I told you in my last post that I was going to give you some information about the beginnings of NASA in my next post, so here it is. I think I know a thing or two about cults since my church affiliation and spiritual philosophy (which includes my recent (2025) return to accepting the living Christ Jesus into my heart) have been considered cultish by some in the past.
Thus, I turn back to Perplexity.ai to help fill in some blanks.
I asked, “Tell me more about the cult that Jack Parsons, the rocket maker, belonged to in the years leading up to his death. Focus on his connection with L.Ron Hubbard too and the beginnings of NASA.” And here’s what it returned from 15 sources:
Jack Parsons was involved with the Ordo Templi Orientis, the occult system associated with Aleister Crowley’s Thelema, not a single traditional “cult” in the narrow sense. In the years before his death, he became deeply absorbed in ritual magic, especially the Agape Lodge in Pasadena, and his occult life increasingly overlapped with his personal and professional instability.
Parsons and Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard entered Parsons’ life in 1945, when Hubbard was renting a room at Parsons’ house in Pasadena. Their relationship quickly became entangled in Parsons’s occult ambitions, and Parsons later described Hubbard as participating in the “Babalon Working,” a series of rituals intended to manifest a magical figure called Babalon. Some accounts describe Hubbard as a collaborator; others note that Hubbard later claimed he was trying to protect Parsons and help recover Sara Northrup, who became important in both men’s lives.
What the ritual was
The “Babalon Working” was Parsons’s attempt to use sex magic and ceremonial ritual to produce a mystical incarnation of Babalon, a figure from Crowleyan/Thelemic tradition. Parsons believed these rites had cosmological and spiritual significance, while Hubbard’s later role in the story became part of Scientology’s origin mythology and a source of dispute between Hubbard’s followers and Parsons’ biographers.
NOTE: My husband and I watched a very interesting TV series a while back on this subject too! It was called, Strange Angel and you can learn more about it here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7210448/
Rockets and NASA’s beginnings
Parsons did not found NASA, but he was one of the key early figures in American rocket science and a principal founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Aerojet. JPL’s official history traces its beginnings to the 1930s work of Theodore von Kármán’s rocket group at Caltech, which later moved to the Arroyo Seco and became the basis for JPL. Parsons’s rocket fuels and early propulsion work helped establish the technical foundation that later fed U.S. spaceflight, even though NASA itself was created years after Parsons’s death.
NOTE: JPL is the branch of NASA that often creates and manipulates space images. And they were instrumental throughout the Apollo program. Look at the image maker credit at the bottom (in very small letters on most of the space program images and you’ll see that the image was from JPL). You can read more about the specific involvement of JPL with the Apollo space program on their website: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/the-jet-propulsion-laboratorys-apollo-connection/
How the occult and science overlapped
Parsons’s story is unusual because his scientific work and occult beliefs were not separate chapters; they coexisted and, at times, reinforced one another in his mind. By the mid-1940s, however, his occult activities, heavy drinking, and household turmoil had damaged his reputation and career prospects, making the magical side of his life more visible than his engineering work.
My spiritual philosophy
I follow and teach the snails path, which came to me since visiting Newgrange and Knowth in Ireland (twice) in 2019. No more dogma for me. Simply based on a knowing that expands gradually of Omniscience God, and observing the fractals of nature and musing about life’s mysteries. Acknowledging that the unseen exists. That every time we deprogram ourselves from one box, we find we’re in another. But the snails path of a never ending spiral prompts us onward. Curiously, I am walking the path with Christ Jesus again though, after getting burned by most of the “love and light” crowd (who are more judgmental and negative than the Christians I have known my whole life; Christians who never left my side while I ventured into New Age stuff). God is still good, all the time. ❤️🙏🤗
For the record, I am not writing or sharing my spiritual philosophy to start a cult. I grew up raised in a church that many people considered a cult, and I wouldn’t want to brainwash ANYONE or beg them to convert to Christianity for that matter. I would rather work to inform and deprogram people from the mass psychosis that’s been happening for at least the last one hundred years. And to stand for Free Speech and Health Freedom.
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In my YouTube channel, I encourage those “over 50” to:
- Open to lifelong learning (observe, gently question, and loosen up pre-conceived beliefs, aka ‘Programming’)
- Become more aware of our thoughts and emotions to encourage more ease
- Loosen up and move our bodies (we’re stuck in our heads also due to our “Programming” and physically unhealthy)
- And become strong and resilient in spirit, soul, mind, and body.
- And to question EVERYTHING!
Link to my YouTube channel where you can see the videos: https://youtube.com/@spiralsister
Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. All while doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling thought ride to better health, through doing more with ease, to help us sustain the JOY in our lives! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)
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