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Podcast: Richard Syrett's Strange Planet
Episode: The Mind Virus
Description: EPISODE #692 THE MIND VIRUSSpecial guest host Ali Siaditan welcomes a pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence and a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner to discuss the Native American idea of the Wetiko mind-virus said to infect much of the population.Guest: Paul Levy had a life-changing spiritual awakening in 1981, in which he began to wake up to the dream-like nature of reality. During the first year of his spiritual emergence, he was hospitalized several times, diagnosed with having had a severe psychotic break. He was told that he had a chemical imbalance and had manic-depressive il...