What a wild ride. I am so grateful for this return to the counterculture world of the 50s California scene and the heady pleasures and pains of the decadents who rode that big leviathan.
If you'll indulge me, I offer up a headline in Ellroy style for this incident and only wish I had my own 1950s tabloid paper to publish it in -
ROCKET SCIENTIST BIDS FOR TINY HUMAN CREATION; EXPLODES SELF - sexblood magick connection with mind-cult spymaster suspected, as cutup author probes assassin ring.
This article is phenomenal, and scratches a certain itch. I was talking to someone this summer about this very thing. With much less eloquence and detail, but nonetheless. Also, in the winter and spring I was getting steady synchronistic input about a great many things which included MK projects, Manson, Lovecraft, Kenneth Anger, Lucifer/Lilith. Just today I ran across a reference to Stranger In A Strange Land. I didn't go looking for any of these hits. I simply couldn't get away from them.
Thanks Landon. I think the lamp is going to really start glowing for us all and that genie isn't staying quiet. Appreciate you sharing your own synchronicity storm.
I have gotten the same feeling. On some level, I have a deep certainty that the specter of comeuppance around the empire's occult workings and mind control projects is starting to make itself known, and that that story is going to get very, very weird, very quickly. The wider societal realization has been slowly, by degrees, but I think we're getting to the 'all at once' portion of things.
fascinating, really love Parsons, shame he never lived long enough to take LSD and find more chaotic ways of working outside of Crowley's rigid method - always found Hubbard quite fascinating and so many cut ups from his work in Burroughs ... just a shame he hated the goddess Eris (they always do) but the sign chaos was calling to him, is in the sea he lived on top of, then again who wouldn't want to be audited by Tom Cruise?
Jack took plenty of drugs, not sure that they helped him. LSD pretty much destroyed Grady, derailed Kenneth Anger and left a total mess behind. See the other essays in this series. Jack was in fact criticised for his 'chaotic ways' as he experimented freely alongside following the 'correct' approach laid down AC, see the letters of Jane Wolfe, Grady, Germer et al. Burroughs leaned heavily on Scientology as he required a system to think with, and a way to counter the 'ugly spirit' which he blamed for his shooting of his wife in the William Tell incident. Not sure if it would be fair to say Hubbard hated Eris, or was called to chaos, zero connections I am aware of. Tom Cruise is clearly a driven guy, but he jumped the couch as a result of the higher OT levels, so I'll pass on the audit!
Fair points, couple of responses, I didn't mean he hated Eris on a literal level but on his approach as being against chaos or the chaos of his surging firing impulsive mind (what he was trying to fix) ... yes Parson was treated as a child and belittled for his own experimentation, nothing worse to do to a person in crisis or in regression, RD Laing's work is very good here... although my work on here is solely fiction (except for the theory although all theory is fiction) I explore LSD states as a form of necromancy (in all truth I don't believe in magick but fun to w/rite), I have mixed views on LSD as therapy
What a wild ride. I am so grateful for this return to the counterculture world of the 50s California scene and the heady pleasures and pains of the decadents who rode that big leviathan.
If you'll indulge me, I offer up a headline in Ellroy style for this incident and only wish I had my own 1950s tabloid paper to publish it in -
ROCKET SCIENTIST BIDS FOR TINY HUMAN CREATION; EXPLODES SELF - sexblood magick connection with mind-cult spymaster suspected, as cutup author probes assassin ring.
I tip my fedora to you.
Just turned on the comments, mea culpa. Still getting used to the substack interface...which is why it seems a little quiet here.
This is fucking great
I enjoyed this “occult noir” immensely. Thanks for a great read!
Thank you Erin.
Effervescence! A great read and I'll need a few re-reads. Thank you!
Thought you would enjoy this one!
Hi again Peter,
So today I discovered that there was a TV series called "Strange Angel" based on the life of Jack Parsons.
Have you seen it? With names like David Lowery and Ben Wheatley attached to it, it sounds promising.
God awful. So much wrong with it I wouldn't know where to start.
The actor who plays Jack is a good casting, he's also in Midsommar. Bur a dreadful mess of a script. Really worth not putting in your unconscious.
Thanks for that - it's a pity that there can't be a well-made screen version of such a fantastic story.
It will happen again, but with the current climate of the creative industry I see very little hope of it being good. Ditto a decent screen Crowley.
This article is phenomenal, and scratches a certain itch. I was talking to someone this summer about this very thing. With much less eloquence and detail, but nonetheless. Also, in the winter and spring I was getting steady synchronistic input about a great many things which included MK projects, Manson, Lovecraft, Kenneth Anger, Lucifer/Lilith. Just today I ran across a reference to Stranger In A Strange Land. I didn't go looking for any of these hits. I simply couldn't get away from them.
It's rubbing that same lamp.
Thanks Landon. I think the lamp is going to really start glowing for us all and that genie isn't staying quiet. Appreciate you sharing your own synchronicity storm.
I have gotten the same feeling. On some level, I have a deep certainty that the specter of comeuppance around the empire's occult workings and mind control projects is starting to make itself known, and that that story is going to get very, very weird, very quickly. The wider societal realization has been slowly, by degrees, but I think we're getting to the 'all at once' portion of things.
The Bluebird is coming home to roost.
fascinating, really love Parsons, shame he never lived long enough to take LSD and find more chaotic ways of working outside of Crowley's rigid method - always found Hubbard quite fascinating and so many cut ups from his work in Burroughs ... just a shame he hated the goddess Eris (they always do) but the sign chaos was calling to him, is in the sea he lived on top of, then again who wouldn't want to be audited by Tom Cruise?
Jack took plenty of drugs, not sure that they helped him. LSD pretty much destroyed Grady, derailed Kenneth Anger and left a total mess behind. See the other essays in this series. Jack was in fact criticised for his 'chaotic ways' as he experimented freely alongside following the 'correct' approach laid down AC, see the letters of Jane Wolfe, Grady, Germer et al. Burroughs leaned heavily on Scientology as he required a system to think with, and a way to counter the 'ugly spirit' which he blamed for his shooting of his wife in the William Tell incident. Not sure if it would be fair to say Hubbard hated Eris, or was called to chaos, zero connections I am aware of. Tom Cruise is clearly a driven guy, but he jumped the couch as a result of the higher OT levels, so I'll pass on the audit!
Fair points, couple of responses, I didn't mean he hated Eris on a literal level but on his approach as being against chaos or the chaos of his surging firing impulsive mind (what he was trying to fix) ... yes Parson was treated as a child and belittled for his own experimentation, nothing worse to do to a person in crisis or in regression, RD Laing's work is very good here... although my work on here is solely fiction (except for the theory although all theory is fiction) I explore LSD states as a form of necromancy (in all truth I don't believe in magick but fun to w/rite), I have mixed views on LSD as therapy