Wetiko

"Utterly brilliant. Paul Levy has identified the unidentifiable and has answered the questions everyone is asking: What is happening to us, and what is our way through? No one has articulated the handiwork of darkness with more precision than Paul. I urge people to read this book." * Caroline Myss, author of Intimate Conversations with the Divine * "This is a brilliant, indispensable book written by an authentic visionary genius. It is terrifying in its analysis of the soul sickness that now everywhere threatens the human adventure and exalting and inspiring in the remedies it proposes. Drawing on the richest possible sources of evolutionary mysticism, quantum physics, and transpersonal psychology, no one but Paul Levy could have given us such a feast." * Andrew Harvey, founder and director of the Institute for Sacred Activism and coauthor of Radical Reg * "In this time of unprecedented crises on almost every level, our challenge is to become aware of and shed the insidious trance of destruction that has come over us. Only as we awaken can we become the spiritual warriors necessary to free ourselves and our world of this life-threatening spell and step into a prophesied golden time. In this powerful book, Paul helps us look within ourselves and this illness to awaken the amazing potential that Creator has given us to thrive as good stewards of this precious home planet and all our relations." * Brooke Medicine Eagle, author of Buffalo Woman Comes Singing and The Last Ghost Dance * "Never before in human history has there been a time when we so desperately need the insights and profound wisdom that Paul Levy is offering us in this book. As Levy wisely admonishes us, only by developing a conscious, thriving inner spiritual life can we dispel wetiko for good. Otherwise, we will only collude with the darkness we believe we are fighting." * Carolyn Baker, Ph.D., author of Collapsing Consciously and Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse * "Paul Levy's first book, Dispelling Wetiko, is a classic and brought an expanded awareness of the dark force that has invaded Western culture. If you are one of those who wonder how we are to deal with it now that the genie is out of the bottle, Levy's new contribution, Wetiko, is a compelling read that will provide you with new tools for your toolbox. A most important book!" * Hank Wesselman, Ph.D., author of The Re-Enchantment and The Bowl of Light * "Wetiko is a gift to the world. Paul Levy brilliantly and beautifully dissects the wetiko illness and shows us how we can break its insidious spell. There are no topics more important than this, and Paul Levy writes exactly what we need to read." * Derrick Jensen, ecophilosopher and author of A Language Older Than Words * "In Wetiko, the power and authenticity of Paul's narrative is in the grounding of his own lived experience of the collective human psychosis of wetiko. This important and timely book maintains that the 'spirit of healing is hidden within the illness' and exhorts a shamanic journey of re-membering and reintegrating the innate wholeness of our true Self. Urging conscious co-creativity as a healing response and engagement. Wetiko invites us to free our imagination to literally embody the imaginal cells of the potential metamorphosis of our species." * Jude Currivan, Ph.D., author of The Cosmic Hologram and cofounder of WholeWorld-View * "This remarkable book, deeply rooted in Jungian psychology and the wisdom traditions, addresses the contagious psychospiritual disease of the soul that constitutes the crisis of humanity. The author brilliantly integrates a broad range of archetypal themes--from mythology, alchemy, religion, and quantum physics--to unearth the deeper meanings of our individual and collective soul-sickness. A must-read for anybody who is interested in a transformation of consciousness." * Ursula Wirtz, Jungian psychoanalyst and author of T

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.

Foreword by Larry Dossey, M.D. Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION Wetiko in a Nutshell PART I Spiritual Traditions and Creative Artists 1 It's All in the Psyche 2 The Kabbalah's Remarkable Idea 3 The Masters of Deception 4 Sri Aurobindo and the Hostile Forces 5 The Mind Parasites of Colin Wilson--Fiction or Reality? 6 The Enlightened Madness of Philip K. Dick--The Black Iron Prison and Wetiko PART II Wetiko in the World and in Our Minds 7 Are We Humans Terminally Insane or Just Waking Up? 8 A Cancer of the Soul 9 Duped by the Beast of War 10 Other Lenses Helping Us See Wetiko 11 Scapegoating--How Darkness Hides in the Light 12 Rene Girard's Take on Scapegoating and the Shadow PART III The Coronavirus and the Wetiko Virus 13 Covid-19 Is a Symbol of a Much Deeper Infection 14 The Coronavirus Contains its Own Vaccine 15 Quantum Medicine for the Coronavirus Epilogue APPENDIX The Four Ignoble Blindnesses of Wetiko--A Play on the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism Notes Bibliography About the Author Index