Soul’s Code

Noah’s llama: Endangered fish escape doomsday on the backs of furry mammals.

Biblical proportions: Humans have an unhealthy risk tolerance for highly unlikely and highly catastrophic events like Fukushima’s imminent meltdown.

Grand Old Planet: Republicans who believe in climate change are an endangered species.

Edible idols: Chubby Christians question the Church’s role in obesity.

Snacking on dopamines: Is food your drug of choice?

Mouths of babes: Young overeaters are unlikely to live as long as the adults in their lives – and those adults are to blame.

Find this guy a wife for $10K: Chas McFeely promises $10,000 to whoever sets him up with his life partner.

But hurry . . . Offers pouring in for big-ticket bachelor prize

One wife is not enough: A landmark case in Canada could decriminalize polygamy

Financial infidelity: One out of three American couples that pool their resources keep financial secrets from one another

In treatment: A dot.com VC and a trophy wife

Over-enthused: When does passion cross over to addiction?

Outshining Sheen: Would-be NFLer Erik Ainge says his addiction history blows away Charlie’s.

India’s new gods: Bollywood celebs are so revered they’re getting away with crime.

Jimmy Kimmel and dot.com sports mogul Mark Cuban are hooked: Sheen’s “surprise” late-night comedy apotheosis

Tiger-blood royalties: Analyst upgrade and bull-run on Sheen T-shirt stock

Curing life’s ills, addicts and Wynona Judd: Not-a-goddess embraces ‘Brain Training’ technology — a computer and EEG

Law of attraction: The more that Charlie Sheen goes fringe, the more that fringe people join his flock

Soul’s Code analyzes co-dependency: Addicted to the addict

A psychotherapist and Episcopal priest makes healing in Haiti a life – and spiritual – mission

BY DAVID RICKEY – Haiti is a fascinating place in its own right, but for me it serves as a kind of microcosm of issues that are evolving around the planet. I just returned from my fourth visit to Port au Prince. Each time I go, I accomplish a little but learn a lot.

I can report that there is progress there. The streets, although still terrible and crowded with the chaotic traffic of trucks, SUVs and motorcycles weaving around each other, are cleaner and brighter. There is an renewed energy and purposefulness.

Wall Street Journal: “You will feel as if you’re going to die. I guarantee that.“

Spiritual seekers who paid five-figures for a spiritual retreat are now on the stand: “Defense Works to discredit Sweat Lodge Statements”

CNN: “Choosing to go in the sweat lodge, I believe she had something to prove to James Ray.”

The Daily Beast: “Oprah has no relationship with James Arthur Ray”

FLASHBACK: Oprah still silent

The original sweat lodge: The pagan origins of the Finnish sauna

Psychoanalysis of Charlie Sheen’s media-bender: Dr. Drew Pinsky does one-hour VH1 special, Winning . . . Or Losing It?

Sheen challenges Dr. Drew to a boxing match on L.A. radio station: “Me and Pinsky should jump in the ring — Bring it, little man!” (minute-9 of audio)

Dr. Drew fires White House gate-crasher from season 4 of VH1′s Celebrity Rehab: Michaele Salahi’s only addiction is to fame

Salon.com says VH1 should fire Dr. Drew: “Why it’s time to shut down Celebrity Rehab“

Former patient of Dr. Drew dies after relapse: Ex-Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr pleaded for drugs on the day of his death

FLASHBACK! Stanton Peele takes a shot at Dr. Drew in Psychology Today: “. . . a media vulture circling the latest carrion.”

The Americanization of yoga; Stephen Hawking on aliens (again); Charlie Sheen and addiction (again); Higher sex-ed learning goes Charlie Sheen

Insert knowledge here: Three Methodist ministers who founded Northwestern University probably didn’t expect the school’s Human Sexuality class to get so hands-on.

Proprietary positions: Yoga’s mainstream conversion is transforming gurus into go-getters.

Out of habit: New techno gadget gives cloistered nuns a peak at pertinent prayer topics in the real world

Who is Matt Smith? The latest incarnation of Doctor Who — the first mainstream television character to explore the intersection between sci-fi and spirituality.

Dark times ahead for everyone’s favorite Time Lord: “The Doctor is going to face his darkest days,” Matt Smith said at the Wondercon fantasy conference this week.

A bright spot? Expect “big changes” to Doctor’s relationship with his red-headed companion.

And your little dog, too: Doctor Who’s tin dog viciously parodied.

The birth of a holy child? Former Doctor Who star David Tenant becomes a dad.