Thee Psychick Bible: A New Testameant (Book + DVD) [Hardcover]

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Author), Jason Louv (Editor), Derek Jarman (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2009

Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY) will be remembered for its crucial influence on youth culture throughout the 1980s, popularizing tattooing, body piercing, "acid house" raves, and other ahead-of-the-curve cultic flirtations and investigations. Its leader was Genesis P-Orridge, co-founder of Psychick TV and Throbbing Gristle, the band that created the industrial music genre.

Included within this handsome limited signed 544 page hardcover sewn-bound ribbon-augmented bible are TOPY's apocryphal scriptures, decades-worth of updates, making this, is author Genesis Breyer P-Orridge puts it, "the most profound new manual on practical magick, taking it from its Crowleyan empowerment of the Individual to a next level of realization to evolve our species."

Also included is a DVD with 120 minutes of films from Psychick TV, Temple ov Psychick Youth, Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson, Derek Jarman, and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.

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About the Author

Genesis P-Orridge is an English performer, musician, writer, artist and cult leader. His band Throbbing Gristle initiated the pop form known as "Industrial Music." His newer band Psychic TV had a couple hit singles and still tours. In the early '80s, P-Orridge helped form a youthful cult named Temple Ov Psychick Youth. "Thee Psychick Bible" is its primary text. Celebrated experimental film director, best known for his unapologetically gay works, Caravaggio, The Tempest, and The Angelic Conversation. His works in league with The Temple Ov Psychick Youth and Genesis P-Orridge will be included in this special edition on DVD.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 340 pages
• Publisher: Feral House; Har/DVD edition (December 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932595392
• ISBN-13: 978-1932595390
• Product Dimensions: 2 x 6.7 x 9.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,685,789 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars At last... Thee compiled papers of Thee Temple December 15, 2009

By Walter Five VINE™ VOICE

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Back in the 80's, the hippest kids on the Magickal Scene were without a doubt, Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth, and one of the hippest bands on the New Wave/Industrial scene was Genesis P. Orridge's Psychick TV. 20-odd years later, their infamous Psychick Bible finally receives an updated, expanded, corrected edition,complete with dozens of new visuals and essays. This edition is beautifully gold embossed on the cover, is a smyth-sewn hardcover with a red ribbon, and its' 544 pages within are printed in two colors on high-quality 60-pound stock on acid-free 100% recycled paper stock. A quality book. This signed, numbered limited edition (999 copies only) is also presented with a remarkable DVD of impossible-to-find videos from P-Orridge archives of early Psychic TV and TOPY creations which includes the work of Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson and Derek Jarman. Several of the videos included were seized by Scotland Yard in 1991, and as a result, here are second-generation, and are reproduced in this CD for both their intrinsic and historical value.

The artist and author/editor, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, says about this edition: "It has been a revelation and become very thrilling for me to see 30 years+ of social, ritual and communal creative explorations consensed into what we feel may become the most profound new manual on `practical magick' taking from its Crowleyan level of liberation and empowermeant of the Individual to a next level of realization that magick must then give back to its environment, its community, become about liberation and empowermeant to change this `world' and evolve our humanE species...."

Thee Temple was the group largely responsible for popularizing body modification: including piercing and tattooing, as well as acid house music, and to a degree Thelemic magick, all of these points aimed at personal liberation and the construction of a model of life outside of, and very opposed to, the status quo of the 1980s and beyond. They did a tremendous amount of work at shifting our culture in new and creative directions-- "'tis an ill wind that blows no minds." Read more ›

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Pristine Imperfection February 25, 2010

By Mutlee

Format:Hardcover

This book should only be considered by two types of people. Those interested in occult research and those that are fans of Genesis P Orridge's work. A fantastic read and a valuable asset to anyone's personal library, I would suggest ordering from the official publisher's site though to ensure yourself a copy. Each copy comes hand signed by Orridge his/her self and numbered. Also included is a DVD of RARE Psychick TV video footage from over the years.
WARNING! not for the close minded or weak willed.
This is for the few, the enlightened....or soon to be enlightened.