Just read more of Wilhelm Reich from his excellent "Selected Writings." He covers an AMAZING array of stuff. I am interested in his orgone machines and what they did--does anyone know where he wrote about this?? I have ONE essay about Cancer and one about the famous "cloud-busting" he did.

Mim3, Reich goes through ALL of the stuff we've covered, including the notion that people make societies reflective of their inner states (tho he said this in reverse, so far as I've seen). Ole Wolf has posted excerpts. But then again, if you haven't grasped what Tani has written specifically FOR YOU, then I doubt you'll understand these things from a man who wrote 40 years ago for a general audience. He covers SO much, it's amazing. His orgasm stuff is BETTER than Freud, the one big improvement I could suggest would be to draw CHAKRA diagrams instead of the more abstract ones he does. Even so, excellent, interesting as hell, I'm GLAD I bought the second one. .. OH, he also has an excellent theory about where mysticism and religion comes from, it is like what Tani said about SUBLIMATION. He says that all these paranoid notions of ghosts, spirits, God, etc, is skewed knowledge of kundalini. I don't think this is totally true (see his article "Animism, Mysticism, and Mechanism")--I think maybe these klippoths HEAR (or maybe glimpse?) this free kundalini in OTHERS and SEEK IT and invent fantasies about it. Reich is right that the "devil" is their skewed twisted desires.

Mim3, Reich also deals in the above cited article about "idealism" etc, as well as dialectical versus idealistic thinking and its origins in inner kundalini states.

Reich is a man who DIED in an American prison. The Dept of Justice (? I think it was them) ordered his books DESTROYED, along with his orgone machines. I am interested in HOW this came about. Tho I DO have the court injunction and Reich's official reply.

I'm also interested in whether what he said about cancer is validated by modern theory (which is STILL incomplete, from what I know).

I'll try to check out his web sites tommorow.

B