4/8/12

MADAME BLAVATSKY - SPIRITUAL TRAVELLER

At a time when women, like children, were expected to be seen and not heard its was said that she left her husband to become a trick rider in the circus. Traveling alone she entered forbidden Tibet, she was a spiritual genius and the mother of the new age. On the other hand there are those who say she was a fraud who's one real talent was that she knew how to tell a good tale. Either way there is no doubt that her remarkable synthesis of western occultism and eastern culture and religion, for Buddhism and Hinduism has had a far reaching impact on the modern world. 

4/6/12

JACK PARSONS - JET PROPELLED ANTICHRIST

JACK PARSONS: JET PROPELLED ANTICHRIST is a story about one of the fathers of modern rocketry and a founder of the jet propulsion labratory (jpl) which as part of NASA still leads the way in the development of rockets and exploration of space. He was also an occultist, a sorcerer and a magus. Infamous magician Aleister Crowley the self-proclaimed great beats called him son. He called himself " The Antichrist" and was repeatedly investigated by the FBI. At the age of 38 Parsons died in a mysterious explosion that made headlines around the US. Officially it was a tragic scientific accident - other interpretation of the event persist to this day.