the fractals of healing: reciprocity as solace for humans, more-than-humans and the earth

In The Fractals of Healing, Tobi Jane Panter adopts a blend of cultural critique and story to speculate on some of society’s greatest challenges. Weaving together themes of nature, food, health and spiritual poverty, Panter examines the enduring consequences of our modern culture’s neglected relations with the world beyond us humans. She shows how we humans and our habitat function as fractals, reflected and repeated patterns of energy that constitute this Earth.

Through metaphor and analogy, these chapters explore the kinship between our health and that of our environment. Panter proposes the radical amendment of our culture’s fundamentally human-centred relationship with the larger world in order to heal the many layers of our current distress.