Dr. Wilhelm Reich and Orgone Therapy

I am adding a update on this post because the title makes it seem like I'll be writing about Dr. Reich. I am writing about how his therapy he developed changed my life. Though as an introduction I'll heartily recommend one of his great books, Character Analysis, third edition, for me it's The Bible of our times: it is the treatise for 21 Century Psychological Therapy but also the therapy of the future, Orgone Therapy.

There is way too much for me too say, and I am chagrined, embarrassed to even begin to review Dr. Reich's book. Suffice it to say that I am a Jail House Reichian. What that means is Dr. Reich's work saved my life, and I can go on and on about the work. 

Addiction is better than being depressed, in fact addiction temporarily relieves depression. Now one feels good, alive and let us not question results, and addiction takes root. Relieving depression means you feel pleasure. Orgone has been moved and the anxiety also feels relieved. Not only is the addictive state blocking anxiety but also feels comfortable. Good chance the addictive feeling reminds one of a childhood feeling of safety. In control and not being seen.

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Being an adult one goes out and seeks pleasurable experiences. The search causes some trepidation and fear. Feeling especially vulnerable, causes a falling back into controlling your fear by choosing an addictive pursuit. 
Addiction often feels like you have acted correctly until the addictive substance wears off.

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The movement of Orgone in the body for the addicted is invisible. The compelling nature of addiction is the need for the addictive state. Addiction is a wall that protects the person from experiencing truly feeling. Addiction feels better than confused, depressed state but only as long as the addiction lasts. Than one is back to being flat or anxious etc. Not only are you concerned with anxiety but also the murderous response when you tell the abuser how pissed you are with affect. The armor is a double edge sword;:protects  you, keeps you safe and murders your own feelings. Why is the addictive state better than breathing and relationship? The armor is holding the Orgone from moving outward. Once upon a time the armor formed to block out horrible experience.  Addictive substances are used to feel pleasure without the memories of the trauma. We like the addiction.Here is the horrible rub addiction is a horrible habit that seems to solve a problem. The excitement from the addictive choice moves the Orgone and excites the person. If o H ne can choose therapy and the practice of learning about how Orgone moves in your body then inch by inch one can slowly drop the addiction.

  

We all ran from the abuse once and to experience the abuse as an adult is still as difficult; perhaps more difficult because you have to expunge the past and we fight like hell not to. That is why you have millions of people going around saying it is not necessary to be in therapy. Remove the addiction. the armor, and one will experience awareness of what caused you to choose addiction. Flush the addiction away too quickly and panic will arrive. Let your unrestricted breathing be your addiction. Be prepared to experience the full yin and yang of life. 

One of Dr. Reich's colleagues, Dr. Sharaf said, when one is feeling different and one is working on changing, that new feeling will be uncomfortable but you will know your on the right track. Expansion of Orgone will bring new directions and better choices to your life. Dr. Reich's life was a living monument that loved human's potential. Dr. Reich worked feverishly to bring healing to humanity. He understood the immense yearnings that were squashed by modern cultures complexity and discovered ways to illuminate the difficult journey of awareness. Instead of being celebrated he was persecuted.

I read Character Analysis periodically when I feel confused, worried and the book never fails to refocus me. The third edition is Dr. Reich's up to date info on Orgone, the energy that Dr. Reich finally utilized late in his therapy, and research. Dr. Wolfe the translator worked closely with Dr. Reich. My favorite chapter is The Schizophrenic Split. Dr. Reich explains through careful sessions with his patient the etiology of the schizophrenic split.

Why is Dr. Reich still maligned? Human misery seeks release and the one eyed in a blind world is murdered for reminding them of being crippled. Today we are fortunate to read Dr. Reich's work and appreciate and relish his amazing detailed genius

Vision

Walking with his mother
At eight he goes down on one knee.
And up as quickly.
Now trying to rise, arms outstretched
He remembers.
The bird left through the front door.
Rising.
He stands straight.

at the end you are not in control

Get nervous. Learn fear. Death is an unknown. Don't know how to express fear
and the awesome streamings in the body that will come. Better learn. That shaking, movement of energy moving through the body is the earthquake of repressed feelings finally erupting. God knows those new feelings will feel like a hurricane. Go with the wind: the energy is you. Let those streamings go and the warm glow of balance will return. Got to learn and practice how to feel because dying will waken all your feelings, and my guess is fear will need to be expressed big time.
All you have is your filtering perceptions. Will they be there when your dead? Will the memories be there? 

I accepted life with my nuclear family would never change and what never changed was my stilled energy. Just accepted  everything cause you got beaten
or isolated: do not accept. Recognize that you (I) feel unsatisfied. If I would protest or question my parents way of being the isolation would get loud.

Now there is a load of repressed, stored, unexpressed feelings  moving through my body; those  streamings will feel weird, horrible, run from them. That's what I do. In fact lay down on the bed and run. Breathe hard go with it. Now if you think this description is strange, actually if you got this far you don't. Feeling energy in your body is your birthright. Not feeling the streamings is actually horrible; it's just that's what our culture, family wants.
Ignorance is not bliss: it is the wrapping on addiction.
Breathe my brothers and sisters. 

Control and Opening the Door

The mask is a possum for me. How does the mask become known?
How does the mask equal a lump of coal? How does deadening of the feerglings occur?
No movement of energy in the body is like a mask; the mask is a cover up for hidden guerrilla
anger. The mask is like a door both are hiding the deeper part that needs seeing  and feeling.

As a baby the only way to survive is to become the possum. Too hide, to cry is to illicit anger or confused responses. What does the babies crying mean? By putting on a mask, the mask reassures everyone that all is well.

The flat smiling baby begins his new journey seeking who am I. I have pondered pictures of the door and the door symbolic significance for a while.

Today I see the door as a symbol of my hidden energy. The door is me deciding not to experience my dysfunctional world. As a baby I began the process of closing down my breathing, dulling my feelings; flatlining my expressions so as not to make myself too visible to myself or my world: life was to dangerous. Becoming that lump of coal is safe. No longer feeling fear.
What happens when you open the door?

Babies (also adults in emergencies) defense is to close off the fear till there is time to be safe. Now during other fear inducing experiences as an adult the repressed fear will begin to emerge and you will panic because no one has taught or modeled for you how to feel. Panic is bursting Orgone. That door brings to pen and feeling alive feels strange yet that will morph into what feeling alive is: it's only different because it's new. Now will change onto what you've been searching for.

Telling the truth is
the first step to losing control of the fantasy that you are in control. Acknowledging that you do not know how the truth will affect anybody's response begins the magical scary movement of feeling life's streaming flow of energy. Easy to say, difficult to want to experience. Loss of control is exciting but now the vortex of memory surfaces and the emotions of previous non controllable moments envelop you. Loss of control can bring on the panic of previous memories affecting the present. Not prepared for the frenzy of these panicked emotions or the ability or the tools to understand we panic. We fall back to previous addictive behaviors to take away feeling in all its vulnerabilities. Ultimately if you get through the panic without exercising drug control or other types of control than you awaken on the shore of the Scifi nature of our
growing pulsating being.

Emotional Plague, the emotional web that inflicts all of us. The emotional plague a term coined
by Dr. Reich to signify deep rooted emotional sickness that like a virus spreads invisibly
through human contact. Not wanting to see our parents, doctors, everyone dysfunctions
we join them by wrapping our energetic streams in knots blocking our flow of self awareness. We keep the door locked.

Freud got sublimation right. Not knowing how to find satisfaction one finds escape in sublimation fulfilling. Sublimation a better form of addiction. Not as dangerous also accepted often applauded.

One of the most insidious ways of sublimation is to give up your life for your children. Because knowing how to feel is so hidden and obscure and prevalent in our society and approved you can substitute your focus onto children and forget your unhappiness. Sublimation like addiction focuses oneself outside the flow of self regulated streaming of the Orgone (energy).

With the help of an Orgonomist who with the help of Dr. Reich's  Orgone Therapy can slowly prod
the unwrapping of the energy. This process is slow and dangerous. No one wants to feel how screwed up they are, and how lost they are. Panic begins to happen at the first sign of this ragged truth. Not remembering how to express fear causes the panic. The fear has unconscious memories that one instinctively repressed for not being cared for. Your survival is dependent on adults that mean well in there dysfunction.

The web of feeling has no floor and going with the stream of energy is new.
Accept the panic, express the fear, and trust your energy will slowly lead you to the next feeling. Remember what you practiced, tried in Therapy. Now use the panic to remember the past.
Seeking understanding is a worthy pursuit and achieved after allowing feelings to move through our organism. The pulse of energy lies ready to emerge. Behind that closed door initially lies

bursting uncontrollable energy; like a sudden flood. That is why a Orgone Therapist is there.
The door holds the energy flat. The flatness and disappearance of feeling invisibly blocks the pain of rejection. To feel is to be punished. 

New day

Every breath I take I give thanks to Dr. Reich and Dr. Rinn; Dr. Reich discovered how to unlock feelings in human beings and for Dr. Rinn for being wise and patient. Believe me Dr. Rinn saved my life by applying Dr. Reich's amazing Orgone therapy. Not only was I a middle class brat but an ex hippie wannabe rebel going nowhere. Soon to walk into a truck or a violent relationship. 

Addiction and denial were in every one of my breaths. I was frozen: couldn't let go and experience the natural expression of laughter without pharmaceuticals. I felt so weird; felt so strange. When my ex wife who was seeing a Orgone Therapist laughed so deeply I knew I needed to see Dr. Rinn.

Addiction. If You or I could experience our flow of pulsating energy without freaking out both of us would be not only free of addiction but also have a satisfied and happy life. So much for wishes.

With every breath energy is taken in and stimulates the release of energy in the body.

How does the energy feel? Like a tingling. Like you belong. Like a bird lifting within you. Like the gentle roll of the ocean. Like a large amoeba pulsing and weirdly conscious.

Our energy should rise and fall like a wave: the in breath similar to a expanding wave and the out breath the downward swell all producing the rise and fall of the pulsating orgone within us. Unlocking the movement within us is the work: if love is rarer than gold it's because becoming Orgone aware is the job of a lifetime: love is Orgone merging with the opposite sex and the flow is pulsating. 

What holds one back becoming this new person?

Learning to express your feelings is like being born anew except tearing down ones armor is

letting go of the character that has stabilized and saved your life. Floating in Orgone sounds good but for the emotional plagued it a journey that makes conquering Everest seem easy.

But the view from half way is spectacular.

Orgone

We stand on the shoulders of giants, and I owe all to Dr. Reich and Dr. Rinn; thank you again for your teachings
The time travel we need to go on is a Pandora's ride to knowing oneself.

Energetically muscles contract forming a persona that others see
as charming or threatening. The character becomes invisible to the wearer and holds in different parts of the movement of the Orgone.  Depending on the expression the energy will be still to panicky It all started when in defense of your integrity you compressed that whole 3 D consciousness of yourself; than you forgot you even had energy and thought only of your existence as it related to your thoughts. Not knowing, not feeling, not being able to share who you are makes life unsatisfying and our search to find meaning alludes us.

Ones character and why it is formed is invisible to oneself. Born a sweet innocent, the character is formed as a defense to get you through
a child's tough times. The character holds the energy in place. The character does not want to change.The character has served a function of protecting you. The character is the thread you sewed to stop awareness. Why is losing control with booze, drugs, food, sex inappropriately so prevalent in our world?

Losing control unlocks ones character and unlocks the Orgone(energy) to allow the energy to finally flow; often producing addictive pleasure. Addictions can't get enough of losing control. Finally feeling a release from holding all the awareness still, one seeks that release in addiction again. Addiction is releasing some Orgone is life saving. Caught in a matrix of anorgonia (Dr. Reich's name for the collapsed Orgone) the stillness stops Orgone aliveness: addiction becomes a necessary evil and difficult to stop. 

 Dr. Reich warned that the process of releasing the control on what he called our economy, Orgone movement, is a very difficult journey. It is a complex journey that disturbs our hard fought forgotten instincts that helped us survive our childhood but does not work as an adult looking for a satisfied life. How to access ones initial sweet self by expressing distorted feelings in a safe setting is the complex job of therapy. Learning new ways to find satisfaction through Love, Work, and Knowledge is the core teachings of Dr. Reich.

Forget Words

O.C.D.. Obsession compulsion disorder. I hear a lot of gab lately about this or that friend who showing signs of O.C.D.. O.C.D. has become so popular that one can say O.C.D. and people know what you mean. For most of us O.C.D. is a compulsion to wash your hands continuously. The person has become fixated and concerned about germs. It is easy
to understand why; just visit any hospitable and one will see Purell anti bacterial lotion in every corner; even to the extant hundreds of mats on the floor with the word Purell on it. In every pocketbook
there is a bottle. I do think this is an example of profit combining with obsession.
The panic is palpable. O.C.D. is everywhere. Of course bacteria is a concern but obviously Purell
has not stopped the spread of disease.

I had a great thought. Two minutes later I can not remember that thought. I'm sure if I can remember that thought I would be OK. Thoughts, words are a dead end street.

Words are useless for changing behavior. Unless those words have emotion behind them. There only good if those words tell you to forget words. You will forget the words when you are struggling with behavior. It's addictive behavior that is our mystery.

The energy moves invisibly
in your body and gives you a feeling. Or perhaps it's the drink that releases some locked up feeling or you slam the door. The energy is moving  and you feel a little better

Most of us become good at denying that we have problems. Are we not the same as everyone else: struggling to make a living to find our way. Yet in this denial we pick up addictions to give us a little relief. A relief from controlling the misery that locks our muscles and awareness into frozen breathing and concrete armor. No feelings, no doubt, no satisfaction.

Where does abuse and addiction begin.
If your lucky these days not to be born with a Cesarean section Now aren't scheduled births convenient. The child becomes the toy for the mother or more accurately an addiction to fulfill mother. Vulnerable, totally dependent, unbelievably sensitive, the baby is assaulted with
the typical birth abuses. Confused the baby goes into shock. But yet if the mother is warm and
loving and if the mother's breasts are excited with milk perhaps there is hope.

The babies energy could make a rush to the surface and 
pleasure can make confusion clear: feeling right and safe the baby doesn't need answers. The problem lies with the mother.

Everything can go wrong but if the mother can give herself to the baby there is hope.
In other words the mother must love being sucked by the baby or the baby withdraws.

The baby has taken some control of his life at a tremendous cost. Control feels like you can survive and often during your life control is the difference between life and death.  Control is a necessary skill that all of us need to wear like a coat . A coat that is up to us to put on or take off. The problem with control is when control starts at an early age and gets reinforced by further trauma than control becomes chronic and becomes a character formation. That early trauma template that tied up ones whole being; curved your body so as you don't have to feel the physical pain; the monsters who tortured you for their release can be forgotten by control and then the fantasy that all is well appears. Control that is chronic stimulates a need for addictive release because it is not removable by the individual except by outside addictive lifestyle. When that addictive lifestyle balloon you to obesity, that drug almost kills you, that cigarette causes cancer you will wish you sought an Orgone Therapist. Stop the addiction and seek help.

The movement of energy as feelings is a paradigm that is intrinsic to satisfaction, well being, and health. The movement of Orgone, energy  and its release should direct our life; Orgone movement is who we are. 

The Problem of Pleasure

The movement of Orgone within my body is often invisible. Yet that movement drives every one's life. Once I began feeling that movement I realized consciously or unconsciously, I sought out ways to feel the pleasure,or feared the pleasure of the Orgones(Energy) movement.

Early in my childhood I protected myself like a possum: that is forgetting myself by being in a fantasy of thought, and not feeling the movement of energy to the surface. Taking that detour of thought leads to a detour that leads to addiction. Because one way or another I had to feel pleasure and pleasure does not come without the body. 

Experiencing pleasure without control: a spontaneous baby has simple instinct; feeling pleasure or closing down or crying The fear of expression causes armor. Embedded in our past is the horrifying trauma of rejection

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Every time I feel pleasure, the movement
of Orgone to the surface of my body, remind me of trying to control that feeling like I did as a child. Control is the pressure cooker: we're Jack in the Boxes waiting to pop. When adults take away a child's normal being which is instinctual contact resulting in pleasure than the organism goes into shock, than more shock resulting in a deceptive child:
seeking to hide from their own self, the child also hides from the world. Addictions circumvents the memory: Addictions are short lived fixes that give temporary pleasure.

Reaching out from myself to you is pleasurable. My writing is entertainment. Entertainment will remind you of pleasure. The reminder will illicit dim memories of our initial denial of pleasure and that primal rejection is infuriating. Please be warned that analysis without affect(Emotion) can illicit further denial. Only therapy not words on paper can reduce or eliminate addictions.

Emotional Plague

The emotional plague a name given to the sickness that inhabits the people of our world. Basically because our emotions
are either non existent or so twisted and unconscious. We go about in a protective fog. While we torture ourselves and our loved ones by misdirecting our anger to find some relief from the pain of too much energy and not enough lovely release.

Know does not come from a book. Knowledge comes from knowing yourself. And here's the rub: lost in the ignorance and the Plague how do you know yourself?  You need a great therapist.
Also just about as hard, you also must want therapy: easier than it sounds. Evolution is God manifested slow agony. Why so damn slow?

Enlightenment that is sudden turns you into a raving lunatic. Realization of how
much Plague is in you can cause tremendous self loathing; if self awareness comes without self compassion. The battle to be brave and know oneself is a fight a coward has to win.

Release

We are born  a miracle, yet denial of every kind obfuscates the wonder of life.

Life demands
examination. Dr. Reich illuminated our search for understanding. His penetrating analysis was so powerful that still to this day his work is like looking into the sun. His work points out the simple profound truths of our existence. Humans generate energy. When suppression of anger, sadness, and fear were suppressed the flow of Orgone as feelings was stilled. Suppressing leads to addictions and expressing leads to satisfaction. So what's the problem? 


Why do most people suppress. Why do adults abuse children into suppression?
Is it that competition for survival demands success through abuse? Not really. Seeing children expressing Orgone reminds adults what they are missing. Feeling alive stimulates  past trauma. Abuse like a virus that spread through fear. Fear from violence from adults. Adults do not want to be reminded of what feelings their missing. 

Feeling Orgone movement is frightening when its it happens for the first time. Knowledgeable Orgone has been hidden from the cultures and its bodily awareness can be shocking. The explanation can be interesting but

satisfaction does not lie in intellectual pursuits. Expressing yourself through intimate contact needs to be achieved to satisfy the energetic release needed by our
organism.

The restrictions of armor's complete release is not easy to achieve. Energy builds in the body. Excess energy needs release through bodily orgasm Having armor causes a stifling of healthy release causes problems, usually anxiety. Seeking a return to control people try different methods to overturn  odd feeling. How to return to being a regular person when you were not given the tools or the map to find satisfaction through complete sexual orgasm..

Releasing Orgone through intercourse, mutual complete orgasm, between a man and a women balances your perception of yourself and the world. Welcome to feeling whole.