groused because they couldn't come a ten-hours rail journey to see their
brats. On the other hand I can see that you want all concentrated in
Orgonon. I'd have two houses, summer in Maine, winter (seeing the
babes can't ski) in a place near to New York.
Ena has strong ideas of the way the building should be planned, and
is to send you them soon, and whether we eventually come or not, her
experience may help you.
Re your query about being able to bring out money if we emigrated,
I don't know the latest law on the subject, but up till now one could take
very little per annum, and in any case it would break my Scots heart to
change £ 100 at $2. 80 to the pound.
I am reading your Ether, God and Devil· book to the staff at staff
meetings. It is really a delight to read it; possibly the clearest book of
yours I have read.
Sending out invitations now for our self-regno conference week after
Easter. Last invitation brought exactly three replies.
No seminar this summer at Sheffield but Mrs. Haymes, if still there,
promises a seminar at her house with all fees to me. Nicht so staubig ...
a phrase you possibly don't know! We say "not so dusty" in England
when a thing is good, e.g. a film.
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Forest Hills, New York
March 13 , 19 50
My dear Neill:
I have yours of February 27th. I can understand why you
withdrew your first suggestion. I hope you will be at Orgonon in August
so that we can talk over everything.
- I •
- Ether, God and Devil (published as Volume Two of The Annals of the O'gone
Institute, 19 49; reissued in a new translation, 19 73, in conjunction with Reich's
Cosmic Superimposition). Reich here describes the process of functional thinking,
using it to illuminate the traditional view of God and Devil, and recounts how the
inner logic of this thought-technique brought him to the discovery of cosmic orgone
energy.