Some days ago I received a manuscript of Raknes from Sweden. They
are working there very bravely and intelligently. Let's hope the time is
not too far away when we shall all be together and concentrate upon the
many questions which are in our mind concerning mental misery...
Please write me about yourself too, whether you are using the
Orgone Accumulator and what kind of experiences you are making with
it.- I •
Forest Hills, New York
December 22, 1942
My dear Neill:
I received your letter of November 9th some days ago. The
physicist whose letter you sent me is a typical mechanist who uses
words where understanding is lacking. I don't mind his saying that
I do not know much about physics because the cosmic biophysical
energy, Orgone, was discovered by me and not by him, and I am ready to
leave the physical knowledge to him and to solve the problems of the
Orgone by myself, even if "without knowledge." To illustrate his com
plete confusion of thinking, I refer to a passage in his letter where he
writes that "the twinkling of stars is caused by strong currents of cold
air flowing in the upper layers of the earth's atmosphere." If you put
together 100 physicists and one phenomenon, then you will hear 100
different kinds of words and interpretations of one and the same phe
nomenon, pronounced with the greatest dignity of pure science. I am
glad to have rid myself of the respect for this kind of science. To il
lustrate that I am justified in doing so: A week or so ago I visited the
New York Planetarium with my wife. Even our physicist will admit that
in such a planetarium there are no layers of air in great heights and
yet the artificial stars were twinkling. I am sure he will have a different
explanation for this phenomenon in the Planetarium. He also over
looked the experimental reproduction of the twinkling of the stars in any
orgone accumulator, by simply drilling a few holes into the walls and
looking at them in the dark while a dim green light is shining inside.
The task of natural science for thousands of years was always to reduce
hundreds of thousands of different facts to one and the same principle
and not, what most of the so-called physicists do, to explain one and
the same fact with hundreds of thousands of words. In short, the attitude