The Magical Influences of Mary Poppins
Jamie Hanshaw, author of Weird Stuff: Hollywood Culture Creation and Hollywood Mind Control, is an independent researcher who has been investigating Disney’s role in cultural engineering for decades. In the following article, she proves that the figure of Mary Poppins, created by novelist Pamela Travers and later adapted into a celebrated Disney film, grew out of the author’s deep interest in the occult—and was designed to convey that same occult outlook to young readers.