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How to maintain indigenous spiritual beliefs in Western scientific education

I'm in medical school and my anatomy professor talks about bodies like they're just machines, but everything my Cherokee grandmother taught me says the body holds spirit and I feel like I'm losing part of my soul in this training.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Academic training in materialist frameworks can erode indigenous ways of understanding the sacred nature of existence.

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