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Waking Point by Helen Noakes “. . . is there a world in which/another me resides,/living a life quite different/from mine . . .” Helen Noakes SAN FRANCISCO California—(Weekly Hubris)—5/7/12— “Wondering” Quantum physicists have affirmed what ancient sages knew, that there are parallel worlds, parallel universes. If so, is there a world in which another [...]

Waking Point by Helen Noakes “…maybe death/isn’t darkness, after all/but so much light/wrapping itself around us…”—Mary Oliver, “White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field” SAN FRANCISCO California—(Weekly Hubris)—3/19/12—It is said that the Buddha’s last words were, “Make yourself a light.” And, thus, he went peacefully into the mystery of death. His life-long message [...]

Waking Point by Helen Noakes “Older, we must move, and stay, and move again, to keep our life-giving ties alive, for this movement is our fountain of age. And there’s a freedom in realizing this, a new freedom to move or stay, new necessities and possibilities of choice.”—Betty Friedan SAN FRANCISCO California—(Weekly Hubris)—2/13/12—   And [...]

Waking Point by Helen Noakes “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”—Soren Kierkegaard SAN FRANCISCO California—(Weekly Hubris)—12/19/11—In dealing with the care of a mother who is approaching the last stage of her life, I’ve been sifting through heaps of things at her house: some useless; others, evidence of lives once [...]

Waking Point by Helen Noakes “There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.”—Isaac Bashevis Singer, “Stories from Behind the Stove” SAN FRANCISCO California—(Weekly Hubris)—10/31/11   And one day, I will be a witch flying with herbs [...]

Waking Point by Helen Noakes “Equal dark, equal light, flow in Circle, deep insight. Blessed Be, Blessed Be, the transformation of energy!” —Nigh An’Fey, Transformation of Energy SAN FRANCISCO California—(Weekly Hubris)—9/5/11— In the periphery of my memory, Just beyond articulation into words Strung together in sentence necklaces, I find a world of undefined ideas. Baffling [...]

Waking Point by Helen Noakes “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”—Vincent van Gogh SAN FRANCISCO California—(Weekly Hubris)—8/1/11—I repeat, we cannot begin healing without confronting the lies we tell ourselves. We’re told that the first step on the journey to mental, physical, and emotional health is the admission that one [...]

Waking Point by Helen Noakes “Man has always been his own most vexing problem.”—Reinhold Niebuhr SAN FRANCISCO California—(Weekly Hubris)—6/27/11—Now that you’ve read a little about Reiki, I’d like to tell you what it is to teach it. Hardly original, my observations probably conform with the observations of most teachers. But I feel the need to [...]

Waking Point by Helen Noakes “You have everything you need: A miraculous body, a phenomenal brain, and a vast and powerful subconscious mind. Now it’s just a matter of focusing them in the right direction.”— James Allen, As You Think SAN FRANCISCO California—(Weekly Hubris)—6/13/11—There are three degrees of Reiki instruction. In First Degree Reiki, the [...]

Waking Point by Helen Noakes ‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’—W. H. Auden SAN FRANCISCO California—(Weekly Hubris)—5/2/11—A typical Reiki treatment lasts for one hour and fifteen minutes. It is not necessary for the recipient to undress, but I suggest that comfortable, non-binding clothes be worn. [...]