Undreaming Wetiko: Breaking the Spell of the Nightmare Mind-Virus

The Native American concept of "wetiko" is the root of collective insanity and evil worldwide. Paul Levy's book explores how unhealed ancestral trauma is passed down through generations and how recognizing the wounded healer/shaman archetype can help us navigate the collective descent into the unconscious. He introduces the inner guide as an ally in our encounters with wetiko and explores how to cultivate symbolic awareness to create meaning and transmute the poison into medicine. Wetiko can only be seen when we recognize the connection between our inner and outer worlds, and the quantum nature of wetiko helps us comprehend its elusive nature. Connecting with the light of our true nature is the best protection and medicine.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 416 pages
Publication date: 22 June 2023
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company

The concept of "wetiko," a mental virus that permeates the world and causes collective insanity and evil, is at the heart of Native American philosophy. However, as Paul Levy demonstrates in his in-depth exploration, the remedy for the mind virus is hidden within wetiko itself. Levy starts by examining how being triggered, wounded, or falling into suffering can help us comprehend wetiko's workings in a way that turns our challenges into chances for awakening. He exposes the root of wetiko: unhealed multi-generational ancestral trauma that is enacted, passed down, and propagated through the family lineage through our relationships.

He emphasizes one of the central archetypes currently active in the collective unconscious of humanity: the wounded healer/shaman, and demonstrates how recognizing this archetype can assist us as we navigate a collective descent into the underworld of the unconscious, a true bardo realm between our past and future worlds.

Levy draws on the work of C. G. Jung, Rudolf Steiner, Henry Corbin, Wilhelm Reich, and Nicolas Berdyaev to introduce the inner guide, a daemon/angel that resides within us as an ally in our encounters with wetiko's daemonic energy. He explores how to cultivate "symbolic awareness" (interpreting events in our lives symbolically, like a dream) as a path to creating meaning, which alchemically transforms the poison of wetiko into medicine for healing the psyche.

Examining the nature of synchronicity, Levy reveals how wetiko can only be seen when we recognize that our inner and outer worlds reflect each other. He also explores the quantum nature of wetiko, showing how this helps us comprehend the elusive tri.

By embracing the medicine within wetiko, we can heal ourselves and our world, breaking free from the destructive forces that plague us. Levy's profound insights offer a roadmap for personal and collective transformation, leading us toward a brighter future for all.

Weight: 558g
Dimension: 228 x 151 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781644115664