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The Book of Sin: How To Save The World - A Practical Guide
On January 1st 2016, author Jerry Hyde - ‘the most dangerous therapist in the world’ - set out on a year-long adventure into the murky underworld of Sin with one objective in mind…to save the world. Join Hyde on an exhilarating journey through hope, despair, love and loss made all the more twisted by daily microdoses of psilocybin mushrooms. Listen in on conversations with such disparate and at times desperate characters as national treasure Grayson Perry, tantric chieftain Shivam O’Brien, Mem the Mad Sufi and LSD blotter designer Kevin Barron. The Book of Sin is not a self-help book. It’s a do-it-yourself-help book. Read on if you want a better understanding of how to live life by your own rules, and how to make the world a better, safer, richer and more peaceful place.
346 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 27, 2018
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September 8, 2018
An awesome book that every human should make time to read. You won’t agree with everything. I didn’t. But, that shouldn’t stop you widening your horizons. Love and Peace.
June 4, 2022
This book comes across less the account of a seasoned therapist & more the ramblings of an angry teenage boy. Self reflection is central to therapists' lives, & I see precious little. His repeated, boring, largely debunked points about what Trump has (been falsely reported to have) done is so utterly tedious. His adoration of Trudeau? Well, I certainly could have predicted in 2016 not-Fidel's-son Trudeau would eventually show his fascist shadow, as he did under covid opportunities.
Hyde breaks the Goldwater Rule repeatedly. Guided doubtless by his hubris, he quite ignorantly diagnoses from afar throughout the book. Very unethical & utterly unprofessional.
On a more professional level, the quotes are interesting, but the lack of referencing (or God forbid an index) is poor. This matters. I lost count of how many utterly unfounded comments Hyde made. Take the accusations towards the British in 19th century Australia, eg burying aborigine babies up to their necks & kicking off their heads like rugby players kicking a penalty? Utter fabrication. Oh, there's so many of these; I'll save you time: pretty much all of his anti Trump comments. His repeated references to the Right as dictatorial, regressive, etc is really interesting, given Trump's preferred & Bolsinsro's actual approach to covid & our liberties, vs Trudeau's fascistic attacks on fundamental liberties. Jerry, to say you've got your argument backwards is to be kind. Again, where is your reflexivity? You're a leftie; you must understand the Left's deeper tendencies towards abusive state control. Hyde's bigoted comments about those who voted for / supported Brexit, oppose uncontrolled mass immigration, etc so terribly lacks consideration that I can only believe he really does not understand the wider human being - beyond soft leftist ones. The tendency to rubbish, dismiss, libel & above all show complete disregard for trying to understand "the other" is so glaring in this book.
I'm so disappointed. I saw Hyde interviewed a few times & was really impressed. Sure, he's (technically) qualified. But, like so many ageing lefties I've known, he clearly never evolved past the bitter, sneering teen. Very disappointed.
Hyde breaks the Goldwater Rule repeatedly. Guided doubtless by his hubris, he quite ignorantly diagnoses from afar throughout the book. Very unethical & utterly unprofessional.
On a more professional level, the quotes are interesting, but the lack of referencing (or God forbid an index) is poor. This matters. I lost count of how many utterly unfounded comments Hyde made. Take the accusations towards the British in 19th century Australia, eg burying aborigine babies up to their necks & kicking off their heads like rugby players kicking a penalty? Utter fabrication. Oh, there's so many of these; I'll save you time: pretty much all of his anti Trump comments. His repeated references to the Right as dictatorial, regressive, etc is really interesting, given Trump's preferred & Bolsinsro's actual approach to covid & our liberties, vs Trudeau's fascistic attacks on fundamental liberties. Jerry, to say you've got your argument backwards is to be kind. Again, where is your reflexivity? You're a leftie; you must understand the Left's deeper tendencies towards abusive state control. Hyde's bigoted comments about those who voted for / supported Brexit, oppose uncontrolled mass immigration, etc so terribly lacks consideration that I can only believe he really does not understand the wider human being - beyond soft leftist ones. The tendency to rubbish, dismiss, libel & above all show complete disregard for trying to understand "the other" is so glaring in this book.
I'm so disappointed. I saw Hyde interviewed a few times & was really impressed. Sure, he's (technically) qualified. But, like so many ageing lefties I've known, he clearly never evolved past the bitter, sneering teen. Very disappointed.
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