Transform wetiko into its own antidote
• Learn how ancestral trauma is at the root of wetiko and how the wounded healer/shaman archetype can help bring both individual and collective healing
• Meet the inner guide—a daemon/angel that lives within us as an ally in our encounters with the daemonic energy of wetiko
• Cultivate “symbolic awareness” as a path to creating meaning and transmute the poison of wetiko into medicine for healing
The profound and radical Native American idea of “wetiko,” a virus of the mind, underlies the collective insanity and evil that is destructively playing out around the world. Yet, as Paul Levy reveals in depth, encoded within wetiko itself lies the very medicine needed to combat the mindvirus and heal both ourselves and our world.
Levy begins by investigating how the process of becoming triggered, wounded, or falling into suffering can help us better understand the workings of wetiko in a way that transforms our struggles into opportunities for awakening. He reveals the source of wetiko: unhealed multigenerational ancestral trauma, which is acted out and propagated through the family. He highlights one of the primary archetypes currently activated in the collective unconscious of humanity—the wounded healer/shaman—and shows how recognizing this archetype can help us as we navigate a collective descent into the underworld of the unconscious, a true bardo realm between our past and future worlds.
Drawing on the work of C. G. Jung, Rudolf Steiner, Henry Corbin, Wilhelm Reich, and Nicolas Berdyaev, the author introduces the inner guide—a daemon/angel that lives within us as an ally in our encounters with the daemonic energy of wetiko. He explores how to cultivate “symbolic awareness” (interpreting events in our lives symbolically—like a dream) as a path to creating meaning, which alchemically transmutes the poison of wetiko into medicine for healing the psyche.
Ultimately, the author reveals that the best protection and medicine for wetiko is to connect with the light of our true nature by becoming who we truly are.
ISBN-13: 9781644115664
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Publication Date: 05-23-2023
Pages: 416
Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
PREFACE
Unmasking Ourselves
INTRODUCTION
A Thumbnail Sketch of Wetiko
PART I
Spells, Curses, and Shamans
1 Human Family Curse
2 Wetiko in Relationships
3 Wilhelm Reich’s Murder of Christ
4 Shamans to the Rescue
PART II
Angels, Demons, and Rebirth
5 The Battle for Our Angel
6 Rudolf Steiner on the Greatest Spiritual Event of Our Time
7 Nicolas Berdyaev’s Epoch of Creativeness
8 Rebirth of the Self
9 Reflecting on Jung’s Answer to Job
PART III
The Quantum Synchronistic Field
10 Quantum Physics and Wetiko
11 Catching the Bug of Synchronicity
PART IV
The Self as Revelation
12 The Disease of Not Seeing
13 The Art of Seeing
14 Wetiko as Revelation
15 The Self as Mirror
EPILOGUE
All You Have to Do to See Is Open Your Eyes and Look
POSTSCRIPT
Dreaming Ourselves Awake
Glossary of Acronyms
AFTERWORD
Paul Levy’s Conversion of First Nations Cannibalism to Global Sociopathy by Richard Grossinger
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
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