Soul's Code

In a Soul's Code exclusive from the newly released book, Unintelligent Humans. . .Questions to Stimulate Your Soul, a former addict shares his path from street life to helping others overcome their demons
BY RICHARD A. SINGER JR. — I woke up in a dark, gloomy, dungeon-like hotel room in northern Florida trying to figure out [...]

Need a recipe to heal from addiction and past pain?  Decide to accept the hurting parts of your persona and resist projecting your pain onto others
GUEST COLUMN: MARY COOK — Trauma and addiction teach us defensiveness, despair, distraction, fear, neediness and offensiveness.  Rather than paying attention to our current circumstances, we’re running away from or chasing [...]

LSD use in the Hollywood of yesteryear; Linsday tries Buddhism; What a robot can teach humans about trust
Old Hollywood reaped the benefits of LSD therapy: Gary Grant, Sidney Lumet and Esther Williams discovered a "telescope into the subconscious".
Lindsay Lohan, Buddhist? Looming jail time possible reason for Lindsay's sudden enlightenment.
Were you Mom's favorite or her "bad [...]

The recovery of Eminem; Rob Schneider a grown up Zen Buddhist; Sexual teachings; Ozzy's message to Jesus
Drug-free Eminem: Newly pro-gay marriage since "everyone should have the chance to be equally miserable"
The Zen-ness of Rob Schneider: Actor has studied Buddhism for 13 years and is finally one of the Grown Ups
Facebook used to "out" Morrocan Christians: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

"One loveless relationship followed another. I sought comfort in the sexual pleasure I’d been introduced to as a child. I even kept a numbered list of lovers."

Read the Soul's Code exclusive series, Sins of my Faith
In Marina's last episode she described her teens in a segregated Catholic high school, her increasing drug-use and how sex [...]

The perils of ignoring racism; don't mess with Deepak Chopra OR Bob Geldof; lessen depression by worrying
A Twitter-ing Deepak Chopra confesses; harnesses meditative power to cause Cali earthquake
Is sex addiction a convenient fabrication?  An excuse for lust or truly an addiction?
Worry-warts rejoice: The right type of worrying may actually lessen depression
An advocate of turning the [...]

An addiction therapist's mantra: remove your blinds. Owning the compulsions in our lives is step one for creating a healing space both on the inside, and around you
BY MARY COOK, M.A., R.A.S. — Only a holistic approach can offer significant improvement, because we have been damaged and have damaged ourselves in all of these areas.
While [...]