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Mike, Yep, to be perfectly honest, until just recently, I had not heard of any pd healings, miraculous or otherwise. The one that Katie Tollifson recently reposted is the only one I've ever heard of which seems to possibly qualify as a complete healing. I had maybe about five responses to my recent request for healing stories, that I could accumulate in a database of sorts, so I probably won't pursue that all the way at the moment (maybe in 6 months to a year, I'll try again). I figured if we could actually find some other similar stories, then it would be worth following up on them, getting more information, and trying to do some real analysis on whether they were truly healings, how they occurred, it they still in effect, etc. Of the five or so responses I got, one included Kathie's story and one was chalked up to an original misdiagnosis (whether that's true or not, I guess no one knows till the person's deceased - and I suppose, were they truly healed/cured, could we even tell anyway post-mortem, if the healing also wiped out any and all previous signs of pd?). I think the others qualified more as individuals who've had pd for a long time and have experiencend relatively slow progression (not that that's not worth following up on, but it's not a cure). Considering the generally negatiive reaction Kathie received when she posted that healing story, people with other similar stories might not want to post theirs. That's part of the reason I decided to suggest my survey, and have people resond to me directly first. I wouldn't be surprised that some other stories are in existence somewhere, but these people were either written off as not having pd to start and/or they, having already being healed of pd (or whatever they had), would have no reason to seek out this forum because of that. i forget what the percentage of those who are misdiagnosed with pd is, but there could be a number of us who think we have it, and who don't. Personally, I'd be just as happy whatever I was cured of at this point, pd or something else, cuz in my mind they all suck equally. It's kinda funny, and altho' I know some of you don't want to hear Biblical references (I'd use another if I knew of one specifically), however, there's one story of Jesus' healing a blind man which I kinda find relevant to all this. After the man was healed of his blindness, those who were trying to trap Jesus (and who also didn't believe that the healing had really happened), questioned the man up and down, questioned all of the witnesses, etc. They really grilled him, at first questioning the healing, and then whether he had really ever been blind in the first place. Then, they supposedly even went back to his hometown and also grilled his parents as to whether he had truly been blind to start. Upon getting a positive response, they then questioned if this guy was who he said he was, and so on and so on. They both wanted to discredit and entrap Jesus, but probably just as much, they didn't even believe it had happened. They said something about there having been no one, in the history of mankind, ever having been healed of blindness, who had been blind since birth. I brought up this story cuz just like blindness, up until this point, no one (supposedly) has ever been healed of PD. Even if someone were today healed of pd, then I would bet, rather than exploring the possibility, most people would begin (based on the responses to Kathie's posting), like these guys did, by questioning whether the person really had it in the first place (altho' that is a valid question with pd as it's not easily diagnosed). I bet they would also try to discredit the form of their healing (whether by herbal medicine, spiritual healing, or whatever), and so on. It cracks me up that in this Biblical story, they even questioned the man's identity, saying that it must be someone else who looks like the other guy, who must still be blind wandering around somewhere. Ha! Where can I find a sucker to pose for me as if they had been cured of my pd? Not! No one in the history of mankind (except for Kathie's story so far as we know) has ever been healed of pd, but it's about time someone break thru the barrier and show others how. I truly think if one of us could accomplish this, others would follow, once they believed it to be possible. I just went to see the new Robin Williams movie, What Dreams May Come (something like that). WIthout giving the story away, I'll just say that it seems like that even in heaven, there are still limits placed on individuals regarding what can and can't be done, and likewise, there are still those who dare to break all the rules by doing the impossible. I don't know who here is familiar with Carlos Casteneda, but while exploring early American native cultures while an anthropology student, he began a personal exploration of shamanism, under some guy named Don Juan. He describes, in his books, "traveling" in his mind, to other worlds, that according to him, are as real (or more so) than ours. These worlds had their own dangers and pitfalls, but were also places full of beauty and power. According to him, as well as some other yogis I've read of, we need to be more aware, and more careful, about our thoughts, cuz not only do our they affect our perception of reality, but can literally change it for better or worse. Things like shape changing are not just ideas, but really done. One yogi I was reading cautioned about some of the visualization techniques, like picturing oneself connected to the center of the earth, because these mental pictures one creates are literal, and one can release forces for which one is not prepared, as well as those originally desired. One can obviously take literalism to the extreme and the absurd, but I still believe we all have much more real power over our current situation, including pd, than we might think. Wendy Tebay