Soul's Code

Christopher Hitchens still doesn't need God; Immigrant's revenge; Why Opus Dei appeals to women; Florida Christians to burn Koran on 9/11/10

As Christoper Hitchens suffers from advanced cancer, the arch-cynic and critic says: Don't pray for me.
Machete: Starring Lindsay Lohan as a nun with a gun, Jessica Alba and Robert De Niro, the  movie is expected [...]

A Stanford University neuroscientist and meditation instructor talks about the transformative power of Buddhism and why happiness is a trainable skill

Dr. Philippe Goldin, a psychologist who heads the Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience Group at Stanford University, runs a National Institutes of Health-funded lab that studies adults with social anxiety disorder, and offers training in mindfulness [...]

Male modesty a negative during job interviews; 10 types of addictive sex; Cooking priest stirs controversy; Predicting suicidal behavior
Conquering love blunders: The newly released book, Better Love Next Time, says work out your negative relationship patterns or be doomed to repeat them
Still macho after all these years: Study shows that male "modesty" is seen as a [...]

African magic at play; Trust and testosterone; Mental health risks of secondhand smoke; Boys DO cry
World Cup magic: The power of animism called on to help Africa win the World Cup
More testosterone = less trust: Study shows that doses of T make women trust men less
iPad vs. Porn: Internet's porn flood tourniqueted by Steve Jobs' morality
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Sexy, Single and Seven; Dangers of getting witchy with it in Africa; Dalai Lama joins forces with scientist; Your time and what you do with it
Pretty babies: Society's sex obsession spills over to seven-year-old girls in dance competition.
Teen girls head back to the 50s: Girls looking for more than a "hookup."
Open season on African witches: [...]

I find my soulmate, but a cyber lover causes a rift in our bond
Read the Soul's Code exclusive series, Sins of my Faith
In Marina's last episode she begins therapy with a psychologist and realizes that she's become estranged from both her creative, and feminine sides.
BY MARINA GIULLIANI — After years of hopping from bed to [...]

Don't avoid the pain; we can learn from our temporary negative emotions and move on
GUEST COLUMN: MARY COOK — Have you ever felt compelled to do something?  If you have, you know that it's not a pleasant experience.
Compulsions concentrate our available energy in limited areas, and deplete and block energy that we require for overall [...]

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.

Single White Female, Jihad's newest martyrs; good and bad news about your brain

America's newest John Walker Lindh: Single mom in Colorado undergoes religious conversion online
Bikram goes naked, and underground: "Hot nude yoga" is making a scene in NY, LA, San Fran and Salt Lake City
Leading atheists tag-team the Pope: Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins want to charge [...]

Robert Louis Stevenson called it Mr. Hyde; Jung called it the personal unconscious. Psychologists today call it projection. The great sages say we want to own this denied part of ourselves.
GUEST COLUMN: MICK QUINN AND DEBORA PRIETO, 1st of 2 parts — Picture the ecosystem of relationships that hold you in this time and place, [...]