The Journey to No-Self: A Personal Account of the Mystical Experience Book

I hate Ayn Rand. I think she's a psychopath. So imagine my confusion when I pick up a book more or less promoting Libertarian magick under the name of the psychopath. The author praises the psychopath while simultaneously mocking the concept. It's all very tongue in cheek, and yet not.

Part politics, part self help, part pagan witchcraft, part satire, part I don't know what -- this book is hilarious, manipulative, wild, potentially dangerous, and weird. Which is why I think it's great.

At its heart, the text promotes selfishness and the manipulation of others. It mocks culture for being an enslaving destroyer of self and urges us to rise above it. The book tells us to lie to those who can't see the truth because they can't be saved. It advises us to befriend other "toxick magicians" when we meet them.

Some sections get a little dull - recommended movies to see and personality tests. But mostly it's a dark, funny, cruel, and interesting perversion of self help nonsense.