Book Discussion The Psychopath's Bible by Christopher S. Hyatt PhD.

[KjEno186]

I've been reading books by Hyatt lately, some of which, like Urban Voodoo and Pacts with the Devil, were co-written with S. Jason Black. I'd consider most of his books a good antidote to the Protestant (only slightly worse than Catholic) mindset that has been scaring the middle classes into mediocre conformity for far longer than any of us has been alive.

Naturally the title of the book is provocative. The caricature of the psychopath is all too common in pop culture where the "good guys" always win by catching the "bad guys." Unlike most network television crime dramas propaganda, however, Hyatt exposes the true nature of humanity: no one is a "good guy."

For years the market has been flooded with books filled with "sweetness and light." This is not one of them.

Most people will characterize this book as evil, malevolent, unprincipled, wicked and pessimistic. It is all of that-and worse.

It is an "evil" book with "evil" ideas. This is necessarily so because this book tells the truth. Truth is always characterized as "evil."

It is not without some humor.

The average person will not even finish the Introduction. After a page or two, most will put it down and return to the mush of the TV set. We recommend that you do so. This book is toxic! [footnote: The weak-minded reader might see this as a dare and read on anyway. Good. That's what we want. On the other hand, you might see right through this transparent challenge, resent being told what to do-as you should-and stop now before you waste your time and money. Good. That's what we want. (If you do read on, the words "double bind" might come to mind from time to time.) By the way, we've included lots of footnotes in this Foreword to provide an illusion of academic pseudo-intellectualism.]

Hilarity ensues! For those unaware, Hyatt was a practicing psychotherapist who gave up on his profession. I may be paraphrasing somewhat, but his reasons went along the lines of: psychology is a pseudo-science that serves the interests of a culture built upon lies. Well, I may be exaggerating a bit. I'm sure there's been some useful work by inquiring minds over the last century which has been basically ignored by the establishment. For further reading I suggest reading Hyatt's book, To Lie is Human: Not Getting Caught is Divine. Now where was I?

I'll just offer some tidbits from the book here and there in no particular order. I couldn't help but think about the various occult orders which use this particular method of control:

Making things look harder and taking more time allows for better indoctrination and control of the victim who wishes to have a better life for himself by getting the sanction of certain groups.

Most people want to be Certified by someone greater than themselves. The idea of having a life without some form of Certificate will become more and more terrifying as the beast [of social order] becomes more complex and begins to fall apart. This is when the Manipulator begins to shine. He is always best at-"fall apart."

However, occult groups are merely a subset of society in general, which is where Hyatt's critique is focused:

The Practicioner [...] knows how to get the victim to identify with his causes and his needs and to make him grateful for all the misery he has been caused.

The victim now becomes a True Believer as the Toxick Magician manipulates the parameters of fear, failure, reward, punishment and success in just the right fashion.

He knows that people have no direct access to truth, nor do they have the ability to find out what truth is.

Instead they have religions, superstitions, degrees, certificates, test scores, badges, passports, licenses, and, of course, good old-fashioned ancestor worship.

These all have in common the worship of authority and power which the common man attempts to manipulate through gestures (i.e., obsessions), hopes, beliefs and structured living.

For example, she gets her college degree; gets married (which, in turn, unrolls an entire subset of additional obsessions such as making babies, attending school functions, arranging baptisms, buying houses, and selecting furniture); getting a job (which provides its own subset of obsessions such as buying a car, being preoccupied with taxes, looking forward to holidays and vacations, attending office parties, working to improve social status, preparing for retirement); retirement (which brings preoccupation with diseases, leisure, and grandchildren); and-finally-death.

The truly funny thing about all of this is that each and every person thinks that he is deciding and controlling these activities intentionally and consciously and that they are unique in the history of the world.

In reality, anyone with an ounce of awareness knows that these activities are common, banal, trite, vacuous, insignificant, boring and ridiculous-and make for great sport for the Manipulator.

And that's all for now. Comments are welcome.

 

[Asteriskos]

I've been reading books by Hyatt lately, some of which, like Urban Voodoo and Pacts with the Devil, were co-written with S. Jason Black. I'd consider most of his books a good antidote to the Protestant (only slightly worse than Catholic) mindset that has been scaring the middle classes into mediocre conformity for far longer than any of us has been alive.

Naturally the title of the book is provocative. The caricature of the psychopath is all too common in pop culture where the "good guys" always win by catching the "bad guys." Unlike most network television crime dramas propaganda, however, Hyatt exposes the true nature of humanity: no one is a "good guy."



It is not without some humor.



Hilarity ensues! For those unaware, Hyatt was a practicing psychotherapist who gave up on his profession. I may be paraphrasing somewhat, but his reasons went along the lines of: psychology is a pseudo-science that serves the interests of a culture built upon lies. Well, I may be exaggerating a bit. I'm sure there's been some useful work by inquiring minds over the last century which has been basically ignored by the establishment. For further reading I suggest reading Hyatt's book, To Lie is Human: Not Getting Caught is Divine. Now where was I?

I'll just offer some tidbits from the book here and there in no particular order. I couldn't help but think about the various occult orders which use this particular method of control:



However, occult groups are merely a subset of society in general, which is where Hyatt's critique is focused:



And that's all for now. Comments are welcome.

Hyatt comes across as the "real deal" to me. I've only read some of his published interactions with others for example, Israel Regardie, a practitioner of so-called "Reichian therapy" and a chiropractor himself. Two shrinks talking it Out, what a Gas! Hyatt's involvement in publishing (New Falcon Publications) has helped get his message across for sure, he's interacted with a few worthy folks.

N.B. Is it True that "Shrinks" have the highest suicide rate of any profession on the Planet? Personally, I think they do, "Grounding" negative energy seems to elude them? Interesting topic! I'll look for his books.

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"The average person will not even finish the Introduction. After a page or two, most will put it down and return to the mush of the TV set. We recommend that you do so. This book is toxic! [footnote: The weak-minded reader might see this as a dare and read on anyway. Good. That's what we want. On the other hand, you might see right through this transparent challenge, resent being told what to do-as you should-and stop now before you waste your time and money. Good. That's what we want. (If you do read on, the words "double bind" might come to mind from time to time.) By the way, we've included lots of footnotes in this Foreword to provide an illusion of academic pseudo-intellectualism.]"

I was unable to "quote your quote" above from your OP, so copied it here. What I'm about to say does not detract from the main message of Hyatt's book at all. When I see something of this nature from the author I use a simple method to see if I really want to read the book. This is easy if you're in a bookstore for example. Simply perform an act of "bibliomancy", if there's anything to it I Might buy it? Hyatt's not alone in putting something like that upfront. It's all in Good Fun!

 

[KjEno186]

People will always associate whatever precedes an event as the cause of the event. As such, always let your presence precede a happy occurrence and always let someone else precede a painful one.

While this is advice for the "Toxic Magician" specifically, I'd say it's good advice for everyone.

 

[Asteriskos]

While this is advice for the "Toxic Magician" specifically, I'd say it's good advice for everyone.

Agreed! And they often mistake the "Messenger for the Message"!

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Agreed! And they often mistake the "Messenger for the Message"!

@KjEno186 ,

Thanks to you I've grabbed the stuff you've mentioned! I'll be better able to discuss this with you in several days upon wrapping my head around some more of it, "like Urban Voodoo and Pacts with the Devil", into Psychopath's Bible, right Now! For others interested look at Archive.org,
and Anna's Archive this stuff. Interesting stuff, he like Regardie died too young!

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Agreed! And they often mistake the "Messenger for the Message"!

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@KjEno186 ,

Thanks to you I've grabbed the stuff you've mentioned! I'll be better able to discuss this with you in several days upon wrapping my head around some more of it, "like Urban Voodoo and Pacts with the Devil", into Psychopath's Bible, right Now! For others interested look at Archive.org,
and Anna's Archive this stuff. Interesting stuff, he like Regardie died too young!

PDFCOFFEE has "Urban Voodoo"!

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I gotta say here that I'm only into Manual 1 and it's hard to go fast for two reasons:

• Hyatt is simply profound, does anyone else see aspects of themselves here?
• The level of humor is so outstanding I stopped several times laughing outright.

He should have been a standup comic, I'd have paid a Lot of money at the "Improv"!
The illustration of him and the Devil is priceless, and I've only started reading here,
I Will finish this book unless I hurt myself laughing too hard at the Truth!

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Side Note: This book is an excellent example for testing Carroll's method of "Banishing with Laughter". Not everyone finds that useful, it is though!

 

[KjEno186]

He should have been a standup comic

I thought about George Carlin while reading the beginning of the book. I think Carlin and Hyatt would have agreed on many things.

I find myself wanting to share quotes from every page. The book was originally written over 30 years ago with revisions in 2000 and 2003, but it's like he could foresee 2020 and beyond.

What most people call information is nothing more than another level of noise. Some optimists who are aware of the problem simply state that the information is available but the use of the information is still dependent on the intelligence of the population. Mass intelligence is nothing more than mass information. Zero is still zero.

What is fascinating about this entire process is that everyone thinks they know more but, in fact, they know less.

Moreover, what they do know is next to useless and is often mis-information. Thus, each new level of information is nothing more than a higher level of non-sense. What we generally call information is nothing more than a higher level of incompetence.

People forget that, like individuals, each civilization rises to its highest level of incompetence.

But I got ahead of myself. To understand what he means by the futility of mass information, consider this:

People appear more sophisticated today but, as the gross level of sophistication rises, the real information becomes more hidden and valuable.

When you hear an advertisement "disclose", "Be the first to know what the markets are doing," remember that it is being heard by millions of people at once. Where is the real information? It's mostly in the fact that millions of people each think they are hearing the real information first.

This is the illusion that TV provides: that you and those around you-alone-are being entertained. In fact, the more that people feel isolated yet tied together, the easier it is for the Master to reign.

And then...

How much real wealth and how much real information does anyone really have? And, more importantly, how long will they have it? Wealth which can be easily stolen is not wealth at all. Most people are simply storehouses for a master thief.

With more and more reliance placed on devices which can be easily intercepted and manipulated, how long will it take for a Toxick collapse? These issues are important considerations for the Master.

His goal is to help information become more worthless while creating the illusion that it has more value. He does this by helping people ask more questions in very well-controlled and well-defined situations.

But go back several pages...

The Practitioner doesn't believe in the progress of human nature, nor does he believe in the progress of human behavior. The Toxick Magician operates on the premise that most people seek conflict, both internal and external, to the degree they can tolerate.

Since most humans can't tolerate too much inner conflict (tension)-as it makes them too aware of time-they seek external causes and events to occupy themselves. Thus, status quo is always defined in terms of the level and type of conflict and tension a person can tolerate.

For example, I met one man who was so fearful of losing what he had gained that he simply lost it and immediately felt better.

I read that and recalled an infamous phrase from the now largely forgotten Great Reset: "You will own nothing and be happy."

I have no doubt that there are some major Toxick Magicians in the world, and I'm pretty far down the "food chain".

It is always unpleasant to find out that you are the one being eaten instead of the other way around. However, if this does happen, use it as a learning opportunity. It is rare that a person has the opportunity to learn from a real Master.