The Cancer Biopathy (The Discovery of Orgone, Vol. 2) [Paperback]

Wilhelm Reich (Author), Andrew White (Translator), Mary Higgins (Translator), Chester M. Raphael (Translator)

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Publication Date: January 1, 1974

A Shrinking Disease Due to Chronic Sexual Starvation

What is Cancer? Traditionally, medical science has thought of it as an invasive tumor arising spontaneously in an otherwise healthy organism. In contrast, Wilhelm Reich defines cancer not as a tumor--the tumor is merely a late manifestation of the disease--but a systemic disease due to chronic thwaring of natural sexual functioning. In this radically different scientific investigation of a process that ends, literally, in the putrefaction of the living body due to chronic suffocatin of the tissues, Reich has arrived at the conclusion that "cancer is the most significant somatic expression of biophysiological effect of sexual stasis." If this is so, there is a far greater possibility for prevention of cancer than for its treatment.

The Cancer Biopathy is Volume II of The Discovery of the Orgone. Volume I is The Function of the Orgasm.

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Text: English, German (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 433 pages
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (January 1, 1974)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0374510148
• ISBN-13: 978-0374510145
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #699,786 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Discovery of the Orgone, February 16, 2006

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Jeremy Bang "just a twenty something human" (on a dymaxion map) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cancer Biopathy (The Discovery of Orgone, Vol. 2) (Paperback)

Wilhelm Reich's most detailed review of his experiments in the U.S. outside of his psychiatric practice. In this text he explains thoroughly HIS discovery of the Orgone (chi, prana, ki) and its origins (I emphasize HIS discovery because every person stands to discover something different as it relates to them). He found it to be a cosmic energy, all pervading, emanating towards healthy life, healing, and protecting. He used it in several documented cases to cure cancer (thus the title). He experimented with it in combating nuclear radiation (and made one of his leaps into metaphysics), stating that orgone energy and nuclear radiation are opposing forces (the manifestations of good and evil). This point is highly controversial and became a jump off point for his desires to show people what he had spent his life doing, and how his ostrisisation from the mainstream medical societies he once was a part of was un-called for. He and his staff encounter an unnatural resistance to disease, increased eyesight (no need to wear glasses), increased circulation, and other positive reactions to daily orgone accumulation. The very same accumulators are described in this book, and even more on the internet... what more to say? Wilhelm Reich is considered to be a quack by most people, and yet no one denies he actually cured the people he had in his care through the use of a 'box' (that used no electricity, and is only made of alternating layers of steel wool, and lambs wool), in which the patients sat for 30 min. to an hour. As always, read for yourself, find someone with an orgone energy accumulator, feel and experience for yourself.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Here is Reich's discovery of how life began, how sickness arises, and how this sickness can be healed, November 30, 2006

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Frater W.I.T. - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cancer Biopathy (The Discovery of Orgone, Vol. 2) (Paperback)

Reich describes his chemistry work with orgone to create "bions" and relates his personal experiences with the orgone in his consciousness. A new way to look at the magical phenomena is provided, an emergence of higher order from a chaotic ground.