Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 09:07:40 -0500
From: Nick Totton <100532.2353@compuserve.com>
To: orgonomy <orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu>
Subject: Re: Technophiles vs. insight therapy
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu

Andrew Sorcik wrote

<< there seems to be a dichotomy, if not a rift, between those 
Reichians who are primarily interested in orgonomy's therapeutic value
(massage therapists, etc.) and those who find the technological aspects
such as weather control and accumulators more enticing.>>

Thanks for raising the topic, Andrew (as well as for the kind words later on
about our book - now out of print, alas - anyone like to reprint it?)). I don't
know whether what you say is true, but certainly there have been times recently
on this list when I've wanted to suggest that people might consider getting some
therapy....  I haven't done so because such a suggestion is often considered
insulting! How bizarre! I've had thirteen years of different sorts of therapy,
mostly Reichian or otherwise body-oriented, and I know that I would have found
it hard to survive in this world without it; certainly hard to preserve whatever
qualities of softness, openness and creativity I may still possess. As someone
who has worked with orgone devices, bodywork, and psychotherapy, both  as
practitioner and as client, I feel clear that orgone devices on their own are
not enough to keep us sane (what is?). Emotional and mental confusions combined
with orgone devices can, in effect, constitute a source of DOR.

I also get a very strong sense from what I've read and from limited experience
that 'cloudbusting' is indeed *atmospheric therapy*. And just as I would
consider it  grandiose and inappropriate for someone to therapise human beings
without receiving therapy themselves, so with therapising the atmosphere. (None
of this is aimed personally at anyone, since I have no knowledge of anyone's
experience or otherwise of psychotherapy.)

On your more specific questions: I don't know any more than you about the
Einstein episode, but I'd like to, it's fascinating. As I remember, Trevor
Constable's book is good on the emotional aspects of orgonomy; I just went to
the bokshelf to give the title, and it's gone, which is what happens to orgonomy
books, dammit. I agree that links with Rank would be an obvious way to go; also
with the whole subsequent birthing/primal literature, for example Fodor and
Mott, neither of whom seem to know Reich's work at all. And I've already
mentioned on the list that I have an MA dissertation placing reich in his
Freudian historical context, which I'm happy to e mail.

Regards

Nick Totton
100532.2353@compuserve.com
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/selfheal



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