Jay Leno’s Lenten pilgrimage; Stern on Oprah; Chelsea Clinton’s faith

Russia’s Jesus: Mikhail Gorbachev recommends “shock therapy”

Hollow men: Jay Leno’s Lenten pilgrimmage on Mulholland Drive in a luxury sports car

Howard Stern takes on Oprah and Gabourey Sidibe: “Oprah is another liar, a filthy liar . . .”
Psychic charged with investor fraud: “He should have seen [...]

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Purim: how a Jewish queen of Persia prevented genocide
The Jewish holiday of Purim is celebrated this week, commemorating Queen Esther’s saving her people from certain destruction.  During the festival Jews read from Megilat Esther (the book of Esther from the Bible), which is named after the fifth century BC Jewish heroine who helped protect her people [...]

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8: The Mormon Proposition, a movie on spiritual politics
Utah not only hosts the annual Sundance Film Festival; in the 2010 edition of the film fest, the state’s (unofficial) church has a starring role in the line-up of movies.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is taken down in a documentary about the 2008 initiative that successfully banned [...]

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Oprah once promoted self-help guru James Arthur Ray, and his vehicle The Secret. Now she maintains a strict silence on both, and the deaths in Sedona

BY PAUL KAIHLA —The Secret was launched as a viral, online, pay-per-view phenomenon a couple of years ago. Oprah made it a mainstream hit by featuring its Australian producer [...]

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The Secret’s wishful thinking, versus the reality of 7 million American jobs lost. Soul’s Code introduces its own guide to balancing, job — and inner, security

BY PAUL KAIHLA —  Oprah’s endorsement helped make a viral, online video called, The Secret, a mainstream hit a couple of years ago.
The theme of The Secret is that the good [...]

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Celebrities are seekers, too. So who has more soul: Paris Hilton, Madonna, or Kathy Griffin?

Celebrities are just like us — well us if we had a cult-following of “paps” devoted to our sex, lives and videotape. And if we carried around the “ultimate” Black Amex credit card.
But while wealthy stars may have allegedly inherited [...]

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Test your knowledge of billionaire Oprah and her BFF Eckhart Tolle
Last year, Oprah featured Tolle’s books, The Power of Now, and A New Earth on the Oprah Book Club, and then devoted 10 weeks of webcasts to interviewing Tolle himself.  Fundamentalist Christians got their knickers in a knot at the thought of Tolle’s “New Age” [...]

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Obama lights up the White House for the Goddess of Wealth (and no it’s not Oprah). In another first for Nobel Prize winner Barack Obama, he became the first  US President to honor Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Jains by lighting a symbolic diya/lamp in the White House and wishing everyone a “Happy Diwali and Saal Mubarak.”

The Secret’s [...]

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SPIRITUAL SURF: Kathy Griffin’s new comedic memoir; Gwyneth Paltrow’s purification diet; Rolling Stone infiltrates C Street

Soul’s Code has suffered occasional blow-back for critiquing Oprah’s mixed messages. We  challenge Oprah from the non-dualist, spiritual “left”; celeb-spoofing comedienne  Kathy Griffin has made a career out of roasting Oprah from the secular “right.”
Expect the biggest round of Oprah [...]

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We surf Oprah . . . so you don’t have to
The L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, has given Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince a four star rating.
Not overly concerned that most of the characters are witches and warlocks, the article praises the movie for its values of “friendship, altruism, loyalty and self-giving.”  Catholic News [...]

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Lost meets Bladerunner
Let’s start with Darryl Hannah to help you make this connection. She played Pris, the “pleasure model” android in Bladerunner, Ridley Scott’s dystopian translation of Philip K. Dick’s 1968 sci-fi novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? In Bladerunner, Hannah hides out with the same supporting actor who popped up last week as [...]

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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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Both Oprah and Obama were members of Reverend Wright’s church. She quit out of careerism, early. Less calculating, Obama hung in until he ran for president

BY PAUL KAIHLA — Whenever I open my mouth about Oprah!, scud missiles rain down upon my space (link to the Led Zep-tune, Kashmir).
Usually, those scuds form their craters during [...]

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We’ve had our fun with Oprah!, the be-all-things-to-all-people TV filter. Her May issue of O! is 348 pages — rivaling the page-count of In Style and the luxury New York fashion magazines. Her roof line: “BEAUTIFUL BOTTOMS: At last! Pants that really friggin’ fit.”
The cover line is what got our attention: Have Your Own AHA [...]

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Eckhart Tolle had some fun with Oprah, but he didn’t do it during their Monday night “class” about “awakening.” Tolle made the joke at a live talk he gave the other weekend, while Oprah was thousands of miles away doing whatever the billionaire chairwoman of Harpo, Inc. does to grow her media group.

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These wise-women represent an implicit indictment of the legion of vendors from the human potential movement who appear on Oprah’s show, or who fill the pages of Common Ground. Those services are New Age brands that explicitly pitch self-improvement, and promise to fill in the ego’s deficits.
But Byron Katie, Catherine Ingram and the Australian-born mystic, [...]

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Byron Katie is a post-modern mystic = someone who has realized an elevated state, and done so in the maelstrom of contemporary American society — incubated totally outside of organized religion, essentially by spontaneous combustion.
With the release of her third book, A Thousand Names for Joy, Katie receives standing ovations usually reserved for rock stars [...]

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We don’t mean that, like, literally . . . The only reason we’ve brought up Oprah at all is because Byron Katie, a post-modern mystic, made a rare live appearance in the Bay Area the same day that Oprah’s show hyped the move The Secret and the “law of attraction” craze.
The difference between Oprah and [...]

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