Dealing with Doubters

There is no point in the constant re-
> hashing of the same old thing over and over again.

>
> It is way past time to move beyond the issue of the existence of orgone

and deal with orgone the way other
> sciences deal with their subject matter, learning more about it as
> time goes on, not constantly stuck in trying to justify the existence
> of their science.
>
> Nobody asks astronomers to prove stars exist, or pesters nuclear
> physicists to prove radioactivity exists. Nobody keeps asking
> biologists to show that cells exist or demands that pathologists
> demonstrate the existence of germs every time they mention them.
> Anyone who brings up the question of if orgone really exists or not
> is not ever going to accept it no matter how much evidence is
> presented because the reason for compulsive doubting is defense, not
> lack of evidence.
>
> Anyone who keeps demanding more evidence and ignores that which has
> already been presented is suffering from a form of mental illness
> that ought to be called 'Stoicaism" after Ovidu Stoica, a compulsive doubter.
>
> So I refuse to get bogged down in trying to convert anyone. I
> am not a missionary for orgonomy or trying to save souls for Reich.
> If someone does not believe orgone exists I will talk to someone
> else. This blog should be for the people who know something about the
> subject to discuss advanced matters concerning it and for those who
> do not know much about it to learn.

Chembuster Video Review

I simply do not see what you are saying you see in this video. The device shown is an orgone shooter, as described by Reich in the 1940s. It consists of a small orgone accumulator with several hollow tubes leading from it. The ends of the tubes are pointed at the sky instead of at a patient, but that is the only difference.

 

 It would be expected to have a small short-range effect on small clouds for a limited period of time, until the atmosphere got used to the stimulus and quit reacting to it. The effect on the cloud depicted in the video is not the same as the effect of a cloudbuster, though there is a superficial resemblence that might look the same to someone who was not familiar with the orgonomic understanding of how a cloudbuster works.

 

The cloudbuster works by DRAWING energy down the tubes, and into the water the cloudbuster is grounded into. If it is aimed directly at a cloud, the cloud will break up because the energy is withdrawn from it. The draw is due to the attraction of water for orgone.

 

What is shown in this video is the over-excitation of a cloud by energy being drawn INTO it from the device because the cloud is MORE STRONGLY charged than the small accumulator at the end of the pipes. The orgonomic potential is at work here; the highly-charged water in the cloud DRAWS the orgone through the pipes into the cloud.

 

 The charge of the cloud INCREASES from the addition of charge until it exceeds the capacity of the small amount of water in the cloud. Then the expansion-causing tendency of orgone causes the water droplets to move apart, breaking up the cloud.

 

The cloud draws energy from the bucket via the pipes, and gets over-excited. It therefore breaks up from OVER-EXPANSION, not from withdrawal of energy. The resemblence is superficial.

 

The allegations of a beneficial effect on a DOR-atmosphere cannot be substanciated. Adding charge to a stagnant, DOR-infested area of the sky will not recycle the DOR into mobile OR. It will, however, if continued long enough, get the stagnant area so overcharged that a discharge will result.

 

 This discharge might take the form of heat, lightning, or a circulatory motor force, known popularly as a tornado. If heat waves, thunderstorms, or tornados were being caused very frequently by these devices, someone among the many hobbyists indulging in this sport would have noticed it by now, unless they are all so blinded by their implausable belief-system that none of them can see the connection.

 

But while that is certainly a possibility that must be kept in mind, the more likely reason none of them has noticed any such result is that these devices are not strong enough to have that much of an effect -at least not too much of the time.

 

The device depicted is not a cloudbuster, and would not have the effects of a cloudbuster. The confusion arises from the name, "cloudbuster" , and the common misperception that the function of a cloudbuster is to "break up clouds". It is not important that a common effect of a cloudbuster draw is the breaking up of a cloud. That is only one possible effect, and not even one of the most important ones.

 

If the cloudbuster was called an Orgone Drawing Device, or an Orgone Attractor, or an Orgonomic Atmospheric Modulator, or some other name that did not give people unfamiliar with it the impression that breaking up clouds is what it is for, this kind of error would not happen.  

 

But the name "cloudbuster" is there for historical reasons having to do with how it came to be invented, not what it does or what it is used for. And the people fooling around with these devices are not aware of that because they have no interest in learning orgone physics. They are interested in a role-playing game, and calling their devices "cloudbusters" and pretending they re-mobilize DOR is part of the game to them, just like pretending DOR is some chemical being sprayed out of airplanes is a part of the game they are playing.

 

And while they indulge themselves in such fantasies, people who want to know what is happening to the atmosphere and what to do about it are being tricked into getting involved in silly role-playing games instead of being able to learn the facts.

 

And that makes these people who play these silly games part of the problem.

More On Trevor Constable

In 1969-1972, Trevor Constable was employed by the ACO as their West Coast cloudbuster operator, doing many orops under ACO auspices, with their funding. He was nominally under Blasbands supervision, and was helped by a woman named Mary Poe, who was in therapy with Dr. Albert Duvall.

 

On one occasion, while Blasband was visiting, Constable did an operation to demonstrate a new cloudbusting technique he had developed. The success of the operation was documented by the news report next day: Storm Hikes State Death Toll To 67 on Rain-slicked Freeways.

 

On another occcasion, one of his orops was similiarly documented by a news headline: 9-year-old Boy Swept Out To Sea By Sudden, Unexpected Storm. Both of these news headlines were known to Blasband at the time, but there is no record that he ever raised any objection to this murder by cloudbuster with ACO funding and suport.

 

When I met Constable, in Dec., 1971, he told me Reich was not the real inventor of the cloudbuster, he was a re-incarnated Atlantean who remembered how the Atlanteans had used cloudbusters. He told me the cloudbuster used by the Atlanteans was exactly the same design, and they had fought a war with them which sank Atlantis. When I asked how he knew all this, he Said, "I'm clairvoyant" .

 

Constable told me he was an ocultist, urged me to read Rudolph Steiner, and said Reich was "blocked against mysticism". More to the point, he also said the way to convince people cloudbusting worked was to go for breaking the rainfall record everytime he operated. He said he was going to "bring storms into Los Angeles that would turn the place inside out".

 

Later, when I obtained documentation in the form of a letter in which he said the exact same thing, I showed the letter to Jerome Eden, who got very excited and sent it to Ellsworth Baker. The ACO had an emergency Board of Directors meeting and Constable was fired, but over the strong objections of Blasband, who argued that Constable did good work. Baker told me a short time after that, "I'm worried about Dr. Blasband".

 

Constable, according to his book, Loom of the Future, had been a campaign worker for the 1968 presidential campaign of George Walace, who ran on a racial segegation platform. That, along with his mysticism, was known to Blasband at the time.

 

Constable had formed a bad impression of me when I visted him because a Black friend of mine, Larry Diggs, a well-known San Francisco disk jockey, had gone along with me to see him. Constable was friendly and polite, but afterwards sent a letter to several orgonomists warning them I was "associating with Black magicians".

 

Mary Poe has told me that Constable had figured out how to direct a lightning strike with a cloudbuster and had demonstrated the technique. A short time later, when she had an argument with Constable and quit as his assistant, there was a tremendous unforecast thunderstorm that night, with numerous lightning strikes right near her home and none anywhere else. She is convinced he was trying to kill her. Since I have tested out the technique and confirmed that it works, I am inclined to believe her.

 

At the time Constable got fired from by the ACO, Blasband offered to resign from the ACO and go into the commercial cloudbusting business with him, but Constable told him to stay with the ACO so he could keep Constable informed of what the ACO was doing. In other words, Blasband was to become a spy in the ACO for Constable.

 

Blasband was angry at me for blowing the whistle on his friend, and when I asked him why he had not, as an orgonomist, considered Constables mysticism pathological, he said that Constable does good work and I was a biggot to hold the mans religion against him. It is not surprising that Blasband later became involved with another mystical guru, Levashov, and has come to believe in a mystical theory of the functioning of the cloudbuster instead of the orgonomic theory of Reich.

 

 That a mystical.minded person like Constable could be accepted by the ACO as fit to do cloudbusting is enough to raise questions about their competence as psychiatrists in itself, but that they had accepted for a highly responsible position, a position in which the lives of unsuspecting members of the public could be put at risk, a man who had worked for the election of a presidential candiate whose main issue was racial segregation, says all I need to know about the ACO. One must be very far to the right indeed to consider racism a respectable political position.

 

At the time, I was told by Ellsworth Baker that the next issue of the Journal of Orgonomy would contain an article explaining why Trevor Constable was no longer working for them. I am still waiting for that article. The ACO has never formally repudiated Constable, leaving people who do not have access to personal conversations with insiders to assume he is still connected with the ACO.

Military Aplication

There was a news item today about a spy satellite that is about to
>     re-enter the atmosphere and burn up. That made me remember an idea I
>     once had that a cloudbuster could be used to disable a satellite.
>          If orur is used with a cloudbuster, it radiates energy instead of
>     drawing it. Bill Moise told me that when using orur the direction of
>     aim must be reversed.
>          At Organon, durring the Oranur Experiment, the radios would not
>     work, remember? Reich tried several different radios and all would
>     only receive static.
>          So if a cloudbuster energized by orur was trained on a satellite in
>     orbit, the intense orgone irradiation might be expected to jam the
>     electronics and render the satellite useless.
>          Since both cloudbuster construction and orur production are so
>     simple and low-tech that any troop of Boy Scouts could do it without
>     straining their budget, if this information was widely publicized,
>     all military use of satellites would become impossible. Anyone could
>     shoot one down, at least as far as disabling of their electronics
>     goes, from their backyard.

Naming Names

To a critic:


> Giving specific places and dates of specific operations,
> and comparing them
> with specific subsequent weather events is the only way to
> convince anyone
> that any relationship exists.
>
> I understand your reluctance to name names, but that is not
> just a personal
> vendetta; it is the only possible evidence of what is
> happening.

"Good Work"

"Research is not just neutral", yes. That is just what I so often have trouble explaining to people who think my frequent criticisms of James DeMeo and others who "do good work" are too critical. If someone is doing a lot of damage to the environment by malicious cloudbusting, it does not make any difference if he also "does good work" in orgonomy. The fact that he is doing a lot of damage is what counts, not if he "does good work" in some other field.

People like Jerry Decker, who are always telling me to lay off DeMeo or Constable because they are among the few doing anything to further orgonomy, do not realize the consequences of what they are advising. Nobody should get a free pass to damage the environment just because he is promoting orgonomy or has done some valid scientific research in orgone biophysics.

People who "do good work" in orgonomy should be held to the same standards of environmental behavior as any other profit-making corporation that is damaging the earth by strip-mining or clear-cutting forests or killing endangered species or any other form of environmental destruction. People doing work in orgonomy should not be allowed to cause cloudbuster-pollution just because they "do good work".

Mystical Distortions

The fanasy of the omnipotence of thought is universal in early childhood, but most people outgrow it by the age of puberty. Those who do not are called "mystics". Mysticism, or "magic", is the idea that mere wishful thinking can cause physical results. This is behind Christian Science, for example, as well as the instances you cited.

 

It is possible to affect certain energy systems by focusing ones own energy system on it. This is why it is possible to break up small cumulus clouds by staring at them. The human body responds well to focused attention also, which is why so many people are convinced prayer works to heal illnesses.

 

But these are examples of the orgone energy of the body interacting with other orgone energy fields. It has nothing to do with the more general claim made by the mystics that there is a general principal that thinking on a physical object can alter it. The real facts are, as is typical with mystics, mystified into something quite different from what is actually observed.

 

In the case at hand, cloudbusting, the body energy field of the operator might be able to break up a target cloud without the cloudbuster being involved, but the cloudbuster can break up clouds without any operator too. I once saw this very dramaticly demonstrated when I was doing some cloudbusting in a field where cattle were pastured. I had to leave the cloudbuster set up and drawing while I went into town. ( This is not usually a good idea, but it was a very isolated place and I had no choice since I needed groceries. ) When I got back, it had been moved to a new point of aim, and the clouds were moving in accordance with that new direction of draw, not the way they would have if the cloudbuster was still pointed where it was when I left.

 

But no human hand had touched it. The cloudbusters point of aim had been shifted by cows bumping up against it. Now I do not think the cows had any intention other than possibly to scratch an itch. I do not think they were intending to alter the weather. And I am the only other organism to know which direction it was pointing when I left it. And my intent was to draw from the direction I left it pointing in.

 

So I conclude the intent of the operator is not relevant. What counts is the direction the pipes are pointing.  

Dr. Blasband wrote in the Journal of Orgonomy that the "concious intent" of the operator is the operative factor in the operation of the cloudbuster "independent of the physical motion of the pipes". My experience with cattle moving my cloudbuster convinces me otherwise.

 

But the theories people develop are a result of their history and experience; Blasband was convinced of the ability of the so-called "mind" to influence mass by his friendship with a Princeton University physicist, Robert Johns, who did research on the ability of test subjects to influence the numbers generated by an electrical device called a "random number generator". His research showed a clear mathamatical difference in the numbers produced by the machine when someone was "thinking at it" compared to when it was working on its own.

 

This finding caused a lot of fuss in the physics community, and Johns was subjected to some ridicule and ostracism, so Blasband considered the same situation as the rejection of orgone energy by that same physics establishment, and was predisposed to think Johns was right.

 

I would not have been fooled because I once saw George Alexander, a San Francisco Rock musician, stop a clock by concentrating on it. There was no doubt he could do it, but therewas nothing mysterious about it. Among the first orgone phenomena discovered by Reich was that orgone was tangible mainly as a disturbance of electrical currents. All George was doing was directing his own orgone field, which was more highly charged than most peoples, to envelope the clock. He flooded it with so much of his own body energy that the flow of current was jammed.

 

But if neither of us had known about orgone, it would have been possible for us to have been fooled into thinking it was a mental phenomena of some kind.

 

And that is the difference beteen orgonomy and mysticism:  Orgonomy got started by Reich trying to place psychoanalysis on a firm basis in physical science. To the Freudians, libido was a metaphor, a mental construct, while to Reich it was a tangible physical force. And so is psychokinesis.