Soul's Code

Single White Female, Jihad's newest martyrs; good and bad news about your brain

America's newest John Walker Lindh: Single mom in Colorado undergoes religious conversion online
Bikram goes naked, and underground: "Hot nude yoga" is making a scene in NY, LA, San Fran and Salt Lake City
Leading atheists tag-team the Pope: Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins want to charge [...]

Jay Leno's Lenten pilgrimage; Stern on Oprah; Chelsea Clinton's faith

Russia's Jesus: Mikhail Gorbachev recommends "shock therapy"

Hollow men: Jay Leno's Lenten pilgrimmage on Mulholland Drive in a luxury sports car

Howard Stern takes on Oprah and Gabourey Sidibe: "Oprah is another liar, a filthy liar . . ."
Psychic charged with investor fraud: "He should have seen [...]

Jay Leno walks Oprah's Stations of the Cross

The Washington Post's TV columnist, Lisa de Moraes, has a psycho-spiritual essay about Jay Leno's appearance on the final Oprah Winfrey Show of January, 2010. Moraes' brilliant metaphor for how celebs rehabilitate a tarnished public image by seeking on-air absolution from "the Queen of the Confessional": the Stations [...]

8: The Mormon Proposition, a movie on spiritual politics
Utah not only hosts the annual Sundance Film Festival; in the 2010 edition of the film fest, the state's (unofficial) church has a starring role in the line-up of movies.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is taken down in a documentary about the 2008 initiative that successfully banned [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Test your knowledge of billionaire Oprah and her BFF Eckhart Tolle
Last year, Oprah featured Tolle's books, The Power of Now, and A New Earth on the Oprah Book Club, and then devoted 10 weeks of webcasts to interviewing Tolle himself.  Fundamentalist Christians got their knickers in a knot at the thought of Tolle's "New Age" [...]

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 [...]

Soul's Code has suffered occasional blow-back for critiquing Oprah's mixed messages. We  challenge Oprah from the non-dualist, spiritual "left"; celeb-spoofing comedienne  Kathy Griffin has made a career out of roasting Oprah from the secular "right."
Expect the biggest round of Oprah jokes in the media, ever, thanks to Griffin's publicity tour for her upcoming memoir, Official [...]

We surf Oprah . . . so you don't have to
The L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, has given Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince a four star rating.
Not overly concerned that most of the characters are witches and warlocks, the article praises the movie for its values of "friendship, altruism, loyalty and self-giving."  Catholic News [...]