Strange Angel

to Parsons' story, one that's actually given rise to television portrayals and books.

Some of you out there may be familiar with Strange Angel, which is based on all this.

So back in around 1946, Jack Parsons, in addition to being one of the early pioneers of rocketry, was also deeply involved in the occult.

And he had actually become the leader of the California-based Agape Lodge, which was a branch of the Ordo Templi Orientis.

But but yeah, I think why can't they be the same now? is there something to the idea of demons and angels? I would at first be really reluctant to think that, but the more that I look into it, the more you hear about stories of Jacques Vallée kind of subtly hinting that that is the phenomenon.

And then you read books like Strange Angel, the story of Jack Parsons, who ended up building rockets, but also... sort of trying to summon demons at the same time, you know? And then you hear about the rituals that are still going on at NASA.

And so, you know, it makes you wonder, is there something there? Is it superstition? Is it all the same thing? Is it different things? I

don't know.

and that is funny because I have a playback to that.

And in Strange Angel.

add that here? Maybe I did.

Oh yeah, it's up there.

This is why I was disappointed in the movie The Master, which is a great movie, but I thought I was gonna see that story, and that's not what happens in that movie.

Well, have, have you seen Strange Angel?

Well, maybe I need to.

[laughs]

So Strange Angel was, I wanna say, Paramount, um, TV series that was about Jack Parsons, and it doesn't talk about L. Ron, but it does get into all of the occul- like, like, um, Agape Lodge and, like, the Lima stuff.

So you get part of that.

But yeah, there, there still remains, um, a bridge where we need to see the Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard story and, like, them going out into the desert and summoning the Scarlet Woman that ends up being Marjorie Cameron and this whole thing.

The ensemble also includes Dimitri Abold, Louis Gribben, Catlin Rose Downey, Daniel Rigby, Johnny Harris, Amy Lennox, Sheila Ateem, Matthew Needham, Tom Burke, and Maurizio Lombardi.

Silke Luisa, whose previous credits include Shining Girls, Halo, and Strange Angel, serves as creator and showrunner.

Jonathan Van Tulleken directs.

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