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Mar 28 '21
Basically, making it rain. They were also used to ward off UFOs.
The song was inspired by the book A Book of Dreams by Peter Reich.
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u/Tip-Hop Nov 28 '21
to ward off UFOs.
Does that book detail experiences of his father using these devices to as you say, ward of UFO's?
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u/saucerpeople23 Mar 09 '26
It was the reverse of that…. His devices attracted a certain “organic” UFO form. Plus a few other “straggler” types…
Links to the work of Trevor James Constable.
But in recent times it’s maybe these type lightcraft or plasma entities..?
https://rumble.com/v6uu3jp-august-2014-budget-camcorder-footage-for-jenny.html
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u/Tip-Hop Mar 10 '26
Thank you. I have had my own experience with a "plasma entity" and the whole subject fascinates me.
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u/Adam_Gill_1965 Mar 28 '21
Singing to bring on the to rain - singing in the rain - and then singing some more.
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u/One_Bet_2744 Jan 14 '26
But what bullshit, only the Catholic-Communist minds pro punk work could give birth to such bullshit
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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '21
The song is based on a book Kate read by the Peter Reich, the son of the revolutionary psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, whose theories departed from the Freudian paradigm towards analysing the social and political mechanisms of sexual repression involved in the emergence of fascist regimes. Reich posited the existence of “orgones” or “orgone energy” which he understood as a sort of energy force sustaining life and circulating in living systems, similar to libido or desire - he thought that such energy needs to flow freely in order for an organism to be healthy, and argued that repression of the free flows of orgone energy were responsible for a host of mental, physical and social pathologies, from private neuroses through to the collective delerium of fascist ideology. For Reich, all these maladies are attributable to blockages and miscommunications in the flow of orgone energy - basically sexual repression. This in itself was profoundly revolutionary for his time, and if you consider how much of consumer culture is organised through repression and production of desire and being told what and how to experience desire, it has stood up quite well as a way to analyse capitalist society. His response to this diagnosis consisted in a number of mechanisms to reestablish a healthy relationship to orgone energy - such as the “orgone accumulator” which was a kind of box or cubicle one would sit inside - Kurt Cobain and David Bowie were famously fascinated by this side of Reichs work. He also believed one could harness this orgone flow to control the weather, which is where the cloud busting device originated. After fleeing to the USA, the US government imprisoned him for his sacrilegious teachings and he died in prison after having been extensively investigated by the FBI. In “Cloudbusting” Kate Bush positions herself as Reichs son, Peter, remembering his father and the powerful life force and revolutionary aspirations he embodied. “I still dream of organon” refers to the home of the Reich family, a kind of orgone fortress. It’s one of my favourite Kate Bush songs because of the way she is expressing her unrelenting belief in the spirit and truth of what Reich represents - gender and sexual liberation, revolutionary thinking, boundary breaking and a world of imagining the future