reluctance to risk friendships, to fight the plague of mankind. By the
way, "emotional plague" is a strictly scientific term to denote evil social
action from irrational motives with irrational evil results, in contra
distinction to simple neurosis which just suffers but does not kill life in
newborn infants because it has lost life within itself.
Beyond this I feel that my work has taken a very dangerous turn since
the insight has become so very practical that it is the suppressed man
himself who carries all the responsibility; not Stalin, not Hitler, not
anyone but he himself. This is a most unpopular insight and will, I fear,
cost me much. Be assured, Neill, that I did not change away from my
line of 20 years ago, I only pursued it further. It is the friend, the pupil
out of touch, the admirer, the hero worshipper of two decades ago who
changed by remaining sitting on the spot.
I also fear that those who were closest do not quite realise the great
progress the work has made in the world today. It is rooted and taught
in universities all over the world. The literature is streaming steadily at
a rate of about five hundred copies a month OVER YEARS all over the
planet. The effects are clearly there in the basic change of attitude in
infant upbringing, in handling of human problems, in a growing aversion
against mechanistic philosophies, including the Russian. My success is
very great and far more than I dared dream of only 10 years ago. And
it is acknowledged. Of this the old friends know little because some
newspapers are still silent, which does not matter a bit. The aware
ness of the discovery of the Life Energy is here growing by leaps and
bounds. And this alone is what matters to me who has sacrificed so
heavily to bring it about. And I could with a clean conscience put on
the scales of human history my love for man in what I DID to im
prove his lot against what those have accomplished who call me a
dictator because I keep them strictly out of my way in order to prevent
their spoiling my clean, honest job.
I SHALL see you again here at Orgonon, no doubt!!
Write again, Neill. I like it. I have written three books this year:
The Oranur Experiment,* 2. Cosmic Superimposition,t 3. The Murder
- A brief description of the experiments was first published in the Orgone
Energy Emergency Bulletin, in December 1950; the full report then came out in
booklet form, The Oranur Experiment: First Report, 1947-1951, 1951.
t Cosmic Superimposition, first published in 1951. Discusses man's position in
nature. Reich, citing the genital embrace as an example, sees the superimposition
of ,two orgone systems as a common functioning principle throughout nature.