Wilhelm Reich

I am sitting in a completely empty apartment waiting for my American visa. I have misgivings as to how it will go. I have lost faith in pushing things through rapidly.
I am utterly and horribly alone!
It will be quite an undertaking to carry on all the work in America. Essentially I am a great man, a rarity, as it were. I can't quite believe it myself, however, and that is why I struggle against playing the role of a great man. What have I discovered?
1. The function of the orgasm
2. Character armoring
3. The life formula
4. The bions

The breakdown of matter into vesicles when heated to incandescence undoubtedly releases large amounts of electrical energy. The glowing heat must correspond to the emission of radiation by this energy.
Combustion = release of energy
Organization = binding of energy
Radiation tests are needed!

22 April 1937
The assumption is inescapable that the disease of cancer is:
1. Self-vivification -- protozoal disintegration of the organism
2. Autoinfection -- bacteria from the decay of tissue
3. Bodies as incubators for bacteria

The formula: "cancer = not keeping sterile" = stupid. Cancer is infection (cf. autoinoculation of the nutrient medium)

What was known before me?
The idea that life = sexuality (Freud, Hartmann)
The concept of orgasm
The concept of tradition--subjective factor
The reactionary role of the family
The relationship of religion--Oedipus complex, father
The concept of the stasis of sexual excitation
The idea of spontaneous generation
The idea of sexual reform, indeed world sexual reform: sexual politics
Pregenitality
Character as fact
Methodology of dialectical materialism
The idea that the "savage" has another kind of life

The grandchildren of my bions have come to life; so that's the third generation!!
I actually have every reason to be very happy. If only this epidemic of neuroses didn't bother me!!
The cancer plague is becoming more understandable all the time.
1. The disturbed sex economy of the human being
2. The production of motile forms from disintegrating tissue
3. Mechanistic and religious thinking in the sciences.

Saw a film on cancer yesterday, shown by the English delegation. No doubt about it. I'm right.

"Migratory cancer cells" are amoebic formations. They are produced from disintegrating tissue and thus demonstrate the law of tension and charge in its purest form -- as does the orgastic convulsion.

Now money is a must -- cancer the main issue -- in every respect, even political.

It was a staggering experience. My intuition is good. I depend on it.

...A short while ago, my friend Sigurd Hoel drew my attention to the enormous danger that looms from the various trusts set up to manufacture and sell radium for the treatment of cancer. I do not know to what extent you are aware of the practices and the brutal determination of the representatives of these trusts and of the people who profit from them.

"Authors of non-fiction books often experience difficulty in acquiring sufficient data to fill a book of normal length. In contrast, the research material acquired by myself over the past three decades has resulted in an overabundance of riches. Consequently, I’ve had to omit much important research material in my book and also shorten some passages."