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If you haven't heard of Jack Parsons outside of Monster Talk, you likely will soon.

We've been laying the groundwork for this episode for several months trying to provide a context to the rise of Western esotericism and occult magic in Europe.

We've talked about witches, secret societies, theosophy, and the rise of Alice Rorley's Church of the Lima. In the early part the

and the rise of Alistair Crowley's Church of the Lima. In the early part of the 20th century in Los Angeles,

a young science fiction fan and rocket enthusiast spots a book by Crowley at a

friend's house and it changes his life forever.

How he went from sci-fi-fi-fann to rocket scientist to magical occultist to the tragic victim

of an experiment gone wrong.

Well, like the science fiction magazines

he loved so much, it's an amazing story. It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.

A giant hairy creature, part 8, part of that.

In Larkness, a 24 mile long bottomless lake in the highlands of Scotland.

It's a creature known as the Lochness Monster. Monster Talk.

Welcome to Monster Talk, the science show about monsters.

I'm Blake Smith and I'm Karen Stolzner.

We're continuing our intermittent series on the history of magic to cover one of the

strangest figures in rocket science and occult history.

To talk about it, we welcome back Jerry Drake, who last joined us to talk about

grimoires.

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