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Sex and Rockets : The Occult World of Jack Parsons
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Author: John Carter
Publisher: Publishers Group West
Back cover (view larger image)Actual Dimensions: 0.87 x 8.82 x 5.77 See all 17 sample pages Or Use 1-ClickSign in to turn on 1-Click ordering. Amazon.com Scientist, poet, and self-proclaimed Antichrist, Jack Parsons was a bizarre genius whose life reads like an implausible yet irresistible science fiction novel. Sex and Rockets looks at his short life and dual career as cofounder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and leader of the Agape Lodge of Aleister Crowleys Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO). Author John Carter scours primary documents and interviews surviving friends and contemporaries to deliver an intriguing portrait of a dreamy, driven man equally interested in rocketry and magick. From his early childhood and deep attachment to his mother (who killed herself hours after he died) through his nonacademic research and brilliant innovations in solid fuels to his mysterious 1952 demise in a garage-laboratory explosion at the age of 37, the reader gets the impression of a man whose obsession with explosives and propellants was nearly single-minded. Yet this same man found spiritual fulfillment through Crowleys Law of Thelema, conducted magickal operations with L. Ron Hubbard, and signed an oath asserting himself to be the Antichrist--clearly Parsons wasnt a boring guy in a white coat. Carter pulls off the difficult task of integrating Parsonss disparate drives into one compelling story; though there are some rough spots and awkward transitions, one gets the sense that this illuminates the mans life better than a smooth, flawless work would. Robert Anton Wilsons introduction is smart and funny as always, initiating the uninformed into the basics of Crowleyanity while placing Parsons in the context of his times. While it might not be possible to read universal themes into Parsonss life, Sex and Rockets is an excellent study of a passionate life fully lived.. . . .Read More
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