25.07.10
Parsons and occult origins of NASA
‘reresearching Parsons’, as indicated last week:
The occult roots of NASA, the all seeing eye, and related information
Link to Hubbard/Parsons, googled
http://www.watchman.org/sci/hubmagk2.htm
It is not surprising then, that an examination of L. Ron Hubbard’s life reveals he was significantly influenced by, and was a practitioner of, the black arts – the occult.
Jon Atack, a former Scientologist and highly repected biographer of Hubbard and Scientology, has collected probably the most extensive research archives on Scientology. Atack writes, “It is impossible to arrive at an understanding of Scientology without taking into account its creator’s extensive involvement with magic” (FactNet Report, “Hubbard and the Occult” p. 2).
Atack states that when one examines Hubbard’s private letters and papers which were revealed in the Church of Scientology vs. Armstrong trial, and compares the teachings of Scientology with those of the infamous occultist Aleister Crowley, the connection is inescapable (Ibid.).
Hubbard was clearly involved in the occult. In 1945, L. Ron Hubbard met Jack Parsons, who was a renowned scientist, protégé of occultist Aleister Crowley, and a member of the notorious Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), an international organization founded by Crowley to practice sexual black magic.
Parsons had Hubbard move onto the property of Parsons’ Pasadena, California, home. It was there that Hubbard began to practice the occult and sexual magic. Parsons’ mistress, Sara Northrup, left him for Hubbard and later became Hubbard’s second wife, even before Hubbard had divorced his first wife (The Los Angeles Times, June 24, 1990, p. A37).
Biographer Russell Miller wrote, “Parsons considered that Ron had great magical potential and took the risk of breaking his solemn oath of secrecy to acquaint Ron with some of the O.T.O. rituals…. Parsons wrote to his ‘Most Beloved Father’ (his term for Aleister Crowley) to acquaint him with events: ‘About three months ago I met Captain L. Ron Hubbard…. Although he has no formal training in Magick, he has an extraordinary amount of experience and understanding in the field. From some of his experiences I deduced that he is in direct touch with some higher intelligence, possibly his Guardian Angel. He describes his Angel as a beautiful winged woman with red hair whom he calls the Empress and who has guided him through his life and saved him many times. He is the most Thelemic [self-willed, independent] person I have ever met and is in complete accord with our own principles’” (Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah: the True Story of L. Ron Hubbard, 1987, pp. 117-8, emphasis added).
“Parsons wanted to attempt an experiment in black magic that would push back the frontiers of the occult world. With the assistance of his new friend, he intended to try and create a ‘moonchild’ – the magical child ‘mightier than all the kings of the earth,’ whose birth had been prophesied in The Book of the Law more than forty years earlier” (Ibid., p. 119).
Former high ranking Scientologists Brent Corydon and Hubbard’s son, L. Ron Hubbard Jr., wrote, “In order to obtain a woman prepared to bear this magical child, Parsons and Hubbard engaged themselves for eleven days of rituals ¼ on January 18th, Parsons found the girl who was prepared to become the mother of Babylon, and to go through the required incantation rituals. During these rituals, which took place on the first three days of March 1946, Parsons was High Priest and had sexual intercourse with the girl, while Hubbard who was present acted as skryer, seer, or clairvoyant and described what was supposed to be happening on the astral plane” (Bent Corydon & L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?, 1987, pp. 256-7).
Parsons/Crowley
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
The Crowley-Parsons-Heinlein-Hubbard-Cruise Connection, Part I
24.07.10
Enneagram junk
Enneagram reveals inner personality traits
This cynical degeneration of the already fraudulent enneagram concoction is going to be the gravestone of G.’s 4th way.
The enneagram is a popular personality typology being widely used in businesses, schools, psychotherapy, churches, retreat centres, and spiritual direction as people find it helpful for personal growth and spiritual understanding.
The term “enneagram” derives from two Greek words, “ennea” (nine) and grammos (drawing). The enneagram is a geometric figure that consists of a circle with nine connected points within it. Each point represents a psychospiritual personality type characterized by a distinctive and habitual pattern of thinking and feeling. People find it spiritually enlightening because it exposes the unconscious world views and motivations out of which they live their life.
There are various theories about the origins of the enneagram. Richard Rohr, in The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective, says it started in the early church with Evagrius Ponticus (345-399 CE) who developed diagrams similar to the enneagram that focused on nine vices. Pope Gregory I eliminated two of them, resulting in the classic “seven deadly sins.”
The Desert Fathers of the fourth century, as well as Eastern Orthodox monks on Mount Athos were influenced by Evagrius, and they in turn influenced Sufi mystics. Nine is apparently a sacred number for Sufis, who restored the original nine vices in training disciples.
The enneagram was then discovered by G. I. Gurdjieff, a Romanian professor who studied the Sufis and taught the enneagram to his students, one of whom was Oscar Ichazo, founder
of the Arica Institute in Chile. One of Ichazo’s students took it to the Esalen Institute in California and from there it spread across North America and the rest of the world.
22.07.10
Jung and the occult
The Occult World of CG Jung
How a near-death experience transformed the psychologist’s attitude to the world of mysticism and magic
http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/3847/the_occult_world_of_cg_jung.html
On 11 February 1944, the 68-year-old Carl Gustav Jung – then the world’s most renowned living psychologist – slipped on some ice and broke his fibula. Ten days later, in hospital, he suffered a myocardial infarction caused by embolisms from his immobilised leg. Treated with oxygen and camphor, he lost consciousness and had what seems to have been a near-death and out-of-the-body experience – or, depending on your perspective, delirium. He found himself floating 1,000 miles above the Earth. Seas and continents shimmered in blue light and Jung could make out the Arabian desert and snow-tipped Himalayas. He felt he was about to leave orbit, but then, turning to the south, a huge black monolith came into view. It was a kind of temple, and at the entrance Jung saw a Hindu sitting in a lotus position. Within, innumerable candles flickered, and he felt that the “whole phantasmagoria of earthly existence” was being stripped away. It wasn’t pleasant, and what remained was an “essential Jung”, the core of his experiences.
21.07.10
The Hindu fraud
As I note in my rejoinder, putdowns here aren’t an argument, and I can only deplore the renewed pack of brazen lies that are being promoted, via innocent dupes like Elst, to perpetuate the original set of brazen lies that created Hinduism with its grafted Aryan culture from an pure antecedent, whatever that was. Much of it is the defense of Aryan caste garbage that has created a completely false tradition in Hinduism.
It is clear that Buddhists and Jains in the Axial period of the birth of Buddhism saw the fraud that had come into being, and moved to create a parallel pure stream.
There isn’t any way that the OIT thesis can be made to make sense, as far as I can see.
More on AIT
nemo said,
21.07.10 at 11:32 am ·
there is no evidence of much of anything here. And I never claimed a massive Dravididan influence on the Gangetic plain. I have simply not discussed the antecedents here, save only to point hypothetically to the Dravidians.
I can do without these putdowns which don’t alter the basic case that I have made and which is sound. As for Elst he is completely off the wall here.
Note that I have generations of scholars behind me, along with most of the gurus who weren’t neo-Brahmins from the earlier generations of Indian religion.
To try and claim now that these nutcases of the Hindutva reaction have a strong case here is stupidity.
I amply admit that I am not a specialist here, but less a few months of study has shown me the obvious, whatever the details.
Danielou ad hominem attacks are a waste of breath here. I have also criticized him, but I find him of value for the way he points to the obvious.
As for Elst not commenting here that’s hardly a sign of anything, except probably fear of contradiction.
I think I have been reasonable here, and you can find almost a year of deliberation on the issue, on both sides.
But the works of Danielou, despite their flaws, pointed to the obvious, and to the handwriting on the wall as to the OIT nonsense.
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El Lion said,
21.07.10 at 9:55 am · Edit
Again, the problem is that there really is no evidence of massive Dravidian influence in the Gangetic plain or that there is some sort of “Dravidian” race (i.e. the Hungarians don’t speak an IE language, but they are in the same genetic family as other Europeans). You’re a bit behind the ball here as the current thinking indicates that there was most likely an earlier and more significant interaction with Proto-Munda/Munda than with Dravidian. Danielou was always an idiosyncratic and now outdated scholar (never hid the fact that his homosexual orientation made him biased in his research; no doubt, his obsession to push back the dates for Tantra without any substantial evidence and his dislike for monotheism). No offense, but your comments are rather amateurish and I doubt Elst feels the need to prove anything to you.
Chomsky, conservative occultism, etc…
Chomksy a controlled asset?….
We have discussed many times the conservative conspircy behind Gurdjieff, and that points to many others.
We should note it is not hard to psychically invade a celebrity and dampen his views unconsciously. With Chomsky we don’t know.
14.07.10
AIT, Ouspensky and the bogus Code of Manu
Review of Ouspensky’s Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution
The issues in the AIT debate are fairly considerable: they involve the expose of the whole corpus of Hindus distortions including the bogus traditions of the laws of caste, as with the Code of Manu, which Ouspensky ended up grafting onto his fourth way.
That’s garbage. Stinking garbage. Even Gurdjieff quietly denounced caste, btw, in his All and Everything, always careful not to rock the boat too much.
So when all this propaganda against AIT gets going we know what’s going on in the background (Elst just doesn’t get it): an entire system of domination is at stake.
More on AIT, and Elst’s claims
Comment on Elst post:
El Lion said,
13.07.10 at 5:45 pm ·
Elst’s arguments are actually more subtle than what you are presenting. If you’ve read all of his books, the claim is that the present Rig Veda is only the latest and fixed redaction of an evolving IE oral tradition and not that Vedic Sanskrit existed that early. This is actually a claim by many of the researchers in the field. Update on the Aryan Invasion is only one of his books. You have to read Asterisk in Bharopiyasthan if you don’t want to misrepresent him.nemo said,
14.07.10 at 3:01 pm ·
It is tiresome to be told an entire book doesn’t represent someone’s views. Give me a break here. These are hard to obtain books. Let him put it online.This revised claim is entirely without proof, and I think that this whole game has become a bit silly. Elst gives the game away, and now I am suspicious that race prejudice against Dravidians is one factor (not on his part).
We are back are what Danielou said, save that he didn’t project IE backwards.
Elst complains of the politicization of the debate. But the politics of Dravidians and the rest is very real here, since we strongly suspect the OIT claimants are not some persecuted colonials, but apologists for one of the most outrageous distortions in the history of religion. It boggles the mind.It is possible, as Danielou has claimed, that many materials had a pre-IE existence in some form. Which is what we were claiming all along. All these astronomical references and dates might well point to some truth, but don’t be talking about some precursor to IE in the sixth millennium. That is a complete fiction.
It is very hard to push ID back before 2000 BCE.The problem here is that the timing of PIE and real IE languages can’t be stretched back very far.
And consider the problems here, i.e. you must make a similar argument for the earliest Greek, which really won’t work.
I think that students of Indian religion should take note, and evacuate the core from the trappings of HInduism which are not necessary for the real tradition to thrive.
13.07.10
Osho on YouTube
Comment on the case of Rajneesh
The You Tube resource suggestion is good.
These critical essays were challenged, and those challenges have also appeared here: check the links.
12.07.10
Crowley and the Parsons connection
Re: Crowley and the Parsons connection
nemo said,
12.07.10 at 4:56 am ·
The issue of Hubbard is connected to all of this, as you know. EJ Gold was a chronic Hubbard stalker/watcher and had clones of the Dianetics meter as part of his paraphernalia and constantly remorphing game plan. That device is a fraudulent take on a lie detector and can be mimicked with a simple galvanic skin response device, which is a hobbist level apparatus.The Hubbard question is also connected with the Crowley legacy, and we can reresearch that anon.
MBFM said,
12.07.10 at 11:14 am ·Read up on Jack Parsons and his quite strange household.
The 1950s were not so staid, after all.
Not even in Pasadena!
More on Gold(s)/scifi
MBFM said,
11.07.10 at 8:22 pm ·
Some interesting tid bits(quote)(unquote)
From an essay: Science friction: by Robert R. Chase, who chronicles the battles over religion and the future of a literary genre
“Some, like H.L. Gold, editor of Galaxy Magazine, disliked these (religious/spiritual) themes. He told Blish that he would take the short-story version of A Case of Conscience only if “there’s some way we can get rid of this religious jazz–I run a family magazine.” That was, in fact, the typical response of genre science fiction until about 1950, when Blish and others began pushing the boundaries. ”
and
the actual writer who tried to invent a religion is aimed at L. Ron Hubbard, author of such science fiction as Battlefield Earth. As early as 1938, Hubbard wrote a letter to his then wife Margaret Grubb saying, “I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form.” In 1948, he made comments to several science-fiction authors about starting either a psychiatric method or a religion as a way of making money.
In fact, he did both. Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, published in 1950, proclaimed itself a self-help method to achieve sanity. Although some science-fiction writers, such as Isaac Asimov and Jack Williamson, considered it a scam and criticized it as unscientific, others–including John W. Campbell, the editor of Astounding, the most influential science-fiction magazine of its day–seemed convinced of its importance and validity. In December 1953, Hubbard founded the Church of Scientology. Eventually, most members of the science-fiction community distanced themselves from Hubbard and his church, which went on to gain notoriety for its stealth war with the IRS and FBI and became the darling of various Hollywood celebrities.”
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:f2dC0_lYWOQJ:http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Science+friction%3A+critic+and+science-fiction+novelist+Robert+R.+Chase…-a0221760028+%22galaxy+magazine%22+hubbard&hl=en&ct=clnk
It appears that HJ Gold’s Galaxy magazine and Campbell’s Astounding Magazine occuppied different fiefdoms.
This summary of science fiction writer Alfred Bester gives this:
“Bester stopped writing for Astounding around 1950 when its editor, John Campbell, became preoccupied with L. Ron Hubbard and Dianetics, the forerunner to Scientology. Bester then turned to Galaxy Magazine, where he found in H. L. Gold another exceptional editor as well as a good friend.”
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:P2top4T7PT8J:http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/Alfred_Bester+%22galaxy+magazine%22+hubbard&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&strip=1
Comment: Golds/scifi
MBFM said,
11.07.10 at 8:00 pm ·
Many years ago, I read something online that I cannot now locate.
All I recall is the author of the essay said for him, reading science fiction had a mood altering effect.Am very sure this person is far from being the only one. And, twenty years ago, when I had a job working on skid row, I met a gentleman who had responded to a personal tragedy by creating an entire science fiction world–and he lived in that world.
Had he been able to maintain an objective stance, he could have sat apart, as a writer, created a novel or screen play and possibly have had a quite different outcome. Instead, he created this entire world and then glady chose to inhabit that world.
Mr X did not feel any need to recruit others to join him. He did not seek to be a leader or a guru. He would talk about events and sitautions within that world, but he did not demand that others follow him into it.
So, the human craving for wish fulfillment can easily find an outlet in science fiction. The big difference is whether a person is content for this to remain private–or demands a following, demands disciples.
There is also a lot of overlap between science fiction and the attempt to gain mastery by creating explanations for catastrophes. The Book of Revelation reads in many sections like science fiction–all that is missing are space ships.
And the world view of gnosticism–that spirit is good, matter is against spirit and only a certain kind of knowlege and a chosen few can survive–that too shows up again and yet again in science fiction and in many a cult.