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Episode 290 - Jack Parsons: The Occultist Sex-Crazed Father of Modern Rocketry

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The Passenich: A Hub of Occultist Fanaticism

Jack sold his stock in JPL and left the company with just $11,000. His rockets weren't shooting man into space like in the comic books he'd grown up loving. Instead they were being attached to bombs and used in warfare. He became increasingly involved in the world of science fiction and befriended a bunch of sci-fi writers. And this is when Jack met a man named Elrond Hubbard.

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