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I knew that the key to my mission was the life force that Reich had called orgone energy but that I had discovered was not energy but a more fundamental substratum of nature than energy. I would come to call it the radix, and call the creative process in nature the radix process. So my mission became to study and write of the radix and the radix process.

     In living the years of my life I took many detours and side-tracks. I had to earn a livelihood. There were four children. An organization founded to help in my work was a help for some years, but grew to be a burden. And there was physical illness and injury to cope with. But with Hercu-lean support in all these things from my partner Erica, I succeeded in focussing on my mission long enough and deeply enough to bring together in these last years the core, the essence of what I learned in one book, completed now in manuscript. The main purpose of this letter is to tell you about the book in some detail, and to ask some of you who may be able and willing to help me in the next step.

    Information about The New Book takes up the first section of the newsletter. Several Radix and Reichian items comprise the rest. Topics covered by this Newsletter are:

• · About the New Book, p.1
• Table of Contents, pp. 2,3 & 4
• Evaluation by Advance Readers, p. 5
• The Marketing Problem, p. 5 ·
• Reich's Centennial, p. 6 ·
• BOP (Body Oriented Psychology), p. 6 ·
• Myron Sharaf Dies, p. 6 ·
• Trying to Heal the Rift in Radix, p. 7 ·
• Kelley Publications on Religion, p. 7 ·
• Radix Work with Psychotherapy Clients and with the Public, p. 7 ·
• My Dream, p. 8 ·
• Personal Information, p. 8

     About the New Book The tentative title is LIFE FORCE: The Creative Process in Nature. The book is in three parts. Part One describes the years I spent with Reich's orgonomy before and after his death. These years were the foundation of all that followed. Reich pioneered the concept of a life force -- his "orgone" -- that was real, natural, and central to the scientific understanding of mind and body, psychology and physics. Part Two is the core of the book. The correction of two errors at the heart of Reich's work opened my way to discovery of the radix process and the rush of other extraordinary discoveries about the life force which followed. The final chapters deal with a few of the many applications of these discoveries, including physical applications, freeing blocked feelings, developing human purpose, the evolution of the individual and of our species toward autonomy, and the convergence of science and religion toward a unified view.

FOREWORD by Alice Kahn Ladas, Ed.D.

• Chapter 1.     Introduction
• Need for integration of scientific and religious outlooks; my early influences; the wonderful and the terrible in Reich's discoveries; the life force as a unifying concept.

PART 1. CALL THE FORCE "ORGONE":
The World of Wilhelm Reich

• Chapter 2.     Wilhelm Reich and the Orgone
• Muscular Armor
• The Life Force -- Reich's "Orgone"
• Meeting Reich
• The Reichians
• Sex and the Reichians
      The Genital Character Concept
• Premonition of Trouble: The FDA
• The Orgone Energy Accumulator
• Early Weather Experiments
• The Writings
• Religion and the Reichians
• Chapter 3.     Life Force and Death Force
• Reich's Deadly ORgone (DOR)
• The Hurricane
• The Persecution and Death of Reich
        The FDA Attack: 1) Bookburning by the U.S.A.; 2) Reich's Death
• Chapter 4.    Rainmaking and Deadly Orgone
• Rainmaking
• DOR in Westport
• Evidence of a Life Force

• Chapter 5.     Experiments with the Orgone
• Some Experiments with Orgone Energy
     The orgone energy field meter; dark room experiments;
     daylight observations; conduction by gas discharge tubes;
     a plant growth experiment; a gravity experiment;
     experimental results: a summary
• Chapter 6.    Ending My Reichian Period
• The Properties of Orgone Energy
• The Guarding Function
• The End of My Reichian Period ..../Part 2

• Chapter 7.    Why Human Beings are Armored
• Ayn Rand and the Armored Character
• Ribot and Voluntary Attention
• Towards a New Program of Personal Growth

• Chapter 8.    The Origin of Consciousness and of Physical Energy
• Orgasm Formula
• "Orgone Energy" and "Negative Entropy"
• Pulsation, Charge and Discharge
• Radix Metabolism
• The Radix Process
• Creation and the First Two Laws of Thermodynamics
• Chapter 9.     Self, Source and Superimposition
• Self and Source
• Centering and Radix Vision
• Center and Self
• Individual and Universal
• Superimposition
• Chapter 10.    The Algebra of the Creative Process
• Individuation
• The Radix Algebra of the Feelings
• Applications of Radix Algebra
• Chapter 11.    Metaphysics and Radix
• The Creative Process in Nature: A Radix Creation Myth
• Chapter 12.    Physical Science and the Creative Process
• Before Radix Discharge
    Cosmic sources; creation and cosmology;
    continuous creation (steady state) theories;   
    Reich's steady-state theory; radix charge and the measurement problem
• Radix Discharge
• Energy
• Energy and Antithesis
• Motion and Time
    Space and radix charge; speculations about space, mass and gravity;
    radix potpourri; gravity, inertia and the derivative shift;
    radix convergence and matter; physical applications
• Chapter 12a........    (Possible added chapter which may be inserted here.)
  Radix Technological Applications  
• Principles of radix technology
• Manipulating radix charge
    pyramids and cones
    acupunture         
    Mesmer's "bacquet"
    Reichenbach's magnets and crystals
    Reich's ORACs
    Reich's cloudbuster
• The Radix Charge of Living Places
• Technology in the Future

• Chapter 13.   Opening the Feelings
• Caveat
• Opening the Feelings
    The "anger" structure; the "fear" structure; the "pain" structure;
    an example Radix Feelng Work session;
    long range effects of feeling work
• A Short History of Radix Feeling Work
• The Path Toward Eaglehood

• Chapter 14.   Self-Awareness and Self-Control
• Confrontation Encounter
• Bar-Levav Work (Crisis Mobilization Therapy)
• Chapter 15.    The Balance of Feeling and Thinking
• The Co-Confidant Technique
• Feelings, Memories and "Recovered Memories"
• Objectivism and Nathaniel Branden
      Attitudes and values; concepts; techniques
• Chapter 16.   Autonomy
• Three Stages of Purpose
• The Individual Stage of Purpose
• The Autonomous Individual
• Autonomy and Selfishness
• Autonomy and Armor
• Autonomy and Government
• Chapter 17.    The Coming Together of Science and Religion
• The Origin of Spiritualistic Thought
• Science and the Rise of Scientism
• Irrationality of Belief and the Cruelty Required to Sustain It
• The Radix of Spiritualism and Scientism
• The Quiet Millions
• Animism and the Nature of Consciousness
• Religion and Personal Growth
• A Personal Religious View

Evaluation by Advance Readers
     How well does the book succeed in dealing with its difficult subject matter? I asked half a dozen people if they would read and candidly appraise the manuscript. Here are some of their comments:

A wonderful book! Well presented, well done. A wealth of knowledge of the life force, human development, and the creative growth process.
The book is, pedantic nit-picking and general nonsense aside, simply beautiful....I am pleased and deeply grateful that you have pushed on with your work....It just may, in time, make a positive difference in the quality of life here on earth.
Your work is most impressive. I admire your originality as a scientific thinker, and the clear expression of your ideas....
I very much enjoyed your book. Very powerful stuff....It hangs together well.
The reader is in for a wonderful experience, possibly overwhelming; I think this book will be the definitive one on the life force for many years to come.

So I'm encouraged.

The Marketing Problem
      So the book is written, and those who've read it are highly enthusiastic, as their remarks show. But there is a marketing problem I haven't solved. I haven't been able to get an agent or publisher to actually read the book. The standard initial approach for an author needing a publisher or agent for his book is to send a query letter and a packet with an outline, author bio, and sample chapter. I've sent such a packet to four carefully chosen agents. All read and returned my query materials. None asked to receive and examine the manuscript. One was kind enough to sit down and tell me why she chose not to consider adding my book to her list. Her comments and the letters and phone calls to the others reflect the marketing problem the book faces.

     The problem I see is that there is not a clear well defined audience for the book. It does not fit in the usual book categories. Look at the outline. Should it be classed as Science? Religion? Psychology? Self-improvement? Philosophy? It has important ramifications for each of these subjects, but doesn't fit comfortably in any of them. Yet it has a clear and well-defined subject matter, an integrity and unity of theme. The problem is that it cuts across traditional subject matter. Every chapter contributes to the understanding of the life force. That is the book's red thread. Anyone who reads it thoughtfully will come to understand this force as few have understood it. It answers questions never answered before about mind and body, spirituality and science, the nature of individual personal growth and its relation to the direction of human evolution. It deals with the process responsible for the creation of the universe, with God and of the individual human soul, anchoring these difficult abstractions in one real natural and knowable process.

     But all this is too much. The "too muchness" experienced by Reich and by me is the same. Working directly and carefully with the life force opens too much knowledge. Discoveries pour out. It's overwhelming, so much that it's easy to lose one's bearings.

     Reich opened the Pandora's box of knowledge of the life force, but he made crucial mistakes that kept him from quite grasping that to which he came so near. "Orgone energy" was not what Reich thought it was. He came very close. Now the mistakes are made clear. The ultimate mysteries are unfolding. But one needs to grasp the radix process to make them unfold. That is what the book is about!

     In any case, the first step is to get a good publisher for the book. I'm writing letters, making calls, looking for my publisher. If you can help, please let me hear from you.

Reich's Centennial
The year 1997 marked the 100th anniversary of Reich's birth and the 40th of his death. There is a worldwide groundswell of interest in Reich, both his scientific work and Reichian and neo-Reichian therapy and bodywork. Interest is most intense in Germany and German-speaking Europe, is strong and growing in the US and Latin America, and is building elsewhere (Canada, Australia). Reich's publications are available or becoming available in all the major European languages (and in others I'm told) in authorized and unauthorized editions. Reich's copyrights are progressively running out now, encouraging unofficial editions of his work. I don't think many publishers realize the scope, intensity, and fast-growing world-wide interest there is in Reich's work today.

BOP (Body Oriented Psychotherapy)
      One manifestation of this interest is the burgeoning worldwide of the new field of Body Oriented Psychotherapy. (It could be called Reichian psychotherapy.) In the past 2½ years there has been an international conference in San Francisco, another a few months later near Boston, and a European Body Psychotherapy conference honoring Reich's centennial last year in Austria. Erica and I were sponsored to make presentations at all of these conferences. These were major conferences, attended by hundreds of people. There were more than 700 attending last year's European conference in Austria. Major conferences this year (1998) will include the First Annual Conference of the newly formed US Association for Body Psychotherapy in Boulder, Colorado in June, and the newly formed German Association for Body Psychotherapy the same month in Berlin. A major international one was just announced early next year near Mexico City.

     At the same time, programs and meetings dealing with Reich's scientific work proliferate. The American College of Orgonomy in New Jersey, Jim DeMeo's Orgone Biophysical Research Lab in Ashland, Oregon, and the Reich Museum in Orgonon, Maine are main focusses of Reichian scientific activity in the US. Germany has for years had active Reichian scientific groups.

     The deep currents that Reich's work taps into are those feeding the new scientific paradigm that the finest "new age" writers express. Reich is the main prophet of the new paradigm. I like to think that my work makes a major contribution. There are many others -- Rupert Sheldrake, Larry Dossey, the Institute for the Noetic Sciences, and the Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, to name just a few.

Myron (Mickey) Sharaf Dies
Last year's European Reich anniversary conference on Body Psychotherapy took place in Austria, at a resort near Vienna in May. Well planned and well attended, people were there from around the world. It was an honor and a privilige to be invited there along with Myron Sharaf to present at the conference. He was his usual witty self, perhaps looking a little tired, but that's all. Many of us septogenarians don't bounce around the world quite as jauntily as we once did.

      I met Myron In Orgonon in the early '50's, in the years after the Oranur Experiment and the onset of the attack on Reich by the FDA. We encountered each other again and again in the years after at Reich meetings, and at Radix conferences when we could get him to speak and do demonstrations of his work. It was always great to see him again. But lunch together in Austria was to be the last time. He went from Austria to Berlin, where he gave a workshop, in the midst of which, and without warning, he died!

      He will be remembered as the author of FURY ON EARTH, the remarkable, the definitive biography of Reich. It is a book that will live, along with Reich's own, for generations. But let me say a few things about Myron drawn from my own experi-ence, entirely apart from his magnum opus.

     Reich's last years and the decades that followed abounded with sectarian animosities and jealousies. Many of these reflected the belief of certain Reichian groups that their group was the true and rightful heir to Reich's knowledge, and all others were imposters, misunderstanding and distorting the wisdom of Reich. Groups attacked each other, disparaged each other's character and motives, sued and threatened law suits. Many quit trying to develop and explore Reich's ideas because of the unremitting hostility their efforts were met with.

     But one person who was able to stay in the center of that cauldron of animosity without ever losing his perspective or his balance was Myron Sharaf. He earned the respect of every Reichian who retained a speck of rationality, and stayed on good terms with Baker and his followers in medical Orgonomy, Lowen and Pierrakos in Bioenergetics, Paul Ritter and David Boadella in England, with Ritter's Orgonomic Functionalism and Boadella's Energy and Character, Reich's family (Peter and Eva) and any number of others, around the world. Myron's articles and presentations were models of judgement, balance, and intelligence, not to mention wit and good humor, in a field where such qualities were rare and badly needed.

      They are still badly needed. Mickey, you died too soon. We need you now! Since we can't have you any longer, we can only say thanks for all you gave us. It is a magnificent gift!

Trying to Heal the Rift in Radix
     The rift that developed after my retirement I described in The Making of Chickens and of Eagles. It still dogs the profession of Radix teaching and hurts its growth, even though Bill Thrash (who succeeded me as Director of the Institute in 1986) has been out as Director for three years. A new rotating committee form of management now runs the Institute.

     A representative of the new management and I are entering into dialog to explore whether it may be possible to develop a more harmonious relationship between us. Wish us luck!

Kelley Publications on Religion
I have written several sermons and some other publications in recent years on aspects of religion and the life force. Many appear on our list of publications. This year I have been asked to give the 4th of July weekend sermon at our Unitarian church, and it will no doubt be added to the list. Its title will be Liberty, Liberalism and Libertarianism. In time there may be enough of my writing on religious topics to consider bringing it together as a small book.

Radix Work with Psychotherapy Clients and with the Public
     I am not a psychotherapist, and Radix work is not psychotherapy but body-oriented personal growth work. I refer inquirers in search of psychotherapy to appropriate professionals for treatment. Nonetheless doing Radix bodywork with psychotherapy clients of mental health professionals has always been an interes-ting and satisfying part of my practise. People undergoing psychotherapy for a mental illness or disturbance often have patterns of tension in their bodies, muscular armor that blocks feelings and interferes with thinking. Radix work can free such tensions and make a client much more accessible to verbal psychotherapy. I like working in close partnership with a psychiatrist when a client has serious mental health disturbances.

     Of course, most Radix work is not done in association with psychotherapy, but directly with clients who enter the work as an avenue of personal growth. Both Erica and I see regular local clients, and out-of-towners who come in for programs of concentrated work, e.g., two sessions per day for a week or more. With the book winding down, Erica and I will be able to handle a few more clients for ongoing work. I recommend other prospective students to Radix teachers who display a Certificate of Radix Training that is signed by me. There are approximately 150 Radix teachers throughout the world who have earned such Certificates. Training toward such a Certificate is available at present only by personal arrangement with me.

My Dream
     I have a few good working years left to me, and I have a dream. I wish I could spend these years in physical research and applications of the life force. I learned from personal experience that Reich's cloudbusters and orgone accumulators work, that the oranur effect from placing radioactive material in orgone accumula-tors is real and devastating, as is DOR, Reich's deadly orgone. At the end of his life Reich was experimenting with the creation of new matter, with orene, orite, and melanor, forms of new matter born in Reich's experiments. But there were important errors in Reich's physics of the life force, which I began to correct when I discovered the radix process. The dis-covery opens new portals to understanding and using the life force. Once knowledge of the radix process is understood and applied, physical science will never be the same. But research and development is needed to put the discovery to work.

     In my dream I suddenly have $100,000 to equip a small laboratory, and know that I'll have close to that each year for staff. I have a technician, a half-time secretary, and funds for scientific consultants as needed. I'm devoting half time to the work. We focus on radix instruments and devices, and applications of the radix process. I'm on the road to new discovery, and I'm excited. That is my dream!

Personal Information
      I should tell those who haven't heard that in July 1995 I got hurt when an oxygen tank was dropped on my upper back by an attendant during a Delta Airlines flight. It fractured a vertebra in my neck. It didn't damage the spinal cord, but it affected my functioning in subtle ways -- I couldn't concentrate well; writing (I write in long-hand) was physically painful, and the injury exacerbated my rheumatoid arthritis. It turned out the nature of the fracture was such that it would never heal. My work was affected enough that I lost a full two years toward finishing the book. I'm thankful I recovered enough to finish it.

     I'll close with family news. Erica and I still live in Steamboat Landing, a small development on the shore of the Columbia River. I write most days, and Erica and I both teach a light schedule of Radix work. And we row in and walk along the river, and enjoy Erica's garden and the beautiful spring weather. The four "children" (all in their thirties) all live in the Pacific North-west now. Oldest son Tim lives 3 hours north, in Seattle, the others no more than 30 minutes away. Youngest grandson Rhune, son of Eric and Janene, is a year and a half old and is, of course, "remar-kable," as grandchildren are supposed to be, and as are the other two grandchildren, Sarah and Brendan, Rhune's teenaged cousins.

     Erica and I are both active in our local Unitarian Church. She heads the music committee, and I do occasional sermons, some of which are available in print, as I said above.

     So that's it, after 5 years. I hope that it gets us back in touch!

     All the best to each of you.

CHUCK KELLEY

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PUBLICATIONS and TAPES BY CHARLES R. KELLEY, Ph.D. (order below)
__ THE CONVERGENCE OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION, monograph 1996, $3 $_______
__ THE BIRTH OF AUTONOMY, monograph 1995, $3......... $_______
__ NOW I REMEMBER: Recovered Memories of Sexual Abuse,
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__ SEX AND RELIGION, monograph 1992, $3 $_______
__ RELIGION AND PERSONAL GROWTH, monograph 1991, $3. $_______
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__ PERSONAL GROWTH AND PSYCHOTHERAPY IN RADIX WORK, monograph 1991. $3 $_______
__ BODY CONTACT IN RADIX WORK, monograph 1988. $5 $_______
__ Reich and Radix: A Memoir, reprinted from Pilgrimage, X (1), Spring 1982. $5 $_______
__ Radix as an Adjunct to the Treatment of Cancer, reprinted from The Radix
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__ What Is Orgone Energy? reprinted from The Creative Process, II (2 & 3), 1962. $5 $_______
__ A NEW METHOD OF WEATHER CONTROL, Technical Report, 1961. Free to members
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__ THE RADIX, VOLUMES I AND II. Comprehensive collections of articles on Radix personal growth
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      Spanish language edition, 1 perfectbound paperback, $45................................................$_______
      English language limited edition, 2-volume set, $90 ........................................................$_______

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