How we must beat the ‘mind-virus’ to save our world

Geoff Ward
11 min readDec 15, 2021

‘In its full-blown form, wetiko disease turns people into ghosts, demons, zombies, vampires and members of the living dead.’ Paul Levy

To Native Americans, ‘wetiko’ is a cannibalistic spirit capable of taking over people’s minds, subverting life’s purpose to selfishness, cupidity and acquisitiveness, undermining innate powers of creativity, and rendering the human race its…

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Geoff Ward

Writer, journalist, book editor, poet, musician and tutor in literature and creative writing (MA and BA Hons degrees in English literature).