Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries (41 page)

Reich viewed the cloudbusting operation as beneficial, bringing rain to the southwest in January 1955. One morning in Tucson there was so much rain that planes were unable to land at the airport. The previous weeks, he reported prairie grass had sprouted in the desert until in December 1954 the grass was a foot high on land that had been barren as long as anyone living could remember. This work was not as well documented, perhaps because of the distractions of a coming showdown with the government agents.

Meanwhile, the United States Food and Drug Administration gathered a case against his use of the orgone accumulator for therapy. The FDA and medical profession did not believe that it worked, and labelled it quackery. In 1954 the FDA ordered his [Reich's] hardcover books banned from circulation and his softcover books, including all his periodicals, burned. It also ordered him to stop making and distributing orgone accumulators. For refusing to obey the injunction against publishing, Reich was sentenced to two years in jail. He died in prison in 1957, shortly before he would have been eligible for parole.

STILL IGNORED BY MAINSTREAM

Years later, mainstream science has not accepted bions or Reich's more important findings regarding the atmosphere. An orgone accumulator sits in the St. Louis Museum of Quackery. However, small groups in several countries carry on the work. Some European health practitioners openly use orgone accumulators. A scientist and former weather forecaster, Dr. Charles R. Kelley, wrote A New Method of Weather Control in 1960 and published the only periodical related to Reich's work in the years just after Reich's death, up until 1965. Another of Reich's students, the late Elsworth F. Baker, M.D., founded the American College of Orgonomy and began the Journal of Orgonomy about a decade after Reich's death. Headquarters of the small college are now in Princeton, New Jersey. It consists of a group of academics—mostly psychiatrists. The Wilhelm Reich museum at Rangeley, Maine, is open to the public in summer. Unfortunately, his will specified that his archives be sealed in a vault until the year 2007. He hoped that a new generation would seriously look at his work without feeling the need to squash it.

Over the years, some of Reich's publicly-stated views, such as his McCarthy-era accusations that certain government agents were Red Fascists, his claims of UFO-related experience, or his advocacy of adolescent sexual freedom, have been an embarrassment to followers who otherwise want to carry on his work. Some of them claim that, in his last few years of his life, Reich's loneliness and the cumulative effects of his experiences became too heavy. From around 1955 until his death in 1957, says biographer Boadella, "the paranoid ideas ran alongside perfectly rational concepts and insights."

The best of Reich's discoveries live on, although not publicized in mainstream media. A handful of individuals in various countries have continued to learn about "etheric weather modification." Such experimentation with atmospheric processes is not to be taken lightly, according to practitioners. In fact, they say that irresponsible cloudbusting operations can contribute to destructive weather instead of restoring the weather's natural rhythms.

There had been a unifying thread spun by Reich's varied research; most of his findings related to a central discovery. The growing thread of evidence pointed to reality of Life Force which can be scientifically demonstrated. It led to Reich's findings that, when the atmospheric life force over a large area has been assaulted too much, it locks into an immobile state of drought-causing stagnant air.

A Reichean-oriented scientist in Michigan and others add a sombre note about degradation of the atmosphere. Herman Meinke of the Detroit area estimated in 1993 that the life force in the atmosphere is only about one/fortieth of the strength which it was during Reich's experiments. He has been repeating the experiments for many years, and found that they no longer show results which they did previously. He blames the proliferation of nuclear testing and nuclear power plants for weakening the planet's atmospheric life force.

REICH PARALLELS SCHAUBERGER

Reich's biographers hint that squashing of writings about a dynamic atmospheric force in the 1950s was related to the fact that the atomic power industry was emerging at that time; it would not do for the public to debate whether atomic fission and its byproducts turns life force in the environment into a destructive presence which Reich called Deadly Orgone Radiation. Nor would the atomic power industry want people to connect droughts and anomalous weather with atmospheric DOR. Reich's contemporary and fellow Austrian, Viktor Schauberger, also had an advanced understanding of what he saw as an energy whose life could be blown apart by proliferation of atomic radiation in the atmosphere.

Like Schauberger, Reich also learned from observing nature. When Reich published photographs of trees dying from the tops downward because of poisoning of the biosphere—what he called the falling of DOR onto the trees—he was one of the first scientists to warn that the planet could become a lifeless wasteland. His work indicated that the life force within an organism is stimulated by outer orgone in the atmosphere. Has the weakening of the life force in the atmosphere by pollution, been reflected within humanity and other species? The many weakened immune systems—from cancers in sea life to AIDS in humans—presents a strong clue.

Reich's followers today say that Reichean methods to break up blockages in the atmosphere can help save the day, if the causes of Deadly Orgone Radiation are also removed. (Reich said the causes include treatment of babies and children which perpetuates an emotional desert in humanity.) His followers describe a scenario of atmospheric medicine, including cloudbusters, renewed vitality in the air and in organisms, and greening of deserts.

To the end of his life, Reich was close friends with English educator A. S. Neill of the famous Summerhill school, who also pioneered a lifeaffirming approach to children. Neill wrote in 1958, "If the anti-life men in charge of our lives do not destroy the world, it is possible that people as yet unborn will understand what Reich was doing and discovering."

Former student of Wilhelm Reich, Dr. Charles R. Kelley of 13715 SE 36 St., Steamboat Landing, Vancouver, WA 98685, USA teaches a correspondence course titled Science and the Life Force.

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Boadella, David. Appendix One, "The Trial of Wilhelm Reich" by Sharif, Myron R. first published by Ritter Press, 1958.

Burr, Harold Saxton. Blueprint for Immortality: The Electric Patterns of Life. Essex, England: C.W. Daniel, 1972.

Eden, Jerome. Orgone Energy. Hicksville, New York: Exposition Press, 1972.

Einstein, Albert. Correspondence with Wilhelm Reich 1941-1944, from the Archives of the Orgone Institute.

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Ind, Peter. Cosmic Metabolism and Vortical Accretion. Self-published manuscript, England, 1964.

Kelley, Charles R. A New Method of Weather Control. Westport, Connecticut: Radix, 1960.

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Manning, Jeane. "A Cause of Droughts? Interview with Dr. James De Meo," Explore! Magazine Vol. 4, No. 1, 1993.

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(The last two items are reprinted in A History of Free Energy Discoveries by Peter A. Lindemann, Borderland Sciences, Garberville, CA 1986.)

The AMA's Charge on the Light Brigade

Stuart Troy

The evils of some men have a karmic momentum that extends beyond the grave, undiminished by their deaths. If you could somehow quantify and accurately ascribe human pain and needless suffering, then the pernicious legacy of Morris Fishbein, M.D. (1889-1976) of the American Medical Association (AMA) would exceed in villainous ignominy the legacies of Hitler and Stalin combined. While a more subtle and quiet offence which may pass unnoticed in the historical moment, ideocide is ultimately, in its continually expansive accumulative enormity, a far more pernicious crime against all humanity than any "simple" genocide. When a genocide indictment is finally issued, it contains specifics: dates of onset, locations, duration, victim identity lists. But who can name the victims or measure the pain that marks Fishbein's ideocidal career? Indeed, when can we even end the tally?

If the only adduced instance of Fishbein's ideocide were the persistent, obsessive persecution of Colonial Dinshah Ghadiali, M.D., D.C., Ph.D., L.L.D., from 1924 to 1958 and the attempted eradication of his SpectroChrome Therapy (SCT) both from practice and from print, it would tragically suffice to make my point.

Popular history would have us believe that the (now scandalously) shocking FDA-instigated incineration of the printed works of Dr. William Reich was an unprecedented and isolated event in these United States of alleged First Amendment protections.

However, the dubious distinction of having been the first Federal bookburn victim belongs to Dinshah. Ten years previously, in 1947, in compliance with a Federal Court order, he had to "surrender for destruction" his unique library and all printed material pertaining to coloured light therapies to U.S. marshals in Camden, New Jersey. All during those years he remained steadfastly dedicated to truth in the healing arts, and to his personal vision of an earnest, energetic, open America (a vision he formed some fifty years earlier on his first visit). The source of this resiliency is found in part in his often-repeated motto: "Truth can be defeated, never conquered."

In the better-known case of Dr. Reich, the very barbarity of the assault itself added to his mystique, impairing a legendary martyrdom and ensuring an elevated niche in history independent of the content or validity of his science. In contrast, very few, even among practitioners of the alternative disciplines, know the story of SCT despite the uninterrupted efforts of the Dinshah Health Society, established and run by his son Darius Dinshah on the original 23-acre Malaga, New Jersey estate. Operating under the strict confines of the final 1958 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) injunction, which is still in effect, SCT has somehow survived to enjoy the modicum of legitimacy conferred by the 1994 recognition and listing (as an information source only) of SCT by the United States Office of Alternative Medicine.

Fortunately for us, the core of the system (any projected light source except fluorescent, plus 12 coloured filters) is so low-tech, and the "tonation" application Dinshah—are so tion allows for convenient accessibility. (See diagram of the SpectroChrome Therapeutic System on p. 262.) Unfortunately for Dinshah (the "Ghadiali" was dropped in America), it was precisely this low-tech accessibility and therapeutic efficacy which made him an irresistible and inevitable target for Fishbein and the healing-for-money establishment.

Born in Bombay, India, in 1873 to a Parsee watchmaker of Persian descent (the Zoroastrian faith to which he adhered is often referred to as "the Faith of Light"), Dinshah's special genius and industry soon became apparent. He began primary school at age three, and high school at eight. By his eleventh year he was an assistant to the Professor of Mathematics and Science at Wilson College, Bombay. His father did not encourage his early fascination with electricity, and Dinshah told of sneaking downstairs to study through the night, retiring for a few hours of sleep shortly before dawn when he and his father would arise together. He took his university exams at fourteen, winning proficiency awards in English, Persian and religion. (In his spare time, he was to achieve competence in eight oriental and eight occidental languages.)

The following year he divided his time between giving demonstrations in physics and chemistry and meeting the demands of running a successful electric doorbell/burglar alarm installation business. It was also the year he began his medical studies.

At eighteen, having mastered the practice of Yoga Shasira and having been awarded a fellowship by The Theosophical Society, he added spiritual subjects to his oratorial repertoire. His reputation and experience formulations—laboriously determined and simple that the ease of home assembly charted by

and utilisaas an electrical engineer earned an appointment as Superintendent of Telephone and Telegraph for Dholar state. Three years later found him serving as Electrical Engineer of Patiala state and Mechanical Engineer for the Umbala Flour Mill.

His medical studies completed, in 1896 Dinshah made his first trip to America, where he lectured on X-rays and Tesla, Edison and other scientific notables. A Dinshah was affectionately referred to by The New York Times as "the Parsee Edison."

The freedoms, the opportunities, the stimulating intellectual energies he perceived in pre-war America left him with an inspired, compassionate optimism that future events could not dilute. Upon his return to India he became a social reformer and the first publisher/editor of The Impartial, a weekly founded "to further the cause of freedom in speech and writing."

The year 1897 was to prove pivotal, for it was the year Dinshah became the first person in India to apply and thus effect a cure for disease in accordance with the hypotheses of Dr. Edwin D. Babbitt (as in his book, The Principles of Light and Color, University Books, New Hyde Park, NY, 1876, reprinted 1967) and Dr. Seth Pancost (Blue and Red Light, or Light and Its Rays as Medicine, 1877).