If I may delve into your wonderful article...
A very real urge for aliveness, or frustration with armouring can "flip" into an uncritical acceptance of every kind of cosmic idea, an inflated sense of self-importance because of occult forces ("gods" or "angels") interfering with one's life, an over-reliance on the astral plane, and a contempt for this life and the body. In general, I feel occultists should worry less about Universe B, "alien forces" and New Aeons and get back to our bodies.
..or even just start with our bodies? How can we use intent to create change in the world if we are unknown to ourselves? I know this getting all Temple in the Convo on ya but put up with me for a minute.
To quote: "Mysticism [in Reich's sense].. is a distorted experience of one's own body energy in motion projected outward either onto imaginary figures or abstractions such as "the devil", "god" or "the Jew" or "Asiatic races" or "the angels" or "the age of Aquarius" or some idealised hero or leader. Mysticism is also accompanied by a sense of helplessness in the face of social problems , the abdication of responsibility for solutions and the fantasy that some force, god or leader is going to solve these problems without the individual having to do anything for him or herself to deal with them. The obverse of this stage is that cause of all problems are projected outside oneself as others or external abstractions".
I know there are a lot of occultists (as members of humanity) who do not take responsibility for anything ever, BUT the majority of folks I know who under take this work begin with the initial step of taking responsibility for their own reality. In fact the majority of them have either been lead to a dialogue with their physicality or started there.
The Wilhelm Reich Museum is a part of the The Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust
The Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust was so-named because of Reich’s devotion to infants and children. He wrote eloquently and passionately about the importance of safeguarding the emotional health of infants and children, often referring to their “unspoiled protoplasm” and “unarmored life.” And in his Last Will and Testament he charged the Trust with devoting part of its income to “the care of infants everywhere, toward legal security of infants, children and adolescents in emotional, social, parental, medical, legal, educational, professional or other distress.”
Reich was deeply invested in caring for the ill and the young in very tangible and very practical ways. The less understood/more occult aspects of his techniques may in time (if the research as you say doesn't result in the Catch 22 of being written off) be only a form of medical science currently obscured.
We know from the history of germs and Dr. Semmelweis that someone maybe on the right track but slightly off just enough to sound like a crack pot. |
