Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 19:51:46 -0500
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
From: Kenn Thomas <skthoma@umslvma.umsl.edu>
Subject: Re: More relevant text
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu

Selected Writings (Noonday, 1960), p. 220:

"We look at the sky, looking `as if in the far distance.' At first we see 
nothing. But if we continue to look carefully, we find to our amazement that 
the sky shows quite clearly a rhythmical, wave-like flickering. Is this 
flickering merely in our eyes, or is it in the sky? If we follow the 
phenomenon on different days, under varying weather conditions and at 
different hours of the day, we find that the kind and intensity of the 
flickering varies a great deal. In order not to be disturbed by the diffuse 
light which strikes our eyes from all sides, we repeat our observation at 
night. The flickering is more distinct. It is as if waves ran across the 
sky. Occasionally, we see a lightning-like dot or line. The flickering can 
also be seen on dark clouds. If we continue the observation of the sky over 
a period of weeks, we notice variations in the flickering. On some nights it 
is only slight, on other nights very intense. The astronomers ascribe the 
flickering to `diffuse light. 'We used to accept this explanation as 
thoughtlessly as many others. But now we must ask ourselves whether the 
flickering of the stars could not have something to do with the flickering 
of the sky between the the stars. Should this be the case, we could have the 
first indication of the objective existence of a moving unknown something in 
the atmosphere. Certainly, the flickering of the stars is not a subjective 
optical phenomenon. the astronomers build their observations on great 
heights in order to exclude the flickering of the stars. If it were due to 
'diffuse light,' it would be constant all the time. The variation in 
intensity cannot be explained on the basis of `diffuse light.' The unknown 
something which makes the stars flicker must be moving close to the surface 
of the earth. It cannot be diffuse light. Such `explanations' only serve to 
hide the facts..."
Kenn Thomas



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