The Lost Legacy of Wilhelm Reich and The Brain-Zapper Device I'm Testing

WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.799 Hey, it's johnny emotions. It's a new day, so this is a 2 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:29.339 new daily emotions. Thank God it's thank God it's this Friday. Still mean 3 00:00:29.420 --> 00:00:33.740 anything to you? Yeah, it does to me. Well, now, 4 00:00:33.899 --> 00:00:39.049 not always during the pandemic. Sometimes I just work weird hours all through the 5 00:00:39.090 --> 00:00:43.689 night, sleep during the day. Weekends don't mean much, but lately I've 6 00:00:43.689 --> 00:00:46.890 been going to kind of a nine hundred and twenty five type of job, 7 00:00:47.049 --> 00:00:53.759 sales job, and this past week sucked was they hadn't paid me. They're 8 00:00:53.840 --> 00:01:00.520 just lagging. So this Friday finally got some money. A little upset yesterday 9 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:04.549 just internally. I didn't not. I don't know. I don't know if 10 00:01:04.590 --> 00:01:07.269 I have a reason to be or not. It's not. It's not the 11 00:01:07.349 --> 00:01:11.310 issue. The issue is I caught myself becoming upset and just kind of nipped 12 00:01:11.349 --> 00:01:15.469 it in the bud, so I would. One of my son's hit me 13 00:01:15.549 --> 00:01:18.900 up like two days ago. He's like, yeah, I'm going to go 14 00:01:19.659 --> 00:01:25.219 to California for about a week. So basically you just left yesterday. I 15 00:01:25.260 --> 00:01:27.780 could understand why he doesn't. Didn't want to give me too much notice because, 16 00:01:30.260 --> 00:01:34.530 like, I get upset. When I get upset and anyway, so 17 00:01:34.969 --> 00:01:38.049 unfortunately he didn't get to see me contain myself and, you know, figure 18 00:01:38.090 --> 00:01:42.650 out on my own. Just brought him to the airport. Now I'm just 19 00:01:42.689 --> 00:01:48.799 as a parents. I'm worried that he's out amongst the sick and might like 20 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:53.599 he's healthy, but I hope he doesn't catch it and bring it back or 21 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:59.079 end up somewhere and catching it where there's no hospitals. So I worry, 22 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:02.430 I'm a parent. Anyway, I'm not going to talk about politics or pandemics. 23 00:02:04.150 --> 00:02:13.270 Today's episode going to talk about Wilhelm Reich. So if you don't know 24 00:02:13.509 --> 00:02:16.860 about Wilhelm Reich, this guy's a trip. I'll tell you the reason I'm 25 00:02:16.860 --> 00:02:23.340 bringing him up in a minute, but anyway, Wilhelm Reich was a scientist 26 00:02:23.419 --> 00:02:29.060 and a doctor psychologist who came to prominence in the s and he was pretty 27 00:02:29.060 --> 00:02:35.930 radical. Came up with a lot of wild ideas. My particular favorite is 28 00:02:36.169 --> 00:02:43.569 his orgiastic potency, I think is what he called it. He discovered or 29 00:02:43.729 --> 00:02:51.879 gone, which is an invisible elements omnipresent in our environment. It's in the 30 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:57.080 trees, it's in the air, it's everywhere. So or gone is what 31 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:05.750 causes orgasms. But there's also negative orgon and he invented this thing called the 32 00:03:05.789 --> 00:03:09.310 cloud buster, series of like aluminum tubes he would aim at the sky and 33 00:03:09.389 --> 00:03:14.060 he could make it rain. In fact, there was a couple of farmers 34 00:03:14.379 --> 00:03:20.139 were experiencing such severe drought they had heard of this Guy Wilhelm Reich's crazy cloudbuster 35 00:03:21.060 --> 00:03:23.460 and said, dude, will pay you if you can make it rain. 36 00:03:23.900 --> 00:03:27.969 So he went over there, aimed a shit up with the clouds and by 37 00:03:28.050 --> 00:03:31.530 that night it rained. This was, like in the S, Pretty Wild, 38 00:03:31.610 --> 00:03:36.009 you know, circumstance, and it's easy to call his work bullshit. 39 00:03:36.770 --> 00:03:42.439 But what I found really interesting was after the both the orgone stuff and the 40 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:45.479 cloudbusters, a lot of his work, if you read between the lines, 41 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:50.919 look like he invented a cure for cancer and unlimited energy. He's like one 42 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:54.080 of those guys like Tesla, and I think the reason he's not as famous 43 00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:59.590 as Tesla. Again, his name's Wilhelm Reich. I think he's not as 44 00:03:59.669 --> 00:04:04.150 famous as Tesla because all his shit got burned. Like they were so freaked 45 00:04:04.150 --> 00:04:11.539 out about Wilhelm Reich that the US government went in there and well, he's 46 00:04:11.539 --> 00:04:15.379 also kind of an ass. He's kind of like me. Maybe whatever, 47 00:04:15.419 --> 00:04:19.019 if I was in that situation where like the FDA, the Food and Drug 48 00:04:19.060 --> 00:04:23.300 Administration, said now you got to come to court and answer to these questions 49 00:04:23.339 --> 00:04:30.410 because you're claiming your little orgone generators and collectors are curing cancer, and he 50 00:04:30.569 --> 00:04:32.889 just said, well, you have no authority over me. You get like 51 00:04:33.050 --> 00:04:36.009 this is not an FDA issue. You guys aren't scientist, you have no 52 00:04:36.089 --> 00:04:40.399 authority. I'm not going to court. So he did not go to court. 53 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:43.839 He ended up in prison for a couple of years. Then he got 54 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:46.519 out and ended up having to plead for his own sanity. That thought he 55 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:50.439 was just crazy, crazy, which he was not. He was just stubborn 56 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:55.949 and he thought he was onto something we don't know yet. This is where 57 00:04:55.949 --> 00:04:58.949 it kind of you know, you don't want to promote quackery, of course, 58 00:04:59.470 --> 00:05:03.149 but there's a lot of things that become known in science many decades after 59 00:05:03.189 --> 00:05:08.220 the fact that they were first introduced, and when their first introduced everybody thinks 60 00:05:08.220 --> 00:05:12.220 they're fucking nut jobs. So I'm going to hold it out that maybe a 61 00:05:12.300 --> 00:05:16.579 lot of Wilhelm Reich's ideas still have yet to be proven. That said, 62 00:05:16.740 --> 00:05:20.889 I mean it's fun to think about anyway. So, anyway, people know 63 00:05:20.930 --> 00:05:28.410 about Tesla because there's a competition with him and Edison, and then the bad 64 00:05:28.569 --> 00:05:32.810 myths and the rewritten history about who invented the light bulb or electricity and all 65 00:05:32.889 --> 00:05:36.480 that. So there's story there. With Wilhelm Reich, a lot of this 66 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:40.839 stuff. Well, part of it was he was preaching a lot of weird 67 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:46.639 studo marks of stuff. In fact, he wrote the book the Mass Psychology 68 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:49.870 of Fascism. That's a fascinating book. He's got a whole bunch of books. 69 00:05:50.069 --> 00:05:53.870 But back in the day these books were all burned, all of his 70 00:05:53.949 --> 00:05:58.829 equipment was dismantled and destroyed and he was basically you just died in prison. 71 00:05:59.350 --> 00:06:03.740 And it's kind of fucked up because none of the medical or scientific journals published 72 00:06:03.740 --> 00:06:10.100 his obituary and apparently is headstone just read William Reich, born March twenty four 73 00:06:10.139 --> 00:06:15.459 one thousand eight hundred and ninety seven, died. It's it died. Just 74 00:06:15.939 --> 00:06:20.529 a sad ending to this guy's life. So if you want somebody interesting to 75 00:06:20.569 --> 00:06:26.050 follow up on, go look in the Wilhelm Reich it's got some wild things. 76 00:06:26.050 --> 00:06:28.490 Anyway. The whole reason I brought this up was because as I was 77 00:06:28.610 --> 00:06:32.079 telling you the other day, I got in touch with some folks that have 78 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:41.519 one of these transcranial direct current stimulation, transcranial t direct current DC stimulation, 79 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:47.629 s t DCS, tdcs. Anyway, it's a little brain zapper thing and 80 00:06:47.750 --> 00:06:50.550 the more I looked into it, man there's tons of different brands, different 81 00:06:50.670 --> 00:06:55.589 like companies making these types of things. Not sure what the problem is. 82 00:06:55.589 --> 00:06:59.310 I guess it's and I looked at there's lots of scientific research that says it 83 00:06:59.389 --> 00:07:04.060 does something. So I think here's where I think here's the problem. I 84 00:07:04.779 --> 00:07:09.420 think a lot of these devices they don't know how to mark it to the 85 00:07:09.500 --> 00:07:15.379 mentally ill or two people with just different brain disorders. I don't know why. 86 00:07:15.540 --> 00:07:18.529 Maybe it's a hard thing to mark it to or whatever. But so 87 00:07:18.850 --> 00:07:21.329 the next step in the trying to sell these devices. Did you go for 88 00:07:21.569 --> 00:07:28.449 the the mind hackers, like the people who want to get smarter and be 89 00:07:28.649 --> 00:07:32.439 more creative and that sort of thing? And I think that that's what the 90 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:39.560 pitch man on shark tank was going for with this device, because it's sexy. 91 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:43.920 He can be smarter, it's cognitive enhancement and all this. I don't 92 00:07:44.310 --> 00:07:46.870 I don't know if that's true or not true, and it's not why I 93 00:07:46.990 --> 00:07:50.230 want to try this device in the first place. I want to try this 94 00:07:50.350 --> 00:07:58.509 device because, like my metaphor I used for Adhd, basically all your thoughts 95 00:07:58.550 --> 00:08:01.259 go through an intersection in your mind, there's a little traffic cop that guides 96 00:08:01.300 --> 00:08:05.620 them and keep things orderly. Well, with an a DH, a dhd 97 00:08:05.819 --> 00:08:11.019 mind, that traffic cop is asleep. Normally you use speed like adderall or 98 00:08:11.379 --> 00:08:15.170 concert a riddling and things like that to wake it up. I don't take 99 00:08:15.250 --> 00:08:20.410 those because it affects my blood pressure. So I'm going to try waken that 100 00:08:20.490 --> 00:08:26.129 little traffic cop up with this transcranual direct current stimulation, and you get to 101 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:31.120 try along with me anyway. So there's some correlation between just unproven technology, 102 00:08:31.159 --> 00:08:35.360 or I would even say umproving. It's technology that hasn't been accepted by the 103 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:39.720 masses and in this case, you know, it's been accepted by enough people, 104 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:43.830 so it's really out there and a lot of people try it. Conversely, 105 00:08:45.549 --> 00:08:48.870 it's rare enough to wear most people having even heard of it, and 106 00:08:50.590 --> 00:08:54.190 so there's that. So I'm going to try and they sent it to me 107 00:08:54.860 --> 00:09:00.580 like I'm me, like I didn't pay for it, they're not paying me 108 00:09:00.779 --> 00:09:05.100 to review it. It's going to be a straight up honest review and when 109 00:09:05.179 --> 00:09:07.340 a chart my mood and my my how it just I'm a feeling because I'm 110 00:09:07.379 --> 00:09:11.330 I do a fucking podcast every day, so you kind of get it. 111 00:09:11.490 --> 00:09:15.690 Like, listen to today's podcast. I'm going to go. I think g 112 00:09:15.889 --> 00:09:18.289 shock is going to come on a little bit. We're going to do another 113 00:09:18.330 --> 00:09:20.210 podcast, but later tonight, before I go to bed, I'm going to 114 00:09:20.250 --> 00:09:24.399 sit here with this thing on my brain for twenty minutes, like it says, 115 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:28.360 and then the next day and the next day, so thirty days of 116 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:31.320 this and we'll see if it actually has an effect. And of course I 117 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:35.279 should remind you, don't need to, but I should, that I'm not 118 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:39.110 a doctor, I'm not a scientist, just another asshole with a podcast, 119 00:09:39.830 --> 00:09:43.710 which might be kind of the best way to review a product like this, 120 00:09:43.990 --> 00:09:48.350 because I'm not trying to get smarter. SMART as bullshit. I've been smart 121 00:09:48.350 --> 00:09:52.190 since I was a kid and unless you got your moods and your emotions in 122 00:09:52.269 --> 00:09:58.940 your feelings together, smart doesn't help at all. Like imagine having an expensive 123 00:09:58.460 --> 00:10:03.820 Ferrari or something, or Lamborghini or something that just fucking crazy, powerful right, 124 00:10:03.620 --> 00:10:07.129 but it's got no steering wheel, or the steering will just asn't attached, 125 00:10:07.169 --> 00:10:11.730 and nobody told you that. So you hit the gas and moon go 126 00:10:11.850 --> 00:10:16.610 around the curve and Oh fuck that. That's what it's like. Having Adhd, 127 00:10:16.210 --> 00:10:22.279 bipolar and anxiety depression are all these things when you're intelligent, and almost 128 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:28.519 everybody have met that has, especially asperger spectrum bipolar and schizophrenia. All the 129 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:33.000 people I know with those three conditions are smart, so there's something there. 130 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:37.669 Just be careful. What you ask for, is all I'm saying. Like 131 00:10:37.429 --> 00:10:41.190 wishing to be smart and using a device like this to try to make yourself 132 00:10:41.309 --> 00:10:48.870 smarter, swell, but if you can't pay attention because you're distracted or if 133 00:10:48.909 --> 00:10:52.460 you have mood stabilizing issues, then yeah, you're going to make yourself smarter. 134 00:10:52.580 --> 00:10:56.700 To what end? It doesn't even make any sense. So anyway, 135 00:10:56.259 --> 00:11:03.940 by point in using this device is to reduce my distractedness, because I've found 136 00:11:03.980 --> 00:11:07.730 that when I took the speed related medicine Concerta, it did wake up the 137 00:11:07.850 --> 00:11:13.450 traffic cop and my theory, my doctor's theory, worked in that essence. 138 00:11:13.570 --> 00:11:16.850 In that sense, I mean it woke the traffic cop up. I was 139 00:11:16.929 --> 00:11:20.840 able to think more clearly. In thinking more clearly, I was able to 140 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:26.639 break problems down in the smaller, more manageable pieces. I was able to 141 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:28.960 see through days or weeks ahead. So there was a light at the end 142 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:35.190 of the tunnel and that naturally lifted my depression. So by curing your Adhd 143 00:11:35.350 --> 00:11:41.070 you might actually provide yourself some hope and that could naturally lift depression again. 144 00:11:41.070 --> 00:11:43.110 I'm not a doctor, just telling you what happened with me. So I 145 00:11:43.269 --> 00:11:48.539 am going to unpack this bad boy. I see what's up. I don't 146 00:11:48.700 --> 00:11:52.820 really do unpacking videos and gets stupid. Sure, people get paid, but 147 00:11:54.019 --> 00:11:56.460 you know, people get paid to do a lot of stupid things and that's 148 00:11:56.460 --> 00:12:01.340 dumb. I'll put a picture up on it, or, even better, 149 00:12:01.610 --> 00:12:03.690 you can go to the website and look at it for yourself. So this 150 00:12:03.889 --> 00:12:11.809 brand, this particular company, is called lifted, lift ID lifted, and 151 00:12:11.129 --> 00:12:20.039 their website is get liftedcom again, not being paid by them. There's they 152 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:24.200 probably once they hear the review, they're probably sink fuck we do. Why 153 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:26.240 do we do that? But now I'll be fair, I'll be kind and 154 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:31.350 check out the device. And I'll give you my first report tomorrow. Now, 155 00:12:31.509 --> 00:12:35.149 between tomorrow's episode and this one, I'm going to squeeze in a little 156 00:12:35.149 --> 00:12:41.590 talk with Gary Gee shock and I hope you have a great night. Thanks 157 00:12:41.629 --> 00:12:46.860 for being here. I appreciate you and did pretty good. High sound like 158 00:12:46.899 --> 00:12:50.659 I'm going to up beat. I'm pretty depressed, but I've kind of think 159 00:12:50.659 --> 00:12:56.860 of myself as like a magician and one of my tricks is pretending to be 160 00:12:56.940 --> 00:13:01.610 able to function as a regular person and normally pull it off pretty well. 161 00:13:01.889 --> 00:13:05.009 So, anyway, I appreciate you, hang in there and I'll talk to 162 00:13:05.049 --> 00:13:15.159 you tomorrow. And now back to the wall.