Excitation of the sympathetic nervous system causes contraction which is felt as anxiety and excitation of the parasympathetic nervous system is felt as pleasure.



Emotions are actually tangible bio-energy and character is the means we bind that energy. Reich discovered that there were seven segments - ocular, oral, cervical, thoracic, diaphragmatic, abdominal and pelvic to the organism similar to a worm. The aim of medical orgone therapy is to free this energy so it moves in an unimpeded fashion.

Armouring

Armouring is the way that psychological and physiological damage is anchored in the body. The repeated restrictions of natural functioning are at the root of armouring i.e. fear of punishment and rejection often contribute to this armouring. The armouring has many layers and is firmly anchored in the body with the consequent contraction of muscle groups i.e. "the nice little girl."

As emotion is not properly released anxiety develops which increase the physical and emotional contraction. The endless repetition of this cycle deadens the personality with all the behavioural problems which accompany that. The goal of medical orgone therapy is to help the client experience deep genuine love and the ability to experience a gratifying orgasm with ones partner.

The blocking of the energy's movement manifests as a constriction of breathing. Peoples' attitudes are not just in the mind but anchored in the body. Through his work he could see the unity of mind and body and that they were not separate. Emotional pain and trauma lead to contraction of muscle groups through the immobilisation of energy. This muscular contraction in turn determines the attitude. People have faces like a mask, the eyes are dulls, the chest looks stiff etc.

Meta-medicine - A Revolutionary New Understanding of so called Mental Illness

Meta medicine is the scientific elucidation of the connection between feelings and the anatomy. The two phases are marked by excitation of the sympathetic or parasympathetic nervous system. Excess sympathacatonia is caused by an active conflict. If the patient has chronic sympathacatonia because of the frustration experienced in childhood then these new conflicts are felt more severely often with organic symptoms because their capacity to cope is impaired. To illustrate - how long can you maintain contraction of a bicep, how much energy is required to hold that contraction. Now imagine that various muscle groups are in permanent contraction. Over long periods of time there is a steady depletion of the life force.

Many of the well known psychoanalysts had recognised that a patients' social context was critically important but up until meta medicine no one realised the exact mechanism behind mania, depression, psychotic aggression, bulimia, auditory hallucinations etc. That is not to say that meta medicine is the whole story as it does not talk of Wilhelm Reich's vegetative streamings of orgone energy and bio-electrical currents which undoubtedly colour the schizophrenics experience. Often they are unable to tolerate the internal sensations of their life apparatus and attribute these to outside forces.

What the new understanding allows is a firm basis to start from and what nature intends through these processes. If you resolve one of the two conflicts of a schizophrenic then you have to be prepared for what might manifest as while in constellation there is no organic pathology. With resolution this pathology could manifest and if a solution is not possible this could be fatal.

What constitutes health?

Health is not what you don't have, after all violent crime is not healthy. True health is determined by how many inhibitions there are in the orgasm reflex. The orgasm essentially allows for the discharge of tension. How complete this discharge is, is determined by how uninhibited the convulsions are in orgasm. The head and tail move towards each other. On an emotional and mental level It is the ability to fully surrender in love making.

To cope with the intensity of some of our experience we block our feelings. People hold their breath to block the feelings. When the frustration is constant the holding pattern becomes chronic and the breathing becomes progressively shallower. A Dr. Otto Warburg gained a nobel prize for proving that tumours thrive in a deoxygenated environment. People with shallow breathing have an impaired capacity to cope - we say they are highly strung.

There is a simple test to determine whether there is serious depletion of bio-energy. Place a little blood in saline solution and observe the corpuscules. If they break apart in less than twenty minutes then the person has low vital reserves of bio-energy. Naturally this test is accompanied by observation. Are the eyes moist, do they sparkle, is the pulse strong etc.

Wilhelm Reich noted that if we are ever to get to grips with crime then this armouring has to be prevented ever developing in the first place. Armoured life has set up institutions reflective of this dysfunctional way of being and has very warped logic. Single sex schools are good and arms dealing is to be encouraged. The only way to prevent the armouring is with the parents and schooling.

Unfortunately the American government built an incinerator in New York and burnt as much of his literature as possible in 1957. They couldn't get it all......