Dr. Reich and the Cloud Buster

(Conspiracy Nation, 10/03/05) -- There has been talk suggesting the recent Hurricane Katrina might have been caused or augmented by secret weather modification technology. Some go so far as to suggest the scenario of a George W. Bush look-alike double impersonating the White House figurehead while the real "Dubya" steered Hurricane Katrina from a "Fortress Of Solitude." (See "New Orleans: The Truth", http://www.shout.net/~bigred/NOTruth.html)

Conspiracy Nation is not ready at this point to agree with the wilder scenarios. However weather modification has been dabbled in successfully since at least the 1950s.

A brilliant scientist, Dr. Wilhelm Reich, was hounded by the Establishments of various nations. Reich, a protege of famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, eventually broke away from his mentor. Forced to flee Nazi Germany, Dr. Reich settled down in Norway in the 1930s.

In Norway, Reich's experiments lead to the discovery of "bions." Rotting matter broke down into microscopic blue "vesicles" -- quasi life forms, in some sense alive. Radiation from the bions was the "life energy," the "orgone." [1]

According to Reich, what he called "The Emotional Plague" inhibits expression of this life energy in humans. Furthermore, generally "armored individuals," resistant to orgone energy, are life-denying and inclined to fascism. (See "Emotional Plague Grips U.S.", http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Reich.htm)

This emotional plague fascism can take many forms! Don't necessarily expect the Devil to wear a Nazi uniform this time!

Persecuted in Norway, Dr. Reich moved to the United States in 1940 and settled in the state of Maine. There, he announced the orgone energy was a cosmic life force existing everywhere. His invention, the orgone energy accumulator, increased the bion radiation. [1]

Reich met with Albert Einstein at Princeton for five hours. Einstein was interested and conducted his own experiments. [1]

Reich developed an orgone-powered engine, seemingly a perpetual motion machine. [1]

The Red Fascists

Reich warned that nuclear energy had altered the universal orgone energy into a deadly force, which he called Deadly Orgone Radiation (DOR). This was the 1950s and nuclear proliferation was rampant. Magazines, notably the New Republic, began a disinformation campaign which falsely portrayed the scientist. Reich believed his long time Stalinist enemies, the Red Fascists, were behind the attack. New Republic's owner, Michael Straight, was a Soviet spy. His magazine was connected to Wall Street billionaires and British internationalists. Professor Carroll Quigley had written that the magazine's original purpose was "to provide an outlet for the progressive left and guide it quietly in an Anglophile direction." [1]

Not intimidated, Dr. Reich invented a "cloud buster" to drain DOR from the sky. He also used the "cloud buster" to make rain. But the New Republic and other media's disinformation had taken hold. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pursued legal action against Reich. He counter-attacked, threatening to flood the East with horrific weather.

Some reports say Reich was successful in influencing the weather. [1] Remember, this was the 1950s, a half-century ago. So those who automatically scoff at weather modification technology ought to bone up on their history a bit.

The Red Fascists are an aspect of the emotional plague. Last week they slithered out from under a rock and viciously mauled Bill Bennett. (See "Bennett's Modest Proposal", http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Bennett.html) Another aspect is slimey phone calls accusing this editor of un-Americanism. (See "Emotional Plague Grips U.S.", op. cit.) Still another life-hating aspect of the disease is a weird "Christianity" advocating the assassination of Hugo Chavez. (See "New Orleans: The Truth", op. cit.) Don't necessarily expect the Devil to wear a Nazi uniform this time.

A Cosmic Life Force, Existing Everywhere

Dr. Reich's orgone energy suggests Nikola Tesla's concept of space. What is "space"? Replied Tesla, "Space is that which conducts electricity." (See "Unlimited Energy," http://www.shout.net/~bigred/UnlimEng.html)

Also brought to mind are ancient concepts of The Ether (a.k.a. Aether), a subtle yet tenacious field pervading space and interpenetrating matter. (See "In The Bosom Of The Ether", http://www.shout.net/~bigred/BosEther.html)

Ervin Laszlo sums up his life's work in, Science and the Akashic Field. There he shows The Ether as akin to the Sanskrit Akashic Field. Akasha, in fact, means "ether: all-pervasive space." It is "the zero-point energy field that fills all of cosmic space..."

Dr. Wilhelm Reich had stumbled onto something profound, having enormous potential benefit for humanity. For that, the life-denying fascists destroyed him. He was unjustly imprisoned and died in 1957.

In one of Reich's final letters, unearthed thanks to a Freedom Of Information Act request made by Kenn Thomas, the persecuted scientist had a warning for us all:

"...the true danger to our social and personal existence is placed: It is EMOTIONAL POISONING: disruption through sowing distrust throughout our society, doping and drugging of our population, esp. our YOUTH; draining us financially through arms race, a camouflage of the true menace, the EMOTIONAL POISONING a la Little Rock racial upheavals; keeping our high-placed officials at bay through fear of sexual scandal; railroading efficient men and women into prisons or lunatic asylums through breaking up their environments; subverting justice by whispered little lies & frightening or using judges..." [2]

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[1] "The Cloud Buster", ch. 25 of The 70 Greatest Conspiracies Of All Time, by Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen.
[2] Reich's letter to Protestant minister Rev. Silber, Sept. 14, 1957. "Wilhelm Reich in Hell" by Jim Martin.
Steamshovel Press #6. Reprinted in Popular Alienation by Kenn Thomas (editor).

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