Monday, March 15, 2010

WHAT THIS BOOK IS NOT ABOUT

(1) UFOs are a fascinating subject, but not a part of the natural sciences, and will not be gone into except to state that for reasons gone into in the text, I regard Reich as having been mistaken in identifying the lights he saw in the night sky as spaceships from some other planet. I think there is sufficient evidence to show they were a local lumination of the atmospheric energy excited by either his own cloudbusting equipment or the atomic bomb tests then underway in nearby Nevada.

It was perfectly reasonable for him to make such an error under the influence of the culture of the times, but it was an error, and there is no reason today to consider UFO reports as having anything to do with orgone biophysics, except as reports of such nocturnal orgonotic lumination effects.

(2) Natural science is not history or biography. The personal life story of Wilhelm Reich is an interesting one, but his scientific claims stand or fall on their own merits, not as a part of that story. I will not go into biographical trivia about Reich. I wish to stick to issues of scientific facts, and speculations derived from those facts.

(3) Conspiracy theories are part of the social sciences, not the natural sciences, and therefore will not be investigated in this context. I am available to investigate crimes at the going rate for private investigators. I do not work for free and will not investigate criminal activity unless paid to do so. If government officials are engaging in illegal activity, they may continue to do so as far as I am concerned, unless someone is willing to pay me to expose them.

(4) Chemtrails are a myth, based on misunderstanding of the visible effects of DOR in the atmosphere. Nobody is "spraying" anything out of airplanes. DOR is a real and serious problem, most of which is caused by the use of nuclear technology. It can be combatted to some extent by proper cloudbusting, but the "chemtrail" mythology, combined with the bogus equipment irresponsibly promoted by Don Croft and his followers is nothing but a crackpot cult and deserves no serious consideration.

(5) If you are interested in spiritual matters, consult the Bruja, Hexenmeister, or Shaman of your choice. I have enough on my plate dealing with how the real world works without getting into invented ones.