The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Though many of you know this to be a cult favorite that many of your compatriots, children, Aunts and uncles or parents dressed up as these characters and went to midnight showings of and sang and danced and carried on with hundreds of showings of this classic. (My wife was one of these happy dancing singing people back in the day).

However, you may not know some of the actual history behind Transylvania, Time Travel, or the whole Science Fiction, sometimes Horror genre or the wonderfully comedic version of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" that began on Broadway and then wound up as a movie with Tim Curry, Brian Boswick, and Susan Sarandon as the leads during the 1970s.

If you start to travel back in history you have the real horror of the French Revolution. This time period where the U.S. had just won its independence from Great Britain was a very heady time of changes in the group psyche of the world. One of the many revolutionaries of that time (intellectually speaking) was the Comte De Saint Germain, a European Nobleman. His ideas coupled with Prince Ragocy (several different spellings of this name Ragocy) of Transylvania and then the father of the Scientific Method, Sir Francis Bacon of England all became entertwined with concepts like Alchemy, mysticism, Time Travel, Immortality.

And the result today from all this are popular perversions of the actual truth which was way above most of the common people's heads of those times and have manifested themselves today as Bela Lugosi's Dracula ( a combination of Vlad the Impaler who was the physical Count Dracula of Transylvania) and Prince Ragocy of Transylvania who was and is associated with also possibly being the Comte De Saint Germain and Sir Francis Bacon, the Father of the Scientific Method. So, you can see the confusion as well as entertainment that this has generated among the religious faithful and all others ever since. So, in a sense: The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a way for unseen and unknown things to at least be laughed at even if the general public (at times) isn't ready for Prime Time.

As people become both more educated and enlightened worldwide there will be less confusion, I hope.
However, I hope there is always laughter, because no one can become  fully enlightened without being able to laugh at themselves and their own existence first. Heady thought, isn't it?