Re: Wilhelm Reich in alt.*

[ai474@freenet.carleton.ca (Farrell McGovern)]

In a previous article, anders.hultman@unisource.se (Anders Hultman) says:

>In alt.discordia, alt.pagan and alt.magick there is a (crossposted)
>thead going on with the subject line "WILHELM REICH IN HELL, by
>Robert Anton Wilson"
> It has, as far as I can see, nothing to do with "our" Wilhelm Reich,
>of Cloudbusting fame, but it could be fun to know that his name is 
>around in some way or another.

	Actualy, it does.

	Robert Anton Wilson was totally freaked when he heard about US
Governement burning Reich's books in 1957. He has researched Reich's works
over the years, and has even gone through Reichian Theropy. Here is what
RAW has to say: 

	"William Bulter Yeats once said that we make rhetoric out of out
dispute with others and art out of our dispute with ourselves, and
'Wilhelm Reich in Hell', a Punk Rock Opera, is my attempt to make dramatic
art out of my sipute with myself about the ambiguities and unsolved
enigmas of the life and persecution of Dr. Reich."

	- From Wilson's introduction, page 4.

	The complete text of the introduction, as well as the play itself
is available from Falcon Press (Which I beleive is now New Falcon Press),
ISBN 0-941404-47-1. It was first performed at the Edmund Burke Theatre,
Dublin, Ireland, on August 20, 1985.

Blessed be,
     Farrell
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