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Be prepared: as Philip K. Dick prophesized, there is a bifurcation in the human species. Once in a while a work comes along that magnifies and accentuates this split. Matrix Warrior is such a work. Critics are divided: a soggy trout, or a quality mindfuck? The only proof is in the pudding. Bring your own spoon. “Matrix Warrior holds the key.” —Kenneth Grant, author of The Magickal Revival, Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God, Hecate's Fountain, and former head of the O.T.O “[Horsley’s] examination of solipsistic cool slides through existential nausea into outright psychopathy and back again with a wink and a grin.” —Tony Chester “Jake Horsley was laughing at me as I read his book. . . If everything in the movie were absolutely true, then Jake Horsley’s unofficial handbook would be the indispensable guide to escaping the system. But it isn't, so why has he written it? . . . . Ignore it.” —Julia Burns “A high quality mindfuck.” —Satanachia “a soggy trout that no one should read . . . about as pleasurable as sticking a sharpened pencil into your thigh…” —Donna Jones “challenge[s] everything we think we know and should believe about the nature of our society and the validity of its taboos . . .  a guide book for any humaton with eyes to see and ears to hear to find a way to escape his or her personal Matrix.” —John C. Snider “The ultimate self-help book.” —SFX “contains oodles more than most of the self-help manuals on the market. . . definitely worth checking out.  I can imagine cohorts of intelligent teenagers taking it as their Bible, poring over its pages, feeding avidly on its regurgitated mishmash of Blake, Castaneda, Nietzsche, Zen philosophy, popular culture and spiritualism, and even attempting to live their lives in accord with its tenets.  ” —Adam Roberts, author of Salt and Stone “Tedious and intellectually anorexic.” —Keiron Gillen, SFX “a vibrant, dynamic, expansive piece of work . . . teeming with ideas.” —Uh, some guy on the Net (nice quote though)  “[Matrix Warrior] is harmful and it is wrong.  Or so it seems to my plugged-in perspective. . . I repudiate Horsley’s intellectual jurisdiction over my life.” —Adam Roberts, author of Salt and Stone “It may be unofficial, but god damn it’s good! If you are a true Matrix fan . . . you must own this book!! It will become your bible, I guarantee!” —Seventh Systemic Anomaly (SSA) “a powerful book about how we are all caught up in the matrix of our own making . . . By combining his love for pop culture and modern film, and his vision of a world where people are living self-actualized lives, Horsley has written the best self-help book I’ve read in years, whether or not he intended to. . . . And for anyone who didn’t ‘get’ the messages of these films, this book is priceless.” —Marie D. Jones, author of Looking for God in All the Wrong Places “Dear Jake Horsley: Your book arrived this weekend when I was away but I have returned and dipped into it only to be immediately hooked. I have not finished the work, I get almost sensory overload from it and have to pause and digest. I am sure you have received a ton of enthusiastic endorsement. Your appendix two was particularly appealing. I have long championed Castaneda. . . . To my way of thinking the later backlash of culture (the matrix) displayed in the vitriol and ‘exposes’ of Castaneda was, in effect, the clear parallel of the cultural backlash, through Paul and his ilk, of the ‘gospel’ or good-news Jesus represented, turning it into that powerful pillar of culture called the Christian religion—contributing to the long slow slide into destruction we witness today.  Your accompanying letter refers to your own work as ‘comparatively frivolous’ which, as you know, is simply not true. There is such a wealth within it I will be slow digesting it.” —Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, Evolution’s End, and The Biology of Transcendence “For the out-and-out Matrix fan or ‘Neo-phyte’ . . . this book is a must-read. . . . The intellectual challenge presented by the film becomes a life-challenge for self- and universe-exploration and growth. Enough . . . to last a lifetime. . . . A neat re-interpretation of shamanic and martial arts ‘warrior’ principles for the twenty-first century. . . a demonstration of anyone's power to transform reality by thinking about and around it. This book does not need the film any more, or any less, than an adult human needs its mother. The myth evolves.” (full quote here) —Ramsey Dukes, author of S.S.O.T.B.M.E, Words Made Flesh, What I Did in My Holidays, Ramsey’s Little Book of Demons “MATRIX WARRIOR . . . lickety-split reading . . . overlaps of SEARCH WARRANTS for ultimate non-existence . . . The metaphor for the metaphor for the TRUE metaphor. You get thru one REAL universe to get into the REAL other one. A Chinese box back and forth maybe, to keep us prehensile adept, not to wither into brain energy. . . . I get too involved with your magic. I am amused as always with your extravagant, elegant, inside out, snake eating the universe tail creations. . . . I'm telling you JAKE, you are near, starting your own religion, THAT CLOSE! . . . Next THE WORLD! —Bill “Balloonman” Morrison

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