On: Jack Parsons and the Occult Roots of JPL

[yittcvz]

Additionally 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/0...

[smacktoward → yittcvz]

And 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)) as well.

Wikipedia summarizes Parsons' and Hubbard's sex-magic collaboration here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer)...