Waking Point by Helen Noakes “…One stands posturing/Before the cameras,/Spouting rehearsed lies./Hair slicked by a $500 barber./Couture suit,/Costing more than one man’s yearly wage./He smiles his million dollar smile,/Says he’s one of us./Really?”…

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)—5/7/2012— “Wondering” Quantum physicists…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…