Soul's Code

Single White Female, Jihad's newest martyrs; good and bad news about your brain

America's newest John Walker Lindh: Single mom in Colorado undergoes religious conversion online
Bikram goes naked, and underground: "Hot nude yoga" is making a scene in NY, LA, San Fran and Salt Lake City
Leading atheists tag-team the Pope: Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins want to charge [...]

A Stanford University neuroscientist and meditation instructor talks about the transformative power of Buddhism and why happiness is a trainable skill

Dr. Philippe Goldin, a psychologist who heads the Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience Group at Stanford University, runs a National Institutes of Health-funded lab that studies adults with social anxiety disorder, and offers training in mindfulness [...]

Sara Campbell makes a splash as the "deepest" woman in the world; Hooking the God chemical; Recession sinks mind-body and spirit, says new findings in Science

World-record holder Sara Campbell uses yoga and deep trance-work to free dive to new depths of human experience and endurance (New Yorker)

Beyond belief: A mermaid sighting in Isreal? (Live Science)
Or [...]

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 [...]

What is déjà vu? Is it repressed memories of times past, or something greater? Radio host and author Sandy Andrew offers a radical, spiritual view

GUEST COLUMN: SANDY ANDREW — Have you ever found yourself in a casual situation when, suddenly, your consciousness flashes back to a memory that seems impossible to be valid?  After [...]

During the last week of May, the most popular (emailed) article among online readers of the New York Times was a feature-length story debating the utility of meditation called, Lotus Therapy.
If you read sites like Soul's Code, and others that we point to, about the only thing you'll learn from it will be data points [...]

Researchers that once commercialized software to help kids overcome learning disorders have tackled an even bigger business: a homeopathic way of beating brain problems.
According to a recent story in Portfolio.com, a company called Posit Science "...hopes to develop programs that will tackle a wide array of problems previously treated with traditional medicine, ranging from traumatic [...]

"Know thyself" is much easier to say than to do. Pursuing a knowledge of self is the fundamental basis of all psychology. It also forms the basis of many spiritual pursuits. Yet so many are unwilling to pursue this path.
As John Gardner writes in "Self-Renewal:"
"Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices [...]