Paul Levy  – Healing Global Trauma Through Healing Our Relationship To Wetiko

Paul Levy shares his fascinating life's work of synthesizing the realms of quantum physics, alchemy, shamanism, Buddhism, Kabbalah, mystical Christianity and the works of C.G. Jung. He paints a unique picture of how we can heal our global trauma (related to what he calls "wetiko") and create Heaven on Earth.

Biography 

Born in 1956, Paul Levy grew up in Yonkers, New York. In 1981, due to an intense personal trauma, he had a life-changing spiritual awakening in which he began to recognize the dreamlike nature of reality. During the first year of his spiritual emergence, Paul was hospitalized a number of times, and was told he was having a "severe psychotic break from reality." Mis-diagnosed as having a chemical imbalance, now called bi-polar disorder, doctors told Paul that he would have to live with his illness and take medication for the rest of his life.

Over time Paul realized that he was taking part in a mystical awakening and shamanic initiation process, which at times mimicked psychosis but in actuality was a spiritual experience that lay outside of the map of the psychiatric system. As Paul freed himself from the narrow shackles of the psychiatric worldview, he found his spiritual teachers, who recognized that he was in the process of spiritually awakening. Drawn to art, Paul became a certified art teacher, and, attracted to the work of C. G. Jung, he became the manager of the C. G. Jung Foundation Book Service in New York and advertising manager for the Jungian journal Quadrant. 

In 1993, Paul started to openly share his insights through talks and facilitating groups, based on how life is a shared waking dream that we are all co-creating and co-dreaming together. He is the founder of the Awakening in the Dream Community in Portland, Oregon. 

Paul is the author of The Madness of George Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis (2006), Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil (2013), Awakened by Darkness: When Evil Becomes Your Father (2015) and The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality (2018). A Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for over 30 years, Paul has studied with some of the greatest spiritual masters of Tibet and Burma. He was the coordinator of the Portland chapter of the PadmaSambhava Buddhist Center for over twenty years.