Avery and I are doing a Christmas episode about haptics, breaking the body/mind binary, and a wonderfully autistic touchy-feely Jesus.
0:00 Introducing topic, defining haptics, need for embodiment
11:00 Use of touch in Gospels’ healing stories
27:54 The autisticness of Jesus: hypersensitivity, denying and offering touch
39:34 More autistic Jesus — drawing in the dirt; a messy Messiah
48:21 Somatopsychic impacts, disconnecting from body parts, shame and reconnection
60:04 Medieval haptics — touching Jesus’s wounds
70:10 Bringing the messiness back into the Christmas story — and the pulpit
