Soul's Code

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.

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 … [...]

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed tried to use 9/11 to send a message to the world; Let's use his trial to send a higher-minded one back

BY DAVID RICKEY — Whoever put the words "Vengeance is mine; I will repay" into God's mouth may have thought they were attempting to remove revenge from the human heart, but they [...]

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" [...]

Test your knowledge of movies ranging from the transcendental genius of The Last Temptation of Christ to those that just try too hard . . . yes we mean you, The Love Guru
1.  Which composer scored the music for The Mission, the Oscar-winner about conquistador sin and Jesuit redemption that starred Robert De Niro and [...]

According to the spiritual teacher and modern-day mystic, Eckhart Tolle, Michael Jackson was not a successful entertainer so much for his technical virtuosity. Instead, Jackson made a connection with gazillions of people because he was a portal into consciousness and presence. A quote from a rare Tolle lecture, Living a Life of Inner Peace:
You'll probably [...]

Lost meets Bladerunner
Let's start with Darryl Hannah to help you make this connection. She played Pris, the "pleasure model" android in Bladerunner, Ridley Scott's dystopian translation of Philip K. Dick's 1968 sci-fi novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? In Bladerunner, Hannah hides out with the same supporting actor who popped up last week as [...]

Featuring Eckhart Tolle, parapsychologist Rupert Sheldrake, philosopher Teillard de Chardin and psychiatrist Margaret Mahler
BY DAVID RICKEY — If Eckhart Tolle is correct (and I believe he is) that the purpose of life is the evolution of consciousness, how does that happen in an historical and biological perspective? Leaving aside the big question of whether there [...]