The reality show raises awareness of addiction by televising celebrities like Dennis Rodman, Tom Sizemore and Heidi Fleiss in treatment. Does it have lessons for addicts in America at large, or is it voyuerism?

BY DAVID RICKEY — One only has to watch the intake interviews for Celebrity Rehab, the reality show on the VH1 cable [...]

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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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Are our motivations for action spiritual or messianic?
DAVID RICKEY — Russell Bishop, on HuffingtonPost,  lists seven signs that the new millennium is becoming more “spiritually focused.” He lists movies and movements from The Secret to Kabbalah, trying to demonstrate a type of third great American “awakening.”
Let’s look at another progression. In 2000 we (at least some) [...]

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Call it non-duality, call it Advaita, call it whatever you want. If the present is all we ever have, why do we feel so lonely?

BY SMADAR DE LANGE — Three top tropes of the New Age are “interconnectedness”, “oneness” and the general notion that ‘reality’ has different ‘levels’, or frames — say, like a video [...]

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Soul’s Code has sung the praises of female mystics and spiritual teachers since our inception —  meet our inspirations, Pamela Wilson, Byron Katie, Caroline Myss, Katie Davis and Vaishali Love

Test your S-factor, as in, the measure of the soul:
1.  According to transpersonal psych studies, women have an edge when it comes to remembering, understanding and relaying their [...]

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BEING THERE: DAVID RICKEY
I have always thought of “AHA” moments as those times when suddenly we “catch on” to a deeper reality, when we suddenly “get it” – the “it” being a deeper truth, or a clearer insight into “ultimate reality.” These experiences are sometimes caricatured by a light-bulb turning on. Suddenly we see something [...]

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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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ADDICTS + ARTISTS = THE MOST SPIRITUAL BEINGS
M. Scott Peck, the top transpersonal self-help author of the 1970s, famously called addiction “the sacred disease.” He argued that alcholics and addicts are often the most inherently spiritual people because they’re seeking to escape the confines of a personal story and tap into something larger than themselves. [...]

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Byron Katie goes all Zen in her second book, I Need Your Love — is that True?, published in 2005. Her approach to relationships is to get the reader to break down the sandcastle of his or her own thoughts. Thoughts are something that you create, not something that make you who you are–or [...]

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A vanguard of self-schooled female mystics are doing an end-run around the mainstream self-help and New Age movements — and are advancing a radical, 21st century spirituality. Call it the ‘Anti-Me Generation’

For two years, Byron Katie was so maniacally depressed she rarely got out of bed. A mother of two boys and a teenaged girl [...]

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Contrast the highly Cartesian approach of the medical experts in HBO’s Addiction with, say, the non-dualistic diagnosis of addiction offered by three spiritual teachers we’ve posted about during the past couple of weeks. HBO probably deemed this kind of examination too challenging for its mainstream audience:
Don’t misinterpret stillness with going off to sleep, or the [...]

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You may have noticed from our last few posts that some of the biggest brands on the enlightenment circuit are criss-crossing the continent right now. We’ve put all the links we’ve scattered around Soul’s Code in one place here. Click on a speaker’s name for their full tour schedule, which we’ve annotated with highlights.
Caroline Myss, [...]

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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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