THEE PSYCHICK BIBLE | Genesis Breyer 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 quickly sold out, creating demand for any edition of this 544-page book, which will be available in a handsome smyth-sewn paperback edition with flaps and ribbon.

The artist, 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.”

About the Author

Genesis P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson; 22 February 1950 – 14 March 2020) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, performance artist, visual artist, and occultist. They were the founder of the COUM Transmissions artistic collective and lead vocalist of the influential industrial band Throbbing Gristle.

P-Orridge's career began in Hull in 1969 with COUM Transmissions, which gained notoriety for its confrontational performance art. In 1975, they formed Throbbing Gristle, pioneering the industrial music genre. After Throbbing Gristle disbanded in 1981, P-Orridge co-founded the experimental band Psychic TV and the occult group Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth.

In the 1990s, P-Orridge moved to the United States and began the Pandrogeny Project with their wife Lady Jaye, an artistic endeavor involving body modification to resemble one another. P-Orridge identified as third-gender and used gender-neutral pronouns.

Throughout their career, P-Orridge was credited on over 200 releases and was considered an icon in the avant-garde art scene. They "dropped their body" on March 14, 2020, at the age of 70, after battling leukemia for two-and-a-half years.