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To Jan Adrian, who co-founded and for the past sixteen years has sustained the Healing Journeys: Cancer as a Turning Point conferences that have helped cancer patients survive. Her conviction that my way of telling myths of descent of the soul into the underworld would be meaningful to cancer patients was the reason she asked me to speak at these conferences. Doing so inspired me to write Close to the Bone.

To Angelica Theriot, who founded the Planetree Hospital Model in 1985 after her own near-death experience in a hospital, and who invited me to talk about soul connections with the nursing staffs who were the heart of her vision. Twenty years later, there were fifty-five patient-centered Planetree hospitals.

To William Stewart, M.D., who brought the Institute for Health and Healing at California Pacific Medical Center into national prominence and Barbara St. Andrews who seeded the idea. Gratitude, also, for the honor of receiving from IHH their Pioneer in the Art and Science of Healing Award.

To Lawrence LeShan for Cancer as a Turning Point and Caryle Hirshberg and Marc Ian Barasch for Remarakable Recovery; two books that provide hope and insight into recovering from cancer when odds are against getting well, both of which I quote from liberally.

To healers, teachers, researchers, and authors—colleagues and friends whose heart and soul are in what they do: Jeanne Achterberg, Ph.D.; Grace Damman, M.D.; Larry Dossey, M.D.; Stephen Levine; Dwight McKee, M.D.; Candace Pert, Ph.D.; O. Carl Simonton, M.D.; and Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.

To those named and unnamed individuals whose stories and struggles are in Close to the Bone, especially Patricia Ellerd Demetrios, Anthea Francine, my son Andre Bolen, and parents, Joseph Shinoda and Megumi Y. Shinoda, M.D.

To Leigh Haber and Susan Moldow at Scribner, where this book was born; Katinka Matson, my literary agent; and Jan Johnson, publisher of Conari Press, for giving it a new life.