Dr. Wilhelm Reich - Orgone But Not Forgotten
news article · 2018
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SUMMARY
An independent (non-Reich-affiliated) regional-magazine profile of Orgonon and the Wilhelm Reich Museum, fetched directly. Byline and publication date confirmed from the page itself, not from search-tool prose. Gives Reich's bibliography and biographical turning points -- The Function of the Orgasm (1927, establishing him as a promising Freudian acolyte), The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933, which got Reich chased out of Germany), and The Bion Experiments on the Origins of Life (1938, which prompted the first loud accusations of quackery from the scientific establishment) -- and describes the cloudbusters still on the Orgonon property as 'steampunk-looking arrays of hollow copper pipes mounted atop turrets,' used, in the article's words, 'to suck excess orgone from the atmosphere to incite rainstorms.' Also records that a 2017 documentary about Reich raised roughly $400,000 from over 1,000 crowdfunding donors, evidence of a continuing lay following independent of the Trust's own materials.
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An independent regional-magazine feature on Orgonon and the Wilhelm Reich Museum, fetched directly (byline Dan Otis, Down East Magazine, published January 19, 2018). Not affiliated with the Reich Trust, so used here (alongside the Trust’s own biography) as a second, independent account of Reich’s biographical turning points and of the cloudbuster devices still preserved at Orgonon. Confirms Reich’s break with orthodox science accusations began as early as 1938, seven years before he began building accumulators.