I started this book the way that I start all books, by opening to a random page and letting intuition decide where on that page I begin reading. The first passage I read was about eating and having energy, so the book loses points for that. The title of this book told me that I would learn how to read minds if I picked it up. I don't need to know about energy, unless you're telling me that I can develop psychic energy to make things levitate or something like that. I want knowledge of actual super powers not actual facts. Which one would you rather be, superhero or super nerd? Yea me too, although I'm pretty much already super nerd.
Next passage I picked at random had to do with the Id and the Ego. Neither of which do I know about in Freud's terms, but I do know that satisfying my ego is the only reason why I rise from the bed each morning. It's also the reason why I do anything at all. My ego is my own siren call. Every time that I've been had it was because I convinced myself that obviously really awesome, pretty much implausibly good stuff happens and should happen to me. Like how when I get started discussing quirks with the hottest girl in the bar. I soon find out that she believes that her all encompassing obsession with demonology is a quirk. It's not a quirk, it's just scary and talking about it with you makes my balls shrink to the size of raisins.
The book is dated, obviously if you saw the date in the title, then you already knew that. But it is fun to look back on what was once taken for expertise. I wouldn't know what parts are dated or not, because I'm a comic not a fucking doctor. But for my part I love to read and I love the smell of old books. So this one is probably getting a recommendation from me either way. It was also really cheap, which won't sell you on the idea of finding another exact copy of this book, but it might sell you on your local used book store. These places are great and are the lowest cost, highest value entertainment that you can find. Where else can you pick up books about T-Rex, Nietzsche's Superman and DC's Superman all for less than it costs to eat one meal at Wendy's?
One section talks about how we are born with an urge to kill and how it's somehow linked to wanting to have sex. I'm not too sure about that one. After before and during sex, my mind never strays to killing. That would probably scare me. I'd definitely go talk to someone professional if while pounding away on some box it occurred to me "I've got a really sharp chef knife like 3 feet from this bed." My apartment is a studio, technically the knife is always within reaching distance. I just imagined my naked self running around my small apartment with a chef knife and yakety sax was playing in my head. That's this song is you don't recognize it by the name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=39&v=Zcq_xLi2NGo
I felt very absorbed and in the moment while reading this book. I skipped around like I said, but it was a lot of fun. It made me wonder what the lives were like of those who had held and made use of this book over the years. It was very interesting and I think everyone should enjoy an old book like this sometime. A book that is as old as this is worth more to me that going to see a new movie in theaters. To me it's like the difference in watching your friend throw down a windmill dunk and actually owning a working windmill. I don't know what windmill's are used for, crushing grain I think? But if I could have one, I'd definitely have one. Because it's awesome, it's old and it might make people think that I'm more of an artisan than I could ever actually be. A local journalist could totally expose me for not knowing jack about crushing grain.
The section on what a drug addict is was a bit eye opening. The experiences of the drug addict described in the book are the same as what you'll find today, tremendous suffering. The book said that drug addicts become addicts of the mind. I'm not sure if that means that they thought morphine addiction was only in your head or what. But it's definitely not just in your head. That part read the way most addiction writing reads today, as though a lot more research needs to be done.
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