Cognitive Dissonance

In the following condensed articles I will do a simple “copy/paste” essay on what Wetiko is and why it is VITALY important that you read the works of Paul Levy, his personal story and the deep insights to this dramatic stage in the psyche of humanity.

I have personally been thru MANY of the experiences Mr. Levy discusses in his book, and feel now – at this time in our evolution, we must pay closer attention to what is being played out in the world, within ourselves, and within the collective psyche.

For a list of Paul Levy’s essays on this subject click here > Awaken in The Dream

The idea of a psycho-spiritual disease of the soul (which has been wreaking havoc throughout human history) is what the Native Americans call wetiko. 

The term wetiko is a Cree term (windigo in Ojibway, wintiko in Powhatan)

“The wetiko virus is like a parasite that literally feeds off, takes over and aberrates the currency of the infected system. The wetiko-pathogen originally manifests as a disturbance in the field of the collective unconscious of humanity itself, creating the psychic ley lines upon which world events are erected and energized. The origin of this virulent disease is to be discovered within the psyche.

Because of the psychic nature of wetiko, it serves us to understand the psychological underpinnings of the virus, which is to say, how it affects our day to day relationships and lives.

We begin to ‘see’ the bug when we are able to get in focus and recognize its’ psychological signature in both ourselves and others. The fact that the source of the “wetiko-germ is within the psyche which means that the cure for this disease lies hidden within the psyche as well.”

The wetiko psychosis is at the very root of humanity’s inhumanity to itself in all its various forms. As a species, we need to step into – and participate with – our own spiritual and psychological evolution, which means that we must focus our attention on and contemplate this ‘topic of topics’ before this virulent madness destroys us.

“Up until this point in our history we have been too easily distracted by the ruses of the wetiko bug itself. The disease itself is now demanding that we pay attention to it, or it will kill us. Its cure is the most pressing and fundamental issue facing us today.

Author and environmental activist Derrick Jensen writes in his foreword to Jack D. Forbes book about wetiko psychosis, “Columbus and other Cannibals is, I think, the most important book ever written on one of the most important topics ever faced by human beings: why is the dominant culture so excruciatingly, relentlessly, insanely, genocidally, ecocidally, suicidally destructive?”[i] 

Historian Arnold Toynbee points out that “a civilization doesn’t die from being invaded from the outside, but unless it creates culture which nourishes the evolution of the creative spirit, a civilization invariably commits suicide.”

As if possessed – our civilization is, trance-like, sleepwalking in a death-march towards our own demise. The most pressing and inevitable question of our time is not just ‘why?’ but more urgently, how can we stop this seemingly out-of-control, self-destructive, hell-bent part of ourselves?

Wetiko disease is an expression of the convincing illusion of the separate self gone wild. Bewitched by the intrinsic projective tendencies of their own mind, full-blown wetikos are unconsciously doing the very thing they are reacting to while simultaneously accusing other people of doing it.

Projecting the shadow onto others, they will accuse others of projecting the shadow onto them. To use an extreme, but prototypical example, it is like someone screaming that you’re killing them as they kill you.

If their insanity is reflected back to them, they think it is the mirror that is insane. Suffering from a form of psychic blindness that believes itself to be sightedness, full-blown wetikos project out their own unconscious blindness and imagine that others, instead of themselves, are the ones who are not seeing.

“Governed by the insane, self-perpetuating logic of fear and paranoia, those taken over by the disease fear that if they don’t attack and rule over others, they are in danger of being attacked and ruled over themselves. In their convoluted, upside-down, flawless illogic, wetikos’ act to their own projections in the world as if they objectively exist and are other than themselves, thinking that they themselves have nothing to do with creating that to which they are reacting.” (please see Aparticipatory Delusional Syndrome (ADS)).

Someone fully taken over by the wetiko bug is like a kitten endlessly reacting to her reflection in a mirror as if it is another kitten separate from and other than herself. The evil we see in the full-blown wetikos is a reflection of our own evil; if we don’t recognize this, we will just be projecting our shadow onto them. We are then guilty of the very same thing (shadow projecting) we are essentially reacting to and of which we are accusing them.

In wetiko disease, the psyche takes the ‘terror’ that haunts it from within, and in its attempt to master it, unwittingly becomes taken over by it, thus becoming an instrument of terror in the world. We have then become the thing we most feared, ‘creatures of the European nightmare world,’ as we psychologically terrorize ourselves, as well as terrorizing the world at large. 

Wetiko is the bug which feeds the experience of terror within our mind and out in the world, fueling one of its more prominent manifestations in our world today: the ‘Global War on Terror.’ 

Most of the above article was taken from an essay in Realty Sandwich 

Below is an audio interview with Paul Levy. The radio introduction is nothing short of obnoxious, so skip ahead to the interview portion and dig right in.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with a good healthy dose of skepticism, especially in today’s world of information-overkill and fear laden main stream media propaganda. Having “higher-discernment” is a must during these times, however, balancing that with healthy skepticism is pretty tricky. 

Healthy skeptical inquiry is good curiosity. I think it is very similar to “higher discernment” in that the latter has an established set of criteria thru which information is sifted. Albeit personal, one still has the ability to discern what they will believe and how they will study it.

When the student (and EVERYONE is a student) seeks an answer for his or her self knowledge and chooses which direction they will lean, that decision is usually made on the basis of repeated inquiry and duplicated evidence. We learn from repetition.

Relying on outside authoritative confirmation has not only become glaringly biased from those from which you seek it, but teaches you to follow the herd, be compliant, and never look like a trouble maker. We are all human beings questing for something – answers, truth, knowledge…etc and if we continue to rely upon those with (seemingly) higher knowledge, we will never learn to take responsibility or risk, let alone learn from our mistakes.  

If those in power are failing to depart wisdom to the “lesser individuals” because they don’t think we could “handle the truth”, then it is up to us to show THEM what it looks like to have an open mind and heart to new and challenging ideas. And if we can not do this ourselves, (due to our docile herd mentality) then we shouldn’t be pretending to play with the big dogs by challenging them at every turn and looking like the fools with infantile minds they love to think we have.

“Higher discernment” is something very unique and is relative to your personal (inner feelings) and knowledge. Skepticism is a little sharper edged, often more publicly pronounced (announced), and may become pathological if left unsupervised (by you) due to its emotional content and how it is encouraged by the aggressor. This type of pathology is commonly found in the comments section of most alternative news sources, YouTube, and others.

[path·o·log·i·cal] – “of, or relating to, or manifesting behavior that is habitual, maladaptive, and compulsive. Being such to a degree that it is extreme, excessive, or markedly abnormal.” Merriam-Webster

An excellent article on this subject written by William J. Beaty © 1996 – states in part; 

“Many members of the mainstream scientific community react with extreme hostility when presented with certain claims. This can be seen in their emotional responses to current controversies such as UFO abductions, cold fusion, crypto-zoology, psi, and numerous others. These scientists react not with pragmatism and a wish to get to the bottom of things, but instead with the same tactics religious groups use to suppress heretics: 

• hostile emotional attacks, 
• circular reasoning, 
• dehumanizing of the “enemy”
• extreme closed-mindedness, 
• intellectually dishonest reasoning,
• underhanded debating tactics, 
• negative gossip, and all manner of name-calling and character assassination.

Erecting barriers against new ideas by constantly altering the requirements for acceptance is often found in main stream science communities. (A practice called “moving the goalposts”)

Example: “I won’t believe it until major laboratories publish papers in this field. They have? Well, that means nothing! Major labs have been wrong before. I’ll believe it when stores sell products which use the effect. They do? Well, that means nothing, after all, stores sell magic healing pendants and Ouija boards. I’ll believe it when a Nobel Prize winning researcher gets behind that work. One has? Well that means nothing! That person is probably old and dotty like Dr. Pauling and his vitamin-C cures…” etc.

Belief that science is guided by consensus beliefs and majority rule, rather than by evidence has also become a favorable habit. Indulging in behavior which reinforces the negative effects of consensus beliefs while minimizing the impact of any evidence which contradicts those beliefs.

Example: “I don’t care how good your evidence is, I won’t believe it until the majority of scientists also find it acceptable, and it is announced on the news or in the NY Times. Your evidence cannot be right, because it would mean that hundreds of textbooks and thousands of learned experts are wrong.”

True skepticism is vitally important to real inquiry. Skepticism involves meticulously questioning beliefs or facts. Ideally, every scientist then is a true skeptic.

Skeptopathy, (another word for pathological skepticism) on the other hand, is not a logical rational pursuit. Pathological skepticism is the irrational belief that a theory or a piece of evidence is false merely because it is unusual, or goes against conventional wisdom, or is simply too difficult to imagine. 

Pathological skepticism then involves an irrational unsupported belief that something is untrue. Skeptopathy involves not fact and scientific rigor – but blind faith that an unpleasant notion is false, usually followed by ridicule of some kind.

“Scientists are people, after all, and subject to basic human irrationality and selfishness. Like many people, some scientists routinely engage in denial…. If reality is too difficult to face they will simply ignore it. Like many people, some scientists are largely self-serving, and despite privately acknowledging the scientific truth, they will pretend that a disturbing hypothesis is false in order to protect or further their funding, careers, or reputation. This has done much damage to our society and has caused many people great emotional suffering at the hands of a few “trusted authorities”.  (William J. Beaty)

Learning to use your OWN discernment and keeping quiet with your opinions for just a little longer before you “pounce-to-announce” will take you far in this new era of disclosure. Be a healthy skeptic, but keep a sharp eye on your compulsions. We are all entering into the realms of new and bizarre scientific discoveries, some exciting, some frightening, and some extraordinary in every respect. 

Lets give you a little test…. shall we? Watch the entire video (or rather listen to it) and observe your thoughts. I wonder if you will have a good sense of curiosity on board, or skeptopathic disregard.

Ringing Earth – Tibetan Monks in “spirit cave” hear new sounds

“There is a secret cave of spirits in Tibet. This cave is not known to the public.
The Tibetan saints are sleeping in this cave. The old men and monks are saying that it is starting to sing its mantra calling for gods to return to the Earth. This mantra has three levels. The last level means the coming of the new era.
Listen to this sound recorded by Russian enthusiasts who were allowed to visit the place near the cave where it was possible to record the sound. 
This sound has no artificial changes and is presented in raw format (only noises were reduced). 

So wow.. I have always wanted to understand the deeper meaning and philosophy behind the narrative of the Matrix (Film). As with many, I shared the overwhelming and complex thought provoking quandary the film and its writers Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski set to task. What an outrageous composition, what a seriously deep and trippy dive into the true philosophers writings of old, made for this (our) generation. This one hour documentary covers all the bases. with commentary from the likes of;

Iokovos Vasilou, Ken Wilbur, Mark Rowland, John Searle, Christopher Grau, T.J. Mawson, David Chalmers, Colin McGinn, Cornel West, Donn Bowman, Michael McKenna, William Irwin, Richard Henley, Julia Driver, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, Bruce Sterling, Peter Chung, Daniel Dennett, and Hubert Dryfus –

Each a professor of Philosophy, or a “high thinker” in the realms of consciousness, the documentary puts together the deeper meaning of Hyper-Reality and the Desert of the Mind. Sighting the philosophers of antiquity, and bringing us right up to date with where we are today. Seems we’ve been here – at this “moment” – over and over again (apparently 6 times) according to the Upanishads. 

A truly comprehensive study of the movie, our current cycle of reality and our search for deeper meaning in a meaningless world.

Drawing from the minds and works of some of the most extraordinary philosophers in the world, the Wachowski brothers pretty much shoved it ALL in that film, creating a whirl of interpretation to this very day. Reviewed, compared, and accliamed, by more than a handful of great minds, The Matrix (trilogy) was truly a film for our generation and something to be viewed (in its entirety – all three) as a study, rather than used for entertainment.

[Documentary Embedding disabled by request] Click HERE for full Documentary

For those of you who really love the sublime writers – here’s a list for some “light” reading HA!!

• Socrates and Plato – The Allegory of the Cave
• Rene Descartes – Meditations on First Philosophy
• George Berkely – To See is to Be Perceived
• Immanuel Kant – Transcendental Philosophy
• Friedrich Nietzsche – Will to Power, The Collective Hallucination
• Jean Baudrillard – Hyper Reality, The Desert of the Mind
• Robert Nozick – The Experience Machine
• Pierre-Simon Laplace – Causal Determinism
• David Hume – A Treatise of Human Nature
• Arthur Schopenhauer – The World as Will and Representation

As some of you may know, I work with clients not only as a counselor, but using sound and vibration to help relieve the effects of stress on the body and mind. Recently, I came upon a brilliant explanation as to WHY this works, and how we actually lost our “true tones”. As I have said to many clients in many ways, “dissonance” can happen with a thought. (Not to mention the electrical “grids” criss-crossing our entire planet and invading every portion of our waking and sleeping lives.)

We are becoming more and more exhausted with less explanation as to why. I have always known from my own personal experience with extreme stress, that music can sometimes help. However, I have also understood that most “music” is tuned improperly and therefore never truly creates long-term relief. (how convenient for the “music” industry)

Many years ago I began to study the effects of frequency (binaural beats and repeated oscillations) on mood elevation and temperament. For over 11 years I have successfully treated clients using these patterns. I have written articles and taught classes on the subject of stress and the use of sound in an effort to help people understand themselves and their relationship to nature THRU sound.

And once again, I have found another amazing article on the subject.

I am posting almost the entire essay as I feel it is certainly a worth while read.

All links and credits here… OMEGA 432

Just below is a musical sampling of the work from Brain T’ Collins using the correct tuning of 432Hz. The sample is PURE 432 Hz both in human scale and musical overtones. Truly soothing, enlightening, and meditative. Please give the essay a good read as well, I really think it will be worth your time.  (Scroll down just below the Audio sample for the article)

“The non-solfeggio scale formerly known as the “lost solfeggio” scale has three different centers of higher concert pitch tuning and were used instead of one. This scale was considered “lost” because of change from Just-Intonation to the 12 tone equal temperament that has become the standard scale since the 1800s due to a need for conformity between various instruments. The total harmony of the original scale was systematically altered.

The three tuning centers used in the non-solfeggio scale formerly known as the “lost solfeggio” scale are: 441Hz  444Hz and 451Hz. 

This alleged “Lost Solfeggio” defeats the purpose of a real musical consonant solfeggio scale used for vocalists in music performance and practice.  
The tones mentioned above, create extremely dissonant intervals when used as a substitute for a solfeggio scale largely based from the indisputable fact that three tonal centers of different concert pitch are used instead of one, from which the human voice cannot find a tonal centered register for the sensation of consciousness to experience a grounded sensation of pitch consonance. [emphasis Oshi]

Music from the beginning of antiquity was not intended as a form of entertainment and instead, was the focal point of spiritual connection.
In ancient times, schools of knowledge taught about the harmonic principals of cosmic influence upon natural systems and the development of man. It was believed that the gods or planets has a direct influence upon man.
 Man’s inner ability to inter-connect with the vibrant resonant environment has always played an integral role in the development of civilizations and role of behaviors from one type of conscious awareness to the other. 

It is well documented that the push and pull of magnetic and electromagnetic cosmic forces play an important role in the development of man and rise and fall of civilizations.

The subtle push and pull from the moon on the tides and inner waters of our bodies or the squaring or retrograde of planetary influence upon our energetic bodies can literally create a marionette of emotions in the conscious awareness of man. Most have heard of the phrase  “full moon madness” but  few understand the push and pull of apogee and perigee that moons influence plays upon consciousness and emotion, or how such influences of the planetary spheres are based on a symphony of ratio.
 Such skips and wobbles in the spiral orbits of planets can produce ultra-low electromagnetic oscillations. 

This song and dance of the cosmos can create a constant pressure on the metallic compounds of the body thus creating possible magnetic stress upon the condensed atomic structures of the body, which ultimately, can influence the emotions. Mastery of the emotions and transformation of the body’s metallic alchemy through proper sun gazing techniques and hansa yoga can assist with the stresses of transits of the planets. 

A solid music foundation based on natural spiral progressions and ratios of the planets and earth can alleviate such conditions, as a constant tug of war between artificial centers of pitch may create a dissonance relationship between nature and man, which may effect the waters of the body and ultimately, consciousness. 

Built up dissonance can create electrical stress which can be  conducted or transmitted by the nervous system and the skeleton. Bone for an example is a mineral based peizo electric transmitter/receiver that needs to discharge the built up piezoelectric charge properly to the earth. Bone is “tuned” to nature and most doctors are unfortunately taught only procedure and do not question why they use a C=256 hz (C note in concert A=432 hz) tuning fork to find bone fractures. 

How we perceive time as spirit mind force in human form is through the platonic year.  A platonic year the the time it takes for the sun to rise in the spring equinox to move through one degree every 72 years to complete one full spiral arc of 25,920 years through the zodiac. The average numbers of breaths a healthy adult takes in a 24 hour period at 18 breaths per minute x 60 minutes x 24 hours = 25,920 breaths. Certain esoteric mystery schools taught that the development of the human span of spirit is 360 x 72 = 25, 920 days, achieved through the teaching of “the fire and the bellows” breath. (advanced alchemy)   

The Sun’s diameter and movement of Saturn is closely related to the measurement 864 (432×2) both in size and time of orbit whilst the moon is related to 216. (half 432) Our system of time keeping of an earth day was based on a 360 degree sphere with 864 thousand seconds in 24 hours 432 thousand seconds in 12 hours and 216 thosand seconds in 6 hour counts. The synchronicity between these mathematical values show up time and time again throughout antiquity and the natural world. In the Holy Book of the Upanishads/Geeta, the traditional count of brahma is 4,320 million years.

Everything is made of light, we appear to be moving at relative light speed called latency  Each dimension appears as  a trinity flash line sequence based on ratio of frequency. 
According to Bruce Cathie Light spirals at 144,000 minutes of arc per earth grid second with 432 as the square root of light. Sometime ago, I mentioned that sound and light are the same and interconnected. I based that statement purely on the amount of spiritual study on the subject.

Mainstream logic zealots may dispute this, as “textbooks” state there is no connection between mechanical sound waves and visible electromagnetic light waves, but i assure you that they have a transference nonlocal medium that encodes properties onto both mechanical and electromagnetic perception according to strong and weak forces of relative bonding and infra red transition. If they were not inter-related then NASA could not take the background electromagnetic symphony of cosmic compression waves from stars and planets and convert them to sound. Both mechanical sound pressure waves and electromagnetic light waves are only linear perception connected through interference patterns of the interactive boundary layers or nodal points of spherical intercecting  grid points that appear as scalar waves. Electrons form in the nodal interference crossroads between phase and anti phase  spheres to create the trinity of matter through the perception of dimension of frequency.

Scalar waves although linear in appearance of perception, are never absorbed by the environment and exist out of space time/time space, we perceive the visible realm as latency of the spherical interferance flash line sequence via Fibonacci dampening causing the formation of boundary layers that interfere with one another and create the illusion of particles in motion, sort of like Christmas lights flashing on and off in series creating the illusion of movement. The Fibonacci spiral series or PHI  is nature’s way of dampening infinite spherical patterns into finite boundary layers of linear inferferance of perception, otherwise the universe would just jumble all together. These dampened patterns create the illusion of particle wave spin, motion, rotation, decay, light speed(latency) and Doppler redshift. We observe only one side of a parallax view of reality classifying the universe objectively from a relativistic subjective perception of consciousness.

I truly believe in my own spiritual opinion we experience the universe as the compressed relative consciousness of the divine creator and that creation is intelligently designed as ratio. We are living in a true musical universe so it makes sense to connect with what we observe in nature.There are two tonal spirals of ratio that create harmonic overtones and undertones.
When we add unnatural forced equal temperament choices for the sensations of tone and concert pitch and using A=440 hz – A=460 hz to our daily lives, we can create the conditions of closed system disharmony and piezoelectric stress within the temple of the body and chambers of compassion in the heart which can alter the natural resonance of the morphogenetic fields of consciousness which may ultimately disconnect us us from spiritual evolution.
  A=432 hz is part of the “Origin Ratio” of intelligent universal design, so the return to natural choices for concert pitch such as A=432 hz, puts black and white division aside and can allow us in the spirit of co-operation to do greater things together…”

Posted Yesterday on his youtube channel TZM Peter gives another excellent overview of possibilities and explanations for a sustainable world. Worth the time to listen if you really want to know what is going on with the OWS, our current global system, and the “split mind”. As always, your own higher discernment should always be present while listening and studying these (or any) new propositions, but be aware (please) without new ideas and fresh perspectives… we will do the “dissonance dance”… and simply turn around and continue to do\/be what has always been\/done, and get what we’ve always gotten…. no-where.