Wilhelm Reich Versus the Flying Saucers : An American Tragedy
The convenient myth of Wilhelm Reich is that he “lost his mind” in the early 1950s, if not before, and that the last seven years of his life and work — the orgone and radiation experiments, the cloudbuster, and flying saucer intrigues — present an embarrassment. Even the counterculture that embraced...
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Brainstorm Books
2024
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