Undreaming Wetiko: Breaking the Spell of the Nightmare Mind-Virus

Having read Levy's previous books on Wetiko I looked forward to his new book. I enjoyed this One and I'm thankful for the path it has taken me/us/you/I.

When I picked up this book, here is what came before my eyes just when I was needing it: "Since the advent of the global pandemic I have felt even more intensely both the light and the dark aspects of myself, as if they are interdependent parts of a deeper process wherein one is evoking the presence of the other. Due to the urgent feeling that there’s no time to waste, it’s as if the creative, light-filled part of me has gotten more vibrant, while at the same time the deepest darkness embedded in my unhealed wounds also seems stronger than ever. The tension between the light and the dark parts of myself has intensified to a practically unbearable degree. As my light increases, the darkness within me is simultaneously coming to the fore, making itself known to the point where it’s getting harder and harder for me to look away. It’s as if the light is illuminating everything in me that is not of the light, everything that is dark, which makes sense, as the purpose of light is to reveal darkness. As I more deeply connect with the light of my true nature, my subjective experience is that there is a seemingly dark force within me—wetiko—that wants to prevent me from connecting with the light at all costs. This book is about shedding light on that darkness in order to allow our light to shine." [Paul Levy - Undreaming Wetiko]This is such a fit to my experience that I consider it a gift from God. I realize that my passion for the light has an effect on the darkness left within.

Paul’s unique perspective blends the observable with the spiritual in order to synthesize deep lessons about evil and the nature of our reality. This book is as much about the fragile condition humanity finds itself in as it is about the challenges we need to face as individuals in order to become what we’re meant to be.

if dispelling wetiko opened our eyes, undreaming wetiko may allow us to see and thus see through the projected anti-reality we have unconsciously created, within and without. gracias a la medicina in this book and gratitude to its masterful scribe.

Great book

Paul Levy has opened the floodgates of knowledge, while shining the spotlight on the Wetiko mind virus that has enveloped humanity. It is a must read for anyone on the spiritual path. Highly recommended!

Paul's book opened my eyes to new and expansive ways of thinking about good, evil and the nature of reality.

Two kinds of readers will be overjoyed at this new Paul Levy volume. The first is made up of those who once upon a time were called “serious readers,” which is to say readers who want to know what real thinking is like when it’s done by real intellectuals—and especially when that thinking happens to be about nothing less than the imminent threat of our species’ extinction and what can (what must) be done to prevent that extinction from taking place. The other kind of reader is the one who is an old hand and has been following Paul Levy all along, beginning back in 2006 with the author-thinker’s first book, the extraordinary (and extraordinarily undated) The Madness of George W. Bush, continuing then through the groundbreaking and powerful Wetiko (in 2011), on to Dispelling Wetiko in 2013, then to the absolutely spell-binding and hope-giving The Quantum Revelation in 2018, and now the new and positively chockful treasure chest of Undreaming Wetiko, a full-to-the-gunnels book that does the impossible by serving both as a serviceable introduction to the thinking of Paul Levy on the one hand (it opens with “A Thumbnail Sketch of Wetiko”), and, on the other, as a deep, rich, powerful reiteration of the material of the earlier books that also moves yet further into the urgent, poetic, and overwhelmingly powerful subject of the one-ness of the universe: The one-ness of we ourselves with the universe; the oneness of the universe with us (as thinking creatures); and the co-creativity of the two, us on the one hand and the universe on the other, a co-creativity between universe and us, us and universe, such that, if we fail to recognize it, fail to understand it, above all if we fail to embrace it—will result in nothing less than the destruction of ourselves by ourselves, nothing less than the committing of suicide of the species that will have been committed by the members of that species. On this subject, here is something I wrote no less than a decade ago in an essay on Dispelling Wetiko. It is, specifically, a brief passage on the important Paul Levy subject of the oneness—literal oneness—of self and universe:First, this concept of the unity of self and universe isn’t so literal or mechanistic as to suggest that if a person somewhere drops a hammer on his or her big toe, every corresponding big toe in the universe will feel the pain. On the other hand, though, the unity is by no means only metaphorical. This oneness is real, and, if humanity is going to survive, it must be understood as such. The powerful complexities and schemes of Wetiko itself; the subjects of Karl Jung; of Buddhism; of the “shadow”; of synchronicity; of quantum mechanics; of Wilhelm Reich’s Murder of Christ; of Rudolph Steiner; of The Book of Job; of Newtonian physics—into these and many other related subjects Levy delves fearlessly, with a commanding authority, and deeply. Richard Grossinger, in a helpful, marvelous, and laudatory “Afterword” to Undreaming Wetiko, writes thatIf we are looking to define evil by searching externally, we are missing the opportunity to fully understand and embrace its nature. Indeed so. The truth about evil in our world—and about our absolutely real chance to conquer it (if we can perceive that chance)—this truth can never be discovered, learned, or understood by looking “outward” for it. Another kind of “looking” is necessary, as Paul Levy himself explains in this, his extraordinary new addition to an already world-changing oeuvre: Imagine our situation: we are in a world whose nature we misapprehend, thinking it exists as something separate from ourselves, not realizing that we, through the act of observing the world, are influencing the world we then take to be other than ourselves. On top of this we misconstrue who we are and our place in a world whose reflective nature we don’t recognize. Not knowing who we are, not understanding the nature of our world, and not comprehending our relationship to the world, we then try to find answers to our self-created problems that are the result of this disoriented viewpoint by looking outside of ourselves. This ignores and takes us away from both the source and solution of the problem, which is within ourselves. The whole thing is madness on an industrial scale. This benighted project(ion) is not just sponsored by Wetiko, it is the revelation of Wetiko for those whose hearts, minds, and inner vision have been opened.

Thank you Paul for writing this book. You have put pieces of the puzzle together for me. I loved how you said "we are children of the tribe of our parents". I agree with you that our personality crystallizes into who we are by unresolved karma and trauma of our ancestors. I have had a strong pull to deal with ancestral dysfunction in my own family by working on myself, especially with my dreams. Carl Jung has played a big part in my spiritual journey. Your life experience, and the insights you have, are going to have a real impact on those who read your book or watch your videos. It has done so with me. I hope in the near future "Undreaming Wetiko" will be required reading in the university setting. I believe it is no coincidence that your books have showed up in my life. I have read two others as well. Your work will change many lives for the better Paul.

I am a big fan of Paul's work, in particular his Wetiko books and this one being the third book in the Wetiko series goes a lot deeper into understanding Wetiko. Reading this book I feel like I have some what upgraded with the new knowledge, I particularly liked the work on Transgenerational Trauma, explaining how Wetiko is passed on over the generations with solutions on how we can stop it. Also the chapters on Shamanism and Angels are particular favourite ones of mine and I seem to some what have some Shamanic and Angelic experiences in my life while reading these chapters! I love how the book feeds into this world being Quantum which I felt help deepen my compassion with others and also respect and see other peoples view points much easier. I hope there are more books to come from Paul on Wetiko and it doesn't stop at this trilogy! :)

It is beautiful to read about the mind virus that is visible for those with eyes to see. While the book starts of interesting it becomes quickly over intellectualized over using academic jargon that makes it a tough read. It is not flowing but rather feels like wetiko itself is writing the book, repeating itself like being caught in a (mind) loop. That is not good nor bad but I had to stop reading the book because it felt like wetiko dragging on and I was not willing to give it my energy. I would love to read a more "healed" version, written from an observer stance rather than being overtaken by wetiko.

Paul Levy shows us in Undreaming Weitko how to awaken from the dream we think is reality. A must read for anyone who is on a true spiritual path.

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