Episode 157 - Healing and Spirituality in Diverse Indigenous Cultures
Bob Vetter is a healer and cultural anthropologist whose life work concerns the intersection of spirituality and healing in diverse indigenous cultures. He studied the traditional Mesoamerican healing system called Curanderismo with teachers both in the United States and Mexico, and maintains a healing practice and community temazcal (traditional Mesoamerican sweat lodge) in New York. In this episode Bob tells his unique story that begins when he was a graduate student at University of Oklahoma, seeking the last Comanche medicine man to interview for his graduate studies. It then traverses a…
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