The Apotheosis of Jack Whiteside Parsons - DOCUMENTARY by Thomas Sheridan

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Parsons, on moving to Pasadena from LA with his family, started reading more widely and got into the genre of WEIRD fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_fiction

Weird fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[1] Weird fiction either eschews or radically reinterprets ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and other traditional antagonists of supernatural horror fiction...Writers on the subject of weird fiction, such as China Miéville, sometimes use "the tentacle" to represent this type of writing. The tentacle is a limb-type absent from most of the monsters of European folklore and gothic fiction, but often attached to the monstrous creatures created by weird fiction writers, such as William Hope Hodgson, M. R. James, and H. P. Lovecraft. Weird fiction often attempts to inspire awe as well as fear in response to its fictional creations, causing commentators like Miéville to paraphrase Goethe in saying that weird fiction evokes a sense of the numinous.[2] Although "weird fiction" has been chiefly used as a historical description for works through the 1930s, it experienced a resurgence in the 1980s and 1990s, under the labels of New Weird and Slipstream, which continues into the 21st century.

Slipstream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipstream_genre

Slipstream is a kind of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries between science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. The term was coined by Richard Dorsett according to an interview with renowned cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in Mythaxis Review...

Bruce Sterling described it in an article originally published in SF Eye #5, in July 1989, as: "... this is a kind of writing which simply makes you feel very strange; the way that living in the twentieth century makes you feel, if you are a person of a certain sensibility."..

Slipstream fiction has consequently been described as "the fiction of strangeness"[3] or a form of writing that makes "the familiar strange or the strange familiar" through epistemological and ontological questionings about reality.[4] Science fiction authors James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, editors of Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, argue cognitive dissonance is at the heart of slipstream, and it is not so much a genre as a literary effect, like horror or comedy..

In 2007, the first London Literature Festival at the Royal Festival Hall held a Slipstream night chaired by Toby Litt and featuring the British authors Steven Hall and Scarlett Thomas.[8]

In her 2012 volume Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction, Grace Dillon identifies a current of Native American Slipstream that predates and anticipates slipstream, with examples including Gerald Vizenor's "Custer on the Slipstream" (1978).

Related: Magic realism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_realism

Magic realism (also known as magical realism or marvelous realism) is a style of fiction and literary genre that paints a realistic view of the modern world while also adding magical elements, often deals with the blurring of the lines between fantasy and reality..

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Incantation : per aspera ad astra

https://www.alamy.de/karl-wilhelm-diefe ... 67439.html

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wilhelm_Diefenbach

Karl WilheHe was a pioneer of the naturist and the peace movements. His country commune, Himmelhof, in Ober Sankt Veit near Vienna (1897–1899) was one of the models for the reform settlement Monte Verità in Ascona.[2] His ideas included life in harmony with nature and rejection of monogamy, turning away from any religion (although he was a follower of theosophy), and a vegetarian diet.[3] When his commune went bankrupt, he moved to Capri and stayed there until his death in 1913

As a painter, Diefenbach was an independent representative of Symbolism. There has been a museum of his works in Certosa di San Giacomo on Capri since 1974.[4] The largest collection of the work of Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach in the United States is held by the Jack Daulton Collection in Los Altos Hills, Californialm Diefenbach (21 February 1851 – 15 December 1913) was a German painter and social reformer..

[translated] Monte Verità, the hill of the hippies https://www.illustre.ch/magazine/monte- ... ux-hippies

A hill dominating Ascona and Lake Maggiore became, at the dawn of the 20th century, a high place of freedom of thought and the symbol of an alternative and playful way of life rejecting industrial capitalism and the consumer society.

...At the turn of the 20th century, on a hill overlooking Ascona in Ticino , we live in community, half naked, feeding on small seeds and practicing free love. The men have long hair, the women are fighting for their emancipation and all these little people shout at the consumer society by worshiping nature...The Mountain of Truth was born precisely in 1900, created by a gang of five young people: Henri Oedenkoven, Ida Hofmann, Lotte Hattemer, Karl and Gustav Gräser.

Precursors
They are anti-capitalists, ecologists before the letter and dream of a new life (Lebensreform), close to nature. They are going to create, on this wooded hill which overhangs at the time a small fishing village of 900 souls, a community which will last until the end of the First World War by attracting utopian and artistic bohemianism from all over Europe.

It was Henri Oedenkoven, a rich heir of Dutch origin, who bought 140,000 francs, on behalf of the group, the Monescia hill and the Pioda land above the village of Ascona. It is also he who baptizes the place Monte Verità, while the first air-light huts and vegetable gardens emerge from the ground. Meals consist of raw fruits and vegetables, alcohol is banned and we dress in long linen or cotton chasubles to live according to nature.

Nude ballets in the moonlight
Free union is de rigueur, the first couples are formed and Gustav Gräser creates the first nude ballets celebrated by moonlight. Obviously, we start chatting in the area and the local press begins to allude to the orgies that take place in the glades of the "Monte".

..The fine European intellectual flower goes there: Rudolf Steiner, Max Weber, Otto Gross, Hermann Hesse ... Otto Gross, sulphurous psychiatrist, pioneer of psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung, stays punctually at the sanatorium from 1906 to 1913. Far from treating his addiction to morphine and cocaine there, he rather spreads poison within the colony as well as his “orgiastic therapies” inspired by his theories on free love.

Detoxification
Drugs and free love, the hippies have definitely not invented anything ... Hermann Hesse, for his part, will seriously follow two detoxification cures at the sanatorium of Monte Verità, in 1907 and in 1917, to cure chronic alcoholism.

From 1913, Monte Verità became one of the cradles of modern dance: Isadora Duncan, Emile-Jaques Dalcroze, Rudolf Laban invented a dance there, letting the body express itself with its “own language of rhythm and movement”...

Glas and rebirth
The 1914-1918 war sounded the death knell for this libertarian utopia. Henri Oedenkoven left Monte Verità for Spain in 1920 and the hill passed from hand to hand before being bought in 1926 by Eduard von der Heydt, a German banker who was a great art collector. The following year, he had a superb Bauhaus-style hotel built there by the German architect Emil Fahrenkamp.

Other buildings from the modern movement are emerging from the ground and the hill is reborn to a new clientele preferring haute couture models and gourmet cuisine with unbleached cotton and vegetarianism. But the Second World War was fatal for von der Heydt who, suspected of having been more than complacent with the Nazi power, began by disposing of his art collection exhibited at Monte Verità before ceding the hill to the canton of Ticino. According to the baron's will, the place must be devoted to cultural events of great prestige. This will be done, since the hill now houses three museums and a seminar center associated with the EPFZ housed in the hotel built by Fahrenkamp.

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Translated:

In the Brissago Islands, the secrets of a saga https://www.illustre.ch/magazine/aux-il ... -dune-saga

Off Ascona, the islands of Brissago passed in the twentieth century between the hands of two extraordinary characters: a Russian baroness, in love with nature and artists, and a German Jewish industrialist, collector of pretty faces and paintings by masters. An epic saga that ends tragically at the dawn of the Second World War and resurfaces today against a backdrop of trafficking in works of art and looted goods.

Two tiny islands off the coast of Ascona flirt with the invisible border separating the turquoise waters of Lake Maggiore between Switzerland and Italy. Called Saint-Pancrace and Saint-Apollinaire, there would be just four football fields. However, the two islands of Brissago are today famous all over the world...

Their sacred names derive from the fact that the largest of the islands was a refuge for the first Christians during the time of Roman persecution before welcoming in the thirteenth century austere penitents in the person of monks of the Umiliati order. The congregation abolished in 1571 by the pope, the island remained uninhabited and the convent doomed to ruin. A foreseen time to house a dynamite factory for the Gotthard tunnel site, the two islets were bought in 1885 by the Russian baroness Antoinette de Saint-Léger. Acquisition that sounds the death knell for the place's spiritual vocation.

The beautiful baroness, wife of Richard Fleming, an Irish banker who must not have had too much trouble paying the 21,000 francs paid in exchange for these two confetti, is indeed aptly named. At the time 29 years old and mother of three children, she has already worn out two husbands, which would be enough at the time to tax her with light morals. In addition, she prides herself on being an art lover and invites on her island, whose former convent has been converted into a mansion, the artistic elite of the time: Rilke, Note, Joyce, Cosima Wagner and many others visit her and marvel at the exotic garden she has created from scratch...

The saga continues with Baron Emden
It is Max Emden, son of a rabbi and king of the Hamburg stores whose family has, in particular, created the KaDeWe department store, who buys the island. Not that he is passionate about botany. He is interested in young shoots of a different nature, and the botanical garden that he will continue to maintain will serve him above all as a backdrop for parts of bare stamp covers...

He also had the Berlin architect Breslauer build on the island, in addition to a magnificent neoclassical mansion all in marble, a dock and Roman baths where the young women he invited were encouraged to dive at the end of the day to recover a gold coin, sesame to the bed of the master of the place.

These strange "balabiots"
In any case, this is what the locals whispered to each other at the time, who nevertheless found it a little strange that one came to them only to get naked, whether at Monte Verità, above 'Ascona, or on the Brissago Islands. A word that still lives on in the local dialect has remained, "balabiot", with which these naked dancers were decked out and which today designates someone strange whom we cannot really trust...

However, the island was probably never this Babylon of vice that some believed they could denounce. Max Emden and his motto written on the portal of his property "The games of love, the tranquility of nature and several women instead of one because living is an art" fits perfectly in the Ticino of the a time when the intelligentsia of northern Europe loved to come and remake the world and slough off the sun.

But the dolce vita draws to a close on Lake Maggiore. With Hitler coming to power, Max Emden saw all his property confiscated in Germany in 1933 and his hedonistic paradise transformed into a golden prison. Soon, he could not even find any fuel to fuel the engine of the magnificent mahogany canoe in which he so loved cruising the lake in gallant company.

The shadow of war spreads across Europe and Max Emden died in 1940 of a heart attack in a clinic in Locarno. Finally, officially ... Because his only son, Hans Erich, suspected at the time a poisoning orchestrated by one of the many Nazi sympathizers present in the region at the time. We still wonder about the role then played by the enigmatic Baron Eduard von der Heydt who bought Monte Verità in 1926 and in 1927 visited the Baroness of Saint-Léger on her island of Brissago, which had just been put up for sale. ...

Spectacular heist
Suspected of having served as a banker to the Nazis when they came to power and imprisoned after the war in Switzerland, von der Heydt dated Max Emden who, like him, was a great art collector. From there to blame him for his disappearance to seize his magnificent collection of paintings that adorned the walls of his palace on the island, there is only one step that some bad tongues have not hesitated. to cross. Especially when we know that his collection is the basis of the creation of the Rietberg Museum in Zurich.

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https://www.monteverita.org/en/monte-verita/history

...The intensity of the single ideals fused in this community was such that word of it soon spread across the whole of Europe and overseas, whilst gradually over the years the community itself became a sanatorium frequented by theosophists, reformers, anarchists, communists, socialdemocrats, psyco-analysts, followed by literary personalities, writers, poets, artists and finally emigrants of both world wars: Raphael Friedeberg, Prince Peter Kropotkin, Erich Mühsam who declared Ascona "the Republic of the Homeless", Otto Gross who planned a "School for the liberation of humanity", August Bebel, Karl Kautsky, Otto Braun, even perhaps Lenin and Trotzki, Hermann Hesse, Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow, Else Lasker-Schüler, D.H Lawrence, Rudolf von Laban, Mary Wigman, Isadora Duncan, Hugo Ball, Hans Arp, Hans Richter, Marianne von Werefkin, Alexej von Jawlensky, Arthur Segal, El Lissitzky and many others.

After the departure of the founder for Brazil in 1920 there followed a brief bohemian period at the Monte Verità which lasted until the complex was purchased as a residence by the Baron von der Heydt, banker to the ex-Kaiser Willhelm II and one of the most important collectors of contemporary and non European art. The bohemian life continued in the village and in the Locarnese valleys from then on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidus

Fidus was the pseudonym used by German illustrator, painter and publisher Hugo Reinhold Karl Johann Höppener (October 8, 1868 – February 23, 1948). He was a symbolist artist, whose work directly influenced the psychedelic style of graphic design of the late 1960s.

Born the son of a confectioner in Lübeck, Höppener demonstrated artistic talent at an early age. Around 1886 he met the "apostle of nature" and artist Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (1851–1913), and joined Diefenbach's commune near Munich. On Diefenbach's behalf, he served a brief prison sentence for public nudity, earning him the name Fidus ("faithful")...

In 1892 he moved to Berlin, set up another commune, and worked as an illustrator on the magazine Sphinx. His work appeared frequently in Jugend and other illustrated magazines. He created many ornamental drawings, especially for book decoration, as well as ex-libris, posters and designs. He was one of the first artists to use advertising postcards to promote his work. He also contributed to the early homosexual magazine Der Eigene, published by Adolf Brand.

He held mystical Theosophical beliefs, and became interested in German mythology. His early illustrations contained dream-like abstractions, while his later work was characterised by motifs such as peasants, warriors, and other naked human figures in natural settings. He often combined mysticism, eroticism, and symbolism, in Art Nouveau and Sezessionist styles. By 1900 he was one of the best known painters in Germany, and had come under the influence of writers such as Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Heinrich and Julius Hart, and the anti-materialist garden city and Wandervogel movements. In 1912 he designed a famous poster for a congress on "biological hygiene" in Hamburg, showing a man in the process of breaking his bonds and rising up to the stars.

After 1918, interest in Fidus’ work as an illustrator ebbed. Despite his enthusiasm for the ideology of the Nazi Party, of which he became a member in 1932, he did not receive the support of the Nazi regime. In 1937 his work was seized and the sale of his images was forbidden. By the time he died in 1948 in Woltersdorf his art had been almost forgotten. It was rediscovered in the 1960s, and directly influenced the psychedelic concert posters which began to be produced at that time, initially in and around San Francisco.[3]

There is an archive of Fidus work at the Berlinische Galerie. Another large archive of Fidus materials (including artworks, diaries, correspondence, and photographs) is held by the Jack Daulton Collection in Los Altos Hills, California.

Lucifer by Fidus, pencil on card, 1898

Source: http://www.symbolismus.com/fidus.html

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Jack Daulton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Daulton

James (Jack) Daulton (born October 30, 1956) is an American art collector, trial lawyer, music entrepreneur, exploration philanthropist, and expert and lecturer on the history of art and architecture. Daulton rose to fame representing the nation of Myanmar in the groundbreaking 1994 legal case, United States v. Richard Diran and The Union of Myanmar, successfully recovering a 1,000-year-old Buddha statue that had been stolen in 1988 from a temple in Myanmar's ancient capital, Bagan, a treasure now on display in the National Museum in Yangon..

Daulton has also gained recognition as a result of The Daulton Collection–his vast art collection which includes one of the world's largest private collections of German Symbolist art and, in particular, the world's largest collection of works by a number of individual artists, such as the eccentric monkey painter Gabriel von Max, the Austrian symbolist Rudolf Jettmar, and the proto-hippie Fidus..

In 1991, an ancient Buddha statue from a Burmese temple was identified in a Sotheby's auction catalog by an NIU professor specializing in Burmese art, Dr. Richard Cooler. After the FBI tried unsuccessfully for 3 years to prove that the statue was stolen, they enlisted Dr. Cooler to help demonstrate the origins of the statue. Cooler contacted his former student, Daulton, both a specialist in Burmese art and a litigator, to represent Myanmar in the case. Daulton and Cooler were able to demonstrate that the statue, which had been broken off at the legs, matched up with the lower third of the statue that still stood in the temple in Myanmar.[13][14] The national treasure was returned with great gratitude from the Burmese government.[15][16] The case was highly publicized, a reflection of growing interest in the return of stolen ancient cultural properties to their countries of origin..

The Daulton Collection is an eclectic collection of art and artifacts from all over the world. The current acquisitional focus of the collection is symbolist art, of which the collection contains several notable works including "Hexenwald" ("Witch of the Woods") by Julie Wolfthorn, as well as the largest collection of Gabriel von Max works in the world.

Exploration Philanthropy
With his partner, software executive Roz Ho, Daulton has funded research expeditions around the globe, particularly in the fields of archaeology and linguistics...

Hmm..

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NIU Burma Studies directors rescue, return 1,000-year-old Buddha statue to Myanmar https://www.niutoday.info/2013/04/01/ni ... o-myanmar/

...more than 2,000 temples and shrines dot the landscape of Bagan, the ancient royal capital of Myanmar. It was here in 1988, amid the country’s political unrest, that a nearly 1,000-year-old statue of a rare standing Buddha went missing, snatched from a remote temple cave.

So begins the saga of its return, a story that spans nearly a quarter century.

“This is a remarkable story,” says Christopher McCord, dean of NIU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

At its core are Richard Cooler, professor emeritus of art history and founder and former director of the Center for Burma Studies, and Catherine Raymond, the center’s current director...

“During a period of great tension between the U.S. and Myanmar governments, NIU faculty members went out of their way to preserve Myanmar’s cultural heritage and fight against the trade in stolen antiquities. They then worked to ensure that the statue was cared for and safely returned to the country in a way that would preserve its historic and religious value.”

‘Turning the Wheel of The Law’


The sandstone sculpture, with traces of stucco and red paint, is just 22-inches tall.

“Only 11 images of this iconographic type are known and all were created for the Burmese King Kyanzittha, who reigned from 1084 to 1112,” Cooler says. “They depict a Buddha who, while standing, gestures with both hands in front of his chest. This gesture symbolizes the Buddha’s first and most important sermon, known as ‘Turning the Wheel of The Law,’ in which he shared his discovery of the path to Nirvana.”..

Before his retirement, Cooler made several attempts to return the Buddha image. But the task wasn’t so easy.

Diplomatic relations between Myanmar and the United States were strained, with the American government having removed its ambassador in the wake of the controversial 1990 elections. Cooler needed to ensure the antiquity would land in the hands of the proper authorities...

In 2002, Catherine Raymond succeeded Cooler as Burma Studies center director at NIU. In 2006, she initiated discussions in her native France, which maintained diplomatic relations with Myanmar, concerning alternative ways to return the image.

After years of repeated proposals to the Burmese Embassy in Paris, she contacted the new Myanmar ambassador to France in 2011, and ambassador U Kyaw Zwar Minn championed the cause. He saw to it that funds were provided for the sculpture’s return.

“Working with the ambassador and his U.S. emissary, we made arrangements to ship the statue to the Myanmar embassy in Paris and from there to the National Museum in Yangon, Myanmar,” Raymond says. “It arrived in late 2012.”

..A warm reception

As it happens, Raymond and NIU’s McCord were members of an Institute for International Education (IIE) delegation representing 10 U.S. universities that visited Myanmar in February. The delegation sought to learn more about the state of higher education in the country and to explore potential partnerships.

Re Institute for International Education (IIE)..

Seth Rich's Girlfriend Works for Institute Of International Education, NY whose Board Directors Include Henry Kissinger and Jeffrey Epstein https://searchvoat.co/v/whatever/1871632

Prince Harry joins Better Up, a company of behavioral scientists, 'in the same format as Tinder' viewtopic.php?f=50&p=8516#p8516

William (Bill) Henry Draper III..He served from 1981 to 1986 as president and Chairman of the Export–Import Bank of the United States[4] and was appointed to this position by President Ronald Reagan...In 1986, he became the head of the world's largest source of multilateral development grant assistance, the United Nations Development Programme.[4][5] As the second highest ranking individual in the United Nations, Draper oversaw nearly 10,000 international aid projects. During his time at the UN and the Export-Import Bank..

Draper formerly served as the Chairman of the World Affairs Council of Northern California, Chairman of the Institute of International Education, as a Trustee of Yale University and as Chairman of the Board of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.. He is the father of venture capitalist Timothy C. Draper [who has his Harry Potter university]

"Breakfast at Buck's" is the title of the introduction of the book, The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs, by venture capitalist Bill Draper...

Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) founded by Tim Draper...one of the investors in BetterUp. ...The BetterUp experience brings together world-class coaching, AI technology, and behavioral science experts to deliver change at scale

Finally found the link between Jeffrey Epstein and Tim Draper.

Betsy DeVos, Bethany Christian Services, Amway, another private island and whispers of child trafficking https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagate/3940889/24883034

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1200 ... 56352.html

Jarecki has 4 sons, 3 of which are filmmakers. Travel buddy Nicholas is most famous for “Arbitrage”, starring the Chandler-linked Richard Gere and recently “Black-Eyed Susan” Sarandon.

Daddy Jaracki co-founded the “Scholar Rescue Fund” in 2002, part of the “Institute of International Education”; its mission is relocating scholars in war-torn areas....Its governance board has some interesting people - Biden buddies and Chicago ties

..Back to Papa Jarecki. Not only did he found the first Youth Center in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) he owns two additional ISLANDS; both are pretty secluded...In addition to Hollywood guests, they also had alleged violent perv Mario Batali (article prior to allegations)

Did you notice that Manhattan Residence he bought in 2000? It’s less than 3 miles from Epste!n’s townhouse.

He and his wife also have The Gloria and Henry Jarecki Special Skills School in Cambodia...Again, no dedicated website, nothing asking for donations or talking about what they do... This is one humble motherfucker.

And that's the Daulton link to NXIVM.. Lol.

Steve Bing's family, Bing & Bing Real Estate of New York, philanthropists, humanitarians and the Chandler Family.. they go way back https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagatewhatev ... 3/24415105

Robin Chandler Duke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Chandler_Duke

A co-founder of the United States-Japan Foundation and a trustee of the Institute of International Education, Chandler Duke was also a director of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the World Childhood Foundation. She served on other boards, including those of the Guggenheim Museum, Rockwell International, and Emigrant Savings Bank.

In 2000-2001, Chandler Duke was United States ambassador to Norway, appointed by Bill Clinton to serve for the final year of his administration. She was previously accorded ambassadorial rank when, in 1980, President Jimmy Carter asked her to lead the United States delegation to the 21st United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization conference in Belgrade, Serbia

Jeffrey Epstein Chaired a $6.7 Billion Company that Documents Suggest May Have Received a Secret Federal Reserve Bailout! https://searchvoat.co/v/politics/3348762/19868218

Wachtel & Masyr, LLP (formerly Gold & Wachtel) at same addy as Ghislaine Maxwell's COUQ (link: http://www.buzzfile.com/Lists/Companies-located) buzzfile.com/Lists/Companie… which Epstein helps fund http://web.archive.org/web/201011121310 ... y-epstein/

Wexner Family Charity Fund and Epstein's COUQ shared an accounting firm (link: http://www.nonprofitfacts.com/OH/The-We ... -Fund.html) nonprofitfacts.com/OH/The-Wexner-… | (link: http://www.taxexemptworld.com/organizat ... ?tn=142082)

Jeffrey E. Epstein serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Trust Company. Mr. Epstein started his career at Bear Stearns with an educational background in physics. He has been a Trustee of Institute Of International Education Inc. since October 2001..

..IIE President Stephen Duggan influenced the U.S. government to create a new category of non-immigrant student visas, bypassing post-war quotas set by the Immigration Act of 1921. In the 1930s, IIE began expanding its activities beyond Europe, opening the first exchanges with the Soviet Union and Latin America. After World War II, the Institute facilitated the establishment of what is now NAFSA and the CIEE. In the 1940s, IIE aided more than 4,000 U.S. students to study and work on reconstruction projects at European universities devastated by the war.

The current president and CEO is Allan E. Goodman

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Back to the video... circa 1:19:31 Marjorie Cameron is introduced...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Cameron

Following the United States' entry into the Second World War, Cameron signed up for the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, a part of the United States Navy, in February 1943. Initially sent to a training camp at Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, she was subsequently posted to Washington, D.C., where she served as a cartographer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In the course of these duties, she met U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill in May 1943.[10] She was reassigned to the Naval Photographic Unit in Anacostia, where she worked as a wardrobe mistress for propaganda documentaries, and during this period met various Hollywood stars.[11] When her brother James returned to the U.S. injured from service overseas, she went AWOL and returned to Iowa to see him, as a result of which she was court–martialed and confined to barracks for the rest of the war.[12] For reasons unknown to her, she received an honorable discharge from the military in 1945. To join her family, she traveled to Pasadena, California, where her father and brothers had found work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)..

In Pasadena, Cameron ran into a former colleague, who invited her to visit the large American Craftsman-style house where he was currently lodging, 1003 Orange Grove Avenue, also known as "The Parsonage". The house was so-called because its lease was owned by Jack Parsons.. Unbeknownst to Cameron, Parsons had just finished a series of rituals using Enochian magic with his friend and lodger L. Ron Hubbard, all with the intent of attracting an "elemental" woman to be his lover. Upon encountering Cameron with her distinctive red hair and blue eyes, Parsons considered her to be the individual whom he had invoked.[15] After they met at The Parsonage on January 18, 1946, they were instantly attracted to each other and spent the next two weeks in Parsons' bedroom together. Although Cameron was unaware of it, Parsons saw this as a form of sex magic that constituted part of the Babalon Working, a rite to invoke the birth of Thelemite goddess Babalon onto Earth in human form

Was it really a chance meeting brought on by magic or was there a more 'earthly' explanation? The sci fi writer Robert A. Heinlein is the person Thomas Sheridan speculates as the former colleague who invites Cameron to the Parsonage on Orange Grove Avenue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein

Robert Anson Heinlein (/ˈhaɪnlaɪn/;[2][3][4] July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers",[5] he was among the first to emphasize scientific accuracy in his fiction, and was thus a pioneer of the subgenre of hard science fiction...

...He worked in radio communications with the carrier’s aircraft. Radio communications was then in its earlier phases. The captain of this carrier was Ernest J. King, who served as the Chief of Naval Operations and Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Fleet during World War II. Military historians frequently interviewed Heinlein during his later years who asked him about Captain King and his service as the commander of the U.S. Navy's first modern aircraft carrier. Heinlein also served as gunnery officer aboard the destroyer USS Roper in 1933 and 1934, reaching the rank of lieutenant.[20] His brother, Lawrence Heinlein, served in the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, and the Missouri National Guard, reaching the rank of major general in the National Guard...

At the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Heinlein met and befriended a chemical engineer named Virginia "Ginny" Gerstenfeld. After the war, her engagement having fallen through, she moved to UCLA for doctoral studies in chemistry and made contact again. As his second wife's alcoholism gradually spun out of control,[25] Heinlein moved out and the couple filed for divorce. Heinlein's friendship with Virginia turned into a relationship and on October 21, 1948—shortly after the decree nisi came through—they married in the town of Raton, New Mexico, shortly after setting up housekeeping in the Broadmoor district of Colorado Springs in a house that Heinlein and his wife (both engineers) designed...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Heinlein

Born to George Joseph and Jeanne D Gerstenfeld (nee Rosenthal)',[3] Virginia was raised in Brooklyn with her brother Leon. A redheaded organic chemist and biochemist, she served as an inspiration for many of the active and talented red-haired women in Heinlein's stories.[4] She met Robert when they both worked at the Naval Air Experimental Station in Philadelphia when she was a lieutenant in the WAVES (for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in the U.S. Navy in World War II.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ner ... perverted/

Parsons was not only a follower of both science and magic but also an enthusiastic fan of a genre that often fuses (if not confuses) these two realms: science fiction. His abiding fannish interests, combined with his budding local celebrity as a rocketeer, drew him into the orbit of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, where he hobnobbed with Ray Bradbury and “number one fan” Forrest J. Ackermann. He was also befriended by Robert A. Heinlein, whose own pecadillos included a taste for casual nudism and whose association with Parsons likely influenced the stories “Waldo” and “Magic, Inc.” Parsons invited Heinlein to his freewheeling bohemian boarding house for lively fencing matches and Heinlein invited Parsons to meetings of the Mañana Literary Society, boozy gatherings held at the author’s home in Laurel Canyon. ..

The Society, immortalized in Anthony Boucher’s 1942 murder-mystery-à-clef Rocket to the Morgue, was frequented by genre stalwarts such as Cleve Cartmill and Jack Williamson (whose 1940 werewolf tale Darker Than You Think fascinated Parsons), not to mention German ex-pats like Fritz Lang and Willy Ley (who had worked in the German rocket program under Wernher von Braun). It was likely here that Parsons met inveterate pulp hack L. Ron Hubbard, and that’s where the story really starts to get weird.

Parsons fell immediately under the glib spell of Hubbard, a charming con-man who would go on to achieve Crowley’s life-long dream: to found a thriving cash-cow religion. Hubbard moved in with the sprawling menagerie of oddballs — waggishly dubbed “The Parsonage” — and soon convinced the credulous household of his brilliant magical gifts, which Parsons eagerly recounted in letters to Crowley (then in the process of killing himself with heroin in an English seaside resort). ..

Hubbard gamely joined in an epic “magical working” designed to summon “an Elemental mate” for Parsons, whose corporeal girlfriend, Betty, Hubbard had recently stolen. When this plan petered out, Hubbard talked Parsons into funneling his savings into a venture to buy a fleet of yachts in Florida, then sail them through the Panama Canal to sell at a profit in California. As was immediately clear to his friends and associates (including Crowley), but only gradually to Parsons himself, this proposal was a massive rip-off, and a frantic Parsons was forced to chase down Hubbard and Betty in Miami before they sailed off around the world. ..

The story is sparked when British intelligence agent (and future spy novelist) Ian Fleming recruits Crowley to assist in persuading Hitler’s chief lieutenant, Rudolf Hess, to defect to England; by the time the author is done, he has roped in everything from the Bloomsbury Group to the 1970s punk scene, from the Apollo 11 moon landing to the People’s Temple mass suicide, from UFOs to the Mariel boatlift to Afrofuturist music, and much more. ..

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A rather more mundane account of how Cameron met Parsons is given here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150219064 ... ue-5130928

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/cam ... art-world/

By the time she returned to California, almost two years later, her husband, the onetime rocket science prodigy, was under investigation by the FBI for sharing military information with Israel. He had also sold the parsonage and parted ways with Crowley. In spite of all this tumult, it was a fruitful time for the pair’s partnership, social life, and creative work. Cameron was freelancing as a fashion illustrator for local newspapers, and Parsons — long since separated from JPL — was building explosives for film productions in a basement lab in the carriage house they were living in. There, just a few doors down Orange Grove, they entertained often, plugging into the bohemian milieu that would be so key to Cameron’s future. She befriended Pasadena debutante-turned-sculptor Julie MacDonald, Charlie Parker’s West Coast girlfriend, who introduced her to Los Angeles’s underground jazz scene and characters like Wallace and Shirley Berman. It’s said that Parker even jammed once at the carriage house.

https://mg.co.za/article/2010-04-01-a-genius-distilled/

The last time Julie Macdonald saw Charlie Parker he was catching a flight home from Los Angeles to New York for the funeral of his three-year-old daughter, Pree, who had died in hospital in the early hours of March 6 1954 after a long illness.

Two nights earlier, Parker had been fired, for the second time in a week, by the owner of the Tiffany Club in Hollywood after behaving erratically and arguing with the management. He was staying at the Pasadena home of Macdonald, a sculptor, when he received the news of Pree’s death.

She had met Parker during one of his earlier visits to California, probably in 1952. It seems likely that they were a part of a gathering of artists, intellectuals and scene-makers who met at the Altadena ranch of the Turkish-born painter and sculptor Jirayr Zorthian in July that year, a short drive from Macdonald’s home. Zorthian’s guests had indulged in a collective striptease while Parker played; a surviving home recording of the event reveals the sound of the saxophonist — apparently fully clothed, despite voluble entreaties — playing Embraceable You, the Gershwin ballad emerging above the noises of ribaldry. At any rate, Parker and Macdonald became close friends and enjoyed long conversations as she took him to art shows around Los Angeles...

After leaving to bury his child that Sunday morning in 1954, Parker would never return to California. He had only 12 months left to live, a year in which he and his fourth wife, Chan (Richardson), attempted without success to create a quieter life for their family outside the city; in which his drinking worsened; in which he almost succeeded in killing himself by swallowing iodine; in which he committed himself to the psychiatric ward at New York’s Bellevue hospital; and in which he made his last recordings and played his final gigs, before dying of an accumulation of symptoms while watching television in the Fifth Avenue apartment of the Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter.

Pannonica de Koenigswarter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonica ... nigswarter

Baroness Kathleen Annie Pannonica de Koenigswarter (née Rothschild; 10 December 1913 – 30 November 1988) was a British-born jazz patron and writer. A leading patron of bebop music, she was a scion of the Rothschild family.

Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild was born in December 1913, in London, the youngest daughter of Charles Rothschild and his wife, Hungarian baroness Rózsika Edle von Wertheimstein, daughter of Baron Alfred von Wertheimstein of Transylvania. She was born into a branch of the wealthiest family in the world at the time.[1] Her paternal grandfather was Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild. She grew up in Tring Park Mansion as well as Waddesdon Manor, among other family houses.

In 1935 she married French diplomat Baron Jules de Koenigswarter, later a Free French hero.[3] In 1937, they bought and moved to the Château d'Abondant, 17th century Château in north-west France they acquired from the family of American banker Henry Herman Harjes (who had acquired the château in 1920 from the Duchesse de Vallombrosa)..She worked for Charles de Gaulle during World War II. The couple separated in 1951 and she moved to New York City, permanently renting a suite at The Stanhope Hotel, and leaving behind five children.[5] As a result of their separation, Koenigswarter was disinherited by her family, the Rothschilds.[1] The couple eventually divorced in 1956.[3] In 1958, she purchased a house with a Manhattan skyline view, originally built for film director Josef von Sternberg, at 63 Kingswood Road in Weehawken, New Jersey.

In New York, de Koenigswarter became a friend and patron of many prominent jazz musicians, hosting jam sessions in her hotel suite, often driving them in her Bentley when they needed a lift to performances,[3] as well as sometimes helping them to pay rent, buy groceries, and making hospital visits.[2] Although not a musician herself,[2] she is sometimes referred to as the "bebop baroness"[8] or "jazz baroness"[5] because of her patronage of Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker among others. Following Parker's death in her Stanhope rooms in 1955,[6] de Koenigswarter was asked to leave by the hotel management; she re-located to the Bolivar Hotel[7]:184 at 230 Central Park West, a building commemorated in Thelonious Monk's 1956 composition "Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are".

Jirayr Zorthian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jirayr_Zorthian

Jirayr Hamparzoom Zorthian (Armenian: Ժիրայր Զորթեան) (April 14, 1911 — January 6, 2004) was an Armenian American artist...Born of Armenian parents on April 14, 1911, in Kütahya, Western Anatolia, Ottoman Empire, Zorthian escaped through Europe with the remnants of his family after two waves of political massacres, and arrived in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1923. He earned a Master of Fine Arts at Yale University (where he had a "full college scholarship to the Yale School of fine arts")[1] and studied art in Italy in the 1930s.

..During World War II, he served stateside in army intelligence and painted what he came to consider his masterpiece—a mural he titled The Phantasmagoria of Military Intelligence Training. His first marriage, to shaving cream heiress Betty Williams, ended in divorce but he gained the first acres of the Altadena ranch where he lived from 1945 until his death.

..Zorthian was perhaps better known in Southern California art circles for his free-form lifestyle than for his prodigious art. Each spring during the last decade of his life he threw a primavera birthday party, dubbing himself Zor-Bacchus, wearing a toga over long red underwear, and nibbling grapes from the hands of nude, garlanded nymphs (many of which were his artist models). Zorthian joined the nymphs in dancing to the pipes of a cavorting Pan garbed in furry goat leggings. Alcohol flowed freely and a roasted pig fed hundreds of guests who could include scientists, movie stars, internationally known artists, writers and musicians and ordinary people. July 15, 1952, Zorthian hosted a legendary party on his ranch, where Charlie Parker played, a woman performed a strip tease atop a rocking horse, and other riled-up guests tore their clothes off...

The diminutive Armenian-American was friends with jazzman Charlie Parker, artist Andy Warhol and Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman.

Jirayr Zorthian’s Controversial Art Piece Unveiled after 62 Years https://massispost.com/2017/07/jirayr-z ... -62-years/

GLENDALE– Kutahya-born, late artist Jirayr Zorthian’s The Divorcement, a controversial art piece that had been confined to a shipping crate since 1955, was finally unveiled to a packed gallery of enthusiastic attendees on July 14, 2017 at Roslin Art Gallery. This historic event continued the following day with a heartfelt panel discussing the stories, legends, artistic significance, and family history behind the piece with daughter Seyburn Zorthian, former Smithsonian associate Paul Karlstrom, artist Patricia Ferber, and moderator Tom Coston of the Light Bringer Project of Pasadena...

During the early 1950s, Betty Williams had befriended the then budding author of Dianetics, L. Ron Hubbard. In a letter Jirayr had written to his key model, Jennifer Fabos during the 90s, he described his encounter with L. Ron Hubbard, whom Betty had asked to visit the ranch to convince Jirayr not to show the piece. However, according to Fabos, once Hubbard saw the piece, “he stood in front of it for an hour, just staring at the painting. And then, when he finally spoke, after studying it for so long, he turned and told Jirayr that he didn’t need any type of counseling. That he had saved himself thousands of dollars in psychoanalysis. It’s true. If you come up close, you could see all the stuff he put into it telling of his great suffering and agony.”

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Inconsistencies in the Marjorie Cameron Bio https://zodiackillerhoax1986.freeforums ... ameron-bio

Maybe this is lazy journalism, maybe there are hazy recollections at play, but to me it's a big red flag given the "secretive" nature of her work with the U.S. government. Remember Hubbard's alibi for his exploits with Parsons? ..

Oh, I think it's crystal clear that Hubbard recruited Marjorie and sicced her on Jack Parsons deliberately. They apparently fell in love more or less for real, but remember, Marjorie was deeply, deeply nuts. The story about it all being by chance is horseshit. Parsons apparently believed it was, but that doesn't mean it was. Nothing involving Hubbard happened by chance, nor was it reported truthfully. Hubbard was the greatest con artist and pimp of them all. Along with McMurtry, Talbot Smith, and Aquino, Jack Parsons really believed in Magick. They never caught on that Crowley and Hubbard were just grifters. Crowley wasn't even in Hubbard's league. He was more in Hitler's league as a monomaniacal, manipulative sociopath, except Hubbard was much more intelligent than Hitler.

...she was definitely in the Navy in WWII. As an artist, she was assigned to making up graphics for daily briefings to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's apparently where she became acquainted with Hubbard. She had a top secret security clearance, because she was seeing top secret reports, etc, and making graphics from them...

Visual artist Wallace Berman published and distributed nine issues of the assemblage magazine Semina between 1955 and 1964...I read about Berman being on Sgt Peppers cover and my jaw dropped. I wonder now if the Beatles were friends with Berman. That could explain Charlie's fixation with them, and the use of Beatles titles that wasn't out yet at the time. An example would be Susan Atkins was called Sexy Sadie before the Beatles came out with an album with that same song title.

..Charlie himself once said that the Navy was supplying a lot of money--for what? He didn't say. Funny, because Jay Sebring had served in the Navy. And Charlie supposedly learned hypnosis from a Navy shrink who was a convicted pedophile accused of using hypnosis to seduce little girls into a sex trafficking ring.

The whole laurel canyon and hippie scene seems to have been one giant experiment. Most, if not all the bands that first came out of that scene had at least one member who's parents were military intelligence. It served a lot of purposes as all government experiments do. It co-opted the peace movement, and it helped bring in the Crowley/Rosicrucian aeon of Horus. One of the mottos of Rosicrucianism is "solve et coagula". It's the breaking down and building up of the person in terms of initiation, and mold that person in their image. It can also be done on society al a whole, through fear, sex, drugs, and other debaucheries. I look at the 60s and early 70s as the initiation of the American society. I use to think that the occult was used as only a front to hide other nefarious things. It is don't get me wrong, but I also found out that the ones who instigate these things believe in what they're saying and doing 100%...

https://zodiackillerhoax1986.freeforums ... bio?page=2

McGowan concludes with the transition from the 60’s and 70’s Canyon artists to the origins of 80’s New Wave. Rock was a well established phenomenon by that time, so if you think that puts a kibosh on all this conspiratard nonsense, you’d be dead wrong. As every rock fan is aware, a little record label called IRS Records run by a gentleman named Miles Copeland III was home to more than a few big names in 80’s pop. His brother Ian Copeland also ran a booking agency called Frontier Booking International (aka FBI). Combined with the IRS roster, FBI’s contact with other major artists extended their influence over the New Wave era even further. Their little brother, Stewart, formed a little band called The Police. Big deal, right? Plenty of families go into the entertainment industry. It would be easy to dismiss if the patriarch of the Copeland family weren’t a well known CIA operative.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Copeland_Jr.

..Michael Mountain/Hugh Mountain/Hugh Bernstein was one of the founders of the Process. The infamous Sidney Bernstein was a close relation of his. He owned and operated Granada TV in the UK, made propaganda films during WW2, and was part of some NATO round table group. He was also in constant contact with MI6.

..On the 6-13-83 show side 1 3:00 she [Mae Brussell] reports on the death of Roy Radin saying him and Henry Kissinger were very good friends. She claimed that Radinn was throwing a party the day of the trial of Melanie Holler and hinted of Kissengers attendance. Later at the 7:00 mark she reports on the attendance of Baron Von Thyssen at a watergate anniversary or commemoration party. Thyssen was the man who made Andrew Crispo rich to the sum of 90 million dollars through art sales. Some no doubt were stolen.