Festival of Orgone: Orgone Extra

This piece was originally slated as the Orgone Growth Engine, but I felt it was too stable and too well balanced for my vision of that energy. Although structurally pleasing, the growth here is too restrained.  This piece also feels more like a Weekly Mandala. In the end, just not what I wanted for the Growth Engine.

Recommended Listening:
Trapezoid
Moon Run
from Moon Run

{Digital Images manipulated in Adobe Photoshop}

Extra Orgone:
Terrence Mckenna - Machine Elves

Festival of Orgone / Weekly Mandala: Orgone Lantern

A lantern structure has been built to channel the Orgone and the energy pulses with intensity.  The Spiritual and the Physical are now aligned and the eight channels of the lantern lead the Orgone to greater purpose, shining Orgone light in all directions.  

Festival of Orgone: Transformation

Having crossed the bridge into the unknown and plunged into the well of wisdom, here we have the transformation of self deep within the Orgone.  The layers of the Odin ego melt away to reveal an angelic core identity, genderless and radiant.  The shed ego folds back, transformed into another tool of motility and enlightenment, a cloak of wings to carry the angel aloft.  The flames of the Orgone,  brought to white hot intensity by the energy released during the transformation, lift the wings and carry the angel to higher levels of understanding.

Festival of Orgone: Odin Diving into Orgone

Here we see the masculine figure of Odin diving deep into the multiphasic multigender Orgone energy. Already his boundaries have blurred and any warlike red energy has been transformed into diffuse violets and purples and pinks.  The masculinity has no choice but to give up to this new paradigm.  All his resistance is overwhelmed by the enormity and power of the Aether.  The structures of ego melt away as the new energy of the Orgone surrounds and pervades all areas.  The dive disrupts the immediate surroundings, sending up bubbles and stray bits of identity as Odin begins to melt into the Orgone.

Festival of Orgone: A Bit of History Part II

Wilhelm Reich was plagued by political and 'moral' interference during the later years of his life.   His research into the then taboo subject of sex and his vocal opinions concerning politics did help make him a target during the ultra-paranoid McCarthy Era.  However, Reich's treatment is considered one of the worst cases of censorship in U.S. history: Reich was incarcerated, his materials burned, and his equipment destroyed.  Why was there such extreme resistance to Reich and his ideas?  The FDA incinerated literally tons of Reich's materials, Tons.  Perhaps the injustices of his last years of life are why his story resonates with me so strongly.

Festival of Orgone: Orgone Growth Engine

Here we have the Orgone Bridge established and transformed.  Through the clouds of Aether comes a tumultuous vision.  The electric exchange between the two Orgone columns reveals a multidimensional androgyne Satyr.

Formed from a mixture of forces, Male and Female, Human and Animal, Sexual and Spiritual, the Satyr is crowned and enthroned within its very self.  Becoming a catalyst for the engine, it supercharges the orgone to white hot intensity.  From the maelstrom of its satisfaction, the satyr observes us coolly with an expression of erotic challenge.  Like the Catepillar to Alice, the satyr asks that we understand who we are.  Dare we discover our truth?  Dare we cross the bridge?

Festival of Orgone: Building the Orgone Bridge

Here we move further from the physical and into the light of the Aether.  Energy raises from the here and the beyond, slowly building connective tissue between the two, arcing to bridge the gap.  The Orgone grows grows structures, aligning towards a unification of the spiritual and physical.  Some of the same source material was used to create this piece and Opening into Aether to give a sense of continuity between the two.  The physical elements here have begun to minimize as we focus more upon the mind and spirit.

Recommended Listening:
Phutureprimitive
Xotica
from Kinetik

{Digital Images manipulated in Adobe Photoshop}

Bridging into the Other:
Rebis in Alchemy, Rebis in Doom Patrol
Jan Svankmajer, Dimensions of Dialogue Part 2
Kenneth Anger, Eaux D'artifice

Festival of Orgone: A Bit of History, Part I

The Festival of Orgone is focused on Wilhelm Reich, the scientist who discovered Orgone. Reich was born on March 24, 1897 and was a contemporary of Freud.  Orgone is a universal life energy discovered by Reich between 1936-1939.  Bluish in color and associated with sexuality, it is theorized to permeate all things.  Orgone takes its name from the orgasm function.

Sadly, the social mores over sexuality and the political climate of his time worked against him.
Continued in Part II...

{Digital Image created in Adobe Illustrator }

I am only touching on brief points in Reich's history here.  I would prefer that you get his full biography from the Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust and the Wilhelm Reich Wiki.

From the Archives: Looking Beyond

Although I will be adding new Orgone related pieces each day of the week, I will continue my regular weekly events: Weekly Mandalas on Mondays and From the Archives posts on Wednesdays.  For the most part, the Weekly Mandalas will be integrating with the Festival of Orgone, but it has been a bit challenging to find older pieces that are specifically Orgone related.  This one is close thematically.

This piece is an attempt on my part to combine my abstract color work with more representative imagery.  It falls in closely with today's other piece, Opening to the Ether, in the sense that entity within the drawing here might be looking into that other piece. I do not have a definitive date for the creation of this work, but I do recognize that it is after the year 2000.

Recommended Listening:
Mondkopf
Euphoria
from Day of Anger

{Sharpie and Prismacolor Pencils}

Festival of Orgone: Opening Into Aether

Happy Summer Solstice and Welcome to the Festival of Orgone!  

The Summer Solstice is the longest day of the year.  I can personally attest to that this year because of the amazing lack of sleep I've had the past few days.  There is just too much 'information' in the air.  I've been sleeping approximately 4-5 hours each night and normally I would suffer a severe detriment.  This week, however, I feel bouncy and energized.    

The Solstice, celebrated as the Pagan midsummer sabbat of Litha, is considered the turning point of the Wheel of the Year.  After today the light of the sun grows dimmer, inching slowly towards the longest night of the year, the Winter Solstice.  This year, for the Northern Hemisphere, the Summer Solstice occurs June 20th 11:09pm (U. S. Eastern) / 23:09 (GMC).

Eve of the Festival of Orgone: The Orgone Bomb

Here we are at the eve of the festival of Orgone and who knows what all lurks ahead!  There are several weighty astrological happenings over the next two weeks, all of which will certainly be in my thoughts and affect my actions as I move through the festival.  The most major of these events is less than a week away: the Uranus Pluto exact square on June 24th.

Weekly Mandala: Opening the Bridge

In preparation for the Festival of Orgone, I open the Bridge.

Recommended Listening:
Darkstar
Break
from Dead 2 Me/Break

{Digital Images manipulated in Adobe Photoshop}

I will be called a madman because we do not understand what is happening.

Sometimes you get really far out on the tree limb and you aren't sure if it is going to support your weight.  I've been doing a lot of that for the past two years more out of necessity than anything else.  It was either take some chances or wither to death slowly in the life I was leading.  If I am crazy, I'd rather be honest about what is in my heart than cover it up with some fabrication:

I have enormous scary thoughts that threaten to swallow myself and others.

I see people as minefields and make it my job to see through them because I have trust and control issues and am very easily damaged by the wayward words of others.  

I'm afraid of large crowds because it is easy for me to lose my sense of self and therefore lose control of the beast I call "me".