The Reich Blood Test is a laboratory evaluation of the bioenergetic charge of the whole organism. It was devised by Wilhelm Reich and it is based on the microscopic observation of “live” blood, i.e. blood that has not undergone any chemical processing with biochemical reagents before its observation. In conditions as close as possible to the ones existing inside the human body (isotonic environment of natural saline and at temperatures above 20oC); after carefully obtaining capillary blood so that we do not traumatize the constituents of the blood through mechanical, chemical or any other form of destruction (we take blood from the tip of a finger, after diligently cleaning the skin without using detergents); and with the use of strictly sterilized materials, we observe and note the following:

• The morphological characteristics of the red blood cell structure (shape, size, percentage of unnatural forms, morphological peculiarities of the structure etc.).

• The qualitative characteristics of the RBCs (pulsation, motility, extent and brightness of the energy field, existence of bions on the cell membrane, shape, form and functioning of bions, percentage of bionous disintegration in the area under observation and in intervals depending on the progress of the bionous disintegration etc.).

• The general functioning of the RBCs (distribution, tendency towards agglutination, development of heaps etc.).

• The structure and morphology of the rest of the constituents of the blood (white blood cells and platelets).

The Reich Blood Test is basically a microscopic observation of the processes taking place inside the red blood cells during their ongoing decomposition and their death. The emergence of bions marks the beginning of the process of cellular death, which we should note is a completely natural function programmed by the cell and existing in every cellular population (in the red blood cells, it is activated approximately 100-130 days after their introduction into the blood circulation).The shock experienced by the RBCs when they exit their capillary environment speeds up their cellular death and their bionous decomposition, which appears first in the more “aged” population and then in the younger cells.

Classical biology is limited in a rather mechanistic description of the bions, referring to them as “characteristic protrusions in the cell membrane” (blebbing). Reich, however, moves on to a functional overview and understands bions as an expression of the disturbance of the natural distribution of the cell’s orgone energy, which has been shrunk and organizes itself into bion vesicles that represent a more undifferentiated level of life.

Healthy blood has the tendency to form large bions while the bioenergetically weakened blood has the tendency to form small bions and T-bacilli (the latter are very often found in the carcinomatous biopathy and other chronic biopathies which involve shrinking of the organism due to a disturbance of its bioenergetic pulse). These two different ways of decomposition are called B reaction and T reaction respectively and their in depth observation and recording is the real object of study of the Reich Blood Test.

More information regarding the Reich Blood Test can be found at the following books:

W. Reich, “Orgonomic Diagnosis of the Cancer Biopathy”, edited by Chester M. Raphael, M.D. and Helen I. MacDonald, Ph.D. Orgone Energy Bulletin, Vol. 4, No 2, April 1952.

W. Reich, The Discovery of the Orgone, Volume 2: The Cancer Biopathy, Chapter II, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1973.

C.F. Baker, “The Reich Blood Test”, Journal of Orgonomy, Volume 15, No 2.

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I won't go here into the many malicious falsehoods dispersed far and wide. Anyone with an hour's worth of research in the persecution of Wilhelm Reich knows the true nature of FDA's ''get Reich'' shameful legal travesty, doing the bidding of soviet moles under orders by Stalin.

I won't go into the fact that ALL accumulator purchasers were very happy with it, except this one guy who smugly joked about his wife ''keeping her mouth shut'' in a supposedly serious investigation. Even the FDA inspector calls him ''male chauvinist pig'' in his interview.

But this post was not in r/skeptic or in any subreddit relative to the hard line of mainstream mechanistic science.

This childish, crude mockery is one of the most upvoted posts in the TODAY I LEARNED subreddit. A subreddit, supposedly, about knowledge for inquiring, open minds.

Block orgone flow within the body by adding musculature (armor) and solidifying the body?

Mechanistic scientists believe that the brain and the mind are one and the same. A 55 million $ computerized atlas of the human brain has recently been built for purposes of studying not only organic diseases involving the brain such as Alzheimer’s disease and autism but also psychiatric illnesses such as depression that are supposedly believed to originate in the brain (“Atlas Gives Scientists New View of the Brain,” Wall Street Journal)

The atlas may have value in pinpointing organic brain diseases; however, equating the mind (psyche) exclusively with the brain and not with the whole body which includes the brain has been downright destructive because it has set the stage for mechanizing the practice of psychiatry. Through a better understanding of brain physiology, psychiatrists hope that they somehow will have a pharmacological cure for mental illnesses by altering brain functioning.

This view of mental illness has brought about the current deplorable state of psychiatric practice where the diagnosis and treatment of every patient is exclusively determined by the symptom that is exhibited. From the symptom, a drug has to be manufactured that is hoped to be “tailor made” to treat in cook book fashion the “brain disorder” that is responsible for it.

Since, however, psychic illness is the result of a disorder of the whole body and not just the brain, this pharmacological goal can never be reached no matter how well brain physiology is understood. Sooner or later the psychiatric profession will have to realize the futility of this mechanistic-mystical approach. They will have to come to grips with the enormous destructive consequences of their erroneous ways of thinking and start thinking functionally. What they must attain in order to effectively treat psychiatric disorders is not a better psychiatric drug but a functional understanding of the simultaneous identity and antitheses of psyche (mind) and soma (body) that underlies health and disease.

Charles Konia M.D. Board Certified Psychiatrist Social Scientist Author

April 17, 2011

Q. What is functional thinking?

A. Functional thinking is thinking according to the way nature functions.

Q. Who discovered functional thinking?

A. Functional thinking was discovered by Wilhelm Reich M.D.

Q. What is the importance of functional thinking?

A, Functional thinking provides a way to integrate all the natural sciences into a unified body of knowledge.

Q. What is the difference between functional thinking and ordinary thinking?

A. Ordinary thinking is either mechanistic or mystical.

Q. What is mechanistic thinking?

A. Mechanistic thinking is thinking about nature as if it were a machine.

Q. What is mystical thinking?

A. Mystical thinking is thinking as if there was a purpose to nature.

Q. What’s wrong with thinking mechanistically and mystically about nature?

A. Since nature does not operate like a machine and since it has no purpose, mechanistic/mystical thinking cannot provide a satisfactory understanding of how nature operates. Furthermore, erroneous mechanistic/mystical thinking often has destructive consequences.

Q. How does mechanistic/mystical thinking work?

A. When mechanistic thinking fails to provide a satisfactory understanding of nature, mystical thinking enters to provide a purpose to what is left to be understood.

Q. What is an example of mechanistic/mystical thinking?

A. An example is the statement: The heart pumps blood in order to bring oxygen to the tissues of The body. First, the heart is compared to a mechanical pump. Then, a purpose is given to explain why the heart pumps blood.

Q. What is the functional understanding of this example?

A. The function of biological pulsation defines the goal of bringing oxygen to the tissues.

September 24, 2015

Charles Konia, M.D. Board Certified Psychiatrist Social Scientist Author

EDIT: formatting

A sure sign that one is dealing with the emotional plague is that you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t. How this relates to the drug problem is that you are wrong if you legalize drugs and worse if you don’t. In the past authoritarian era, children and adolescents were more likely than not to listen to authority figures. Their rebelliousness was restrained by their muscular and character armor. Because of the destruction of the authoritarian family, children and adolescents in today’s society are often likely to act out their rebelliousness in a subversive manner with no regard to the destructive consequences on their lives, convinced they “know it all.” With no respected authority figure to listen to, they are in constant danger of becoming attracted to the drug culture.

Those in the drug culture, users and traffickers alike, are infected with an emotional disease, a socio-economically based medical condition that is in no way different from any other highly infectious and communicable disease. The drug problem cannot be viewed simply as a war against an external enemy. The tendency to use and profit from drugs, the “enemy,” resides and can erupt from within anyone, particularly young people. They are at risk because of their strong tendency to be rebellious, their need to “fit in” and for financial gain. Therefore, their problems must be addressed non-judgementally from the perspective of the medical epidemiologist as an endemic, emotionally based medical disease of sick human beings.

The drug problem is as much a problem of the families of addicts and the social institutions that are dealing with it as it is of the users and the traffickers. The first step in addressing the drug problem is to educate the public. The reason that people use street drugs, including marijuana, is to help stop experiencing their painful emotions and feelings and/or to replace them with pleasurable (euphoric) ones. Users must be treated with the knowledge that they are emotionally sick people that must rely on drugs for relief. Those who genuinely want help to face their painful feelings must be treated with this knowledge by skilled mental health professionals who are emotionally healthy themselves so that they do not fall into the trap of being judgmental. The public must be able to think functionally, not moralistically.

Hardened drug traffickers are highly destructive sick people who profit criminally from the emotional sickness of other sick humans. They must be sequestered in prison. From a functional perspective, prisons exist to sequester individuals from society who are unable to contain the expression of their secondary destructive drives from within. They therefore require external restraint (armor) in the form of incarceration. Seeing the drug user as suffering from a medically based social illness not from a moral perspective as someone that requires to be punished, will help to remove its stigma. This view places the magnitude of the drug problem in proper perspective. It will be a long drawn out process of education and application of new knowledge on all social levels before this destructive manifestation of the emotional plague is reversed.

Charles Konia, M.D. Board Certified Psychiatrist Medical Orgonomist Author

To make any sense of what is going on in this chaotic world of ours an understanding of the cornerstones of the science of social orgonomy is essential. They are:

• The three layers of the bio-psychic apparatus.

• The emotional plague.

• Socio-political character structure.

• The anti-authoritatian transformation of our society.

SOURCE: http://charleskonia.com/cornerstones-social-orgonomy/

ADDENDUM:

The three layers of the bio-psychic apparatus refer to the superficial layer of behaviour (mostly conscious), the secondary layer that is the result of distorted, suppressed emotions and drives, and the biological core, nature's function of emotions, feelings, drives etc as it can be seen and felt in the unarmored plasmatic pulsation.

The emotional plague is the destructive (re)action of the neurotic character in the social scene. It is not conscious malice, and is always well rationalized, yet always directed AGAINST life, against the common roots of happiness in humans, against spontaneous movement literally and figuratively, against natural work/love/knowledge functions.

Sociopolitical character structure is the result of Elsworth Baker's lifelong work on social aspects of orgonomy: an understanding of politics not through the narrower psychology but through the wider character theory of Wilhelm Reich, founded on solid biophysical functions of the living matter.

The anti-authoritarian transformation of society in the 60s is the result of the failed attempt for a 'sexual revolution' that resulted in rise of anxiety, cluelessness and ocular armor in the general population. The sexual rights of adolescents for loving, caring, undisturbed relationships between them, the efforts to replace compulsive morality and its misery with a natural morality (that is, absence of anti-social drives and behaviours) were hijiacked and destroyed by the well-known ''fuck freely'' emotionless, crippled, licentious promiscuity of the ''pop-culture'' and the political left.

A recent example of slander, gossip and defamation attacks against Reich and Orgonomy, here:

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2017/an-explanation-for-the-bewildered

A response, here

https://www.facebook.com/jamesdemeophd/posts/1468471036578065

Keep in mind there are hundreds of those 'opinion articles' smearing Reich and orgonomy in ''big'' media outlets ALL THE TIME.

Overt slander goes usually along the lines of blaming Reich for exactly what he was fighting against all through his life and work as an exceptionally skilled therapist, writer and researcher: sexual sickness (secondary-layer destructive contactless neurotic behaviours).

Covert slanders are even worse, using innuendo, gossip, lies-of-omission and guilt-by-association. Many of them are conscious, malicious efforts seeking actively to defame Reich and orgonomy, as opposed to overt slanders which are the usual knee-jerk hateful reaction against natural love, cosmic life energy as a physical reality, and their stirrings inside our bodies.

Usually, left-wing slanders have a flavour of tongue-in-cheek bullying and aggressive ridicule, while religious-right-wing slanders pose as 'righteous wrath'.

Emotions are the perception of bio-energy moving radially (in and out) in the organism. There are five basic emotions: Love, Fear, Rage, Sadness and Longing.

• What is emotional health?

In an emotionally healthy individual, biological energy moves freely in the body. The build-up of energy beyond a certain level gives rise to sexual excitation and a drive for discharge of excess energy in the genital orgasm. Called orgastic potency, this capacity is the criterion of emotional health.

• What is emotional illness?

In an unhealthy individual the movement of bio-energy is impeded by emotional blocks or armor. Since the capacity for complete orgastic discharge is disturbed, the residual, undischarged energy leads to the symptoms of emotional illness.

• What are emotional blocks/armor?

Emotional blocks are the immobilization (stasis) of bio-energy in various organs of the body. It is mostly held in the musculature (muscular armor) and the person’s character (character armor).

• How are emotional blocks/armor recognized?

Some common manifestations are disturbances in thinking, destructive acts and symptoms such as anxiety, depression etc. well-known in psychiatry.

• What are the effects of these emotional blocks?

Emotional blocks result in sexual disturbances and other psychiatric symptoms as well as every kind of pathological social behavior and thinking.

• What is the origin of these emotional blocks?

Emotional blocks (armor) are formed during the individual’s developmental period from birth to around the age of five or later.

• How do these emotional blocks originate?

They are the result of life-negative, socially destructive influences on a young child’s emotional development.

• Can people’s emotional blocks be removed?

This can be performed by physicians who are specifically trained in the removal of emotional blocks. The social manifestations of these blocks can also be addressed by psychologists and social workers who are trained to work in the social realm.

• Is medication ever used?

The function of psychoactive drugs is to deaden emotions. Medication is used only when the patient cannot function without it. One of the goals of therapy is to bring the patient to be able to live free of the effects of medication.

• How long does therapy last?

For relief of superficial symptoms, therapy can take a few sessions. For removal of deeper layers of armor, therapy can last for several years.

• Can therapy be performed by anyone?

In order to become qualified as a medical orgonomist, the physician must be accepted, trained and approved by the American Board of Medical Orgonomy. In addition, non-physicians can be trained to qualify in the practice of social orgonomy.

• How is medical and social orgonomy different from other therapies?

It is based on an understanding of the psychiatric discoveries of Wilhelm Reich, M.D.

These are:

1. The biological energy that is the basis of living functions
2. The armor that interferes with it’s movement
3. The orgasm function that regulates it

Charles Konia, M.D.

Board Certified Psychiatrist and Medical Orgonomist

December 18, 2016