Shadow & Evil

In its Native American meaning, wetiko is an evil cannibalistic spirit that can take over people's minds, leading to selfishness, insatiable greed, and consumption as an end in itself, destructively turning our intrinsic creative genius against our own humanity.

The Shadow is “the part of us made up of all that we hide from others: our shame, our fears, and our wounds, but also our divine spirit, our blinding beauty, and our hidden talents.” The Shadow, in fact, is the source of our creativity and power—but until we bring it into the light this power(our potential) will remain untapped.

Our shadow side contains the emotions and desires we've disowned, neglected, or hidden from ourselves. If not skillfully worked with, it can easily direct our lives on every level.

A psychospiritual crisis is sweeping through our civilization like a contagion, infecting a growing number of people with insanity in the form of greed, egotism, and destructiveness.

The shadow is a part of our unconscious mind consisting of repressed qualities (could be weaknesses as well as strengths) and dark (i.e. unconscious) instincts. “Everyone carries a shadow,” Jung wrote, “and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.”

“Would you rather be whole or good?” asked Carl Jung.