Everyone reacts differently to trauma, even in shared traumatic events. One person may be fine while the other one gets trapped in a cycle of anxiety. It’s very important to know when we approach healing that it’s actually something to work through in our bodies.

In order to see the horizon, where we are headed individually and collectively, we must—from time to time—turn a soft gaze upon the excluded past.

We already have everything we need to heal ourselves, our societies, and our planet. And we must, for there is no time to waste. 

I posit that returning or reintegrating into the life of our bodies allows us to return to a greater connection with each other, life, and land. It is a practice to help us de-objectify life. It lets us sense and feel life more readily.

Elisabet Sahtouris: From about four billion years to a billion years, the planet was populated only by bacteria . . . our medical system does not understand this microbial world very well at all. We’re absolutely dependent on it.