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14 A Journal of Contemporary Shamanism VOLUME 6 ISSUE 2 FALL 2013 Speaking about the eepa Makua makes the point If we look at the state of the world today we can see their influence everywhere and at every level. They could be thought of as psychic vampires. This is who and what vampires really are.8 As I read Makuas words the excitement I felt was palpable as if I was reading my own words in someone elses book. Legends and mythologies about vampires from time immemorial are symbolically describing and pointing at the eepawetiko virus. Just like vampires the eepawetiko virus has a thirst for the very thing it lacks the mystical essence of life the blood of our soul our very life-force. A member of the undead the vam- piric eepawetiko virus is fundamentally dead matter taking on apparently living form it is only in and through a living being that it acquires a quasi-life. The eepawetiko virus para- lyzes and freezes the ego into an immobilized powerless and life-less state in which our life force and energetic potential are literally being vampirically drained from us. These psychic vampires arent able to replicate themselves through their own energy however so they are compelled to propagate themselves through us so that we can dissimulate pass on and transmit the bug to others. The eepawetiko virus animates a virulent form of psychosis that is highly contagious spreading through the channel of our shared unconsciousness. When afflicted with this virus of the mind there is an alien-ating code or logic which affectsinfects awareness in a way analogous to how the DNA in a virus passes into and infects a cell. Its vectors of infection do not travel like a physical pathogen however. This fluidly moving nomadically wandering bug reciprocally reinforces and feeds off and into each of our unconscious blind spots which is how it nonlocally propagates itself throughout the field. As Jung has reminded us the greatest danger that threatens humanity today is the possibility that millions maybe even billions of us can fall into our unconscious together reinforcing each others mad- ness. As if afflicted by a psychic plague that we cannot see due to the blinding nature of the infection we become unwittingly complicit in creating our own self-destruction. As if stalking us for eternity the eepawetiko virus to the extent we are not awake seems to intimately know the in- ner workings of our own mind better than we do. Coveting our creative imagination these adversarial mental forces will use our imagination for and against us with deadly conse- quences especially if we dont use the divine gift of our creative imagination in the service of life. Interestingly an inner meaning of the word Satan is the adversary. Our natural birthright is to be creatorsautopoietic agencies in reciprocal co-evolution with ourselves as well as with the universe at large. Once we recognize the eepawetiko virus for what it is we can actively participate in our own evolution and consciously create our personal and collective destiny. Like a vampire the eepawetiko virus cant stand to be illumined. If we see how it covertly operates through our own consciousness we take away its seeming autonomy and power over us disabling it while at the same time empowering ourselves. Recognizing who and what the eepawetiko virus is starts a process of healing in which we can begin to realize our limitless potential for spiritual and evolutionary growth. The eepawetiko virus can only be seen when we begin to realize the dreamlike nature of our universe step out of the viewpoint of the separate self and recognize the deeper underlying field of which we are all expressions in which we are all contained and through which we are all interconnected. The energetic expres- sion of this realization and the eepawetiko virus dissolver par excellence is compassion. The Worlds Pivot The origin of the eepawetiko virus is the human psyche and recognizing how this virus of the mind operates through our unawareness is the beginning of the cure that literally changes everything. Our shared future will be decided primar- ily by the changes that take place in the psyche of humanity which is truly the worlds pivot. The eepawetiko virus is liter- ally demanding that we pay attention to the fundamental role that the psyche plays in creating our experience of ourselves and our world. The less the eepawetiko virus is recognized however the more seemingly powerful and dangerous it becomes. The Gnostics the ones who know recognized the eepawetiko virus calling it the Archons mind parasites who would infiltrate and subvert the workings of our own minds. To quote the Gnostic text The Gospel of Philip So long as the root of wickedness is hidden it is strong. But when it is recognized it is dissolvedIt is powerful because we have not recognized it.9 To a person whos entranced by the mainstream view of re- ality such talk about demons vampires mind viruses psychic parasites and the like sounds like so much superstitious dogma new age spiritual nonsense and gobbledygook or the ravings of a fevered paranoid imagination that believes in strange conspiracy theories. It should be pointed out that everyone of us experiences the eepawetiko virus in our own unique way regardless of what concepts or words we use to describe the experience or whether we believe in such things or not. It is worth noting however that some of the greatest thinkers philosophers visionaries and teachers among us have been pointing in their own way at the eepawetiko virus for millen- nia. Speaking about the state of humanity philosopher mystic and social activist Simone Weil was pointing at the eepawetiko virus when she writes It is as though affliction had established itself in him like a parasite and were directing him to suit its own purposes.10 The revolutionary spiritual teacher Gurdjieff