Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 22:50:48 -0500
From: Jim Martin <flatland@mail.mcn.org>
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Subject: Bob McCullough is dead
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu

Bob McCullough, who worked for Reich as a biologist and chemist after the Oranur
Experiment (1952) and who accompanied Reich to Tucson during Desert OROP Ea, 
died on November 26th, 1995, at the age of 74. I had a brief correspondence with
McCullough, who passed on before I could ask him about his experiences in any 
detail. McCullough's article, "The Rocky Road to Functionalism" was published in
an issue of the Orgone Energy Bulletin, was an honest and forthright appraisal 
of the difficulties in understanding Reich's scientific methods. Reich's 
daughter, Eva, described McCullough as "large, bumbling, patient man with a 
heart of gold." She said Bob was a very knowledgable person who was "a source of
information for my father. Bob read a wide number of scientific journals and was
always finding morsels of new information which had some bearing on orgonomy." 
He had a stroke after suffering the effects of getting too close to an operating
cloudbuster, which permanently damaged him. 

Bob McCullough was one of the few people who stood up for Reich at his trial. 
According to Trevor James Constable, McCullough was so crushed by the decision, 
he never fully recovered. McCullough went to work for the U.S. Army in te 
Chemical & Biological Warfae Division, with a security clearance, at Dugway 
Proving Grounds in Utah, the biowarfare experimental station most famous for its
release of some biological agent which killed thousands of sheep in the area. 
Constable accounted for Bob's decision to accept such life-negative work to some
measure of Bob's loss of faith in people after Reich's death in prison. I asked 
Trevor if the Army knew of Bob's history with Reich. "Oh sure," he replied, 
"they had no problem with it." What where his duties? "Well, he was under n oath
of secrecy and couldn't discuss what he was doing, but he inferred that some of 
it was pretty horrible."

McCullough later quit the Army and moved to Costa Rica in a failed attempt to 
start a coffee hacienda in the early eighties. "The effort nearly killed him," 
Trevor said. 

McCullough attended a lecture by Trevor and introduced himself, back in the 
fifties, after Trevor had published his first book on UFOs, called They Live in 
the Sky. McCullough told Constable that he had seen forms, similar to what 
Constable called "critters", in Tucson on the Arizona expedition. From that 
meeting, a collegial relationship grew over the years, and Bob and Trevor 
exchanged audiotape letters over the years, and out of this came Constable's 
interest in weather engineering. Constable, in turn, introduced McCullough to 
Rudolf Steiner's work, which he said was a big part of Bob's outlook in the last
20 years of his life. Bob guided Trevor through the  process of building a 
cloudbuster. 

On a personal basis, Trevor recalled Bob as a man with "truly phenomenal 
intuition. He was what Dr. Reich called a 'functional thinker.' In other words, 
he could follow living processes and relate everything to the living. It was a 
delight to have any kind of conversational intercourse with him, because you 
didn't feel as though you were swimming in fuel oil - which is the way it is 
with most of the conventionally trained people. He had a good conventional 
training. He was a biologist in the best sense of the word. He wanted to know 
everything: he wanted to know why things moved and what the source of the 
movement was, which is what they never study in conventional biology. They stop 
it before they study it. Kill it."

McCullough was an early member of the Borderland Sciences Round-Robin letter, 
back in the fifties. "He became a kind of reference source for people inquiring 
about Reich. He was also much more "catholic" in his approach to things, in 
other words, he was not a doctrinaire Reichian. He was extremely sensitive in a 
bodily sense. He could pick up the fields and emanations in the atmosphere and 
the weather engineering gear with his toungue. He could detect the periphery of 
a field with his tongue. And at this stage, where we really don't have 
meteorology that we need, the human organism has to serve in that capacity until
meteorology does come to hand. Bob could detect life-fields. He was one of the 
two or three most sensitive people I have known." 


I'm publishing an obituary for Bob McCullough in the next issue of Flatland. If 
anyone has further details, corrections or suggestions, please contact me,



-Jim Martin

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