Collected Item: “JuJu Urcis Oral History, 2022/07/14”
Title
JuJu Urcis
Who conducted the interview? List all names, separated by comma.
Kit Heintzman
Who was interviewed? List all names, separated by commas.
JuJu Urcis
Email Address(es) for all interviewers. Separated by comma.
kheintzman@gmail.com
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your oral history. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
#abortion, #acupuncture, #astrology, #authoritarianism, #BigPharma, #birthdays, #BLM, #California, #COVID+, #CubanAmerican, #germtheory, #government, #Hashem, #herbalism, #Jewish, #Kabala, #Kohnet, #meditation, #mixedrace, #pregnancy, #Priestess, #queer, #race, #racism, #Rooster, #rural, #Shabbat, #space, #spirituality, #TCM, #testing, #vaccination, #YomKippur
What is the format of your recording?
Video
In what ZIP code is the primary residence of the interviewee? (enter 5-digit ZIP code; for example, 00544 or 94305)? In what city/town/village does the interviewee live? In what country does the interviewee live? All comma-separated.
Nevada City, California
What is the gender of the interviewee? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their gender in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a gender identity to interviewees.*
She/Her/They
What is the age of the interviewee?
35 to 44
How does the interviewee describe their race or ethnicity? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their race/ethnicity in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a racial or ethnic identity to interviewees.*
Mixed race, Cuban, Eastern and Western European descent
Describe the oral history.
Some of the things we discussed include:
Pre-pandemic premonitions about a wave of illness; seeing patterns in the universe; ethics of telling others; observing cycles in nature.
Making a tincture with elderberry in November 2019.
Foreseeing illness with TCM; emotions and spirituality in TCM.
Humans are not separate from nature; villainization of bacteria, viruses, and parasites.
Lab-manufactured COVID.
Living in a tiny home.
Isolating with one person in the woods, March 2020-September/October 2020.
New ways of convening: small groups, online; drifting from friends who didn’t want to meet in person.
First online Passover with homemade oat matzah; Counting of the Omer; Yom Kippur on Zoom; Shabbat online.
A pregnant friend’s COVID precautions.
Discomfort with the government and western medicine; fear tactics.
BigPharma; placebo effect; allopathic medicine co-opting natural remedies.
Additives and allergies in vaccines; quick development of the vaccine.
Comparisons between the flu vaccine and COVID vaccine.
Choosing not to get vaccinated; vaccinated family members getting sick; right to personal choice; being turned away from services and a birthday party, not having access to travel; safety as a feeling of freedom.
Mandated vaccination and outlawed abortions.
Terrain theory and germ theory.
Autoimmune compromised sister in isolation; family’s sentiments about masking.
Siblings in healthcare: physician and physical therapist.
Treatment of the elderly in western medicine: nursing homes.
Masks weakening lung pulses; easy access to masking.
COVID comparisons with other ailments: the flu, Herpes, tuberculosis, cholera.
Fat cells and COVID, obesity.
Observations about patients: post-COVID depression, lassitude, shortness of breath.
Catching COVID twice/ COVID going dormant; shortages of COVID tests; the importance of free testing.
Having natural antibodies from an illness.
Music: chanting, Kirtan, didgeridoo, concerts.
Hashem’s protection.
Growing up in a racially diverse town; BLM.
Concerns about increasing outer space investigations; science, exploration and recklessness.
Spending time at a horse rescue.
Having learned more about the Oregon trail than Native Americans history and the history of women in the Torah.
Cultural references: Jeffrey Yuen, Lonny Jarrett, LILIUM Initiative, Louis Pasteur, Wilderness Torah, Urban Adamah, Reality TV, non-violent communication
See also:
https://www.featherandboneacupuncture.com/
Pre-pandemic premonitions about a wave of illness; seeing patterns in the universe; ethics of telling others; observing cycles in nature.
Making a tincture with elderberry in November 2019.
Foreseeing illness with TCM; emotions and spirituality in TCM.
Humans are not separate from nature; villainization of bacteria, viruses, and parasites.
Lab-manufactured COVID.
Living in a tiny home.
Isolating with one person in the woods, March 2020-September/October 2020.
New ways of convening: small groups, online; drifting from friends who didn’t want to meet in person.
First online Passover with homemade oat matzah; Counting of the Omer; Yom Kippur on Zoom; Shabbat online.
A pregnant friend’s COVID precautions.
Discomfort with the government and western medicine; fear tactics.
BigPharma; placebo effect; allopathic medicine co-opting natural remedies.
Additives and allergies in vaccines; quick development of the vaccine.
Comparisons between the flu vaccine and COVID vaccine.
Choosing not to get vaccinated; vaccinated family members getting sick; right to personal choice; being turned away from services and a birthday party, not having access to travel; safety as a feeling of freedom.
Mandated vaccination and outlawed abortions.
Terrain theory and germ theory.
Autoimmune compromised sister in isolation; family’s sentiments about masking.
Siblings in healthcare: physician and physical therapist.
Treatment of the elderly in western medicine: nursing homes.
Masks weakening lung pulses; easy access to masking.
COVID comparisons with other ailments: the flu, Herpes, tuberculosis, cholera.
Fat cells and COVID, obesity.
Observations about patients: post-COVID depression, lassitude, shortness of breath.
Catching COVID twice/ COVID going dormant; shortages of COVID tests; the importance of free testing.
Having natural antibodies from an illness.
Music: chanting, Kirtan, didgeridoo, concerts.
Hashem’s protection.
Growing up in a racially diverse town; BLM.
Concerns about increasing outer space investigations; science, exploration and recklessness.
Spending time at a horse rescue.
Having learned more about the Oregon trail than Native Americans history and the history of women in the Torah.
Cultural references: Jeffrey Yuen, Lonny Jarrett, LILIUM Initiative, Louis Pasteur, Wilderness Torah, Urban Adamah, Reality TV, non-violent communication
See also:
https://www.featherandboneacupuncture.com/
On what date did you record this oral history?
2022-07-14T09:45