Wetiko Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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