in my thyroid and quickly spread to my esophagus and vocal cords. I had two surgeries and nine months of radiation, followed by another year of recovery for me to regain my full strength.

To this day, I have a scar across my throat that looks like a smile. But I have grown to love that scar because, to me, it represents life.

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 [...]

A man at a crossroads stumbled upon a mind-body technique called the Sedona Method. It spawned leading spiritual teachers — and made him one, too

GUEST COLUMN: NIRMALA — In 1997, I was busy attending naturopathic medical school and, I thought, happily married. And then out of the blue my wife told me she was leaving [...]

We've expanded our slide show, Transcendental Movies, from 9 classics to 12. Our new additions: Fur, Being John Malkovich and Last Year at Marienbad
BY SOUL'S CODE — That last choice, Marienbad is set in a mid-century, is a 1961 classic by the French "new wave" director, Alain Resnais). Set in an upper class Grand Tour-like [...]

Most of the gurus and guides on Soul's Code would answer that spirituality is an unmeasurable quality. But  a regional economist would answer the above question with two words: Ojai, California

BY PAUL KAIHLA — Ojai, CA is to spirituality what Silicon Valley is to technology. Due east and a 40-minute hop inland from Santa [...]

A vanguard of self-schooled female mystics are doing an end-run around the mainstream self-help and New Age movements — and are advancing a radical, 21st century spirituality. Call it the 'Anti-Me Generation.'
Click here to read the 7-part series where Soul's Code introduces some of the avatars of of what could rightly be re-labeled, the sage [...]

Confessions from a job management coach on how to use surrender, service and grace to make your next career move
GUEST COLUMN: JEFF ROBINSON — From July 2005 until approximately April 2006, I began a spiritual transformation that changed the course of my life in some amazing and often difficult ways, and which continues to this [...]