Richard A. Blasband, M.D., Research Director
Through functional research and what Goethe referred to as
"active, imaginative perception," we come to know ourselves and the
world in terms of their living, life-energetic, and "spiritual" qualities.
Announcements:
Lecture 8/18/07 titled: Experimental Evidence for an Energetic Component in Psychic Healing (which showed that the effect of the orgone accumulator on mice with cancer is identical to that effected by “psychic healing”) to the European division of the Society for Scientific Exploration in Norway.
Lecture 10/26/07 titled: Memoirs of a Medical Maverick in honor of the 50th anniversary of Wilhelm Riech’s death, in Vienna. Vienna Workshops will include: Orgone Therapy and Conscious Intention.
Lecture titled: Reich’s Concept of Genitality in Berlin. Berlin Workshops will include: Orgone Therapy and Conscious Intention.
Workshop May 11-16, 2008: Drs. Blasband and Frisch will conduct their 8th annual public workshop at Esalen® Institute on Relationships: Intimacy Through Differentiation (Orgonomy - The Work of Wilhelm Reich)
The Center for Functional Research was incorporated in 1992 as a scientific and
educational nonprofit. Its central theme is that there is specific life energy in the cosmos and in the atmosphere,
and that this energy is closely coupled with consciousness.
Statement of Purpose
The Center will support, conduct, and disseminate information
on research involving the natural energetic processes in living and
non-living matter, and the distorted or pathological transformations
and variations of natural processes. A fundamental premise of the research
associates at the center is that the same basic processes are operating
at the microscopic and macroscopic level, in living and non-living systems,
and that these processes are essentially energetic in nature and often
co-function with the conscious and unconscious intention of human beings,
including researchers. It is the aim of the Center to study these processes
in the natural biological realm, in medical pathology, such as cancer,
in weather in the Earth's atmosphere, and through the use of special
energy accumulating and directing devices, and devices used to estimate
the effect of human consciousness on biological and physical systems.
This workshop will explore the balance of intimacy/differentiation in the context of healthy relationships.
Successful, intimate relationships are built on the differentiated self – the ability to maintain a sense of self when deeply engaged with another. When we are differentiated, we are balancing our need to be an individual, which includes our own ideas, needs, goals, and self-identity, with our desire to be close, attached, connected and part of a relationship, family or community. Balancing individuality with togetherness involves following our own internal guidance while developing a capacity to give in and let go to the other. The balance of these two life drives creates healthy relationships.
When we lack contact with our core self, we may look to the other person for self-validation or to help us create an identity. This lack of self identity creates feelings of inadequacy which places demands on our partner and stresses the relationship. When we fuse with another person, neither can feel freedom and autonomy. Instead, the relationship becomes distorted by blocked feelings as both partners squirm in this uncomfortable, symbiotic state.
For more information and to register, go to http://www.esalen.org. Click here to download a pdf flyer containing additional information on this workshop.
