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 [...]

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....

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 [...]

A transgender male grieves his brother by embarking on the Ride to Conquer Cancer, and seeks ways to let go of his family grievances

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BY CHASE CAMERON — On November 27th, 2009, 3:50 p.m., at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital, [...]

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 [...]

Scientists at the Human Consciousness Project are studying what happens when we die. It's not as bad as you might expect

BY DAVID RICKEY — When Time magazine wants to engage with its readers, they do articles like, "What Happens When We Die? Their take:
A fellow at New York's Weill Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Sam Parnia … [...]

A priest and psychotherapist finds answers in Genesis, the work of Carl Jung and the science of meditation

BY DAVID RICKEY — Hate crimes are nothing new. They have been around ever since the homo sapien emerged from its evolutionary forebears.  Animals have an instinctive "fight or flight" response built into their brain structure.
Human beings, as [...]

BY DAVID RICKEY — As the 2010 season of The Bachelor nears its March 1 finale, curiosity about what Americans think dating is really about got the best of me. I am a psychotherapist and spiritual teacher, and hardly an avid watcher of Reality TV, so this posed a bit of a challenge.
My personal routine [...]

Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down. How would ashes on your forehead translate into a reorientation of your heart?
BY DAVID RICKEY — In the Judeo-Christian tradition, ashes are a symbol of penitence and mortality. In the Old Testament, Job sits in ashes both because he has lost his children and all his livestock and because [...]