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The Healing Path begins with an event that changed my life as violently as an earthquake wrenches a river from its course. Our most personal moments are immune to language. And disease is so ineffably ours, so much part of our own irreproducable tale, that we are almost obliged to call it by our own proper name. Cancer seemed to plunge me into an altered state, a separate reality which, despite years of inner exploring, was as unfamiliar as the dark side of the moon. At the time, ironically, I had thought myself quite knowledgeable about the realms of healing.