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Holy schnykies. . .This thing did some stuff. And what not.
I noticed none of the reviews were informative enough for someone of my disposition so I thought I'd write one.
I first learned of Wilhelm Reich about eight years ago the same way a lot of people have: William S. Burroughs. It wasn't Burroughs that got me to dig into his work though. That I'd chalk up to synchronicity, as I seemed to have found it just when I was most receptive to what he had to say.
At the time I was a very self-destructive heroin addict who thought about suicide on a daily basis. Knowing that because of my mother and daughter I could never kill myself, nor could I continue to live the life I was, I sought means of escaping what had become to me a labyrinth of psychological confusion and anguish that I believed impossible to escape. I thought I would have to be a genius of the Nth level, because solutions easily turned into conflict, happiness quickly dissolved into a consuming self-loathing: all exits seemed barred.
I read Wilhelm Reich's book "The Murder of Christ" and my life changed. I can't say that what I got from it anyone else would have, as I tend to read between the lines and go off into my own tangential revelations about things, but from there on I understood how to confront the self-destructive mechanism within me, and therefore dismantle it.
All that was just to illustrate my firm conviction in the work, thoughts, and revelations that Wilhelm Reich pursued. I do not believe in him or his conclusions implicitly, but I do have a profound respect not only for his genius but his "scientific ethics".
That being said, I tend to regard a lot of the "research" done after Reich to be quackery, or misguided, or just associating his ideas with New Thought principles, etc. Orgonite, from what little I had read of it, seemed to fit into this category.
Nonetheless I bought this product. With absolutely no "belief" in its ability to do anything, I immediately "felt something" the first time I held it.
Around this time my apartment had taken on this heavy, oppressive vibe, like I want to leave as soon as I walk in. This had been going on for weeks. It ceased the day this little pyramid entered my home.
I tend to feel VERY intensely. It is not that I act out, it is literally like my emotions radiate a. . .radiation. So because of this, if I am feeling particularly down, all my houseplants will die within a day. Don't know the connection, and believe me I wasn't apt to conclude that I am some "powerful emotional being" that can profoundly alter organic life.
When the orgonite entered my home it didn't prevent me from feeling negative emotions, it (at least I believe) relieved the psychological weight of those emotions, so that I could examine and actually FEEL them instead of being opressed by them. My outlook and mental clarity greatly improved.
Well, gotta go.
August 2018 · Health and Household · verified purchase