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Episode 512: Jack Parsons Part I - The Suicide Squad

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Jack Parsons - The Science Fiction Writer Who Made Scientology a Reality

Parsons was a scientist, occultist and political dissident. He also inadvertently gave another science fiction writer the final push that he needed to create the world's first science fiction religion of the 20th century. Parsons only goal in both science and magic was simply to see what would happen and to see how far he could take it. Good was never the goal of Jack Parsons quote unquote good, nor however, was this goal evil quote unquote evil. In other words, his only goal was to live an experimental life.

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