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yeah well, as far as I know you're either a surgeon or a dude wearing a surgeon disguise. If you don't want to put your credentials behind this and some skin in the game, no worries. You're just not my leader then. There's plenty of other places to transform and great people to learn from. The book is still good and I get you wanting to use your group for those only following the process.
"We don't follow where one has not led. We lead ourselves instead if you won't and will take risks on our own theories or trusted others instead of yours. Unless you do the work to present that you actually tested it first and present that data." The whole book is about the author's lived experienced as a result of the type of work he does. He's lived what he's written. He's lived the knowledge he as put forth. “I have fingerprints on major manipulations of public opinion since 1998,” Taylor writes in his introduction. “I’m done building prisons. Now I’m handing out keys.”
Abby, I appreciate your review. The fact that Stan reiterated the decision to remove you from the FB group says a lot, it makes me suspect that his work cannot survive any scrutiny.
I do believe that we should not require someone to lead in all cases. But there are some areas where that trust must be the foundation to move ahead.
The marketing (I came in from Threads) feels like they’re trying for this cool vibe and if one doesn’t “get it”, well then our loss.
I’m going to wait on my purchase.
If this book truly breaks people’s psyches down so fundamentally and totally that they completely lose the ability to think for themselves, and a random comment on Facebook merely asking legitimate questions is likely to convince them to abandon the whole process, then it is a dangerous book. How could someone in such a state possibly get through the day-to-day? It seems they’d be functionally incapable of handling it.
The “rules” required shut down thoughtful discussion and only add legitimacy to Abby’s critique (which, I may add, she posits tactfully with openness and curiosity—but seems to be taken as an attempt to undermine the author’s self-proclaimed authority).
I can't explain it, but this book feels evil to me. from the moment I saw it my discernment freaked out. and then after reading a little bit more all I could think is that this is the way Hitler led. "Stop asking questions, just do. I know the way." And honestly, the pricing of his book alone tells me his intent is not to help others. it is to get rich and look cool doing it. I don't trust this at all and it scares me that so many people do.
I was curious…..then I did what I normally do…dig….dig….dig and I couldn’t find anything to substantiate this ‘author’ has credibility. Why attempt to wow us with alleged accomplishments and hide behind a ghost name. Why try to profit (heavily) off the American people you claim you want to free ? He claims he’s done building the prisons - he wants to hand out the keys? Why charge so much for a book ? I listened to a portion of the audio book (about people pleasers) which could have been written by ANY psychotherapist - not someone who manipulated political campaigns or algorithms to make us purchase unnecessary things…..why not reveal yourself ? I guess you’re just the ‘wizard’ behind the curtain……
His response to you really settles it for me. He is giving cult leader vibes, selling his readers a solution to avoid the very thing he is, while hypnotizing them into believing they aren’t victim to his scam. You are right to question his directions. Convincing people to follow complex steps without giving them any proof of concept is a manipulation tactic that specifically targets people who will willingly spend more money on him later. That’s not selling freedom, it’s selling chains.
Be glad you got out.
After purchasing The Black Book of Power, I joined the associated Facebook group included with the purchase. When I attempted to post a comment reflecting on the early chapters, I noticed that all comments require prior approval by the author. I privately messaged the author to ask why this was the case. I never received a response. A few weeks later, I discovered I had been removed and blocked from the group without notice or explanation.
I also posted this experience on the public Stan Taylor FB page and within 30 minutes, I was blocked from that site too. How could I believe anything that's written in this book if the author filters and blocks legitimate commentary and questions? A book centered on power, influence, and awareness should invite discussion not suppress it. Preventing questions or dissent raises serious concerns about transparency and credibility. Real power encourages discussion and does not require moderation, queues, and block buttons.
The platform that the ebook is available on is Book Funnel. This person has went through great lengths to ensure that reviews are not public and that information isn't available before purchasing.
If the reviews are too good to be true - then the material likely is as well. Sharing my experience so others can make an informed decision before purchasing. (less) [edit]
His reply here = gaslighting. I was curious about the book. But not anymore.
My first instinct was that this book was formulated by AI with fairly explicit instructions. I want nothing to do with it.
Funny how almost every 5-star review on Goodreads is from someone for whom this is their only review...
Looks like "Stan" follows the black path.
It’s good that you trust your inner sense. Sure, you can learn some things from others. But be your own guru…that’s the path.
Before reading any book like this, study cult dynamics and cognitive biases to protect yourself against being manipulated.
Your story is not uncommon. The fact that people get kicked out of the FB group for asking questions says everything I need to know.
When the guy records himself speaking, he’s clearly talking from an apartment. If he was so rich and successful, why in the world is he still living in an apartment in his 60’s? The dude is a bum and a con man. Look at every positive review written. Almost all of them are written in the same extreme dramatic style. They’re all written by the same AI or person.
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.
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yeah well, as far as I know you're either a surgeon or a dude wearing a surgeon disguise. If you don't want to put your credentials behind this and some skin in the game, no worries. You're just not my leader then. There's plenty of other places to transform and great people to learn from. The book is still good and I get you wanting to use your group for those only following the process.
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"We don't follow where one has not led. We lead ourselves instead if you won't and will take risks on our own theories or trusted others instead of yours. Unless you do the work to present that you actually tested it first and present that data." The whole book is about the author's lived experienced as a result of the type of work he does. He's lived what he's written. He's lived the knowledge he as put forth. “I have fingerprints on major manipulations of public opinion since 1998,” Taylor writes in his introduction. “I’m done building prisons. Now I’m handing out keys.”
Abby, I appreciate your review. The fact that Stan reiterated the decision to remove you from the FB group says a lot, it makes me suspect that his work cannot survive any scrutiny. I do believe that we should not require someone to lead in all cases. But there are some areas where that trust must be the foundation to move ahead.
The marketing (I came in from Threads) feels like they’re trying for this cool vibe and if one doesn’t “get it”, well then our loss.
I’m going to wait on my purchase.
If this book truly breaks people’s psyches down so fundamentally and totally that they completely lose the ability to think for themselves, and a random comment on Facebook merely asking legitimate questions is likely to convince them to abandon the whole process, then it is a dangerous book. How could someone in such a state possibly get through the day-to-day? It seems they’d be functionally incapable of handling it.The “rules” required shut down thoughtful discussion and only add legitimacy to Abby’s critique (which, I may add, she posits tactfully with openness and curiosity—but seems to be taken as an attempt to undermine the author’s self-proclaimed authority).
I can't explain it, but this book feels evil to me. from the moment I saw it my discernment freaked out. and then after reading a little bit more all I could think is that this is the way Hitler led. "Stop asking questions, just do. I know the way." And honestly, the pricing of his book alone tells me his intent is not to help others. it is to get rich and look cool doing it. I don't trust this at all and it scares me that so many people do.
I was curious…..then I did what I normally do…dig….dig….dig and I couldn’t find anything to substantiate this ‘author’ has credibility. Why attempt to wow us with alleged accomplishments and hide behind a ghost name. Why try to profit (heavily) off the American people you claim you want to free ? He claims he’s done building the prisons - he wants to hand out the keys? Why charge so much for a book ? I listened to a portion of the audio book (about people pleasers) which could have been written by ANY psychotherapist - not someone who manipulated political campaigns or algorithms to make us purchase unnecessary things…..why not reveal yourself ? I guess you’re just the ‘wizard’ behind the curtain……
His response to you really settles it for me. He is giving cult leader vibes, selling his readers a solution to avoid the very thing he is, while hypnotizing them into believing they aren’t victim to his scam. You are right to question his directions. Convincing people to follow complex steps without giving them any proof of concept is a manipulation tactic that specifically targets people who will willingly spend more money on him later. That’s not selling freedom, it’s selling chains. Be glad you got out.
After purchasing The Black Book of Power, I joined the associated Facebook group included with the purchase. When I attempted to post a comment reflecting on the early chapters, I noticed that all comments require prior approval by the author. I privately messaged the author to ask why this was the case. I never received a response. A few weeks later, I discovered I had been removed and blocked from the group without notice or explanation.I also posted this experience on the public Stan Taylor FB page and within 30 minutes, I was blocked from that site too. How could I believe anything that's written in this book if the author filters and blocks legitimate commentary and questions? A book centered on power, influence, and awareness should invite discussion not suppress it. Preventing questions or dissent raises serious concerns about transparency and credibility. Real power encourages discussion and does not require moderation, queues, and block buttons.
The platform that the ebook is available on is Book Funnel. This person has went through great lengths to ensure that reviews are not public and that information isn't available before purchasing.
If the reviews are too good to be true - then the material likely is as well. Sharing my experience so others can make an informed decision before purchasing. (less) [edit]
His reply here = gaslighting. I was curious about the book. But not anymore.
My first instinct was that this book was formulated by AI with fairly explicit instructions. I want nothing to do with it.
Funny how almost every 5-star review on Goodreads is from someone for whom this is their only review...Looks like "Stan" follows the black path.
It’s good that you trust your inner sense. Sure, you can learn some things from others. But be your own guru…that’s the path.
Before reading any book like this, study cult dynamics and cognitive biases to protect yourself against being manipulated.
Your story is not uncommon. The fact that people get kicked out of the FB group for asking questions says everything I need to know.
When the guy records himself speaking, he’s clearly talking from an apartment. If he was so rich and successful, why in the world is he still living in an apartment in his 60’s? The dude is a bum and a con man. Look at every positive review written. Almost all of them are written in the same extreme dramatic style. They’re all written by the same AI or person.
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.