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Spiritual Surf: Right-wing attack on JFK; RC diocese condemns Immigration Law

Mormon Church aids job seekers; Science and religion, it's not oil and water; Chimps and death; Take your exercise outside
Katie Holmes part of right-wing smear on JFK?  New History Channel mini-series concentrates on JFK's sexual antics.
Welcoming the stranger: Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson, Arizona condemns Arizona Immigration law.
Life and death through the eyes [...]

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Spiritual Surf: The world’s sexiest string-theorist; forbidden foods and more

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 [...]

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A psychotherapist diagnoses Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Rehab, Season 3

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 [...]

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Spiritual Surf: Einstein’s last campus does a Global Consciousness Project; the multiverse and LOST season 6

Princeton hosts virtual "noosphere"; parallel universes and the "multiverse"; physicist Michio Kaku on the final season of LOST

An intriguing site at Einstein's alma matter uses web nodes to illustrate: The Nature of Global Consciousness
Soul's Code on Jesuit archeologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and the meaning of his noosphere: "A history of consciousness, and how to [...]

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Dating in America: Why ABC’s The Bachelor is so “un-real”

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 [...]

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12 reasons why ABC’s LOST has a religious following

The gospel of LOST: Steeped in mystical memes and Einstein's deconstruction of time, here are 12 things that make LOST the most "enlightened" show on TV
BY PAUL KAIHLA — In the 2010 liturgical calendar that is American prime-time, The Hills is a joke and Desperate Housewives is an also-ran. Forget about Lent, we are in [...]

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No (Criss) Angel and Demons

Vegas TV magician claims tarot and divination are not in the cards for him as "Mindfreak" blasts psychics

GUEST COLUMN: DANNY KENNY — In a CNN interview, Criss Sarantakos (a.k.a Angel) told Larry King, “no one has the ability, that I'm aware of, to do anything supernatural, psychic, talk to the dead. And if somebody claims [...]

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Spiritual Surf: Lost says, “Namaste”, Tony Robbins writes “vanity”, Jennifer Aniston’s Dogma, Yuppie Islam and More

Lost goes all the way with, Namaste
When the Sopranos was on the air, Soul's Code liked to call the HBO "family" show the TV series with the most mystical messaging. Sorry Tony, but ABC's Lost now blows your crew off the screen on that score. The way that Lost routinely plays with the notion of both [...]

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Why The Sopranos was the most spiritual show on TV

Drawing on ideas and idioms from mysticism and transpersonal psychology, HBO's The Sopranos was the most Soul's Code show on television — until LOST took over

BY PAUL KAIHLA — "Read for the rapture" was a signature phrase in the penultimate episode of The Sopranos, which aired during the second week of June, [...]

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Bill Moyers meets Martin Amis and Margaret Atwood

Bill Moyers meets Martin Amis and Margaret Atwood

Since we like television that makes you think, it's hard to beat PBS' Bill Moyers. He sat down last year with a series of spiritually-fueled fiction greats to talk about faith and reason. Worth the price of admission, you can get it online.
Moyers revealed an amazing synchronicity that came about when he was trying to line up his subjects [...]

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