Stan Taylor (Author of The Black Book of Power)

Stan Taylor and 1 other person liked Kathrin Huemmert's review of The Black Book of Power: "ARE YOU DONE YET? I WAS. DONE performing for everybody, denying my beliefs, being everybody’s darling and still never feeling good enough. DONE bleeding in relationships I knew were bad for me, and not being able to leave. DONE being stuck in the same " Read more of this review »
Sep 23, 2026 09:34PM · see review
Stan Taylor and 2 other people liked Reader's review of The Black Book of Power: "It’s good for every soul "
Sep 23, 2026 09:34PM · see review
Stan Taylor made a comment on Tracey Fishman’s review of The Black Book of Power " Whatever scammers and bots have taught you, the lesson doesn't transfer here, and 110,000 readers disagree with you. You opened a fake account, as a b ...more "
Sep 23, 2026 09:34PM · see review
Stan Taylor made a comment on Dil Naidoo’s review of The Black Book of Power " Frederick William I made schooling compulsory by edict in 1717, and Frederick the Great's regulation of 1763 built the system out properly. What 1806 ...more "
Aug 24, 2026 01:52AM · see review
Stan Taylor made a comment on Abby A.’s review of The Black Book of Power " What I want everyone reading to see, because it is the whole of Chapter 4 running in public, is that removal from a group hits the belonging hunger, w ...more "
Aug 24, 2026 01:48AM · see review
Stan Taylor made a comment on Reader’s review of The Black Book of Power " This reader, rather unfortunately, stopped at the end of Part I. Part I opens you up and holds 'the parasite' under the lamp where it can be seen, and ...more "
Aug 24, 2026 01:30AM · see review
Stan Taylor made a comment on None’s review of The Black Book of Power " The comment carried profanity aimed at my readers, which is the line that gets you blocked. Argue with me all day and stay. Insult the people reading ...more "
Aug 24, 2026 01:20AM · see review
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Stan Taylor and 1 other person liked Michael Bagnall's review of The Black Book of Power: "Not a book you just tear through and put back on the shelf. It hits you like a bag of bricks and gives you the blueprint to put yourself back together again. Won't lie though, it's will cause you to SERIOUSLY look at, and call out the BS lies you've " Read more of this review »
Apr 18, 2026 09:07PM · see review
Stan Taylor and 3 other people liked Tricia Whitlock's review of The Black Book of Power: "In a few short weeks, this book uncovered what years of therapy, self-help books, and healing work did not. I am astounded at the change in myself. I no longer feel puzzled about what motivates me and feel like I know myself for the first time. This " Read more of this review »
Apr 18, 2026 09:07PM · see review

Stan Taylor and 1 other person liked Kathrin Huemmert's review of The Black Book of Power:

"ARE YOU DONE YET?

I WAS.
DONE performing for everybody, denying my beliefs, being everybody’s darling and still never feeling good enough.
DONE bleeding in relationships I knew were bad for me, and not being able to leave.
DONE being stuck in the same " Read more of this review »

Stan Taylor and 2 other people liked Reader's review of The Black Book of Power:

"It’s good for every soul
"

Stan Taylor made a comment on Tracey Fishman’s review of The Black Book of Power

" Whatever scammers and bots have taught you, the lesson doesn't transfer here, and 110,000 readers disagree with you. You opened a fake account, as a b ...more "

Stan Taylor made a comment on Dil Naidoo’s review of The Black Book of Power

" Frederick William I made schooling compulsory by edict in 1717, and Frederick the Great's regulation of 1763 built the system out properly. What 1806 ...more "

Stan Taylor made a comment on Abby A.’s review of The Black Book of Power

" What I want everyone reading to see, because it is the whole of Chapter 4 running in public, is that removal from a group hits the belonging hunger, w What I want everyone reading to see, because it is the whole of Chapter 4 running in public, is that removal from a group hits the belonging hunger, which is one of the 10 the book maps. The nervous system treats it as an actual threat because for most of human history exile was fatal. The reflex is to rebuild belonging somewhere else, fast and loudly, and to gather agreement until the threat quiets. The book calls that feeding, meaning your state gets injected into other people's attention until they ratify it. It is the most human thing in this thread and I don't hold it against anyone. It also produced many likes and comments, which completes the cycle and settles the nervous system. Whatever else is true here, this review became the reason several strangers decided to stay exactly where they were.

You were 2 chapters from the thing that dismantles that reflex. Chapter 4 spends 21 days widening the gap between the state arriving and the action following, and Chapter 5 takes the written evidence and executes the pattern underneath it. You had already done the hard part, which is noticing your own reaction accurately enough to describe it. What needed to happen next was to lay new wiring to replace it.

Your brain insulates whatever you repeat, wrapping the pathway in a fatty sheath called myelin so the signal moves faster and costs less energy every time it fires. This is why the reflex of aggressive commenting that you have run for years arrives before you have finished having the thought. Nothing removes that wiring, but you can atrophy it. The only available move is to run a competing pathway often enough, in real conditions, that the brain begins insulating the new one instead, and 21 consecutive days is roughly what the rebuild costs. Skip the days and the old road stays the fastest route in your head for the rest of your life.

This exchange happened many months ago. The comments have kept arriving through August, and every one of them was another repetition, another lap on the same road, laid down with agreement and validation as the reward for the existing behavior. That is how the parasite recruits, and validation is its strongest instrument by a wide margin. It wins by finding you many others who confirm that keeping your current identity was wise, and it will keep hunting for more. Every person in this thread who wrote that they were no longer going to buy the book got the same dose, and their pathway is now insulated too.

The other cost is darker. Everything above is a public record of what moves Abby. Her deepest hunger is named, her threshold for feeling excluded is documented, and the exact sequence that produces hours of her unpaid labor is available to anyone who reads this page. That is what the book means by 'readable,' and readable is the condition every operator in your life is counting on. The people who do this professionally are searching for your hunger, and yours is now indexed.

That is the whole business of population control. Every professional manipulation I ever ran, on voters and on customers, worked because the target's hunger was legible and their reflex was faster than their judgment. The protocols exist to make you slow, quiet, and unreadable, and there is no shortcut through them. The pattern runs until it gets interrupted. Nobody ages out of it, and most people carry theirs to the grave believing every one of its verdicts was their own reasoning. ...more "

Stan Taylor made a comment on Reader’s review of The Black Book of Power

" This reader, rather unfortunately, stopped at the end of Part I. Part I opens you up and holds 'the parasite' under the lamp where it can be seen, and This reader, rather unfortunately, stopped at the end of Part I. Part I opens you up and holds 'the parasite' under the lamp where it can be seen, and it is built to provoke as many reactions in you as it can, because those reactions are the specimens. Part II is the 21 days that cut it out. He saw what was in there, felt exactly what those chapters were engineered to make him feel, and closed the book on the page before the removal started.

What he skipped is Chapter 4, which runs 21 consecutive days of exercises inside the conversations his life already contains. Day by day it trains him to catch two transfers as they happen. Bleeding is another person's state entering his nervous system and steering his behavior without his consent, which is what an advertisement did to him and what these reviews are still doing. Feeding is injecting his own state into someone else's moment, which is what angry reviews are (feeding his validation hunger). The exercises widen the gap between the sensation arriving and the action following, and by the third week the gap is wide enough to decide inside. Chapter 5 then takes the 21 days of written evidence and executes the pattern that produced all of it.

He opened by saying not every book is for everyone, and that is true. Not every parasite gets killed either, and the ones that survive do it by getting the reader to put the book down, calling it a 'waste of time.' Sounds reasonable; every parasite does. But the biology is unglamorous. Every pattern he has run for decades is wrapped in myelin, the fatty sheath the brain builds around whatever it repeats, and those pathways fire faster and cost less energy than anything new. Ask that structure to dismantle itself and the body answers with stress chemistry arriving first and the reasoning part of the brain arriving late. The response surfaces as a considered verdict (in his own voice) about how the writing is boring and the ideas are basic and the whole thing was beneath him.

The parasite, the metaphor used in the book to describe the immune response to identity change, won this round. That voice wins constantly and almost nobody catches it, which is why the book spends 3 chapters on the trap before it hands anyone a single technique on influence. ...more "

Stan Taylor made a comment on None’s review of The Black Book of Power

" The comment carried profanity aimed at my readers, which is the line that gets you blocked. Argue with me all day and stay. Insult the people reading ...more "

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Stan Taylor and 1 other person liked Michael Bagnall's review of The Black Book of Power:

"Not a book you just tear through and put back on the shelf. It hits you like a bag of bricks and gives you the blueprint to put yourself back together again. Won't lie though, it's will cause you to SERIOUSLY look at, and call out the BS lies you've " Read more of this review »

Stan Taylor and 3 other people liked Tricia Whitlock's review of The Black Book of Power:

"In a few short weeks, this book uncovered what years of therapy, self-help books, and healing work did not. I am astounded at the change in myself. I no longer feel puzzled about what motivates me and feel like I know myself for the first time. This " Read more of this review »

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