Soul's Code

How best to fight against the terrorist mentality that created 9-11? First step: universal love and welcoming a mosque at Ground Zero
BY DAVID RICKEY — The recent spate of anger that has arisen over the proposal to build a Mosque within blocks of the former site of the World Trade Center is, I suspect, an [...]

Constant change equals growth in the world view of female mystic Vaishali Love
GUEST COLUMN: VAISHALI LOVE — Change. That dreaded condition. It may not be a four letter word, but I’ve seen it preceded by some.  Just when you think you are in the groove, what happens? Just when you finally have everything right where [...]

An Episcopal priest comes to the realization that what we have labelled God is actually "absolute intelligence" expressed via humans
BY DAVID RICKEY — Recently two events have changed my center of gravity. First, attending the Parliament for the World's Religions in Melbourne, Australia in December of 2009 and then going to Haiti for the first time in [...]

The very idea of God is, by its nature, beyond the comprehension of "mere mortals". So, we tend to conceive of God in ways that are limited by the level of our own evolution....

Vaishali Love's tip: Practice true human connection and kindness to others by interacting from a "core of love"
BY VAISHALI LOVE, read part 1 of this 2 part series — Whenever we create a “quality meaning” vacuum in life, the emotional and psychological aspects of our existence start to erode and diminish. Ultimately this will affect [...]

Spiritual guru Vaishali, and Auschwitz survivor Victor Frankl show us the benefits of living an examined life
BY VAISHALI LOVE, part 1 of this  2 part series — Reality.  This crazy little thing called existence.
What is it?
Most likely, Lilly Tomlin gave the best celebrity answer in her one-woman show. She described it as little more than [...]

We all know guilt. And some of us understand first chakras. Both are about our primal sense of safety: acceptance
BY DAVID RICKEY — All of us have experienced guilt, and some of us are plagued with feelings of shame. These are very primitive emotions tied to tribal issues embedded in the first chakra.
The need to [...]

Marina's epiphany: her problems with intimacy stem from her childhood sexual abuse
Read the Soul's Code exclusive series, Sins of my Faith
In the last episode Marina met the love of her life, Chris, and settled down to what she thought would be married bliss.  But her demons were never far away and soon Marina became [...]

"My teacher, Eckhart Tolle, gave me nothing. This may sound disrespectful, but it is in fact the greatest testament to the authenticity of his teaching."

GUEST COLUMN: KAREN McPHEE — Although it took me ten years to fully realize this truth, I can honestly say that my teacher, Eckhart Tolle, gave me nothing.

If the act of thinking registers in brain scans, what are those thoughts doing to your body? A spiritual teacher who self-healed from two terminal diagnoses shares some miraculous mind-body mechanics

BY VAISHALI LOVE: After being diagnosed terminal from an illness — and then again ten years later from an injury — there is one thing I truly understand as a result of piecing my health back together and studying the Eastern healing sciences.

What I want to share with you is the physical dynamics of emotions — how emotions travel through the body, what emotions stress and undermine which organs, and how unresolved emotional experiences can literally get trapped inside the body.