by Corry Shores
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Our hereditary integrity is a reflection of a deep past that continues in us. Our health in the broadest sense depends on it. As we begin to see organic dysfunction and disease as the misfitting of our genome to contemporary environments that we have created, we move away from the notion of war against natural process and against wildness. We are Pleistocene hominids keyed with infinite exactitude to small-group, omnivorous life in forest/plains edges of the wilderness. (136-137)
We face decrepitude of body and spirit caused by sedentism, the psychoses of overdense populations, failed ontogenies, and cosmologies that yield havoc because they demand control over, rather than compliance with, the wild world -- cosmologies based on the centralized model of the barnyard. (137b)
Most of us remain unaware that the remote world of the "ice ages" is where the criteria were established that determine whether our medical therapies are successful and whether we truly understand what recovery means. (137b)
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