It’s one thing to have a strong hunch that “old” content (90’s) has new insights for the year 2024, but it’s quite another to watch and catch and follow wisps of curiosity that become rabbit trails that become peeks into history’s odd synchs and reverberations, like another William to add to the list: William Weld.

Before we go there, the OH SHIT isn’t just O-Ring related, it’s a whole string of curiosity pearls emanating from the first season of the X-Files, like the episode featuring the murderous “Eve” clones, where a brief look at a tv screen in the background gave me the Bill Weld trail.

Did you know the O-Ring failure that led to the Challenger blowing up and traumatizing untold amounts of school children has its origins in BOTH a Mormon cult AND a Satanic one? Yep, and here’s the Mormon cult part (emphasis mine):

One of the businesses was founded by the former prophet (and Warren Jeffs’ father) Rulon Jeffs in 1968, and was named Utah Tool and Die Company; ten years later, the company changed its name to HydraPak, with Rulon on the board of directors. Jeffs. HydraPak is the sole contractor used by NASA to manufacture space shuttle O-rings.

This breakaway faction of the LDS faith did their breaking in 1929, when infamous rocket scientist and occultist, Jack Parsons, was just 15 years old and already walking his path to the eventual explosion that would allegedly kill him.

As a kid in Pasadena, Parsons was obsessed with traveling to the moon, and he devoured Jules Verne novels. That curiosity extended into a love of explosives. The 12-year-old budding chemist would scrape the black powder from fireworks and pack it tightly into casings to fashion rudimentary rockets.

It was also around this time he first dabbled in the occult — by attempting to contact the devil in his bedroom.

The O-Ring reference in X-Files comes after two other episodes that MORE than caught my attention, and all these congruently from 7-9. In episode 7 the mixing of “real” and “fiction” includes the name of a REAL software program, Eurisko. From the link:

Development commenced at Carnegie Mellon in 1976 and continued at Stanford University in 1978 when Lenat returned to teach. “For the first five years, nothing good came out of it”, Lenat said. But when the implementation was changed to a frame language based representation he called RLL (Representation Language Language), heuristic creation and modification became much simpler. Eurisko was then applied to a number of domains with surprising success, including VLSI chip design.

Lenat and Eurisko gained notoriety by submitting the winning fleet (a large number of stationary, lightly-armored ships with many small weapons) to the United States Traveller TCS national championship in 1981, forcing extensive changes to the game’s rules. However, Eurisko won again in 1982 when the program discovered that the rules permitted the program to destroy its own ships, permitting it to continue to use much the same strategy. Tournament officials announced that if Eurisko won another championship the competition would be abolished; Lenat retired Eurisko from the game. The Traveller TCS wins brought Lenat to the attention of DARPA, which has funded much of his subsequent work.

Are you seeing the REAL LIFE dynamics here? Well, what happens in the piece of “fiction” where this references resides? The hippie programmer who references traveling to see the Grateful Dead (cute) is abducted by the government and the implication is his resistance to making weapons will be reduced through “hard” bargaining. Cute.

Episode 8 takes us to Alaska and introduces us to our parasitic adversaries, and the whole thing is VERY reminiscent of a certain True Detective season that just concluded, pissing off nearly EVERYONE against the increasingly unpopular WOKE messaging they keep shoving in our faces. Remember, though, X-Files was introduced in 1993, which is now over 30 years ago, so the themes of that decade have had quite a lot of time to grow, or, I should say, metastasize.

The year ’93 is significant because it was one of the most significant numbers for Crowley’s followers, and it was also the year the World Trade Center was bombed, which is of course NOT a coincidence.

Here’s the significance:

The number 93 is of great significance in Thelema.[91] The central philosophy of Thelema is in two phrases from Liber AL: “do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law” and “love is the law, love under will”. Crowley urged their use in everyday communications, and himself used them to greet people.

Are you beginning to understand why a name like WILLiam keeps coming up when you start investigating this kind of stuff? Especially when you consider yourself a poet with this same middle name, which you turned into an entire alter-ego. Yeah.

So, William Weld, who was he? And why does his connection to Tuesday Weld matter for someone researching the occult influence on popular culture? First we’ll take a look at Bill:

William Floyd Weld (born July 31, 1945) is an American attorney, businessman, author, and politician who served as the 68th Governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997. A Harvard and Oxford graduate,[citation needed] Weld began his career as legal counsel to the United States House Committee on the Judiciary before becoming the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts and later, the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division. He worked on a series of high-profile public corruption cases and later resigned in protest of an ethics scandal and associated investigations into Attorney General Edwin Meese.

Weld was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1990. In the 1994 election, he was reelected by the largest margin of victory in Massachusetts history. In 1996, he was the Republican nominee for the United States Senate in Massachusetts, losing to Democratic incumbent John Kerry.

And then we’ll take a look at Tuesday Weld:

Still-life gave way to motion pictures and Los Angeles. In 1956 she made both her television debut and first film appearance, in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man. She was 12 years old and had already had a nervous breakdown, was battling alcoholism, and had tried to take her own life. Your standard Hollywood trifecta.

I think this is a good place to stop for today, but rest assured this line of inquiry will continue.