Wetiko

Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World

A companion volume to the classic Dispelling Wetiko, Paul Levy’s new book Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus that Plagues our World is a call to awaken to a mind-parasite that has infected humanity with a collective psychosis of titanic proportions, yet is so familiar to be almost undetectable. Levy contemplates how wetiko—which is a form of mind blindness—has been creatively represented and symbolized in not only various spiritual wisdom traditions from time immemorial, but by creative artists and philosophers throughout the ages as well. In a unique and original synthesis of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions, evolutionary mysticism, shamanism, quantum physics, transpersonal psychology and the insights of C. G. Jung, Paul Levy shows us how to alchemically extract the healing remedy from the poisonous mind-virus known as wetiko by bringing forth the creative spirit that is thirsting to be born within—and through—us.

 

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336 pages
Foreword by Larry Dossey, MD
Inner Traditions, Dec. 14, 2021

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A worthy successor to the classic Dispelling Wetiko.
— Sting
This book is utterly brilliant. I believe Paul Levy has identified the unidentifiable - the psychic virus that is the active contaminant of humanity. Paul 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 Source
This is a brilliant, indispensable, dazzlingly elegant book written by an authentic visionary genius. 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 Regeneration

 
 


 
what is wetiko?
 

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Wetiko in a Nutshell

More and more people are hearing about the Native American idea of the wetiko mind-virus. Wetiko—called by many different names throughout history—is at the very root of the collective madness and corresponding evil that we, as a human species, are collectively acting out on the world stage. >> read more

 
 

Paul Talking about Wetiko

 

 

Endorsements

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
Earthkeeper, indigenous wisdom teacher, and 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 tool box. A most important book!
— Hank Wesselman, Ph.D.
anthropologist and 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 more important topics 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 for such evolutionary into-creation, Wetiko invites us to free our imagination to literally embody the imaginal cells of the potential metamorphosis of our species.
— Jude Currivan PhD
cosmologist, healer, author of The Cosmic Hologram and co-founder WholeWorld-View
This remarkable book, deeply rooted in Jungian psychology and the wisdom traditions, addresses the contagious psycho-spiritual 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, author of Trauma and Beyond
Paul Levy has made a life’s work out of studying wetiko—dealing with it in himself and shining the light of consciousness on it in the human world. In this book, he examines this mind-virus from multiple angles, helping the reader to achieve a full recognition of wetiko’s nature, its terrible dangers and the secret gift it contains. Wetiko is a book of urgent relevance and vital importance for everyone, alerting us to dire dangers and opening our eyes to our astonishing and wondrous potential as we engage with the multiple, simultaneous world crises that we face in these critical times.
— Robert Simmons
author of The Alchemy of Stones and The Book of Stones
After reading Paul Levy’s work on wetiko, I knew I had to meet him. I drove from Boston, Massachusetts to Portland, Oregon. This man Paul, he is something. He knows things. He experiences things in ways impossible to explain. All I can say is that what walks with me knows that Paul Levy has been placed here to help us. To help us mitigate the Climate Crisis, the Sixth Extinction, this Pandemic, Racism, and this Wetiko without and within if only we listen. But we must all do this work if our children and our children’s children are to experience The Mother. Read this book. Mitakuye Oyasin.
— Thomas Balistrieri, Ed.D.
Assistant Teaching Professor, Psychology and Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Lakota yuwipi (medicine) man