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Reich's Unified View Of Life
- Wilhelm Reich presents Ether, God and Devil as his most sustained philosophical statement about life as a unified pulsation rather than separate mind/body or spirit/matter divisions.
- Dan Lowe and James Ellis say the book attempts a new mode of thinking that combines sensation, feeling and thought into a single living epistemology.
Dualities Are Armoured Expressions Of The Same Energy
- Reich frames dualities like God versus Ether (mysticism versus science) as expressions of the same underlying living energy blocked by armour.
- Both mysticism and mechanism are character positions that avoid confronting pulsation: one distances, the other reduces to parts.
Pulsation As The Biological Red Thread
- Reich's key biological observation is pulsation: contraction and expansion (orgasmic plasma pulsation) recurs across breathing, laughter, birth and orgasm.
- He uses subjective sensation as a legitimate scientific tool, observing living processes (bions) without killing or staining them.