Ether, God and Devil and Cosmic Superimposition

by Reich, Wilhelm; Pol, Therese

• ISBN13: 9780374509910
• ISBN10: 0374509913
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1972-01-01
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Summary

These companion volumes, long out of print, are now presented together for the first time so that the reader may better grasp their essential unity. In Ether, God and Devil, Wilhelm Reich describes the process of functional thinking and reveals how the inner logic of this objective thought technique led him to the discovery of cosmic orgone energy.

In Cosmic Superimposition, Reich steps beyond the character structure of man to an understanding of how man is rooted in nature. The super-imposition of two orgone-energy systems which is demonstrable in the genital embrace is revealed as a common functioning principal that exists in all of nature. Concluding this work, Reich returns to the human sphere "to ponder about the greatest riddle of all: the ability of man to think, and by mere thinking to know what nature is and how it works."

Author Biography

Wilhelm Reich, a native of Austria, was born in 1897. His many works include Listen, Little Man!, Character Analysis, and The Mass Psychology of Fascism. He died in 1957.

Table of Contents

Ether, God and Devil
The Workshop of Orgonomic Functionalism	p. 3
The Two Basic Pillars of Human Thought: "God" and "Ether"	p. 13
Organ Sensation as a Tool of Natural Research	p. 53
Animism, Mysticism, and Mechanistics	p. 77
The Realm of the Devil	p. 121
Cosmic Orgone Energy and "Ether"	p. 139
Cosmic Superimposition
Stage and Meadow	p. 165
Survey on Man's Roots in Nature	p. 173
The Function of Superimposition	p. 181
The Living Orgonome	p. 193
Superimposition in Galactic Systems	p. 225
The Ring of the Aurora Borealis, R--76	p. 239
The Meaning of R--76	p. 249
The Rooting of Reason in Nature	p. 277
Bibliography of Works by Reich on Orgone Energy	p. 299
Glossary	p. 303
Index	p. 305
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