Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

What is #wetiko? #mindvirus #podcast #joshtrent

17 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a podcast discussion (Josh Trent interviewing Paul Levy) about the concept of Watiko (aka ‘mind virus’). Paul Levy connects Jung’s phrase “totalitarian psychosis” to Watiko, describes it as a poisonous mind-virus driving collective madness and evil, and suggests that recognizing what the virus reveals about ourselves acts as a vaccine enabling evolution. The excerpt emphasizes new symbolic ideas as remedies to collective madness.

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Jung talks about. In a time of collective madness, there is only one thing that can save us. New symbolic ideas.
Jung was completely switched on to Watiko. He didn't have the name. The phrase he used was totalitarian psychosis. The thing that the greatest tyrants in history were scared of the most was a new idea. That's what I'm pointing at with this mind virus. It's, you know, this poison that is the source of the greatest evil. And to the extent we're asleep to it, we just unwittingly become its instruments and act out destruction on each other and ourselves. But encoded in the pathology, in the mind virus, in the poison, is its own vaccine. The evil that's playing out the madness, the Watiko mind virus, that it's actually revealing something to us. And if we don't recognize what it's revealing to us, then we're just fated to continue to destroy ourselves. But if we recognize what it's showing us about ourselves, then all of a sudden we can evolve.