ABSTRACT
Each of us reflects, in our attitudes toward our body and the bodies of other planetary creatures and plants, our inner attitude toward the planet. And, as we believe, so we act. A society that believes that the body is somehow diseased, painful, sinful, or wrong, a people that spends its time trying to deny the body's needs, aims, goals, and processes, whether these be called health or disease, is going to misunderstand the nature of its existence and of the planet's and is going to create social institutions out of those body-denying attitudes that weak destruction not only on human, plant, and other creaturely bodies but on the body of the Earth herself.
