Wilhelm Reich
Better known for his earlier work as a respected psychoanalyst, Wilhelm Reich’s professional psychiatric focuses were primarily on character structure as opposed to individuals’ neurotic symptoms, as Freud and the gang popularized and still makes up much of modern psychology today.
Synthesizing material from psychoanalysis, economics, anthropology, ethics and sociology, he promoted sexuality in young adults as a necessary and life-positive factor and believed that sexual repression was largely responsible for individual neuroses. He believed that parental and social punishment against youthful expressions of emotion, and sexual love led to internalized repression. If sexual repression became chronic, the consequent internal tension formed a neuro-muscular armoring with which the individual protectively walled him/her-self off from pursuing life-positive pleasure, in order to avoid pain. Ironically, this type of armoring tends to rewire an individual to seek pain rather than pleasure, whether for themselves or, sadistically, for others.
Synthesizing material from psychoanalysis, economics, anthropology, ethics and sociology, he promoted sexulaity in young adults as a necessary and life-positive factor and believed that sexual repression was largely responsible for individual neuroses. He believed that parental and social punishment against youthful expressions of emotion, and sexual love led to internalized repression. If sexual repression became chronic, the consequent internal tension formed a neuro-muscular armoring with which the individual protectively walled him/her-self off from pursuing life-positive pleasure, in order to avoid pain. Ironically, this type of armoring tends to rewire an individual to seek pain rather than pleasure, whether for themselves or, sadistically, for others.
While Reich worked in social and political circles to pass laws for equal rights of women (he was a proponent of the right to financial independence for women, as well as for the availability of divorce and contraception) and protection of children, he mainly developed therapeutic methods to aid people in giving up their emotional armor.
Reich provided some of the first clear evidence that Freud’s libido was a real energy, discharged during sexual orgasm as well as emotional expression. He found that many of his psychiatric patients who suffered from depression and other symptoms congruent with emotional armoring usually had little-to-no sexual life, and therefore no outlet for the release and natural flow of this natural energy.
In the 1930s Reich was kicked out of the International Psychoanalytic Association and his books were burned by the Nazis and German Communist Party. After fleeing to Scandinavia, he went about some of the first bioelectrical experiments, involving the subject of human emotional repression and sexuality. His experiments proved that emotion, sexual excitation and orgastic discharge were measurable phenomena. These discoveries would increasingly put him in opposition with the dominant status quo of academia and the scientific community of his time.
Continuing his experiments, Reich later discovered the specific process by which tissue decays, and which lies at the basis of the formation of cancer cells. These directly observable findings, not theories, significantly predated George Papanicolaou’s (as in pap-test , pap-smear) work which Reich believed had been stolen from him. As is the case throughout history, many of the world’s innovators have been ostracized and their books burned, while mainstream science covertly assimilates the aspects useful to their own money-centric agendas.
Under a microscope, Reich discovered a vesicle he named the bion which lies at the border between the realms of living and non-living matter. He found that living matter as well as non-living matter subjected to a process of hydration produced these bions, which under specific conditions develop into known micro-organisms such as protozoa. He saw that plant matter would break down into these vesicles to form micro-organisms, new life. In other specific conditions, the breaking down of living cells leads to the production of other microscopic forms toxic in nature. He called these t-bacilli. These t-bacilli were found abundantly in cancer patients, bu not in healthy people. The injection of t-bacilli into mice could lead to tumor formation.
What had first appeared to Reich as only bioelectriciry was later clarified as a much more powerful bioenergetic form or life-energy observable under a microscope as having a bluish field around living cells, and that this same energy expressed itself as emotion and sexuality. He eventually labeled this orgone energy which has also been observed as a bluish aura around trees and mountain ranges.
Similar to ancient concepts of aether and vital force, orgone energy is an ambient, cosmic energy that fills all space and moves with a pulsing rhythm. In his experiments to isolate this energy, he proved that it exists in high vacuum, and as such is a type of cosmic aether.
These discoveries led to further controversy, as these discoveries pave the way for such fantastical sounding feats as ending drought (cloud seeding), the greening of deserts and even detoxification of nuclear waste and implications of a new source of clean energy.
During the run of Reich’s investigations he developed an enclosure made of organic and inorganic materials which he found attracted orgone energy. This orgone accumulator developed high charges of orgone energy and was proven to increase plant growth and yields of charged seeds and plants, as well as speed healing of wounds and degenerative tissue disease.
After many plant and animal trials, he began treating people with combined emotional and orgone energy approaches with great results. Around this time he was attacked from many sides by the powers that be, such as the Food and Drug Administration in a war against natural healing therapies and methods (repression of non revenue generating healing methods has always been a major agenda of the FDA).
There is much more to learn about Reich’s discoveries and battles with the money-hungry status quo, but here I end the nastier side of Reich’s experiences with the Greed Machine by relating that the FDA’s attack against Reich was fraud perpetrated against the People and justice, in that the courts authorized the burning of his books and sentencing Reich to jail, where he later died.
Today, organizations such as the Orgone Biophyscial Research Lab and The American College of Orgonomy have reproduced Reich’s original works and continue the research he began.
DeMeo’s site, the Orogone Biophysical Research Lab, is an excellent place to pursue education about orgonomy and orgone. You can purchase materials for making your own orgone accumulators and orgone blankets, or purchase pre-made accumulators from Oronics.com. Thierrie at orgonics.com is a very knowledgeable woman who has been making orgone blankets and accumulators for many years. The products found at orgonics.com are high quality and based on the research and findings of Dr. Reich. I recommend reading the Orgone Accumulator Handbook before committing to any purchase or construction of orgone devices. The book comes with complete plans for building human sized accumulators, accumulator box with wand, and blankets, and most importantly, describes the research and understanding behind such devices.
I would caution against purchasing orgone generators or Tower Busters, etc. Such items claim to be based on scientific findings like those if Reich, but are in reality this is inaccurate. I asked Thierrie Cook her perspective on so called orgone generators. From what I’d read orgone accumulators can be positive or harmful depending in the ambient energy, so it made no sense to me how these orgone generators can claim to ‘transform DOR [a negative form of orgone energy] into orgone’ and her response was that orgone energy is a natural occurence. Orgone generators are like trying to harness this naturally occurring energy and forcing it to behave in prescribed ways. Whereas with Reich-based orgone accumulators good old common sense and reason is required. You shouldn’t use them in an environment filled with EM radiation (right in front of the television). The optimal environment in which to use orgone devices is outdoors, away from cell towers and other sources of EM pollution. Please perform additional research of your own on orgone an orgonics, keeping in mind that beliefs are structures you create yourself, whether through believing things you come across or creating your own belief systems. There are still many anti-Reich, pro-establishment websites out to discredit these things that have reintroduced wellbeing and and health for many people.
Tower Busters and Orgonite
Ok, in a nutshell, the intentions of many of the tower busters type websites and products are well meaning, but the science is lacking. While the basic theory behind orgonic devices includes the combinatin of organic and inorganic substances, globbing together a bunch of both and adding a few crystals doesn’t necessarily mean you can single-handedly bring down cell tower and EM pollution for miles around, as many of these sites claim.
Their hearts, Will and intention are in the right place, but there is little to no science to back up these extensions of Reich’s work. Read the Accumulator Handbook and learn yourself what comprises an orgone accumulator.
Don’t get me wrong, as I said these projects’ intentions are in the right place. We do not need microwave towers polluting our environment, just as we need gang stalking and even more subtle forms of covert manipulation like we need a bullet in the head, but IMHO there are better means to carry out these noble intentions and goals.
It seems to me that the idea of countering life-negative forces lies primarily in the way we conduct ourselves, our thoughts and ultimately the way we interact with our environment and fellow beings. As such, creative activity like chaos magick and creating positive thought forms, are much more well equipped when it comes to the etheric and spiritual fronts of understanding and countering such sources of offense like EM pollution and cultural illness like cover harassment and stalking.
I’m running short on time just now with which to delve into these topics here, but the basic idea is to forget the church, forget the people, we’ll erect a different steeple. errrr chaos magick and thoughforms are the stuff of remaking ourselves and our perceptions. If something isn’t working for you, redefine it! Make it your own through re-association and redefinition.
In my experience even deep ruts of personal habit can be changed with a word, a meaningful symbol of your intention. Like a geometrical or mathematical proof, whole complexes of thought structure can be symbolized by whatever you want/ however you see things. Then you can work with these symbols to remake your perceptions.
I will come back to this article later on to flesh things out a bit for those of you less familiar with chaos and sigil magick. For now I wish to focus on thoughtforms. As touched on in the Etheric Attack section, some people seem more comfortable with 20th century methods of personal processing and reordering as psychotherapy, and then there are those of us who see not just a more efficicient route, but one devoid of cultural trappings that have little to do with our core beings.
If you have the desire to benefit yourself or your fellow beings and environment with something lie orgonite, consider creating a thoughtform. In my experience, these freeform constructs/creations have much more power to effect positive development in people and environment. Put shortly, creative use of thoughtforms gets more directly to the point of applying our humanity, compassion and free will to areas of concern and underlying demands for liberty.
Like I said, I hope to pick up and develop this stub of a topic soon, but for now check out this awesome article on Healing Thoughtforms. For an intro to chaos magick [the first magickal system I got the point of, for its freeform use of creativity] you may wish to visit such notions as beliefs as means rather than ends, and Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic, and excellent re-introduction to self’s true form, creation and creativity.