Undreaming Wetiko: Breaking the Spell of the Nightmare Mind-Virus
Autor Paul Levyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 iun 2023
În volumul Undreaming Wetiko, Paul Levy propune o metodă riguroasă de diagnosticare și tratament pentru ceea ce el numește „virusul minții”. Aplicabilitatea practică a conținutului teoretic rezidă în capacitatea cititorului de a transforma momentele de suferință sau „declanșare” emoțională în oportunități de trezire spirituală, oferind instrumente pentru a recunoaște cum traumele ancestrale nevindecate se propagă prin relațiile noastre actuale. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autorul recalibrează noțiunea de „wetiko” — un parazit mental descris în tradițiile indigene — transformând-o dintr-o amenințare externă într-o oglindă a psihicului propriu. Cartea completează perspectiva oferită de Healing the Wounded Mind, adăugând o dimensiune metafizică și cuantică procesului de deparazitare mentală, acolo unde Kingsley L. Dennis se concentrează mai mult pe alienarea sociologică. Structura lucrării este organizată în patru părți distincte, începând cu analiza „blestemului” familial și a relațiilor, progresând către o sinteză între teosofia lui Rudolf Steiner și psihologia lui Jung, și culminând cu explorarea câmpului sincronistic cuantic. Putem afirma că acest volum reprezintă o rafinare a temelor din lucrarea sa anterioară, The Quantum Revelation; dacă acolo Levy stabilea bazele fizicii cuantice ca path spiritual, în Undreaming Wetiko el aplică aceste principii pentru a demonta mecanismele „trickster” ale virusului mental. Prin utilizarea „conștiinței simbolice”, autorul ne invită să interpretăm realitatea cotidiană cu aceeași atenție pe care o acordăm unui vis, transformând astfel „otrava” psihologică în medicină.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1644115662
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Colecția Inner Traditions
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Despre autor
Paul Levy este un autor și cercetător dedicat intersecției dintre psihologia lui C. G. Jung, spiritualitate și fizică cuantică. După o experiență spirituală intensă în urmă cu câteva decenii, Levy și-a dedicat cariera studierii fenomenului „wetiko” și a modului în care acesta se manifestă în conștiința umană. Printre lucrările sale notabile se numără The Quantum Revelation și The Six Bardos of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, volume care reflectă interesul său constant pentru modul în care percepția subiectivă modelează realitatea obiectivă.
Descriere scurtă
Levy begins by investigating how the process of becoming triggered, wounded, or falling into suffering can help us better understand the workings of wetiko in a way that transforms our struggles into opportunities for awakening. He reveals the source of wetiko: unhealed multi-generational ancestral trauma, which gets acted out, passed down, and propagated through the family lineage via our relationships. He highlights one of the primary archetypes currently activated in the collective unconscious of humanity--the wounded healer/shaman--and shows how recognizing this archetype can help us as we navigate a collective descent into the underworld of the unconscious, a true bardo realm between our past and future worlds.
Drawing on the work of C. G. Jung, Rudolf Steiner, Henry Corbin, Wilhelm Reich, and Nicolas Berdyaev, the author introduces the inner guide--a daemon/angel that lives within us as an ally in our encounters with the daemonic energy of wetiko. He explores how to cultivate “symbolic awareness” (interpreting events in our lives symbolically--like a dream) as a path to creating meaning, which alchemically transmutes the poison of wetiko into medicine for healing the psyche.
Examining the nature of synchronicity, Levy reveals how wetiko can only be seen when we recognize that--like a dream--our inner and outer worlds reflect each other. He also explores the quantum nature of wetiko, showing how this helps us comprehend the elusive trickster nature of this mind-virus and sheds light on the quantum nature of both the world and ourselves. Ultimately, the author reveals that the best protection and medicine for wetiko is to connect with the light of our true nature by becoming who we truly are.
Notă biografică
Cuprins
PREFACE
Unmasking Ourselves
INTRODUCTION
A Thumbnail Sketch of Wetiko
PART I
Spells, Curses, and Shamans
1 Human Family Curse
2 Wetiko in Relationships
3 Wilhelm Reich’s Murder of Christ
4 Shamans to the Rescue
PART II
Angels, Demons, and Rebirth
5 The Battle for Our Angel
6 Rudolf Steiner on the Greatest Spiritual Event of Our Time
7 Nicolas Berdyaev’s Epoch of Creativeness
8 Rebirth of the Self
9 Reflecting on Jung’s Answer to Job
PART III
The Quantum Synchronistic Field
10 Quantum Physics and Wetiko
11 Catching the Bug of Synchronicity
PART IV
The Self as Revelation
12 The Disease of Not Seeing
13 The Art of Seeing
14 Wetiko as Revelation
15 The Self as Mirror
EPILOGUE
All You Have to Do to See Is Open Your Eyes and Look
POSTSCRIPT
Dreaming Ourselves Awake
Glossary of Acronyms
AFTERWORD
Paul Levy’s Conversion of First Nations Cannibalism to Global Sociopathy by Richard Grossinger
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
Recenzii
“Provides a fascinating exploration of how to find the light that is hidden within the dark side of our human experience. Paul Levy offers one of the finest riffs on understanding the complexity of which we are composed and how to understand and work with it, thus lending new meaning and strategy to the evolutionary agenda.”
“Levy continues to explore and unmask the wetiko mind-virus of greed and hubris that threatens the human enterprise but also, with unique force, opens up for us ways of ‘undreaming’ its power so we can live free from its contamination. This is an indispensable manual for all serious seekers.”
“Paul Levy is one of our clearest visionaries about things that truly matter.”
“Undreaming Wetiko is infused with Paul’s insights and personal experiences spanning over decades, weaving together quantum physics, Jungian shadow work, shamanism, trauma work, and drawing from various spiritual and esoteric traditions. Paul gives us a comprehensive understanding of why the world is the way it is, while he also brilliantly shows us the way out and what needs to be done before we destroy ourselves.”
“Paul Levy emerges from that ancient prophetic tradition of gnostics with the uncanny ability to transmute the poison of our experience into medicine for the soul. This book is an unflinching look at the underworld all around us, with all of the peril and the promise that implies. It leaves the reader not just with the possibility that enlightenment might exist in and through the ocean of darkness that surrounds and assails us; it offers us a bridge, a boat, and a ship to the other side.”
“This book serves as an essential guidepost to help us reclaim our creative power from the insidious grip of the wetiko mind-virus. With this book, Paul Levy seals his role as a master alchemist, serving as the lead spokesperson of an emerging consciousness that not only identifies the root of our collective shadow but also gives us the courage to overcome it. There is no way ‘out’ but in, and creative imagination is the key to ‘undreaming wetiko.’ Read this book and you will never be the same!”
“Undreaming Wetiko is urgently needed medicine in these perilous times. Paul Levy provides a powerful beacon by which we can recognize the dreamlike nature of our existence and lucidly embody our role as co-creators. His revelations help us to understand the trance of delusion and suffering that pervades the human world and empowers us to transmute this darkness into the light of liberation and knowledge of our intrinsic nature.”
“When we look upon wetiko with the light of love, we see the illusion, but it only vanishes when our heart demands justice of our mind. Thanks to Paul Levy, Undreaming Wetiko has inspired me to live from my heart so that wetiko has no use for my mind.”
“Through his wide-ranging, comprehensive research, deep and fearless inquiry, and the direct lived experience of his subject, wetiko, Levy has written a book of such power and conviction that just by reading it I was changed. As if giving a transmission, this book went straight into my heart, ignited the spirit, and imparted in me a grounded sense of responsibility but also of agency. Isn’t this the very thing that we all need to experience right now? That even though we are in a precarious condition, we also have everything within us that we need to turn the tide.”
“Levy’s teachings offer unique, multidimensional medicine for our personal and planetary ills. Reading this book will unquestionably alter your perceptions of what it means to be human and how to navigate these times by reconciling the inner world with the outer world, the personal with the collective, the wound with the healing, the unconscious with the conscious, and the shadow with the light.”