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The Psychopath's Bible: For the Extreme Individual
Throughout history, throughout most of the world, psychopaths have gotten a bad rap. That is quite understandable since almost all of the world's religious and social philosophies have little use for the individual except as a tool to be placed in service to their notion of something else: "God," or the "collective," or the "higher good" or some other equally undefinable term. Only rarely, such as in Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, and some school of Existentialism, is the individual considered primal. Here, finally, is a book which celebrates, encourages and educates the best part of ourselves--the Psychopath. "You take people as you find them. They all have a secret life inside, and they usually die with it never coming out. That is the waste; the waste is not something they are not...the waste is not living what they are; however, what they are came about...came into existence...so what you do with your cards is what is important." -- Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D.
216 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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Christopher S. Hyatt
106 books110 followersChristopher Hyatt was an American occultist, author, and founder of the Extreme Individual Institute (EII).Using his birth name, Alan Ronald Miller, he has served as president of New Falcon Publications.
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March 3, 2019
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If you forget everything else, remember this: Everyone is a pshychopath. (c) Definitely. No reasonable ape (and we, as humans, are supposedly at least part apes) would cram themselves into cities, metal machines hurtling on the streets and through the air (transport), stare for hours on end at shining surfaces, eat all kinds of synthetic trash... etc.
Rating (5 stars is the start):
+1 star An expo of the notorious psychopaths, which accidentally happens to be everybody.
-1 star Way too short.
-1 star A teensy tad illogical.
+-1 star Mysatropic at the utmost.
+ 1 star Infantilization, education, health industry, employment... some of the notes are spot on.
- 1 star Had the author just skipped alltogether all the Practitioner, Master, Manipulator, Magician etc bullshit and just used his society observations for the book, it might have been immensely more readable and coherent.
Q:
So not to worry. There are no young psychopaths. Only psychopaths in training.
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Always play to security as if it were an adventure. (c)
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Help others get what they want. This is the mostinsidious form of destroying them.
If you forget everything else, remember this: Everyone is a pshychopath. (c) Definitely. No reasonable ape (and we, as humans, are supposedly at least part apes) would cram themselves into cities, metal machines hurtling on the streets and through the air (transport), stare for hours on end at shining surfaces, eat all kinds of synthetic trash... etc.
Rating (5 stars is the start):
+1 star An expo of the notorious psychopaths, which accidentally happens to be everybody.
-1 star Way too short.
-1 star A teensy tad illogical.
+-1 star Mysatropic at the utmost.
+ 1 star Infantilization, education, health industry, employment... some of the notes are spot on.
- 1 star Had the author just skipped alltogether all the Practitioner, Master, Manipulator, Magician etc bullshit and just used his society observations for the book, it might have been immensely more readable and coherent.
Q:
So not to worry. There are no young psychopaths. Only psychopaths in training.
Q:
Always play to security as if it were an adventure. (c)
Q:
Help others get what they want. This is the mostinsidious form of destroying them.
December 16, 2012
Very few can handle the content of this book. Imagine the most disturbing, dismaying underlying aspects of the "48-Laws of Power" by Robert Greene, amalgamated, fermented, melted, re-condensed into a pitch-black, soul tainting neurotoxin that drives you mad with a single potent drop if you're not already insane enough to withstand its delightful taste.
February 2, 2014
I hate Ayn Rand. I think she's a psychopath. So imagine my confusion when I pick up a book more or less promoting Libertarian magick under the name of the psychopath. The author praises the psychopath while simultaneously mocking the concept. It's all very tongue in cheek, and yet not.
Part politics, part self help, part pagan witchcraft, part satire, part I don't know what -- this book is hilarious, manipulative, wild, potentially dangerous, and weird. Which is why I think it's great.
At its heart, the text promotes selfishness and the manipulation of others. It mocks culture for being an enslaving destroyer of self and urges us to rise above it. The book tells us to lie to those who can't see the truth because they can't be saved. It advises us to befriend other "toxick magicians" when we meet them.
Some sections get a little dull - recommended movies to see and personality tests. But mostly it's a dark, funny, cruel, and interesting perversion of self help nonsense.
Part politics, part self help, part pagan witchcraft, part satire, part I don't know what -- this book is hilarious, manipulative, wild, potentially dangerous, and weird. Which is why I think it's great.
At its heart, the text promotes selfishness and the manipulation of others. It mocks culture for being an enslaving destroyer of self and urges us to rise above it. The book tells us to lie to those who can't see the truth because they can't be saved. It advises us to befriend other "toxick magicians" when we meet them.
Some sections get a little dull - recommended movies to see and personality tests. But mostly it's a dark, funny, cruel, and interesting perversion of self help nonsense.
May 22, 2017
This is not s a book for everyone , in fact most people will find its objective intolerable and will not bother to read it. The books viewpoint does not speak charitably about the state of mankind. In the past many books have been written about psychopaths and sociopaths, but no books have been written for them! The two terms , psychopaths and sociopaths have been used interchangeably that they now mean the same thing. Psychologists have now invented a new term called Antisocial personality disorder. When describing the psychopath usually such terms as violent, impulsive, no respect for Authority are flung around. rhe DSM 4 has quite an sack definition. Yet, psychopaths walk among us and they are too smart to be violent. You tyrants, politicians, CEO's are in many cases good examples of a psychopath .
In the book the psychopath is referred to as a toxic magician, master, master manipulator etc. His goal is the destruction of the human race so that it can make way for another more advanced and useful life form can take over. I wonder how many people would agree to this objective? Most people are very weak minded . They are followers or sheep who are easily controlled , they just do not know it. Many people think they want to be free but that is an illusion. What they really want is to be controlled in a way they find acceptable. That is a view point I can easily agree with. Now the toxic magician must reach his aims non violently. In fact he does not want to. Kill off weak people he wants them around so he can manipulate them. Some times you destroy people by giving them exactly what they want. So you want to doom the human race, support programs that feed the poor. This will then create a drain in the natural resources and when they run out there will not be enough to feed the people thus causing a more massive die off. He makes a point but I am not sure I want to wipe out the human race.
The book has excellent techniques , although subtle , on how to manipulate people. Let's face it the world out there is a jungle. People are always manipulating you and others. Just the hard cold truth. Face it! We live in a concrete jungle where the stronger survive . You have no real rights or possession because the government can take it away from you at any time , so can a more powerful person. The real criminal are the government and big business they steal more from you than the common steer thug. Yet we pursue the street thug with such vigor.
I class this book up thee with Sun Tzu's Art of War, the 48 Laws of Power and the Prince. The manipulation techniques are truly subtle and sublime,yet truly effective. Read this book,at least three times to really learn it. Oh yes the author has graciously included a course of books for further learning.
In the book the psychopath is referred to as a toxic magician, master, master manipulator etc. His goal is the destruction of the human race so that it can make way for another more advanced and useful life form can take over. I wonder how many people would agree to this objective? Most people are very weak minded . They are followers or sheep who are easily controlled , they just do not know it. Many people think they want to be free but that is an illusion. What they really want is to be controlled in a way they find acceptable. That is a view point I can easily agree with. Now the toxic magician must reach his aims non violently. In fact he does not want to. Kill off weak people he wants them around so he can manipulate them. Some times you destroy people by giving them exactly what they want. So you want to doom the human race, support programs that feed the poor. This will then create a drain in the natural resources and when they run out there will not be enough to feed the people thus causing a more massive die off. He makes a point but I am not sure I want to wipe out the human race.
The book has excellent techniques , although subtle , on how to manipulate people. Let's face it the world out there is a jungle. People are always manipulating you and others. Just the hard cold truth. Face it! We live in a concrete jungle where the stronger survive . You have no real rights or possession because the government can take it away from you at any time , so can a more powerful person. The real criminal are the government and big business they steal more from you than the common steer thug. Yet we pursue the street thug with such vigor.
I class this book up thee with Sun Tzu's Art of War, the 48 Laws of Power and the Prince. The manipulation techniques are truly subtle and sublime,yet truly effective. Read this book,at least three times to really learn it. Oh yes the author has graciously included a course of books for further learning.
January 9, 2012
Interesting book - asks you to consider whether the term and psychological label of "psychopath" is really just a way to keep us all as good little citizens - compliant, obedient and with your desires all kept in check. The author encourages you to challenge this, and to actually cultivate a personality like that viewed as "psychopathic" - (ie: self-interested, manipulative, self-guiding, not controlled by christian or other moral tenets).
April 18, 2021
كلما تطورت التكنولوجيا بشكل أسرع ، كلما زادت الاصطدامات والدمار داخل الأنواع التي طوّرت التكنولوجيا. يجب دائمًا النظر إلى القصور الذاتي من المنظور النفسي للكسل . الكسل ، بشكل أو بآخر ، يؤدي إلى مهزلة.
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July 29, 2013
Oh, what can I say about this book. First off, I found this on Scribd and read it only out of curiously. Had I seen it in a bookstore I would have flipped through it and tossed it back. Secondly, the tone of this book is reminiscent of an angsty teen. Take it with a grain of salt. Although there are bits and pieces that could be considered truths the tone is all wrong. I would much rather read How To Win Friends And Influence People. That is something I could take more seriously.
January 10, 2009
have these cats never sat down and read the book of the subgenius????? the stuff in this book is covered iin about three pages of chapter 19 of the book of the subgenius..... it was funny and i like this book, but it is little too full of itself, and so are the authors
July 26, 2008
Proceed with caution.
March 16, 2014
In some videos of this legend, christ offers shyatT--and he rather prefers sure method and results,
the "HOW"--and result.
Though it pains him that this
great work TCDRs orgasmically at the margins,
he knows this work belongs for marginal peoples and matters at present
state of bacteriohuman affairs but--christ offers shyatT
he will hang around here anymore
not to gather some flowery linguas for some friends(parasites)by being but instructs
hard work and creating more information (virus/viral) invisible power
no happy pills-- unless you still believe" (you do...)
....fuck then you are obviously still on the pills...
no shit.
have we not had enough happy pills yet? or do we just function
automatically as wombworm still?
This work may stay in the margins, maybe even until the future meets the past again, there in the background where True Practitioners dancing drumming human nature about and bringing about the end of this fucking misery one butterfly twitch at a fucking twitch., bitch...
the "HOW"--and result.
Though it pains him that this
great work TCDRs orgasmically at the margins,
he knows this work belongs for marginal peoples and matters at present
state of bacteriohuman affairs but--christ offers shyatT
he will hang around here anymore
not to gather some flowery linguas for some friends(parasites)by being but instructs
hard work and creating more information (virus/viral) invisible power
no happy pills-- unless you still believe" (you do...)
....fuck then you are obviously still on the pills...
no shit.
have we not had enough happy pills yet? or do we just function
automatically as wombworm still?
This work may stay in the margins, maybe even until the future meets the past again, there in the background where True Practitioners dancing drumming human nature about and bringing about the end of this fucking misery one butterfly twitch at a fucking twitch., bitch...
June 2, 2013
Where it begins with a mildly interesting premise the book descends in to repetition pretty fast. While the author did warn that it was going to get horrible somewhere in there... it did, it became horribly boring. I am horrible at dealing with books which try to hammer in the point in various ways over and over again. Reading becomes a sort of low grade torture on par with cleaning toilets at a camp site.
Not sure if the author, metaphorically speaking, likes to her himself talk or he's bad at getting to the point but I suspect the book could be halved in length without losing any of it's message.
Not sure if the author, metaphorically speaking, likes to her himself talk or he's bad at getting to the point but I suspect the book could be halved in length without losing any of it's message.
September 30, 2016
Hyatt's best work. Hyatt here writes in full speed, taking no prisoners. The exercises described by Hyatt are brilliant and effective in liberating the mind from the ethical and educational conditioning enforced upon us throughout our lives.
For those seeking freedom from the system, then this is your pill.
For those seeking freedom from the system, then this is your pill.
April 17, 2023
A self-improvement guide written by a broken person. Maybe some points are valid, but the overall thesis of "being on the top of the social pyramid by being a total asshole" is not something I would recommend to anyone.
December 31, 2007
Yes, yes, you're a very clever psychopath, aren't you? But you're far too impressed with yourself.
April 1, 2009
Not what it seems. Yet again it is.
Want to Read
September 23, 2009I totally need to see how this pans out!
September 20, 2011
Refreshing and Hyatt doesn't take himself too seriously. "Practical" occultism anyone?
April 29, 2012
Hysterical
July 3, 2018
There were some lovely parts, but others parts were sadly unscrutable.
February 28, 2019
Haha at the end of the book all the questions "You maybe psychopath.
Do you know the signs?
:most of the answers of the questions is yes, but what I heard about phychopath is that they are very cold blooded people and I know I'm not. I'm short tempered like many other woman.
However most of the term in this book about politics, religions, government, about the control system, law are true and I tend to agree. Few thing either I didn't understand or is really absurd. I find it funny how she tried to sell few more copies of the book here and there in the exercise section implying her marketing tactics. It was good manual but not as deep as I expected it to be.
Do you know the signs?
:most of the answers of the questions is yes, but what I heard about phychopath is that they are very cold blooded people and I know I'm not. I'm short tempered like many other woman.
However most of the term in this book about politics, religions, government, about the control system, law are true and I tend to agree. Few thing either I didn't understand or is really absurd. I find it funny how she tried to sell few more copies of the book here and there in the exercise section implying her marketing tactics. It was good manual but not as deep as I expected it to be.
October 12, 2021
Should have been titled "How to get along with others; a treatise of life skills" but i guess it's not as catchy.
I like how he talks of some truths, like the fact that people like to be treated like infants and are mostly used to abuse but most activities go along the lines of:
1) be good to others, let them be indebted to you
2) try to be selfish and put yourself and your goals first
3) understand the nature of other's personalities to see whom you can click with more.
Not really what i expected. I felt like he was speaking of self-evident truths. There's nothing extreme here, or maybe I'm extreme? That's possible.
I like how he talks of some truths, like the fact that people like to be treated like infants and are mostly used to abuse but most activities go along the lines of:
1) be good to others, let them be indebted to you
2) try to be selfish and put yourself and your goals first
3) understand the nature of other's personalities to see whom you can click with more.
Not really what i expected. I felt like he was speaking of self-evident truths. There's nothing extreme here, or maybe I'm extreme? That's possible.
Read
July 31, 2020its both kind and skeptical to say there is more to us humans as a species than just normal,and by normal i mean the perception of our minds being in existence just for the purpose of living according to the few written laws of both man and the higher being living somewhere in the skys. Through the daily struggles of life,its ethical we are somehow psychos of some certain levels.................talk to me.
December 22, 2021
I've been having doubts about my psychopathy for ages. I live in an area where I can't get diagnosed, but this book seriously helped me with my mental state. It is humorous, candid, blunt, sincere, all the elements I like. The way it is structured is fascinating, and I can't put it down. I loved it very much, and it taught me a lot in terms of how to manage my life better if I am feeling like I have ASPD or Psychopathy traits. Loved this.
September 2, 2019
A fun tongue-in-cheech book about how to be a devil. It is worth reading precisely because it is simply parody. Great for an angsty teen, its just a fun read about "what not to do" and "how not to behave."
July 9, 2021
a good inside look to a predator's mind and their social connections, how elements interplay
a bit illogical
Dualistic perspective
applicable if you want to ruin your life
certainly a good reference book for self-protection
a bit illogical
Dualistic perspective
applicable if you want to ruin your life
certainly a good reference book for self-protection
March 29, 2019
do not read this if you are metally weak
February 11, 2020
I guess I'm not that extreme as I was not able to handle the content of this book
February 14, 2020
Not for the weak hearted or minded. Definitely a lot to take in and also use.
April 14, 2022
Christopher S. Hyatt's brief and confused exposé reads like a punk-rock zine from the early nineties: a shotgun blast of disjointed concepts, culture jamming, inflammatory prose, and quasi-occult rhetoric. While it promises much it delivers very little. Given that Hyatt’s New Falcon Publications also published works of Robert Anton Wilson and Timothy Leary, one can presume that he was a player in Discordianism, so the content of this book fits right in. Unfortunately, the superficial depth of conceptual investigation and lackadaisical delivery leave me wondering if the book wasn’t simply an inside joke amongst colleagues.
Side Note: The title of the book should have been my first warning, however, my nineteen-year-old mind forced the purchase. I discovered this on the shelf next to the The Necromantic Ritual Book, which I also bought that day (see my review here: Necromantic Review). *my now middle-aged mind laughs heartily at my much younger self.
Side Note: The title of the book should have been my first warning, however, my nineteen-year-old mind forced the purchase. I discovered this on the shelf next to the The Necromantic Ritual Book, which I also bought that day (see my review here: Necromantic Review). *my now middle-aged mind laughs heartily at my much younger self.
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