Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 19:51:18 -0500
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
From: Kenn Thomas <skthoma@umslvma.umsl.edu>
Subject: Re: Relevant text
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu

>From Selected Writings (Noonday Press, 1960), p. 218:

"Simple consideration says: Man cannot feel or phantasy anything which does 
not actually exist in one form or another. For human perceptions are nothing 
but a function of objective natural processes within the organism. Could 
there not be a reality behind our `subjective' visual impressions after all? 
Could it be possible that in these subjective impressions we perceive the 
biological energy within our own organism? Let us see whether this idea is 
as strange as it seems.
        To do away with the subjective visual impression by calling it a 
`phantasy' is erroneous. This `phantasy' takes place in an organism which is 
governed by certain natural laws; therefore, it must be real. We are only 
just emerging from a period in which medicine called all finctional and 
nervous complaints `unreal' or `imaginary,' because they were not 
understood. But a headache is a headache, and a visual impression is a 
visual impression, whether we understand it or not.
        Of course we will reject the mystical assertions which are based on 
the misinterpretation of vegetative sensations. But that does not justify 
denying the existence of these sensations. We also have to reject 
mechanistic natural science because it divorces the vegetative sensations 
from the natural processes taking place in the organs. Self-perception is an 
essential part of the natural life process. It is not nerves here, muscles 
there and vegetative sensations in a third place; rather, the processes 
taking place in the tissues form an indivisible functional unity with their 
perception..."
Kenn Thomas



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