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 Levyexperienced 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
cliché, 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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