{"id":1575,"date":"2025-04-22T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2025-04-22T02:05:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T02:05:47","slug":"ep-349-mysticism-strange-happenings-medicine-men-and-healing-with-jose-mendoza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/ep-349-mysticism-strange-happenings-medicine-men-and-healing-with-jose-mendoza\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep 349- &#8220;Mysticism, Strange Happenings, Medicine Men, and Healing&#8221; with Jose Mendoza"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_116\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1575-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/ep349Mysticism.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/ep349Mysticism.mp3\">https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/ep349Mysticism.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/ep349Mysticism.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1575-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/ep349Mysticism.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"ep349Mysticism.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Snapchat-1252593134-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Snapchat-1252593134-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Snapchat-1252593134-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Snapchat-1252593134-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Snapchat-1252593134-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Snapchat-1252593134-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Snapchat-1252593134-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Snapchat-1252593134-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ep 349- <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  Joining us this week n the podcast is <strong>Jose Mendoza<\/strong>. After studying and practicing Western medicine for years,<strong> Jose<\/strong> began a journey to discover the teaching and wisdom of <strong>Eastern traditional medicine<\/strong>. Often called &#8220;<em><strong>Chinese medicine<\/strong><\/em>, &#8221; the practice involves finding balance and harmony in the body and spirit, using a number of ancient methods. For Jose, his investigation also turned into spiritual enlightenment found in <strong>Taoism<\/strong>. Join us for an fascinating conversation about <strong>traditional Eastern practices and medicine<\/strong>, including insights from our very own <strong>Smilin&#8217; Sensei<\/strong>, cohost <strong>Barry Johnston<\/strong>, on this week&#8217;s episode of the <strong>WHAT&#8217;S YER WEIRD STORY? Podcast! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ep 349- Joining us this week n the podcast is Jose Mendoza. After studying and practicing Western medicine for years, Jose began a journey to discover the teaching and wisdom of Eastern traditional medicine. Often called &#8220;Chinese medicine, &#8221; the practice involves finding balance and harmony in the body and spirit, using a number of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/ep-349-mysticism-strange-happenings-medicine-men-and-healing-with-jose-mendoza\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ep 349- &#8220;Mysticism, Strange Happenings, Medicine Men, and Healing&#8221; with Jose Mendoza&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,838,40,985,836,835,837,338,5,990,907,505,506,1,69,908,2,3],"tags":[146,801,944,452,147,686,1067,1065,901,1036,688,1066,713,714,610,389,891,80,987,912,840,1071,717,77,249,759,19,991,892,71,793,543,1068,1069,1070,823,663,217,315,117,916,915,18,72],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-beeby","category-barry-johnston","category-health","category-high-strangeness","category-history","category-medical-drama","category-medical-mystery","category-medicine","category-paranormal-podcast","category-podcast","category-religion","category-storytelling","category-true-stories","category-true-story","category-uncategorized","category-unusual-careers","category-weird-health-2","category-whats-yer-weird-story-podcast","category-whats-yer-weird-story","tag-adam-beeby","tag-alien-podcast","tag-ancient-history","tag-asia","tag-barry-johnston","tag-bigfoot-podcast","tag-china","tag-chinese-medicine","tag-comedy-podcast","tag-crime-podcast","tag-cryptid-podcast","tag-eastern-traditional-medicine","tag-energy-healing","tag-energy-medicine","tag-ghost-podcast","tag-healing","tag-health","tag-high-strangeness","tag-history","tag-medical-mystery","tag-medical-stories","tag-medicine","tag-meditation","tag-mystery","tag-paranormal-podcast","tag-personal-stories","tag-podcast","tag-stories","tag-story","tag-storytelling","tag-storytelling-podcast","tag-supernatural-podcast","tag-tao","tag-taoism","tag-taoist","tag-travel-podcast","tag-true-crime-podcast","tag-true-stories","tag-true-story","tag-unusual-careers","tag-weird-health","tag-weird-medical","tag-whats-yer-weird-story","tag-whats-yer-weird-story-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}