Once, our worldview embedded each of us within a world in which all the parts were intricately interconnected. Each of us could be at the centre of this multidimensional web of interconnections, “trapped,” in a sense, by our total dependence on all of the strands enfolding and infusing us, yet deriving the ultimate security of place and belonging.

Physical, emotional, and spiritual are more entangled than we guessed, more interactive in every direction, and this knowledge is a form of power.