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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Scientists at the Human Consciousness Project are studying what happens when we die. It’s not as bad as you might expect

BY DAVID RICKEY — When Time magazine wants to engage with its readers, they do articles like, “What Happens When We Die? Their take:
A fellow at New York’s Weill Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Sam Parnia … [...]

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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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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed tried to use 9/11 to send a message to the world; Let’s use his trial to send a higher-minded one back

BY DAVID RICKEY — Whoever put the words “Vengeance is mine; I will repay” into God’s mouth may have thought they were attempting to remove revenge from the human heart, but they [...]

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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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Test your knowledge of movies ranging from the transcendental genius of The Last Temptation of Christ to those that just try too hard . . . yes we mean you, The Love Guru
1.  Which composer scored the music for The Mission, the Oscar-winner about conquistador sin and Jesuit redemption that starred Robert De Niro and [...]

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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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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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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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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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Featturing Eckhart Tolle, parapsychologist Rupert Sheldrake, philosopher Teillard de Chardin and psychiatrist Margaret Mahler
BY DAVID RICKEY — If Eckhart Tolle is correct (and I believe he is) that the purpose of life is the evolution of consciousness, how does that happen in an historical and biological perspective? Leaving aside the big question of whether there [...]

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Did Tolle’s concept of the collective Pain Body drive the election?
BY DAVID RICKEY — September marked the 7th anniversary of what has become known simply as 9/11.
That horrific day flicked a psychic switch for Americans. For most of us, we suddenly had a sense of being a victim, and that completely wiped out any [...]

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Kim Eng is a seeker, and now a teacher, who became Eckhart Tolle’s intimate partner. How has this power couple of enlightenment transcended the disagreements that sabotage us in romance?

Eng answered that question as she conducted a Q&A with her spiritually-famous lover about the lessons of their relationship. The dialogue is startling for its courage [...]

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How I rediscovered myself through Tolle’s A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
BY RAQUEL TAVARES — I recently told my mother that I was tired of all those “self-help” books. Then, shortly after, I bought one again — this time, Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose.
All this is to say [...]

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Part 2 of 7 in a Soul’s Code series about codependence
BY DAVID RICKEY and PAUL KAIHLA — In the Disney movie, The Parent Trap, a pre-tabloid child star named Lindsay Lohan manipulates a reconciliation between her on-screen, estranged parents (played by Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson). Yes, it’s a romantic comedy. But this charming film [...]

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We’ve launched our Pain Body Index as a slideshow. The arresting images are drawn from sources like The Bridge, a documentary that chronicles the dirty little secret of that postcard-shot called the Golden Gate Bridge. The San Francisco tourist mecca also doubles as America’s No. 1 destination for suicide attempts.
The Soul’s Code Pain Body [...]

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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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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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