Facing down a huge topic that they have been wanting to talk about on Vayse for years, Hine and Buckley enlist integrative therapist Dan Lowe, to guide them through the massively dense, often confusing and incredibly weird life and work of Wilhem Reich.

Dan is massively knowledgeable on the subject and gives fascinating insights on Reich and is patient when Hine and Buckley asking him what can only be frustratingly basic questions: What differentiates Reichian therapy from other types of psychotherapy? What is Orgone Energy? What is emotional armouring? Was there a conspiracy against Reich? Did cloud-busting really work?... and what did Kate Bush actually know about Wilhelm Reich anyway...? (Recorded 29 August 2024)

Thanks to Dan for indulging us in asking questions on a subject that we know next to nothing about and thanks as always to Keith for the show notes - give the man a follow: @peakflow.bsky.social

Dan Lowe online

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Hine’s Intro

Cloudbuster - Wikipedia
Orgone - Wikipedia
Wilhelm Reich - Wikipedia
Integrative psychotherapy - Wikipedia
The Life and Ideas of Wilhelm Reich with Dan Lowe - What Magic Is This? podcast
Who Was Wilhelm Reich? The Theory and Practice of Reichian Therapy with Dan Lowe - Acid Horizon podcast
Reichian Therapy, Character Armor, and Christ with Dan Lowe - Hermetix podcast

Vayse to Face with Dan Lowe

Robert Anton Wilson - Wikipedia
The Mass Psychology of Fascism - Wikipedia
The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich - Goodreads
Cosmic Trigger #2 - Down to Earth by Robert Anton Wilson - Goodreads
Reichian therapy - Wikipedia
Health Touch (Dierdre Gough) website
Sigmund Freud - Wikipedia
Character structures: what are the 5 Reichian character defense patterns? - Body Mind Assessment
Body psychotherapy - Wikipedia
Character Analysis - Wikipedia
Character Analysis by Wilhelm Reich - Goodreads
Reich’s Segmental Armouring Theory - Energetics Institute
Mind-body (Cartesian) dualism - Wikipedia
Fury On Earth: A Biography Of Wilhelm Reich by Myron R. Sharaf - Goodreads
Function of the Orgasm by Wilhelm Reich - Goodreads
Orgasmatron scene from Sleeper - YouTube
Prana - Wikipedia
Qi - Wikipedia
Pranayama - Wikipedia
Chakra - Wikipedia
Monroe Institute website
Robert Monroe - Wikipedia
Syncretism - Wikipedia
Wilhelm Reich, Biologist by James E. Strick - Goodreads
Satanic panic - Wikipedia
What an Accumulator Is, and How to Make and Use One - Orgone.org
Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War by James Edward Martin - Goodreads
Orgone Lab - James DeMeo’s Research Website
The Orgone Accumulator Handbook: Wilhelm Reich's Life-Energy Discoveries and Healing Tools for the 21st Century, with Construction Plans by James DeMeo - Goodreads
Claims that former US military project is being used to manipulate the weather are “nonsense” - RMIT
Right-Wing Influencers Claim ‘They’ Defeated Physics, Geoengineered Hurricane Milton - Wired
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting video
Barbarella (1968), the Excessive-Pleasure Machine and Durand Durand - YouTube
Wilhelm Reich and UFOs (article by Peter Robbins) - StudyLib
Contact With Space: Oranur second report, 1951-1956. Orop desert Ea, 1954-1955 by Wilhelm Reich - Goodreads
Gestalt therapy - Wikipedia
Stanislav Grof website
Holotropic Breathing: A Complete Guide to Techniques and Practice - Primal Trust
Lowen Foundation website
Human Potential Movement - Wikipedia
Sexual revolution - Wikipedia
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism - Wikipedia
W.R. - Mysteries of the Organism TRAILER - YouTube
A.S. Neill Summerhill School website
The Institute for Orgonomic Science website

Dan’s Recommendations

Billy Woods (& Kenny Segal) - Maps (2023) full album - YouTube
JPEGMafia - I Lay Down My Life For You (2024) full album - YouTube
Summerhill TV Series (feature-length film) - YouTube
Listen, Little Man! By Wilhelm Reich - Goodreads
Emotional Armoring : An Introduction to Psychiatric Orgone Therapy by Morton Herskowitz - Goodreads
Peter Jones - Wilhelm Reich and Forbidden Science - Legalise Freedom

Buckley’s Closing Questions

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (1985) full album - YouTube
Hounds of Love Reissue - The Baskerville Edition Unboxing Video
A Book of Dreams by Peter Reich - Goodreads
Duran Duran - Electric Barbarella (Official Music Video)

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