Young Reader’s Glossaryof

Orgonomic Terms

and

Less Common WordsOccurring in C O R E’s Booklets

Peter Jones

C O R E,Centre for Orgonomic Research and Education,

23, Sandown Court, Avenham Lane, Preston, Lancs, PR1 3 RS.www.orgonecore.org.uk

Introduction

C O R E’s latest booklet is a younger reader’s version of our Introduction to Orgonomy. I was going to write a list of orgonomic words for that booklet but soon realised that it would be too long for a small publication. With our forthcoming conference in 2007 I hope that many more younger readers will be reading our booklets and so have written this glossary for younger readers of our booklets. Specialist orgonomic words and expressions are not many or difficult, but you cannot find them in ordinary dictionaries, either the usual English Dictionaries or science dictionaries. Words marked with an asterisk* are special orgonomic terms that you will not find in non-orgonomic texts. The other words and expressions are either just less common words or ones used in medical or scientific language. If you need further information about these ordinary, non-orgonomic words you will be able to find them in ordinary dictionaries.

At the end of this glossary you will find some helpful information on how to use your local library to find rare books referred to in C O R E’s booklets. Most of Reich’s books are now in print in the USA, but will not be in many public libraries here. Your library will be able to obtain copies for you to borrow. If you have difficulty in obtaining these books, or just can’t wait, you will find summaries of Reich’s work in many of C O R E’s booklets. See the cover of any of our booklets for a full list.

Readers will notice some Latin abbreviations in the references. These are regularly used in references by all writers. Ibid means in the same place (as the previous reference). Op cit stands for opus citatum and means work previously cited by the same author, published in the same year. To find the exact details simply look back in the references until you come across the relevant reference.

Academics – those who teach at universities or other places of higher education

Amoeba – a very small freshwater organism. Under the microscope it looks like a small blob of transparent jelly that pushes out arms in different directions and withdraws them again.

Anthropology – the study of different human cultures.

Anti-semitism – the organised, political hatred and denigration of Jews (in the past) and now often the hatred of Israel. Anti-semitism was a major plank of the German Nazis before and during the Second World War. It eventually led to the organised murder of about 6 million European Jews during that war.

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Armouring* – (also called muscular armouring), permanent muscular tensions that stop the awareness of painful feelings or sometimes just feelings that a child thinks its carers will not accept, even if to the child they are quite pleasant. (See The Function of the Orgasm.) Armouring also interferes with the body’s physiology.

Authoritarian – believing in principle that authority and discipline are good for people, especially children, and that society should be organised with strict rules which should be obeyed by everyone; a person who holds such a belief.

Autoclavation – a commonly used method of sterilising cultures or medical instruments by heating items under pressure to a temperature of 120°C for 30 minutes. Amateur researchers without full laboratory facilities can improvise with a pressure cooker.

Autonomic nervous system (ANS) – the automatic part of our physiology that regulates the body’s basic systems, such as breathing, circulation, digestion and so on. It is working all the time without our being aware of it. It has two sides, the sympathetic and para-sympathetic. These work in opposite directions, stimulation of the first, for example, speeding up the heart-rate, of the second slowing it down. These changes occur freely according to the body’s natural needs but they also occur (speeding up) in anxiety and (slowing down) in pleasure. Lasting disturbances in these opposite functions play an important part in sickness and health. (See also orgonotic pulsation.)

Bio-energy* - see orgone energy

Bions* - tiny vesicles charged with orgone energy, typically obtained from rotting grass, other rotting vegetation in water, or ground solid materials in water.

Bionous disintegration* - the process by which bions come into existence from swelling matter that breaks up in water or nutrient fluid

Bion experiments* - experiments in which Reich observed grass and other, dead materials swelling in water and producing bions and in some cases other organisms. (See The Bion Experiments on the Origin of Life.)

Biopathy* - a pathological condition of the organism’s energy economy. This condition will often have led to an illness but not always. (See The Cancer Biopathy.)

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Bio-physical* - connected with the biological and the physical. Orgone energy exists in organised form within organisms and in free form in the atmosphere, so that many orgonomic functions are both biological and physical.

Carcinogen – a substance that is likely to cause cancer.

Carcinogenic – tending to cause cancer.

Character defence* – a way of behaving or holding oneself physically that avoids the awareness of some painful or forbidden emotion or sensation. (See Character Analysis.)

Character structure* - the total of character defences that a person has developed to cope with the difficulties presented by their own particular family.

Charge* – the building up of orgone energy within the organism or atmosphere.

Circulation – the movement of the blood round the body in the blood vessels. The circulatory system consists of the heart, lungs, blood, and blood vessels.

Cloud-buster* - a device invented by Reich to reduce or increase orgone energy charge in a part of the sky, thus changing the energy dynamics in the locality and possibly the weather. (See Selected Writings.)

Common functioning principle* - (See Ether, God and Devil.) An energy function common to a pair or more of processes in nature. This common functioning principle makes them, in orgonomic terms, functionally identical, even though orthodox science might see them as completely different processes. A good example is orgonotic pulsation, seen throughout nature, in particular in the peristalsis of the digestive tract and the movement of a worm.

Core* – the centre of our being, from which emerge all primary impulses. In orgonomy the word describes the unarmoured, healthy centre of a human being.

Diagnosis – the process by which a doctor decides what is wrong with a patient. The doctor makes this decision by assessing the patient’s signs and symptoms.

Digestion – the process by which an animal takes in food and breaks it down into forms that the body can use and excretes unusable parts of the food taken in.

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Discharge* - literally unloading, in orgonomy, the unloading of orgone energy via the involuntary muscular contractions of the orgasm. (See The Function of the Organism.)

Disintegration – breaking down, coming apart

Distort – to deform the shape of

DOR* – Deadly ORgone energy, orgone energy that has reacted strongly to irritation by radio-activity and become hostile to life. (See Selected Writings.)

Emotional plague* - the name given by Reich to a particular emotional biopathy. A person who has this biopathy has a very high energy level but few outlets for their energy. Such a person feels continually frustrated and angry and commonly becomes very intolerant and persecuting towards any manifestation of life and pleasure in other people, especially children. (See Character Analysis.)

Energy economy* - the internal dynamics of a person’s bio-energy, especially with reference to the amount of energy their organism creates and the amount it can discharge and the level at which it commonly functions, with reference to the level of excitation it can tolerate and enjoy. (See Function of the Orgasm.)

Fascism – an authoritarian system of government with only one party, no democratic elections, and a strong leader, usually a dictator with absolute power. The first truly fascist government was set up in Italy by Mussolini in 1923. German Nazism was similar but had much stronger elements of racial prejudice in its policies.

Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) – the originator of psycho-analysis. Reich was a loyal follower of Freud and his methods until he started to break away from his influence and to develop his own methods.

Frustration – the feeling a human being experiences when a strong wish or urge is blocked either by outside persons or forces or by internal inhibitions.

Function* – in orgonomy, an energy process driven by orgone energy, for example, pulsation or superimposition. Orgonomy often sees two processes as having the same function, therefore being functionally identical, even if ordinary science sees them as quite different and unconnected. See common functioning principle. (See Ether, God and Devil.)

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Great Depression – a period (1929-1934) in which there was a complete collapse of the world economy, with very high levels of unemployment and social distress.

Harmony – originally a musical term, the sound produced when two or more notes sound together and are pleasing to the ear. Also often used to describe the state in a family or society, when people live together without friction or discord.

Heresy – a belief that disagrees with conventionally accepted beliefs, especially religious ones.

Homoeostasis – see self-regulation

Industrialism – the practice of producing items for human use by mass-production in factories, the economic philosophy that believes this is a good thing.

Ingest – to take in, especially as food.

Inhibit – to hold in, restrict, especially a feeling.

Inhibited – a word now commonly used to describe someone who does not let themselves feel much or express their feelings much.

Inhibition – a holding in, a refusal to allow oneself or someone to do or feel something.

Intellectuals – individuals who work with their brains as opposed to their hands, in particular social thinkers who write, talk, and think about social problems.

Libido – the word used by psycho-analysts for emotional energy, sexual energy, or any exciting energy. It is often used rather loosely with no exact meaning.

Life-energy – a loose word for the orgone

Matriarchy – literally, rule by mothers or women, often used as the name of societies and cultures in which men and women have equal status and power and society is governed by soft, ‘feminine’ values. Adjective – matriarchal.

Medical orgonomist* - a doctor who is also trained in orgone–therapeutics.

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Metabolism – the processes by which the body creates what it needs from the food that we eat and the air that we breathe.

Meteorology – the scientific study of the weather and its behaviour.

Mysticism – a state in which one is never seeing or experiencing directly what one is looking at or feeling. In orgonomic psychology, mysticism is an important character defence against contact with one’s internal distress or threatening knowledge. Adjective – mystical, having such feelings, of a perception, suffering from such blinding loss of perception. Some sensations or perceptions are wrongly described as mystical because they cannot be explained by ordinary science. Orgonomy is often derided as mystical. It is exactly the opposite, built on undistorted, testable body perceptions. (See The Mass Psychology of Fascism.)

Nazism – an authoritarian, racist political philosophy similar to fascism, but peculiar to Germany and differing in some ways because of different historical influences in Germany and Italy. The German dictatorship under Hitler from 1933-1945 was the result of a Nazi revolution driven by this philosophy.

Neurosis – an emotional disturbance, not usually severe and not leading to major treatment in hospital. Adjective – neurotic, suffering from such a disturbance.

Oranur experiment* - an experiment described by Reich in Selected Writings, in which he tried to see if orgone energy would protect people against the effects of nuclear radiation. It had the opposite effect to what he had hoped for and caused serious atmospheric disruption and damage to his own health and that of many co-workers. It led to the discovery of DOR – Deadly ORgone energy, orgone energy that has reacted strongly to nuclear radiation and become hostile to life. (See Selected Writings.)

Organ – a part of the body that performs a particular function, for instance the heart, the liver, the kidneys.

Organism – the whole physical body of an animal or human being and its inner parts and workings. You, reading this, are an organism. I, writing this, am an organism. A rabbit, a bug, a snail are all organisms.

Orgone accumulator* – a simple apparatus which, by exploiting the properties of orgone energy, concentrates it for therapeutic or experimental purposes. (See The Cancer Biopathy.)

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Orgone* energy – the cosmic energy thought to exist by almost all schools of medicine or philosophy until the coming of modern science in the seventeenth century and after. Adjective - orgonotic* - charged with, driven by orgone energy.

Orgone therapy* – 1) Psychiatric orgone therapy; one-to-one psycho-therapy with an orgone-therapist, the aim of which is to dissolve all the patient’s armouring and to restore their capacity for orgonotic pulsation. 2) Physical orgone therapy, treatment in an orgone accumulator. This simply raised a patient’s energy level, but has no lasting effect on their armouring. (See The Cancer Biopathy and The Orgone Accumulator Handbook by James DeMeo.)

Orgonomy* - the science or study of the orgone energy: adjective - orgonomic*

Orgonotic* – charged with orgone energy, driven by an orgone energy charge.

Orgonotic pulsation* - the basic life-function discovered by Reich, orgonotic expansion (para-sympathetic stimulation of the ANS) and contraction (sympathetic stimulation) throughout the organism. He considered the undamaged capacity for this pulsation to be a state of health. (See The Cancer Biopathy.)

Pathology – a sick or diseased condition, conventional medicine’s equivalent of biopathy, though not exactly the same. A person can have a biopathic condition long before it produces a recognisable illness. Adjective – pathological.

Patriarchy – literally, rule by men or fathers; like matriarchy, often used as the name for a society or culture in which men rule and social values are commonly ‘masculine’, ie, aggressive, hard, military, and authoritarian. Adjective – patriarchal.

Physiological – as found in the normal healthy workings of the body.

Physiology – the workings of the animal body, also their study.

Plagiarism – the unacknowledged borrowing and using of other worker’s research and results, considered a severe crime in the world of science and at universities.

Primary* - basic, emerging from the core of human beings or other organisms.

Protozoon (plural protozoa) – a small, single-celled organism that usually lives in water or soil. We need a microscope to see protozoa.

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Pseudo- (often used in front of another noun), false, pretended, unreal.

Psychiatrist – a doctor specialising in the treatment of mental illnesses.

Psychiatry – the medical specialty that treats disturbances of the mind.

Psycho-analysis – the form of talking psycho-therapy devised and developed by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) and his followers at the beginning of the twentieth century, the body of knowledge and techniques used in this form of therapy.

Psychology – the study of the mind

Psycho-somatic – showing the link between body and mind, often used dismissively to claim that an illness or injury is imaginary or that a patient is pretending to be ill for hidden reasons of their own. (See The Function of the Orgasm and The Cancer Biopathy.)

Psycho-therapy – any form of treatment that is used to treat mental illness.

Red blood cell – a main part of the blood. It carries haemoglobin which absorbs oxygen in the lungs, transports it around the body and in turn collects carbon dioxide made by the body’s metabolism. The blood circulation returns this to the lungs and it is then breathed out into the air.

Replicate – of a scientific experiment, to repeat according to the reports of the original researcher who did the experiment for the first time.

Resignation – giving up wishing for what one wants in life and doing anything about getting it.

Saharasia* - the desert area stretching from northern Africa through the Middle East to the central Asian countries. The title of an important book on the origins of human armouring and patriarchal society by the US orgonomist James DeMeo.(See Saharasia.)

Secondary* – the second layer of human impulses and behaviour brought about by the distortion of primary impulses by armouring.

Self-regulation* - the ordering of biological processes without the animal having to deliberately do anything to achieve this, homoeostasis in ordinary physiology.

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Also used by Reich and others to describe the non-authoritarian way of life and child-care of unarmoured people, in which the child’s primary needs are satisfied as they occur. Not to be confused with license, allowing children, already damaged by armouring, to do whatever they like. (See Children of the Future.)

Sex-economy* - the word Reich used for the sum of his psychological findings and concept of life energy and the need for a healthy sexual discharge of excitation and energy, before he had discovered the orgone. (See The Function of the Orgasm.)

Sign(s) – physical item(s) that accompany a particular illness, disease, or injury. To confirm a diagnosis a doctor will always look for these signs. This differs from symptom. A patient may be unaware of a sign, will always be aware of a symptom.

Spontaneous – happening of its own accord.

Spontaneous generation – the origin of new life from dead material. This must have happened at least once in the course of our planet’s history for life to start at all. Biologists now claim that it must have occurred so long ago and in conditions so different to those of today that the event cannot be repeated experimentally in the laboratory. Until the rise of modern science in the eighteenth century and after most people believed in spontaneous generation and a few still believe in its possibility. This belief never quite dies, however much modern science claims to disprove it. Reich was abused and ridiculed for allegedly claiming that he had replicated the process of spontaneous generation in his bion experiments.

Stasis* - standstill, in everyday language, a blockage within the organism. The word is used in ordinary medicine and biology, but in orgonomy has a specific meaning, an immobile state of a person’s energy economy because of the absence of orgastic discharge. (See The Function of the Orgasm.)

Superimposition* - literally, the placing of one thing upon another. In orgonomy, the function in which two energy streams or systems are attracted towards each other and merge. Common examples in nature are the two spiralling streams in a galaxy, the two streams in a hurricane, and less visible but also familiar, sexual attraction resulting in the merging of male and female organisms. See Reich’s text Cosmic Superimposition. This may be difficult for readers with no scientific background, but its many drawings and photographs make the principle clear.

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Symptom(s) – the feelings, pain, sense of something being wrong that make a patient turn to a doctor for treatment. Compare with sign.Tissue – a part of the body made up of many identical cells, eg. skin or muscle.

Thwart – to block, inhibit, stop someone doing something,

Totalitarianism – the political practice in which all political and social power in a country is in the hands of either a single person or a single organisation, usually a political party, but occasionally also a church or religious group.

Vesicle – a bubble or blister containing fluid.

Vital energy – the life-force that was supposed to exist before modern science developed. People believed in its existence intuitively without any evidence for it.

Vitalism – the belief that life is in some way different from non-life and that the ingredients of life cannot be created artificially. It suffered a major blow when chemists managed to make some of the basic materials of life in the laboratory in the early nineteenth century. It is now completely discredited by the fact that it is possible to manufacture many of the chemicals of life in the laboratory or factory.

Using the Public Library System in Your Orgonomic Work

Younger readers setting out on a journey of orgonomic research may not realise how helpful your local library can be to you in your search for knowledge and books that are not commonly available. Your local library can obtain almost any book you need, if they do not have it in their own stock. They will ask you for the publishing details – title, name of the author, and if possible, date and place of publication – and obtain it for you within a few weeks. If this seems a long time, remember that your study of orgonomy is going to last for the rest of your life and a few weeks is nothing. You can in the meantime get on with other orgonomic work. I have myself requested many books in this way and only twice have I been unable to obtain the books in question. These two were very rare books indeed. C O R E’s library now has copies of both of them, if you wish to consult them.

Your library can obtain photo-copies of journal articles cited in C O R E’s booklets or any others you come across and want to read. This following up of sources is a great way of learning about a new subject: hence the many references in the booklets. In scientific writing it is the custom to give a reference for information that you have obtained from other workers. Pretending that

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information obtained from other workers is your own work, plagiarism, is a serious crime in the world of science and scholarship.

Warning: the Internet and Reference Works

As you probably realise, if you get seriously interested in orgonomy, you are going to be doing a lot of looking things up. You may be looking for things on the Internet and looking up technical words in science dictionaries and encyclopaedias. For example, you may have found my brief explanation of the Autonomic Nervous System interesting and decide you want know more. If you look it up, the information you find will be accurate, as it is a well-defined topic about which much is known. It is also an accepted topic in mainstream biology and medicine. But if you look up muscular armouring you will find hardly anything in any reference work. If it does get an entry, the information will almost certainly come from someone outside orgonomy who has a very poor understanding of it, perhaps none at all. You will not find any information about the effects of muscular armouring on the autonomic nervous system. Even basic biographical information and simple summaries of Reich’s writings are often hopelessly inaccurate and sometimes maliciously critical and lying. Take everything you find in such books with a pinch of salt and go back to the original orgonomic writings, that is, in most cases, Reich’s own books and articles.

The Internet is even worse, as anyone can post anything on it that they want. You will find hundreds of entries under W Reich or orgonomy in a search. Much of it will be quite useless, coming from fanatics with an axe to grind. Some of these will be very pro-Reich, but from a scientific point of view, they are no more use than very critical information, gushing with mystical enthusiasm for Reich, with no reference at all to the real use or development of his discoveries. In general, individuals or organisations actually working in orgonomy, as opposed to just talking about it, have experience and knowledge that can be trusted.

Getting Help from C O R E

We are keen to help younger students of orgonomy with their studies and research. If you need any help from us, please get in touch. We hope eventually to run summer schools for young students of orgonomy. We have a good orgonomic reference library and will be happy to show you any material that you feel will help you in your studies. You may visit C O R E by arrangement to see a demonstration of any of the basic orgonomic experiments.

Peter Jones,

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Preston, December, 2006.

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