News article on Wilhelm Reich

Scientists Working to Advance Wilhelm Reich's Sexual Energy-Cosmic Life Force Work

-- out of all places FOX news! I was pretty thrilled to see this article in the mainstream and that there's actually still some interest in Reich's work. I really got into orgone work a couple years ago and still have a number of accumulators in my household. I do think though that the technology of HHG's and cloudbusters have given way to more up to date technologies, Reich's original theories of orgone are still cornerstones of technologies that hopefully more baby-boomers and younger folk can gleam some information and inspiration from. I think he was a brilliant man, both in his work regarding orgone theory and politics in general. Just the other day i picked up Reich's "Mass Psychology of Fascism" from my bookshelf and though originally written in the 30's or 40's i think still mirrors politics and the effects it has on the masses today.

for the complete article go to http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,308462,00.html

RANGELEY, Maine —  Physician-scientist Wilhelm Reich, best known for his claims of a cosmic life force associated with sexual orgasm, died in federal prison, and the government burned tons of his books and other publications and destroyed his equipment.

But half a century later, a small number of scientists and other believers are working to advance the European-born psychiatrist's work on what he called "orgone energy" — a theory largely forgotten in the scientific mainstream.

"Personally, I think it's going to be a long time before all of his work is understood and recognized," said Reich's granddaughter, Renata Reich Moise, a nurse-midwife and artist in the coastal town of Hancock.

Reich died on Nov. 3, 1957, in a federal prison in Lewisburg, Pa., where he was sent for ignoring an injunction obtained by the Food and Drug Administration that outlawed a device he called an orgone energy accumulator. Reich believed it could charge the body with essential life energy, heightening vitality and potentially helping to heal disease.

Critics point to some of these more unconventional ideas in deriding him as a quack. But supporters say he was a brilliant man whose ideas warrant further exploration.