Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 15:34:09 -0500
Message-Id: <199603022016.PAA11218@dns.enter.net>
From: "Michael Clements" <orgonome@dns.enter.net>
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: Re: Greetings, Emotional Plague Sufferers!
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU

What I notice is that when a question or issue has been openly 
addressed, the air is "cleared."  Everyone wants to find out more, 
talk more about the topic.  A great weight has been lifted from 
everyone's mind.  Discussion on the topic and issue becomes many more 
times intense.  Everyone wants to get down to the important matter at 
hand.  

The more interest I have and questions I have here with respect to cloud 
busting the more shame I am made to feel.  The last time I remember 
feeling so much shame for my curiosity was when I became an adolescent.  
The adults were all wrapped up in their morality blankets.  No one was 
holier or knew better what I was supposed to feel and what was supposed to 
happen than my parents.  I get the same feeling here.  

When someone wraps himself up in all the good work and good ideas 
Reich has and says, any critisism of me is an attack on Reich and his 
ideas," or "To question me is to question the wisdom of Reich."  I 
wonder if that someone doesn't have his identity confused.   

Criticism is often a genuine attempt to discover information, to find 
out what is going on, a reaching out, an attempt to make contact.  

What I see is an impenetrable barrier based on the reputation of 
another person.  I think Christianity got its start that way.  Anyone 
who understands "The Murder of Christ" understands the difference 
between a self-appointed saint and Jesus.  He would also recognize 
how these self-appointed saints wrapped themselves in the "glory" of 
their hero, a man beyond any reproach.  Is this what we admire?  

 "Any attack on me is an attack on Reich, an attack on the teachings 
of Reich."  "This is what Reich said.  I am just like him.  I am 
totally completely and absolutely blameless in all ways, just like 
Reich."  A lot of people have thought they were Jesus Christ, too.  
Can anyone stand on their own two feet in this world?  Can anyone 
stand on their own merits and faults in this world?  Did Reich ever 
claim he maid no mistakes or have any misconccptions?  I rather think 
he was the first to publically and openly admit his faults.  

By continually defending against issues with which no one dissagrees, 
I am not allowed to make up my own mind.  Perhaps making rain and 
ending droughts is a good thing.  And who could criticize someone who 
did that?  But the issue here is the "side effects" of its use and 
the responsibility of others who are given the technology.  Are cloud 
busters being left around for use by those who have no feeling for or 
idea of ecology?  Can responsibile cloud busting be learned by rote 
memorization as we learn in school?  

I have seen a lot of what appears to be loyalty in this mailing list. 
Loyalty is normally a good feeling and good response.  When it blocks 
seeing what is going on and the ability to think for one's self it is 
dangerous.  A loyal person is no help when he/she cannot stand on 
his/her own too feet with his/her own ideas and feelings when being 
loyal.  

I get the feeling here that cloudbusting is as important to keep 
hidden from the rest of us as it was for my parents to distort and 
mis-represent my own sexuality to me.  Maybe some of the same reasons 
are involved here.  

Mike C. 


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