From Jack Parsons to Dua Lipa: the occult thread linking rocketry and pop
Jack Parsons, the Babalon Working, musical taste and Dua Lipa: the occult sneaks into forum debates where you'd least expect it.
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The strange link between Jack Parsons, the Babalon Working and Dua Lipa's pop
A 1940s rocket engineer trying to conceive the Antichrist through a menstrual blood ritual sounds like a B-movie script. But it's real history. And in today's conspiracy forums, that occult experiment rubs shoulders with the name of a pop star: Dua Lipa. The connection, as far-fetched as it is predictable, shows how the mustiest esotericism gets recycled into memes and debates about musical taste.
The Babalon Working: rockets and demons
Jack Parsons, co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, got mixed up with Aleister Crowley and L. Ron Hubbard to carry out the so-called "Babalon Working". The goal: to embody the "Scarlet Woman", a magical receptacle, and beget the new aeon. The "magical egg" was nothing more than a zygote, albeit with theological pretensions. Parsons died in a homemade explosion, a victim of his fondness for gunpowder and the occult.
From menstrual blood to the hookup playlist
The debate quickly derails: from menstrual blood as "magical ink" to arguing whether Barry Atschul is better than Bustamante for winning a girl over. The implicit conclusion: musical taste is a compatibility marker almost as strong as esoteric creed. Camarón is the dividing line between authentic flamenco and Niña Pastori's "processed flamenco". Ana Belén, muse of Spain's Transition to democracy, ends up as the soundtrack of the "charos" (flashy, working-class women). And Dua Lipa, the unattainable fantasy, becomes the excuse for a dissertation on which artist you'd put on at a date.
The occult as a generational meme
The curious thing is how Parsons' ritual, which was meant to change the course of humanity, gets reduced to a forum anecdote: "If Dua Lipa asked me out, would I play Stevie Wonder or Bruno Mars?" The answer, like everything in these debates, depends on which god (or demon) you believe in. In the end, the occult is just a wrapper for talking about the usual things: sens, power and the soundtrack of our lives.
What does any of this have to do with Dua Lipa? Exactly as much as you want to believe.
A 1940s rocket engineer trying to conceive the Antichrist through a menstrual blood ritual sounds like a B-movie script. But it's real history. And in today's conspiracy forums, that occult experiment rubs shoulders with the name of a pop star: Dua Lipa. The connection, as far-fetched as it is predictable, shows how the mustiest esotericism gets recycled into memes and debates about musical taste.
The Babalon Working: rockets and demons
Jack Parsons, co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, got mixed up with Aleister Crowley and L. Ron Hubbard to carry out the so-called "Babalon Working". The goal: to embody the "Scarlet Woman", a magical receptacle, and beget the new aeon. The "magical egg" was nothing more than a zygote, albeit with theological pretensions. Parsons died in a homemade explosion, a victim of his fondness for gunpowder and the occult.
From menstrual blood to the hookup playlist
The debate quickly derails: from menstrual blood as "magical ink" to arguing whether Barry Atschul is better than Bustamante for winning a girl over. The implicit conclusion: musical taste is a compatibility marker almost as strong as esoteric creed. Camarón is the dividing line between authentic flamenco and Niña Pastori's "processed flamenco". Ana Belén, muse of Spain's Transition to democracy, ends up as the soundtrack of the "charos" (flashy, working-class women). And Dua Lipa, the unattainable fantasy, becomes the excuse for a dissertation on which artist you'd put on at a date.
The occult as a generational meme
The curious thing is how Parsons' ritual, which was meant to change the course of humanity, gets reduced to a forum anecdote: "If Dua Lipa asked me out, would I play Stevie Wonder or Bruno Mars?" The answer, like everything in these debates, depends on which god (or demon) you believe in. In the end, the occult is just a wrapper for talking about the usual things: sens, power and the soundtrack of our lives.
What does any of this have to do with Dua Lipa? Exactly as much as you want to believe.
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