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Dominic Lloyd's avatar

The Taoists know it as the Tao. Consciousness, or self-organising energy, or plasma if you prefer, has been recognised as the ground of the universe by a few for a long time, by some for centuries. This knowledge doesn't add to scientific materialisms understanding of the universe, it completely contradicts it.

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Jan Wellmann's avatar

think plasma instead of "orgone" and it all begins to make sense

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Rob (c137)'s avatar

I'm not sure about this orgone energy.

Back in the day I heard of it on coast to coast am radio. A friend made one of the cloud busters and I thought it was interesting but hard, if not possible to truly test. There were no direct results besides what he thought worked.

I was agnostic but open minded to alt energy. However, if orgone devices or free energy devices work, why is it impossible to see one tested objectively?

In some cases there's stories of how it got destroyed etc.

Ok, let's say this is true. They were using equipment that was complicated for their time but not complicated today.

Why the difficulty in recreating the phenomena and measuring the results?

These days I think the obsession with energy for Reich was no different than Jung being obsessed with the occult.

Both of them had very interesting insights into psychology that were ahead of their times. However, like humans do, sometimes belief overpowers and distorts the simple truths.

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Peter d'Errico's avatar

Thanks for this. Reichian therapy and friendship with people associated with him have been part of my life for more than 60 years.... I can still see the photo of him being arrested by the FBI, his hands in cuffs... hands that only ever touched in a healing way....

Giordano Bruno belongs in your story of "A Decentralized Universe: The End of the Control Paradigm". You likely know he was burned at the stake for refusing to recant to the inquisitors his understanding that there is no single 'center' to the universe (way beyond Galileo and Copernicus). They put a wood stick through his tongue on the way to the stake to stop him from preaching to the crowds along the way.

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Francesca Maria Solinas's avatar

Gratitude!

The Lovin' LIFE Way:

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