Soul's Code

Christopher Hitchens still doesn't need God; Immigrant's revenge; Why Opus Dei appeals to women; Florida Christians to burn Koran on 9/11/10

As Christoper Hitchens suffers from advanced cancer, the arch-cynic and critic says: Don't pray for me.
Machete: Starring Lindsay Lohan as a nun with a gun, Jessica Alba and Robert De Niro, the  movie is expected [...]

Lindsay seeks a new Inferno; A year without sex?; Deepak mentors Gaga; Evangelicals and oil
Inferno: Lindsay Lohan set to star in porn-star-turned-feminist Linda Lovelace's bio.  Lohan's character (Linda Susan Boreman, aka, Linda Lovelace) descends into the fire pit of sexual exploitation and abuse.
Can delayed sexual gratification lead to greater intimacy? Hephzibah Anderson's new book Chastened, [...]

From victims to champions: the stories of five amazing women
BY MARINA GIULLIANI — I’m going to be honest.
I don’t like the kind of movie that Breaking the Silence represents.
Films or TV shows that delve deeply into the psyche of those who’ve been mistreated, misguided or misunderstood, with the interviewer gentle prodding until a stiff upper [...]

Al Gore back in the game: pick up lines on Twitter; Spiritual lessons from Lost; Facebook access, at a cost
Al and Tipper Gore split not sign of impending Armageddon: Reasons to NOT mourn the "shocking" news
On the lighter side: Al Gore pick up lines on Twitter
Sex and the City 2 anti-Muslim?: "Imperalistic Barbies" adorn [...]

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 [...]

The Dalai Lama confirmed a boy from Spain as his reincarnation and successor as the guiding spirit of Tibetan Buddhism. Then Osel Hita Torres turned his back on both His Holiness and his way of faith

BY DAVID RICKEY — In the story of  Osel Hita Torres, a young spiritual prodigy was chosen by the Dalai [...]

Palin defends Franklin Graham's anti-Islam past; It can be a Wonderful Afterlife; the new golden age of TV introduces a dramedy with a spiritual sense of humor, Gravity

Harvard theoretical-physicist Lisa Randall explains parallel universes to Charlie Rose (YouTube, left): CERN's Hadron super-collider set to put Hawking and 'multiverses' to the test
Fundamentalist Sarah Palin comes to [...]

The Atlantic Monthly's literary issue highlights a silent spiritual retreat; the Pope's Buddhist moment for abuse survivors; How social networking is helping cancer patients

Call it a somatic awakening. Call it  spiritually-inspired, tattoo-like messages on a maximo nude body. Hell, call it what it is: gratuitous Ricky Martin video to the left to get your attention.
Hidden [...]

 
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 [...]

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 [...]