Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 17:10:42 -0500
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
From: James DeMeo <demeo@mind.net>
Subject: Response to "Orgonomy Peddlers..." Article 3/3
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu

(Continued from 2/3)

        * 30 Aug. 1990: Carlinsky writes a short note to James DeMeo:
"Thought you'd like to know what I've been you (sic) to lately."  Enclosed
with the note is a shocking front-page newspaper article from the Chicago
Sun-Times (20 Aug. 1990): "Winds of Fury: Joliet area tornadoes kill 20,
injure 300".

        * 23 March 1991, Carlinsky plagiarized part of my OROP Arizona
report and claimed it as his own work, for his own "Blue Sky" cloudbusting
company, adding his own fund-raising cover letter.  He writes to me: "Thank
you very much for your help in establishing my credibility." One person
subsequently wrote to me: "he [Carlinsky] sent me a prospectus for his
company... which outlines his theories and business plans... I do not
understand why you could not work together when there is so much to be done
in this critically important area?"

        * May 1991:  Carlinsky provided materials on cloudbusting to T. J.
Henderson, head of Atmospherics Incorporated (one of the world's largest
cloudseeding companies) and former editor of the Journal of Weather
Modification (published by the Weather Modification Association). 
Henderson presented a paper on "The Orgone Question" to a closed executive
session at the Annual Conference of the Weather Modification Association,
in Fresno, California.  Based upon Carlinsky's materials, Henderson charged
"DeMeo is not qualified with respect to scientific issues", but backed down
when I openly confronted him and the Association officers about the matter.
 California was then spending millions to fund cloudseeders, whose business
had increased during the prolonged drought.  

        * Dec. 1991:  Carlinsky fabricates a fake book cover and mails it
around:  "The Emperor's New Clothes: The College of Orgonomy and the Cult
of Wilhelm Reich, by Joel Carlinsky and Richard Morrock, Prometheus Press."
 Prometheus Books (a real company) later denies any such forthcoming
publication, but an article by Richard Morrock does shortly appear
thereafter attacking Reich, orgonomy, and the ACO specifically, in the
Skeptical Inquirer. Interestingly, I then receive an unsolicited letter
from CSICOP, the parent organization for Skeptical Inquirer,  denying any
association with Joel Carlinsky, or responsibility for any of his
activities.  

        * Early 1994: Carlinsky sends smear letters attacking and
distorting my work to the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS), at the same time I am organizing a major Symposia on
"Wilhelm Reich's Discoveries: A Scientific Re-Appraisal", which will bring
together a dozen scientists to speak about their work corroborating Reich. 
The smear letters are then abused by an academic member of the San Diego
Skeptics Society, who is also on the AAAS review committee.  Pre-existing
prejudices against Reich are amplified into a major controversy.  The
Symposia is cancelled.  

        * Summer 1994: Joel Carlinsky and Richard Morrock write articles
for "Skeptic" magazine (Vol.2, No.3, 1994).  Carlinsky's article, titled
"Epigones of Orgonomy: The Incredible History of Wilhelm Reich and his
Followers" (p.90-92), subjects orgone energy, orgone therapy, the
cloudbuster and orgonomy to sarcastic ridicule.  His article made
widespread misrepresentations of people's work, and attacked the ACO, CORE
Network, Flatland Books, German orgonomy groups, and portrayed Reich as
paranoid.  Morrock's article,"Pseudo-Psychotherapy: UFOs, Cloudbusters,
Conspiracies and Paranoia in Wilhelm Reich's Psychotherapy".(p.93-95), also
sarcastically attacked the very basis of Reich's sex-economic and orgone
biophysics. 

        * Mid-1995: Carlinsky assists the author of a book attacking
natural healing methods, by a major publisher, with disinformation about
Reich's biophysical work.  The book carries a derogatory entry: "Reich
blood test: Pseudodiagnostic component of orgonomic medicine, the
brainchild of...Reich."  The entry misinforms the reader that medical
orgonomists apply orgone-charged water to patients, and use the orgone
field meter and vacor tube for "pseudodiagnosis."   Carlinsky writes to me,
with a copy of the book entry, saying: "Jim, several authors in the medical
field are now aware of me as a consultant on orgonomy... I thought you
would like to see this sample... Hopefully it will be read by the F.D.A."

        * Mid-late 1995: Carlinsky posts an announcement on the Global
Internet:  "Cloudbuster for Sale" 

        *  Late 1995: Carlinsky publishes an article in a pornographic
magazine, "EDIOS: The primary forum of sexual-expression. Everyone has the
right to be heard!"  The article is titled "Orgone Therapy and Mind
Control: Right-Wing Cult or CIA Front?"  It portrays Reich as genius, but
all his modern advocates and followers are cultists or CIA agents.  Aside
from the craziness of the article itself, it associates Reich's name and
work with sleazy pornography.

        *  Jan. 1996: Carlinsky writes another article "(Or)gone but not
forgotten: The legacy of Wilhelm Reich lives on in his modern followers".
This article, which appears to have been published in a skeptics newsletter
(Carlinsky sent me an unsolicited xerox which did not reproduce the
source), speaks about "Wilhelm Reich's dubious legacy".  It also attacks me
for my cloudbusting work, and describes my institute as a "New Age Cult",
with me as an orgonomic "Rajneesh" lording over a collection of Reich
devotees.  

        * Jan. 1996: Carlinsky circulates "Orgonomy Peddlers, Cloudbusting
and the Environment" in the postal mails, and with help from others, has it
posted on the global Internet.  

Throughout this period, well in addition to the above events and
activities, Carlinsky continued to send unsolicited libelous hate-mail,
some containing serious threats, to me, members of my family, my friends,
my work associates, universities where I taught and to editors who
published my articles.  Nobody took the materials seriously, for they were
so obviously transparent as hate-mail, but I was forced to contact the
police on several occasions, to insure the safety of my home.  Here is a
characteristic ranting quote from one letter sent to a professional member
of the OBRL Advisory Board: "Due to DeMeo's persistent attacks on wildlife
and natural ecosystems with the Reich Cloudbuster I must regard any person
or group that associates with him or provides him a platform as an enemy of
earth to be dealt with accordingly.... Stop consorting with this madman!"

The above points and quotes surely must speak for themselves.  My file of
unsolicited Carlinsky materials is now about a foot thick, filled with more
material than I can easily summarize.  


III.  The Emotional Plague, and Those Who Assist It

Mechanism of the Emotional Plague
        This entire incident is a good example of what Reich called the
emotional plague, whereby the truth is turned upside-down and the most
destructive elements of neurotic behavior are embraced by at least a few
eagerly susceptible people.  The emotional plague character, or pestilent
character, lives for the willful deception of the truth, but masquerades
their activities as "sympathetic criticism", "revelation" of scandal,
"anti-authoritarianism", "free speech", etc.  Their real intent, however,
is to misrepresent and destroy that which is more alive and freely-moving
than themselves.  The pestilent character can only succeed in this mission
when others help to spread the poison, or when others quietly sit back and
say or do nothing in the face of plague behavior.  Some of the plague's
major weapons against life are gossip and innuendo, usually of a sexual
nature, but not always so.  But they must select an emotionally-charged
issue to be successful.  The pestilent character knows that it takes a
little bit of truth to catch the interest of the gossip-hungry listener, to
which is added some scandal or "dangerous revelation" whereupon anxiety and
suspicion are created in the listener about some third party.  When done in
a group setting, the pestilent character can easily mobilize the latent
anger of the group, and direct it towards the third party, who is blamed
for all kinds of things.  Usually, this third party is some innocent victim
whose only crime is to have inadvertently provoked the immobilized
structure of the pestilent character.  
        A person can be an actual functioning plague character who is
almost completely blocked genitally.  Their energy level is quite high, but
due to the blocking are thwarted in their efforts to engage in fulfilling
and productive work.  More commonly, an individual can be more emotionally
mobile, but nevertheless susceptible to temporary infections or flare-ups
of plague behavior.  It is basically a matter of emotional health, not a
term of derision, and should be viewed similar to having the flu or other
epidemic disease.  One can be temporarily infected, and get over it.  Or
one can be more deeply infected, constantly infecting others with poisonous
ways of emotional living.  Generally, plague characters surround themselves
with others who are more mobile, capable of actually doing some kind of
work, but who are effectively recruited in their work to the goals and
directions of the central plague character.  There are many social
expressions of organized emotional plague, the largest of which are found
in organized religion and political movements.  But expressions can also
appear in much smaller group settings.  That is what has in fact occurred
in the present instance.
        Here are a few additional points about the emotional plague,
originally described by Reich.  
        1)  The stated motivations for the actions of the plague are never
the real motivations.  Usually, the real motivation is 180-degrees opposite
to what is stated.  
        2)  No lie is too big for the plague, and the big lie is most
effective when concealed under a layer of half-truths. 
        3) The plague attacks that which give it the most excitement.  Like
the Grand Inquisitors of the Medieval Church, celibate anti-sex priests
all, who tortured and butchered millions of women throughout Europe.  Or
the contemporary preacher, who thumps the bible with outrage at the thought
of young people sleeping together.  
        4) The plague wants to kill and destroy that which it cannot
possibly have for itself, or that which it desires to be, but cannot.

        How does the plague accomplish its task?  Usually by introducing
itself into already-established working situations, and then by introducing
slander and gossip which creates turmoil and division.  The pestilent
character firstly does what is necessary to remove the more functional and
independent individuals within its circle of influence.  Later, they work
their way into positions of power and political authority over the work of
others, from where they have an advantage point for an even greater and
more widespread destructive influence. 
        Let's quote Reich, whose descriptions of the plague are so germane
to this instance one would think he had written these paragraphs with
forethought of this particular situation:

        "The pestilent character... uses underhanded slander and defamation
in his fight against life and truth.  He finds for his well-hidden actions
a perfect setting, all ready to be misused and distorted.  He does not have
to build any new organization to achieve his ends.  All he needs to do is
to use the existing channels for his underhanded poisoning of public
affairs.  
        "...the pestilent character enters the public scene as the
representative of irrationalism, slander, underhandedness, character
assassination, gossip and all other actions which are summarily called
Emotional Plague.  We know already that the emotional plague has nothing
constructive to offer, serves no purpose, and that it satisfies no basic
human needs, except those of the emotionally sick.  Unfortunately, due to
the prevailing biopathic structure of man in general, the emotional plague
reigns over the public scene and has succeeded, in its organized form, in
bringing human society to the brink of the abyss.  ...
        "The first thing to note is the way the pestilent character
interlopes himself and integrates his irrational activity with the rational
set-up:  It is what the pioneer, the public at large, and the social
administrator have in common with the pestilent character. ...
        "The pestilent character is usually a very active, mobile emotional
structure; his mobility, however, is short-circuited, as it were, in such a
manner that all splendid ideas and good intentions somehow evaporate before
they can concentrate enough to produce lasting results.  This is a serious
work disturbance which gains importance through the fact that the pestilent
character most likely will turn out to be an "abortive genius". ...
        "If, now, such a character joins a peaceful, hard-working group of
people, ... his inner frustrations will sooner or later drive him to do
underhanded mischief.  ...
        "A little slander, well placed, excellently formulated, will,
without great effort, kill many an important truth right away in its
infancy or it will deprive it of social effectiveness if it had the
strength to mature under such social pathology. The public will not act or
render any help to the truth.  It will remain "sitting" silently and watch
helplessly or even gloatingly any crucifixion of innocent souls.  ...
        "How could such ridiculous nuisance get into this world, in the
first place, and how could it, undisturbed, devastate human organizations
of work and peace for ages?
        "However tough such problems may be to solve, we cannot ever expect
to even start solving them unless we free ourselves from the nuisance
interference with serious human work exerted by the pestilent character. It
is necessary to first achieve a certain amount of safety in doing the job
of finding answers to questions of living life." (W. Reich:"Truth Versus
Modju", Orgone Energy Bulletin, 4:162-170, July 1952; also see section on
"Emotional Plague" in: W. Reich: Selected Writings, Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, 1973, p.467-513; W. Reich, Character Analysis, Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, 1961, p.504-539. W. Reich, The Murder of Christ, Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, 1971.)

        "Freedom of speech and press are usually and unconsciously being
misinterpreted in the sense that irrationalism should have the same freedom
of expression as rationalism, and that the lie should have the same freedom
of speech as the truth.  This misconception of freedom has led the European
world [of c.1940] into the disaster because the present human character
structure is more afraid of the truth than of the lie, and more inclined to
irrational than to rational reactions.  If real peace and democracy should
have a chance of growth, I believe, a thorough distinction between rational
and irrational, truthful and deceitful human action and expression should
be made, and that freedom of speech should not be granted to fascist lie
and irrationalism, wherever and by whomever it is expressed." (W. Reich,
letter to R. Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union, 26 July 1948,
from "Red Thread of a Conspiracy") 

        To paraphrase Reich:  Why does the Big Lie have so many supporters
and hungry listeners, carried forward as in a big parade, while the Truth
must come limping behind, on crutches, panting with it tongue out!


The Present Situation on the Global Internet
        Some weeks ago, I received a long posting (e-mail letter) from Mr.
Jamerling Ogg informing me that he had received an article in the mails
from Carlinsky on "Orgonomy Peddlers...", and that he had decided to post
the article on his Internet Web Page, which is known as the Public
Orgonomic Research Exchange (PORE).  That action would have made
Carlinsky's article readily available around the world, as if posted on a
bulletin board which could be read from any computer terminal connected to
the Internet, on a permanent basis, allowing it to be repeatedly copied and
spread.  Mr. Ogg sent me a copy of the article, along with his own attached
"editorial" wherein he actually repeated and amplified many of Carlinsky's
more serious accusations, but without any supporting evidence.  I was
totally shocked by this, as Ogg already had been given documentation about
Carlinsky's personal history.  Unfortunately, Ogg did not appear concerned
about the misrepresentations in the article, or how the Internet posting
would affect me personally, or the effects it might have upon my work.  Ogg
acknowledged that Carlinsky was a self-confessed liar, that he had not
himself read most of my own writings on these subjects, that many of the
points in the "Orgonomy Peddlers..." article were false, but he announced
to me, incredibly, that he would post it on his web site anyway.
        I strongly objected, did not want to spend time writing a detailed
rebuttal, and quite legitimately warned him, to protect myself and work
from blatant libel and character assassination.  When several friends came
to my defense, he finally reconsidered and backed down.  By that time,
however, so much good will and openness had been given to Mr. Carlinsky,
that a third party posted his materials on the Orgonomy Mailing List (OML),
a computer-linked global Internet discussion group, and probably have since
been circulated through the global Internet even more widely.  Afterward, a
few others on the OML began to make extended positive commentary about
Carlinsky's assertions and charges, amplifying them irresponsibly, adding
in other malicious opinions, and so forth.  It was an awful spectacle, what
Reich called an "emotional chain-reaction".  Only then did I write this
necessary rebuttal.  


Closure
        
        I will not waste further time responding to any additional smears,
nor in any "talky-talk" chit-chat about this material now circulating
through the Internet.  If the reader has not the time and energy to devote
to finding and reading thoroughly all the pertinent publications on this
issue, publications which are absolutely essential for the formation of an
opinion, then I surely do not have the time for the impossible task of
"educating" the uneducable.  

A new web site is now being developed by my Institute, the Orgone
Biophysical Research Laboratory, which will present a lot of information
for those who are unfamiliar with my work and publications.  In the
meantime, any reader wanting to obtain copies of my writings and
publications can get a listing of the pertinent literature by sending their
mailing address.  Materials will then be sent by postal mails.  Most of my
experimental desert-greening operations have been written up in published
protocols, and these are available for purchase and objective review.  Our
research journal, "Pulse of the Planet" (four issues since 1989), contains
some of the most exciting new material and information verifying,
supporting and extending Reich's discoveries.  My book "The Orgone
Accumulator Handbook" has become more widely read and translated into
different languages, with other new books devoted to Reich and orgonomy
(confirming and supporting his findings) recently taken up by major
publishers.  Our new Research and Educational Center in Ashland, Oregon
will present this year four new public Seminars on the subject of Reich's
work, with guest lectures by professionals with decades of dedication and
experience in orgonomy.  All these publications and public events are
available for any serious person to review and attend (though provocateurs
will not be tolerated!).  It is very pleasing to see this work develop and
expand, without major publicity and no propaganda whatsoever.  Interest in
Reich's work is slowly but steadily growing, like the slow steady growth of
an Oak tree.  Now, this is the real reason why there are so many malicious
attacks against Reich's work, and my work.


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Copyright (C) 1996, All Rights Reserved by James DeMeo
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James DeMeo, Ph.D.
Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory
Greensprings Research and Educational Center
PO Box 1148, Ashland, Oregon 97520 USA
e-mail:   demeo@mind.net

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