Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 12:46:32 -0500
From: Ernest Karhu <ekarhu@usa1.com>
Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960308170429.00991634@usa1.com>
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: Cloud Busting too
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU

Around 1952, Wilhelm Reich was reported to have been concerned with what he
called "stillness" and "bleakness" which closely resembles the work of
Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" described some ten years after Reich's
discussions of his Oranur concepts and the Oranur experiment to explore
the effects of orgone energy on radioactive material.

He was especially impressed by what he called DOR-clouds which bore a
remarkable resemblence to what we now call air pollution or smog. In
an effort to do something about the debilitating effects of DOR-clouds,
he hit upon the idea of using long metal pipes, cables and deep wells
as a means to draw off the energy of the DOR-clouds.

Out of this initial work grew what Reich later called "Cloud-busting"
which was not limited to DOR-clouds and was later termed as "rain
making." The "success" of some of these experiments were reported
in the Bangor Daily News some twenty-four years before I moved to
Bangor, Maine, in 1977.

In 1973, I became interested in the "idea" of "cloud-busting" as an
act of "will." I read everything that I could find that was available
to me at the time. Most of what I found was in the library of the
Shadybrook House, a center for transpersonal study in Mentor, Ohio.
At that time I lived in Madison, Ohio, the largest township in Ohio
in the smallest county: Lake County. Madison was the birthplace of
THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS in 1970, an event in which I was also involved.

So on that warm summer day in 1973, after checking the weather report
to insure that there was absolutely "no likelihood" of rain in the 
forcast anywhere in the mid-west on that day and indeed during a
dry-spell, I headed out to a nearby field to do my own version of
"cloud busting" with no equipment other than my mind and a few books.

I went through a simple and short exercise that essentially was
designed to "call up" a storm. Probably within a half hour the sky
began to quickly darken. In fact, the sky was unusually darkened,
perhaps a "greenish" black of a sort I have never seen before or
afterwards. There was a hell of a lot of lightening and thunder.
I hurried home running through the fields. The rain was very
heavy and mixed with ice pellets that bounced like little marbles
as they hit the ground. The yards and street flooded quickly and
just about as quickly was drained off. Within an hour from start
to finish the storm was over and the sky slowly cleared. I don't
believe anyone was injured or suffered any real or measurable
damage - at least I don't think so. Was the storm coincidence?
Probably. I never told a soul. I never tried again. I probably
should. A part of me believed this was possible. So perhaps
I've been cloud busting too!

Today I would call this an exercise in morphic resonance.

Ernie



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