Carl Sagan
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Carl Sagan was a jewish media actor, used in the media industry and in the Science Church, as expert on popular science, to push atheism and to play the archetype of hawk headed Horus. He was educated at University of Chicago and University of California Berkeley. He was a consultant at RAND Corporation and taught at Harvard and Cornell. In 1957 he married Lynn Margulis (Brandeis University, National Academy of Sciences). |
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Like Marvin Minsky, he was a consultant on Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey. He played a role in the Apollo moon landing ritual of NASA and helped developing the Voyager Golden Record.
He was the teacher of David Morrison (NASA Aames Research Center, SETI Institute, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Committee for Skeptical Inquiry).
He was a member of the masonic Cosmos Club (affiliated with National Geographic).
In 1968 he invited jesuit trained NASA astronaut Brian O'Leary to work with him at Cornell University.
In 1976 he co-founded the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry with James Randi, BF Skinner (CIA front Esalen), Philip Klass (AAAS, UFO researcher), Isaac Asimov. It published Skeptical Inquirer with Douglas Hofstadter (Stanford, AAAS, American Philosophical Society, Scientific American), Martin Gardner and Benjamin Radford.
From 1980 he hosted PBS show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. He often appeared on NBC show The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
He founded the Planetary Society (Saturn logo) with Bruce Murray and advisory council of Buzz Aldrin, David Brin and Neil deGrasse Tyson. He worked for the SETI Institute with Jill Tarter.
He married Ann Druyan in 1981 (year of wedding Charles and Diana).
He was awarded the Pullitzer Prize.
In 1987 the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry gave him an In Praise of Reason Award. He wrote the introduction of Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time.
In 1995 he wrote The Demon-Haunted World with his wife Ann Druyan (criticism of John Mack and his alien abduction research).
In 1997 (year of Diana's death) his novel Contact was made into a Hollywood movie by Robert Zemeckis with Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, Tom Skerrit, David Morse, William Fichtner, Jena Malone and John Hurt.
Screenwriter James V Hart worked with David Wilcock (the New Age Church) and on Steven Spielberg's Hook (Peter Pan programming, produced by Diana's lover Dodi Fayed, Nathan Crowley as production designer) with Robin Williams, Muppet Treasure Island, Bram Stoker's Dracula (member of the HOGD), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with Robert De Niro and Helena Bonham Carter.
It was based on contacting the Holy Guardian Angel in Crowley's Thelema and the wormhole concept of his friend Kip Thorne (june 1 1940), who would also work on Christopher Nolan's Interstellar with Nathan Crowley.
In 2015 president Martin Rees launched Breakthrough Initiatives at the Royal Society-with Stephen Hawking, Yuri Milner and Ann Druyan. It uses the Robert Byrd Green Bank Telescope in Virginia supposedly to listen for 'alien' communication. It was named after Oddfellow and senator Robert Byrd, one of the main characters in Cathy O'Brien's narrative. The telescope, funded by NSF, was used in the Oumaouma media ritual in 2017 with Avi Loeb.
Cosmos would later be hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Brian O'Leary appeared in Thrive of Foster Gamble.
His son Nick Sagan worked for Disney and Star Trek.
Astrological chart
born 11/9/1934, date d Chaim Weizmann, French Montana, 3 days before Charles Manson.
Asc: Taurus, mc: Aquarius. Dom: Scorpio (Death), Taurus, Aquarius - Venus, Uranus, Pluto.
died 12/20/1996, date Jonah Hill, d Brittany Murphy, Uri Geller.