Psycho-Cosmocide: The Silent Invasion of Mind, Meaning, and Cosmos

This paper builds upon the paradigm of Psycho-Cosmocide, first introduced in Papuan Tragedy (Kogoya, 2025) and subsequently expanded upon in an increasing body of work. It does so by mapping a developmental spectrum from an integrated pre-civilisational existence, through successive stages of structural distortion — designated as civi-lie-sation and evi-lie-sation — to the complete takeover of perception, identity and the capacity to form reality. Drawing on analogies from parasitology and ecology, the analysis extends this framework into the domains of civilisational theory and the philosophy of mind. It positions West Papua as a contemporary example of the process in its final stage. This edition restores the Civilisational Psycho-Cosmocide Virus (CPCV) to the centre of the argument by developing its definition, anatomy, life cycle, carriers, symptomology, mutations and — critically — the conditions under which immunity to it has been built, lost and restored in documented cases. A dedicated phenomenology of infection is added, examining why the condition is experienced as freedom rather than domination, and why resistance to it is experienced as danger. This is examined in comparison to Steve Biko’s philosophy of Black Consciousness, the Négritude movement of Aimé Césaire and Léopold Sédar Senghor, and the Lani cosmological vocabulary from which the framework's own terms are drawn. The two existential cages within which the process operates are distinguished, and Psycho-Cosmocide is situated explicitly against the existing vocabulary of genocide, cultural genocide, epistemicide and coloniality. The West Papuan material is reframed as a single continuous clinical case, not as illustrative evidence. The framework's counter-movement and existential orientation system, Wonesis, is introduced only as far as diagnosis requires; its full elaboration is reserved for a dedicated companion work. This study lies at the intersection of philosophy of mind, decolonial theory and critical civilisation studies.