VYS0043 | The Reich Stuff - Vayse to Face with Dan Lowe - Show Notes
Facing down a huge topic that they have been wanting to talk about on Vayse for years, Hine and Buckley enlist integrative therapist Dan Lowe, to guide them through the massively dense, often confusing and incredibly weird life and work of Wilhem Reich.
Dan is massively knowledgeable on the subject and gives fascinating insights on Reich and is patient when Hine and Buckley asking him what can only be frustratingly basic questions: What differentiates Reichian therapy from other types of psychotherapy? What is Orgone Energy? What is emotional armouring? Was there a conspiracy against Reich? Did cloud-busting really work?... and what did Kate Bush actually know about Wilhelm Reich anyway...? (Recorded 29 August 2024)
Thanks to Dan for indulging us in asking questions on a subject that we know next to nothing about and thanks as always to Keith for the show notes - give the man a follow: @peakflow.bsky.social
Dan Lowe online
Dan on Twitter (https://x.com/Orgone1)
Dan’s Counselling Directory profile (https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellors/dan-lowe)
Hine’s Intro
Cloudbuster - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbuster)
Orgone - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgone)
Wilhelm Reich - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich)
Integrative psychotherapy - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrative_psychotherapy)
The Life and Ideas of Wilhelm Reich with Dan Lowe - What Magic Is This? podcast (https://podtail.com/en/podcast/what-magic-is-this/the-life-and-ideas-of-wilhelm-reich-with-dan-lowe/)
Who Was Wilhelm Reich? The Theory and Practice of Reichian Therapy with Dan Lowe - Acid Horizon podcast (https://podtail.com/podcast/acid-horizon/who-was-wilhelm-reich-the-theory-and-practice-of-r/)
Reichian Therapy, Character Armor, and Christ with Dan Lowe - Hermetix podcast (https://podtail.com/podcast/hermitix/reichian-therapy-character-armor-and-christ-with-d/)
Vayse to Face with Dan Lowe
Robert Anton Wilson - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson)
The Mass Psychology of Fascism - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mass_Psychology_of_Fascism)
The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/781662.The_Mass_Psychology_of_Fascism)
Cosmic Trigger #2 - Down to Earth by Robert Anton Wilson - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44491690-down-to-earth)
Reichian therapy - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichian_therapy)
Health Touch (Dierdre Gough) website (https://www.healthtouch1.co.uk/)
Sigmund Freud - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud)
Character structures: what are the 5 Reichian character defense patterns? - Body Mind Assessment (https://bodymindassessment.com/blog/character-structures/)
Body psychotherapy - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_psychotherapy)
Character Analysis - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_Analysis)
Character Analysis by Wilhelm Reich - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/339384.Character_Analysis)
Reich’s Segmental Armouring Theory - Energetics Institute (https://www.energeticsinstitute.com.au/characterology/reichs-segmental-armouring-theory/)
Mind-body (Cartesian) dualism - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_dualism)
Fury On Earth: A Biography Of Wilhelm Reich by Myron R. Sharaf - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150920.Fury_On_Earth)
Function of the Orgasm by Wilhelm Reich - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/339389.The_Function_of_the_Orgasm)
Orgasmatron scene from Sleeper - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZvpIE5g5Fo)
Prana - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prana)
Qi - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi)
Pranayama - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranayama)
Chakra - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra)
Monroe Institute website (https://www.monroeinstitute.org/)
Robert Monroe - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Monroe)
Syncretism - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncretism)
Wilhelm Reich, Biologist by James E. Strick - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23502980-wilhelm-reich-biologist)
Satanic panic - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic)
What an Accumulator Is, and How to Make and Use One - Orgone.org (https://www.orgone.org/Pages/Accumulators.htm)
Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War by James Edward Martin - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22238882-wilhelm-reich-and-the-cold-war)
Orgone Lab - James DeMeo’s Research Website (http://www.orgonelab.org/)
The Orgone Accumulator Handbook: Wilhelm Reich's Life-Energy Discoveries and Healing Tools for the 21st Century, with Construction Plans by James DeMeo - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11247814-the-orgone-accumulator-handbook)
Claims that former US military project is being used to manipulate the weather are “nonsense” - RMIT (https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/factlab-meta/claims-us-military-project-manipulating-weather-are-nonsense)
Right-Wing Influencers Claim ‘They’ Defeated Physics, Geoengineered Hurricane Milton - Wired (https://www.wired.com/story/hurricane-milton-geoengineer-lasers-fema-conspiracy-theories-debunk/)
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pllRW9wETzw)
Barbarella (1968), the Excessive-Pleasure Machine and Durand Durand - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Da8aDMgHg)
Wilhelm Reich and UFOs (article by Peter Robbins) - StudyLib (https://studylib.net/doc/8035315/wilhelm-reich-and-ufos)
Contact With Space: Oranur second report, 1951-1956. Orop desert Ea, 1954-1955 by Wilhelm Reich - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39215618-contact-with-space)
Gestalt therapy - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_therapy)
Stanislav Grof website (https://www.stangrof.com/)
Holotropic Breathing: A Complete Guide to Techniques and Practice - Primal Trust (https://www.primaltrust.org/holotropic-breathing-how-to-complete-guide/)
Lowen Foundation website (https://www.lowenfoundation.org/)
Human Potential Movement - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Potential_Movement)
Sexual revolution - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_revolution)
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.R.:_Mysteries_of_the_Organism)
W.R. - Mysteries of the Organism TRAILER - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpFR2uYeMDA)
A.S. Neill Summerhill School website (https://www.summerhillschool.co.uk/)
The Institute for Orgonomic Science website (https://orgonomicscience.org/)
Dan’s Recommendations
Billy Woods (& Kenny Segal) - Maps (2023) full album - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prX3U-h6eP0)
JPEGMafia - I Lay Down My Life For You (2024) full album - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA2v9AtvUHI)
Summerhill TV Series (feature-length film) - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9BgrGiIYc0)
Listen, Little Man! By Wilhelm Reich - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/339387.Listen_Little_Man)
Emotional Armoring : An Introduction to Psychiatric Orgone Therapy by Morton Herskowitz - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/560893.Emotional_Armoring)
Peter Jones - Wilhelm Reich and Forbidden Science - Legalise Freedom (https://youtu.be/oGOPJUnoesA?si=PggFqKYG5oOkvC2f)
Buckley’s Closing Questions
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (1985) full album - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO80PF9MMAE)
Hounds of Love Reissue - The Baskerville Edition Unboxing Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyk3ZzAnXlU)
A Book of Dreams by Peter Reich - Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45453152-a-book-of-dreams)
Duran Duran - Electric Barbarella (Official Music Video) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK1g5dMYR3s)
Vayse Online
Vayse website (https://www.vayse.co.uk/)
Vayse on Twitter (https://twitter.com/vayseesyav)
Vayse on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/vayseesyav/)
Vayse on Bandcamp (Music From Vayse) (https://vayse.bandcamp.com/)
Vayse on Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/vayse)
Vayse email: vayseinfo@gmail.com Special Guest: Dan Lowe.
