“Since childhood, silence, for me, has been a blessed retreat. Within its peaceful embrace there is a clear and certain magic. True to the Collins English Gem’s definition of magic, silence powers my…

“In my writing and my Reiki work I’ve learned to heed body-wisdom and dreams. Both access different levels of the subconscious, and the subconscious does not lie. It cannot. The conscious mind cannot…

“In the final months of her journey towards death, she fearfully let go the chisel, and saw me take it up and throw it away. (We had no need of that chisel now.)…

Waking Point by Helen Noakes “Maps cannot tell me/Where I’ve been,/Cannot direct me/To the place I want to be.”Helen Noakes “There is an extraordinary distance from the head to the heart, a distance…

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…