Volume 5 Issue 2 - Summer 2010

by Leon Hammer

Human ecology concerns the relationships between human beings and their natural and social environments. That relationship also concerns the internal environment of a person and the messages that emerge from that internal environment to inform itself of events therein that may concern its survival. We call these messages symptoms, and it is the thesis of this paper that from these messages we can learn not only the condition afflicting an individual, the aetiology of that affliction, but most importantly, the best way to intervene in the resolution of that affliction. Symptoms are our natural friends and our natural enemies are those who invent ways of eliminating them before we learn.