Creative energy

Talking about creative energy ends up in various metaphoric illustrations. The concept of energy is already a metaphor: in physics it has it's place but everywhere else it seems to be meaningless if any accuracy is needed. Still many are clinging in the concept of energy. Why? Not many concepts picture well an advanced idea of a surplus power stored in human mind and ready to burst into wide open with just one single act of artistry. Being stored and condenced, over-flooded or wasted away, and having consequences which are easily seen and even financially prosperous, that energy evidently seems to correlate with physical energy. It may get special names, as if someone were seeking to identify its essence beyond the metaphorical.
Let's take one example. Wilhelm Reich wrote in early 30s that he has found a previously unknown energy source in human. He called it "orgon" since it has something to do with certain organs and orgasms. Reich considered "orgon" an energy form that burst out in some seconds during the orgasm but which also was there for use to us any moment during the day and night without sexual arousal, organs or orgasms. Reich take "orgon" for general creative energy in human that could be steered in many ways, creative and social. "Orgon" is not entirely without moral consequences: if understood properly, it may produce an undercurrent between individuals aside of conceptual, word-ridden, and socially acceptable sphere. "Orgon" is there, whatever one may think or say.
Let's introduce this idea from cinematic angle. Dusan Makavejev (born 1932 in Belgrav) directed a film "W.R. - Misterije organizma" in 1971. "W.R." in the title refers to Wilhelm Reich. Makavejev - to put it grossly - shows us certain social and moral systems as analogies to sexual repression, well described by Freud. The film was politically loaded, and the reactions towards it likewise. After some 35 years the political message is timely enough, today the system pictured is not Stalinism but Europe-Socialdemocratics and US-Liberalism in it's Bushian mode. The documentary footages he has lapped with his fictitious movie as a part of it appear even more to the date: we are subjected to genuine documents that show Wilhelm Reich's experiments in his HumanLab in the State of Maine. Wilhelm Reich wanted to have filmed experiments where he got his human guinea pigs perform proof of his ideas, filmed especially when new kind of energy was disclosed, disclosed in flesh and therefore visible in film, too.
Reich is present himself in footages. He right away interpres the situation and results, in flagrante, when we look at what's going on: his human test animals experience something quite strange but W.R. gives a water-proof explanation without any delay. We look at a woman who is in her panties, lying down on her back, and W.R. and one of his assistents are encouraging her to surrender herself alone to body movements usually experienced when one is making love to another person. The woman in question continues her movements and little by little she evidently enters the state known as sexual ecstasy. She has done it all herself, without using her hands on her clit or her brests; she made the movements, she used her hips and her thights. W.R. tells us that the movements alone discloses the energy, "orgon", and the energy is there for anyone to introduce in her/his own daily life.
Repression of sexual presence is the main obstacle to introduce the energy into our daily life. The energy itself is not sexual, it is more generic, but neither can one claim that it differs from sexual energy. They both are more important than the fictitious classification of energies or sources. In case we have blocked the source of "orgon" socially and culturally, we are not entitled to assume that a human being is free to make her/his choices as a free subject. Something is missing, something essential to human being. Without "orgon", without being able to produce energy out of oneself, one is invalid, morally and spritually.
Reich sees in "orgon" the human way to understand transcendence. Transcendence is not needed because of religion or other out-of-worldly reasons but simply because a human being when free is able to estimate and evaluate her/his own choises, decisions, life-steering values, and intellectual ideas. Trancendence means to be able to estimate the human sphere: we can look at history, check what is present, and plan the future, and all this is made by rating life-phenomena as if not living them through but watching them from afar. For Reich this presumes an energy source within us selves, something that ensures us that trans-cendence really happens, individually, that it is not a fancy but a real self-energized phenomenon. Transcence is to step out of one's shoes, to lift up oneself with the help of one's own powers, like Münchhausen did.
Irrationality reigns as long as human beings don't relay upon their own energy sources. Religions, science-belief, new age movements, and indigenous stupidity are here among us until we let them go. We are not in need of them. Human being is constructed to be self-satisfied. Even history acts here as a proof, although history seldom is of any proof. However, every ideological power system has declined in due time, and this shows us that transcendence maintained by religions and like are not really the source of transcendence. We have only ourselves to relay upon.
Be it "orgon" or some other kind of energy, Reich's idea is interesting. Reich does not propagate individualism although energy source is in an individual. We are able, however, to understand each other's choises and decisions if made by a free subject: free-thinkers and libertins have always been well understood by all though not accepted by those unable to contextualize them. A certain kind of precondition for new thoughts, a talent to understand things not previously known, to catch ideas heard never before - all this describes human being quite well. Suppression of freedom - like suppression of sexuality - is an other issue: it comes after the disposition we already have.
Reich was sure that human beings are equipped with "primal" energy that only should be unleashed to act as source of moral and as a key for better life. Morality then is - in this sense - a predisposition of human life, not a construct of culture. Moral here means presumably the opposite of habit, or decency. In case the source of moral already is in everyone as a certain kind of energy, culture only suppresses it in order to create a citizen. It won't however destroy the source. Reich's experiments show that with the help of little submission and thereafter with bodily movements already well known from happier moments of previous life one is able to summon energy to open up the source. "Orgon" will disclose more real view towards daily life.

Further topics include:
 How are orgon and subconsciousness related?
 How does suppression imprint the moral facility of human being?
 How does orgon act in cultural context?
 Where, if anywhere, does orgon meet the conceptual phere?
 How to make this all politically acute?
 Is orgon able to unleash powers that will diminish the rôle of political stagnancy caused by movements that are fascist in their roots and consequences though their appearances now differs from those of earlier fascist movements?

JV