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If you want to know more about this, the Unexplained podcast has a 3-parts episode on the story of Jack Parsons. Really recommended! http://www.unexplainedpodc
by tunnuz 8y ago
If you want to know more about this, the Unexplained podcast has a 3-parts episode on the story of Jack Parsons. Really recommended!
http://www.unexplainedpodcast.com/episodes/2018/3/20/s03-episode-1-we-are-the-witchcraft-pt1-of-3 http://www.unexplainedpodcast.com/episodes/2018/3/20/s03-epi...
- bartcobain 8y agoAnd if you want to dig even deeper, the book "John Dee and the Empire of Angels: Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World" takes this topic even further. https://www.amazon.com/John-Dee-Empire-Angels-Enochian/dp/1620555891 https://www.amazon.com/John-Dee-Empire-Angels-Enochian/dp/16...
- freehunter 8y agoThe Dollop podcast has an amusing take on Jack Parsons too. NSFW and probably less historically accurate than Unexplained, but amusing at least. http://thedollop.libsyn.com/jack-parson http://thedollop.libsyn.com/jack-parson
- armitron 8y agoI couldn't make it past 5 minutes. Fratboy-level jokes and constant detours into the irrelevant. Clearly my sense of humor is different from theirs.
- tvanantwerp 8y agoYet another podcast episode about Jack Parsons from Something True. Highly recommended. https://www.idlethumbs.net/somethingtrue/episodes/babylon https://www.idlethumbs.net/somethingtrue/episodes/babylon
- yittcvz 8y agoAdditionally the "biography" of Parsons, "Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons", is a great read. https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Rockets-Occult-World-Parsons/dp/0922915970 https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Rockets-Occult-World-Parsons/dp/0...
- smacktoward 8y agoAnd because Parsons' life intersected in the late '40s with that of L. Ron Hubbard, he features prominently in Lawrence Wright's excellent history of Scientology Going Clear (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Clear_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Clear_(book)) as well. Wikipedia summarizes Parsons' and Hubbard's sex-magic collaboration here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer)#L._Ron_Hubbard_and_the_Babalon_Working:_1945%E2%80%9346 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer)...
- foobarbecue 8y agoThere's also a TV series: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7210448/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7210448/ and a book by the same name: https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Angel-Otherworldly-Scientist-Whiteside/dp/0156031795 https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Angel-Otherworldly-Scientist-.... I read the book but haven't seen the series. The book was quite good but has some slow patches and seems to get a little lost at times. (I work at JPL)
- nabla9 8y agoI haven't read the book but I like the series. The way the series depicts occultism vs traditional religion, traditional vs modernism and their interaction is surprisingly deep. It's not just shady characters using vulnerable and unstable people (it's that too). It's also people trying to escape traditional society and using things like occultism as way to get out. It leads to tragedies, but sometimes it nudges people to the right direction.
- astronautjones 8y agoalso many shades of this in the Pynchon classic Gravity's Rainbow
- that_jojo 8y agoWHOA. Alright, time to re-read that guy again.