Join Rob on Monday, July 7th, ’25 (2 +5 = 7), i.e., 777, when he will be live on Jimmy Church’s Fade to Black! Rob will be previewing Cinema Symbolism 4, the Rainbow-OZ death curse, and discussing the Crowleyan masterpieces Longlegs (2024) and Late Night with the Devil (2024) The show debuts live at 10:00 p.m. EST; to watch, click the banner:
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The Rob Sullivan Experience will be live on July 7, (77) 2025, when Rob returns to Fade to Black, hosted by fellow History Channel personality Jimmy Church. The show debuts at 10:00 p.m. EST; to watch, click the banner:
Rob’s past appearances on Fade to Black:
The Rob Sullivan Experience returns to Wake up with Miya previewing Cinema Symbolism 4 and Cinema Symbolism OZ, discussing The Wizard of Oz (1939), Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999), The Shining (1980), and a host of other occult goodie goodies. Check it out!
Brand new podcast! The Rob Sullivan Experience returns to Codega’s Codex of Curiosities giving a preview of his forthcoming books Cinema Symbolism 4 and Cinema Symbolism OZ – check it out!
After taking a small break to concentrate on my books, The Rob Sullivan Experience returns to the airwaves with an appearance on the most excellent The John Cooper Show, which debuted March 30th, 2025. Check it out!
The Kenny Chesney song “The Tin Man,” which conjures The Wizard of Oz (1939) in its lyrics, was originally released on April 19th, 1994, on Capricorn Records, suggesting the Goat of Mendes, the leaping goat, the godhead, a year after the Branch Davidian Compound burned to the ground (4/19/93) and a year before the OKC Murrah Building terrorist attack (4/19/95), was re-released on his Greatest Hits album on September 26th, 2000. Forty-two weeks later, on July 23rd, 2001, “The Tin Man” was re-released as a single; its music video was scheduled to be filmed seven weeks later, on September 11th, 2001, in front of the World Trade Center but was canceled a few days beforehand because BNA Records (the new label) did not believe a video was necessary. “The Tin Man,” both the Ozian character and the tune’s name, has a sum of 49 = 72 using reverse Pythagorean reduction.[1] Cinema Symbolism 4, Cinema Symbolism OZ, and Cinema Symbolism Third Edition are coming along splendidly.
[1] T/7 + h/1 + e/4 = 12, T/7 + i/9 + n/4 = 20, M/5 + a/8 + n/4 = 17; 12 + 20 + 17 = 49.
From Cinema Symbolism Third Edition:
An astounding Jungian synchronicity (or Swedenborgian correspondence) occurred on the set of The Wizard of Oz that defies all rational explanation. The unbelievable story was told in Aljean Harmetz’s seminal The Making of the Wizard of Oz (1977),
“For Professor Marvel’s coat,” says Mary Mayer [a unit publicist on Oz], “they wanted grandeur gone to seed. A nice-looking coat but very tattered. So the Wardrobe Department went down to an old second-hand store on Main Street and bought a whole rack of coats. And Frank Morgan and the wardrobe man and Victor Flemming got together and chose one. It was kind of a Prince Albert coat. It was black broadcloth and it had a velvet collar, but the nap was all worn out off the velvet.” Helene Bowman recalls the coat as “ratty with age, a Prince Albert jacket with a green look.”
The coat fitted Morgan and had the right look of shabby gentility, and one hot afternoon Frank Morgan turned out the pocket. Inside was the name “L. Frank Baum.”
“We wired the tailor in Chicago,” says Mary Mayer, “and sent pictures. And the tailor sent back a notarized letter saying that the coat had been made for Frank Baum. Baum’s widow identified the coat, too, and after the picture was finished we presented it to her. But I could never get anyone to believe the story.”
The story was published once–as an example of the lies press agents are willing to tell in order get a story into print.[1]
[1] Aljean Harmetz, The Making of The Wizard of Oz (1977; repr., Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2013), 241-242.
In 777 (1909), Master Therion identifies 28 as his number of triumph and strength. Crowley writes “28 [7 + 7 + 7 + 7]. Attainable; and, so useful. ‘My victory,’ and ‘My power,’ says the Philosophus.” On Saturday, December 7, 2024, Heritage Auctions sold a screen-worn pair of the Ruby Slippers for $28 million (the final bid) in Dallas, Texas, the location of JFK’s assassination, and where Jack Ruby dispatched Lee Harvey OZwald, 61 years (6 + 1 = 7) earlier, continuing to remind us the curse is active.
Rob and Vadim continue their fascinating discussion about The Wizard of Oz (1939) and its nexus to the Back to the Future trilogy, John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), and President Donald J. Trump. This is the Russian dub – enjoy!
In Back to the Future III, set in 1885, the first glimpse of the courthouse’s kabalistic clock face–its clock tower–is when it is being delivered (top), displaying a time of 10:04, anticipating the November 12th, 1955, 10:04 p.m. lightning strike that will cease it from operating. When Marty and Doc pose for a picture before the clock face (bottom), the time is 8:08 or 88, the mileage necessary for the DeLorean to break the spacetime continuum. The time 10:04 is also an allusion to the date October 4th, when there are 88 days remaining to the end of the year on the solar calendar.
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