{"title":"Books by Paul Levy","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781583945483","title":"Dispelling Wetiko","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe mind-virus behind human self-destruction has a name: \u003ci\u003ewetiko\u003c\/i\u003e. See it clearly, and it starts to lose power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou see it everywhere: smart people making destructive choices. Companies poisoning their own customers. Nations pouring trillions into war while their people suffer. Social media built to connect us driving us apart. We’re the one species that knowingly degrades its own habitat at scale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy do we keep acting against our own survival?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Indigenous North American traditions comes the term \u003ci\u003ewetiko\u003c\/i\u003e—a life-eating compulsion that turns us against one another and the living world. Whether you approach it as metaphor, psychology, or spirituality, the effects are real—and they propagate through what we don’t see.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDispelling Wetiko\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul Levy brings this insight into dialogue with Jungian psychology, framing wetiko as a mind-parasite that exploits our blind spots. Drawing on teachings shared in public sources, depth psychology, and his own harrowing encounters, Levy describes wetiko as “ME disease”—Malignant Egophrenia—a pathological self-centering that mistakes the ego for the whole. Like a vampire that can’t see its reflection, it hides in the very way we perceive reality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe crucial insight: the moment we recognize wetiko, it begins to lose power. The cure isn’t waging war on evil or waiting for others to wake up; it starts by noticing how our attention and reactions feed the very patterns we oppose—and then withdrawing that food.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDispelling Wetiko\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e offers a clear diagnosis and a practical path back to sanity—personally and collectively.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303836070261,"sku":"9781583945483","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781583945483_5a587dfe-b049-4078-8ba5-e0a1965851c9.jpg?v=1786023323"},{"product_id":"9781644119013","title":"The Quantum Revelation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReveals quantum physics as a modern-day spiritual path for awakening and expanding consciousness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShows how the revelations emerging from quantum physics can wake us up from the disempowering spell of the scientific materialist worldview and help dispel the collective madness that has befallen our species\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplains for readers with no physics background why quantum physics is, in the words of Albert Einstein, so “uncommonly important” that “it should be everyone’s concern”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShows how quantum physics can help us awaken to the malleable, dreamlike nature of reality, a realization that unlocks the creative spirit within us\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor's previous work was endorsed by Sting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor is very well connected in the podcast world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Explaining the world-transforming effects of quantum physics, Paul Levy shows how discoveries in this field—widely considered the greatest in the history of science—can wake us up from the disempowering spell of the reductionist, materialist worldview, thereby helping to dispel the collective madness that has befallen our species. He explains how quantum physics helps us to consciously realize our vast evolutionary potential and awaken us to the malleable, dreamlike nature of reality, a realization that unlocks the creative spirit hidden within our own minds. In a radical synthesis of quantum physics with spirituality, psychology, lucid dreaming, and alchemy, Levy contemplates the deeper philosophical and metaphysical underpinnings of quantum mechanics, exploring what it means that quantum physics has empirically proven that there is no such thing as “objective reality” and how we are active participants in creating our experience of reality, whether we realize it or not.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Revealing the quantum nature of our world and ourselves, \u003ci\u003eThe Quantum Revelation\u003c\/i\u003e shows how quantum physics has become a modern-day spiritual path for awakening and expanding consciousness with particular relevance for the challenging times we are living through.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305144070517,"sku":"9781644119013","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781644119013_82e4773c-0f65-4555-8de3-3e7bb3576649.jpg?v=1786024206"},{"product_id":"9781905570744","title":"Digital Inferno","description":"How many times do you check something on the internet but find you are drifting aimlessly from one link to another? If you can't not answer the phone when it rings, and you spend hours a week on social media, and you read your texts instead of kissing your loved one goodnight, and you don't give your kids proper attention because you just have to prioritize new responses to your tweet...then this book is for you. The digital world is spreading like an inferno  -  a swirling, hot storm of change, possibility, addiction, passion, manipulation, creativity and abuse. It demands our attention and encourages us to be always on, with its constant updates and feedback. It is exciting, but it can also be overwhelming. And it's developing faster than our ability to deal with it. To adherents of digital living and working, any criticism is uncool, a sign of being out of touch. Refreshingly, Digital Inferno is neither simple indictment nor unqualified endorsement. Rather, it's about holding your own in the digital realm  -  adapting in a healthy way to the new reality. It offers a conscious path that allows you to derive the benefits you need but also to manage the dangers.   Packed with a wealth of practical advice, Digital Inferno describes numerous methods to enable you to step back from constant digital activity and virtual living, and to pay more attention to the real world. You'll find exercises to overcome tiredness from digital contact and to develop skills to enable you to remain awake and aware. Crucially, you will be master of the digital realm: to abstain from contact when you need to, but also freely to immerse yourself when you choose to. We don't need to shun new technology, but we do need to be armed with an understanding of its challenges, problems and limitations.  This book provides the tools you will need to meet the future consciously.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308689305973,"sku":"9781905570744","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781905570744_e289f156-1ab1-465e-9c5c-998fadf4c0c4.jpg?v=1786029184"},{"product_id":"9781644115664","title":"Undreaming Wetiko","description":"The profound and radical Native American idea of “wetiko,” a virus of the mind, underlies the collective insanity and evil that is destructively playing out around the world. 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Jung, Rudolf Steiner, Henry Corbin, Wilhelm Reich, and Nicolas Berdyaev, the author introduces the inner guide--a daemon\/angel that lives within us as an ally in our encounters with the daemonic energy of wetiko. He explores how to cultivate “symbolic awareness” (interpreting events in our lives symbolically--like a dream) as a path to creating meaning, which alchemically transmutes the poison of wetiko into medicine for healing the psyche.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Examining the nature of synchronicity, Levy reveals how wetiko can only be seen when we recognize that--like a dream--our inner and outer worlds reflect each other. He also explores the quantum nature of wetiko, showing how this helps us comprehend the elusive trickster nature of this mind-virus and sheds light on the quantum nature of both the world and ourselves. Ultimately, the author reveals that the best protection and medicine for wetiko is to connect with the light of our true nature by becoming who we truly are.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312713904501,"sku":"9781644115664","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781644115664_8fe58747-1e6e-407a-a591-6f7dca5af12d.jpg?v=1786024133"},{"product_id":"industrial-organizational-psychology","title":"Industrial\/Organizational Psychology","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaul Levy’s \u003ci\u003eIndustrial\/Organizational Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e is long-acclaimed for its concise, research-based approach and personable writing. For the new edition, Levy collaborates with leading practitioners Ali O’Malley and Brodie Riordan, who bring extensive experience as both teachers and consultants. 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