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“The missing links in my life's work, no less!”

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Robert Wyatt is a British musician born on January 28, 1945. He is best known as a founding member of the band Soft Machine and for his distinctive voice and poetic lyrics. more

“Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their Philosophy of the World.... Carefully notated structures and interplay morph effortlessly into free improvisation that is intelligent and expressive, but never self-indulgent. Also featuring intense lyrics sung with their clear and melodic voices, the two women make transcendent chamber music outside of any genre.”

“Only you yourself can be your liberator!”

Liberators

Book:Listen, Little Man!: A Document from the Archives of the Orgone Institute

Source: Listen, Little Man!: A Document from the Archives of the Orgone Institute

“I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.”

Law Letters Absurd Make Sense Combat Obsolete

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality.”

Thinking Humans Ideas Reality Law Natural Universal Assuming Pointing Natural Law

Book:Cosmic Superimposition: Man's Orgonotic Roots in Nature

Source: Cosmic Superimposition: Man's Orgonotic Roots in Nature

“If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.”

“Your liberators tell you that that your suppressors are Wilhelm, Nikolaus, Pope Gregory the Twenty Eighth, Morgan, Krupp or Ford. And your "liberators" are called Mussolini, Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin. I tell you: "Only you yourself can be your liberator!"”

Twenties Pope Liberators

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“Unless we proceed cautiously, there might well arise a few generations of mystics who conceive of the orgone metaphysically, divorced from non-living nature and who do not comprehend it from the standpoint of natural science. And it seems to me that we have more than enough mysticism as it is.”

Wells Enough Seems Might Natural Generations Arise Mysticism Divorced Standpoint Natural Science

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology”

Mean Ideology Collapse Awakened Sexually

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“And first and foremost, think straight, trust the quiet inner voice that tells you what to do. You hold your life in your hands, don't entrust it to anyone else, least of all to your chosen leaders. BE YOURSELF! Any number of great men have told you that.”

Thinking Men Firsts Hands Voice Numbers Leader Quiet Chosen Being Yourself Great Men Inner Voice

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“Only one thing matters: live a good, happy life. Do your heart's bidding, even when it leads you on paths that timid souls would avoid. Even when life is a torment, don't let it harden you.”

Heart Soul Matter Life Is Path One Thing Happy Life Torment Bidding

Author:Wilhelm Reich

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