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10 A Journal of Contemporary Shamanism VOLUME 6 ISSUE 2 FALL 2013 deered our brain and tricked us its host into thinking we are feeding and empowering ourselves while we are actually nour- ishing the parasite. They cloak themselves in and assume our form getting under our skin and putting us on as a disguise impersonating us as they fool us to buy into their false ver- sion of who we are. Falling prey to their artificial yet uncanny intelligence we become unreal to ourselves. Bamboozled and hoodwinked by this imposter and copycat of ourselves we then mime ourselves becoming a master copy an ersatz duplicate of our original and authentic selves. This pathological part of the psyche can subsume all the wholesome parts of the psyche into itself such that the healthy aspects of the psyche come under the dominion of the disease and become slaves to it. We then become pushed around by an invisible player like a figure on a chessboard played and manipulated like marionettes on a string as if these intangible forces are gaming from a hid- den position within our own un-illumined psyche. No longer belonging to nor possessing ourselves we then simultaneously identify with who were not while disassociating from and forgetting who we actually are. In so doing we effectively have then lost our soul. Jung refers to this deceiving spirit by the name Antimimos which he describes as the imitator and evil spirit.5 Antitheti- cal to the light Antimimos refers to a type of deception that could be thought of as countermimicy. Referred to as the antimimon pneuma in the Apocryphon of John Apoc. John III 3617 this counterfeiting spirit imitates something in this case ourselves but with the intention to make the copy the fake version serve a purpose counter to that of the original. When we fall for the ruse of this snake oil salesman of the spirit we become dis-oriented losing our sense of spiritual vo- cation our mission in life even our very selves. Writer and poet Max Pulver presenting at the 1943 Eranos Conference said that The antimimon pneuma i.e. the eepawetiko virus is the origin and cause of all the evils besetting the human soul.6 The revered Gnostic text Pistis Sophia says that the antimimon pneuma has affixed itself to humanity like an illness. The eepawetiko virus induces a form of psychic blind- ness that not only believes itself to be sighted but arrogantly believes it is more sighted than anyone else. The eepawetiko virus bedazzles bewitches and bedevils consciousness in such a way that we become blind to the underlying assumed view- points through which we habitually perceive conjure up and give meaning to our experience of both the world and our- selves. Inspiring an inverted upside-down logic a flawless and truly deadly illogic what I call wetiko-logic the eepawetiko virus covertly operates via psychic stealth and subterfuge. It will influence those under its sway to use fallacious deduction