Wetiko
Referenced in 2 episodes
Definition
A Cree term (related to Wendigo) for a cannibalistic spirit. Native American scholar Jack D. Forbes used it in 1978 to describe a contagious 'psychosis' of greed and exploitation that he saw driving colonialism, slavery, and ecocide.
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Miguel Conner on The Vampire Myth: From Lilith to Wetiko
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioOct 22, 2026
Gnostic author Miguel Conner traces the vampire myth from the Mesopotamian night demon Lilith through Slavic heretic-revenants, colonial bloodsucker legends, and Bram Stoker's Dracula to Jack D. Forbes' concept of Wetiko, the 'cannibal psychosis' of greed. He argues that every age invents a vampire that mirrors its own fears, whether death, outsiders, disease, desire, or consumption. Using Jungian archetypes and Gnostic cosmology, he presents the vampire as the shadow made flesh and asks whether the parasitic forces feeding on humanity are outside us or within us.
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Gem dealer and author Robert Simmons tells psychologist Jeffrey Mishlove how a meditation with Moldavite, a green glass formed by a meteor impact, opened his chakras and turned him from a skeptic into a believer in stone energies. He links this to Jungian spiritual alchemy, the Emerald Tablet, the Holy Grail legend, and panpsychism. He also recounts a story in which a channeled angelic group called the Azez reportedly borrowed his missing phenakite stone and returned it, along with a new stone called Azeztulite.