The Cancer Virus
I. Wilhelm Reich, the 2nd Organismic Theory, The Cancer Biopathy
A. Reich studied protoplasm and electricity, but related them to sex.
1. The site of pathology became located at an explicitly microbial level, or a protoplasmic and colloidal scale.
a. As the figures of cancerous cells, and –
2. Inorganic matter coming to life once charged by orgone energy
B. Reich’s biopsychiatric theory
1. Full of colloids, protoplasm, protozoa and amoebae
2. Philosophically similar to Korzybski goo
3. Protoplasm functions without being structured
4. There was a state of energy between organic and inorganic matter – and he understood this in terms of sex.
5. Orgasmic energy is also at play between organic and inorganic states.
a. Sparking and tingling inside and outside the organism
b. Also distributed throughout the earth’s atmosphere
6. The Orgone Box
a. Designed to receive and concentrate the energy and pass it to the person sitting inside
b. It can produce erotic stimulation and spontaneous orgasm
7. The dissipation and accumulation of orgone energy between the atmosphere and individual was the fundamental, global exchange of life energies.
The only two ways Burroughs said he achieved spontaneous orgasm was from hair-trigger masturbation as a by-product of kicking a heroin habit, and with an orgone box.
However, he also soaked up radiation from the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In 1957, Burroughs read a news bulletin that reported the only forms of life that mutate favorably under radiation are the smallest, most likely viruses.
This set the scene for the “Spare Ass Annie” section of Interzone.
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