Tom Hanks newest patron of Da Vinci Code church
Tom Hanks has personally donated to help restore Scotland’s Rosslyn Chapel, where part of The Da Vinci Code was filmed. According to Dan Brown’s novel, the chapel was built by the Knights Templar, marks a point on the “Rose Line”, or prime meridian, and contains several  esoteric [...]

No Comments »

Are our motivations for action spiritual or messianic?
DAVID RICKEY — Russell Bishop, on HuffingtonPost,  lists seven signs that the new millennium is becoming more “spiritually focused.” He lists movies and movements from The Secret to Kabbalah, trying to demonstrate a type of third great American “awakening.”
Let’s look at another progression. In 2000 we (at least some) [...]

4 Comments »

 
The new film, “Waiting for Armaggedon“, is an hour-long documentary examining how some US Evangelical Christians are awaiting the end-of-days. Their highest hopes are aligned with planetary destruction, a rapture of Christians up to heaven, pre-tribulation with the Anti-Christ’s one-world government, all before a millennial reign of Jesus [...]

2 Comments »

James Cameron’s floating islands of planet are inspired by Roger Dean, a pop artist famous for creating mystical album covers like Close to the Edge and Fragile

BY PAUL KAIHLA — Reviewers insist that the story-line for Avatar owes a lot to Pocahontas but the visual universe that James Cameron created for the planet Pandora [...]

9 Comments »

Oprah once promoted self-help guru James Arthur Ray, and his vehicle The Secret. Now she maintains a strict silence on both, and the deaths in Sedona

BY PAUL KAIHLA —The Secret was launched as a viral, online, pay-per-view phenomenon a couple of years ago. Oprah made it a mainstream hit by featuring its Australian producer [...]

1 Comment »

What spiritual bling have would-be wise women like Winona Ryder, Madonna and Courtney Love been known to wear with their designer gowns? Kabbalah bracelets and more . . .

They’re not exactly leading ladies of enlightenment but a couple of them have enjoyed the first half of that designation as stars on the silver screen. In these [...]

2 Comments »

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 [...]

3 Comments »

At Twilight, it will be a New Moon for Vampire fans everywhere
We mere mortals are obsessed with the undead. Dating from time of the Persians, there have been tales of Blood-Sucking Fiends who strolled the earth under the full moon. But it wasn’t until the 18th century that the term “vampire” came into popular usage. And it [...]

2 Comments »

The success of Paranormal Activity has eclipsed Dr. Charles T. Tart, the psychologist who turned the concept of the paranormal into a new branch of science
SOUL’S CODE — Paranormal Activity is now the most profitable movie in history ($15,000 to make, it’s earned more than $100 million in box office) but the inventor of the [...]

6 Comments »

“We are flying by the seat of our collective, cosmic pants around a relatively insignificant sun, that is in turn hurtling through the provincial backwaters of a massive galaxy, anchored by a hellishly ravenous black hole.”

GUEST COLUMN: H. C. Hummel — I was raised on a grape ranch in Northern California during the 1950’s in [...]

6 Comments »

Global warming, Mid-East nukes and the collapse of healthcare? No worries! It’s only the end of the world as we know it in Roland Emmerich’s third disaster movie. This time, it’s spiritual . . .
A SOUL’S CODE EDITORIAL — When Spanish adventurers, centuries after the Conquest, stumbled upon Mayan ruins in the jungles of present-day [...]

5 Comments »

Worried about war, depression, global warming and the price of gas? No wonder everyone’s talking about the year 2012

BY VAISHALI, author of You Are What You Love® and Wisdom Rising
Everywhere I go I hear conversations — rumblings about 2012. As I watched the Dow zig-zag across 10,000 and Congress authorize trillions of dollars to rescue [...]

2 Comments »

Celebrities are seekers, too. So who has more soul: Paris Hilton, Madonna, or Kathy Griffin?

Celebrities are just like us — well us if we had a cult-following of “paps” devoted to our sex, lives and videotape. And if we carried around the “ultimate” Black Amex credit card.
But while wealthy stars may have allegedly inherited [...]

9 Comments »

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 [...]

5 Comments »

Obama lights up the White House for the Goddess of Wealth (and no it’s not Oprah). In another first for Nobel Prize winner Barack Obama, he became the first  US President to honor Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Jains by lighting a symbolic diya/lamp in the White House and wishing everyone a “Happy Diwali and Saal Mubarak.”

The Secret’s [...]

1 Comment »

Test your knowledge of movies ranging from the transcendental genius of The Last Temptation of Christ to those that just try too hard . . . yes we mean you, The Love Guru
1.  Which composer scored the music for The Mission, the Oscar-winner about conquistador sin and Jesuit redemption that starred Robert De Niro and [...]

5 Comments »

Deepak Chopra: medical doctor, holistic medicine guru, Ayurvedic expert, author of 30 books . . . and now, under the microscope of our Celebrity Seekers Quiz!
Test your knowingness . . .at the bottom of the page.
1.  Which politician called Deepak “the pioneer of alternative medicine?”
A.  George W. Bush
B.  Hilary Clinton
C.  Bill Clinton
D.  [...]

5 Comments »

Our resident pagan, Danny Kenny, reviews the reviewers:  Sarlo’s Guru Ratings, Spiritual Teachers and Peter’s Pages — or ‘the unholy trinity,’ as he likes to call them
DANNY KENNY — It’s such a simple step to go cynical. But Holy-ocity! — “handicapping” spiritual teachers, guides and gurus like race horses? That’s called bad form.
In these times, [...]

16 Comments »

More than a soft-core brand: Paris Hilton does have a soul — and a kind mind

A documentary which had its first national audience at the end of July on MTV is the ultimate celeb enlightenment-moment: Paris Hilton has been playing us — and a character — all along.
Paris, not France reveals that the woman-famous-for-being-famous is [...]

2 Comments »

SPIRITUAL SURF: When dinosaur media properties fight for life in an industry depression and macro recession, they invade whose turf?
Love, loss, realization, sex and “sin” are some of the life highs and lows that provoke spiritual exploration in the first place, and are among the core themes to which Soul’s Code is devoted.
We are amused [...]

No Comments »