Thee Psychick Bible: Thee Apocryphal Scriptures Ov Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Thee Third Mind Ov Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth

by Genesis P-Orridge

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.

The limited signed cloth edition of Thee Psychick Bible...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932595902
• ISBN13: 9781932595901
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Feral House
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An essential occulture text, marred by hints of sectarianism

A collection fo brilliant texts collected from record sleeves, T.O.P.Y. bulletins and so on. Also includes the Grey Book (an intro to Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth) in its entirety. Gen's philosophy draws on occultism, popular culture, avant garde art, William Burroughs and Brion Gysin and a whole lot more. Unfortunately the brilliance of the text is marred by the author's absurd re-writing of the history of T.O.P.Y., which he claims to have "terminated" in 1992. This has caused no small amount of amusement to the hundreds of people still active in the T.O.P.Y. nett-work. Nonetheless - this is still recommended as a righteous weapon in the Information War. John Eden