esoteric hollywood

Hollywood Voodoo: Jay Dyer on Opperman Report

Ed Opperman of the Opperman Report invited me on to discuss Hollywood magic and the art of deciphering film.  In this conversation we cover new ground with Baron Samedhi and Live and Let Die, voodoo and ritual sacrifice, serial killers and the works of Dave McGowan, the Sacramento Vampire, Michael Jacko, and Hollywood ritual murders.  From there we move to Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum and his connection to 007, the origin of rave culture and the drug trade, as well as mob connections and the false economy (based on said dru

Esoteric Hollywood: Truman Show & Groundhog Day Deciphered

In this episode, I decipher the philosophical and sometime esoteric underpinnings to two popular 90s films, Groundhog Day and The Truman Show. Surprising perhaps to some, both films exhibit a great deal of philosophical depth and forethought. Curious ethical and metaphysical questions are raised in both, and with The Truman Show in particular.

Perfect Control Without Further Fear: A Psychobiography of L. Ron Hubbard

Ron.
©James L. Kelley 2015
Southern California, circa 1948. A depressed, impotent Navy veteran named L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986) angles his shoulders toward a customized high-speed typewriter. His dim, narrow eyes begin to glint as his fingers strike the keys. This, however, will be a new type of writing for Hubbard, who has long-since made his name as a penny-a-word pulp writer…