SO, YOU WANT TO BUILD A CLOUDBUSTER?

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On the Problem of
Growing Interest in Cloudbusting
A Personal View

by James DeMeo, Ph.D.
Director
Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory



Reich instead died in prison, his coworkers stunned and disorganized for half a decade, until a small number of workers, primarily (but not exclusively) under the leadership of Dr. Elsworth Baker, reorganized, began publishing a scientific journal, and holding educational seminars. For the next several decades, work in orgonomy, the science of the orgone energy functions in living Nature, proceeded quietly, gathering new evidence and support from various quarters. A new generation of younger scientists, among whom I count myself, studied Reich's works and replicated his experiments. During this period of slow growth, there was no attempt by orgonomists (the name given to scientists and health-care practitioners applying Reich's discoveries) to make much contact with the larger scientific community, for understandable reasons. For many years Reich's works were read only by the most serious of researchers and naturalists, who could see the dead-endedness and deadly nature of our contemporary mystical-mechanistic science. Reich's findings were, and continue to be rejected without examination by the average scientist and physicians, who today spend little time observing nature, who are not well read on broader natural scientific issues, and are generally not even aware of the basic starting assumptions underlying their own favorite theories and world views.

In other quarters, Reich became a cult figure, someone who was publicly admired, but secretly hated, and torn apart. Increasingly, various individuals pirated bits and pieces of his work, claiming them as their own "findings", without Reich's priority being acknowledged. Generally, these pirates cleave off parts of Reich's work, leaving behind the more important, but socially unpopular aspects, thereby gaining much applause and recognition for themselves. Almost all of the contemporary works on the emotional aspects of the cancer disease, on the phenomena of "body language", and on therapeutic "emotional release" or "body work", owe an intellectual debt to Reich that is rarely acknowledged. On the West Coast of the USA, for example, there are perhaps a hundred different types of such therapy, each of which is based upon one or another small part of Reich's work. A common aspect of these pirates is that they ignore the real guts of his work, namely his findings on genitality, the function of the orgasm, and also the role of social institutions, and the emotional plague, in re-creating the emotional damage and armoring in each new generation of young infants and children.


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