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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

A Soul’s Code insider asked herself, “Can enlightenment happen through meditation or practice?” Drawing on examples like Eckhart Tolle, her personal experience and science, the answer is: Yes

By Anonymous — I began meditating about two and a half years ago, at the urging of a then-friend (translation: a fellow I was very briefly dating.) I [...]

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 [...]

In the May 12 issue of the New Yorker magazine, Malcolm Gladwell uses Microsoft heavyweight Nathan Myhrvold as a case study for coincident scientific discovery — and I say, a collective consciousness
DAVID RICKEY — The ego exists only to function in relationship to the whole system, and the ego functions best when it is consciously aware [...]

All Souls' Day
Roman Catholics and Anglo-Catholics this week celebrate the "Commemoration of the Faithful Departed" or "All Souls' Day" (November 2). Prayerful attention is paid to the souls of the departed going through a purification (or purging) of past sins in Purgatory. Popular in Mexico as El Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the [...]

What is déjà vu? Is it repressed memories of times past, or something greater? Radio host and author Sandy Andrew offers a radical, spiritual view

GUEST COLUMN: SANDY ANDREW — Have you ever found yourself in a casual situation when, suddenly, your consciousness flashes back to a memory that seems impossible to be valid?  After [...]