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Conference hydra::dejavu

Title:Psychic Phenomena
Notice:Please read note 1.0-1.* before writing
Moderator:JARETH::PAINTER
Created:Wed Jan 22 1986
Last Modified:Tue May 27 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2143
Total number of notes:41773

1940.0. "Wilhelm Reich and his ACCUMULATOR?" by UNTADH::JOEHNK (Reinhard Joehnk @UNT, Munich) Wed May 04 1994 06:53

       
       Can anybody out there provide information or a pointer to
       information on:

       The late German psychologist Wilhelm Reich and his
       findings on an "accumulator", a device he describes as an
       instrument to collect "cosmic energy"?

       Reinhard
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1940.1What kind of information ?DWOVAX::STARKTodd I. StarkWed May 04 1994 14:3614
    re: .0,
    	I have some literature on it, but most of it is in the
    	nature of 'debunking' Reich's more controversial ideas, and implying 
    	strongly that he was going mad in his later life, or something of the 
    	sort.
    
    	The most recent articles I have are from the _Skeptic_ magazine
    	published by a group out of California in the U.S. (associated 
    	with Cal Tech).  Are you interested in this, or in more sympathetic
    	sources ?
    
    							kind regards,
    
    							todd
1940.2UFOS notes file xrefWIDGET::KLEINWed May 04 1994 15:434
See WIDGET::UFOS note 84 (around 84.816 and later) for a lengthy discussion
of the relationship between Reich's Orgone Energy and Crop Circles.

-steve-
1940.3Oh yeah, that was a good one.DWOVAX::STARKTodd I. StarkWed May 04 1994 16:048
    re: .2,
    Yes, a quick peek into the past reveals to me that the bulk of the Reich 
    string in UFOs was from reply 84.810 to 84.827.  I had forgotten all about
    that discussion.  
    
    						thanks,
    
    						todd
1940.4What I was able to find.DWOVAX::STARKTodd I. StarkWed May 11 1994 17:1117
    re: Reinhard,
    
    I found several fairly good general articles on Reich and Orgonomy; one by 
    Francis King in the Cavendish _Encyclopedia of the Unexplained_, and two 
    in a recent magazine.  There is also three pages devoted to comparing
    orgone with presumed geophysical energy in _Where Science and Magic Meet_ 
    by Serena Roney-Dougal, and a small section on "Medical Orgonomy" in 
    Herink's "_A_to_Z_Book of Psychotherapy."  
    
    I'll mail you the best of what I dug up, avoiding obvious redundance.  
    The articles cover the fundamentals and development of Reich's orgone 
    theory, comparisons with Paracelsan astral light, mesmeric fluid, and odic 
    force, and a number of interesting details on Reich himself.
    
    						kind regards,
    
    						todd