Energetics of Addiction

Totally based on Wilhelm Reich's work.



Before I start let me tell you some about me. How did I learn the stuff I am going to write about? Writing about addiction is a bit of an addiction. I am very hopeful it is a positive one.

One addiction that I am still confronting and at times experiencing is eating sugary foods.
Over eating and choosing food for it's overstimulating qualities(sugar) still excites me. I believe I am on the right path to balance this addiction. Addictions are secrets. In the following pages I hope to explore what I learned about my energy movement and how honesty about secrets will help the positive flow of pleasurable energy. Keep in mind energy is a huge historical topic: Chi, Prana, Orgone, and many other words for energy.
How does energy move in the body? Why is difficult to feel? How does feeling
energy affect addiction?

We stand on the shoulders of giants. No doubt about that. Who did Freud learn from? I am sure he had many teachers and at some point he was on his own. Dr. Reich was part of Freud's inner
circle from 1920 to 1930. Over the next 25 years Reich taught many Doctors his progressing work.
Reich after leaving Europe set up camp in New York and ultimately Maine. During this time a Dr. Duvall studied with Reich and then went to live and practice in LA..  A Dr. Rinn who I believe
was knowledgeable in Gestalt Therapy studied with Dr. Duvall.

This is where I come in. I began

my therapy with Dr. Rinn an 1975 or so and began my active study of Dr. Reich's work.


I enjoy writing about self knowledge. Without my immersion in Dr. Reich's work
and my eternal gratitude to Dr. Rinn I am convinced I would be dead.
So as we say without further procrastination let me begin.

The future is the child. All can agree on the importance of children.
Children are totally instinctual. The importance of adults in the raising
of children is paramount. Children seek constant reassurance. Any blocking of
their instinctual need for security will result in not only depression but addiction's.

Life is movement. Like an amoeba human beings energy can be pulsing.
Addiction is the substitution of a shallow pulse for life's satisfying primary pulse.
Children are born with the primary pulse and it is a natural unconscious reflex.
As natural as a bird flying. From day one children feel the threat of cessation
of the pulse as an immediate threat to their survival. Closing down the Orgone by contracting the muscles allows a feeling of calmness to occur. The price for peacefully fitting in is the loss of flowing Orgone. Addiction becomes a way of finding some small level of  excitement.  

Without Orgone Therapy my journey to oblivion would have been guaranteed. As a child I was thrown into a culture that demands one stands on a selfish me first. The interdependence of all for human survival has not evolved. The ruthless, narcissistic character begins a path to continued ignorance with no understanding of ones Orgone. Taught how to be Orgone and experience Orgone streaming, and  emotional awareness, I will try to convey my gratitude for Dr. Reich and Dr.  Rinn.