Amanda (Amanda Prestigiacomo)
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
Amanda (Amanda Prestigiacomo)’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Catholic monarchy world order was based on a total surrender to a fully ordained spiritual worldview.
Midwives and lay healers embodied the opposite worldview, one of empirical scientific reasoning, reliance on the wise women's calculated observations, what she observed with her own senses, from her active inquiry, from cause and effect, trial and error.
how she could apply her learnings and skill to change outcomes.
This was the ultimate threat to the church, which enforced utter mistrust and disdain of the material world and the senses, which compelled followers to not rely on anything you see, but instead rely on the unseen spiritual realm, which can be interpreted not by you, but exclusively by the church.
Lean not on your own understanding, rely not on scientific reasoning, wait until the church tells you what everything means.
As such, a midwife healer was what Barbara Ehrenreich called the Catholic church's triple threat.
She was a woman confident in her own power.
She was part of an organized underground serving and empowering peasant women.
And her practice was based on empirical study, trust in our own senses and abilities and an order wholly ungovernable by the rules and laws of the church.
Is it any wonder then that the 15th century Catholic witch hunting guide, the Malleus Maleficarum, a book so popular it was second only to the Bible in sales for 200 years, is
declared of all the threats and evils and demons to be feared that, quote, no one does more harm to the Catholic faith than midwives.
It turns out that the Catholic Church monarchy complex feared the women's magic precisely because it was not magic, precisely because it was science.
Turns out it was declared the biggest threat to the church order because the women's wisdom would prove that it was in fact the church that was magic.
And the church's ultimate magic trick was projecting faith to protect the precarious order of enforced and unnatural wealth disparity and patriarchy.
Abortion has never been about abortion.
The witches had to die because they were too scientific.
That is, right up until the midwives had to be illegal because they were not scientific enough.
We are now in colonial America for the second fight about abortion that is not about abortion.
For centuries, the practice of healing had been passed down through wisdom and learning and primarily through women, including in America.
As late as 1818, medical practice in the state of New Jersey, for example, was mainly in the hands of women.
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