Soul's Code

As Bono sang: We are one love, one blood, and one life
None among us are born without purpose
None among us are born any better than another
Life has purpose and life serves us each as one
When we learn to serve each other we automatically grow into our purpose in harmony with the ONE PURPOSE OF LIFE
We [...]

Like the Earth itself, we are all vulnerable to the energy within us
GUEST COLUMN BY HEATHER GREAVES — The Earth in all her pain (toxicity) and glory has faults.
Likewise, we human beings with all our broken dreams and victories, have faults.
As below our feet. . .so it is above.
The year 2010 has begun with Earth [...]

Will soul evolving strength and beauty emerge from the rubble of Haiti?
GUEST COLUMN BY CHELSEA LANGAN — It's been a tough couple of days for Haitians, their families, and sympathetic souls around the world. The devastation that has unfolded in such an already grief stricken island seems catastrophic.
But on a positive note, I believe they've [...]

On this First Day of Advent of Barack Obama's presidency, The Great Litany has a new ring
That it may please thee so to rule the hearts of thy servants, the President of the United States, and all others in authority, that they may do justice, and love mercy, and walk in the ways of truth.
PAUL KAIHLA [...]

A spiritual teacher's meditation and affirmation for this anniversary of fear and terror
GUEST COLUMN: RONDA LARUE — 9/11 is, and was, a big wake up call to witness the internal machinations of fear, and its multi-faced projections. And as with all tragedies, it is a call to dive deeper under the ruble of suffering, shock, and reaction [...]

Despite his transgressions,  Edward Kennedy was a model of grace and forgiveness. His legacy outshone Chappaquidick and the shadows cast by assassins Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan

BY PAUL KAIHLA — In our anxious world the news of a Kennedy death has an archetypal effect: shock and awe, a collective "pain body" experience. John F, [...]

A small business owner writes about returning after the storm
BY SKIP MARTIN — After weaving my way through the maze of road blocks and debris that is Galveston County post-Ike, I finally made it to the Galveston Police checkpoint.  It was more than a week before residents would be allowed to return permanently — just two days [...]

The near-category three storm ripped across the Texas gulf coast last night
Gone with the wind: Murdoch's Bathhouse (1910), The Balinese Room (1929), Hooters (2006). Still standing, we hope, is UTMB's BioSafety Level Four lab, one of only 13 in the country equipped to experiment with avian flu, hemorrhagic fever and other highly infectious organisms. But how [...]

Residents flee storm that recalls the worst natural disaster in American history

BY BEVERLEY WOOD — 9:00 am one fateful Saturday in September, a storm began to make landfall in Galveston, Texas from the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, where it had tossed and turned all night. By 10 o'clock, the severity of the wind had gathered force [...]

We offer our prayers to Jayne Schaffstein Veld (June 6, 1969 - September 1, 2008), and the two young sons and husband she leaves behind in San Francisco. May her soul be sanctified, and joined by the voices of angels and archangels.
We, in turn, pass on Jayne's spirit to you. This daily prayer sustained her [...]