After fleeing the Nazi regime to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, Reich eventually settled down in the United States, where he began on a series of inventions and theories which made his colleagues question his sanity. Peter Reich is the only son of Wilhelm Reich, a famously strange pseudo-science philosopher active in the mid-20th century.

This is the book that Kate Bush wrote Cloudbusting about (see the video, it was shot by Terry Gilliam). The short memoir is a series of memories from Peter’s secluded childhood at Orgonon, a sprawling property in the New England where Peter spent his days roaming the countryside and serving as a soldier in his father’s war against the aliens. Anyway, I'm still keen to learn more about Reich, because his ideas were interesting, and while clearly a lot of what he ended up believing was nonsense, there's apparently something in some of what he did, and there was something weird going on with the FDA smashing his orgone accumulators and him dying in prison and all.

Reich also believed that human energy (orgasmic energy, in particular) could help control the weather.

News from Nowhere will not obtain personal information from other organisations, and will not share, pass on or sell personal information that we hold about individuals to anyone else. That said, I found the story largely unremarkable, which is surprising given just how bizarre and fascinating a person Wilhelm Reich seemed to be.

Painful and true, this book sweeps the reader through visual and complex images that turn from wakefulness to sleep, and back through to the other side of reality. If you are looking for a book about Wilhem Reich or his work by someone who knew him best, this isn't it.

The book is short, slim, and important, written by a man whose careers spanned journalism and child daycare according to the jacket. Reich did prior to writing this, but it reminds me of the creative writing that some of my creative writing students do when they put out something that is so magnificent and do not realize how beautiful it really is because they do not normally create with words. Written more like a stream of consciousness than a play-by-play retelling, it weaves a beautiful but tragic story of a man trying to make sense of his childhood trauma. Reich believed his Cloudbuster could be used to fight against aliens, who he believed were attempting to destroy the Earth. The writing, especially the sequences from the point of view of Peter as a child, is so beautiful and really captures his childlike thoughts and voice in a rare way, and the awesome awe and respect he felt for his father.Whilst the story is unusual and quite unique, the writing on a second go-around feels a little detached and removed. g. Jesus and Giordano Bruno – and a willingness to surrender one’s freedom to the most neurotic – e.