Sarah Sloane ---- Whilhelm Reich and Etheric Warriors

Etheric Warriors Don and Carol Croft and the Legacy of Wilhelm Reich North American activists Carol and Don Croft call themselves “etheric warriors” and join thousands of contemporary believers in “orgone energy,” a bioenergetic substance first posited by Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. Through close readings of “The Adventures of Don and Carol Croft” and other online documents, we can see the principles of Reich’s theories wrenched by the Crofts and others into a homegrown conspiracy theory that funds its paranoia with an arsenal of resin-based products for sale on several websites. Wilhelm Reich first developed the theory of orgone energy, a “primordial energy” that enlivens healthy people and breaks apart their “body armor” and releases blockages. A variation on Freud’s notion of libido, Reich’s theory of orgone energy sees it as related to orgasm, the basis of psychosexual and physical health in all life forms. Clouds, galaxies, individual cells, primitive life forms, and human beings are influenced by the presence or absence of orgone. Reich also built “orgone accumulators,” which healed their users of illnesses such as cancer, neurosis, or other diseases formed by blockage of their orgasmic energy. The Crofts use Reichean principles of orgone energy to guide their attempts to neutralize deadly orgone radiation (DOR) which is present in cell phone towers, universities, government buildings, and post offices. Carol Croft, “a high-level empath” and psychic, communicates with dolphins who have helped her and Don Croft know how to proceed in their fight against DOR. Today the Crofts make and sell Chemtrailbusters, St. Buster Buttons, Rainbow Zapper Eggs, Tower Busters, and Holy Hand Grenades in online shops also selling orgone jewelry, healing stones, chakra-cleansing stones, aura photos, and healing bracelets. Through these devices, orgone energy can be “gifted” to places that harbor DOR, as explained on the thousands of postings on the many discussion forums on www.ethericwarriors.com