Soul's Code

Soul's Code has sung the praises of female mystics and spiritual teachers since our inception —  meet our inspirations, Pamela Wilson, Byron Katie, Caroline Myss, Katie Davis, Vaishali Love and Karen McPhee

Test your S-factor, as in, the measure of the soul:
1.  According to transpersonal psych studies, women have an edge when it comes to remembering, understanding and [...]

The reality show raises awareness of addiction by televising celebrities like Dennis Rodman, Tom Sizemore and Heidi Fleiss in treatment. Does it have lessons for addicts in America at large, or is it voyeurism?

BY DAVID RICKEY — One only has to watch the intake interviews for Celebrity Rehab, the reality show on the VH1 cable [...]

How to savor lasting impressions of beauty in the present moment

DAVID RICKEY — I am sitting by the window listening to a recording of Le Tombeau de Couperin, by Maurice Ravel, performed by Pascal Rogé. Ravel was one of the great French impressionist composers. The music lends itself to drifting in thought, and. . .well [...]

Call it non-duality, call it Advaita, call it whatever you want. If the present is all we ever have, why do we feel so lonely?

BY SMADAR DE LANGE — Three top tropes of the New Age are "interconnectedness", "oneness" and the general notion that 'reality' has different 'levels', or frames — say, like a video [...]

BEING THERE: DAVID RICKEY — I have always thought of “AHA” moments as those times when suddenly we “catch on” to a deeper reality, when we suddenly “get it” – the “it” being a deeper truth, or a clearer insight into “ultimate reality.” These experiences are sometimes caricatured by a light-bulb turning on. Suddenly we [...]

Both Oprah and Obama were members of Reverend Wright's church. She quit out of careerism, early. Less calculating, Obama hung in until he ran for president

BY PAUL KAIHLA — Whenever I open my mouth about Oprah!, scud missiles rain down upon my space (link to the Led Zep-tune, Kashmir).
Usually, those scuds form their craters during [...]

A notable exception to the No Logo rule is Byron Katie, who calls her work, well, The Work. But she's the best example of a self-schooled female mystic. For two years, Katie was so maniacally depressed she rarely got out of bed. A mother of two boys and a teen-aged girl in Bakersfield, CA and an alcoholic, [...]

One reason it is hard to codify some of the practices of post-modern mystics in words is because they’re more like signposts that point you toward a mental state that lies precisely beyond words. How-to tips are superceded by a stronger path of transmission at the disposal of Pamela Wilson, Byron Katie and the others: [...]

ADDICTS + ARTISTS = THE MOST SPIRITUAL BEINGS
M. Scott Peck, the top trans-personal self-help author of the 1970s, famously called addiction "the sacred disease." He argued that alcoholics and addicts are often the most inherently spiritual people because they're seeking to escape the confines of a personal story and tap into something larger than themselves. [...]

Byron Katie goes all Zen in her second book, I Need Your Love -- is that True?, published in 2005. Her approach to relationships is to get the reader to break down the sandcastle of his or her own thoughts. Thoughts are something that you create, not something that make you who you are--or [...]