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236 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
They talk about pre-atomic energy! What's that We've moved way
beyond that—we've got A-energy and now we are getting H-energy [the
H-bomb].
Sharif and others knew that when atomic bombs were being tested,
Reich's orgone experiments would become disturbed. Measurements
inside the accumulators would swing strangely, which he said showed a
seething reaction in the life-field of the earth after atomic testing.
Apparently sick at heart over what he saw as its tragic outcome, Sharif
reported that the trial discussed meaningless secondary issues while it
avoided Reich's scientific evidence. Probably the judge and jury were not
capable of grasping a radically different world view—new understanding
of a universal force—during the short span of time of a court battle.
Reich had plenty of time afterward to reflect on how his life reached
such a distressing low point.
REICH IN DANGER
Born in the Ukrainian part of Austria, Reich's interest in biology began on
his father's farm, where he lived until the First World War drew him into
the Austrian army for three years. He began his formal education by
studying law, switching to medicine and then specialising in psychoanalysis.
He was one of Sigmund Freud's inner circle in Vienna in the
1920s, seen as Freud's most brilliant pupil and perhaps successor. About
the time he became a political activist, he edged away from traditional
Freudian methods of psychoanalysis. Revealing the independence of
thinking that he kept all his life, he began to develop his own systems of
therapy.
He worked in Berlin in the early 1930s. Still resisting Fascism, he had
joined the German Communist Party and was a member of a cell block of
brave writers and artists. They met in secret while Nazi storm troopers
marched the streets. As the decade went on and the Nazis took over
Germany, Reich was in increasing danger from Hitler's officers. He had
been born of Jewish parents, was a psychiatrist and a Communist—three
identities which Hitler hated.
At the same time Reich was studying Fascism and concluding that
worsening social situations did not make people swing to the left politically.
Instead, he noticed that fear of freedom led people to cling to
authority figures who promised a better life.
The same year that Hitler came to power in Germany, 1933, Reich
courageously published The Mass Psychology of Fascism. In February a
student organization invited him to Copenhagen, Denmark, to lecture on
Sexual Reform and Social Crisis. When he returned to Berlin on February