BELARION: A SPACE OPERA, an immersive opera inspired by the science and magical practices of Jack Parsons is being staged in Parsons hometown of Pasadena, CA February 16 at 8 PM – February 17 at 11 PM at the Pasadena American Legion… Continue Reading
Part of the promotional efforts being made for the CBS All Access Strange Angels show – “inspired” by George Pendle’s excellent biography of pioneering rocketeer and erstwhile OTO member Jack Parsons is this video presentation featuring physicist Dr. Michio Kaku… Continue Reading
As readers of this blog know. CBS All Access will be rolling out its “Strange Angel” series later this month. This series is “inspired” by the life of pioneering rocketeer and erstwhile OTO member Jack Parsons. Here’s a new interview… Continue Reading
China Miéville’s The Last Days of New Paris is a weird and wild alternative history set in a 1950 Paris where the Nazi occupation is ongoing, and an incident known as the S-Blast has transformed surrealist art and poetry into… Continue Reading
Could it be magick? The occult returns to the art world – from The Guardian Best known as a musical dissident with the proto-industrial bandThrobbing Gristle and later Psychic TV, Breyer P-Orridge has made visual art for decades as… Continue Reading
Erstwhile O.T.O. member/rocketry pioneer Jack Parsons appears as a characterently in “The Last Days of New Paris,” a new novel from China Mieville. Amazon’s description says: “1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer—and occult disciple—Jack Parsons stumbles onto… Continue Reading
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles’ YouTube channel features footage of artist/magician Marjorie Cameron Parsons Kimmel reading her poetry in 1989, part of the the last look at her work mounted before her passing 6 years later. MOCA’s… Continue Reading
Kenneth Anger: Lucifer Brothers 3:30pm, Saturday, January 30, 2016 ALAC Theatre Barker Hangar Santa Monica Airport The Lucifer Brothers pop-up art gallery and store is the culmination of Kenneth Anger’s lifelong obsession with the occult. In 1955 Anger was the… Continue Reading
Henrik has posted his article on “The Babalon Working 1946: L. Ron Hubbard, John Whiteside Parsons, and the Practice of Enochian Magic,” which was poublished in Numen: International Review for the History of Religions. 63:1, pp. 12-32, at Academia.edu. You can… Continue Reading
Examiner.com posted a lengthy account of “Cinderella of the Wasteland” – a group discussion of the life and work of Marjorie Cameron Parsons Kimmel by her friends and other associates. They discussed her marriage to rocket scientist/magician Jack Parsons, her… Continue Reading