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Peter Jones
C O R E Publications
Preston, Lancashire
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Orgonomic Functionalism
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Appendix
Glossary
Index
Preface
This small book is an expanded version of the booklet I wrote for C
O R E in 2005, Orgonomy and Natural History. I wrote that as a response
to finding out that even at Orgonon, the museum and conference centre
situated in Reichs old home and work-place, the nature walks that they
took children on there had no orgonomic content whatsoever and were just
the usual version of childrens nature activities how to identify common
species in the local environment, the basics of the annual breeding cycle,
the migration of birds (very much in evidence at Orgonon, with the loons,
great northern divers, present in the summer and disappearing to warmer
climates in the winter), and the ecology of the local environment. I have no
argument with such a range of activities. All those topics are interesting
enough, but it seemed strange to talk about nature to children, while
excluding Reichs pioneering discoveries of orgonotic pulsation and other
orgonotic functions, such as superimposition, orgonotic contact, orgonotic
attraction between mates, and so on, even on his very doorstep. As well as
all these there were the obviuous questions of Reichs momentous
discoveries of bionous disintegration and the bions and the implications for
evolution of these discoveries.
While these discoveries do not in themselves give us a complete
orgonomic model of nature and evolution, they certainly imply a very
different model of nature to that peddled by conventional Darwinism and
give some pointers towards the foundations of an alternative, orgonomic
model. It seemed important to start this project, even though it is nowhere
near complete yet, and probably never will be. Still, if I set a few hundred
young scientists thinking along this pathway, we shall be a little nearer
completion and making some progress.
just popped out of my mind. Pulsation is like that, once you have realised
how basic it is to nature.
thing as a libido-meter. You could not measure someones libido in the way
you can measure someones temperature or blood pressure. But
psaychoanalysts talked of someones libido being inhibited or strong or
weak.
Reich cottoned on to the importance of libido, the charge behind a
persons feelings. He wondered what this charge was. He noticed that it
changed greatly from day to day. Sometimes it appeared to suddenly
vanish, as a patient switched on a defence against a feeling that they
experienced as threaetening, even dangerous. When a patient did this, what
had they done with this energy? A simple but obvious question that no-one
else seemed interested in finding an answer to. (Also, incidentally, no-one
dares ask any question to which this next item is the answer muscular
armouring.)
Reich found that his patients bound this energy by tensing up
muscles. He also found that it was much easier to help people release
blocked feelings by helping them to breathe more fully and digging at their
tense muscles. As these ttense muscles gave, people reported strong
sensations of something moving within themselves. They often described
this something, as if it were water flowing or streaming. They felt very
strong sensations as this something streamed through their organism. The
more Reich was able to loosen their armouring the stronger these
sensations were and the more widespread they felt them in their bodies. It is
possible to walk out of an orgone therapy session literally buzzing or
streaming all over.)
The Function of the Orgasm and Bio-Electricity
These sensations were, of course, part of peoples sexuality. Reich had
tracked down the libido much more concretely than other analysts, but he
was still not sure what this something moving was. He discovered that
when the excitation of these sensations reached a certain level, a person felt
a natural urge to discharge this energy sexually. Once they had discharged
this surplus energy it needed to build up again, as it would naturally, in the
absence of armouring, before they felt sexual again. Sexuality, the natural,
spontaneous contractions of the musculature in the orgasm, was natures
way of regulating the energy level of the organism.
Reich carried out some experiments to try to measure the electrical
potential in volunteers bodies according to different emotional states and
different states of excitation. He thought that this something moving might
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optical nerve by light to die down, so that the eye is not seeing anything.
(This takes about 30 minutes.) He asked colleagues to sit with him and
describe what they saw. All these unusual experiences are written up in his
book The Cancer Biopathy.
Orgonotic Pulsation the Life Formula
He realised that this radiation that he and his colleagues could see
in the dark was the something moving in his patients and that this radiation
or energy was the mobilising energy at work within the bions. He had at
last tracked down the libido of psychoanalysis and the vital force or lifeenergy of the nineteenth-century vitalists. He was ridiculed and abuse for
his pains, though none of his critics took the trouble to repeat his
experiments and to confimr or disprove his findings, which is what
ordinary science says any scientist should do when facing unusual or
anomalous findings. These findings were somehow different and not worth
checking. Science shows the same attitude today. It is impossible to get
anyone active in ordianry science tot ake this work seriously, however
scientifically and carefully one repeats the experiments. Because science
has decided that this life energy does not exist it refuses to look at any
experiments that suggest that it does exist.
All this is disressing but does not affect our work. We can still
study this life energy, do our experiments and carry out our observations.
Now Reich realised that there was a concrete, graspable life energy he in
luded it in his four-beat model of biological pulsation. He devised this
formula to describe the natural sexual process in an unarmoured person:
mechanical tension bio-energetic charge bio-energetic discharge
mechanical relaxation. As he advanced with his study of the energy that he
had discovered, which he called the orgone, he realised that this four-beat
process was at work throughout nature. It was the life formula itself, a
cycle that all life followed in the functions of the organs, as well as the
organism as a whole. He then called it orgonotic pulsation. Orgonotic
means charged by, driven by an orgone charge.
Sothere we are. We have got our model of pulsation laid out. I
have had to use some quite complicated concepts and go into the story of
Reichs research quite deeply. I hope you have been able to follow me. If
you havent been able to follow the plot so far, I suggest you try re-reading
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this chapter slowly and quietly without trying too hard. Try not to furrow
your brows into a fury of effort to understand it. It will come with time.
Now we know what orgonotic pulsation means we can get on with
the rest of the book.
Chapter 1 Pulsation in Nature (including You!)
Where can we see some examples of natures pulsation? If it is that
basic a function in nature we should not have to look far, should we? No,
we wont. If you want to feel out your own capacity to notice pulsation, try
and think of a few examples before you read the ones that I am going to
cite for you. Try paying attention to your own body functions and you
should soon make contact with some of your own pulsation. You may need
to lie down in a quiet place to notice any of these. Lets assume you are
lying down quietly on the floor on a mat or makeshift mattress or on a bed.
Close the door and draw the curtains, if you can, and just listen in to your
body sounds and sensations.
You may be able to hear or feel your stomach rumbling. (If you are
seriously interested in our project, you can buy a medical stethoscope. This
allows you to hear these stomach sounds quite easily. You can find them on
line or in the small advertisements in Nursing Times for a few pounds. A
stethoscope is a useful tool in any study of the human body.) If you have no
idea what might be going on to produce this rumbling, take a look at the
diagram below. It may remind you of an earthworm. Lets have a careful
look at an earthworm and see how it works.
Take a small hand-fork and gently turn over a few handfuls of
garden soil. Before long you should find an earthworm amongst the soil.
Place a handful or so of the soil and the worm on a newspaper. The worm
will actively move to bury itself in the soil as fast as it can. As you see the
worm consists of rings at right angles to its fore and aft axis. You will see
these rings contracting one after another from the rear end towards the head
end. This propels the worm forwards. Now imagine the worm as a hollow
tube full of fluid or a soft solid and the sequence of the contractions going
the other way. This is more or less what happens in your gut as it propels
what you have eaten from your stomach to your anus. (As the food moves
along your gut the lining extracts from it anything that your body can
absorb and use.)
If you were holding the stethoscope over the upper end of your
digestive tract you may have also heard your heart-beat in the background.
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Move it a little further to the outside of your rib-cage and the beat will
come louder. If you havent got a stethoscope just try placing your right
hand flat against your ribs a couple of inches below your left nipple. You
should feel a gentle pulsing. You can feel this pulse much more strongly
and clearly by pressing three fingertips against your radial artery at one of
your wrists, as you may remember a doctor or nurse doing, if you have ever
had your pulse counted by a health professional. (Nowadays this is often
done with a machine through a rubber, inflatable sleeve wrapped round
your upper arm, which also measures your blood pressure while it is at it. It
can also be counted with an oximeter, a little gadget like a plastic clothes
peg which snaps over your fingertip and measures the oxygen level of your
blood as well.)
You will get a much better feel for the workings of your body, if
you can do these tests manually and feel the beat through your fingertips.
You can also hear your heartbeat, well, someone elses heartbeat by putting
your ear to their chest.
You can play about with these two basic examples of pulsation. To
do this you will need a partner whose touch you welcome and who you feel
completely safe working with. You can do this without massage oil, but the
experiments will probably work better if you use oil. You can buy this from
any health shop or nowadays probably even from a big chemist. If you
cant find any proper massage oil, use some baby oil, which should be safe
and free from nasty additives or scents.
Decide between yourselves who is going to be the patient first.
Whichever of the two of you is going to be the patient needs to lie face
down stripped to the waist on a large towel which you have laid over
something comfortable to lie on, a bed or a mattress on the floor. Even a
camping mat or yoga mat will do. It is actually easier for the masseur if you
are lying on the floor.
Now, (this guidance I snow for the masseur), ask your partner to
just relax and breathe normally, without trying particularly hard to do
anything or to relax. Observe his or her breathing carefully. Before you do
anything to change your aprtners breathing pattern, ask her how far down
her body she can feel her breathing or anything connected with it. This will
vary a lot from person to person. Note to yourself this point. Place you
hand on their stomach and the other hand on their upper rib-cage. Do not
do anything to influence your partners breathing just pick up the pattern
thoguh your hand. If you find you feel he is holding his breath for a second
or two at the end of the inbreath, point this out to him and ask him to not
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make any pause at the end of the inbreath, blending the inbreath into the
outbreath without a break. Ask them to pause briefly and quietly at the end
of the outbreath. If you can establish this pattern for a few cycles you
should sense your partners breathing beginning to swing and a high level
of energy being generated within their body. If you are not too armoured
ourself you will be able to feel this expansion. You may even find yourself
involuntarily breathing in tume with your patient. A breathing rhythm,
when two people are physically very close, is very infectious. After a few
more complete breathing cycles ask her how far down in her body she can
feel her breathing now. You may find a significant change. With your
partner feeling her breathing down her legs or even into her feet. This is
part of natures basic pulsation, the energy pulse downwards from the chest
as a person breathes out. It is not known about by ordinary medicine or
biology.
Ask your partner to turn over and lie on her front after a few of
these fuller breathingt cycyles and give her a minute or two to settle down
again and re-establish the same deeper breathing. Once you feel she has
managed this and she is happy to take the next step, lean over her and as
she breathes out knead the shoulder muscles with your thumb and finer
tips, as outlined in the sketch. Ask her what, if anything, she feels as you
knead these muscles. She may feel something similar to what she felt as a
the result of the fuller breathing, a pulse of sensation, of energy moving
downwards into her abodmen, legs, and feet. What you have just done is
the basic first stage of an orgone therapy session. You have helped your
partner to mobilise her energy and to feel it in motion. This is a basic stage
in natures pattern of biological pulsation.
You will have noticed that you need to ask your partner how far
down her body he can feel his breathing. As he gets into fuller breathing
with your therapeutic suport you ask again and when you are kneading his
neck and shoulder muscles you ask yet again, What are you feeling, if
anything, while I am doing this? This is a basic part of orgone therapy,
repeatedly asking the patient to focus on the awareness of his body
sensations. This is not something that is commonly encouraged in our
culture. Many people are not very good at doing it and have no idea what
we mean when we ask them to focus in this way. Bu this awareness can
develop with practice. If you lie down quietly on your own, or even better
with a therapist helper to do the asking, you will find that your awarenss
of your own body sensations and your contact with them grows.
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these organisms in your sample pour the water out into a flat dish, ideally a
Petri dish, which biologists use for cultures of micro-organisms. These are
very wide and shallow and make observation of anything in the water very
easy. I will come to the use of microscopes later in chapter 4. It is useful to
know at this point that a simple stereoscopic microscope makes the
observation of these creatures much easier than it is when you use a
magnifying glass.
Sooner or later you will find one of these creatures still enough for
you to observe it in some detail. You will see that the body is transparent
and that you can see all its body functions going on within. This is like
looking at a human through an X-ray machine. You can see the animals
digestive tract and its food travelling along it. You may even catch them
mating, defecating, or laying eggs, if you are lucky, though obviously you
will need to do a lot of patient watching to see these details.
Chapter 2 The Living Orgonome
The living orgonome is the title of a crucial chapter of Reichs
book on orgonomic functionalism, Cosmic Superimposition. According to
Reich, the living orgonome is a collection of forms that nature produces
when the freely moving and spinning orgone energy is confined within a
membrane, that is, the skin of an organism, as opposed to its free motion
in the atmosphere, which we can easily observe with the naked eye in the
right conditions. As you can see from the sketches below, (all after Wilhelm
Reich) the basic form of the orgonome is rather like a birds egg or an
embryo in its early stages of development.
Any form that can pulsate
is by definition a living orgonome or a collection of them.
Once you are familiar with these shapes ypou will start to
recognise them throughout nature, whether you are looking at someones
ear or the internal organs of a water-flea. A visit to a natural history
museum or a look at some fossils will show you many more orgonomes. If
you have a microscope to hand, or even a hand-held magnifying glass, you
will find you can see many more of these orgonomes. There is nothing
mysterious or rare about them. As with pulsation, which you will start
seeing all over the place in nature, once you know about its existence, you
will start to see these forms everywhere, once you are aware of them and
the principle of their origin.
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that few people are even aware that there is any other mode of thought. The
mechanist believes that the world and life can be explained entirely in
terms of the already acknowledged physical and chemical forces of modern
science. To the mechanist, therefore, life is nothing but a very complicated
string of chemical reactions. The mechanistic scientist needs no other force
to explain life.
We need to go into the history of science, particularly biology, to
clarify this belief. Until the early nineteenth century there was a strong
belief that the chemistry of life was somehow deeply different from that of
non-life.15 (This distinction still survives in word form in the two classes of
chemistry - organic and inorganic.) As far as I know the term functional
was not in use at that time. What was in use was the term vitalism. Those
who advocated a view of life that assumed it was chemically different from
non-life were called vitalists.16 Vitalists explained life with the assumption
of some power, force, or drive in nature towards life. The mechanist
biologist, especially modern supporters of Darwinian evolution, consider
the belief in the existence of such a driving force in nature as utter
anathema. No modern academic biologist would dare come out in public as
a supporter of this view of life and orgonomic biologists often publish
articles under pseudonyms to avoid scientific excommunication,
particularly in the USA.
There is no democratic pluralism of thought in modern western
science and the newcomer to orgonomy and functional thought needs to
know this. Becoming a serious student of orgonomic functionalism puts us
outside the realms considered respectable by conventional science. Those
who are starting an involvement in orgonomy may be surprised to read this.
The backdrop of western scientific attitudes that we all live against and
which pervades all discussion, study and research, particularly in the lifesciences and medicine, is so all-pervading that few people are even aware
that there are other legitimate points of view.
This conflict between vitalism and mechanism is referred to briefly in
Reichs introductory survey at the beginning of The Function of the
Orgasm.17 Although this book is not specifically functional and the term
does not occur in it, the final sections of the book are in fact thoroughly and
explicitly functional and the whole text is imbued with a functional
Milton.
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affected They will probably treat the model as a mere metaphor and ignore
the great deal of scientific experimentation that supports it. Orgonomic
medicine does not at all assume that all illness is in the mind, but that
there are different layers of human functioning, psychological and
physiological ones, that reflect identical energy functions and which
function in different realms and which we may experience in different
realms. In both cases we are talking about bio-energetic functions. This has
already brought us to another of Reichs pioneering concepts the common
functioning principle.21 This is a basic concept vital to a full understanding
of orgonomic functionalism and I go into it below in more detail below.
Another characteristic of functional thought is that it is the thought
processes of the thinker uninhibited by pathological blockages of bioenergy, in other words, the thought processes that reflect the free movement
of orgone energy within the organism. One of Reichs most profound
discoveries was that thought processes are a reflection of armouring
patterns (or the lack of them) and that the view of the world of the
mechanistic scientist is inevitable and understandable, as is that of the
primitive animist who sees a spirit in every single item in nature. Very
few people in our culture are totally free of armouring, so it would appear
that some armouring patterns permit one to think more or less functionally
while others do not. As Reich pointed out, we all, even orgonomists, have
our mechanistic tendencies and need to check our thought and work for
mechanistic errors. One of Reichs ways of confirming an orgonomic
finding was that such a finding based on functionally correct assumptions
automatically led on to new discoveries and formulations. 22 As far as I
know, he nowhere stated the converse of this, but it occurs to me as an
inevitable corollary that when we come up against an apparent brick wall
in our research we must be caught on an unfounded, mechanistic
assumption which has, in fact, no foundation in reality. Alert readers will, I
hope, realise here that classical science is all the time coming up against
such brick walls. They are an accepted part of ordinary science, whereas
the striding discoveries made in orgonomy seem to the prejudiced observer
to be just too good to be true. It cannot be that easy. Look how hard we are
working without solving the problem. How can you be any different?
Another surprising aspect of functional thought and research is that
as long as we rely on observation and fact, they speak to us clearly and
eventually correct errors of thought that may have crept into our work.
Reich recounts this graphically in his bion research in his history of
orgonomic functionalism.23
This brings the attentive reader, I hope, to the obvious realisation that
orgonomic science in any area works in the opposite direction to
mechanistic science, which divides the object of investigation into ever
smaller parts and finds out more and more about them, often mentally
drawing boundaries round the parts under investigation and resolutely
refusing to see what to a functionalist are the most obvious connections.
This is the much criticised reductionism of modern science.25 It continually
sees life-processes as nothing but processes, almost always bio-chemical
ones. For example powerful emotions are explained by modern neuroscience as simply bio-chemical or bio-electrical processes.
Functional Identity
Closely connected to the above observations is Reichs (and
orgonomists in general) use of the expression functional identity and
functionally identical.28 We can say that the origin of bions from
disintegrating grass in water and the origin of cancer cells in devitalised
tissue in the human organism are functionally identical. Any pair of
processes is functionally identical, when the same bio-energetic function or
process is taking place within them. We can now see why mechanistic
science is so often up against so many brick walls in its research,
particularly its research into sickness and health. It understands everything
in terms of bio-chemistry and must therefore inevitably see two or more
processes that show quite different bio-chemical reactions as completely
disparate and unconnected.
This inability to see connections is very clear in the way textbooks of
physiology present the autonomic nervous system. Whether a function is
innervated by the parasympathetic or sympathetic appears to be completely
random and bewildering for the scientific beginner. Once we have an
orgonomic understanding of the paired functions of expansion and
contraction, pleasure and anxiety, we can even guess correctly which side
of the ANS a physiological effect belongs to by observing its part in the
functioning of the organism as a whole. Note here that expansion and
contraction refer to the general direction of movement, not simply whether
smooth muscle is contracting or not during a process, such as urination,
when the smooth detrusor muscles of the bladder contract. As Reich points
out in his schema in chapter VII of The Function,29 this is an opening,
relaxing, out- towards-the-world process, the opposite of a holding in or
contracting. (It is worth pointing out here for the beginner in orgonomy and
orgonomic medicine how important and frequent a part smooth muscle
plays in the function of orgonotic pulsation, one example of which is the
repeated filling and emptying of the bladder, which continues all the time in
a state of health.)
His next step is even more profound a posited solution to the apparent
conflict in classical physics between the wave-like behaviour of light and
its equally particle-like behaviour.33 He explains this as the conflicting but
functionally identical behaviour of orgone particles in their typical
movement pattern of the spinning wave or Kreiselwelle, as he calls it in
German. In the expansive phase of the spinning wave the orgone particle
behaves as a wave: in the contracting phase of the cycle it behaves as a
particle. Reich commenced these formulations and conclusions from
observation of the orgone particles inside his orgone dark-room. After a
while, when the eyes have adapted to conditions in such a dark-room, we
can, according to Reich, see the orgone wave movements, the spinning
wave, described and portrayed so often in his later work. 34 (C O R E hopes
to construct such a dark room when we have our own premises.) We can
also make these observations within an orgone accumulator in the dark.
Basic Orgonomic Functions
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
formula.36 This reflects the developing breadth and depth of his work and is
also yet another example of the common functioning principle. It also
appears to include within itself other orgonomic functions, for example
lumination and attraction. See below (d) for more on this.
b) Superimposition
This function is proposed in some detail in Cosmic
Superimposition,37 both in the animate realm and the inanimate, for
example in the formation of hurricanes, galaxies, and matter itself. It
provides the basis for a new, orgonomic cosmology, astronomy, and
meteorology. It gives us yet another example of functional identity and the
common functioning principle. The biological drive towards
superimposition, so familiar in the mating instinct, also occurs on the
cosmic level in the formation of galaxies. Notice here how a commonly
held belief amongst mystics that there is a fundamental unity throughout
the cosmos and all living beings acquires an orgonomic explanation
without in any way destroying the awareness. Unarmoured children also
show the same awareness of this basic unity of life and cosmos. Orgonomy
explains it without explaining it away, in the way that mechanistic science
explains away so much intuitive awareness of life.
c) Attraction (and Attraction and Repulsion)
Orgone energy appears to have an attraction for itself so that any
orgone system or accumulation is attracted to another orgone system. 38 This
functions in both animate and inanimate nature. Thus animal organisms are
mutually attracted in the sexual instinct and a highly charged cloud attracts
more orgone energy to itself. One of the laws of this attraction, inevitable,
if we consider the function of attraction, is that orgone energy functions in
the opposite direction to other forms of energy, as observed in classical
physics.39 This contradicts the laws of conventional physics, which states
that if we connect two objects or systems with differing energy charges, for
example a hot and a cold lump of a metal, the temperatures in the two will
eventually equalise. There is therefore an inevitable direction of flow
downhill from the high to the low. (The well-known third law of thermodynamics, which explains the entropy in the universe.) In certain conditions
this attraction turns rapidly into repulsion in an endless dance of towards
and away from a material or organism. 40 We see this in the behaviour of
orgone energy in relationship to iron, where it is attracted and repelled
almost certainly the approach in such work will be functional. The writer
will have used orgonomic functionalism as a work-tool to make
connections that a mechanistic researcher would not see or allow himself to
make. It will be good practice for the beginner to peruse such orgonomic
writings and see if they can locate any specifically functional assumptions
or discoveries.
The journal Orgonomic Functionalism,55 published irregularly by
the Wilhelm Reich Museum, consists only of reprints of Reichs own
writings, many of them rare and intellectually and scientifically priceless
writings that have been unavailable for years. The first four issues contain a
series The Developmental History of Orgonomic Functionalism56, in which
Reich recounts the development of his mode of thinking and experimenting
in some detail. Issues 5 and 6 contain further articles with a different title
but which appear to be a continuation on Orgonomic Functionalism in
Non-Living Nature.57 This journal is a vital contribution to orgonomic
knowledge and literature. C O R E possesses a full set and serious students
are welcome to come and study them by arrangement.
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Since the orgone drives the process of biogenesis, we must assume that
it also drives further stages of evolution. As far as I know no orgonomists
have devised an experiment to test this assumption, though it must be
possible to devise one. One fairly simple possibility that occurs to me is to
conduct some of the classic fruit-fly genetic experiments and see if
incubation in an orgone accumulator has any effect, for example, on the
return to a norm after a deliberately induced harmful mutation, or just the
mutation rate itself. Similar experiments with larvae, tadpoles, or eggs
would be easy to do and might yield information on evolution and
development from an orgonomic point of view. By the standards of
conventional biological research none of this work would be difficult or
expensive. It is all waiting to be done because there are so few orgonomists
at work in the world and even fewer with mainly biological interests.
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Appendices
a) Basic Research Principles
c) Useful Addresses
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Glossary
Armouring, Muscular
Autonomic Nervous System
Bio-energy
Brightfield lighting
Compound microscope
Contact
Contraction
Evolution
Expansion
Fruit-fly
Libido
Life-Energy
Life formula
Natural selection
Orgasm formula
Orgone (Energy)
Orgonomic functionalism
Orgonotic pulsation
Parasympathetic
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Petri dish
Phase contrast
Physiology
Pulsation
Stasis
Stereoscopic microscope
Superimposition
Sympathetic
Vitalism
37
Reich W (1983); The Function of the Orgasm, chapter VII, 1, Muscular Attitude and Bodily Expression
2
2
Reich W (1973a); The Cancer Biopathy, chapter III, The Actual Discovery of Orgone Energy, FSG.
3
3
DeMeo J (1999); The Orgone Accumulator Handbook, Natural Energy Works, Greensprings, Oregon.
Reich W (1973); Ether, God and Devil and Cosmic Superimposition, published as one
Reich W (1973b); Ether, God and Devil, chapter I, The Workshop of Orgonomic
volume, FSG.
Functionalism, FSG.
Reich W (1983); op cit, chapter VII, 5, The Orgasm Formula: Tension Charge
Discharge Relaxation
Ibid, pages 103-104, also published as an extract in Selected Writings, (2000), pages 302-304, Welcome Rain Publishers,
New York.
11
11
Reich W (1973b); op cit chapter IV, Animism, Mysticism and Mechanistics, also printed in Selected Writings.
12
Reich W (1973b); op cit, chapter III, Organ Sensation as a Tool of Natural Research.
14
Nordenskild E (1946); The History of Biology, pages 406-407, Development of Organic Chemistry, Tudor Publishing,
New York.
16
16
Thain M, Hickman M (1954); Penguin Dictionary of Biology, page 654, Vitalism, Penguin Books, London.
17
19
Ibid.
20
20
21
Reich W (1992); pages 14-15, Orgonomic Functionalism, volume 4, Wilhelm Reich Trust Fund, Rangeley, Maine.
24
Bynum W F et al (eds) (1983); MacMillan Dictionary of the History of Science, entries man-machine and reductionism.
MacMillan, London.
26
25
Ibid, page 104, and also Reich W (1973a); pages 237-245, The Development of
to the Understanding of Cancer.
27
26
28
Orgonomic Functionalism,
Reich W (1983); op cit, chapter VII, 6, Pleasure (Expansion) and Anxiety (Contraction): Primary Antithesis of
Vegetative Life.
30
Attraction, in Orgonomic
32
Ibid.
33
Reich W (1973a); op cit, chapter IV, 3, Enclosing the Radiation and Making It Objectively Visible.
35
See reference 4.
38
38
Reich W (1973b); op cit, chapter IV, The Living Orgonome, and chapter V, Superimposition in Galactic Systems,
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