Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 16:21:00 -0400
To: jogg@mainelink.net, orgonomy@mail.webcom.com
From: pjvm@euronet.nl (Pieter_J._van_Megchelen)
Subject: Re: Paradigm Shift for Microbio? help
Sender: owner-orgonomy@webcom.com


>I am a biochemistry student who is interested in the relation between
>the ANS and its role in tying respiration and immune systems.

That in itself is really interesting. Are you familiar with the importance 
of respiration, both spontaneous (ANS) and controlled (CNS), in different 
systems for consciousness-expanding, i.e. yoga? The importance of breathing 
in yoga (and, I believe, also in bioenergetics) is that it is both 
involuntary (unless you have the rare Ondines Curse syndrome you breathe 
perfectly well in your sleep) and under voluntary controll (you can choose 
to hold your breath, etc.). I'm very curious as to what topic of research 
you are planning to specifically study.

>I have been topically familiar with Reich's work on the Orgone and am
>curious to find more detail on specific bodies of research.
>Where can I find some info on research opportunities?  I am planning
>graduate study in either neuroscience or biophysics in combination with
>an M.D. program.  Before I move on, I would like to have some contact
>with the basic mechanisms of the orgone.  

If I'm right about the scientific community in general, it will be very 
hard to find any 'official' institute where you get the freedom to 
investigate Reichian theory or reproduce his experiments. If you do find it, 
I think many people in this newsgroup would love to know it.

>My intuition is that future 
>breakthroughs
>in the understanding of life may necessitate a paradigm shift for 
>microbio. Cell theory is inadequate based on its central tenet - the claim 
>that all
>cells arise from previous cells.  No first cell?  It may be plausible, but 
>nonetheless highly improbable.

How exactly do you mean this? And why is this 'first cell' so important to 
the paradigm shift that you are proposing? There are many reasons for a 
paradigm shift, not in the least the fact that in the end we want to cure 
people, not cells. Modern molecular biology and cell biology is focussing on 
more and more minute details of the cell and its components, and we sure do 
need a more comprehensive theory without being confused by fuzzy concepts 
like 'holism'. 

But as long as we can be sure that the cells of an individual do stem from a 
single 'first cell' (the zygote), I do not see your problem. Sure there must 
have been some first cell-like compartment, long long time ago in the 
beginning of life on earth, but since it certainly has left no trace, all we 
can say about it is sheer speculation.

Why do you think orgone theory will shed a new light on current microbiology?

Just curious,
(and alas not very helpful since I am a simple science journalist and have 
no practical experience in orgone research),

Pieter.

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