A psychospiritual crisis is sweeping through our civilization like a contagion, infecting a growing number of people with greed, egotism, and destructiveness. The Native Americans had a name for this phenomenon - wetiko - and they recognized it with horror in the faces of the Europeans who arrived several centuries ago. Drawing on Jung, shamanism, and personal experience, author Paul Levy asserts that wetiko is not folklore but an actual entity that feeds on the psyche of its victims and blinds them to their own possession.