WETIKO... Do you know the term? It is profoundly affecting your life !!

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Eric N. Best, Ph.D.

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Jan 22, 2022, 1:40:15 AM1/22/22

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Hi All,

It's been awhile... I know. It's sad for me... the break. Sigh..... It has simply been in part because I honestly did not know what to write (that I had not already presented) to help us all, both wake up and take action. Well Bill Kauth (a truly successful community creator in Ashland, OR) sent along this note on Wetiko . A new and perhaps deeper take on understanding the decaying dynamics of our culture, with the potential for YOU to help yourself, your loved ones, ... and perhaps even the culture.
Hence this new outreach from me to you. If there ever was a time for action, it is now!! Far beyond just another Zoom event.... still dealing with ideas... now presented simply in video format, but still not in living person. It is time for the "living person" interaction, if we are to survive and thrive beyond being a wage slave in a decaying Matrix like culture.

In Love, Eric

Ironically and yet perhaps synchronistically, there is also this insight offering (RHS of table) from Mattias Desmet, professor of clinical psychology; while Bill's offering is on the LHS.

From Bill Kauth:

Friends,

I've known Paul Levy and his work around Wetiko for some years... and here's an opportunity to explore the benefits of breaking free.

World circumstances are inviting us to undergo an inner alchemical transformation.

We are collectively making a shamanic descent into the darkness of the unconscious, believes spiritual emergence pioneer Paul Levy, and undergoing an archetypal death and rebirth experience.

Yet, the collective madness that appears to have overtaken our world can potentially help us see that there is something within us preventing our full evolutionary potential… something that can also potentially catalyze us to awaken to the dreamlike nature of reality and remember the essence of who we are.

Early Native Americans called this catalyst wetiko, and it’s a concept recognized in all spiritual traditions — a psychospiritual disease of the soul — a mind-virus or mental blindness that works through the blind spots of the unconscious.

It is what feeds our shadow sides, those parts of ourselves we can’t or don’t want to see. It causes us to form a dualistic perspective — an us-versus-them mentality — and suffer the painful consequences of accepting this perceived sense of separateness.

On Tuesday, February 1, in a profoundly eye-opening and surprisingly inspiring hour with Paul, you’ll discover how, paradoxically, on the flip side of wetiko’s darkness dwells our light, as well as the creative passion and energies we hold — and need — to awaken from its dreamlike nature and see it for the revelation and catalyst for positive change that it is.

You can register here for How to Transmute Wetiko & Unveil Your Luminosity for Greater Authenticity & Inner Freedom: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/dwBK/bkindman/

During this illusion-shattering 60 minutes, you’ll:
* Discover wetiko — the psychic mind-virus within each of us and the collective — and the soul-empowering benefits of learning how to alchemize it in order to wake up to the dreamlike nature of reality.
* Experience a profound guided meditation to glimpse behind the veil of your own inner wetiko, and notice your resistance to living authentically, what’s blocking you, and what’s drawing you forward
* Learn the remedies for wetiko and how they strengthen your innate nature as a creator, cultivate compassion and healthy connection to others, and illuminate the synchronistic nature of life
* Learn how to differentiate between our neurotic monkey mind, a symptom of wetiko, and the actual downloads from your higher soul-self
* Discover the counterfeiting spirit within that impersonates us and that we identify with, and how to recognize and dispel it

You’ll learn how wetiko can cause us to fall under the spell of what in the Apocryphal texts of the Bible is called the counterfeiting spirit, where we are hijacked by societal norms that steal our true nature, unique creative gifts, and our ability to perceive and experience the loving nature of Universal Oneness.

And, you’ll come away with powerful remedies for transforming this personal and collective dis-ease.

You can RSVP for free here: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/dwBK/bkindman/

Bill

P.S. In How to Transmute Wetiko & Unveil Your Luminosity for Greater Authenticity & Inner Freedom…
… you’ll experience a profound guided meditation to discover the psychic mind-virus, wetiko, within you and how it may be suppressing the true you — AND how learning to transmute it can ignite your creative powers and set you free.
We hope you’re able to catch the event as scheduled. But if you register and miss it, you’ll receive a downloadable recording as soon as it’s available: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/dwBK/bkindman/

From: Mattias Desmet, professor of clinical psychology

Why Conscious Village,
Extended Family, Tribe ... community?

Mass Hypnosis ..... Negative Cultural Conditioning .... Willingly Sacrificing Your Freedom ?

This is from Mattias Desmet, professor of clinical psychology at Ghent University in Belgium. He reviews the societal conditions under which a population ends up willingly sacrificing their freedom.
[Being from Belgium, Desmet is certainly not a USA democrat or republican.]

1) A psychological condition of society known as “mass formation” is a condition for totalitarianism. Under mass formation, a population willingly sacrifices their freedom

2) The central condition for mass formation to occur is a lack of societal bonding. In other words, social isolation on a mass scale, which is precisely what the lock downs were all about. But even before the pandemic, social isolation was at a historical high.

3) The second condition is that a majority of people must experience life as meaningless and purposeless. The third condition is widespread free-floating anxiety and free-floating discontent. This refers to discontent and anxiety that have no apparent or distinct causes.

4) The fourth condition is free-floating frustration and aggression, which tends to naturally follow the previous three. Here, again, the frustration and aggression have no discernible cause

5) Once these four conditions are widespread, mass formation can occur, which allows for totalitarianism to rise and thrive.

[In this case the control by the morbidly rich and corporations, is the totalitarianism source.]

A key strategy to break mass formation and prevent totalitarianism

is for dissenters to join together as one large group, thereby giving fence-sitters who are not yet fully hypnotized an alternative to going along with the totalitarians. Another is to loudly speak out against the totalitarian regime, as this is how atrocities are limited.

SOOOooooo ... did this Prof just call for us to join together as one large group of smaller interdependent smaller groups? If there ever was an academic call for us to break out of isolation, loneliness, distrust, economic slavery into "Loving Friendship" based communities; this is IT !! - Eric

Just in case you don't know it is likely you really are a "Wage Slave",
consider this blog post by Thom Hartmann. His detailed report (follow his link
below gives detail by detail... which the vast majority of us have never had
presented to us ... to show how:

"The morbidly rich have taken over ! "

Thom's blog

How America Is Becoming Unraveled

The morbidly rich have taken over politics, nobody trusts anybody, violence is up, gun sales have exploded & our nation experienced its first armed assault from traitors within since the Civil War. "Conservative" columnists in America are bemoaning how coarse, violent and Third-World-ish the US has become in the past 40 years. David Brooks, for example, comes right out and says "America is falling apart at the seams."

In that, he's largely quoting data from Matt Iglesias' substack newsletter Slow Boring, where he wrote:

"You're seeing more killing, which is a subset of the increase in shooting, which in turn is a subset of the large increase in gun-carrying. But traffic deaths are also up. Unruly passenger incidents on airplanes have surged. Schools report more discipline and student safety issues.

"Basically, the murders seem like the tip of an iceberg of bad behavior."

Brooks correctly notes that it's terrible (Brooks is a genuinely thoughtful guy) but:

"As a columnist, I'm supposed to have some answers. But I just don't right now. I just know the situation is dire."

The rapid disintegration of the nation that was once the world's bulwark of democracy and beacon of freedom has been relentless and brutal — but it should not be a surprise to Brooks or other conservatives: it's all happened right out in the open and most of it has been driven from the right side of our political spectrum.

How this came about is not a mystery, and progressives have been warning about the dangers of this kind of consolidated rightwing (racist, rich and corporate) power ever since the 1901 presidency of progressive Republican Teddy Roosevelt.