Wetiko Mind Virus has emerged as a concept that delves into the depths of human consciousness.
The wetiko mind virus derives from the Cree term “wetiko,” meaning “cannibalistic spirit.”
Metaphorically, it describes a destructive force infiltrating the human psyche.
It leads to harmful behavior and a disconnect from humanity’s essence.
In this article, we’ll dissect the myth, explore its meaning, and ponder its impact on the human spirit.
I stumbled upon the topic while researching another article.
I became intrigued by the topic and decided to delve deep to discover more.
While real viruses can affect the brain, a mind virus is an insidious, spiritual parasite.
It slowly and methodically takes over the person and controls them much to their detriment.
To me, the mind includes the entire body.
I have heard of mind viruses, or viruses of the mind, in the past. I was curious whether the myth or legend of it was accurate, where it had its roots, and if it could be something else entirely.
Also, it has a lot of similarities to what Eckhart Tolle describes as the Pain Body.
I’ll share with you what I discovered in this article.
(This article is for informational purposes only. I am not intending to diagnose anyone. I urge you to explore this topic further and not project your findings onto anyone. We are all imperfect beings, and it would be wise to discover and correct our limiting behaviors where we have control.)
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Wetiko Myth: A Cultural Lens
The wetiko disease finds its roots in Indigenous cultures, particularly among the Cree people of North America.
According to their mythology, it represents an evil force, a spiritual ailment that devours individuals’ souls, causing them to act against the well-being of their communities.
The Cree people believe that this mythic entity operates on both a personal and collective level, infiltrating the minds of individuals and spreading like a contagious affliction.
Wetiko Meaning: Cannibalistic Consumption of the Self
At its core, it is a metaphor for a spiritual sickness that manifests as a form of cannibalism.
However, this cannibalism is not of the physical body but rather the consumption of one’s own humanity.
The mind virus compels individuals to prioritize personal gain over communal well-being, fostering a self-destructive mentality that corrodes the bonds that connect us as human beings.
The Wetiko Mind Virus: A Psychological Perspective
Psychologists and spiritual thinkers alike have adopted this concept to explore the nature of destructive behaviors at the individual and societal levels.
The Mind Virus is a psychological phenomenon that leads individuals to act against their best interests, driven by greed, power, and a distorted sense of self-importance.
The mind virus can be likened to a mental parasite that feeds on negative emotions, such as fear, greed, and hatred, distorting one’s perception of reality.
As individuals succumb to the influence of the mind virus, they become agents of their downfall, perpetuating a cycle of destructive behaviors that harm both themselves and those around them.
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Wetiko Spirit: Reconnecting with the Human Essence
While the mind virus represents a dark and pervasive force, there is hope in the form of the wetiko spirit.
The Spirit embodies the antidote to the destructive tendencies of the mind virus. It encourages individuals to reconnect with their true essence, fostering empathy, compassion, and a sense of interconnectedness with humanity.
Cultivating the Spirit involves a journey of self-awareness and self-transformation. By recognizing the signs of the mind virus within oneself, individuals can take proactive steps to break free from its grip.
Practices such as mindfulness, compassion meditation, and community engagement can be powerful tools in the battle against the Mind Virus. They can help individuals reclaim their humanity and contribute positively to the world around them.
Wetiko Collective Impact: Societal Reflections
Examining the Mind Virus on a societal level reveals its far-reaching consequences. From political corruption to environmental degradation, its symptoms manifest in various forms, perpetuating a cycle of harm that transcends individual actions.
Understanding the collective impact is crucial for developing strategies to address and mitigate its effects on a broader scale.
Societies plagued by the mind virus often exhibit symptoms of division, inequality, and a lack of empathy.
Addressing these issues requires a collective effort to cultivate the spirit, fostering a shared commitment to values that prioritize the well-being of all society members.
Initiatives promoting education, dialogue, and social justice can be powerful tools in dismantling the structures that allow the mind virus to thrive.
How Do You Treat Wetiko Virus?
Revealing how the power of imagination can cure the mind virus, Paul Levy underscores how important it is for each of us to bring forth the creative spirit within us.
This helps shed the light of consciousness on the mind virus, taking away its power over us while simultaneously empowering ourselves.
Wetiko Myth & Legend
The Wetiko Mind Virus is a psychic tapeworm or parasite that has taken over our brain and tricked us, its host, into thinking we are feeding and empowering ourselves while nourishing the parasite (a process which will ultimately kill its host—us).
At its base, it is about fear.
In Wetiko Disease, something that is not us stealthily, beneath our conscious awareness, takes the place of and plays the role of who we are.
While researching this topic, a movie, and a particular scene came to mind from the 2006 Mel Gibson Movie Apocalypto.
Flint Sky and his tribe come across refugees passing through the forest; however, their behavior seems off. The refugees reveal they were attacked and are looking for a new place to settle down.
The refugees asked permission to pass through and offered some fish they had caught by a nearby stream. After the refugees left, Flint warned his son not to create fear within the village.
Wetiko Pronunciation
I’ve found two different ways to pronounce.
- Wet -i – co
- We – tee – co (We not wee)
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What Is A Virus?
A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside an organism’s living cells. When infected, a host cell is often forced to produce thousands of copies of the original virus rapidly.
Viruses gain power by entering living cells, quickly seizing the cells’ machinery, and reproducing like mad. Soon, they are dribbling out into other cells, infecting them.
John Coffin, a virology researcher at the Tufts School of Medicine, says a virus is “a piece of information at the root.”
A virus’ “business is to make more of itself—that’s its only job,” Coffin says. “Causing disease along the way may or may not be good for it.”
Tufts Now: What exactly are viruses? How are they different from bacteria?
John Coffin: Viruses are entirely different from bacteria. A bacterium is a living thing—most of them have all the necessary components for survival, including the ability to make more of themselves.
A virus is just a piece of information. For example, a virus puts its information into a bacterial, human, or animal cell.
It contains instructions that tell a cell to make more of the virus itself; in the same way, a computer virus getting into a computer tells the computer to make more of itself. Viruses are not living things.
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What Is A Mind Virus?
They spread the same way as any other regular virus through exposure to someone infected.
However, unlike typical viruses, they mainly don’t cause any physical symptoms. Instead, the virus will alter how its victims think, act, and behave.
You’ll do things that are destructive to yourself and others. With mind viruses, you can be programmed to act against your own highest Good.
You can even be programmed against your survival, overriding your DNA.
Wetiko Meaning/Definition
Wetiko is an Algonquin word for a cannibalistic spirit that is driven by greed, excess, and selfish consumption (in Ojibwa, it is windigo, wintiko in Powhatan)
According to Paul Levy, author of WETIKO: HEALING THE MIND-VIRUS THAT PLAGUES OUR WORLD, it means:
A contagious psycho-spiritual disease of the soul is currently being acted out en masse on the world stage via an insidious collective psychosis of titanic proportions.
This mind virus—which Native Americans have called “wetiko”—covertly operates through the unconscious blind spots in the human psyche, rendering people oblivious to their madness and compelling them to act against their best interests.
Wetiko covertly influences our perceptions to act out through us while simultaneously hiding from being seen.
Wetiko Psychosis
It’s a psychosis in the true sense of the word, “a sickness of the spirit.”
It cannot control our true nature but can control and manipulate the false identity it establishes within us.
When we fall under it’s illusion, we simultaneously identify with who we are not while dissociating from and forgetting who we are—giving away our power, not to mention ourselves, in the process.
Paul Levy explores how artists, philosophers, and spiritual traditions have creatively symbolized this deadly pathogen of the psyche to help us see it and heal it.
He examines the concept of it as it appears in the teachings of the Kabbalah, Hawaiian kahuna shamanism, Buddhism, and mystical Christianity and through esoteric concepts like egregores, demons, counterfeiting spirits, and psychic vampires.
Levy explores how the projection of the shadow self-scapegoating (a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place) is the underlying psychological mechanism fueling it.
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Wetiko Examples
- Unconsciously accusing others of doing the same thing they are guilty of
- Narcissism
- Rules for thee but not for me
- They are soul cannibals.
- Fear if they don’t attack and rule over others, they are in danger of being attacked and ruled over.
- They exhibit extreme paranoia.
- They try to destroy others’ light because it reminds them of what they destroyed in themselves.
- Projecting their shadows onto others while accusing others of projecting their shadow onto them
- If their foolishness is reflected back to them, they think it is the mirror that is foolish.
- Suffers from a form of psychic blindness
- A complete feeling of separateness from people, animals, and the planet.
- They have fear as the basis of their decision-making.
- They are soulless portals that drain those who are loving and have a soul.
- Act to their own projections in the world as if they objectively exist.
- They do unto others what was done unto them.
- They transfer and transmit their own depraved state of inner deadness to others to deal with their suffering.
Could this be why there is no cure for narcissism and why it seems to be rapidly and increasingly coming at us from all angles?
Will our healers and Lightworkers be able to illuminate and heal this mental disease of our collective consciousness? Also, are we seeing a rise in narcissism because we are more aware of it?
Jack Forbes – Wetiko Virus
This disease, this Witeko cannibal psychosis, is the greatest epidemic sickness known to man. As a species, we are in the midst of a massive psychic epidemic. This virulent collective psychosis has been brewing in the cauldron of humanity’s psyche from the beginning of time.
Like a fractal, Wetiko operates on multiple dimensions simultaneously.
Cannibalism is consuming another’s life for one’s own private purpose or profit. Those afflicted with it, like a cannibal, consume the life force of others – human and nonhuman for private purposes or gain and do so without giving back something from their own lives.
Fixing & Healing The Wetiko Virus
People under the sway of the mind virus are involved in and voluntarily subscribe to their enslavement.
They do this to the point that they often react violently when offered the way out of the comfort of their prison.
They symbolically try to kill the messenger, showing them the path to freedom.
A physical, objectively existing virus does not infect us outside of ourselves in the disease. Instead, the origin and genesis of the psychosis are endogenous; its roots are to be found within the human psyche.
The fact that it is the expression of something inside us means that the cure for is within us.
Things I have to done to improve my awareness of myself and my negative behaviors are:
- Daily meditation or quiet time.
- Daily physical exercise
- Consuming foods and drinks and fasting to detoxify the body.
- Energy work
- Reading about psychology, spirituality, and personal growth
- Distancing myself from toxic people and environments
- Forgiveness exercises
- Avoiding drugs and alcohol
Conclusion
In conclusion, the Wetiko mind virus is a powerful metaphor that invites us to explore the depths of our consciousness and societal structures.
By understanding the myth, delving into its meaning, and embracing the spirit, individuals and communities can work towards breaking the chains of this destructive force.
Through self-awareness, compassion, and a commitment to shared well-being, we can transcend the mind virus’s grip and reclaim our humanity’s essence.
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