#wilhelm reich

[anarchistin]

The fascist mentality is a mentality of the subjugated "little man" who craves authority and rebels against it at the same time.

— Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich

#wilhelm reich #quote #fascism

[singulxarity]

wilhelm at the therapist for the first time : barely forms a sentence

wilhelm at his third visit : heres your fucking beverage. now get a load of this shit

#young royals #wilhelm reich #wilhelm yr #wilhelm #simon eriksson #simon yr #simon #wilmon #wilhelm x simon #edvin ryding #omar rudberg

[sivavakkiyar]

illustrations by William Steig for Wilhelm Reich’s Listen, Little Man!

#William steig #wilhelm Reich #very moving very strange book. kind of a cross between babeuf’s apology and a dr bronner label #if that too paragraph turns you off (I get it) I recommend you stay away lol

[sluttyhaecceities]

"That is why the fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly, and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered: "Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?" How can people possibly reach the point of shouting: "More taxes! Less bread!"? As Reich remarks, the astonishing thing is not that some people steal or that others occasionally go out on strike, but rather that all those who are starving do not steal as a regular practice, and all those who are exploited are not continually out on strike: after centuries of exploitation, why do people still tolerate being humiliated and enslaved, to such a point, indeed, that they actually want humiliation and slavery not only for others but for themselves? Reich is at his profoundest as a thinker when he refuses to accept ignorance or illusion on the part of the masses as an explanation of fascism, and demands an explanation that will take their desires into account, an explanation formulated in terms of desire: no, the masses were not innocent dupes; at a certain point, under a certain set of conditions, they wanted fascism, and it is this perversion of the desire of the masses that needs to be accounted for."

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Page 29)

#anti oedipus #deleuze and guattari #deleuze #guattari #spinoza #wilhelm reich

[mioritic]

"Structure of the [character] armour as a result of the interplay of dynamic forces."

Wilhelm Reich, The Function of the Orgasm. Sex-Economic Problems of Biological Energy (New York City: Bantam Books, 1967)

#my scan #wilhelm reich

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

17th century Hindu painting, a meditation on “the endless dance of energy.”

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“I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner, fix him with a wild, glitt’ring eye and say, “Do you know that in the head of the caterpillar of the ordinary goat moth there are two hundred twenty-eight separate muscles?” The poor wretch flees. I am not making chatter; I mean to change his life.” ― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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“I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.” ― Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!

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“Molecules form and dissolve, returning to the primordial soup of atoms. But consciousness survives the death of the molecules on which it rides. What was once a bundle of energy in a sunbeam turns into a leaf, only to fall and change again into soil. The change of state crosses many boundaries. A sunbeam is invisible, whereas leaves and soil are visible.A leaf is alive and growing,whereas sunbeams aren't.the colors of light, leaf, and soil are different, and so on. But all these transformations exist as constructs of the mind.The actual energy present in the sunbeam experiences no change at all.” ― Deepak Chopra, The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want

#energy #about art #17th century #Hindu painting #quotes #Deepak Chopra #Wilhelm reich #Annie Dillard

[mesutbahtiyarolacak]

“Temelde hayat basittir!!!

İnsan yapısı, sadece yaşama korkusu ile karakterize edildiğinde karmaşıktır. Kendinizi iyi hissettiğinizde ve sevdiğinizde hayati enerjinizi yansıtırsınız; korktuğunuzda vücudunuzun merkezine doğru çekersiniz.”

#wilhelm reich

[nicklloydnow]

“Like it or not, we are all psychoanalysts, amateurs of the mysteries of the heart and the undies, deep-sea divers into horrors. Woe to the mind with a transparent abyss!” - Emil Cioran, ‘All Gall is Divided’ (1952)

#cioran #emil cioran #gall #psychoanalysis #reich #wilhelm reich #orgone #philosophy #pessimism

[spuncle]

i know these songs werent exactly written for this but i cant get it out of my head so heres some extra songs from Kate Bush's Hounds of Love, but examined through the lens of A Book of Dreams by Peter Reich (a book i have.. become kind of obsessed with)

So obviously Cloudbusting was the song that was based on that book, and if you love that song as much as I do, I highly recommend reading the book. It makes the song hit even harder. It has also made me cry a few times lol. But heres a few more songs that I now kinda associate with the book.

Running Up That Hill- The scene where Peter is in the lab, and the FDA comes up and insist to talk to his father. He says they have to make an appointment, and he tries his best to reason with them, but it doesn't work. They drive up to the observatory.

He runs as fast as he can. As fast as those little legs can take him. He is, quite literally, running up that hill. He's desperate. He's terrified.

Aside from the obvious imagery, the "it's you and me" line is one shared by both songs, which I think is fun and interesting and helps tie them together.

Hounds of Love- Towards the end of the book, Peter is an adult and sits in a room with a girl. She tells him he hardly even knows him. He says he's the son of Wilhelm Reich. Something that's been so important to his identity, and he only just realized it. Something that's more important to him than anyone else in the world.

He felt lost. He ran away from meaningful connections because they scared him. Shallow relationships and one night stands were easier.

If you don't know the song, the whole theme is surrounding the feeling of being hunted down by love. It stalks you like prey, catching you off guard. It can be terrifying. To the point of running away from it completely.

The Big Sky- This one is more of a stretch, even to me lol, but I feel like there's something there. Between the cloud imagery, and the near obsession with them, it just reminds me of the book.

The line "you never understood me, you never really tried" really just.. makes me think of that one scene where Peter is in the theater watching The Fly. He feels as if no one understands. No one will understand. People could walk away from that theater, never thinking twice about it. To them it was just a movie. But to him? It was real. It felt so real. And he was surrounded by people who just didn't seem to 'get it'.

I don't have any associations with Mother Stands for Comfort (with this book at least) or the Ninth Wave section, so I will be stopping here :3

Let me know what you think! If it makes sense, if it doesn't, etc. I just love these two things so much that I think my brain kind of connected them together hsjdjfk

Anyways thanks for reading so far <3

#kate bush #hounds of love #cloudbusting #peter reich #wilhelm reich #a book of dreams #rambling #this book is my roman empire #i found out about it through cloudbusting and i fell down a rabbit hole #i am still stuck in the rabbit hole #if im still obsessed with it in a few months i think its safe to say i have a new special interest

[mirroredroads]

David Shrigley, from Instagram. / How Many Blankets are in the World? saintseneca / David Shrigley, from Instagram. / Carol Ann Duffy, from The World’s Wife; “Medusa” / Listen, Little Man! Wilhelm Reich / Natalie Díaz, from “Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?”, Postcolonial Love Poem

#webweave #web weave #anger #love #emotions #david shrigley #saintseneca #wilhelm reich #carol ann duffy #natalie diaz #i just love david shrigley and the study of anger and why we feel it as an emotion

[prettyfreakydeekyhuh]

#orgone #orgonomy #wilhelm reich

[anarchistin]

It was one of the greatest errors in evaluating dictatorship to say that the dictator forces himself on society against its own will.

In reality, every dictator in history was nothing but the accentuation of already existing state ideas which he had only to exaggerate in order to gain power.

— Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism

#fascism #state #patriarchy #quote #wilhelm reich #authoritarianism

[singulxarity]

i love this fandom

#young royals #wilhelm reich #simon eriksson #wilmon #wilhelm x simon #edvin ryding #omar rudberg

[thechembow]

Transmutation Before Rain

Sept. 30, 2023

There are stages of OR clouds that must take place before rain clouds can come in. Wilhelm Reich was frustrated when OR clouds formed over the Arizona desert and evaporated without raining. Had he had more time to try his experiment again as many times as we've gifted orgonite, he would have known that OR clouds always evaporate and the sky clears before rain clouds can form.

This is what happened today, and rain may start tonight or tomorrow morning. Usually it rains here during the night, after a full day of transmutation. We had a 50% chance of rain here today, but none of the clouds were rain clouds. These OR clouds form when DOR transmutes and OR begins to dominate the atmosphere. After the sky clears, rain clouds can come in. It was raining all around us today, but not here where the highest concentration of orgonite is.

We're going to have a cold night, with the temperature dipping down into the mid-30s. Fall has come on fast this year.

#orgone #orgone energy #orgonite #orgonite gifting #wilhelm reich #weather #california #mountains #geo-restoration #clouds

[ma-pi-ma]

Fondamentalmente la vita è semplice.

La complica solo la struttura umana, quando è caratterizzata dalla paura di vivere. Tu proietti la tua energia vitale quando ti senti bene e quando ami; la ritiri verso il centro del tuo corpo quando hai paura.

Wilhelm Reich, da La rivoluzione sessuale

#wilhelm reich

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.” “I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.” “The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary." “Love is the absence of Anxiety.” ~ Wilhem Reich, born 24th March 1897 in Dobzau (which is now in Ukraine)

[Ian Sanders]

#Ian Sanders #Wilhelm Reich #quotes #love #god #primal cosmic energy #anxiety