Dispelling Wetiko : Breaking the Curse of Evil By Paul Levy

A psychospiritual crisis is sweeping through our civilization like a contagion, infecting a growing number of people with greed, egotism, and destructiveness. The Native Americans had a name for this phenomenon--wétiko--and they recognized it with horror in the faces of the Europeans who arrived several centuries ago. Drawing on Jung, shamanism, and personal experience, author Paul Levy asserts that wétiko is not folklore but an actual entity that feeds on the psyche of its victims and blinds them to their own possession. For those who look at the current state of affairs and ask how such madness can exist, Levy provides an answer, as well as a solution. Lying dormant in the venom of wétiko, he argues, is its antidote--one that can help us wake up from this mass hypnosis and finally bring sanity back to society.