Research shows autoimmunity is ancestral. Autoimmunity is ecological. It is the immune system operating exactly as it was built to operate, but built under conditions that no longer exist.
Such a deeply emotive and informative piece. I'm continually fascinated and humbled by your syntheses of body, environment, ancestry, ecology, and life.
Thanks Nick, I appreciate your ongoing part in the development of my writing practice. Seriously, the intensity and clarity and precision of my ideas about all of this stuff is leaps and bounds beyond what it was when we started this project, and having you to keep me accountable to posting regularly has helped immensely. The vocation of the project took shape through writing it: I can finally stop telling /only/ my own story, and focus on the broader story of which I am a small part.
Fascinating to read about the intersection of these studies and knowledge systems and how we can learn to better understand ourselves. Thank you for sharing this Laure
My taking autoimmunity as a subject is a way to illustrate that all of creation is a set of embedded ecological relationships.
I’d be curious about the co-arising of food systems with disease, but I haven’t researched it yet. My intuition says they are directly co-dependent as ecology.
Another sphere could be social-ecology. Say, how is it that bullying, domestic violence, and chronic illness are intertwined? They are: inter generational domestic violence has a direct correlation to bullying in schools, and the victims of those bullied are more likely to develop chronic illnesses. I’m working on that essay right now, and quantitative data backs it up.
The technical term, I got from Joanna Macy, she got from Buddha: paticcasamuppada — dependent co-arising. All things happen because they all happen together. Also known as intra-action (Baradian quantum physics)
Such a deeply emotive and informative piece. I'm continually fascinated and humbled by your syntheses of body, environment, ancestry, ecology, and life.
Thanks Nick, I appreciate your ongoing part in the development of my writing practice. Seriously, the intensity and clarity and precision of my ideas about all of this stuff is leaps and bounds beyond what it was when we started this project, and having you to keep me accountable to posting regularly has helped immensely. The vocation of the project took shape through writing it: I can finally stop telling /only/ my own story, and focus on the broader story of which I am a small part.
It shows my friend. I’m happy to be part of this weave with you!
Fascinating to read about the intersection of these studies and knowledge systems and how we can learn to better understand ourselves. Thank you for sharing this Laure
Thanks Nico!
It’s a joy to get to look at these and begin to piece together the whole picture, I’m glad you find it enriching.
This is just great Laure…
Do you know other ecological relationships as clear as this i can look at?
My taking autoimmunity as a subject is a way to illustrate that all of creation is a set of embedded ecological relationships.
I’d be curious about the co-arising of food systems with disease, but I haven’t researched it yet. My intuition says they are directly co-dependent as ecology.
Another sphere could be social-ecology. Say, how is it that bullying, domestic violence, and chronic illness are intertwined? They are: inter generational domestic violence has a direct correlation to bullying in schools, and the victims of those bullied are more likely to develop chronic illnesses. I’m working on that essay right now, and quantitative data backs it up.
The technical term, I got from Joanna Macy, she got from Buddha: paticcasamuppada — dependent co-arising. All things happen because they all happen together. Also known as intra-action (Baradian quantum physics)
I look forward to that one...