Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (867 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0922915970 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 239 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
“One of the best books of the year.”—The Anomalist. By night, Parsons called himself The Antichrist. By day, Parsons’ unorthodox genius created a solid rocket fuel that helped the Allies win World War II. This remarkable true story about the co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory
It's just okay Canyonrat56 This book manages to take a fascinating subject--a key rocket scientist who was into the occult--and turn it into a dull read. I'd be okay with that were it an academic treatises but it isn't. Not a good book; it's just okay.. "A well-researched biography. My one knock on it is" according to TW Huey. A well-researched biography. My one knock on it is that it relies too much on excerpts from other sources.. Ethosphere said Five Stars. eye opening shocking
--Rob Lightner. Yet this same man found spiritual fulfillment through Crowley's Law of Thelema, conducted magickal operations with L. Robert Anton Wilson's introduction is smart and funny as always, initiating the uninformed into the basics of Crowleyanity while placing Parsons in the context of his times. 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 Crowley's 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. While it might not be possible to read universal themes into Parsons's life, Sex and Rockets is an excellent study of a passionate life fully lived. From his early childhood and deep attachment to his mother (who killed herself hours after he died) through his nonacademic research and