Table of Contents
Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 The Case of the Disappearing Cancer 10
Chapter 2 Discovering Life 14
The Breath of Life 17
Soul Journeys 21
The Search 23
Births and Deaths 27
Rosita and Roberto 29
The Fall 32
Life Force 37
Life Finds a Way 39
Extremes 42
Breast Is Best 45
Chapter 3 Roots 48
The Healing Tree 49
The Cave 53
An Immortality of Hands 55
Ancestral Lines 57
The Ship and the Tree 60
The Jar of Opium 63
Chapter 4 Wounding 66
Soul Work 68
A Quartet of Pains 70
Splits 72
Bedside Manners 80
A Perfect Baby? 83
The Fall of Icarus 85
Diogenes 87
The Snack Break 89
Chapter 5 Suffering 91
Listen Up 94
Who's Who? 97
The Operation 99
Ancestors' Voices 102
Hairless 104
Tyger, Tyger 108
The Scream 110
Chapter 6 Healing 112
The Eagle and the Mountain 120
Do Mention the War 123
Two Men and a Dog Called Marjorie 127
The Dunkirk Arm 129
The Worst Tube Journey in the World 131
Feel-See 133
The Hidden City 135
Beginner's Luck 137
A Spring of Water 139
I See You 143
The Woman Who Wouldn't Have Her Leg Cut Off 146
Pictures in a House 148
A Holiday Dislocation 151
Chapter 7 Compassion 153
Natalie 155
A Little Night Hitchhiking 156
Slowing Down 158
The Battle of the Pillows 161
Chapter 8 Hope 163
The Importance of Being Scottie 167
The Safe Place 169
Candles in the Window 172
Bulba! 175
Chapter 9 Truth 177
Enough Is Enough 180
A Dark Horse 183
Vision Quests 186
Pain as a Gift 188
Being 190
Real 192
Koan Time 194
The Beach 199
Chapter 10 Love 202
Meeting 205
Le Général 209
Ruby 210
The Bikers 212
The Wedding 213
Chapter 11 Transformation 215
The Woman in the Ambulance 218
Fire! Fire! 221
At the Frontier 222
The Inner Tyre 225
Orana 228
Chapter 12 Another Country 230
Being Reconciled 231
Gardens 233
Murmurations 236
Avian Synchronicities 239
The Chiffon Scarf 242
Greeting the Divine 243
The Folly 246
The Music of the Thing That Is 249
The Sound of Silence 252
A Birthright 254
The Miz-Maze 256
Conclusion 258
Notes 259
References 260
