The Wetiko Disease - a psychological parasite

Love it OP. Thanks for your post. Bookmarked it too.

Very interesting. bookmarked for reading later

ah here i am again , you suck.

Glad this is of interest to some.

Olaf you are entitled to your opinions but you aren't being forced to read the article. Your aggressive tone is not appreciated either.

i did not read it.

they did that wet look again only it does not make sense.

first it is oh ok what am i doing actualy then finaly sleep time and then you get to your self again but way off and it is what am i doing again.

and why why am i doing this.

absolutely no fun nothing to do others getting happy telling you things and all you can say is you suck to be honest.

i even did allot of effort to finaly write an importand mail to a company in between very dirty factorys because realy nobody does and i get redirected to an iphone lover saying im mr iphone.

and that is it ? im not going to try again or do effort to see where that fatso is with his dumb group.

and i just warned him for the second time.

At least you are bumping the thread but I'd prefer it if you didn't post nonsensical ramblings here. Thank you.

it does not resonate.

and tell that frogmouth dwarf woman with mommy hands to go away.

oh well should i read the links then ?

it is nice out off the wind.

Olaf you make no sense in your comments but yes reading the links may benefit you in some way - stay out of the wind now

Bumping for truth

Op, I haven't read the other 2 links, but I did read the first one completly.
I have to say I have never seen all of this information so clearly put together before. It's really wonderful!

I've always loved Jung's work, and have tended to gravitate towards it thru the years.
I find that the way the author of the article, linked the differant 'versions' of it all together is what I have always thought as well.

I read a book several years ago called something like 'Encountering the Psychic Vampire in ourselves and others'...to be very much in line with what this article is talking about.
It's amazing how true it is that we fail to see these things in ourselves, and others...but it is still there.

The spin of it being a 'virus' is a good analogy I think for it, because it does spread like a disease amongst the population...esp. in others that do not realize they are a 'carrier' .

This is an excellent article OP.!
I think the reason it fell off the charts, is just because it is a lengthy read, and most have never taken the time to read it.
It's really a shame, because I think there are alot of us that could use this information right now.
I see many that have been taken over by Shadow/Vampire/Wintiko these days, ...even my only child, that I thought I raised to be aware of this 'malady'

I am glad this article resonated with you Woodsprite. It is quite a read and challenges habitual thinking, I enjoy all Paul Levy's articles but I have to be in the right head space to delve into them. Mindfulness practice helps with that :)

I will look into the book you mention it sounds right up my street. Facing my own shadow and learning how to recognise and set boundaries with those who are unconsciously projecting theirs onto me, is something I try to keep in my conscious awareness as much as possible.

I'm glad you and a few others have found time to enjoy these articles, thanks for your thoughts too - it really is a virus, a psychological one. Your child will wake up in his her own time I am sure, especially if you are modelling healthy to him/her.

Last Edited by Pharista on 07/04/2011 05:26 AM

Wetiko text is probably the best I have ever read and I've read a looooot.

Thanks for the bump Croatia, glad you enjoyed the articles. Here is a short text I came across on Paul Levy's website today:-

A PARASITE OF A DIFFERENT ORDER

When people are infected by the wetiko virus, Forbes writes, they are “the host for the wetiko parasites.” The wetiko germ is a psychic tapeworm, a parasite of the mind. Just like certain computer viruses or malware infect and program a computer to self-destruct, mind-viruses like wetiko can program the human bio-computer to think, believe and behave in ways that result in our self-destruction.Wetiko is a virulent, psychic pathogen that insinuates thought-forms into our mind which, when unconsciously en-acted, feed it, and ultimately kills its host (us). It doesn’t want to kill us too quickly however, for to successfully implement its agenda of reproducing and propagating itself throughout the field, it must let the host live long enough to spread the virus. If the host dies too soon, the bug would be prematurely evicted and would suffer the inconvenience of having to find a new residence.

Like a cancer of the mind that metastasizes, in wetiko disease, a pathological part of the psyche co-opts and subsumes all of the healthy parts of the psyche into itself so as to serve its pathology. To quote Jung, “an unknown ‘something’ has taken possession of a smaller or greater portion of the psyche and asserts its hateful and harmful existence undeterred by all our insight, reason, and energy, thereby proclaiming the power of the unconscious over the conscious mind, the sovereign power of possession.” The personality then self-organizes an outer display of coherence around this pathogenic core, which ‘masks’ the inner dysfunction, making it hard to recognize. In a psychic coup d’etat, the wetiko bug can usurp and displace the person, who becomes its puppet and marionette. Like a parasite, the wetiko virus can take over the will of an animal more evolved than itself, enlisting that creature into serving its nefarious agenda. Once the parasite becomes sufficiently entrenched within the psyche, the prime directive coordinating a person’s behavior comes from the disease, as it is now the one calling the shots. Just as someone infected with the rabies virus will resist drinking water, which would flush out the infection, someone taken over by the wetiko parasite will have nothing to do with anything that will help them get rid of the disease.Wetikos are phobic towards the light of truth, which they avoid like the plague. In advanced stages, this process takes over the person so completely that we could rightfully say the person is no longer there; they are just an empty shell carrying the disease. In a sense there is just the disease, operating through what appears to be a human being. The person becomes fully identified with their mask, their persona, but it is as if there is no one behind the mask.

5* Bump!

Bump for later,
since olaf is here it must be interesting.

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Thanks for the stars and the bumps, I feel good to know folk read these articles - for me they are how it really is and perhaps if more of us were more consciously aware of and facing our own shadows and setting firm limits so others cannot 'dump' theirs on us, then we would really start to see some rapid psychological shifts taking place.

At first I was stunned by Olaf's contrib posts but then got to see the humour of them - 5 stars for Olaf

Just read the first link,
This is by far the most interesting i have read in my entire life.
I have not read much, i have too admit.
OP, thank you, seems my OlafMeter works great.

It is uncanny how many dots this connects,
looking forward to reading the rest tomorrow.

Glad you enjoyed it Dirt Diver - perfect handle you have for shadow work.

I find myself reading threads where Olaf appears too, this forum just wouldn't be the same without him.

Nice. Thanks.

bump for truth :)

Excellent reading! Thanks for posting.

Fits very well with my own readings. I like the way he ties together such apparently diverse sources such as Carlos Castenedas, the Bible, and C.G.Jung. I have been delving into Jung recently and this article provides some nice triangulation for better understanding.

In some respects, this "wetikos" is very similar to the concept of "ponerology" which concerns itself with how psychopathy manifests within political structures.

Bumping and 5*.

Thanks Pharista- interesting stuff. It'll take a while to get through. It is queued.

hey htp, it really is an energy thing - those who think they can control and those who give up their power. As individuals all we can do is keep moving forward and reclaim as much of ourselves as we can, that way 'ponerology' has less room to manifest :)