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Jack Parsons & Friends: Rockets, Magick, SF & Sex

7.45pm Thursday 27 September 2018
£4 / £2 concessions
Tickets are off sale for this event now but we still have some spaces. Come and pay on the door!
The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX.
Train and Tube: Liverpool Street. 
Tube: Aldgate, Aldgate East


Jack Parsons Dials Up a Moon Child Vision by Marc-Anthony Macon
Jack Parsons was an innovative, pioneering and daring rocket engineer before the Second World War. He also led the Pasadena, California lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis, the occult movement headed by Aleister Crowley. At his home lived rocket scientists, occultists and science fiction writers – and, for a time, L Ron Hubbard, who took part in sex-magick rituals before he created Dianetics and Scientology. 

Writer on unusual religions and London Fortean Society co-organiser Dr 
David V Barrett explores the fascinating life and death of the charismatic maverick Jack Parsons – who also championed free love decades before the term polyamory was coined.

7.45pm Thursday 27 September 2018
£4 / £2 concessions
Tickets are off sale for this event now but we still have some spaces. Come and pay on the door!
The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX.
Train and Tube: Liverpool Street. 
Tube: Aldgate, Aldgate East

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