Table of Contents
Foreword Catherine Austin Fitts xiii
Introduction: Close Encounters of the Wetiko Kind xvii
Part 1 Dreaming of Wetiko 1
1 The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity 3
Creating the Container 3
Which Name Shall We Use? 7
A Disease of Civilization 11
Art, the Daemonic, and Wetiko 14
2 Understanding Wetiko 21
What Is Wetiko? 21
The Reality of the Psyche 25
The Divine Creative Imagination 28
So Again, What Is Wetiko? 31
The Native American Myth of Wetiko 33
Judeo-Christian Roots of Wetiko 36
Gnosis of the Divine 39
Four-Valued Logic 40
3 Under a Collective Spell 45
Collective Psychosis 45
The War on Consciousness 53
The Spell of Wetiko 56
The Archetypal Realm 60
4 Dreams of the Psyche 65
Bewitched by Our Own Projections 65
The Origin of Wetiko Is the Psyche 68
We Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On 72
Symbols 79
Part 2 The Shadow of Wetiko 83
5 The Shadow and Its Projections 85
The Shadow 86
Shadow Projection 88
Mutual Shadow Projection 93
Withdrawing Shadow Projections 97
The Tension of the Opposites 101
6 Vampires, Parasites, and Aliens 105
A Parasite of a Different Order 105
Alien Intrusion 108
Vampires and Werewolves 111
7 Psycho Analysis 119
Trauma 119
Personal Pathology 126
A Frankenstein Monster Come to Life 132
8 Evil 139
What Is Evil? 139
Recognizing Evil 146
Self-Destruction 149
ME Disease 152
Reflecting upon Evil 156
Part 3 Meta-Dreaming 161
9 A Wetiko Cult(ure) of Madness 163
Our Culture's Madness Is Shocking 163
Interconnected Roles in a Nonlocal Field 167
10 Stepping Out of Separation 171
Not Personalizing Ourselves 171
Coming Full Circle 174
Come Together 175
11 Archetypal Psychohistory 181
The Unconscious Is Coming 181
The Archetype of the Apocalypse 185
Self-Reflection 190
Part 4 Wetiko in Action 197
12 Wetiko Tactics 199
Thinking 200
The Wound 202
Our Looking Away Is Wetiko 207
Discernment 209
The Curse of Pessimism 212
The Curse of Over-Optimism 214
Self-Negating Statements 216
Resistance 218
Spiritually Informed Political Activism 220
New Age 222
13 Vampire Squid Economics: A Case Study in Full-Blown Wetiko Disease 227
Part 5 Freedom from Wetiko 243
14 Wetiko No More 245
Wetiko-Free Psyche 245
Freeing Ourselves from Wetiko 252
Our True Nature 254
15 Let's Spread the Word 261
Finding the Name 262
The Idea of a Cure 267
Afterword: All You Have to Do to See Is Open Your Eyes and Look 269
Appendix: Wetiko-Dispelling Communities 291
Glossary 297
Select Bibliography 321
Notes 323
About the Author 341
About the Art 343