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Dispelling Wetiko

by Paul Levy, Paul Levy

Publisher: North Atlantic Books Published: 2013-01-15 Category: Personal Empowerment

Deep within the collective human psyche lurks a predatory force that has shaped human behavior, suffering, and destruction throughout history. This force operates like a mind virus, spreading from person to person, generation to generation, infecting our thoughts, beliefs, and actions in ways we rarely recognize. Drawing from Indigenous wisdom traditions, particularly Native American teachings, this groundbreaking work reveals how this psycho-spiritual disease manifests in our individual lives and collective culture.

The concept at the heart of this exploration comes from the Algonquin people, who recognized a cannibalistic spirit that consumes life force from within. Rather than dismissing this as mere mythology, readers discover how this ancient wisdom describes a very real psychological and spiritual phenomenon that modern depth psychology is only beginning to understand. This malevolent pattern operates through the human psyche, causing individuals to unwittingly become agents of their own destruction while believing they are acting in their own best interests.

What makes this exploration particularly powerful is how it illuminates the invisible machinery of collective madness. Wars, environmental destruction, economic exploitation, and personal self-sabotage all share common roots in this psychic infection. The work demonstrates how this force operates through blind spots in consciousness, hijacking perception and turning people against themselves and each other. It thrives on unconsciousness, feeds on fear, and perpetuates itself through denial and projection.

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