Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), if you don’t already know him, is worth the detour. He must be, along with Nicolas Tesla and a few others, among the most underrated scientists of all time. Not only did Reich, definitely Sigmund Freud’s most brilliant student and successor, achieve an impressive amount of successes and discoveries in the immediate fields of psychology and psychoanalysis that were his (such as on the subjects of neurosis, anxiety, sex-morality, orgasm, character, etc) but he also undertook extensive research and practice, later in his career, in the areas of medecine, physics, astrophysics and engineering. More specifically, he dedicated many years on the subject of cancer, as he was looking to understand its causes and possibly even maybe to find a cure. He made extensive experiments in that direction using the discovery of Orgone Energy, with « bions » administered via a syringe, and with the Orgone Energy Accumulator (a box made out of wood and metal in which patients were standing) to try to alleviate at least some of the suffering of his patients. On topics of natural science, he worked on aurora borealis as a manifestation of Orgone Energy present in the sky and on the links it has with nuclear energy. He also completed the circle that made him akin with the Ancients, as he engineered and crafted himself the tools and technology necessary for his experiments, from the Cloudbuster (a cannon for fertilizing clouds), the Orgone Energy Accumulator, to the bion formula and other things.
The circumstances surrounding his death, like in the case of so many great characters, are both tragic and unclear. After having managed to survive the rise of Nazism in both Germany and Norway by escaping at the last minute (he emigrated to the U.S. in 1939) the powers of this world finally got to him where he expected them the least, the United States of America. Starting in 1947, the FDA began a propaganda campaign against Reich that lasted for years. In 1954, an Injunction was filed against him using the excuse of Orgone Energy. The Judge decreed that all Orgone Energy Accumulator and all related material should be destroyed. The burning of books that became the law of the land under the Nazis was continuing here at home in North America, as if the Inquisition was still going on. As his appeals were all denied, he was incarcerated in 1957 and died of heart failure later that year. Heart failure being a signature of the Underground Reich when it is time to get rid of somebody who is in the way, his death will always look to me rather like an execution. But, according to more recent research undertaken on the matter by James DeMeo, PhD, a specialist on Reich and Orgone energy, Communist agents seemed to have played a key role, along with other people. Please take the time to get more acquianted with this great scientist.
Wilhelm Reich Last Will and Testament
History of the Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust
Your friendly appreciation of Wilhelm Reich is much appreciated at a time when his work is still being distorted, attacked and villified in the mainstream media:
http://www.orgonelab.org/DeMeoReviewOfTurner.htm
But please take care about identifications of who it was that destroyed Reich. In the USA for many years it was reflexively blamed upon the right-wing. However, newer documentation, as well as a simple review of who it has been that constantly smears Reich in the years after his death, proves it was the Communist fanatics who destroyed him. Reich was put on an NKVD death-list shortly after his 1932 expulsion from the German Communist Party, which happened because he dared to criticize the anti-freedom policies of Stalinism, and also the party bosses, including Lenin. In the USA, today we know how members of two major Soviet spy rings plotted to destroy Reich, with public slander and defamation. These people also had their allies in psychiatry, Big Pharma Medicine, and the FDA. The US Courts acted dishonorably and arrogantly also, but even there we had only a mix of political moderates, liberal and conservative. Since his death, every liberal magazine and newspaper in the English speaking world has taken turns at throwing filth upon Reich’s grave. It is not that the right-wing has any love for Reich, but he simply does not show up on their radar screen to any significance. See here: New Information on the Persecution and Death of Wilhelm Reich
http://www.orgonelab.org/ReichPersecution.htm
Remember Reich identified communist Red Fascism as functionally identical to the Black Fascism of Nazism, both being anti-life, anti-love, and anti-freedom.
Thanks again,
James DeMeo, PhD
Author of « Saharasia », and « The Orgone Accumulator Handbook ».
Thank you very much for this kind commentary. I share your views on the role played by Communists. Like myself, Reich was fighting against Fascists of all stripes, Nazis, Communists, Socialists, religious bigots and fundamentalists, fake liberals, crooks, etc. Totalitarian people think in a similar way, whatever the colour of their ideology. They collaborated in the ’30s to overthrow democracy in Germany and it is not farfetched to believe that they have extended their collaboration in the U.S. and in other countries on a lot of other issues, such as the persecution of W.R. and other dissidents. The main reason why Reich was disposed of is because he was not part of the « club », the establishment who calls the shots on the planet.
I will check your website. If you have bulletins, news, journals, I will be happy to reference them or even comment them on my blog.
Thanks again.