Something about the Jet Propulsion Lab, Scientology, and Aleister CROWLEY

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http://gawker.com/retired-senior-nasa-offical-found-dead-of-apparent-auto-510449523

[font size=5]Retired Senior NASA Offical Found Dead of Apparent Autoerotic Asphyxia[/font]

By Neetzan Zimmerman

A former senior NASA official died in the process of performing a dangerous sexual act upon himself, police in Thailand said.

Paul Milford Muller, who worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 10 years as a senior member of the Apollo navigation team, was found dead inside a house in Tak province with a rope tied around his genitals, waist, and neck.

He is believed to have died of asphyxiation, though doctors have yet to rule out a possible heart attack as a result of a drug overdose.

Crystal meth pills and paraphernalia were also found in the room along with "several sex toys."

Muller had apparently been dead for three days when his body was discovered.

The 76-year-old had been living in Thailand, and recently joined Twitter to promote his latest book, a "romantic and erotic thriller" called Suicide Inc.




http://io9.com/5978746/the-strangely-true-connection-between-scientology-the-jet-propulsion-lab-and-pagan-sorcery

[font size=5]The strangely true connection between Scientology, the Jet Propulsion Lab, and Occult Sorcery[/font]

by Annalee Newitz

One of the weirdest historical confluences you can imagine took place in Pasadena, California, in the 1940s. There, a darkly handsome young man and chemistry autodidact named Jack Parsons had just made a bundle of money by inventing solid rocket fuel and selling it to the military. He was part of a group of explosion-obsessed researchers at CalTech who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where recently the Martian Rovers were made. He was also a goddess-obsessed acolyte and generous financial supporter of the infamous Pagan leader, Aleister Crowley.

Parsons used his defense contract money to convert an old mansion into a group house whose residents included other Pagans, artists, scientists, and writers. One of his boarders was a charismatic science fiction author named L. Ron Hubbard, who became Parsons' greatest frenemy, participating in rituals of sex magic with the rocket scientist, sleeping with his girlfriend, and finally absconding with all his money. Here is the true story of how Scientology and JPL were both conceived by men under the sorcerer Crowley's mystical influence. ....

In a fascinating account of Parson's life called Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons, John Carter recounts how Parsons claimed to have summoned Satan when he was 13 years old, in the late 1920s. This experience, which the scientist described as terrifying, was the beginning of a lifelong interest in the occult — an interest that became a fiery passion when he discovered the work of Crowley (pictured). Though both Parsons and Crowley mention Satan in their work, neither was a "Satan worshipper." They were Pagans with a deeply libertarian streak (Crowley's mystical slogan was "do what thou wilt&quot , who took hallucinogenic drugs and believed in free love long before the hippies discovered did. Crowley had followers all over the world, like Parsons, who corresponded with him, sent him money, and asked for spiritual guidance. Parsons was a Crowley favorite, however, and the young man rocketed through the ranks of the OTO.

By day, Parsons helped to create one of the greatest scientific institutions of our time, JPL, which has created and maintained dozens of space vessels over the past half-century. But by night, he and his housemates drove his neighbors nuts (several filed police reports) by lighting great bonfires in his backyard, and dancing in a state of near-nakedness. They were worshiping Crowley's favorite entities. Parsons, for his part, preferred goddesses. ....

In his new book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, Lawrence Wright explains that the influence of Crowley and the OTO has long been a controversy within Scientology. Hubbard wrote Dianetics just a few years after his Pasadena escapades, and founded the Church of Scientology in the mid-1950s. His son Nibs has said that the OTO's "black magic" was the "inner core" of Scientology, and Hubbard is also on record calling Crowley a "friend." But Scientologists say there is no relationship between the two spiritual systems. ....

In 1952, just two years after Hubbard shot to fame with the publication of Dianetics, Parsons died while handling explosives on his front porch. He was survived by the rockets built at JPL that have sent humans to the Moon, and the probes that took us to Jupiter, Saturn, and out beyond the solar system's envelope. Parsons is also, like his frenemy Hubbard, survived by a snarl of conspiracy theories about his life and death. ....

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1. going clear

is a good read.