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

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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.

 

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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!