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Summary: Like a sawed off shotgun to the soul
Review: Abrasive is a kind word for this work. CSH does for sociology, psychiatry and a good chunk of modern philosophy what the chaoists did for occult practice and Amazon to our bank accounts. Stripped it all down, and force feeds it to anyone who can survive the intro and subsequent pages. This book requires a psychic warning: "Danger will be hazardous to your thought process, so put it back kid and grab some safe porn!"
Tons of great stuff, espically if you just observe people about you. Terrifing. Tough to argue head on, as a matter of fact it looks for a challenge just like that.
It gets a high rating for it's warning purpose, it tells the rest of us that there are people like this out there, and we may be one of them(we all are if you take that route). And it helps those people refine their technique.
Two peoiple I know that read it ran screaming, one asked for me to take it and burn it. Having the 'nads I read it instead. BS filter on high, and dug in. Many insults, curious facts and opinions later, it was finished. Turly a magnum opus for psychopaths.
In the end, take from it what you need, not want, it has many lessons to teach. Do not let it reprogram you, it is like the many flavors of the bible in that respect. Never dismiss it, to ignore danger is to leave yourself open to it. Best to treat it like a wild animal, put it down when it goes rabid.
Brace yourselves, we've left Kansas.
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Summary: A Book for the REAL CREATORS of the world
Review: Are you a person who stands out from the crowd and can never really understand why? Do you look at others and think to yourself,"Why are they concerned with such trifling stupid matters?" Are you always trying to grow, strive for something higher, continually learn, thinking outside the box (i.e. current knowledge and standards of society) and become more?
If so, then you are the exception to the rule (i.e. the masses of the world). You are a creator and one of the few people who are progressing human evolution. You are now joining the few who have progressed this race from the cave men to where we are today.The Psychopath's Bible will support you in your endeavors. It will assist and guide you in your quest to become more and awaken all of the talents that you possess. It will push you to continue to strive for higher goals and to physically manifest them in your life. Remember, that we are all creatures of infinite power regardless of our CURRENT standing in society. Whether you are a CEO of a Fortune 500 company or a guy on the street that does not even have a shirt his back, you can realize all of your truly creative dreams and become the magnificient creature that WE ARE ALL born to be. This book in conjunction with "Undoing Yourself" and your unceasing desire to become more, will allow your dreams to become a reality.
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Summary: A Book for the REAL CREATORS of the world
Review: Are you a person who stands out from the crowd and can never really understand why? Do you look at others and think to yourself,"Why are they concerned with such trifling stupid matters?" Are you always trying to grow, strive for something higher, continually learn, thinking outside the box (i.e. current knowledge and standards of society) and become more?
If so, then you are the exception to the rule (i.e. the masses of the world). You are a creator and one of the few people who are progressing human evolution. You are now joining the few who have progressed this race from the cave men to where we are today. The Psychopath's Bible will support you in your endeavors. It will assist and guide you in your quest to become more and awaken all of the talents that you possess. It will push you to continue to strive for higher goals and to physically manifest them in your life. Remember, that we are all creatures of infinite power regardless of our CURRENT standing in society. Whether you are a CEO of a Fortune 500 company or a guy on the street that does not even have a shirt his back, you can realize all of your truly creative dreams and become the magnificient creature that WE ARE ALL born to be. This book in conjunction with "Undoing Yourself" and your unceasing desire to become more, will allow your dreams to become a reality.
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Summary: Could be better
Review: As has been pointed out in other reviews, the book rambles. In the process, it reveals a chaos magick ritual designed to make a foolish man look foolish. Quite an accomplishment of magickal technqiue. If it didn't tend toward such sillyness it might more worthwhile. The endorsement of a bastardized Nietzschean concept of the superman is childishly pointless. Why should a psychopath want to influence the development of humanity? "Toxick Magick", or whatever cute name he wants to apply, is irrelevant and a waste of time.
The book has some interesting moments, but is overall not impressive at all.
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Summary: This book just might help
Review: The Psychopath's Bible opens with a disclaimer intended as a standard CYA cap, and the next dozen or so pages continue this theme, warning the reader about the hazards of reading the terrible and horrifying material within, which is more than a little over the top for my taste, but entertaining nonetheless. It is primarily compiled of three 'manuals' and three appendices. Nicholas Tharcher summed up the basic theme of the book well in the Forward when he said: 'In some ways this is a book of social philosophy; in other was it is a book of technique. Which it is for you may depend more on your attitude than anything else' (pg 15). The first manual is titled 'The Toxick Magician' in which very little is given that could be used for practical application and the little theory is a bit dodgy as it is not expounded. Thoughts are left vague and incomplete, perhaps to stimulate further thought and generated ideas on the part of the practitioner, but it looks sloppy and unfinished. However, I found the second manual, 'Toxick Calculator', far more entertaining. It deals with what Hyatt terms the 'mathematics of power' and contains more detailed theory, as well as exercises with more practical applications than the first. In it, the reader gets gems like this: 'We are inherently irrational, although we like to fancy ourselves as rational beings......the truth is simple: we are irrational beings capable of rational thought.' (pg 109) The third manual, 'The No-Where University, Sometimes Called P.U.' contains a selection of courses and literature, both printed and film, that a prospective psychopath will want to fill hirself in on in order to perfect hir transformation. Much of what is contained within one can see easily reflected all around, friends, co-workers, etc. Particularly in the games played by world leaders. Consider this extract: 'Build tension in others and help them find a scapegoat. Do this in small and insignificant ways until you have the power and ability to move people to more gross and hideous behaviors. Help people realize how easy it is to lose things they have or want. The trick in all of this is not to become identified as the bearer of bad tidings - unless you are looking for people with a strong stomach' (pg 87). Sound familiar? It's entertaining, an easy read, but at the same time insightful - though not terribly new. There is little that cannot be found within the works of Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli, Ayn Rand and the like. However, the ideas have been modernized, and deliberately injected with humour, which is fun. Then again, as he says 'I have written this book in the way I wanted to write it??not for the ease of the reader nor for the sake of favorable reviews' (pg 105). For those who have not read much in this genre there is a lot you need to know, namely, you need to understand that 'no matter how pathetic, everyone is looking out for their best interests. For most people, their best interest consists of not being punished. Few play to win. They play to be safe while feeling morally superior to the winner' (pg 31), and this is an attitude that severely needs to be corrected if you really want to play the game. This book just might help.
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Summary: A Guide for the Gifted
Review: The Psychopath's Bible provides a refreshing, much needed 'psychic elixir' for those individuals who have been branded as "psychopaths" by the society of the times. You know, the person who doesn't wear designer clothes, or who doesn't imitate those who yet manage some cheap imitation to get their 'friends' approval. Or the individual who dares to 'think'...REALLY think...for him or herself, despite being the 'laughing stock' of his or her 'peers.' Or the person who is continually 'pushing the envelope,' to the rage and fury of those little men in gray suits that skulk along the walls of any large corporation...or around your neighborhood block, for that matter. Of course you know the ones I'm talking about. The REAL Thinker is the odd one out. Why? Because each of us is a mirror to others. And the reflection they see in our mirrors show them what they are and are not, constantly. The "average;" the "normal," are generally the ones who never had an original thought in their lives and never will, and yet are so incompetent as to have trouble in stealing ideas from others. Sure, you know the kind. They're all around you! You have to put up with them everyday, just to earn your bread! I'm talking about the "bastions of society," as the herd (or, "masses") call the lackluster! Well, Hyatt's book certainly ISN'T for them! What a pity, that most creative thinkers and doers are (at best) 'tolerated' by saying they, "think outside the box," or (more usually) hated, by being labeled a "psychopath." That's what this book is about. About resurrecting a NATURAL pride in the creative and productive individual...however the individual defines it for him or her self. And that is where it belongs-within the individual who has the courage to become more, do more, and to revel in the process, as much as in the achievement. Hyatt's, et al, book is not "fluff" or "easy" reading...no more than is learning a new field of knowledge, or living a life of dedication, direction, and the courage of one's convictions. But it is necessary reading for all people who MUST be reminded that THEY are the true "Lords of the Earth," not the masses who benefit daily from the joys the 'rejects'...the "psychopaths"...continually create in all fields of human endeavor. To these "crazies," I HIGHLY recommend this book! Together with this author's other book, "Undoing Yourself with Energized Meditation and Other Devices," I'd say the courageous and determined among us have both a roadmap and a 'supply line' needed to achieve and become whatever it is we want to do and be...and with no holds barred. And all the while, enjoying who we are, while looking to none of the herd for approval, acceptance...or thanks.
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Summary: A Guide for the Gifted
Review: The Psychopath's Bible provides a refreshing, much needed `psychic elixir' for those individuals who have been branded as "psychopaths" by the society of the times. You know, the person who doesn't wear designer clothes, or who doesn't imitate those who yet manage some cheap imitation to get their `friends' approval. Or the individual who dares to `think'...REALLY think...for him or herself, despite being the `laughing stock' of his or her `peers.' Or the person who is continually `pushing the envelope,' to the rage and fury of those little men in gray suits that skulk along the walls of any large corporation...or around your neighborhood block, for that matter. Of course you know the ones I'm talking about. The REAL Thinker is the odd one out. Why? Because each of us is a mirror to others. And the reflection they see in our mirrors show them what they are and are not, constantly. The "average;" the "normal," are generally the ones who never had an original thought in their lives and never will, and yet are so incompetent as to have trouble in stealing ideas from others. Sure, you know the kind. They're all around you! You have to put up with them everyday, just to earn your bread! I'm talking about the "bastions of society," as the herd (or, "masses") call the lackluster! Well, Hyatt's book certainly ISN'T for them! What a pity, that most creative thinkers and doers are (at best) `tolerated' by saying they, "think outside the box," or (more usually) hated, by being labeled a "psychopath." That's what this book is about. About resurrecting a NATURAL pride in the creative and productive individual...however the individual defines it for him or her self. And that is where it belongs-within the individual who has the courage to become more, do more, and to revel in the process, as much as in the achievement. Hyatt's, et al, book is not "fluff" or "easy" reading...no more than is learning a new field of knowledge, or living a life of dedication, direction, and the courage of one's convictions. But it is necessary reading for all people who MUST be reminded that THEY are the true "Lords of the Earth," not the masses who benefit daily from the joys the `rejects'...the "psychopaths"...continually create in all fields of human endeavor. To these "crazies," I HIGHLY recommend this book! Together with this author's other book, "Undoing Yourself with Energized Meditation and Other Devices," I'd say the courageous and determined among us have both a roadmap and a `supply line' needed to achieve and become whatever it is we want to do and be...and with no holds barred. And all the while, enjoying who we are, while looking to none of the herd for approval, acceptance...or thanks.
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Summary: Unfocused But Entertaining
Review: The Satanic Bible is clearly the inspiration for this book. Only the Satanic Bible actually offers a clear, concise dogma, whereas this book offers more of a rambling, de-contextualized mood with which to approach life. With that said, it all adds up into something fascinating, enthralling even. The 'toxick' philosophy can be summarized as helping people in order to destroy them. Empowering the ignorant. Supporting oppressive systems, i.e. the government, Christianity, that they might rise to their highest level of incompetence and collapse. This book is bursting with missing-chromosome Nietzscheism and bastardized Darwinism. Dr. Hyatt's apparent philosophy is to destroy old forms of life in order to make way for new, and more interesting life forms. He stops just short of using the word 'ubermensch'. And the book centers on the idea that every living thing is just something being digested in the cosmic belly of a being who's motives we cannot comprehend. Dr. Hyatt's sense of inverted conscience is refreshing. He encourages total freedom when perpetrating all forms of nasty behavior...as long as it is done in a subtle, restrained, *psychological* way. One gets the idea that Dr. Hyatt is awkward in social settings, and has devised all of this to make himself not only feel better, but feel that he is getting one over on everyone. This is the third version of this book of which I am aware.
The first was poorly titled 'the toxick magickian'. It was wise to change the title to the 'Psychopath's Bible'. Even if it is erroneous, and derivative. This edition doubles the size of the original, which was little more than a pamphlet at 100 pages.
This new second half is where the book loses the wit and charm of the original. It is all nothing but filler material, with the odd essay on whatever moot point. Then there are the numerous 'exercise', which are like some self-improvement quiz you might read in Cosmo only contrived to be sufficiently psychotic. The book even graciously provides us with a list of movies that showcase the qualities making up a psychopath. And a list of college courses one should take to further self-improvement. The new material is a complete waste of time, but I still recommend the book for its first half. Which is a fairly entertaining protracted psychotic rant about social oppression.
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Summary: Interesting, In Spite of Its Flaws
Review: This book is longer, more repetitious and far-reaching than necessary for the topic. An author would do well to avoid contradicting his own tenents: such as his insistence on empirical reality, when in the previous section he bade his Toxic readers to rely on the decidedly unempirical karma.
Pretentiousness like Toxic Magick, sending him money to teach you, and empirical karma aside, the core of the book represents an absolute truth, and, among his own delusional splendor, there is much good advice the Dr. offers us.
Dr. Wyatt warns the socially indoctrinated reader to stay away from the book and its teachings as their directions could prove harmful to one's mental health and life situtations. I wouldn't go so far as to agree with his warning, I don't think the average human understands that there is a game on.
All criticism aside, this book is most assuredly worth a read, if not for gathering your own strength, then even just to gain insight into how cunning some people can really be.
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Summary: Are you an Extreme Individual?
Review: This is one of the most important books ever published in the 21st Century (and its predecessor applies to the 20th!).... I strongly recommend this work to people who find themselves in a society that has little or nothing to offer them, outside of what they have to produce by their own efforts. Hats off to Doc and the gang for a job beyond well done! And horns to the fundamentalists who hate that such fine works continue to be made available to a public that demands excellence in their reading material!
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