From: stefang@isy.liu.se (Stefan Gustavson)
Subject: Re: Orgone Energy
Organization: Dept of EE, University of Linkoping
Date: 31 Jul 92 09:41:04 GMT

Raymond_Shaw@mindlink.bc.ca (Raymond Shaw) writes:

>Hello Mark,

>        If you're really interested in this subject, I suggest you read some of
>Wilhelm Reich's books.  Reich was responsible for the "theory" of orgone energy
                                                       ^^^^^^^^
Yeah, right. "Theory". Well-placed quotation marks.

>and the development of the "orgone accumulator" -- the "box" to which you
>refer.
>        An interesting note to this subject is the fact that Reich was a
>contemporary of Freud, but branched out into his own line of investigation
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That is, went nuts. Poor chap.

>which led to his discovery of orgone energy.  He developed a box which had the
>ability to "collect and trap" orgone energy.  He found that when people were
>exposed to the energy, they experienced increased vitality.  He subsquently
>began using it in his practice (he was a psychiatrist).  He eventually ended up
>in the USA where he started to distribute various sizes of orgone accumulators
 ^^^^^^^^^^
How come all these weirdos end up in the USA?

>until the FDA decided they contravened American law and Reich was then
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That is, the advertising and selling of these things was a complete fraud.

>imprisoned where he died shortly thereafter.  All the orgone accumlators in the
>USA were "rounded up" and destroyed, even though many people had experienced
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Do you really believe this? Were they considered 'communistic' or something?
I think they just ended up in the junk yard because they didn't work.

>extraordinary cures to various diseases, including cancer.  In his will, Reich
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This one is classic. Get real, will you? The cure for cancer is successfully
withheld from the public? And a government conspiracy covered it up? Gee.

>left instructions that his writings be held back from the general public for 50
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Oh. How conveeeenient! Who is holding it back? For what reason? How come
the government didn't just destroy the information along with the devices?

>years.  Reich died in 1957.
>        Among his books in print, there is one which is a compilation of his
>various works (I found this one in my local library, sorry I can't remember the
>title) in which details are given on how to build your own orgone accumlator.
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First you say they are illegal and that someone went through the trouble to
find every single one of them and have them destroyed. Then you say you
found detailed instructions on how to build one of your own in a book
in your local library? Do you expect anybody to believe anything of
what you've said?

>        Hope this helps.
>                        Raymond Shaw.

There are things which are hard to explain, but this is most certainly not
one of those things. Anybody believing crap like this is the true dream of
dictators and scientific and pseudo-religious charlatans everywhere.
"I read this in a really expensive-looking book, so it must be true." Huh?
If you must believe in lies, at least pick some fresh ones that have not
been laughed at for decades already.

        /Stefan Gustavson (stefang@isy.liu.se)


This could be considered a personal flame, but it is not intended to be.
It is intended to be a general public flame to everybody being enough
stupid to consider scepticism a bad thing.
Believe in what you want, but see to it that you have some reason for it!

If you didn't like my opinions above, please take these instead:

I have (inofficial) contacts in the CIA, and I can tell you that Wilhelm Reich
was a Nazi sent over to the USA to spread non-American ideology among the
good American people. One of his achievements was to disguise as a shrink and
hypnotize his patients into believing in unhealthy ideals. The effect of the
hypnosis was maintained through several years through the clever use of a
meditational device called "the orgone energy accumulator". This was a small
box in which the patients would sit and unknowingly do a sort of autohypnosis.
The patients were also hypnotized to think they experienced increased vitality.
The wife of a hypnotized man figured something was wrong, and the CIA took him
in for questioning. The plot was discovered, Reich was imprisoned and dozens
of patients had to be de-programmed. The boxes were confiscated and destroyed.
Some of his patients managed to escape, and to this day there are secret
fractions all over the USA sitting in their boxes twice a day and continuing
to covertly spread the Nazi propaganda of Herr Doktor Wilhelm Reich.
Some of this propaganda is diguised as pseudo-scientific reviews of Reich's
works and secretly planted in libraries everywhere. Apparently, this is what
you have gotten hold of.

DO NOT READ THIS BOOK! It contains massive subliminal programming messages
that can actually lure you into non-American thinking. You are tricked to
believe that the CIA is involved in a massive cover-up of the true nature
of this incident, and that the theories of orgone energy are actually true.
The CIA is really trying to hunt these people down, but with little result.

(Author's name withheld for reasons of personal security)

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DISCLAIMER: This is not a government cover-up of any kind.
            This is the truth. Honestly.