Long before Contact In The Desert, Southern California has long been a sanctuary space for UFO believers, seekers, self-made mystics, and their cults. Historian Adam Gorightly discusses George Van Tassell and the Contactee Movement of the 1950s, ritual magician Jack Parsons and his collaborations with L. Ron Hubbard, Charles Manson's psychic identification with coyotes, and the origins of the Discordian society. 

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