Jack Parsons: Sex Magic, Aleister Crowley & the Road to NASA
In 1946, Rocket Engineer Jack Parsons and the Future Founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, spent months trying to summon a Goddess.Together, using the teachings of Aleister Crowley, they practiced Sex Magic, performed the infamous Babalon Working Summoning Ritual, and reported ...Show more
The Galapagos Affair: The Island Where People Vanished
In 1934, a self proclaimed Baroness and her lover vanished from Floreana Island in the Galapagos, supposedly aboard a yacht nobody could verify. Within months, three other men were dead, and the surviving settlers told conflicting stories. We investigate the Galapagos Affair, fro ...Show more
An amazing case of an early modern mass sighting of UFOs came in Nuremberg, Germany in 1561. Except it wasn’t that at all.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In what is considered to be the earliest recorded examples of UFOs, strange objects were sighted emerging from the sun in 1561 and 1566. This 16th century celestial phenomena is often interpreted through a religious lens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com ...Show more
For the people of 16th-century Europe, the sky was a place of divine mystery, not a battlefield for mortal men. But in 1566, the heavens over Basel, Switzerland, became just that, as hundreds of dark spheres waged a mysterious war before the eyes of the citizens below. See Privac ...Show more