The greatest protection against the evil aspects of wetiko is to be in touch
with our intrinsic wholeness. In Buddhism, the wholeness of our true nature is likened to a mirror,
which reflects whatever is put before it but is never tainted nor stained by its reflections. When we are in touch with our true nature, the evil of wetiko cannot ‘touch' us.
The recent rash of shootings is beginning to look like a recurring nightmare. If we were to analyze the mass shooting phenomenon as if it were a dream, what would this show us about the
state of our colletive psyche?
My new book, "Wetiko: The Great Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity," talks about the mind-virus that has infiltrated the human psyche.
As we shed light on wetiko, and become sensitive to its movements within ourselves, there is no place for
the spirit to hide. The spirit of wetiko needs to be 'contained'; this is
the archetypal point behind the sacred alchemical idea of a mystical vessel
which transforms the entire universe. Part Three in a series.
A psycho-spiritual disease of the soul that I call malignant egophrenia and indigenous
people call wetiko is
undermining the evolutionary development of our species. The global
financial system is the revelation of wetiko disease.
For thousands of years a psychological disease has been informing human self-destructive
behavior. A psychosis in the true sense of the word as a "sickness of the
soul," this illness is at the root of humanity's inhumanity to itself.
The psyche has a
pre-eminent place in the natural order of things. The life of the psyche
arises out of organic life, while at the same time transcending it
through its own self-creation. A product of cosmic evolution,
the conscious psyche is a relatively recent emergence out of the womb
of nature.
Encoded in the birth of the
self-conscious, separate self is its own self-liberation. The moment of self-consciousness is the portal through which we can step out and let go of
ourselves in the service of compassion.
When I was first introduced to the world of psychiatry in May of 1981 at 24 years of age, I experienced a particularly unique synchronistic event that rocked my world and changed my life forever.
In its initial stage, a
spiritual awakening can look like a nervous breakdown. My experience was so off psychiatry's
map that it wasn't even remotely recognized. I was immediately labeled
as sick.
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