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Wetiko
- Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World
- Narrated by: Michael Ellick
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary
• Explores how wetiko covertly operates both out in the world and within our minds and how it underlies every form of self-destruction, both individual and collective
• Reveals how wetiko’s power lies in our blindness to it and examines how people across the ages have symbolized wetiko to help see it and heal it
• Examines the concept of wetiko as it appears in the teachings of the Kabbalah, Hawaiian Kahuna shamanism, mystical Christianity, and the work of C. G. Jung
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 in itself, destructively turning our intrinsic creative genius against our own 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 so as to help us see it and heal it. 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, demons, counterfeiting spirits, and psychic vampires. He reveals how visionary thinkers such as C. G. Jung, Sri Aurobindo, Philip K. Dick, Colin Wilson, Nicolas Berdyaev, and Rene Girard each point to wetiko in their own unique and creative way. He explores how the projection of the shadow self - scapegoating - is the underlying psychological mechanism fueling wetiko and examines wetiko in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, showing that we can reframe the pandemic so as to receive the lessons and opportunities embedded in it.
Revealing how the power of imagination can cure the wetiko mind-virus, Levy underscores how important it is for each of us to bring forth the creative spirit within us, which helps shed the light of consciousness on wetiko, taking away its power over us while simultaneously empowering ourselves.
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- Emma
- 11-04-22
Epic
Love love love this book. Absolutely life changing. Paul describes succinctly and articulately the darkness pervading the planet, attacking people’s minds, hence why there’s so much depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts and feeling less than, in today’s society. Such an epic book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-05-23
Ground breaking
Deep truths come to light when we pair down our dualism. Everything is there already.
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- Greer
- 25-07-23
Amazingly enlightening
Wow! This book has changed my life, thank you for explaining the madness of our time and 🙏that if enough people wake up to wetiko that we can change our destructive ways. Bless you x
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- Misstickle
- 23-07-23
Brilliant
A must read for all those wanting to being about positive change in themselves and their world.
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- Janine Hughes
- 13-10-23
Excellent
I recommend to anyone who is questioning of why the world around us is the way it is.
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- StephanQuintet
- 13-06-23
Repetitive and wishful thinking
Good idea, but after the first chapters its the same many times over again, adding little. The analysis gets increasingly replaced by baseless opinion and lots of wishful thinking. A bit tedious how the author constantly talks about how awful everything is today, as if it had been any better when the by the author admired native Americans got annihilated in the centuries after Columbus. The history of humankind is littered with mass murder, it's simply wrong to postulate that our age is particularly bad, it's actually historically civilised and an all time low in brutality.
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