From: joelcarlinsky
Subject: [orgonescience] Orgonescience List Archive to be available on-line
To: orgonescience@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 4:29 AM
Hello, everyone on my mailing list! And year-end greetings!
It has now been about a year since I discontinued the Orgonescience list
and I have not heard from most of the list members in that time. But
things have been happening.
Shortly after the list was suspended, one of the members volunteered to
edit the more than 2,000 posts in the list archive into book form, to be
posted on a website. Since those posts contain a lot of very valuable
information that is not available anywhere else, this on-line book will be
the only source of most of this information.
Well, Murphy's Law kicked in, of course, and after a lot of work had
been done, there was a computer crash and what had been done was
lost. Fortunately, another list member volunteered to help, and between
the two of them, the book should be ready soon. I hope to get it posted
in the next few months.
Of special importance is the fact that durring this year Dr. Eva Reich
died, after having been incapacitated by a stroke for the past several
years. She was the one entrusted by her father with the task of
continuing his work, and although events conspired to prevent her from
carrying out that role, a glace at his will confirms that she was the one
he considered to be his appointed successor.
Back in 1987, Jay Mikesell and I went to her home in Maine and spent
some time there having a private course in orgone biophysics from her.
At the time, she told us we were the only ones to ever study orgone
biophysics from her. All the other students who had come to her to learn
about her father's work had been mainly interested in therapy and
childraising, so that is what she taught them.
She also said that of all the people who had asked her about orgonomy
since Reich died, I was the only one who had asked the right questions.
I have a letter from her stating that I had tutoring from her in orgone
biophysics and that she considers me "very knowledgeable in that field".
Jay died a few years ago, so that leaves me as the only living person, as
far as I know, who studied orgone biophysics under the one person
designated by Reich to be his successor.
Much of the material in the posts I sent to the orgonescience list was
based on what I learned while at Eva's place in Maine, so I consider
there to be a direct continuity between the work of Reich, much of it
never published, and the information that will be made available to the
public for the first time in this compilation of posts from the
Orgonescience list archive.
This takes on added importance because this past year was also the
first year since the 50th aniversary of Reich's death, and for all of those
50 years, many people have labored under the misapprehension that at
the end of the 50-year period, all his unpublisheed writings would be
made public. In the event, that has proven not to be true.
The Reich Archives have been made part of a special rare books
collection at the Countway Memorial Library of Harvard Medical School
in Boston, under a contract that severely restricts who is allowed access
and which documents they are allowed to see. Permission is controlled
by a committee appointed by Mary Higgins, who succeeded Eva Reich as
Trustee of the Estate of Wilhelm Reich and has managed it ever since
with extreme reluctance to permit anyone to read any of the material
therein.
So it is now finally, once and for all, obvious that we cannot just wait for
time to make the unpublished work of Reich available to the world. I
therefore consider that what Jay and I learned from Eva Reich
constitutes a legacy direct from Reich which now will never be available
from any source other than from me.
This includes a lot of material on an orgonomic concept of ecology and
evolution, as well as medical material pertaining to the uses of the
orgone accumulator, and the details of cloudbusting techniques never
before published. It also goes into a lot of detail about the real nature of
radioactivity and how it affects the living organism, how life arises from
inert matter, and a host of other topics not generally accessible.
This will be a compilation of short posts, arranged more-or-less by
topic, not a systematic organized presentation. If there is enough
interest, if enough people read it, I will do a more organized systematic
presentation, possiblly in the form of an on-line correspondence course,
at some future date.
