Wilhelm Reich, Physiker: 7. Wahrheit und Wirklichkeit, d. Die widersprüchliche Wirklichkeit
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17. Mai 2026 um 11:59 |
May 17, 2026
Dear Friends and Followers of the work of the late Dr. James DeMeo,
My dear friend and colleague Dr. Gil Hedley (of Integral Anatomy fame) interviewed me a year and a half ago on his popular broadcast „Live With Gil“. It is a program reserved for paid subscribers and so this particular exchange has never been seen by the general public. I am excited to announce that Gil has graciously taken the interview out from behind its paywall to make it available to a wider audience on his youtube channel. Thank you Gil !!
Part of why I’m excited about this video’s release is it’s focus on my work as a pain, injury and trauma therapist. I’ve occasionally referenced that work in these posts, but have not yet spoken about it in any great detail. I will still leave that for another time, but that said, for those who have been curious about what exactly it is that I do and its relationship to Wilhelm Reich’s discoveries, this interview will help.
Another reason I post it is the opportunity to share a humorous story about Dr. DeMeo, one that lends a little bit of insight into my relationship to him. He would express considerable skepticism of my bodywork practice at the same time as he would show a deep respect and appreciation for it. The apparent contradiction would make me laugh. He was an excellent scientist and as such, he was also a cautious skeptic about anything new. The skepticism came in part from having seen so many people rip off and distort Reich’s discoveries and then claim them as their own, and partly from a desire to see more objective evidence of some of the claims that I make (I hope to provide more of that myself through future research at OBRL). But he was also a realist. If something worked, he’d acknowledge and embrace it.
This apparent contradiction was especially highlighted when, unprovoked by me, he would volunteer my services to lab visitors, conference attendees and even strangers in stores if they were dealing with an injury or some sort of pain or discomfort. I’m never one to shy away from doing on-the-spot repairs, I do it all the time, provided the problem is not too complicated, and he knew and saw this himself. It was the positive promotion by one who was respectfully skeptical that was curious.
To give just one of numerous examples: we were in the bank one day, and one of the administrators came out wearing a walking boot. We were chatting casually with her when Dr. DeMeo asked what had happened. She said she had sustained a foot injury, possibly a fracture. Without missing a beat, he said, „My friend Tom here is from New York City and does some very good therapy for things like that“.
Looking interested, she guided us without hesitation into an empty office, took off the boot and then let me work with her, all told about ten minutes, whereupon she got considerable relief. We left the bank and got on with our day as though nothing had happened. The interview I am now posting might give you some insight into that apparent contradiction.
PS: Some months later, Dr. DeMeo wrote to me to say he had run into the lady at the bank. „She said your ministrations helped greatly, and the orthopedist was astonished that it healed in about half the time as usual.“ Lest I appear to be some sort of miracle worker, I simply found what’s called an „anterior talo-fibular ligament sprain“ that had been missed and that was actually causing her pain. I started repairing it – something that if not too serious, can actually be achieved in 10 or 15 minutes – so it greatly accelerated the healing of her „foot injury“ (i.e., ankle sprain).
I’ve said in the past that one of the functions of the new Orgone Biophysical Research Lab is to find and cultivate at least a handful of young, future leaders in the field, and that one of the strategies is to reach out to my amazing network of talented and trailblazing friends and colleagues whose work may or may not be orgonomically oriented per se, but is sufficiently resonant that I want to connect their audiences with ours. The point is not to turn them into advocates for orgonomy and the OBRL so much as let them know about what we are offering – especially our knowledge of and unique research into orgone energy and armoring. This is in the hopes to attract those who have been longing for this knowledge, but who didn’t know it existed or didn’t know where to find it.
Dr. Gil Hedley is one of those trailblazers. He is a highly intelligent and gifted teacher and anatomist who among other things, offers profoundly unique dissection workshops. I personally never thought I would do a cadaver dissection. I figured I don’t work with the dead, I work with the living! I was interested in how the living worked, not the dead. The bodywork method I developed is modeled not on death but on life, specifically, on the broad bioenergetic flow patterns of an orgonomic approach to embryology.
Gil has pioneered a method of dissection that goes by anatomical layers rather than anatomical regions, i.e., a method that traces the branching, wrapping, rolling and weaving of continuous sheets of tissue into functionally interrelated wholes and parts, rather than reinforcing the misperception of there being a group of isolated systems, organs and cells. It implicitly highlights orgone energy’s imprint on the total organism, promoting better recognition of organic morphology, proportion, organization and motion, along with other generative and developmental homologies, patterns, functions and relationships.
For bodywork practitioners and others who are new to Reich’s work and would like more detail, I posted a summary link at the top of the OBRL homepage explaining why two years ago OBRL sponsored Gil’s spectacular 111 city Nerve Tour presentation, along with my recommendations for getting familiar with Reich’s discoveries. If you are a bodywork practitioner, a movement therapist, a yoga instructor, an artist, an anatomist or anyone who works with or does work related to the human body, I strongly encourage you to save up and invest in at least one of Gil’s yearly hands-on workshops. They are profoundly unique and come with my highest recommendation. I take this workshop every year and have done so now for the past twenty years, recognizing it as an important adjunct not only to the development of my hands-on skill set, but more importantly to my own research into the embryological expressions of life energy functions.
For the summary, click the yellow link at the very top of the OBRL homepage: orgonelab.org
Gil’s website is gilhedley.com
Here is the interview. It is an entertaining, informative and thought-provoking exchange. It’s about 90 minutes long and starts about two and a half minutes in.
Enjoy!
Tom DiFerdinando,
President and Director, Orgone Biophysical Research Lab
17. Mai 2026 um 16:31 |
Linke sind evolutionärer Abfaaahhl!!!
23. Mai 2026 um 04:52 |
n o word s
24. Mai 2026 um 04:57 |
Wenn die Zeit vor dem Frieden schöner war.