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Dennis, Just for the record, I wanted to say that I completely agree with your viewpoint. Perception is definitely the largest determining factor in one's personal "reality" and there may be limits to how we can affect that, at least while in this physical form. Call me stubborn, however, (which I am), but I still believe there's some creative magic that exists in our world, and if God (or whomever) created my original set of brain cells, then he/she can certainly do it again. Whether he'll/she'll ever do it is an entirely different story altogether tho'. As I understand the PD research now, isn't the conclusion coming out of it more likely that the brain cells have gone somehow dormant, rather than actually dead? I know there's a new drug, which is to go into human trials next spring probably, which at the moment seems to be stimulating either/both cell and cell interconnection regrowth in animals. Because of this, this treatment may represent more of an actual "cure" than others to date. This implies to me that the cells weren't completely dead to begin with. Somebody please clarify this if I'm wrong. If I'm right tho', to heal myself of pd wouldn't require a creative miracle, but just a little cell stimulation. Just one more thing I recently heard, which I never had really thought of before. This probably only applies to those who are Christian (unless other religions have similar stories, which is possible, however I'm just repeating that which I heard.). In the story of Lazarus being raised from the dead by Jesus, then if one believes in this story as being literally true, then God, in order to effect this, would've had to basically recreate every cell in his body (i.e., a creative miracle) as they were all dead, and had been for a short time. I had never really looked at that story from that perspective before, but if one believes the story, then one has to wonder. Creating a few new brain cells outta be a piece of cake in comparison! In closing, never conclude that I absolutely believe in everything which I bring up here. I just feel it's as important (at least to me) to explore all of the existential/philosophical/spiritual aspects to pd as it is the more mundane, technical ones. I mean, if I'm gonna be forced at various times to sit around stiff and slow to move while I wait for this stupid medicine to kick in (or not), I've got to preoccupy my mind with something or I'd go crazy. (That's still likely too). Wendy