Ongoing communication and a vision of wholeness are needed for healing, a process that is inclusive, unpredictable and organic. Ecoimmunology suggests an expanded understanding of immunity, moving beyond the focus on individual health to include the interconnection between cultural and physical environments. According to this approach, the immune system is best understood as a communication system rather than as a defensive system.
This essay is a meditation on healing. It is about how we might restore to our understanding of healing our experience of ecological and psychologica