Arthur Young conceived of The Geometry of Meaning as an essay in philosophy, but philosophy in the older sense, encompassing the natural sciences, exploring the implications of science, and dealing with the relationship of the knower and the known. At the heart of this book is what he called the “Rosetta Stone of meaning,” a diagram of relationships based upon the twelve measure formulae of modern physics, which he used to describe the interaction of mind with matter.
Over a period of years Betty J. Kovács, her husband and their son experienced dreams and visions of future events that completely changed their lives. They learned that life and death, sorrow and joy, and matter and spirit are inseparably intertwined. Every page of this testament to life loosens our grip on the imagination and opens us to dimensions of the mind that speak in images, metaphors and symbols.
Dr. David Hanscom explains the physiology of mental pain and presents a unique four-part “dynamic healing” program to help your brain regenerate and repair. The key is learning to regulate your nervous system by cultivating what he calls “safety physiology.”
Wetiko (also spelled windigo or wendigo) is an Algonquian-rooted concept describing an evil, cannibalistic spirit or destructive force driven by insatiable greed, selfish consumption, and a total disconnect from community and nature. In modern psychological and spiritual contexts, it is widely interpreted as a contagious “mind-virus” or collective psychosis that compels humans to act against their own best interests. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Traditional Origin
Cannibalistic Spirit: In Algonquin, Cree, and Ojibwe traditions, wetiko represents a monster or spirit embodying greed, excess, and a literal or figurative “heart of ice”. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Behavioral Warning: Legends warned that individuals who gave in to extreme selfishness, gluttony, or harm toward their tribe could become possessed or transformed by the wetiko force. [1]
Modern Psychospiritual Interpretation
The Mind-Virus: Authors like Paul Levy and indigenous scholars like Jack Forbes describe wetiko as an invisible, contagious psychic parasite. [1, 2, 3]
Core Traits: It manifests as consumption for the sake of consumption, systemic exploitation, environmental destruction, and an egocentric illusion of absolute separation from others. [1]
The Antidote: Writers on the subject emphasize that recognizing wetiko within our own blind spots and unconscious reactions is the first step toward breaking its cycle. [1, 2, 3]
In the context of modern capitalism, scholars and activists use wetiko as a conceptual lens to critique systemic exploitation, viewing hyper-accelerated globalized capitalism not just as an economic structure, but as the ultimate institutionalized manifestation of the wetiko “mind-virus.” [1, 2, 3, 4]
When applied to modern market systems, the concept highlights several structural parallels:
Insatiable Growth
Endless Accumulation: Capitalism’s core imperative is continuous, infinite growth. This directly mirrors the wetiko monster’s defining curse: the more it consumes, the larger, hungrier, and more desperate it becomes. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Consumption as Salvation: Culturally, the system encourages consumerism as a fix-all solution for human discontent, equating personal value with material possession. [1, 2]
Commercial “Cannibalism”
Life as a Commodity: Indigenous scholar Jack Forbes defined cannibalism under wetiko as “the consuming of another’s life for one’s private purpose or profit.” [1, 2]
Exploitation: Under this framework, transforming natural ecosystems into dead commodities (ecocide) and reducing human time, health, and labor to mere line-item expenses are seen as forms of systemic cannibalism. [1, 2]
Institutionalized Blindness
Externalized Harms: Modern market mechanics separate consumers from the consequences of their purchases (e.g., hidden environmental degradation or sweatshop labor). This distance numbs social accountability.
Amputated Empathy: The classic wetiko symptom—an “icy heart”—is institutionalized when corporations are legally obligated to prioritize quarterly profit and shareholder returns over community wellbeing or ecological safety. [1, 2, 3, 4]
The Alternative Vision
Writers like Alnoor Ladha and Paul Levy argue that to fix global crises, we must look beyond policy tweaks. They advocate for: [1, 2]
“Undreaming” the System: Seeing the global economy as a collective psychological projection rather than an unchangeable law of nature.
Shifting the Goal: Moving from extractive economics to reciprocal, sustainable systems modeled on Indigenous stewardship. [1]
One clear way to lessen our leadership-centered leadership model is to rotate the Deanship of the school on a yearly basis among the three elected members of the Executive Council. Too often we confuse the person with the role. Rotating the Deanship will lessen that expectation on the part of the student body and on the part of the Dean him- or herself.
Give Robert the Boot
This is a quote from The Prosperos publication called ““Group Leadership and the Art of Leadership”
“Efficiency of operation requires that there be agreed-upon rules of operation. The standard method of solving this problem, that of parliamentary procedures [Robert’s Rules], is seldom satisfactory in group-centered groups. It tends to introduce an element of stiffness that destroys the climate of warm informality. It disrupts group unity. In general, no decision is completely satisfactory unless it has been reached by consensus. If for some reason it becomes necessary take a vote, it should be done with the greatest respect to the position of the minority.”
The trustees, the High Watch and the Mentor’s Association should drop Robert’s Rules immediately. Let’s trust each other enough to be able to run these meetings without Robert or his rules.
Group Observers
Most of our trustee, High Watch and Mentor’s Association meetings open with an invocation. As a reminder of our efforts to be more group-centered, we should close each meeting with an observer’s report. We have lots of practice doing this in our Find Yourself and Live listening and dialogue groups. So let’s put that training to good use.
If any of these ideas go against The Prosperos charter or by-laws, it’s within our power to change that charter or those by-laws.
Sparked by an Internal Family Systems (IFS) client’s lifelong affliction with an unattached burden—something in her mind that was not part of her—Bob Falconer began a decade-long study of the others within us and how they are treated worldwide. This study is important to all of us because what it reveals about the nature of mind holds a key to healing our underlying alienation and isolation.
The Others Within Us
case studiesa detailed description of how to work with unattached burdens from an IFS perspectivean extensive survey of how people have worked with the others within in times past and in many cultures around the world. The journey Bob has taken goes to the farther reaches of human experience. It has revealed insights and understandings that can’t help but cause readers to expand their beliefs about the nature of mind and healing.
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BROOKLYN—Doomed to wander the Earth imprisoned by a complexion requiring both mattifying and hydrating products, sources confirmed Monday that wretched outcast of a woman Hattie Jean was forever trapped between the realms of the dry and the oily due to her accursed combination skin. “No matter where I go, whether high-end makeup counter or local drugstore, I’ll never be truly greasy enough or purely flakey enough to truly belong,” said the 31-year-old who was cursed by a tragic accident of birth to spend the rest of her unbalanced cutaneous life marooned between moisturizing and exfoliating. “When I walk the skin care aisle, women gawk at the dull glisten of my T-zone and the angry red splotches of my cheeks, and they shudder in disgust. ‘Begone, afflicted freak!’ they hiss, as if I chose a life of needing to simultaneously absorb and produce the very oil of my face. Those who live with a foot in both worlds have no place to truly call home.” At press time, Jean was asked to leave Sephora for upsetting the other customers.
In bound-to-be-controversial new research, scientists claim they’ve discovered a link between the specific balance of microflora in the gut and psychopathic behavior
As detailed in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study, a team of researchers led by University of Porto biomedical scientist Carolina Costa say they’ve found the first-ever evidence of how microbiota could influence traits linked to psychopathy — a controversial personality construct characterized by lack of empathy, poor behavior control, as well as antisocial and in extreme cases criminal behavior.
As Science Alert points out, previous research has found that psychopaths can share similar brain structures, including pathways in the prefrontal cortex. The latest paper, however, suggests those links could even extend into the microbiome.
“We hypothesized that the composition of the gut and oral microbiota may be associated with subclinical psychopathic personality traits,” the researchers wrote in the paper, an “unedited version” of which was shared by the journal Translational Psychiatry. “To our knowledge, this is the first study to explore this association.”
Costa and her colleagues examined the answers of 200 adult participants who filled out a questionnaire that was specifically designed to measure psychopathic traits. They also analyzed blood, saliva, and fecal samples from the participants for bacterial composition.
While the diversity of gut and oral microbes showed no clear links to psychopathic traits in itself, those who showed stronger psychopathic traits had a higher abundance of three kinds of bacteria when compared to those with weaker psychopathic traits.
“Allisonella, Prevotella, and C. evryensis showed significant positive associations with psychopathy scores, while T. vincentii was negatively associated,” the researchers concluded. The roles of these microbacteria range from helping in digestion and other metabolic processes, to assisting in warding off infections.
The team suggests that Allisonella, in particular, has been linked to human diseases and has been found to promote inflammation, a “key factor in psychiatric disorders such as anxiety and depression,” thereby suggesting a “possible link to psychopathy.”
Prevotella has also been linked to “differences in brain regions responsible for emotional, attentional and sensory processing, leading to a deficit in specificity of encoding contextual details of incoming stimuli.”
The claims are certain to be controversial. For one, the sample size was on the smaller side and relied on self-reported findings, which could greatly skew results as they’re susceptible to bias. Results could also vary depending on geographic regions, the researchers point out.
“Finally, as findings are correlational, causality cannot be established, especially given the bidirectionality of microbiota-brain communication,” they concluded.
In other words, it may actually be an inverse relationship, with the balance of the gut microbiome being caused by psychopathic traits instead of the other way around.
“For instance, psychopathy-linked factors, such as eating behaviors and hormonal differences could be responsible for shaping gut microbiota composition,” the researchers wrote.
It’s nonetheless a fascinating investigation into the extremes of human behavior — though plenty of future research is needed to investigate more thoroughly.
I’m a senior editor at Futurism, where I edit and write about NASA and the private space sector, as well as topics ranging from SETI and artificial intelligence to tech and medical policy.
In a crisis — any crisis — The Prosperos offers Translation. Translation Saturday Meetings is a weekly series of Translation presentations by veteran Translators, live and up to date on the issues of the day.
It is not a Translation workshop, It is not a Translation class. It is not a group Translation in the usual sense, though group participation is encouraged.
It is, however, restricted to those who have taken Translation class. So if you have never taken Translation class, check the calendar tab on The Prosperos website (TheProsperos.org) or get in touch with us and we will schedule a class.
Last week our sense testimony was: Work is the only way to get enough income. And our conclusion was: Truth is infinitely useful, the work of the One perfect synchronicity.
Then we asked ChatGPT to Translate the same sense testimony.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
