I would like to start by asking you to tell this story that you told in a little

more detail in your talk here at Chautauqua, the story of how you came to write the

book, which is a good story. Well, I started off as I described, so actually let me

backtrack. So are we going to be referring to Chautauqua here? I don't know. No,

that's not. I think we should pretend. We'll probably say that we did it at

Chautauqua just to give them some credit. So how did I just tell the story? Yeah, but

you told a little bit more. Especially about your arthritis that I don't think you

had mentioned in the book. No, I hadn't mentioned in the book. The interesting thing is when

I wrote the book, I tried to separate my own personal life experiences, my own

illness and the stresses I was going through from the writing of the book. And it's

because I was coming at it from a very scientific point of view. In a way, there's two

halves of me. There's the person and there's the scientist. And I think everybody

who's trained in science is trained to become very objective, skeptical. And that's

a good thing, in order to do the research, you have to be able to take yourself out

of the picture. And so when I wrote the book, I was still in that mode. I was

observing the world as a scientist, as opposed to putting myself in the middle of it.

But what happened is that I had written, I was asked to write an article for the scientific

American on the science of the mind body connection. And that would have been a scholarly essay.

That was a very scholarly essay. And if anybody who's read the scientific

American knows that it's written in very dense, very scientific language, although it's

supposed to be for a general audience, it's still for a general scientific audience. And

you're highly edited to stick in that mold and remove all emotion from it. And that was

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