In this bonus episode I offer critiques of colonial systems and academic assumptions about religion and medicine. I share a bit about my research and experience of an unfolding relationship with copal. The decolonial healing path continues to draw me in. I am deeply grateful and increasingly aware of all that I need to un-learn and re-learn.

This is a project for a wonderful course I took this spring at Harvard Divinity School called "Religion and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective."

I am really grateful for a chance to TALK. IT. OUT. (in the quiet, dark covid-19 cave). Because so much of this year of online school has been in very isolated conditions. So I get a bit nerdy. I'd love to hear what you think!

References in this episode:

• Read Podcasting as Sacred Listening and Collective Liberation here: revista.drclas.harvard.edu/decolonize-everything-podcasting-as-sacred-listening-and-collective-liberation/ 
• Read Sacred Smoke of Copal here:
  https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/sacred-smoke-of-copal/
• The Invention of World Religions, Tomoko Masuzawa:
  press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo3534198.html 
• The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz Del Castillo
• The work of archaeologist Leonardo Lopez Lujan: www.mesoweb.com/about/leonardo.html 
• The brilliant teaching of Dr. Giovanna Parmigiani, lecture notes.
  hds.harvard.edu/people/giovanna-parmigiani
• ProjectoArtefakto Etsy Shop (and photo):
  www.etsy.com/shop/ProjectArtefakto
• Read more of Rebecca's writing here:
  www.rebeccamendozanunziato.com/writing
• Watch The Possibility of Spirits Documentary:
  https://vimeo.com/235886345 

Audio features:

• Theme music produced by TheRealPakman for Eating Beatz
• Vicks Commercial from Cartoon Network 1994
• Emerge-C Ad
• Grupo Tlaloc Danzantes
• All other music from Blue Dot Sessions

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