attendance. It is a mystery to me. Why did Bill leave? What became of
the attempt to use orgone energy as power?
I sit in the Accumulator every night reading, holding the funnel to
my catarrhy ears. It feels stronger now that warmer dry weather has
arrived.
I told you I'd decided to begin a book on Self-Regulation, but so far
I have not been able to concentrate on it. I may write it on the Norway
mountain for, miles from anywhere, I shall have lots of time on my
hands. I may stay on in September and lecture in Oslo, Stockholm and
Copenhagen. But maybe the university attitude to Raknes will prevent
my being asked to lecture in the Oslo University.
Do write and tell us about lIse and about Peter.Orgonon
Rangeley , Maine
My dear Neill:•••June 7, 195 1I have your two letters of May 7th and 30th. Use was one of
the victims of the Oranur experiment and had to undergo a major
operation. Oranur had brought out the specific disease in every single
person. It was a great horror. If art is a disease, Oranur has brought out
the artist in me. I have painted some two dozen pictures in oil over the
past three months, and people, who claim they know, say that they are
first rate; that nobody has painted that way as yet. I cannot tell, I just
enjoy painting tremendously. It teaches me a lot about our miserable
failure to see nature correctly. It is incredible to detect that you do not
know how sunlight hits a tree, and that there is no color to render in
true fashion the color of sun and daylight. I came to call this special
color which is not white, "orgonite," only to distinguish it from other
colors. I am also playing and enjoying the organ, and have begun to
write down my melodies of which I am quite full. I do not know where
I am going. I gave up a 50,000 dollar a year practice in New York in
the spring of 1950, when I moved to Maine permanently, in order to
stop outfitting nuisance doctors and psychologists with the great
authority they obtain gratis simply for having studied with me. Also I
cannot stand pathological expressions very well since I shifted my main
biopsychiatric work to the problem of the healthy child. Peter is a
wonder to all of us here. Here something entirely new is growing up,