> >Dear Allan, > >I have met Hugh during at least one Acres conference. Unfortunately, I >would disagree on many points given in his email below. > >Reich was a natural scientist with nothing to compare him with Hubbard or >Scientology. Reich's use of new terms was justified, based upon the >observation of new phenomena which were not previously known or observed, >and which demanded explicit descriptive terms. Terms such as Chi or Ki, or >Prana or the numerous other synonyms for "life-energy" may superficially >sound the same, but they lack the specificity of descriptive precision as >compared to Reich's terms, which have significant empirical support. For >example, most all advocates of Chi, Ki or Prana will inform you that it is >a non-physical energy beyond the here-and-now, which is why only >specialized spiritual exercises, or spiritual experts, can make full >contact with it. One has to "master" such things, become a "master", along >the road where "devotee" is the first step, to really get into the deeper >essence of it. Very little substantive research has gone into >investigating the basic nature of the energy, except to demonstrate that >people can subjectively feel it, and affect it. Reich's orgone, by >contrast, is totally physical, nothing metaphysical about it at all. You >can build an orgone accumulator, as can any farmer or auto-mechanic, or >Ph.D. scientist, using simple instruction plans, and so long as you don't >expose it to *dor* or *oranur*-producing influences (nuclear radiation, >low-level em fields, etc.) it will produce results for you. In a >laboratory, you can measure it using the right devices. Most people can >feel it, and even see it, once it is pointed out to them, and you don't >have to be an especially enlightened or transformed person. Orgone, we >know, is reflected by metals, absorbed by organic materials, and flows and >moves in the atmosphere and in the body according to certain principles. >Chinese acupuncture gets closer to this, but even here, many trainees in >that field will deny any physical basis to Chi, mainly because they have a >personal interest in keeping it metaphysical. > >I would agree that the term "organizational energy" is a good starting >point, and many scientists have been or are looking for this, but Reich is >the only one who really proved its existence by experimental methods, and >worked out useful applications. He really is a light-year beyond the >others -- but my "Orgone Accumulator Handbook" gives a good listing of >"scientists other than Reich" who measured and detected this same >phenomenon. > >Steiner I would disagree about as well. While it may kick up some dust in >a Biodynamic Ag. discussion group, I feel most all of his claims in this >regard were stolen from old Germanic folk traditions (some dating back to >pre-Christian times), or from Hahnneman's homeopathic findings. If you >strip that away from Steiner, not much is left in any practical sense. I >would argue that the "BD" preps are in actuality homeopathic in nature, >perhaps utilizing the observable phenomenon of bionous decay which Reich >described, and which today we know have bioenergetic effects. One can >interpret them metaphysically, of course, but the point is, metaphysics is >not necessary at all. Steiner, I think it is proper to say, was more >concerned about metaphysical things, as are discussed in the bulk of his >writings. His "ethers" are likewise metaphysical speculations, similar in >nature to what the theosophical society and other metaphysical groups were >calling "ethers", and have little relationship to either Reich's orgone, or >the ether of 19th Century physics. This latter concept is, in some >aspects, closer to Reich's orgone, and you can get a good review of this by >looking at my paper on Dayton Miller's ether-drift experiments. >http://www.orgonelab.org/miller.htm >The entire language and approach to the matter of ether by the 19th and >20th Century physicists has little resemblance to the Anthrosophical or >Theosophical "ether(s)". > >As Hugh mentions, some of the ether-theorists tried to claim the ether was >only an "immaterial" abstraction, and therefore incapable of affecting even >light waves. Einstein said this also. But Miller's measurements proved >the ether existed, was tangible and probably had a slight mass (similar to >neutrinos), that it was metal-reflectable, and moving faster at higher >altitudes, as is the case with Reich's orgone energy. It is a tangible >thing, like the air or water, but of a much lesser density. My article on >this subject, along with a lot of new stuff which should interest your >group, will soon become available in the new book: > >"Heretic's Notebook: Emotions, Protocells, Ether-Drift and Cosmic Life >Energy: with New Research Supporting Wilhelm Reich" -- you can review the >table of contents at the bottom of this web page: >http://www.orgonelab.org/xpulse.htm > >Reich's discovery on bionous decay of materials, which releases varying >amounts of orgone (life-energy) from material structures, appears to be at >work in most organic agricultural applications (composts, etc.), and >explains why you get a burst of energetic growth from glacial rock dusts >and other decaying materials which according to classical theory should not >provide anything more than trace minerals. In any case, some of this will >be the subject of what I will talk about at your conference. I fully >acknowledge the empirical observations of persons in your group may go >beyond what is capable of being explained by Reich's orgone discovery, but >know from my side as an experimental scientist, that it is a very tangible >and real physical phenomenon. > >I've no strong opinion about the Hieronymus devices Hugh discusses, as I >haven't studied it significantly. But if it works, it must require a >medium for transmission of its influence -- and the orgone energy continuum >would be the likely medium. > >Regards, >James DeMeo > > > >>Opinions from Hugh Lovel (did you meet him at the ACRES conference?), >>a speaker at this fall's Mid-Atlantic Conference. If you have >>clarifications to Hugh's summation of Reich, the ether, etc, I will >>post them. (Thanks for the note earlier this week.) -Allan >> >> >>>Reich, pioneering psychologist and great genius though he was, had a >>>penchant for making up terms almost as great as L. Ron Hubbard had. Hence >>>we have his terms of Orgone, Oranur and DOR, along with cloudbuster and >>>DOR-buster. I think I prefer the use of terms already long in use, such as >>>organizational energy as compared to orgone energy. But what the heck. We >>>could use chi or ki if we spoke Chinese or Japanese I suppose. >>> >>>I rather like Steiner's use of the term ether as in the warmth ether, light >>>ether, chemical ether, life ether. Steiner uses this term entirely >>>differently from the way James Clerk Maxwell did. Steiner's usage of the >>>term ether is more along the lines of Paul Dirac's abstract, immaterial >>>pattern medium or ether that gives rise to the wave/particle (or wavicle) >>>nature of manifest things. Yet Dirac tended to view the ether as a >>>completely abstract mathematical foundation for phenomena to exist rather >>>than a fluctuating ether that could be enriched, depleted, stagnated, >>>poisoned or cleaned up. Both Reich and Steiner, to say nothing of oriental >>>Qi masters, are clear that plants and animals have etheric bodies that can >>>be enriched, depleted, etc. And in the general environment our atmosphere, >>>oceans and soils are permeated with etheric fields and flows even though >>>these are not embodied in what we know of as living organisms. >>> >>>When he introduced the remedies sometimes called the BD preps, Steiner >>>indicated that without introducing a new impulse to revitalize the earth it >>>would become uninhabitable and die. That is, it WAS dying. The horn humus >>>and horn silica remedies imparted such new impulses for the soil and the >>>atmosphere. To link the two there should also be a horn clay remedy, and in >>>my rainmaking as well as my field broadcaster I use such a remedy. You > >>might say these remedies, and the others Steiner introduced to support > >>these, can be used to enrich and clean up the ether fields on our planet. >>> >>>What Hugh Courtney found out was if we applied these remedies in a morning >>>and evening sequence during a drought they tended to bring in rain. Another >>>way of looking at it is they cleared up atmospheric stagnation, restoring >>>organization to the atmosphere so that moisture clumped up in clouds and >>>rain occurred. What my field broadcasting taught me was we didn't have to >>>apply these remedies singly in tedious sequencing. We could combine them >>>into an atmospheric complex and a soil complex and use these complexes in a >>>morning and evening rhythm. This ended up working the best of all methods >>>and could be applied to an area drawn on a map and treated with a radionic >>>instrument such as a Hieronymus analyser or a Malcolm Rae extended range >>>potentizer with interrupter. I can take my reagents out of the wells of my >>>broadcaster and copy them on a water vial (labeled) with my Hieronymus >>>analyser by putting the vial on the plate and the reagents in the well with >>>the dials set on zero-zero. Then I can use the vial in the well of my >>>Malcolm Rae along with a map of my farm's boundaries and treat in the early >>>morning with horn silica, summer horn clay, horsetail, dandelion, valerian >>>and nettle remedies. then again in the late afternoon I will do another >>>treatment with horn manure, winter horn clay, yarrow, chamomile, oak bark >>>and nettle remedies. I can repeat this procedure for as many days as I >>>wish. And I can shine color slides in the well on the map and use lemon to >>>break up atmospheric congestion, red to expand and blue to contract, indigo >>>for shock and green to restore the atmosphere's equivalent of its immune >>>system etc. Plus I can add remedies for planets, constellations, stars, >>>etc. The Rae instrument can be varied in its blinking on and off. Each >>>blink is a microscopic change at a point that can effect large scale >>>changes in the medium. A couple hundred per minute makes a very effective >>>treatment.
