Healing the Wounded Mind

The Psychosis of the Modern World and the Search for the Self

‘…in the darkness charlatans are easily mistaken for sages.’

Chantal Delsol

During 2018 I wrote what finally became the book Healing the Wounded Mind (published November 2019), and my thoughts and perceptions were taking me to examine what I felt was a psychic - and metaphysical - malaise that was endemic within our mainly industrialized societies and cultures. This is what I wrote for the blurb of the book:

“There is a mental malaise creeping through the collective human mindset. Mass psychosis is becoming normalized. It is time to break free.”

One of the key problems facing human beings today is that we do not look after our minds. As a consequence, we are unaware of the malicious impacts that infiltrate and influence us on a daily basis. This lack of awareness leaves people open and vulnerable. Many of us have actually become alienated from our own minds. This is how manipulations occur that result in phenomena such as crowd behavior and susceptibility to political propaganda, consumerist advertising and social management. Mass psychosis is only possible because humanity has become alienated from its transcendental source. In this state, we are prisoners to the impulses that steer our unconscious. We may believe we have freedom, but we don’t.

Healing the Wounded Mind discusses these external influences in terms of a collective mental disease―the wetikovirus of Native American lore (Forbes), ahrimanic forces (Steiner), the alien mind (Castaneda), and the collective unconscious shadow (Jung). Corrupt forces that seek to exploit our thinking on a grand scale have targeted the human mind. This is the “magician’s trick” that has kept us captive within the social systems that both distract and subdue us.”

In the book I ask: what has gotten into our minds? I noted that we are a species with noble character, with a great spirit, and with a sacred soul. In our hearts we wish only for the betterment of all people; for love and justice and communion. And yet what we see going on in the world is nothing less than complete madness. We have to say it exactly as it is – there is a sickness going on and this pathogen is spreading on a vast scale. I then wrote the following:

We live in a world where economic greed overrides all other factors. Nations, corporations, and individuals commit horrendous acts that include impoverishment, deprivation, psychological and physical torture, and even murder, just for financial gain. We behave horrendously toward each other; there is constant bullying and harassment upon all social and cultural levels. Violence is endemic across the globe, and pharmaceutical corporations would rather turn a profit than support health and well-being. Governmental bodies and agents participate in drug trafficking on a huge scale in order to both make money as well as promote addiction amongst the masses. Rich individuals and corporations hide their money through illegal offshore schemes rather than contribute to the welfare of their communities. People in high office consistently abuse, harass, and violate people within their power as a sign of their high status. The health of the planet and its natural environment is constantly mistreated and polluted; again, mostly for the sake of economic gain. And the list goes on.

These were some of the perspectives I felt from observing the years leading up to the time of writing (2018). Like most of my writings, they seem to be only for selective readers/listeners. Yet, we only need to reach a few with each seeding. Why am I bringing this up now? It is because recently - and with everything going on in the world as it is - I wished to transmit some of these thoughts/communications through a different medium. And so, I adapted some of the content of the book into several short texts and recorded them as spoken word tracks. I then asked my friend and colleague Moin Mohamed Islam (who is a wonderful musical arranger, producer and mixer) if he would like to create some original music to accompany these spoken word tracks - and he generously obliged (as I thought he would!). And what we managed to create was a mini-album of 7 tracks - shown as the following:

Track One: The Magician’s Trick

Track Two: Wetiko

Track Three: The Predators of the Shaman

Track Four: Normalized Madness

Track 5: The Quest Begins

Track Six: The Transcendental Connection

Track Seven: The Human Question

THE Full album is now available on the Bandcamp platform for FREE listening & download here: HEALING THE WOUNDED MIND

Later, the album will also be available on other music streaming platforms - including my personal Kingsley L. Dennis Spotify Account.

As always on this journey, I don’t feel I am stepping alone. And as long as I can share with others, then this makes all the effort worthwhile. I don’t ask anything of you, with the exception of your attention for a time.

Walk on, friends …

Warmest - Kingsley