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www.shamansociety.org 9 E S S A Y The Masters Of Deception by Paul Levy A few days before my interview on Why Shamanism Now Internet Radio Show I received an email from the well-known anthropologist author and shamanic practitioner Hank Wes- selman. He mentioned that what I am calling wetiko the Hawaiian kahuna tradition with which I was also familiar and called these mind parasites the eepa. He mentioned that he talks about these archon-like entities in his latest book The Bowl of Light Ancestral Wisdom from a Hawaiian Shaman which I immediately went out and bought. When I found the section on the eepa my eyes almost fell out of my head as the description of the eepa by an esteemed Hawaiian kahuna sha- man was almost word for word what I had written in my book Dispelling Wetiko Breaking the Curse of Evil. As my research deepens I am realizing ever more fully that every wisdom tradition in the history of our planet has its own language and symbol system for illuminating what the Na- tive Americans have been calling wetiko. Having just finished an article on how the Kabbalah described the evil of wetiko in its own unique way I had recently started doing research for a new article on how a particularly powerful practice in the Islamic tradition was specially crafted so as to dissolve the pernicious effects of wetiko. After learning about the eepa I was left with the feeling that I was fated to continually find an ever-expanding number of wisdom traditions that articulate the wetiko psychosis each in their own way. By whatever name we call it wetiko is undoubtedly one of the most important discoveries ever made. Indicating the supreme importance of developing knowledge about how this predator of the mind operates Carlos Castanedas Don Juan refers to it as the topic of topics.1 Wetiko is literally at the bottom at the very root of the seemingly never-ending destruction we are wreaking on each other and the very biosphere we depend upon for our survival as a species. It is truly helpful to find other lineages and traditions that illumine wetiko disease in their own creative way. A multi-perspectival vision simultaneously gives a higher resolution and provides us with a greater scope and capacity to see what no one particular map or model by itself can reveal. Shape-shifters Wesselmans book is an introduction to the profound wisdom teachings of the Hawaiian kahuna elder Hale Makua. To quote Makuas conversation with Wesselman The eepa are deceivers. Some call them the masters of deception.2 Interest- ingly etymologically speaking one of the inner meanings of the devil is the deceiver. The eepawetiko virus flavors and covertly manages our perceptions under the deceptive dark- ness of our unconscious so as to act itself out through us while simultaneously hiding itself from being seen. Makua who is a wisdom keeper of an ancient Polynesian lineage continues They are free-ranging psychic entities invisible beings who function as mind parasites. As such they prey on those who are vulnerable to their influence.3 We all have a tendency to po- tentially deceive ourselves via the reality-creating genius of our own mind the eepa hook into and amplify our seemingly in- nate propensity for self-deception. Due to our almost unlimit- ed capacity for pulling the wool over our own eyes as a species we have tricked ourselves out of our own minds a state covertly inspired by the eepa I might add. People are particularly sus- ceptible to fall under the spell of these masters of deception who are not in touch with the living and self-authenticating reality of their own experience. Not sufficiently knowing the nature of their own minds they are overly suggestible to taking on other peoples perspective of the world and themselves and then they easily fall prey to the prevailing groupthink of the herd and to the eepa parasite. Others who are sensitive and have a permeable bound- ary between the conscious and unconscious such as psychics and channelers can even with the best of intentions become unwitting instruments for these incorporeal masters of decep- tion in ways that can create havoc in peoples lives. The eepa telepathically tune into the psychics mind customizing their very image so as to have the most personal impact simply tell- ing the psychics what they wish to hear. When we are inspired by spirits it is always a good idea to check our sources to discern if they are of the left or the right hand path. Makua comments The eepa are accomplished shape- shifters who are good at mimicking. They can assume forms that are meaningful to the ones they choose to deceivethey are devious and their motivation is deception. They oper- ate through illusion and they are masters of this practice.4 The eepa another name for the wetiko virus have the most disagreeable and trickster-like quality of appearing in our guise. When we unconsciously identify with become taken over by and act out the impulses that are inspired by the eepawetiko virus it is as if a psychic tapeworm or parasite has comman-