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This episode Megan and Milena get spooky with American astronomer Vera Rubin & American occultist, artist, performer, and poet Marjorie Cameron.
Vera Rubin
Vera Rubin’s work is literally…..out of this world. Sorry, couldn’t resist. Vera worked for decades as an astronomer, best known for her work on galaxy rotation rates. Don’t have any idea what that means? Well Megan doesn’t either, so no worries. This episode we cover what the hell that means and how dark matter comes into the mix.
Marjorie Cameron
Okay so…..shit’s gonna get weird today. Last episode we got murdery with the death dollhouses of murder – today we’re getting Aleister-Crowley-freak-explosion-scientology-witch-woman-weird with the artist Marjorie Cameron.
Camerson was an influential underground figure in the LA creative scene in the 1950’s and 60’s. Counter to just about every norm in conservative post-war America, Cameron lived immersed in her creative and occult work. This episode we cover how this smart kid from small town Iowa ended up in 1960’s LA as a sex magick woman.
Selected Work
Mentioned this episode:
- Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services – Also known as WAVES, Navy program Cameron was enlisted in during WWII
- Jack Parsons – Acclaimed rocket scientist, occultist, and husband to Cameron – met a very suspicious end
- L. Ron Hubbart – Yup, that L. Ron Hubbart. Pal’s with Cameron’s husband
- Aleister Crowley – Only known as ‘wickedest man in the world’, he was a very influential British writer and artist and occultist, who Jack Parsons studied under
- Ordo Templi Orientis – Occultist organization that Crowley helped form and Parsons headed in the United States division
- Wallace Berman – Artist who included Cameron’s art in a show of his, resulting in the police shutting it down for lewdness
- Curtis Harrington – Director of The Wormwood Star, documenting Cameron and her art
- Kenneth Anger – Director of the art film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome…just….go see for yourself….
- Scott Hobbs – Friend of Cameron’s and director of the Cameron-Parsons Foundation
Wanna know more? Always a book for that (usually) (or article)
Celeida Tostes by editors Marcus de Lontra Costa & Raquel Silva. Available to read for free, this is a great collection of essays in both Portuguese and English
Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron by Spencer Kanas
Songs for the Witch Woman by Marjorie Cameron and John W. Parsons
As always, music by EeL