"A psychospiritual crisis is sweeping through our civilization like a contagion, infecting a growing number of people with insanity in the form of greed, egotism, and destructiveness."
In 1981, Paul Levy experienced what his doctors considered to be a nervous breakdown. In actuality, it was a spiritual awakening, one that changed his life's path forever. Since 1993, he has been giving talks and facilitating groups to help others in the process of awakening from the collective dream. A Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for more than thirty years, he has intimately studied with some of the greatest spiritual masters of Tibet and Burma. The author lives in Portland, OR.
This book brilliantly exposes how the very roots of the madness
that is threatening life on earth are ultimately to be found within
our own psyche. I love that Paul is taking seriously the profound
implications of what it means that all of us are living in a mass,
shared dream. His startlingly clear premise challenges me to
reflect upon both the world and myself in radically mind-altering
ways. Something important is coming through his imagination-filled
musings; his visionary insight into the intrinsic genius of our
species feels inspired by a truly creative, compassionate, and
enlivening spirit. I always look forward to reading Paul's work; it
stimulates me to greater heights of lucidity, disturbs me enough to
awaken me out of my complacency, and encourages me to fly on the
wings of the creative imagination. The world would be a better
place if everyone read this book. His vision is a royal gift for
all of us. It makes me want to sing. Bravo!
--Sting Dispelling Wetiko is one of those rare, courageous books
that leads us where we would prefer not to go: into the depths of
our own shadow. Yet this is the most essential journey for our
present time.... It is a must-read, without a doubt.
--Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit Paul Levy
summons us by Wisdom's call to community, action, and our higher
humanity. Truly initiatory, this book is inviting us to step
through the looking glass and consciously participate in our own
evolution. In exposing our psychic blindness, Levy is helping us to
open our eyes and see.
--Thom Hartmann, author of The Last Hours of Ancient
Sunlight When I read Dispelling Wetiko, I was unprepared
for a work of such true brilliance and depth. Paul Levy should be
congratulated on writing a seminal work.
--Brad Steiger, author of Revelation: The Divine Fire No one
else writing in America today, in whatever genre, sees into the
real nature of our crushing global endgame emergency more deeply,
steadily, or wholly than Paul Levy.
--Eric Larsen, author of A Nation Gone Blind and professor
emeritus at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) Paul Levy
has broadened his hard-won personal insights into a trenchant
diagnosis of the mass-mind psychosis afflicting our Western (and
indeed now global) civilization. I honor Paul's courage and
discernment in taking on this most elusive and treacherous of
topics and showing the steps one can take to move toward
liberation. Dispelling Wetiko deserves to be widely read and
studied.
--Ralph Metzner, PhD, professor emeritus at the California
Institute of Integral Studies and author of The Unfolding Self I
very much recommend Paul Levy's writings. Synthesizing a deep
understanding of Jungian psychology and spirituality, his work
brilliantly illuminates the dreamlike nature of reality.
--Dr. Arny Mindell, founder of process-oriented psychology and
author of The Shaman's Body The world is suffering from the
globalization of selfishness, materialism, and militarism, and Paul
Levy, in his magnum opus, Dispelling Wetiko, identifies
their roots in a cancer of the soul.... An insightful and
provocative manifesto on how to combat this global epidemic before
it is too late.
--Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine, chair of
the Interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives, and author of
The Left Hand of God As a people, we seem to be seriously
impaired. It is as if we have suffered a culture-wide stroke that
has damaged the higher centers that control our ability to reason
and act in rational ways. What will see us through? What will help
us wake up from this slow suicide? Paul Levy's Dispelling
Wetiko is a valuable step in the right direction. This
desperately needed book not only sounds an alarm, but also points
to a solution.
-- Larry Dossey, MD, author of The One Mind and executive
editor of Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing In
these dire straits, many extraordinary people--in all walks of
life, speaking in different tones and voices--envision the nondual
experience of the nature of mind. Paul Levy is one of them. [He]
evokes a clear and scintillating vision, resolving much of the
incongruity of our existence.
--Keith Dowman, author of Natural Perfection: Longchenpa's
Radical Dzogchen Paul Levy hits the archetypal nail on the head
when he identifies debt pushers, consumption pushers, and GOD
(gold, oil, and drug) pushers as the cannibalistic offenders in
today's society.... I can't express how brilliant I find this
book.
--Iona Miller, coauthor of The Modern Alchemist: A Guide to
Personal Transformation This rich and fascinating book is full
of original insights that challenge us to see the human predicament
in a new way.
--Timothy Freke, author of The Jesus Mysteries and The
Mystery Experience Paul Levy's provocative and insightful book
Dispelling Wetiko shines a light on the darkness and exposes
evil as an illusion--one that nonetheless impacts our reality. It
is particularly important in these evolutionary times that those
who see themselves as 'bringers of the light' understand the heart
of darkness as well.... Kudos to Paul Levy for taking on this
topic.
--Steve Bhaerman, coauthor of Spontaneous Evolution Paul
Levy is a great social critic and public intellectual--his
distinctive metaphysical idealism and experience-based mysticism
gives his oeuvre a spiritual depth that is lacking even among our
best critical theorists. Unlike many other spiritually informed
political activists, Paul's spirituality is never saccharine or
cliche, his politics never compromising. His profound psychological
insights and treasure trove of metaphors and literary tropes enable
him to advance a highly original theoretical perspective grounded
in Jung's thought, quantum physics, Buddhism and his own
transpersonal revelations. His message to social activists is that
the alternative to neoliberal barbarism and the advent of
ecological catastrophe is the willingness to cultivate the power of
the communal imagination...Paul Levy represents the future.
--Seth Farber, Ph.D., Assessing Editor, The Journal of Mind and
Behavior and author of The Spiritual Gift of Madness: The
Failure of Psychiatry and the Rise of The Mad Pride Movement
Paul Levy is one of the wisest, most spiritually-wide-awake people
I've had the privilege of getting to know.
--Kevin Barrett, Truth Jihad Radio Paul Levy is one of our time's
most original thinkers on the human condition.
--Alan Steinfeld, NewRealities Paul Levy's Dispelling Wetiko
is among the very best books on the nature of evil that I have ever
read, and because it offers a workable way out of the universal
psychosis that native peoples call Wetiko, possibly the most
important on the subject that I have had the pleasure of adding to
my library. A real treasure.
--Whitley Strieber, UnknownCountry.com, Dreamland radio show This
volume, like its predecessor, is not only fascinating, riveting,
and, like all Levy's work, consistently crunchy and prickly with
thought, but it is also, in two words, overwhelmingly revelatory...
A guarantee: Neither while reading nor after reading Dispelling
Wetiko will you again look at the world around you the same way
as you might have before.
--The Oliver Arts & Open Press Paul Levy's book is the finest
recent example of what Jungian or archetypal criticism has to offer
in the diagnosis of contemporary culture and, specifically, the
problem of evil and how to find a way out of its dominance in our
world.
--Walter Davis, author of Death's Dream Kingdom: The American
Psyche since 9-11, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of
English at Ohio State University Every so often a book comes into
one's possession that dramatically and radically decimates one's
world view. For me reading 'Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse
of Evil' has been one of them.
--Peter Morris, LightoftheLogos.com, MysteriesofSirius.com "For
millennia, humanity has struggled to understand the manifestation
of evil in our world. In this regard Dispelling Wetiko is an
extraordinary book, and author Paul Levy has made a great
contribution to our understanding of the evil that is happening in
our world today, as well as who and what we are."
--Hank Wesselman PhD., anthropologist and author of The Bowl of
Light, The Spiritwalker Trilogy, and the award-winning
Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct
Revelation with Sandra Ingerman A true book of genius; one
everybody should read.
--Nailed magazine
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