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“There is a psychospiritual disease of the soul that originates within ourselves and that has the potential to destroy our species or to wake us up, depending on whether or not we recognize what it is revealing to us.”
― Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

“Paradoxically, in descending into the depths of the unconscious in order to deal with the prima materia of the shadow, we are simultaneously on the path of ascending to the truly real, as we become introduced to the higher-dimensional light worlds of spirit.”
― Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

“The psyche is the essence of humanity, its greatest instrument, an indefinable, multidimensional creative entity of enormous scope, subtlety, and power that eludes all attempts to explain it, including this one. The psyche becomes impossible to fully describe because there is nothing, including the process of describing it, that is not 'it' in action.”
― Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

“There is no talking rationally, using logic or facts, with someone under the spell of the psychic epidemic, as their ability to reason and to use discernment has been disabled and distorted in service to the psychic pathogen which they carry.”
― Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

“Indigenous people have been tracking the same 'psychic virus' for many centuries, calling it 'wetiko' in Cree (windigo in Ojibwa, wintiko in Powhatan), a term that refers to a biologically wicked person or spirit who terrorizes others by means of evil acts.”
― Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

“When the contents of the collective unconscious become activated, they have an unsettling effect on the conscious mind of everyone. When this psychic dynamic is not consciously metabolized, not just within an individual but collectively, the mental state of the people as a whole might well be compared to a psychosis.”
― Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

“In order for our minds to comprehend something, there must be an appropriately structured neural structure called a 'frame' that makes it possible to contextualize, make proper sense of, and mentally 'see' the thing. Our understanding of the world is frame dependent: frames are the accessories with which we think. Frames are the cognitive, conceptual structures that enable us to put together, amplify, and activate ideas. When truth is unseen it is because it is both unframed and unnamed; frames and names go together.”
― Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

“Becoming conscious of our own darkness dispels our sense of being better (or worse) than anyone else. This recognition connects us with the rest of humanity—as we are all recognized to be in the same boat.”
― Paul Levy, Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World

“Wetiko psychosis is at the very root of humanity's inhumanity to itself in all its various forms. As a species, we need to step into and participate in our own spiritual and psychological evolution, which means that we must focus our attention on and contemplate this most important topic before this virulent madness destroys us.”
― Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

“We are currently in the midst of the greatest epidemic sickness known to humanity.”
― Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

“Wetiko is elusive and mercurial, for whatever we say wetiko is, it isn't, in that it is always more, less, and other than what we are able to say it is in language.”
― Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

“Wetiko doesn't objectively exist, and yet, at the same time, it is not merely our projection or imagination. Instead of an either/or universe, where phenomena like wetiko are either real or unreal, there is an area in between in which it is both/and--both real and unreal at the same time.”
― Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

“Like a fractal, wetiko operates on multiple dimensions simultaneously--intra-personally (within individuals), inter-personally (among ourselves), collectively (as a species), as well as trans-personally (in a realm beyond our personal selves). Those afflicted with wetiko consume, like a cannibal, the life force of others--human and nonhuman--for private purposes or profit, and do so without giving back something from their own lives.”
― Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

“All we have to do to see is open our eyes and look. As we teach what we learn, I am in essence talking to myself.”
― Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

“Instead of focusing on isolated objects and events, we can expand our fixed perspective and allow the deeper process (often taking the form of a mythic narrative of some sort) that is animating events to reveal itself. Instead of superimposing our limiting ideas and beliefs onto the waking dream, we can allow life to show its dreamlike nature to us.”
― Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

“Evil devastates any possibility of an intellectual response; the tools of the rational intellect are as helpless incoping with the aftereffects of evil as it was in preventing it.”
― Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

“Wetikos can psychopathically (and thus toxically) mimic the human personality perfectly. If it serves their agenda, they can be convincing beyond belief, making themselves out to be normal, caring, politically correct human beings. They can endlessly talking about taking responsibility, but they never genuinely face up to and become accountable for their actions. They are unable to genuinely mourn, being only concerned with themselves. They will feign grief, however, just as they will try to appear compassionate, if it is politically expedient to do so and, hence, to their advance, they are master manipulators.”
― Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

“Trauma is a unique phenomenon all on its own, as if it is an entity in and of itself.”
― Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

“An inner cancer of the soul, 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.”
― Paul Levy, Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World

“A contagious psycho-spiritual disease of the soul, a parasite of the mind, 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.”
― Paul Levy, Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World

“paradox? It is that we can be a child sitting on a window ledge knowing everything and we can be the universe knowing the child at the same time.”
― Paul Levy, Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality

“Evil is like a pathogen that enters a system, be it an individual, nation-state, or world-system, and exploits that system, knocking it off balance.”
― Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

“The ego isn't a bad thing. If we didn't develop a strong ego, a strong sense of self, we wouldn't be able to relate to and engage with the extremely powerful and archetypal forces (both dark and light) of the unconscious. If we don't have a strongly developed sense of self (even though it is not, ultimately speaking, the true self), we will get overwhelmed and taken over by the powers of the unconscious such that we will compulsively act them out.”
― Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

“When there is mutual shadow projection between individuals, groups, or nations, each side has an unconscious investment in the other playing out the projected evil so as to prove their own self-righteous innocence. What ensues is a vicious cycle that ensures that neither side has to look at their own darkness. This dynamic fastens the two sides together, as if in their mutual projections there is an elastic band tying them together, and this dynamic becomes self-reinforcing. As such, it gives both parties clear justification to feel victimized by the other as well as continually feeding the diabolical polarization in the field.”
― Paul Levy, Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World

“The hidden treasure that suffering humanity is forever seeking is to be found in the depths. A place of great danger, it is the place of primordial unconsciousness. And yet it is the place of healing and redemption, for it contains the precious jewel of our wholeness, where all the split-off parts of ourselves are united.”
― Paul Levy, Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World

“Indulging an addictive, habitual pattern, we think, “This one time won’t matter (for I deserve it, I worked hard today) . . . I’ll break my habit starting tomorrow.” If we stepped out of our blindness and saw where we were headed when we indulge in this way, we would immediately turn around. Yet, there is something inside of us that doesn’t want us to see what we are doing.”
― Paul Levy, Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World

“To become caught in pessimism is to fall victim to an infinitely regressing feedback loop: we wouldn’t be so pessimistic if our world wasn’t manifesting so darkly, and our world wouldn’t be manifesting so darkly if we weren’t so pessimistic. To become fixed in the point of view of seeing things pessimistically is to unwittingly become an ally of the very darkness that is inspiring our pessimism. This is to have fallen into a self-generating, samsaric feedback loop, self fulfilling in nature, that will, if so empowered, undoubtedly destroy us. It is crazy to not invest our creative energy into envisioning that we can “come together” and turn the tide, and just as crazy to imagine that we can’t. If we aren’t investing our creative imagination in ways for us to heal, evolve, and wake up, then what are we thinking? If we aren’t using our God-given gifts to create a better world, we have fallen under the spell of wetiko”
― Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

“Bertrand Russell, “The fact that an opinion is widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”80”
― Paul Levy, Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality

“As if a member of a timeless underground resistance movement, [Colin] Wilson has managed to sneak “living information” into a world that is unknowingly imprisoned and in desperate need of exactly such knowledge.”
― Paul Levy, Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World

“This parallel between physics and psychology should come as no big surprise, for it is the human mind that has created quantum physics in the first place.”
― Paul Levy, Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality