PREFACING NOTE:

Emergency Appeal for Donations Toward Saharasia Reprinting

The OBRL-Quarterly #11 Newsletter, reproduced below, is being sent out a second time, with an emergency appeal to those who have supported and benefited from orgonomy, and from my own work in particular over the years.

Just recently, the first edition printing of my book Saharasia has sold out, and a second-edition printing is now at the printer, to be available in around a month.  The new edition will have an added "Preface to the Revised Second Edition" as well as a new Appendix "Update on Saharasia", with some small changes here and there which adds to the overall documentation.  You can review the new Preface and Update Appendix here:

http://www.orgonelab.org/update.htm

The first edition of Saharasia was funded in large measure by generous donors who knew about my work, about the Saharasia discovery, and supported it.  Proceeds from the sale of Saharasia thereafter were donated by myself to OBRL - the Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory - as a means to fund orgonomic research and educational work carried out by OBRL.  Proceeds from the sale of this second printing will also be donated to OBRL, but the costs are around $12,000, and will tax our available funds dramatically.  One donor has already provided $1000 towards this expense, and so we are looking for others who might similarly assist with this important 2nd edition.  Already, the first edition is being used as a university textbook and has stimulated many side articles and book chapters, bringing Wilhelm Reich's prior foundational work into open discussion within circles where previously it was either unknown or ill-considered. The independent cross-cultural and archaeological/historical support for Reich's findings as provided in my Saharasia, is exceptional.

I am therefore asking for outright donations to OBRL to help finance the second printing of Saharasia, as well as issuing a call for pre-publication sales of the second edition.  The price will increase from the current $34 to $39, but for those who pre-purchase, we will offer it at the original first-edition price of $34, plus shipping.

To donate to OBRL, please go to this website, and at the shopping cart page you can leave a comment "for publication of Saharasia" in the appropriate box during check-out.

http://www.orgonelab.org/donation

You can also review our larger Winter 2005-2006 Funding Letter near the bottom of this email, or at this webpage, with many interesting photographs:

http://www.orgonelab.org/funding

To pre-purchase Saharasia, please go to this webpage:

http://www.orgonelab.org/cart/xdemeo.htm

Be sure to leave us a note in the comment-instructions saying "prepayment for second edition", as this is a special offer being made only to the subscribers of OBRL-News and OBRL-Quarterly.

We also offer quantity discounts for multiple-copy purchases of this book, for book resellers, or simply for those who want to give copies as gifts. Ask me for more information, if desired.

We expect to have copies of the book in-hand and ready to ship by late February.

Thanks again for your support,

Sincerely,

James DeMeo, Ph.D.

Director, OBRL

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This is the infrequent, Quarterly version of the OBRL-News-Bulletin,

from the Orgone Biophysical Research Lab (OBRL) in Ashland, Oregon, USA.

Please responsibly re-post and distribute to other interested persons, groups and websites.

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The OBRL Greensprings Seminars will take place as usual during Summer of 2006, according to the following preliminary determination:

        * Open House and Social Gathering, on July 28, just before our events get underway.

        * July 29-30: Seminar on Saharasia: Origins of Violence, Emotional Armoring and Patriarchy

        * August 5-6: The Orgone Energy Accumulator: Construction, Experimental Use, Orgone Physics

        * August 12-13: Seminar on Drought, Desert and Atmospheric Bio-Energetics

        * Guided Independent Study program

        * Friday Evening Lectures just before each Weekend Seminar

        http://www.orgonelab.org/events

The Conference on New Research in Orgonomy, held at the OBRL Greensprings Center in Ashland, Oregon on August 6-7 of 2005, will be repeated in Summer 2007 at a date and location to be announced.  By consensus among the researchers, these events will take place approximately every two years.  In the meantime, the booklet of Abstracts for the 2005 Conference is still available for free download:

        http://www.orgonelab.org/Abstracts2005.pdf

* "Experimental Comparison of the Reich Orgone Energy Blanket with the 'MediScen' Plastic-Foil Energy Blanket". Internet Posting Only: http://www.orgonelab.org/energyblanket.htm

* "Peaceful Versus Warlike Societies in Pre-Columbian America and Elsewhere: What Does Archaeology and Anthropology Tell Us?" Abstract in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division, 86th Annual Meeting, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, 12-15 June 2005, p.52. Full paper to appear shortly in: Unlearning the Language of Conquest, Scholars Expose Anti-Indianism in America, Four Arrows, Editor, Univ. Texas Press, 2006.  Pre-Publication announcement: http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/jacunl.html

* "A 5-Year Desert Greening Project in Eritrea, Africa", and "New Observations on Spontaneous Heat Production Inside the Reich Orgone Energy Accumulator", Conference on New Research in Orgonomy, Orgone Biophysical Research Lab, Ashland, Oregon, 6-7 Aug. 2005. Abstracts published here: http://www.orgonelab.org/Abstracts2005.pdf

Current research at OBRL includes continued work on around-the-clock automated To-T measurements, for the thermal anomaly in the orgone energy accumulator.  This work has proceeded over the last several years, which not only confirmed the anomaly but led to a better understanding of the classical thermodynamic properties of the overall experiment.  At present, measurements have moved into an underground chamber, for shielding of background infra-red radiation, which had shown the ability to create warming effects inside control enclosures.  The preliminary results are positive, showing a near-constant +0.3 deg. C. To-T in the underground chamber, with episodic peaking upwards of 5 (five!) full degrees.  The thermal anomaly continues to oppose classical thermodynamic expectations, and efforts continue upon controlling for known physical explanations, to make the experiment as "bullet-proof" as possible.  An "Update" talk on this experiment was given at the recent Summer 2005 Conference on New Research in Orgonomy, and the overall experiment will be demonstrated to students at the 2006 OBRL Summer Seminars.

If you haven't taken a look at our on-line bookstore catalog, maintained by Natural Energy Works, please do so:

        http://www.naturalenergyworks.net

Our offerings include many new books and DVDs, all on solid non-mainstream scientific subjects, as well as the continual offering of works by Wilhelm Reich, James DeMeo, and others in the field of orgonomy.  Many new meters and measuring devices, including the new Experimental Life-Energy Meter (a solid-state version of Reich's original orgone energy field meter), a pocket microwave/EMF alarm, simple astronomy tools such as the Solarscope and Planetica (sorry, you'll have to review the website to find out what they are) and a line of beautiful 100% wool blankets in Native American and Scandinavian-Viking designs, for making really fantastic orgone blankets, and much more.  Purchase your items from our web-store and help keep our work moving forward.

Our fund-raising letter is attached at the bottom of this email Newsletter.  Please respond as best as you are able, and thank you in advance. You can view the same fund-raising letter with color photos at this webpage:

        http://www.orgonelab.org/funding.htm

If you received this email, then you are on our general private e-list which is gathered from correspondence and requests sent to our facility.  If you wish to continue getting OBRL-Quarterly, we ask that you transfer your email to our OBRL-Quarterly list at Yahoo Groups, which makes it a lot easier for us to send out these notices.  To do this, simply go to the OBRL homepage, scroll down to near the bottom, and enter your email into the proper box for OBRL-Quarterly at Yahoo Groups -- or simply reply back to this email asking to have your email address changed over, and we will do it for you.  We do not share our mailing lists with anyone.

If you got on our list by accident, our apologies -- just reply back to this email address with the command "Unsubscribe" in the subject or text area.  Our email address is a good one, and we immediately honor all such requests.

Finally, a big thanks and appreciation to all the people who have supported OBRL and James DeMeo's work over these many years.

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2005-2006

Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory (OBRL)

Greensprings Center

PO Box 1148, Ashland, Oregon 97520 USA

tel/fax: 541-552-0118

demeo(at)mind.net

Dear Friend of Orgonomy, and of OBRL,

Twenty-eight years ago, I founded the Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory (OBRL) as a means to support my research into Wilhelm Reich's orgone biophysical and sociological discoveries.   Since then, OBRL has grown into a major center for orgonomic research and education, relying upon sales of our publications, and the generosity of sympathetic donors.

As participants at past OBRL Seminars, readers of our publications (Pulse of the Planet, Heretic's Notebook, Saharasia, Orgone Accumulator Handbook) and subscribers to the OBRL-News internet postings, you are familiar with my own research, as well as the OBRL circle of informal associates, including laboratory findings, desert-greening field work, and educational efforts aimed at maintaining clarity and furthering Reich's work.

Over many years, I have personally maintained an emphasis upon bringing my own research findings which support Reich, into mainstream university conferences and scientific scholarly society meetings, such as the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science). Over the last five years, an especially focused effort has been made in this regard, resulting in many presentations of even the controversial orgone energy and cloudbusting work into mainstream scientific venues, with numerous invited articles as a consequence. This sustained effort has melted down at least some of the mainstream resistance to orgonomic research, and continued efforts are underway.

More details on my overall approach to this important work, and the role of OBRL within contemporary orgonomic research, our relationship to other research scientists in this field, can be obtained from the following summaries:

- An in-depth "OBRL Progress Report" from a few years ago appears in Pulse of the Planet #5, p.251-257, and all the back issues of Pulse provide excellent overviews:

        http://www.orgonelab.org/cart/xpulse.htm

- A Report on one of our past year's Summer Seminars is also now posted to internet:

        http://www.orgonelab.org/Summer2003.htm

- A Booklet of Abstracts is also available for the 2005 Summer Conference on New Research in Orgonomy:

        http://www.orgonelab.org/Abstracts2005.pdf

- And our Summer 2006 Greensprings Seminars are also set and detailed:

        http://www.orgonelab.org/events.htm

All of this important work, our seminars and publications, as well as the maintenance and development of OBRL offices and website, requires substantial resources, and our future work plans are as ambitious as anything accomplished in the past.

We request that you, as a valued participant in our efforts, please consider sending a financial contribution.  Your donation will help us continue with this vitally important work and our  innovative services, which include the following:

* Laboratory Studies on the Orgone Energy. The current focus is upon the Orgone Accumulator Thermal Anomaly - readings of a nearly constant 0.3 deg C. with anomalous spikes of up to 5 full degrees C., have been recorded.

http://www.orgonelab.org/research.htm

* Historical and Analytical Research, on the subject of "Ether-Drift" research since the 1900s, including the work of Dayton Miller, and their relationship to the findings of Reich and others on cosmic orgone energy, and planetary/atmospheric dynamics.

http://www.orgonelab.org/miller.htm

http://www.orgonelab.org/DynamicEther.pdf

* Field Research with the Reich Cloudbuster. Reich's atmospheric discoveries have been cautiously and productively applied to end severe droughts in the American Southwest, Namibia, Israel, and Eritrea.  This work is only possible with significant help from donors.

http://www.orgonelab.org/PressRelease2.htm

* Archaeological and Historical Research on Saharasia, Peaceful Societies and the "Origins of Violence" question.

http://www.orgonelab.org/PressRelease1.htm

http://www.orgonelab.org/update.htm

*  The On-Line Bibliography on Orgonomy (1920 to the present) posted to the OBRL web site, available globally without charge.

http://www.orgonelab.org/bibliog.htm

*  Video/DVD Archives. An effort is now underway to preserve our considerable archives of videotaped lectures and documentation of field expeditions and laboratory work  onto digital DVD, for permanent archival and safekeeping.

*  Books and Publications, including our in-house journal Pulse of the Planet, continue to spread accurate and timely information supporting Reich's discoveries world-wide.  My new book Greening Deserts is also under organization, along with a second edition of Saharasia, and another issue of Pulse.   http://www.naturalenergyworks.net

*  Greensprings Conference & Seminars. Held every summer at the OBRL Greensprings Center near Ashland, Oregon, since 1996.   In Summer 2005, we made a special new offering, of a Conference on New Research in Orgonomy, with an international list of presenters.

http://www.orgonomyconference.org

For Summer 2006, we have another exciting line-up of seminars:

- Seminar on Saharasia:  The Origins of Violence, Emotional Armoring and Patriarchy

- Seminar on The Orgone Energy Accumulator:  Construction, Experimental Use and Orgone Physics

- Seminar on Drought, Desert and Atmospheric Bio-Energetics

- Guided Independent Study Program in General Orgonomy.

http://www.orgonelab.org/events.htm

*  OBRL-News and OBRL-Quarterly, our free on-line internet newsletters, which circulate our general announcements, as well as many rare and lesser-known items of public interest. To get "plugged in" to our announcements, please subscribe using the links near the bottom of the OBRL homepage:  http://www.orgonelab.org

OBRL needs to meet its financial goals for this fiscal year, while planning ahead for the future. To continue with this important work, we need your support.

Please consider making a donation, by mail, check, or using your credit-card on-line. Donating on-line is a simple and secure method.

To donate right now visit:  http://www.orgonelab.org/donation

Donation checks can also be mailed to OBRL, to the letterhead address.  OBRL is a 501(c)3 status non-profit organization, and your donation is fully tax-deductible. To request more information, or to inquire about making a large gift or bequest, please call, e-mail, or write to us.

Thank you in advance for your support, and I hope you can make it to our summer events.

Sincerely,

James DeMeo, Ph.D.
Director

1. You can access this same fundraising letter with numerous photographs of the OBRL Center and topics of research, online at: http://www.orgonelab.org/funding.htm

2. Due to the high costs of printing and mailing, email is today our primary notification method.  If you have not done so already, and to get "plugged in" to our announcements, please subscribe to OBRL-News or the less-frequent OBRL-Quarterly using the links near the bottom of the OBRL homepage.  http://www.orgonelab.org