This last letter was sent one month after Dr. Robert N. Pasotti died in December 1999. Dr. Pasotti had been a patient of Dr. Baker, and published several articles in the Journal of Orgonomy (example: “Reich’s Relationship to Freud,” Journal of Orgonomy, Vol. 9, No. 2, November 1975).
In the last phase of his life, Bob and I communicated by letter extensively (1996-1999). We had one face-to-face meeting at his home in Vermont. The letters have all, except the one that follows, been published in my book “Wilhelm Reich – Liberation Theologian of Cosmic Energy (MagCloud Publishing). I will send a digital copy of this work to any book reviewer who requests one.
Dr. Pasotti, in this last phase of his life on earth, in what he called his “endgame” period, deeply explored mysticism and Wilhelm Reich’s “Oranur Experiment” (Orgonon, Rangeley, Maine, The Wilhelm Reich Foundation, 1951). In that report, Dr. Reich made a statement, all but ignored by generations of orgonomists, that “the boundaries between physics and metaphysics had dissolved” when he placed radium inside a powerful orgone accumulator (ORAC) to see if the concentrated Life Energy could neutralize the radioactivity (pgs. 327-328). This was done because Dr. Reich was very concerned about the prospect of atomic war over the Korean conflict. Many details are discussed in the other writings posted on this Blog. For the purposes of this brief introduction to this final exchange of letters, I will simply quote Reich’s summary observation on this most profound point in the the history of human knowledge:
“ALL BOUNDARIES BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION, SCIENCE AND ART, OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE, QUANTITY AND QUALITY, PHYSICS AND PSYCHOLOGY, ASTRONOMY AND RELIGION, GOD AND ETHER, ARE IRREVOCABLY BREAKING DOWN, BEING REPLACED BY A CONCEPTION OF THE BASIC UNITY, A BASIC CFP [COMMON FUNCTIONING PRINCIPLE] OF ALL NATURE WHICH BRANCHES OUT INTO THE VARIOUS KINDS OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE.”(PAGE 328).
What follows is my last letter, sent through physical-metaphysical distant quantum projection, to Dr. Pasotti.
“January 2, 2000
Dear Bob,
This is my first attempt to communicate with you since you “died” from our earth dimension. This transformation of the negentropic energy of life, as we know from our work together, does not interrupt the continuity of life and communication. The negentropic character of orgone energy is what also makes reincarnation possible according to spiritual law yet to be completely understood. I will write as I did when your psychic energy was embodied in organic matter here on earth. I am calling this experiment a follow-up to what was discovered by Dr. Reich during the Oranur Experiment.
Kathy has called me about your papers and books. I am going to undertake the writing of our planned joint project “The Oranur Paradigm” [Dr. Katz: present on this Blog as the “Metaphysics of the Life Energy….”].
Your ongoing input to this project would be helpful of course.
As you predicted, it has been a hard road among those who have made Orgonomy into a dogma. As Dr, Reich predicted on his taped monologue “Alone,” “there is not a single solitary person, either here in Orgonon, or down in New York, who really, from the bottom of their existence, knows what I am doing, and is with me in what I am doing.”
What are you now experiencing? Was Dr. Blasband on the right track? What about Gnostic philosophy and your concept of “healthy mysticism.”
I will continue with this communication until the experiment comes to a definite conclusion in my mind/body.
I await your reply,
Steve
Dr. Pasotti did indeed reply through a computer generated message that I deciphered with the mathematical formulas devised by the Jewish mystics called “Gematria.” The mystical logic of this is described by Professor Gershom Scholem in his great seminal work “Major Trends In Jewish Mysticism,” page 135.
Dr. Pasotti first states that he has attained great spiritual illumination through an energy of blinding “White Light” from the “Godhead of the Life Energy.”
The following prayer was given to Bob for transmission to me, as well as for himself:
“Buried with that Light in a mystical death, rising again in a mystical resurrection, cleansed and purified through him our Master, O brother of the Cross of the Rose. Like him, Adepts of all ages, have ye toiled. Like him have ye suffered tribulation. Poverty, torture and death have ye passed through. They have been but the purification of the gold. In the alembic of thine heart, through the athanor of affliction, seek thou the True Stone of the Wise.”
Dr. Katz: THAT IS ALL!!
Appendix:
(A)
Dr. Katz: Do you think reincarnation of the life energy is possible?
Dr. Fossum (Medical Orgonomist): I think there may be a rational core to that idea.
(B)
See the work of Dr. Richard Blasband, former President of the American College of Orgonomy, and now Director of Research for The Center for Functional Research. See also, Dr. Katz’s interview with Dr. Blasband on his blogtalkradio show “Philosopher Vortex.” Dr. Blasband gives the natural scientific basis for the survival after “death” of the various spiritual energy bodies, and the process of reincarnation. This show is one hour in duration, and can be found in the archives section of the web site of the show.
(C)
The key finding is that orgone energy is negentropic. Mechanical atomic matter is too frozen to transmigrate. – Dr. Katz
(D)
“Who knows for sure if the orgone doesn’t keep an individual consciousness after death and can flow again into a new living body?” – “Spirituality and Orgonomy”” by Medical Orgonomist Dorothea Fuckert, M.D., in ANNALS OF THE INSTITUTE OF ORGONOMIC SCIENCE, pages 91-104 (December 2005). This is a journal put out by THE INSTITUTE FOR ORGONOMIC SCIENCE. This group split off from the American College of Orgonomy in 1982.
(E)
“A new religion of life will arise, based on knowledge of life energy.” – Wilhelm Reich in the book “American Odyssey – Letters and Journals 1940-1947,” page 360 (N.Y., FS&G, 1999).
(F)
“We find the position of the living in the thousands-of-years-old doctrines of the founders of the great Asiatic religions, Hinduism and Brahminism, certainly in the origins of the Christian religion, and the first beginnings of natural-scientific thinking in ancient times [Dr. Katz: Pre-Socratics] – Wilhelm Reich in the book “Ether, God and Devil,” page 14, original Orgone Institute Press edition translated by Myron Sharaf, copy annotated by Dr. Robert N. Pasotti.
(G)
“CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION HAVE NOT BEEN YET. THEY ARE JUST BEGINNING TO ENTER THE SOCIAL SCENE. IT IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE CHRONIC MURDER OF CHRIST.” – Wilhelm Reich in the book “The Murder of Christ,” page 223 (N.Y., Noonday Press, 1971).
