The Dark Night of The Human Soul: Breaking the Spell of Wetiko

Colonization is not just history—it’s a virus dominating our world today... This is how we begin to heal.

“Wetiko is a mind-virus that feeds on separation.” – Paul Levy

We are living through dark times. Just one look at the headlines reveals the depth of our planetary crisis: systematic genocide in Gaza, the sectarian murders of over a thousand Druze in Syria, rising authoritarianism in the U.S., the painfully ironic destruction of 8 miles of rainforest in Brazil to build a highway to COP. It’s hard not to get addicted to the gravity of this moment, to spiral into the endless feed of despair—swiping one outrageous scene after another. It’s as if the conflicts of the world are converging—spiraling around a center point of infinite density: a black hole of human consciousness.

This black hole is the colonial experiment, rooted in the story of separation. It has ravaged nearly every land on Earth. We see its fingerprints in Israel and Palestine, in the genocide of Indigenous peoples across the Americas, in the war on Ukraine, in the desecration of the Congo Basin at the hands of foreign oil co…