Wetiko — A Virus of the Mind
Author and psychotherapist Paul Levy has been writing about an invisible, contagious, death-creating “virus” that no one is immune to, that has been insidiously spreading and replicating itself throughout the human species. This deadly disease is a virus of the mind — the Native Americans (Algonquin) call it wetiko — that literally cultivates and feeds on fear and separation. A psycho-spiritual illness, it is a psychosis in the true sense of the word, a sickness of the spirit…
A collective psychosis, wetiko can be envisioned as the bug in the system that has been ravaging our species for as long as anyone can remember. Levy asserts that the coronavirus is not only a physical virus, but also a mind virus or a product of wetiko.
~ from Radical Regeneration: Sacred Activism and the Renewal of the World