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Will Michael Jackson’s funeral transcend Diana’s?

Michael Jackson and Princess Diana were confidantes. Each had sudden and suspicious deaths that put us in a state of shock and disbelief. Will Michael's loom larger in the collective pop consciousness?
BY PAUL KAIHLA — Diana, Princess of Wales, had one of the most famous funerals in living memory — and the memory of the 'Peoples' [...]

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A Kennedy death that offers a healing opportunity

Despite his transgressions,  Edward Kennedy was a model of grace and forgiveness. His legacy outshone Chappaquidick and the shadows cast by assassins Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan

BY PAUL KAIHLA — In our anxious world the news of a Kennedy death has an archetypal effect: shock and awe, a collective "pain body" experience. John F, [...]

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Michael Jackson: May he be reincarnated

Soul's Code columnists, spiritual teachers and readers reel out their gut-feelings about the King of Pop's passage: may his soul be sanctified

SOUL'S CODE — When the Indian "hugging saint", Amma, perhaps the most-loved person on the planet, enters an ashram or a hall or a tent in her world travels, all rise. Her presence is [...]

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Farrah Fawcett a spiritual role model? She was for me

After Charlie's Angels ended, Farrah embraced the divine
GUEST COLUMN: DR. JEANINE AUSTIN — Farrah Fawcett was a huge beauty icon for all of us who came of age in the '70s. I didn’t know any 13-year-old girls that didn’t, in some way, try to copy the Farrah feathered hair style. In earnest, I took [...]

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Spiritual Surf: George Carlin, Tim Russert, and Baghdad

The mind that is so sure of itself and who it thinks we are — and who others are — goes into shock at the thought of its own extinction. It's terrified by that moment when it goes from "On" — to forever, .
It's most shocking when the mind's fear of mortality is projected onto [...]

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