>> >>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.
Dears While I would agree there hasn't been anywhere near enough empirical research done with Chi, Ki or Prana there is the William Tiller work. I don't find Tiller a very helpful writer, but he clearly has done a mountain of research into subtle energies and in many ways has gone beyond Reich or even Steiner. In the east there has long been an initiate/guru method for passing along hidden knowledge. You might call it a propriatery set-up. In the western scientific tradition we tend to strive toward publishing all the details. It is more of a laissez faire set-up. This doesn't change the phenomena behind the traditions, of course. It's still the same universe whether one grows up in Tibet or Austria, China or America. Also I might add that Steiner, Hubbard and Reich all were scientists and had at least this much in common that cultists tended to follow in their wakes. I wonder what Trevor Constable might say on this subject. Best, Hugh >>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.
