
Integrating Evil
Within Our Life Myth
with Paul Levy

The process of bringing forth the creative spirit that is thirsting to be born within—and through—us
LEARNING AREAS
- The Problem of Evil
- Collective Psychic Fields
- Alchemizing Trauma as a Creative Process

TAKE AWAYS
What You'll Learn
- A process-oriented understanding of the psycho-spiritual dynamics of violence.
- Practical tools to implement when encountering violence in your own life.
- How to recover a meta position and recognize the impact during moments of intensity.
- Recover your sensitivity as an ally during violent and volatile times.
Discussion
When we remember who we are and connect with our true nature, however, we discover that our nature is—by its very nature—creative. In a positive feedback loop that generates life most abundantly, getting in touch with our creativity helps to further reveal our nature, and the more we know ourselves the more we naturally express ourselves creatively, ad infinitum. Instead of outsourcing our intrinsic creativity to forces outside of ourselves, we have then stepped into and animated our vital nature as creative beings who are made in the very image of our creator.
The process of identification—of who we think we are—is at the root of wetiko. “Who do we think we are?” is a real question that implies that our sense of identity is related to our thinking, to our very mind itself. Our subjective experience of identity itself is quite malleable and is a function of our own mind, which is to say we are actively participating in the moment-by-moment creation of our experience of identity. Our sense of identity molds us, while we are at the same time the ones crafting our identity. What we don’t want is to let wetiko forge our identity for us. Because wetiko disease (which I’ve also referred to as Malignant Egophrenia, i.e., ME disease) is, in its essence, to have fallen into a state of mistaken identity, the best medicine for wetiko is to know who we are.
Our true nature, our true identity—who we really are—is impervious to wetiko’s pernicious influence. Wetiko can’t take over, possess or have any effect on our true nature, which is not an object that can be manipulated or possessed by wetiko (or anything else, for that matter). For this reason, wetiko’s strategy is to set up a substitute counterfeit version—a simulation—of ourselves. It then tricks us into identifying with this fraudulent version of ourselves. Wetiko cannot stand it when we identify with our true nature as creative beings, for then it has nothing to sink its roots—and fangs—into.
If we don’t pick up and mobilize the creativity that is an essential aspect of our very nature, however, wetiko is happy to use our unexpressed creativity for us in order to serve its agenda, which we can be sure does not serve our best interests. Wetiko has no creativity on its own, but it’s a master impersonator – we can conceive of it as the ape of the divine. The apocryphal texts call wetiko “the counterfeiting spirit” (the antimimon pneuma). A master mime, wetiko creates a copycat version of us, literally masquerading as ourselves.
Paul Levy on How We Are Awakened by Darkness
About Your Teacher
Paul Levy
Author & group facilitator
A pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, Paul is a wounded healer in private practice, assisting others who are awakening to the dreamlike nature of reality. He is the founder of the Awakening in the Dream community in Portland, Oregon. A long-time Tibetan Buddhist practitioner, Paul was the coordinator of the Portland PadmaSambhava Buddhist Center for over twenty years. Among his books are The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality and Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil.
areas of expertise
- Spiritual Awakening
- Consciousness Advocate
- Wetiko & Quantum Shadow Work

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