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 STACIA TOPPING — 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.) [...]

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If the act of thinking registers in brain scans, what are those thoughts doing to your body? A spiritual teacher who self-healed from two terminal diagnoses shares some miraculous mind-body mechanics

BY VAISHALI LOVE: After being diagnosed terminal from an illness — and then again ten years later from an injury — there is one thing I [...]

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Karen Armstrong announces a “Charter for Compassion“. David Rickey, a pastoral counselor, Episcopal priest and Soul’s Code dude, invites us to sign up — and do our own inner work

DAVID RICKEY — Perhaps especially in this holiday season, we hear a lot about compassion, usually when we are being asked to contribute to a worthy charity.  [...]

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Eliot Cowan is a post-modern shaman, and founder of the Blue Deer Center. The spiritual retreat in New York’s Catskills region is devoted to ancestral and indigenous spiritual teachings from around the world.

BY PAUL KAIHLA — When three people died and dozens were injured in Fall 2009 at a sweat lodge ceremony in Sedona, Arizona [...]

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On this First Day of Advent of Barack Obama’s presidency, The Great Litany has a new ring
That it may please thee so to rule the hearts of thy servants, the President of the United States, and all others in authority, that they may do justice, and love mercy, and walk in the ways of truth.
PAUL KAIHLA [...]

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Worried about war, depression, global warming and the price of gas? No wonder everyone’s talking about the year 2012

BY VAISHALI, author of You Are What You Love® and Wisdom Rising
Everywhere I go I hear conversations — rumblings about 2012. As I watched the Dow zig-zag across 10,000 and Congress authorize trillions of dollars to rescue [...]

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How Sacred Contracts author Caroline Myss guided a Soul’s Code reader on her life’s path

GUEST COLUMN: ELLEN FENNER — We all have a moment we can look back on and see divine intervention that we didn’t necessarily recognize at the time. For me it was the day an angel (pictured at right) sat me down [...]

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GUEST COLUMN: JOANNE EHRICH —I’d always had this thing about Australia’s exotic creatures (when I was a girl, I had a pet cockatiel and parakeet, butterflies with scintillating blue wings and lime-green Aussie beetles in my insect collection).
But it would be a couple of decades before I made my ultimate discovery in the animal kingdom, [...]

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Love is the answer for transforming all pain into unconditional love
SMADAR DE LANGE — I meditate on this day on the worth of life. 9/11 is an exhibit of the way some in the body of humanity do not believe in the worth of individual human life.
It’s easy to call people like this “terrorists.” But [...]

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As The Vatican, the American Public and Republican Christians remain divided on Ted Kennedy’s “State of Grace” and “very Catholic Funeral”, US scholars debate new ways to communicate with, or ex-communicate, God. Soul’s Code highlights the great divide!
Where Americans disagree: “Kennedy funeral rings with hope, Twitter with vitriol”
Edward Moore Kennedy wrote to the Pope: “I’ve never failed [...]

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In The Mirror: Where Michael Jackson and Eckhart Tolle meet; gay rights in the Book of Common Prayer; Wired’s “know thyself” by the numbers; and a cancer miracle

According to the spiritual teacher and modern-day mystic, Eckhart Tolle, Michael Jackson was not a successful entertainer so much for his technical virtuosity. Instead, Jackson made a connection with [...]

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SPIRITUAL SURF: Fortieth anniversary of Woodstock; Burning Man bigger than ever; Gladwell makes Wall Street his bitch; Lance’s losses
A BOOMER LOVE STORY: Woodstock poster couple *still* together, happily married . . .

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“Just because CNN is selling economic fear across the board doesn’t mean you have to buy it.”
GUEST COLUMN: VAISHALI — From the Eastern perspective there will never be one single pill, diet, exercise or lifestyle that will cure what ails all people.
Each of our lives fulls of thoughts and episodes and sensations reflect an intensely-experienced [...]

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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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The Early Church used ‘miracles’ as a marketing theme as much as the producers of ABC’s Lost do today. But by emphasizing Jesus’ Miracles more than His Teachings, it postponed the Kingdom
FR. DAVID RICKEY: In the Bible, Jesus performed more miracles than filled the first four seasons of the ABC series, Lost, and it must [...]

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Did the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ make you think of your own mortality? A spiritual teacher recalls her own brush with death on a 757

SPECIAL TO SOUL’S CODE: VAISHALI, author of Wisdom Rising — When you are a spiritual teacher, you know — intellectually — that no one ever dies, so you show up for [...]

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A piece of you: Soul’s Code readers report a year’s worth of their spiritual highs
SOUL’S CODE — The late, great 2008 was a perfect storm for pessimists. They glommed onto the fact that it was the worst year for the stock market since The Great Depression ($7 trillion vaporized). And rightfully mourned the bombing into oblivion [...]

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A meet-up of psychologists, medical researchers, social workers, Buddhist monks and Google’s School for Personal Growth defines Happiness and its causes
DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCO — Forty specialists who have devoted their careers to studying and practicing happiness converged on California’s capital of consciousness to share their secrets about joy and bliss. Happiness is an elusive concept, and as [...]

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Mary Andersen was flying to Norway to start a new life. She got a helping hand from a stranger: Barack Obama. In her own words . . .
For Barack Obama’s inauguration we call your attention to a little-publicized event in 1988, after the future president left his gig as a community organizer in Chicago and [...]

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