Von: joel carlinsky
Datum: 02/12/05 16:06:02
history of orgonomy after reich
Ten years after Reich died, Dr. Ellsworth Baker founded the College of
Orgonomy. He claimed he was delegated by Reich to carry on Orgonomy. This
was false. Reich's will shows that that was Eva Reich's job. Baker had
only been in charge of training therapists, which is only a small part
of the total work of orgonomy. But the ACO claimed the right to control
the entire
field of orgonomy. Baker was very far to the right politicaly, and gathered
a group of like-minded people, who soon developed a doctrine that anyone
on the left of the political spectrum was mentally ill and part of a Russian
plot against freedom. The Journal of Orgonomy published numerous articles
accusing liberals and anti-war protesters of being psychopaths, etc. Therapy
was not considered to be successfull until the patient agreed with the
politics of the therapist. In the early 70s three orgonomists, Ellsworth
Baker, Courtney Baker, and Richard Blasband, along with Jerome Eden, were
given Honorary Knighthoods by the Knights of Malta, an organization that
claimed to be a Papal Order of nobility that was established by the Popes
in the Middle Ages. The head of the organization at that time was Charles
Pitchel, who in the 1930s had asked Adolph Hitler to apoint him his personal
representative in America. Dr. Richard Blasband, was in charge of the ACO
cloudbusting program at the time. He was photographed with Pitchel standing
in front of his cloudbuster. The photo was printed in a Knights of Malta
pamphlet that described the ACO research facility in Pennsylvania as ''
a Knights of Malta research facility''. Pitchel and Blasband corresponded
on the subject of doing a joint cloudbusting project in Africa. The project
was never done, but in the correspondence, Dr. Blasband addresses the former
Nazi as '' My dear brother knight''. In the late 70s, James DeMeo was for
a short time an assistant to Dr. Blasband. If he ever had any training
in cloudbusting that is where he got it. Blasband has now left the ACO,
having become a follower of a Russian psychic healer, Nikolai Levishov,
whose methods of treatment he is now using. Although he now thinks the
effect of the cloudbuster is at least partly due to the unconscious psychic
powers of the operator, not just to the actual physical device, as Reich
thought, he remains on very good terms with DeMeo, who is normally very
quick to criticize any such mysticism, and lectures frequently at DeMeos'
place. DeMeo parted company with the ACO at about the same time as Blasband,
and is also no longer on good terms with them. DeMeo, who is always so
quick to criticize people for who their contacts are, and especially any
contact with
Nazis, seems to have missed the fact that his friend and mentor was a member
of an organization headed by one. A further note on Dr. Blasband: While
he was a student, and while Reich was still alive, he did a cloudbusting
operation without Reichs' permission, which nearly sank several ships at
sea. Reich was considered him too irresponsible to be involved in
cloudbusting, and asked his training therapist, Dr. Baker, to ''ease Blasband
out of orgonomy'', but Baker saw Blasband as such an enthusiastic student
that he did not do so. After Reichs' death, the Baker group that later
became the nucleus of the ACO hired a young meterology graduate student,
Ralph Markson, to do cloubusting. When Blasband, 5 years later,
finished his medical training and wanted to take over the cloudbusting
program, he obtained some tapes of talks Markson had given, made some cuts
and splices to change what Markson had said, and played the altered tape
at a meeting at which Markson was not present. Markson was fired, and Blasband
became head of the research program. Markson is now on the faculty at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and is the top-ranking atmospheric physicist in
the USA, but because of this bad experience he will not talk about cloudbusting.
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