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What Is
Stelle’s View of Wilhelm Reich? Q: I was wondering regarding the ether, are
you acquainted with Wilhelm Reich’s work on that? Have the
Brotherhoods authorized his writings as being legitimate? RK: No, They have not authorized anybody in
that area. Q: Does Stelle use Radix therapy? What is
your stand on his writings? RK: Reich is a pioneer in an area which was virtually untouched in his time. He has
brought forth a tremendous amount of information. His insights have proven to
be correct when other people—trying the practical results of what they are. He
has a lot of theories on things which I think are
overambitious in answering everything. He has a tendency of using hyperbole in
order to get people to listen. He would sometimes say, “This is the
cause of cancer and this is the reason why this kind of natural
phenomenon occurs,” with an absolute kind of statement. Scientists should
always try to remember not to make absolute statements because those are the
ones that always seem to come apart first. He
has something which is tremendously valuable to use,
but, at the same time, he made a lot of bum guesses like all the rest of us. Q: The reason I asked really is—his views on
sexuality sort of form the core of his thought in a
lot of ways. It seems that—recently I have become acquainted with a number of
other groups—I have become aware of them—which claim
guidance from Melchizedek. These groups seem to abstain—that is their view on
sexuality—completely. There is also the Indian Kama Sutra view of abstaining
from orgasm. That seems to contradict things that Reich
says. I was wondering, since the Brotherhoods
are an order under Melchizedek, what is your stand on that particular issue
is? RK: As I pointed out, just because somebody
adopts the name which has “good press,” does not necessarily
mean that has the backing of some individual like Melchizedek. There is lots of groups that have Lemurian in their name. Many
groups use the name Rosicrucian as the name of their group. That does not
necessarily mean that they are in the direct-line
relationship with those higher names or whatever it is that they stand for.
Sometimes, in order to get somebody to listen to you, you adopt the name that is popular or one that people have “good
vibes” over. I do not know how many groups have adopted the name Melchizedek
lately, but I know there is about four or five of them that I have run into
in the past. They have such widely variant use from one another that I do not
think that it was promulgated by the same individual. So far
as our views on sexuality, vis-a-vis Reich’s concepts, I think that people do need to
be able to achieve orgasm and it is beneficial to them as it releases
energies and balances energies on all the planes that human beings have
bodies on: that is physical, Etheric, Astral, and Mental planes. Essentially,
it is very important for a person to have proper balance in their lives:
psychologically and physiologically. According to Reich and many other
psychoanalysts, Freud included and right down the line for most of them, they
all advocate that there has to be some kind of way
for people to be able to accept pleasure. If it is not intercourse, they need
to be able to accept pleasure. Pleasure
is one of those things which, is said, is going to be most likely going to
lead you to hell, in accordance with traditional Christianity and most other
religions. Reich also points out that this is the principle means by which
general populaces are kept “under the thumb” of authority. They feel so
guilty about everything that they assumed that if anything does wrong in
their environment it is because of something that they did rather than
something wrong with the social order. So,
therefore, Reich blames sexual suppression for social problems which, in
turn, tend to give rise to neurotic behavior in people. There are basic needs
which people are designed to have fulfilled like food every day and proper
exercise and contact with other people in order to maintain a healthy
interaction with other people which really determines how sane you are. Those are basic needs that we all have and pleasure
happens to be one of them. So, he advocates and so do the
Brotherhoods that there has to be, and there should be means by which
are allowed to experience pleasure even if they are not directly related to
intercourse. But, bodily pleasures with one another
and from their parents, to give them the idea that all these things are
health-producing and balancing. I do not think there is anybody here that
does not know what the other side is like. Growing up as an adolescent when
everything that your body is telling you you need
to do is labeled as something that is going to lead
you to hell is very, very distressing. It produces problems
which last for a lifetime. Even after you get married
you find out that you still cannot let your body go and do those kind of
things which it needs to do. That produces all kinds of frustrations,
arguments, recriminations, hating your parents. It is just a mess. Now,
all the men chasing all the women and vice
versa is not a way to run an organization if we are to call it
civilization in any way. So, there has to be some
kind of agreements about how we relate to one another and what it is you are
trying to accomplish. These things can be balanced out in a way which are beneficial to all concerned. I
have tried to condense about a million words into just a very brief
presentation that is kind of Reich’s position. I cannot say that I buy
everything that Reich said. There was a pretty good
introduction to the stance we have been taking now in the new edition of The Ultimate Frontier. Even that is
just kind of a guide. I was being told in no uncertain
terms what has been wrong: I did not know how to raise children in the
Lemurian way, but I was doing as I was being told by my elders. It needs some
very basic changes in outlook and the children really have a right to—all the
things that are built in to them to be able to
enjoy. But, it does have to be guided. (01-1983) |
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