In its Native American meaning, wetiko is an evil cannibalistic spirit that can take over people’s minds, leading to selfishness, insatiable greed, and consumption as an end, destructively turning our intrinsic creative genius against our humanity. Revealing the presence of wetiko in our modern world behind every form of destruction our species is carrying out, both individual and collective, Paul Levy shows how this mind-virus is so embedded in our psyches that it is almost undetectable–and it is our blindness to it that gives wetiko its power. Yet, as Levy reveals in striking detail, by recognizing this highly contagious mind parasite, by seeing wetiko, we can break free from its hold and realize the vast creative powers of the human mind.

Levy explores how artists, philosophers, and spiritual traditions across the ages have been creatively symbolizing this deadly pathogen of the psyche to help us see it and heal it. First, he examines the concept of wetiko as it appears in the teachings of the Kabbalah, Hawaiian kahuna shamanism, Buddhism, and mystical Christianity and through esoteric concepts like egregores and demons counterfeiting spirits, and psychic vampires. Next, he reveals how visionary thinkers such as C. G. Jung, Sri Aurobindo, Philip K. Dick, Colin Wilson, Nicolas Berdyaev, and Rene Girard point to wetiko uniquely and creatively. Finally, he explores how the projection of the shadow self- scapegoating is the underlying psychological mechanism fueling wetiko and examines wetiko in the Covid-19 pandemic, showing that we can reframe the pandemic to receive the lessons and opportunities embedded in it.

We talk about

• Description of Wetiko
  
• Addictions
  
• How Wetiko feeds off fear
  
• How we caught the mind virus
  
• The dreaming concept
  
• Collective Trauma
  
• The blind spots in our psyche
  
• The non-local field
  
• The inner disease of the soul
  
• Wetiko and quantum nature
  
• Healing Wetiko
  

Paul Levy is a pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence and a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for more than 35 years. He is the founder of the Awakening in the Dream Community in Portland, Oregon, and the author of several books, including Dispelling Wetiko. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

www.awakeninthedream.com