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MC-SIGMany Conspiracies – Special Interest GroupMC-SIG NewsletterVolume 1, No. 3Spring 2010Wilhelm Reich: A Great Man Demonized Kevin P. Tremblay(1897-1957)Mental illness is a result of a disturbance in the naturalcapacity for love.1Wilhelm Reich discovered a way to manipulate life force. He found this energycould be accumulated for health benefit or used for wrongful purposes. The “force”could be directed to change the weather to make rain or to dissipate the clouds in the sky.It could be used for mood manipulation, and was claimed to cure cancer and used formind control. Reich called the energy Orgone.Reich was disgracefully pushed out of the Psychoanalytic Association, expelledby the Communists and a number of countries, and hounded by the Nazis with warrantsissued for his arrest and death. Reich was denounced as a sex fiend and frequentlyinvestigated by the authorities in the United States and other countries. He came to theUnited States from Europe for intellectual and scientific freedom, and died here underguard.Reich’s fertile mind was awake and exploring to his end. His final manuscript,Creation, about antigravity (or negative gravity) disappeared from his cell after an1Reich, Wilhelm. The Function of the Orgasm. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. 1927. Reprinted1972.

untimely death while confined in a federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. (Thesubject of antigravity and free energy is still considered Top Secret.) Reich died a weekbefore he was to have given his son, Peter, the formula for antigravity. Anoverwhelming sadness gripped me after finding out about how he died, and the tormenthe was subjected to during a life-long pursuit of knowledge and truth and experience ofpersonal angst. A profound sense of awe inspired me to re-evaluate my religious beliefs,other fundamental views of life, and even my basic ideas about human nature andbehavior after studying his works.Reich’s paintings are simple and colorful. He composed music and played thepiano and cello. His bronze statue of a naked man running with an apparent semi-erectpenis is not scandalous. None of his works are. They are ultimately revealing and ofttime hit societal and personal nerves. Following is an outline of his works and research,with a sketch of his life. This is provided in an outline form, focusing on major areas ofstudy, research done, and specific subjects covered after a short introduction. Wilhelm Reich was born March 24, 1897 in Dobrzcynica, Galicia, AustriaHungry (which is now part of Poland) to Jewish parents. “His parents were well-to-dofarmers who had about one thousand acres of land.”2 He was homeschooled on the farmby his mother, whom he adored, and then by tutors. His mother committed suicide in1910 by poison, after being discovered in an affair with the tutor by Wilhelm, whobetrayed her to his father. Reich was thirteen at that time. He then entered the GermanGymnasium at Czernowitz. When he was seventeen, his father died of tuberculosis as aresult of pneumonia; this appears to have been brought on purposefully. Destitute, Reichtook over management of the farm until it was destroyed by the Russians in 1915 duringWorld War I. He barely escaped being captured.He then joined in the Austrian Army and served on the Italian front, reaching therank of lieutenant. After the war he studied law and then switched over to medicine atthe University of Vienna, where he was a tutor as well, barely getting by financially. Hehelped organize a seminar on sexology at the university. Reich was interested in thepsychoanalytic movement and became a practicing analyst and member of the ViennaPsychoanalytic Association. He graduated in medicine in 1922. As a brilliantpsychoanalyst, he wrote a number of important articles on psychoanalysis and on sex.Freud was impressed with Reich and selected him as the first assistant physicianof Freud’s Psychoanalytic Polyclinc in Vienna in 1922; Reich was appointed to theteaching staff of the Psychoanalytic Institute. He developed innovations in the treatmentof patients, looking at physical characteristics and “muscular tensions” or attributes ofmental illness, and developed a way of looking at the patient in “Character Analysis,” animportant book about the origin of mental illness and neurosis. He also looked at thepatient directly during therapy, which was not done. Reich believed that anunsatisfactory sex life and incomplete orgasmic release led to mental and medicaldisorders and neurosis.2Baker, Elsworth F. Wilhelm Reich. Journal of Orgonomy Volume 1, 1968. The American College ofOrgonomy.

“ Reich made three major discoveries which opened a vast opportunity forunderstanding human functioning and whose value cannot be overestimated:the reality of the libido (it is a flow of energy), the function of the orgasm (itregulates the flow of energy), and the muscular armor (it prevents regulationof energy).”3Reich left Norway in 1939 just before World War II, taking the last ship to leavebefore the war broke out. He was invited to teach at the New School of Social Researchfounded by Fabian Socialists in New York City, and moved to the Forest Hills section ofLong Island. The courses he offered were, Character Formation: Biological andSociological Aspects, Clinical Problems in Psycho-somatic Medicine, and TheoreticalSeminar: Psychological Approach to Psychosomatic Research.4 His research wasshifting toward biophysics after he discovered orgone and “bions”i and was doing cancerresearch. The Second Law of Thermodynamics is apparently contradicted by thediscoveries he mad doing orgone research and with findings using the orgoneaccumulator. This contradiction appears to have led to the Einstein conflict, with Reichpublishing The Einstein Affair. However, it must be noted that Reich had oftenentertained unrealistic expectations of others.In the summer of 1940 Reich went on a camping trip to the Rangeley area ofMaine and ended up purchasing a camp on Lake Mooselookmeguntic. In 1942 hepurchased an abandoned 160-acre sheep farm as a permanent home for his research thatwas located on Dodge Pond in Rangeley. He named the place Orgonon. He built aStudent Laboratory on the property in 1945 and the Observatory Building (now themuseum) a few years later, that was designed by the New York architect, James B. Bell.The rotating dome refractor telescope was never installed on the Observatory; and theenvisioned hospital was never built either.Reich had been targeted by nefarious forceswhile in Europe, which appeared to have followedhim to the United States, where he gained newenemies. His ideas frightened the pharmaceuticaland energy industries, as well as sex phobic people.Yet, he may have brought some of the problems onhimself in the way he behaved and things that hewrote. He eventually died in prison on November3, 1957. The results of his discoveries certainlyhave not been stopped by his death. The best is yetto come – he may have been onto something big.When humanity becomes unshackled (unarmored)and begins to see more clearly into the ether, thegenius of Dr. Wilhelm Reich will shine through, asis true with Nikola Tesla too.Orgone Accumulator34Ibid.New School of Social Research, Course Catalogs. 1940-41.

“Orgone” is a visible, measurable and applicable energy of a cosmic nature. Suchconcepts as “id,” “entelechy” or “élan vital” on the other hand, are only theexpression of inkings of the existence of such an energy. Are the “electromagneticwaves” of Maxwell “the same” as the “electromagnetic waves” of Hertz?Undoubtedly they are. But with the latter one can send messages across the oceanswhile with the former one cannot.5Reich built a modified wire-frame Faraday cage and covered it with cotton andwood to create an environment that would accumulate and concentrate orgone energy.Many claims were made of amazing healings attributed to the orgone accumulatortreatments, and this got him into trouble. It was also rumored that the orgoneaccumulators were being used to enhance participants’ sexual experience. There arepeople (and groups) that cannot handle a scientific conversation about our sexual natures,let alone consideration of researching the human orgasm, for example, or why a woman’snipples expand upon sexual excitation.Now, my work since then was devoted exactly to that. I wanted to understand whaterects the nipple, what stretches out. That’s where I discovered the orgone energy, thebio-energy, the life energy.6The Orgone Accumulator was the specific object that the Food and DrugAdministration (FDA) concentrated on in their case against Wilhelm Reich, calling it anunlicensed medical device. (Reich was a medical doctor, but was not licensed in thiscountry.) The FDA claimed that orgone energy does not exist, and therefore theaccumulator was a fraud; thus Reich was a fraud too because of his claim that orgoneexists. The pseudo-scientific community informs us what the truth is. The subject ofether continues to be the crack in their façade of “science,” and in a measure religion; asit becomes demystified the crack widens through increased awareness.The science behind “The Secret” and the “Law of Attraction” is said to bequantum physics, that “everything is energy.” It might be inferred that Reich was anearly leader of this movement and “bioenergetics.” Changes can be created in physicalreality with focused energy, bio-energy, and orgone is one expression of this energy.Orgone is a way to tap into the ether by means of a simple device, the orgoneaccumulator, and possibly with concentrated focused attention.This was Reich’s tragedy, for within two decades of his death, the scientific attitudetowards such matters had changed beyond recognition. In 1973, eminent scientistsfrom twenty countries gathered in Prague for a conference on "psychotronics”—thepossibility of direct interaction between mind and inert matter—and one of thosepresent wrote: “Can it be that all forms of energy (from that which moves a muscle tothat which propels a rocket . . .) derive from one basic energy, an energy about whichwe still know almost nothing?7Cloudbuster5Reich, Wilhelm, M.D. Character Analysis. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1970 Third Edition.Translated by: Theodore P. Wolfe. Footnote p. 304.6Higgins, Mary and Raphael, Chester M. Editors. Reich Speaks of Freud: Wilhelm Reich discusses hiswork and his relationship with Sigmund Freud. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1967. p. 55.7Wilson, Colin. The Quest for Wilhelm Reich. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday. 1981. p. 235.