Mawlid, birthday of Muhammad
This Friday Sunni Muslims across the world will celebrate Mawlid, the birthday of the prophet Muhammad.  Though the celebration is centuries old, historically Muslims were divided over the issue of permiting the holiday and how it should be celebrated (maybe it appeared too similar to that religious birthday among Christian neighbors: Christmas).  Festive [...]

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Scientists at the Human Consciousness Project are studying what happens when we die. It’s not as bad as you might expect

BY DAVID RICKEY — When Time magazine wants to engage with its readers, they do articles like, “What Happens When We Die? Their take:
A fellow at New York’s Weill Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Sam Parnia … [...]

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A heart-breaking work of staggering honesty: Sins of My Faith. In this Soul’s Code exclusive, a woman who lost her innocence to incest explains why she did not “out” her abuser
BY MARINA GIULLIANI: It’s commonly understood that incest refers to “sexual acts between close relatives”, but I know from first-hand experience that incest is a heinous [...]

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The phrase, “I love you,” is an empty one until you can face these four fears
BY DR. ANGELA HEPPNER — When was the last time you said to someone “I love you”?
These have to be the three most precious words uttered when spoken from the heart with genuine meaning.
Is this not what everyone wishes to hear? It [...]

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Soul’s Code has criticized Ray and the franchise that made him famous, The Secret. One of our columnists, who is a spiritual practitioner in her own right, urges us to extend compassion to both the victims and accused
GUEST COLUMN: CARI LA GRANGE MURPHY — The topics of spiritual authenticity, accountability, compassion, and soul growth are [...]

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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 [...]

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Voodoo shamanism turns to self-blame; Pat Robertson into the mix; Ditto, Danny Glover and Catholicism

Haiti’s voodoo turns against itself and into spiritual self-retribution
Haiti’s devestating earthquake has left thousands dead, injured and homeless, causing a psychic after-shock about suffering, poverty, international relations, death, and God. Amidst the pain and chaos, Haitians and the world are seeking to understand [...]

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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 [...]

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Recession pushed a real-life couple into therapy.  What they found when they got there: money was synonymous with love and security.
DAVID RICKEY — In early 1988 I began work with a couple, (we’ll call them George and Martha), whose relationship seemed to be a victim of the ‘87 recession. Martha worked as an interior designer; George [...]

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Daniel realizes the far reaching effects a 49-year-old fight has had on many lives

BY DANIEL D. WOO, 2nd of two parts — I immediately found Chapter 18 and read it; here’s a paragraph:
“It is a summer evening, down in a green hollow, at the corner of a wall. I meet the butcher by appointment. I [...]

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End of 2009 bash fest affects “pretentious prancer” Lady Gaga, rock ‘em sock ‘em Charlie, the Pope and even Kim Jon II
Fred Phelps not gaga over Gaga
According to Reverend Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, Lady Gaga has a “whore’s forehead” and is destined for Hell.  Are we to believe the “Reverend” [...]

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Brittany Murphy?! Yes, sweet and innocent and apparently-addicted Brittany Murphy
2009 just had its 2008 moment, in the sense of the loss of an ingenue who actually had talent, not just an external skin that God had smiled upon. Last year, it was Heath Ledger. In the days before the last Christmas of this decade: Brittany Murphy.
She [...]

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From down and out to pin-up: How a burnt out fitness trainer was voted Playgirl’s ”Man of the Year,” and discovered that true beauty isn’t skin deep
GUEST COLUMN: KEVIN TALLEY — While some may debate whether angels or spirit guides really exist, from my life experiences I can state categorically that I am a “true believer.”
As a counselor, fitness trainer and [...]

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The Secret’s wishful thinking, versus the reality of 7 million American jobs lost. Soul’s Code introduces its own guide to balancing, job — and inner, security

BY PAUL KAIHLA —  Oprah’s endorsement helped make a viral, online video called, The Secret, a mainstream hit a couple of years ago.
The theme of The Secret is that the good [...]

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A former street involved youth shares what gets him though a season that for many, is less than merry
GUEST COLUMN: MICHAEL LARDIE — Today, as Christmas fast approaches, I  sit in a café, reflecting.  I’m thinking about why I am not fond of Christmas and trying to remember the good qualities I used to enjoy [...]

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How a Vietnam veteran’s miraculous battlefield “protection” transformed him into a life coach

GUEST COLUMN: OSCAR TRUITT — When I was drafted into the army in 1969, I was a 19 year-old hippy kid who believed in the concepts of peace and brotherly love.  When I went to Vietnam, I had the idea that I would [...]

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Three ways to move you, me and we from resentments to emotional life, liberty and happiness
GUEST COLUMN: DR. JEANINE AUSTIN — The clients I coach will often tell me that they wish they could quickly and effortlessly shake free of things that have bothered them.
Like an injured athlete who is asked to “walk it off”, [...]

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An award-winning movie puts fear under observation, terror under surveillance — and reflects both the faces of hate and compassion

BY DANNY KENNY — In Oliver Hirschbiegel’s “Five Minutes of  Heaven”, characters played by Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt deal with universal themes of reconciliation, revenge and forgiveness, set against the backdrop of the Irish conflict.
Through the [...]

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“I had thyroid cancer, and a reiki therapy session that changed my life. Call it a peak experience, call it a spirit guide . . . I’m healed and happy”

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 [...]

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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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