The “nature” of love

[I use a number of terms in this post which I have described in other Substack posts; I would recommend scrolling down and looking for those posts, or you could ask me in the comments section. I will capitalize the terms in the post below to make it clear which special terms I’m referring to.)

I’ve been listening to a beautiful country and western song about love (“Night Birds” by Garth Brooks and Royal Wade Kimes). The lyrics also have a lot of reference to nature, which is often characteristic of country and western songs: they combine nature and family and love and patriotism and spirituality.

Reference to family is especially interesting in country and western music since other music genres virtually never mention family whatsoever. How often has a child been mentioned in rock ‘n’ roll, for example? It happens, but it’s not typical. Especially these days. I think it happened a little bit more in the hippie era. Interestingly, the hippie movement also involved a lot of sentiment about getting back to nature, constant references to love, and an affection for and openess to folk music and country music.

Country and western songs are mostly about failed love, which is true for love songs in general: there aren’t many love songs about successful relationships!

The references to being a cowboy in the song I’ve been listening to also evoke the atmosphere of the potential for the failure of love: the cowboy contemplates continuing to drift alone through life, partly because he prefers contact with nature as an alternative to living in the ARMORED world, where love so often fails and disappoints.

Country and western songs are thought of as the most American of musical forms, and part of this is because of the attachment to nature which can be found in these songs. The American spirit was largely formed as a result of contact with nature.

Most songs are about love, it’s the most common topic I would say.

Like all art, songs more often than not are an attempt to understand the emotional plague. In essence, art is very often an attempt to understand what gets in the way of love prevailing? Frankly, the artistic attempt to understand never really gets that deep. For example, no one ever really asks, why does love fail? Even in ORGONOMIC circles, we rarely talk about it. In fact, we rarely talk about love at all. I wonder why that is?

The EMOTIONAL PLAGUE not only acts sociologically, but also each one of us carries the emotional plague within us in the form of “ARMOR.” Armor is the psychological and physiological ways we prevent ourselves from feeling things. So in this sense we actually “victimize ourselves” with the plague. And the more each person is overcome with their own “personal plague,“ the more likely they will inflict the plague on others, either in interpersonal settings (including within families and love relationships), or sociologically and politically. So it is essential that the human race develops an understanding of what the emotional plague actually is. And this is impossible without the help of WILHELM REICH.

Reich had an answer to what ultimately causes the emotional plague: PLEASURE ANXIETY, with ORGASM ANXIETY being a more specific form of pleasure anxiety.

The simple term “love anxiety” also occurred to me some years ago. I had never heard anyone use that term. As far as I know, Reich never used it, but clearly that is the essential thing he was describing (not much different from the term “pleasure anxiety”).

This all makes me think about love and STREAMING.

The GENITAL CHARACTER is capable of love. For example, the genital character is characterized as being capable of “giving,” and the capacity to give is described as one of the main hallmarks of the genital character. Another characteristic of the genital character is the capacity for “surrender” in the genital embrace. The capacity for “giving“ and for “surrender“ depends on the relative absence of armor, in other words, depends on the ability for the ORGONE ENERGY to stream fully.

Pleasure anxiety, orgasm anxiety, love anxiety all have something in common: they all are essentially “streaming anxiety.” I don’t recall whether Reich ever used that term either, but clearly this is what he described. He did at least on one occasion use the term “contact anxiety,” and since streaming is what happens when contact occurs, clearly there is such a thing as streaming anxiety.

In fact, Reich describes how during the process of MEDICAL ORGONE THERAPY, as the armor breaks down there is more streaming, which is at first experienced by the patient with anxiety. Then later, as the patient gets healthier and healthier, the exact same streaming energy is experienced with pleasure. Armor prevents streaming.

Free streaming is also necessary for CONTACTFUL thinking. The only form of thinking, the only form of “logic” that is actually rational, is “FUNCTIONAL logic,” logic which describes how nature actually functions. ORGONOMIC theory has a theory (actually a whole set of theories) about how nature in general functions.

Very often, people mistake all thinking for intellectualization. But thinking is only intellectualization when the thinking energy is stuck in the brain. If the energy streams through the brain freely, functional thinking occurs. This is because functional thinking involves the entire body, not just the brain and isolation. If streaming is free throughout the whole body, then the whole body is able to “think” functionally.

All thinking and perception, in addition to all emotion, is a function of energetic streaming. If we say that free streaming is necessary for functional thinking, that logically means that the apprehension of truth itself is a function of the relative freedom of streaming.

There are a variety of ways to assess the truth, but one of them is essentially intuitive. What is intuition? Reich called it the “ORGONITIC SENSE,” which he described as a “sixth sense.” So it can be said that to experience and perceive free streaming is to experience and perceive the truth.

So what is the nature of love? Clearly love is streaming. That’s why so many good love songs refer to nature when referring to romantic love. That’s why beautiful things, including beautiful music, make us have goosebumps.

Love is what we feel when we stream freely. So love is both “psychic” (psychological) and biological.

According to orgonomic theory, the psyche is orgone energy. In other words, the psyche is not just a concept, and it’s not just composed of matter (such as neurons and brain nuclei); the psyche is primarily a function of orgone energy movement (including the way that orgone energy streaming is blocked by armor, which is conceptualized in ORGONOMY to be one of the main causes of psychological disease).

Orgonomic medical science also conceptualizes many or most somatic diseases as involving disorders of the flow of orgone energy in the body.

Energy is at the basis of matter, both according to conventional physics and to orgonomic physics. Orgone energy is one of the aspects of the energetic functions which underly the nature of matter.

The nature of love is that it is a phenomenon of both the psyche and the body. We feel love in the body. When we lose love, it has an impact on us bodily as well as psychically. When we are able to love, we thrive because love is part of nature, and we are also part of nature.

Since it can be said that both love and the experience of truth are functions of streaming, it can then also be said that love and truth are deeply related. And since both love and truth are beautiful, so is beauty a function of streaming.

So this is the nature of love. It is something related to truth and beauty and streaming. And all of these things are part of nature.