“The Cloudbuster, a device central to Wilhelm Reich's later work, emerged from his groundbreaking theories on orgone energy, a universal life force he believed permeated all living things and the atmosphere.”
Source: Crossing the Forbidden Highway: The Untold Story of Orgone, Body Therapy, and Suppressed Emotion
“Reich’s genius birthed tools we’ve yet to fully grasp: his character armor and muscular armoring concepts seeded ego psychology, body psychotherapy, Gestalt therapy (Fritz Perls), bioenergetic analysis (Alexander Lowen), primal therapy (Arthur Janov), and the Radix of Charles R. Kelley. Beyond these, his mind-body vision ripples through newer somatic therapies of the late 20th and early 21st centuries: Somatic Experiencing (Peter A. Levine), healing trauma via bodily sensations; Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (Pat Ogden), merging somatic and cognitive trauma work; Core Energetics (John Pierrakos), blending bioenergetics with spirit; Hakomi Therapy (Ron Kurtz), mindful body-centered discovery; Bodynamic Analysis (Lisbeth Marcher), trauma through body-mind interplay; and Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®, David Berceli), freeing tension with neurogenic tremors.”
Source: Crossing the Forbidden Highway: The Untold Story of Orgone, Body Therapy, and Suppressed Emotion
“Reich delved deeper, developing Reichian breathwork as a therapeutic method using conscious techniques to dissolve emotional and physical tension.”
Source: Crossing the Forbidden Highway: The Untold Story of Orgone, Body Therapy, and Suppressed Emotion
“Reich’s therapy aimed to release these blocks through breathwork, body percussion, and orgasmic discharge, restoring natural vitality.”
Source: Crossing the Forbidden Highway: The Untold Story of Orgone, Body Therapy, and Suppressed Emotion
“Reich described the redirection of unmet desires as sublimation, in which natural libidinal urges and raw bodily drives for connection and release transform into abstract spiritual ideals. For him, such ideals suppress rather than liberate.”
Source: Crossing the Forbidden Highway: The Untold Story of Orgone, Body Therapy, and Suppressed Emotion
“Unlike Reich's work, which excavates trauma stored in the body's armor, CBT cannot penetrate the subconscious terrain where pre-verbal wounds, shadow selves, and somatic imprints reside.”
Source: Crossing the Forbidden Highway: The Untold Story of Orgone, Body Therapy, and Suppressed Emotion
“Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in ... the edit."
[Ten rules for writing fiction (part two), The Guardian, 20 February 2010]”
“In the 1930s, Reich began to measure these energetic shifts in therapy. He noticed that real arousal causes the skin’s electrical charge to rise, especially in the sensitive areas of the body.”
Source: Crossing the Forbidden Highway: The Untold Story of Orgone, Body Therapy, and Suppressed Emotion
“Einheit ist Göttlichkeit (Sonett)
Kein Über, kein Mensch,
Ich bin der göttliche Wahnsinn.
Dienen ist die größte Weisheit,
Gleichheit ist das höchste Dasein.
Ich bin der Feind jedes Reiches -
Göttlich durch Tat, nicht durch Dekret.
Einheit ist Göttlichkeit, vorurteile abzulehnen
ist die höchste Form der Spiritualität.
Mein Traum ist mein Recht -
mein Leiden ist meine Heilung -
mein Leben ist mein Entwurf -
meine Wahrheit, meine Entscheidung.
Meine Gesellschaft, meine Gerechtigkeit –
meine Welt ist meine Verantwortung.
Stärker als die Atombombe,
Ich bin die neurochemische Kriegsführung.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Sometimes Carlie hands me the squirt bottle of "Bam" (an acronym for something that begins, ominously, with "butyric" - the rest of it has been worn off the label) and lets me do the bathrooms. No service ethic challenges me here to new heights of performance. I just concentrate on removing the pubic hairs from the bathtubs, or at least the dark ones that I can see.”
Source: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America