Wilhelm Reich

DannyL

Wild Horses
Yeah, no worries I thought as much. I was eliding two things I think - your comment and the standard line of attack that I've encountered a lot which runs "well that may work for middle class kids but .... " [insert unspoken statement about how the speaker is actually really tough and almost working class, they went to the school of hard knocks but they "turned out alright"].

Just wanted to put it down in B&W as it is as I said, so fucking standard.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
All I know about Reich; the Makajevev film that Dan says gets him wrong, the Kate Bush video where Donald Sutherland plays Reich which was filmed on a hill near where I grew up and which we used to walk up all the time with school and so on.
 

DannyL

Wild Horses
All I know about Reich; the Makajevev film that Dan says gets him wrong, the Kate Bush video where Donald Sutherland plays Reich which was filmed on a hill near where I grew up and which we used to walk up all the time with school and so on.
I'm sure you told me that but I forgot.

The ambivalence is mostly because of mixing mentions of drugs and magic in with an already controversial figure. Can be a bit much, as something to put your name to.
 

DannyL

Wild Horses
Probably said this before but that song was written after she read Peter Reich's book about his weird old Dad, rather than being into Reich herself. She plays Peter in the video.
 

catalog

Well-known member
Good interview, thanks for posting it.

I like what you say about magick here :

"magic is I think a floating signifier that means so many different things to so many different people. On one level I think it’s about keeping a romantic vision alive in a materialist society. And a lot of it is just social theatre, in groupery, or straight up delusion and bullshit. But if you’re lucky, you might chance on a set of practices that has the potential to trigger some level of change or that allow you to build personal meaning in a way that’s new for you."

I think I also heard about Reich first from RAW, on one of the tapes he talks about how he had to go to someone's flat to read the books, he couldn't take them away.

He's one of those who had moree interest in him from people like RAW precisely cos of the banning/persecution.

Woebot has quite a lot in the Retreat book about him, relationship with parents sounded heavy!
 

DannyL

Wild Horses
I've been at it again. Interviewed on Douglas Batchelor's What Magic Is This? podcast, talmbout Reich for nearly 2 hours!

Working out right now if I can listen to my own voice for two hours!
Feedback welcome
 
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