orgone biophysics

1. The "clicks" are noises similar to the crackle in radio sets before thunderstorms.
2. The whitish orgone rays are miniature lightnings, discharges of the nebulous form of orgone.
3. There are not three types of orgone rays but only three different states of one type of orgone energy.
"Fog" concentrates into bluish dots or into yellow rays. Fog is the "matrix" of energy, which discharges in whitish rays, audible as cracks.
4. Orgone and electrical tension avoid each other or hunt each other away, depending on which is stronger.

At approximately 4 p.m. (in the presence of Ernst Kalmus, who is going to build the apparatus) I noticed the following disturbing phenomenon:

For three days in July, eleven people—scholars, researchers, and Trust board members and advisors—convened in the Conference Building (formerly Reich’s Student Laboratory) to peruse what we consider the most sensitive and proprietary materials in The Archives of the Orgone Institute: Reich’s orgone motor research, the Y factor, and orgonometric equations, including Reich’s gravitational equations.
As we mentioned in earlier Updates, after the Trust’s busy schedule in 2007 we opted not to have a regular summer conference at Orgonon in 2008.

Dear Dr. Bon,

I am very grateful that you have agreed to help me determine the radiation. I would like to give you as a preliminary guide some of the main observations that have been made since my first letter to you.

1. The cultures fill the room in which they are located with a strange something that, after approximately ten to forty minutes, depending on the individual, is experienced as a curious heaviness.

2. They penetrate the packaging of X-ray films, cardboard covers, thin wooden boards.

5-6 a.m. It is beginning to become clear to me that the reaction in the impulse counter has nothing to do with the mechanics of cosmic rays. It is new:
Orgone is capable of turning a wheel if a counter tube or similar instrument is so excited that an electromagnetic wheel rotates. It seems important that the electrons "excite" the orgone in the tube. It remains to be discovered whether the electrons or the orgone itself is the motor force.
I have simply transformed orgone into electrical energy. The impulse is a simple electromagnetic system.

At the beginning, in early June 1947, when it arrived, it clicked two to five times on the first day in the room and in the orgone accumulator. Then the Geiger-Muller apparatus was silent for many weeks and did not show the slightest reaction. Therefore, I was already starting to think that it was worthless for my orgone research. Yesterday, by chance, out of curiosity, I picked it up again, to see whether it was still dead. When I switched on the power, the apparatus suddenly burst into life.

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

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.