Thanks Daniel. I appreciate the honest answer.
I've finally reached the chapter on 'integration' and I guess that's an area of particular interest to me. To reference your friend, if I was to begin, I'd probably want to be able to fly in the real world!!

Say you were to recall a particularly difficult patient (current or past patient), and meditate with the intention of knowing exactly what needed fixing and how, what would happen?
Are people who can intuitively diagnose (eg Carol Everett) or heal with *energy* (eg Eric Pearl), just freaks of nature? Is aiming to be like them akin to trying to be as good a tennis player as Federer - ie . impossible? Or is there some way of achieving this? Or....third alternative, do such people greatly exaggerate their claims?
Thanks again...