The book gives you the techniques to use - you're not following other people's rules."She believes that over the next few years we will be hearing much more about shamanism - and that, far from being wishy-washy New Agery, it is directly linked to the latest scientific thinking. I want to open it out, make it available to everyone, without any gurus. "You can help people learn to trust their own inner know- ledge, their intuition and instinct, get them in touch with who they really are. They will each receive an individual "yellow card" warning from the whips, with suspension or expulsion from the parliamentary party in the event of another offence against party discipline. It was calculated that as many as 60 Labour MPs were absent from the vote.But if the scale of victory was predictable, the bitterness and recrimination of the event left the spirit of new Labour badly scarred by the clash between ideals and practice; the first big test of government will.

In the event, the Government won by 457 votes to 107, a majority of 350, with Mr Blair and his colleagues voting in the same lobby as Mr Hague and the Conservatives.There were thought to be about 48 Labour MPs who defied a three-line whip to vote against their own government, in alliance with Paddy Ashdown and the Liberal Democrats. I can't bring myself not to vote for them ..." He broke down again, and put the phone down. He was far from an isolated case in his sorrow.The Government was guaranteed its overwhelming majority by Tory support for the cut in benefits for new lone-parent claimants from next April, by between pounds 4.95 to pounds 10.25 a week, compared with current claimants. it makes me weep." He then stopped dead and went silent on the telephone. He was crying.Asked why he had broken down, he said: "Because I am wrong." In that case, why was he planning to back the Government? "Because I have spent the last 17 years trying to get rid of the Conservatives.

Taunts by William Hague, the protest resignation of a Scottish Office minister, and a defiant revolt by some ministerial aides and backbench MPs could not eclipse the heart-breaking anguish of many Labour MPs as they backed the Government in the Commons. One long-standing Labour backbencher, who was intending to vote for the Government, told The Independent: "I am very angry in myself with what I am doing tonight ... Anthony Bevins, Political Editor, reports on the agony underlying last night's 350-vote government majority. Tears, rage, rebellion and a ministerial resignation last night greeted Tony Blair's decision to drive his own MPs into the Commons lobbies with Tories like Michael Howard and John Redwood to cut the benefits of lone parents. And the developing nations - principally China and the oil-producing Arab States - balked at an American demand that they commit to reducing their own emissions.A burst of telephone diplomacy between heads of government, including Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, the Japanese prime minister, Ryutaro Hashimoto, failed to end the wrangling.But the proposed treaty would mark the birth of a new global trading commodity - emissions licenses, which will be sold by countries with low emissions and bought by heavy polluters aiming to burn fossil fuels above their quota.. That means the build-up of greenhouse gases would continue to accelerate - and so would climate change. After 10 days and several nights of intensive, against- the-clock negotiations, the developed countries including Russia and those of Eastern Europe were expected to cut their annual emissions of six key greenhouse gases by 6 per cent by 2012, compared to their 1990 level.But hours after the conference's scheduled close, delegates from 150 nations were still arguing through the night over most of the same issues which have divided them over the last 10 days.The latest draft of the protocol made an indecisive start on reducing the risk of dangerous swings in climate and rises in sea level.

All three wanted to go further and faster in cutting emissions than Europe's main trading rivals, Japan and the US.With many of the details of its implementation unresolved, the Kyoto conference amounts to little more than an opening declaration of war against global warming. But the long-sought agreement will do little to slow down the heating of the planet, predict Nicholas Schoon and Richard Lloyd Parry in Kyoto. Delegations from 160 countries were struggling to reach agreement on a treaty to tackle the threat of catastrophic climate change. After a night of agonising last minute negotiations, an agreement on a new treaty to combat global warming hung in the balance. Travel by train from Paris' Montparnasse; change at Chartres.102 Boulevard Haussmann: Proust's bedroom can be viewed on Thursday afternoons 2-4 pm. Most of the family furniture was by then in store, or donated with exquisite perversion to Albert, former footman to the Duc de Rohan, when he set up an all-male brothel. Surviving on his nightly diet of cafe au lait and occasional iced beer rushed from the Ritz by the faithful Celeste, Proust willed himself to live for the work that finally united the Two Ways, his childhood self with the artist he became.Musee Marcel Proust at Illiers-Combray, 4, rue du docteur Proust, Illiers- Combray, Eure-et-Loir, is open daily except Mondays, 2.30-4.30pm.