Soul’s Code

Hey big spender: Researchers conclude size (of wallet) does matter.

Buried treasure: Six reasons why financial infidelity kills intimacy.

Survey says: Fool around, fine – but don’t lie to me about money.

A new novel about a baby boomer’s spiritual post-9/11 lessons illustrates that even after the worst tragedies, love, faith, hope and charity survive.

SoulsCode: The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center had a profound impact not only on the world at large, but also on individuals in a solitary way. Some of those individuals have tried to make sense of the tragedy through art. Call it a diamond in the rough or the calm after the storm, but author Ronald Louis Peterson  has found spiritual enlightenment through 9/11.

A novel published on paperback in February, 2011, “A TIME TO… — A Baby Boomer’s Spiritual Adventures Heal 9/11’s Wounds” is dedicated to families who lost loved ones on 9/11, and to those who have called NYC home. Peterson was inspired to write about 9/11 in a very personal way because, he says, “that’s the way most people experienced it.”  

Tokin’ Messiah: Did Jesus smoke pot?

‘I saw the aztek sun’: Accounts from users of LSD and other stairways to heaven

Necessary buzz: While some of us need sobriety, others insist only a substance can open the door to enlightenment

Why rely on the administration of drugs — or the Obama administration — to cure diseases if you can avoid getting sick in the first place? The worst culprits, including heart disease and many forms of cancer, are preventable with some basic self-care.

BY VAISHALI — The largest generation in history, the post-WWII Baby Boomers (76 million people in the U.S., alone), are entering their peak need for care. And those of us affected by a U.S. health-care reform led by President Obama may end up (or not) at the government’s mercy to nurse what ails us. In the name of self-preservation, here are six highly-effective, do-it-yourself tips to keep the doctor away, and aging at bay.

Six ways to enhance your health and vitality

Relationship lessons from the royals: If William and Kate can make it work, so can you.

‘Like something Disney would write’: Why Americans care about the Royal Wedding.

Life in the limelight: Don’t let them crucify Kate.

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.

Oprah and Lady Gaga may be today’s spiritual role models for self-actualization but our devotion to suffering remains a national faith.

BY JOHN PTACEK – Why did a tsunami flood Japan? Why can’t politicians tell the truth? Why did it have to rain on my wedding day?

If humans really had power, CEOs would be immune to cancer, holy men wouldn’t sin and Michael Jackson would still be alive. But we don’t call the shots.

Reality baffles us.  We question it every day and keep waiting for people to be good, for governments to be just, for life to be fair.

How would you survive the loss if your best friend, mentor or shrink were crucified? You’d have to awaken your own inner guru.

DAVID RICKEY — His career was short and ended with his crucifixion. It looked like failure. What had Jesus accomplished? At most a few miracles, healings and teachings. That was it. Or was it?

Like a CEO who doesn’t feel ready to retire, Jesus could at least take comfort in the succession planning of his time — his passing of the baton to a dozen floundering but well-meaning and capable followers.

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