Forest Hills, New York
February 4, 1946
My dear Neill:
I have yours of January 26th. You are absolutely right in what you
say. Only one remark does not seem clear: You write that the people
with whom I am associated now have no political influence. Is it pos
sible that the generals Marshall, Mountbatten, Pershing, Eisenhower,
Nimitz, Alexander, the scientists Einstein, Wells, the statesmen
Churchill, Hoover, Camaccio [Camacho], Mackenzie King, * have no
political influence? They have, but I am afraid that as it happened in
Norway, a small judge of a small court, or a small little fellow in a
police court, is stronger, much stronger, than the knowledge of the few
and even the power of the few. It is a dark and terrifying picture.
As I learned directly from this judge, a document was sent over ap
parently from Norway to the FBI before I came to this country, and as
he said, "they knew all about me." But I don't know what "they knew
about me." My social and academic standing in the U.S. is very strong.
And yet, I am deeply worried. Though I know the working of the
emotional pest fairly well, I am still helpless to cope with it. Even
power would be of no avail here. All this has nothing to do with Com
munism versus Capitalism, but only with the deadly fear and terror of
the armored men of living plasmatic functions which I happened to dis
cover. And the orgone is in that respect still much more dangerous to
the pest than sex-economy. Sex-economy deals "only" with the moral
issues, but orgone biophysics deals with God himself, having shown that
what people call god is identical with the cosmic energy which really is
everywhere, penetrates everything, created the world, constitutes the
emotions and religious feelings, governs life, etc. etc. It is a very tough
and straining job I am doing, Neill. My brain works at high speed day
in, day out, and very often through the nights. The more I learn to
understand the perversity of human reactions, the more desperate I
become, even though the picture of a final solution of the social tragedy
of man becomes clearer and more definite. I wish I had you here to
talk things over ...
- I •
* These were all men listed as Honorary Members of Societies of which
Reich had himself become a member. As he took membership extremely seriously,
he considered them his associates.