More On North Africa

 In ancient times, the Western Sahatra was a moist, well-watered country. Much of it was a vast fresh-water lake and wetland known to the ancients as Lake Tritonia, from which the name of Triton, the junior sea-god comes. The lake was fed by the Gulf of Guinea monsoons, which came up across the Sahael to the Mediterranean Basin. We know this because we find the remains of plants that need warm rains in the summer.

 

According to Herododus, the Greek travel writer, that lake dried up as a result of the fall of Phaeton. You may know the story from Greek mythology. This was actually a giant meteor that blew up in the atmosphere just before hitting the earth. The effects was like a super-powerful atomic bomb, including the release of huge amounts of DOR, as Reich observed in the far smaller man-made blasts in the American southwest in the 1950s.

 

The conversion of so much moving orgone into secondary energy and DOR created a barrier that still exists today, over the Canary Islands, blocking the monsoons from following their original path. The result is the Sahara Desert. Lake Chad is the last shrunken remnant of Lake Tritonia, which modern geologists call the Chad Sea.

 

The meteor known to the ancients as Phaeton was only one of a swarm that intersepted the orbit of the earth at that time. Astronomical calculations place the date at 5,350 years ago. Most of the meteors were highly charged and the magnetic field of the earth deflected them towards the poles. Together they discharged a large part of the orgone field of the earth, which has never recovered to its' former level.

 

The concentration of the discharges at the poles weakened the poles so much that they froze up, as thge field of the earth contracted towards the core, just as that of a human in shock from an injury would.

 

Not only the climate changed all over earth, but there were massive extinctions. Many of the surviving life-forms became shrunken and some features of some atrophied in the weakened orgone field. One species went insane. You can probably guess which one.

 

The present climate of North Africa and the North Atlantic is a pathological one, and Morroco gets what rain it gets in the winter, from the North Atlantic. But the ancient climate was the reverse: the rains came from the south in summer. Cloudbusting in the winter, to increase the rains that fall in what is now the rainy season, is only re-inforcing the pathological pattern. To restore the ancient climate regime, we need to do the work in the summer, not in winter.

 

It is true that cloudbusting in winter will render the landscape "greener". Bernd Senf and his friends in Algeria seem to think that is a good thing. It is not. There will be a few species of plants that will be hardy enough to thrive under colder and wetter conditions, but most of them are not native plants. They are species introduced from Europe by humans in the past 2,000 years.

 

The native species that have survived the 5,000 year-long drought have just barely managed to hang on in a few areas where there was enough water. These areas are called "refugia" and protecting them is vital if the area is to ever be restored to normal by cloudbusting. It is from these refugia that the surviving native plants will then be able to spread out and re-colonize their former range. They need warm summer rains. Cold winter rains will kill them. This leads to loss of biodiversity and further impovershment of the ecosystem.

 

Cloudbusting in winter will increase rainfall and make things look green, but it is not what should be done. What North Africa needs is warm summer rains that are good for the native species that have managed to last this long. Cloudbusting in winter will only strengthen the atmospheric armoring and kill off the seed-beds of vegetation that we need to someday make a proper cloudbusting project to return the climate to healthy self-regulation.

 

And that is the crux of the matter. If North Atlantic rains are brought down into North Africa, the atmosphere will never be restored to self-regulation. It will remain dependent on human intervention for rain. Only a return to the original climate can enable it to regulate itself. And only that can bring back the original plant cover of the area.

 

That is why I keep saying cloudbusting has nothing to do with meteorology. It is a BIOLOGICAL science. Not physics. Biology. Not meteorology. Biology.

 

And making the landscape look "greener" is not the proper goal of cloudbusting. DeMeo and his ilk are obcessed with the concept of "greening deserts". They know nothing about ecology and see no difference between a thriving native ecosystem of thousands of native species, each important to some other form of life that lives there with them, and a simplified ecosystem of a few introduced species that thrive by crowding out the native ones, and which no native animal species can live on.

 

So that is why I think it is a bad mistake to do cloudbusting without an ecologist familiar with the area as a part of the team at every stage, starting with the first planning stages. Only an ecologist can plan a cloudbusting project properly, and only an ecologist can evaluate if it is working successfully or not.

 

Reich knew this, so he studied the ecology of Arizona before doing anthing. Nobody working in the field today is paying any attention to ecological factors. Cloudbusting attracts people with an interest in physics and meteorology, but not biologists. That is because of the way it is presented, as a form of weather control, instead of as a medicine to restore a sick and damaged atmospheric life energy system to biological health and greater vitality.

 

Ecology is the only accepted science that uses functional thinking. Or, in other words, it is the only functional science with mainstream acceptance. An ecologist would spot the problems with "greening" deserts immediately. But the people now trying to bring down more cold winter rains into North Africa do not realize they are doing exactly the reverse of what they should be doing.

 

So, if you are going to publicly mention those people vandalizing North Africa with their ignorant interference with the already damaged atmosphere, please understand that "greener" is not necessarily the same thing as "healthier". What those people are doing is attacking the earth with cloudbusters.

 

 

My published articles on the cloudbuster are available on the internet. The OrgoneScience mailing list has now been discontinued, but the archive of that list, containing over 2,000 posts, is being edited into book form and will eventually be posted on a website.

 

Most of my cloudbusting was done many years ago, both in America and Australia. I now feel that the ecological situation of this planet is too dire to be helped by a small-scale, backyard project conducted by hobbyists who neeed to waste most of their time earning a living at something else. Until sufficient funding for a global project becomes available, there is not much point in the small-scale cloudbusting that can be done without major funding..

 

A global cloudbusting program could still save this planet, but I have no way to raise the money for it, so, since nobody else is interested, it is not going to get done. It certainly will not ever be done by people who go around asking for donations or trying to rehabilitate the reputation of Wilhelm Reich.

 

And there is also the important question of what type of cloudbusting project should be done. If cloudbusting is promoted as a "technology", and a way to "make rain in deserts", it will be used to cause more harm than good. Already there are more than 200 people using cloudbusters at any given time, and almost none of them has any real knowledge of how to use it properly. This evaluation especially includes Dr. DeMeo.

 

While most of them mean well, the net result is that cloudbusting has become a form of pollution, and I have traced many environmental catastrophes to incompetent cloudbusting. Dr. DeMeo and Trevor Constable are among the worst of the bunglers who have inflicted cloudbuster attacks, frequently fatal ones, on the unsuspecting public.