Wetiko and the Unconscious Shadow
What do Pan, Syringa, the Kundalini Awakening and Wetiko have in Common?
In one of the my previous articles, I speculated that the world seems to be going through a type of collective kundalini awakening.
Given the shadow nature of the reality around us, it is no wonder many people are ignoring most of it calling the rest of us crazy for seeing the corruption that is so visible and rampant across the world. It is if Dorothy threw the water out and the dark witch is dying, but Toto has not yet pulled the curtain back on the Wizard playing with all this toys (and yes I did have a dream recently about a dog in a chariot during a big celebration, so maybe that means we are close).
Perhaps Google, Microsoft, and the other tech oligarchs like playing the collective role of the Wizard with all the AI. Some people are mesmerized like it is God himself in computer form, or at least some version of the Holy Grail. Others like me are cautious feeling awkward of the energies and intentions. After all, what are any of us without our word? Do we not speak our own version of our inner truth every time we speak or write? Even if we are not masters of the trade, what happens to all the people, including the students when we individually lose our voice to a collective voice that seems to have God-like Powers (but instead of the God within our hearts, it is an artificial God created by a collective humanity who is more like a traumatized child who has lost his or her faith).
The tech oligarchs are the ones with the training models and the data stored on their servers. They are the ones who decide what data to use to train and not train. Businesses are integrating these AI models in all sorts of products and services, but they are integrating on top of these particular tools, not on top of LLM (large language model) tools developed by people who are more empowered and grounded. What about real creative flow? Does more creativity improve these technologies or does our collective creativity keep feeding the beast like a bad dream? What about people marginalized or abused? Does it capture their voices too or are they still excluded like they are now? Yes it is true that the system learns from collective input. However, it is also feeding off that creative life force like a virus looking for a new host. What is the collective dream energy that enables people to come together to develop science and technology that represent a more empowered, balanced and grounded voice?
When is technology our friend and not a dystopian nightmare? Certainly it is not our friend with our collective shadow taking over our world like it is now. I feel individual creative agency comes from letting your Pan out of jail, facing (and healing) your subconscious and unconscious shadows and taking back your power. This is hard to do when we ridicule most people who talk about these subjects as crazy or too airy fairy. Increasingly, the science is catching up to these spiritual points of view. Fortunately, these spiritual views have been part of every ancient society across time one way or another, so perhaps we should start paying attention.
Paul Levy discusses this collective dream of the unconscious and subconscious as a type of Wetiko (mind virus). He is a wonderful voice for this level of wisdom. One of the things I like most about his writings (see below for a link to one of his recent articles), is the transparency he shows of the collective shadow causing these distortions in our reality. When I read his words, it sounds so much to me like a collective version of the trapped life force of Pan and the obvious need for a kundalini awakening as the antidote (by integrating our human and divine natures like the lion and unicorn, but little by little for each one of us when we are ready).
With enough empowered and clear voices, I believe we can create a very different world very quickly, with emergent and beautiful new ideas coming from self-organizing groups of inspiring, grounded, intelligent and intuitive people. We can still use and develop lots of cool technology and science, but science and tools used and developed with healthier and more holistic intentions. What I find so hopeful about looking at at the world this way is that it frees me from focusing on all the darkness as some eternal fight of good vs evil that never changes. After all, Mother Earth loves her cycles. Aren’t we all due for a little shadow clearing (manifesting as the chaos in our collective reality) and more Aquarian age magic?
Here is one of Paul Levy’s recent and timely articles:
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" Comes to Life — Awaken in the Dream
It is as if people have become hollowed out by psychic termites, resulting in a vacancy within them that becomes lodging for “something other” than themselves to take up residence within them.
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