Charlotte Iserbyt: Societies Secrets

[Ed Jewett]

"We cannot begin to heal until we have identified the disease; we cannot identify the disease until we have studied the anatomy of the body politic. Freud, in order to understand the workings of the human mind, focused on its pathology. We, in order to understand Americaand America's place in the worldmust do the same. We must plumb the depths of the American psyche, the American unconscious, and dredge up whatever we find before it's too late. How late is it? Listen in the middle of the night. Turn off the television, the radio, the CD player, the computer. Unplug the telephone. Turn off the lights. What do you hear?"

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But, given recent events as well as past ones, this is not just America's problem.


The disease has been identified.






http://www.awakeninthedream.com/



"... I introduce the idea that from the dawn of human history our species has fallen prey to a collective psychosis which I call malignant egophrenia. Speaking about this very same psychic epidemic, Forbes writes, "For several thousands of years human beings have suffered from a plague, a disease worse than leprosy, a sickness worse than malaria, a malady much more terrible than smallpox." Indigenous people have been tracking the same psychic' virus that I call malignant egophrenia for many centuries and calling it wetiko,' a Cree term which refers to a diabolically wicked person or spirit who terrorizes others. Professor Forbes, who was one of the founders of the Native American movement during the early sixties, says, "Tragically, the history of the world for the past 2,000 years is, in great part, the story of the epidemiology of the wetiko disease." Wetiko/malignant egophrenia is a psychosis' in the true sense of the word as being a sickness of the soul or spirit.' Though calling it by different names, Forbes and I are both pointing at the same illness of the psyche, soul and spirit that has been at the root of humanity's inhumanity to itself. Read more...

http://www.awakeninthedream.com/wetiko/