"...at the outset there is more than a search for "cure" taking place among many exceptional cancer patients who elect to explore complementary cancer therapies. Many of these patients believe that what they are seeking is to heal. Healing overlaps with, but is distinct from, being cured. A cure is generally understood as an external medical intervention that eliminates the disease process in the patient with some degree of reliability. Healing, by contrast, is a process emerging from the inner resources of the individual. Healing describes a psychobiological process of becoming whole. Healing can take place at the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels. There is a growing consensus that psychological healing may sometimes stimulate physical healing. At the same time, psychological and spiritual healing can proceed even if the struggle for physical recovery is being lost. Profound experiences of healing can take place during the dying process. Some early cultures even referred to death as 'the great healing'. Many exceptional cancer patients consciously seek a 'healing' as well as an enhanced prospect for cure. ....These exceptional cancer patients, I suggest are extracting reasonable personal strategies for intensive health promotion from the complex strands of ethical and questionable practice in the complementary cancer therapy field. Their search for intelligent integration of efficacious conventional therapies and personalized forms of intensive health promotion derived from complemntary therapies may constitute a major force in shaping the development of humane integral cancer therapies in the coming years."

To know.

To perceive directly; grasp in the mind with clarity or certainty; to regard as true beyond doubt; to have a practical understanding; to have fixed in the mind; to have experience; to perceive as familiar, be acquainted with; to be able to distinguish, recognize as distinct; to discern the nature of; to have sexual intercourse with...

Gives new meaning to 'just say know' - or is that - knew meaning to 'just say no'?

Language is a funny thing. You picked a good on with your background. Gno- from the Old English cnawan which is from Germanic kne(w)- which has provided:

can, con, cunning, ken, kenning, couth, uncouth, known, kith, kin, notice, notion, notify, notorious, acquaint, cognition, cognizance, recognize, noble, known, gnome, gnomon, gnosis, agnosia, diagnosis, pathognomonic, physiognomy, prognosis, narrate - to tell from knowing.

Wow. Who knew?

A managed care company president was given a ticket for a performance of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony. Since she was unable to go, she gave the ticket to one of her managed care reviewers. The next morning she asked him how he had enjoyed it. Instead of a few observations about the symphony in general, she was handed a formal memorandum which read as follows:

For a considerable period, the oboe players had nothing to do. Their number should be reduced, and their work spread over the whole orchestra, avoiding peaks of inactivity.

All 12 violins were playing identical notes. This seems an unneeded duplication, and the staff of this section should be cut. If a volume of sound is really required, this could be accomplished with the use of an amplifier.

Much effort was involved in playing the 16th notes. This appears to be an excessive refinement, and it is recommended that all notes be rounded up to the nearest 8th note. If this were done it would be possible to use para- professionals instead of experienced musicians.

No useful purpose is served by repeating with horns the passage that has already been handled by the strings. If all such redundant passages were eliminated then the concert could be reduced from two hours to twenty minutes.

The symphony had two movements. If Mr. Schubert didn’t achieve his musical goals by the end of the first movement,then he should have stopped there. The second movement is unnecessary and should be cut.

In light of the above, one can only conclude that had Mr. Schubert given attention to these matters, he probably would have had time to finish the symphony.

You are a much nicer person than I - something I have always suspected but is now confirmed. This is the kind of 'disease mismanagement' that makes me want to go postal.

Surprising how easy it is to get tired. Make sure to calculate your activity time to include 'the return trip' and not just the activity time. I remember being similarly limited at one time in my life. When I started feeling better, it just felt so good to be out! I recall thinking I would just walk down the street to the park on this incredibly beautiful day. I got to the park...and that was it, I didn't have the strength to get back home. I sat on the curb and wept and ended up being carried home by a friend who rid me of my embarrassment by telling me six ways to Sunday what a numbskull I was. So be careful, I doubt you are light enough for one person to carry. So you would end up with several people telling you you were a numbskull %~D