Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil
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Drawing on insights from Jungian psychology, shamanism, alchemy, spiritual wisdom traditions, and personal experience, author Paul Levy shows us that hidden within the venom of wetiko is its own antidote, which once recognized can help us wake up and bring sanity back to our society.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781583945667 |
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Publisher: | North Atlantic Books |
Publication date: | 01/15/2013 |
Sold by: | Penguin Random House Publisher Services |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 376 |
Sales rank: | 909,146 |
File size: | 3 MB |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword Catherine Austin Fitts xiii
Introduction: Close Encounters of the Wetiko Kind xvii
Part 1 Dreaming of Wetiko 1
1 The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity 3
Creating the Container 3
Which Name Shall We Use? 7
A Disease of Civilization 11
Art, the Daemonic, and Wetiko 14
2 Understanding Wetiko 21
What Is Wetiko? 21
The Reality of the Psyche 25
The Divine Creative Imagination 28
So Again, What Is Wetiko? 31
The Native American Myth of Wetiko 33
Judeo-Christian Roots of Wetiko 36
Gnosis of the Divine 39
Four-Valued Logic 40
3 Under a Collective Spell 45
Collective Psychosis 45
The War on Consciousness 53
The Spell of Wetiko 56
The Archetypal Realm 60
4 Dreams of the Psyche 65
Bewitched by Our Own Projections 65
The Origin of Wetiko Is the Psyche 68
We Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On 72
Symbols 79
Part 2 The Shadow of Wetiko 83
5 The Shadow and Its Projections 85
The Shadow 86
Shadow Projection 88
Mutual Shadow Projection 93
Withdrawing Shadow Projections 97
The Tension of the Opposites 101
6 Vampires, Parasites, and Aliens 105
A Parasite of a Different Order 105
Alien Intrusion 108
Vampires and Werewolves 111
7 Psycho Analysis 119
Trauma 119
Personal Pathology 126
A Frankenstein Monster Come to Life 132
8 Evil 139
What Is Evil? 139
Recognizing Evil 146
Self-Destruction 149
ME Disease 152
Reflecting upon Evil 156
Part 3 Meta-Dreaming 161
9 A Wetiko Cult(ure) of Madness 163
Our Culture's Madness Is Shocking 163
Interconnected Roles in a Nonlocal Field 167
10 Stepping Out of Separation 171
Not Personalizing Ourselves 171
Coming Full Circle 174
Come Together 175
11 Archetypal Psychohistory 181
The Unconscious Is Coming 181
The Archetype of the Apocalypse 185
Self-Reflection 190
Part 4 Wetiko in Action 197
12 Wetiko Tactics 199
Thinking 200
The Wound 202
Our Looking Away Is Wetiko 207
Discernment 209
The Curse of Pessimism 212
The Curse of Over-Optimism 214
Self-Negating Statements 216
Resistance 218
Spiritually Informed Political Activism 220
New Age 222
13 Vampire Squid Economics: A Case Study in Full-Blown Wetiko Disease 227
Part 5 Freedom from Wetiko 243
14 Wetiko No More 245
Wetiko-Free Psyche 245
Freeing Ourselves from Wetiko 252
Our True Nature 254
15 Let's Spread the Word 261
Finding the Name 262
The Idea of a Cure 267
Afterword: All You Have to Do to See Is Open Your Eyes and Look 269
Appendix: Wetiko-Dispelling Communities 291
Glossary 297
Select Bibliography 321
Notes 323
About the Author 341
About the Art 343
What People are Saying About This
"This book brilliantly exposes how the very roots of the madness that is threatening life on earth are ultimately to be found within our own psyche. I love that Paul is taking seriously the profound implications of what it means that all of us are living in a mass, shared dream. His startlingly clear premise challenges me to reflect upon both the world and myself in radically mind-altering ways. Something important is coming through his imagination-filled musings; his visionary insight into the intrinsic genius of our species feels inspired by a truly creative, compassionate, and enlivening spirit. I always look forward to reading Paul's work; it stimulates me to greater heights of lucidity, disturbs me enough to awaken me out of my complacency, and encourages me to fly on the wings of the creative imagination. The world would be a better place if everyone read this book. His vision is a royal gift for all of us. It makes me want to sing. Bravo!"
—Sting
"Dispelling Wetiko is one of those rare, courageous books that leads us where we would prefer not to go: into the depths of our own shadow. Yet this is the most essential journey for our present time.… It is a must-read, without a doubt."
—Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit
"Paul Levy summons us by Wisdom's call to community, action, and our higher humanity. Truly initiatory, this book is inviting us to step through the looking glass and consciously participate in our own evolution. In exposing our psychic blindness, Levy is helping us to open our eyes and see."
—Thom Hartmann, author of The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
"When I read Dispelling Wetiko, I was unprepared for a work of such true brilliance and depth. Paul Levy should be congratulated on writing a seminal work."
—Brad Steiger, author of Revelation: The Divine Fire
"No one else writing in America today, in whatever genre, sees into the real nature of our crushing global endgame emergency more deeply, steadily, or wholly than Paul Levy."
—Eric Larsen, author of A Nation Gone Blind and professor emeritus at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)
"Paul Levy has broadened his hard-won personal insights into a trenchant diagnosis of the mass-mind psychosis afflicting our Western (and indeed now global) civilization. I honor Paul's courage and discernment in taking on this most elusive and treacherous of topics and showing the steps one can take to move toward liberation. Dispelling Wetiko deserves to be widely read and studied."
—Ralph Metzner, PhD, professor emeritus at the California Institute of Integral Studies and author of The Unfolding Self
"I very much recommend Paul Levy's writings. Synthesizing a deep understanding of Jungian psychology and spirituality, his work brilliantly illuminates the dreamlike nature of reality."
—Dr. Arny Mindell, founder of process-oriented psychology and author of The Shaman's Body
"The world is suffering from the globalization of selfishness, materialism, and militarism, and Paul Levy, in his magnum opus, Dispelling Wetiko, identifies their roots in a cancer of the soul.… An insightful and provocative manifesto on how to combat this global epidemic before it is too late."
—Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine, chair of the Interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives, and author of The Left Hand of God
"As a people, we seem to be seriously impaired. It is as if we have suffered a culture-wide stroke that has damaged the higher centers that control our ability to reason and act in rational ways. What will see us through? What will help us wake up from this slow suicide? Paul Levy's Dispelling Wetiko is a valuable step in the right direction. This desperately needed book not only sounds an alarm, but also points to a solution."
— Larry Dossey, MD, author of The One Mind and executive editor of Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
"In these dire straits, many extraordinary people—in all walks of life, speaking in different tones and voices—envision the nondual experience of the nature of mind. Paul Levy is one of them. [He] evokes a clear and scintillating vision, resolving much of the incongruity of our existence."
—Keith Dowman, author of Natural Perfection: Longchenpa's Radical Dzogchen
"Paul Levy hits the archetypal nail on the head when he identifies debt pushers, consumption pushers, and GOD (gold, oil, and drug) pushers as the cannibalistic offenders in today’s society.… I can’t express how brilliant I find this book."
—Iona Miller, coauthor of The Modern Alchemist: A Guide to Personal Transformation
"This rich and fascinating book is full of original insights that challenge us to see the human predicament in a new way."
—Timothy Freke, author of The Jesus Mysteries and The Mystery Experience
"Paul Levy's provocative and insightful book Dispelling Wetiko shines a light on the darkness and exposes evil as an illusion—one that nonetheless impacts our reality. It is particularly important in these evolutionary times that those who see themselves as 'bringers of the light' understand the heart of darkness as well.… Kudos to Paul Levy for taking on this topic."
—Steve Bhaerman, coauthor of Spontaneous Evolution
"Paul Levy is a great social critic and public intellectual—his distinctive metaphysical idealism and experience-based mysticism gives his oeuvre a spiritual depth that is lacking even among our best critical theorists. Unlike many other spiritually informed political activists, Paul’s spirituality is never saccharine or cliché, his politics never compromising. His profound psychological insights and treasure trove of metaphors and literary tropes enable him to advance a highly original theoretical perspective grounded in Jung’s thought, quantum physics, Buddhism and his own transpersonal revelations. His message to social activists is that the alternative to neoliberal barbarism and the advent of ecological catastrophe is the willingness to cultivate the power of the communal imagination…Paul Levy represents the future."
—Seth Farber, Ph.D., Assessing Editor, The Journal of Mind and Behavior and author of The Spiritual Gift of Madness: The Failure of Psychiatry and the Rise of The Mad Pride Movement
"Paul Levy is one of the wisest, most spiritually-wide-awake people I've had the privilege of getting to know."
—Kevin Barrett, Truth Jihad Radio