Quote from man:
if it is as you say it truly IS a decent record. but when
someone goes too far, i'm not cowering either and tell
him ...
what about this reich thing? i try once in a while to
check if anyone seriously looked at his claims but so
far it feels like it is more or less sunk into esoterics ...
Quote from FightTheFuture:
Reich was not the first to discover or investigate what he called orgone.
Every culture and language has a different name for the same energy. Same stuff, different name, packaging, and promotion.
Orgone, chi, qi, ki, life force, life energy, bio energy, od, prana, mana, psykhe, Spiritus, etc.
The whole point of mentioning Reich:
"I would like to plead for my right to investigate natural phenomena...."
I think any scientist or any individual has the right to investigate anything without interference nor punishment from those that have an opposing view.
To not allow or to discourage an opposing view is suspect.
it is really a strange situation. reich was an acclaimedQuote from FightTheFuture:
... Orgone, chi, qi, ki, life force, life energy, bio energy, od, prana, mana, psykhe, Spiritus, etc.
The whole point of mentioning Reich:
"I would like to plead for my right to investigate natural phenomena...."[/B]
Quote from man:
ratboy,
do you have any first hand experience with accumulators?
i considered to get one, but never followed up. what would
be interesting experiments with it? actually i think i
would get two of them, one with reich's order of cotton
and metal, the other vice versa. otherwise it is difficult
to isolate the effect to orgone i'd guess.
Quote from FightTheFuture:
About 2-3 years ago I was tempted to make some orgonite, but my list of things to do is over 16 notebook pages. Someday.
Some people are building orgone devices and using phosphorescent glow tape to observe the moving orgone produced from the orgonite in a darkened room.
I don't think physicists would be interested in researching orgone even if they knew it had positive uses. Not unless there were significant profits to be had, since orgone is essentially free. Not unless it could be used as a weapon to kill masses of people.
Researchers like Reich are easily labeled as kooks if they are not working on mainstream, acceptable ideas. It is a pop culture, you're not one of us world.
One of the greatest scientists and inventors was
Nikola Tesla. He was labeled a kook by his competitors and government. He had inventions, credit and theories stolen from him decades after he first discovered them. This lone man would have had more patents than Edison's huge team if he had not been penniless most of his life.
Both of these guys were rather eccentric, but that seems to be the case with nearly all great minds as they are not operating at the level of us "normals''.