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OBRL Quarterly
#12, April 2006
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.
Topical
notices below:
1. James DeMeo Lectures
Seminars for 2006
2. "Conference on
New Research in Orgonomy" Will Be Repeated in
2007
3. Piracy of Dr.
DeMeo's publications
4. Letter on DeMeo's
Saharasia in American Scientist magazine
5. Saharasia
Summary Article now available in English, German, Spanish, Greek and
Turkish
6. Forthcoming
publications by
James DeMeo, Director of OBRL
7. Research
Underway
8. The OBRL
Archives
9. New Books and
Products at the OBRL On-Line Bookstore
10. OBRL Winter
2005-2006 Funding Drive
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1. James DeMeo Lectures
& Seminars for 2006.
* Orem,
Utah (near Salt Lake City): 7-10 June 2006.
Dr. DeMeo
is one of the invited presenters at the forthcoming 25th Annual
Meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration. His presentation
will be on "Dayton Miller's Discovery of the Dynamic Ether
Drift". The exact time and date of his presentation is not
yet established. Go to the SSE website
http://www.scientificexploration.org/ for more details and
information closer to the time of the event. Look for the section on
the Conference. Registration is necessary for attendance. Speakers at
the event will also include Dr. Richard Blasband, and the entire
Conference is devoted to unorthodox findings in the natural
sciences.
* Münster,
Germany: 6-8 October 2006.
-- Friday, October 6, Evening Lecture - "Die orgonomischen Forschungen des Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory" ("Orgonomic Research at the Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory").
-- Saturday, October 7, Full-Day Seminar - "Update on Saharasia: Neue Archäologische Erkenntnisse über eine vorzeitliche Periode friedlichen Zusammenlebens und die Implikationen für die moderne Welt" ("Update on Saharasia: New Archaeological Findings on an Ancient Period of Peace, and Implications for the Modern World")
-- Friday, October 6, Evening Lecture - "Die orgonomischen Forschungen des Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory" ("Orgonomic Research at the Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory").
-- Saturday, October 7, Full-Day Seminar - "Update on Saharasia: Neue Archäologische Erkenntnisse über eine vorzeitliche Periode friedlichen Zusammenlebens und die Implikationen für die moderne Welt" ("Update on Saharasia: New Archaeological Findings on an Ancient Period of Peace, and Implications for the Modern World")
-- Sunday, October
8, Full-Day Seminar - "Die Ausdehnung der Wüsten auf dem
Gebiet von Saharasia und ihre Auswirkungen auf das heutige Weltklima,
einschließlich "Global Warming" und El Nino"
("Saharasian Desert Expansion: Influences upon the Modern World
Climate, including Global Warming and El Nino").
* München (Munich), Germany: 13-15 October 2006.
-- Friday, October 13, Evening Lecture - "Die orgonomischen Forschungen des Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory" ("Orgonomic Research at the Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory").
-- Saturday, October 14, Full-Day Seminar - "Update on Saharasia: Neue Archäologische Erkenntnisse über eine vorzeitliche Periode friedlichen Zusammenlebens und die Implikationen für die moderne Welt" ("Update on Saharasia: New Archaeological Findings on an Ancient Period of Peace, and Implications for the Modern World")
-- Sunday, October
15, Full-Day Seminar - "Die Ausdehnung der Wüsten auf dem
Gebiet von Saharasia und ihre Auswirkungen auf das heutige Weltklima,
einschließlich "Global Warming" und El Nino"
("Saharasian Desert Expansion: Influences upon the Modern World
Climate, including Global Warming and El Nino").
Presentations in
Germany will be in English, with German translation provided.
A fee will be charged. More information will be posted to the
following website as it becomes available:
http://www.orgonelab.org/lectures.htm
NOTE:
Due to other pressing work requirements, the usual OBRL Greensprings
Seminars will not be offered this summer, 2006.
2. "Conference on
New Research in Orgonomy" Will Be Repeated in
2007.
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. At present it appears this
event will take place in the UK, on dates which will not conflict with
another excellent conference being offered by the Reich Museum in the
USA. 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:
3. Piracy of Dr.
DeMeo's publications:
In recent days, we have
learned of some pdf versions of Dr. DeMeo's books being sold as
pirated editions on global internet, or being freely distributed.
None of these are authorized, and those who sell or pass them around
do so without permissions of any kind. We are attempting to
track down the offenders, but ask that anyone who notes any of Dr.
DeMeo's publications appearing on global internet as pdf versions to
please let us know about it. Only the materials appearing at the
OBRL website are authorized for free pdf download, and there are no
authorized pdf versions of OBRL publications for sale
anywhere.
4. Letter on DeMeo's
Saharasia in American Scientist magazine:
Some weeks
back, in an announcement on OBRL-News about the 2nd Revised Edition of
Saharasia, I mentioned and reprinted a letter-to-the-editor of the
American Scientist magazine, regarding an article of theirs about
ancient societies deep in the heart of the Sahara Desert:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OBRL-News-Bulletin/message/646
Finally, I learned they printed my letter in the May-June 2006 issue, though a shortened version of it. You can review the short version letter in the printed magazine, or here on the American Scientist website:
Finally, I learned they printed my letter in the May-June 2006 issue, though a shortened version of it. You can review the short version letter in the printed magazine, or here on the American Scientist website:
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/51205
The
Revised 2nd Edition of Saharasia is described and available
here:
http://www.saharasia.org
5. Saharasia
Summary Article now available in English, German, Spanish, Greek and
Turkish.
The article by James
DeMeo "The Origins
and Diffusion of Patrism in Saharasia, c.4000 BCE: Evidence for a
Worldwide, Climate-Linked Geographical Pattern in Human
Behavior", is now available in multiple languages, thanks to
the volunteer efforts of a number of persons who are in our debt.
We are currently seeking a volunteer translators for other world
languages. The article is an excellent introduction to the
findings, and was previously published various
academic-scholarly journals. To access weblinks to these various
translations, visit the "Saharasia" web page recently
constructed:
http://www.saharasia.org
6. Forthcoming
publications by
James DeMeo, Director of OBRL:
Publisher's delays have
stalled the appearance of these works, but they will soon be
released.
*
"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
* "The Saharasian Origins of Patriarchal
Authoritarian Culture", in The Rule of Mars: Readings on
the Origins, History and Impact of Patriarchy, Christina Biaggi,
Editor, Knowledge, Ideas and Trends Publisher, Conn., 2006.
http://www.booktrends.com/social_issues.htm
http://www.goddessmound.com/xpages/subpgbk.html
* A new
DVD is under preparation, covering Dr. DeMeo's field operations with
the cloudbuster, and Natural Energy Works (the OBRL publishing and
distribution house) is also assisting with the English-language
edition of Roberto Maglione's excellent book "The Modification
of Climate", which reviews the subject of cloudbusting from
Reich's work into the modern times.
For
a full listing of Dr. DeMeo's publications since the 1970s,
see:
To purchase
available publications, see here:
7. Research
Underway
* Up through Fall of 2005,
work at OBRL included around-the-clock automated To-T measurements,
for the thermal anomaly in the orgone energy accumulator. This
work started several years ago and continued most recently within an
outdoor shelter with underground chamber, for better experimental
controls. The results as of last Fall indicated a near-constant
+0.3 deg. C. To-T in the underground chamber (the orgone accumulator
was 0.3 degrees warmer than the thermally-matched control enclosure)
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. Unfortunately, the onset of winter was exceptionally
harsh, prompting several equipment failures and so the apparatus was
brought back inside the laboratory building for calibration and
testing. Our plan is, with the onset of spring and summer, to
replace the equipment back in the underground chamber, to see if we
can replicate the amazing results of last Fall. Results will be
announced in the OBRL-Quarterly Newsletters as deemed
appropriate.
* We are currently
developing a method for automated data acquisition for the
electroscopical discharge experiment, to show the variations in
discharge rate of an electroscope kept inside an orgone accumulator as
compared to one outside the accumulator. This experiment is
another proof of a physical anomaly within the orgone
accumulator. As of
today, we have made very good graphical tracings of the electrical
potential of a charged electroscope, recorded on a computer
data-acquisitions system, as it gradually bleeds off its charge into
the atmosphere. However, calibration problems exist in setting
up two such electroscopes simultaneously, and this must be overcome
before they can be used for the testing.
8. The OBRL
Archives:
* Another major in-house
project has been the gradual transfer of our VHS, Hi-8 and U-Matic
videotape archives onto DVD. We are finally at the point where
this is being done. Several large u-matic tape players were
obtained from ebay, and tapes were transferred to computer disk using
our Mac G4 computer system. Using Final Cut Express software,
our goal is to clean them up a bit for better image and audio quality
(where needed) and then archive the clips in digital format onto
DVDs. The major obstacle in this procedure has been, funds for
better equipment and software, as well as the time necessary to learn
the computer programs and hardware necessary for undertaking the
transfers. The archive materials include: Dr. DeMeo's lecture and
seminar tapes from the 1980s onward, including from the lecture-series
at Ft. Mason Center in San Francisco; documentary materials from
cloudbuster field operations going back to the 1970s, including
operations in Kansas, Florida, Illinois, California, Germany, Greece,
Israel, Namibia and Eritrea; various laboratory demonstrations made at
OBRL; various guest lectures and seminar presentations as made at the
OBRL center since the mid-1990s, the Digne Meller-Marcovicz archive
from the original "Viva Little Man" project; plus
various other items from the History of Orgonomy.
9. New Books and
Products at the OBRL On-Line Bookstore
If you haven't taken a
look at our on-line bookstore catalog, maintained by Natural Energy
Works, please do so:
A weblink at the top of
this page lists only the new titles added in most recently. 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.
10. OBRL Winter
2005-2006 Funding Drive.
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:
Finally, a big thanks and
appreciation to all the people who have supported OBRL and James
DeMeo's work over these many years.
++++++++++
Winter Funding
Drive
2005-2006
Orgone Biophysical
Research Laboratory (OBRL)
Greensprings
Center
PO Box 1148, Ashland,
Oregon 97520 USA
http://www.orgonelab.org
http://www.saharasia.org
demeo(at)mind.net
From: James DeMeo,
Ph.D., Director of OBRL
Subject: PLEASE
SUPPORT OBRL
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:
- A Report on one
of our past year's Summer Seminars is also now posted to
internet:
- A Booklet of
Abstracts is also available for the 2005 Summer Conference on
New Research in Orgonomy:
- And our Summer 2006
Greensprings Seminars are also set and detailed:
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.
Please Help OBRL To
Continue With This Important Work.
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
* Lectures &
Seminars. Dr. DeMeo continues to present his research findings,
and summary materials on the prior work of Reich and other orgonomic
researchers, in various public lectures and seminars.
These are listed here:
http://www.orgonelab.org/lectures.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.
Sincerely,
James DeMeo, Ph.D.
Director
James DeMeo, Ph.D.
Director
Special
Notes:
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
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