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www.shamansociety.org 15 says that if we observe carefully You will see that you are dif- ferent from what you think you are. You will see that you are two. One that is not but takes the place and plays the role of the other the real you.11 Physicist David Bohm one of the most original radical and important thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century speaking of the eepawetiko parasite in his own words writes Its similar to a virussomehow this is a disease of thought of knowledge of information spreading all over the worldIts spreading like a virus and each one of us is nourishing that virus.12 To the extent we are unaware of this thought-virus Bohm realized that we are all complicit in its propagation. He recognized that this virus of the mind is the very thing preventing mankind from working together for the common good and indeed for survival. He realized that this contagious disease of thought had surreptitiously intruded itself into the realm of mind itself where to the extent we are unaware of it it can work its black magic unrestrained. Bohm then wonders Do we have a kind of immune system that stops it The only way to stop it is to recognize it to acknowledge it to see what it is. If any one of us starts to look at that then we are looking at the source of the prob- lem.13 Seeing and knowing the presence and activities of the eepawetiko virus in Buddhist tradition called Mara The Evil One - are major elements in the process of the Buddhas enlightenment. It is emphasized in the Buddhas teachings that it was ignorance and darkness along with their capacity to blind humanityall characteristics of being afflicted by the eepawetiko virusthat were dispelled at the moment of enlightenment. Though on one level apparently opposing Bud- dhas enlightenment Mara was actually Buddhas secret ally a projected aspect of Buddhas own consciousness for Buddha wouldnt have been able to develop the muscle of his realiza- tion without Maras challenge. The Greatest Force of Evolution Ever Known There is no way around it the way to enlightenment is by making the darkness conscious. I would suggest that the sooner we shed light on and become aware of the darkness within ourselves the better. Our enlightenment makes no differ- ence whatsoever if it doesnt help us to illumine the darkness within ourselves. Light is ultimately revealed through darkness it needs darkness for otherwise how could it appear as light Shadows are simultaneously an expression of the absence as well as the presence of light for we can never have a shadow without light nearby. The darker the shadow the brighter is the light of which it is a projection. We normally think of il- lumination as seeing the light but seeing the darkness is a form of illumination too. Hidden and encoded in the dark- ness is a higher form of light that transcends the light vs. dark duality the light of awareness itself. This formless light has the property of not only being invulnerable to the negative forces of darkness but it touches and transfigures everyone who sees it. This is the light of self-reflective lucid primordial awareness that awakens us to the dreamlike nature of reality.