Marika Hellstrom is sending her daughter here as a pupil next term.
No news of the Haymes's since they went to Uruguay. Difficult to keep
in touch when people can't meet.Orgonon
Rangeley, MaineMy dear Neill:•••July 24, 1952It was nice to have your letter of July 17th. It had slipped my
mind entirely that you had ever suggested to cease correspondence. On
my part, there was no resentment or grudge against you whatsoever. To
be blunt, I just believed that you are somewhat stuck in socialist ideas
of the 1920'S and refused to see that the world, apart from all politics
and economics, has drawn forward, and that Marxism as well as
Freudism are dead cats, even if they may still succeed in causing
nuisance for a few centuries to come. Still, they are dead cats. The
world most likely wiIl be oriented in the future around an entirely new
kind of human thinking, functional thinking, and the discovery of the
cosmic energy which will have no likeness to what we knew in our early
life.
I hope somebody will write to you about what happened here during
the past year. I can only tell you that our buildings were knocked out
of use in early spring, that for many months I did not sleep in one
place for 2 nights in a row, that lIse and Peter had to evacuate Orgonon
and live in town, that all normal activities have been cancelled and that
we are trying desperately to keep our boat on an even keel. All this will
be extensively dealt with in future Bulletin publications. Somehow the
universe has knocked us on the head for our daring impertinence in
challenging its secrets.
Write again, Neill, it's nice to hear from you, though, due to my
development during the past 5-6 years, the gap between us with regard
to the view of man's existence has widened considerably. This, however,
should in no way impede continuation of our old friendship. I still
respect your zest and zeal, although I came to disagree very sharply
with the premises for a happy human life in the future as they are set
by old-time liberalism. The problem is the human plague.