ABSTRACT
Knowing personally is intimately involved with feeling. Feeling is a fundamental means of knowing in the realm of the personal. In the realm of the personal people move in invisible worlds, mostly private even from ourselves. A great deal of our time is taken up in manufacturing and exchanging knowledge of varying degrees of accuracy about people and things. An increasing number of therapeutic approaches these days are in fact based on claims to better ‘know how’, or more effective and reliable procedures of control. The development of mutual trust is intimately involved and only in relationships of increasing trust will people learn more about what is involved in the further reaches of personal knowing. Repeated medical advice and treatment had made no difference. Margaret emerges from the old woman back to her ordinary experience and perspective on herself and things.
