Witico: A contagious psycho-spiritual disease of the soul en masse on the world stage
BY PAUL LEVY, AUTHOR OF WETIKO: HEALING THE MIND-VIRUS THAT PLAGUES OUR WORLD
A contagious
psycho-spiritual disease of the soul is currently being acted out en masse on
the world stage via an insidious collective psychosis of titanic proportions.
This mind-virus—which Native Americans have called “wetiko”—covertly operates
through the unconscious blind spots in the human psyche, rendering people
oblivious to their own madness and compelling them to act against their own
best interests. Wetiko is a psychosis in the true sense of the word, “a
sickness of the spirit.” Wetiko covertly influences our perceptions so as to
act itself out through us while simultaneously hiding itself from being seen.
Wetiko bewitches our
consciousness so that we become blind to the underlying, assumed viewpoint
through which we perceive, conjure up, and give meaning to our experience of
both the world and ourselves. This psychic virus can be thought of as the “bug”
in “the system” that informs and animates the madness that is playing out in
our lives, both individually and collectively, on the world stage.
Before being able to
treat this sickness that has infected us all, we have to snap out of our denial,
see the disease, acknowledge it, name it, and try to understand how it operates
so as to ascertain how to deal with it—this is what my book Wetiko is
all about.
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