American College of Orgonomy - The Global Breakthrough of the Emotional Plague in the Form of Black Fascism

Most manifestations of the emotional plague involve an attack on a single individual. Less often the assault is confined to a group of individuals. On rare occasions the emotional plague outbreak is pandemic. Such an eruption occurred on September 11, 2001 when a highly trained and organized group of Islamic black fascists 1 hijacked four American commercial airplanes, two of which demolished the World Trade Center in New York City, one grievously damaged the Pentagon, and another went down in western Pennsylvania. In this case the target of the attack was America and the American people. The attack either directly or indirectly involved every nation on earth. Thus the holy war of Islamic fanatics against America became full-blown on American soil. 2

Why did this happen? Why did a group of Islamic fanatics who have no ostensible reason to hate America, who were never treated badly by Americans, who knew nothing of the people whom they killed, go to the enormous trouble to commit these heinous acts? To say they hate the freedom Americans enjoy or that America threatens their religious beliefs is not sufficient to explain the enormity of the burning hostility they feel toward America and Americans. Other questions arise: Who are these fanatics? Why do they terrorize? Why are they attracted to fundamentalist forms of religion? Wherein lies the enormous power of fundamentalism? Are the attackers limited in number, and if not what is their relationship to the rest of the Arab population? A clear answer to these questions is necessary if the war against them is to be won. Unfortunately, there is no way to satisfactorily answer these questions according to classical or contemporary political and social thought, the ways that people ordinarily think. The answers so derived do not penetrate deeply enough.

Like all biological systems, societies pulsate; they expand and contract. American society prior to the onset of the war on terrorism was in a state of chronic expansion. The peripheral functions of society including pleasurable social activity and a high level of economic productivity predominated over central functions such as local and national defense, intelligence gathering and so on. To the Islamic fanatics, America appeared contemptibly weak, morally bankrupt, split by political and social polarization and vulnerable at all levels of social life. Seriously misjudging the situation, they believed they were in a position to destroy the United States.

American society was in a state of dissociation of its social components. This was the age of the individual, people were socially at variance with each other, as manifested by cultural disunity and increasing sociopolitical polarization of the Left and Right. The social components were related to each other as antagonistic opposite variations (antithetical functions that exclude each other). This can be written orgonometrically, where A₁ and A₂ represent the social components.

This was the situation not only nationally in the U.S. but also internationally in America's relationship to the Islamic fundamentalists: Provocative acts of terrorism were repeatedly met with military ineffectuality and retreat leading to increasing contempt for the United States in the Muslim world.

Following the attack of September 11, 2001, America declared war on the terrorists and American society went into a state of acute contraction. This state of social contraction was necessary for America's survival. Unitary functions related to the center of the social system (the Federal government) such as national defense, intelligence gathering and so on became predominant over peripheral social functions. Biophysical contraction, which is a rational response to a threat to the social biosystem, predominated over expansion. From an international standpoint the relationship between America and the Islamic fundamentalists changed to one of simple opposition. Orgonometrically, this is a state of association of the components where the components are related to each other as simple opposite variations (antithetical functions that attract each other and coexist):

However, the degree of social contraction needed to fully mobilize America's defenses against the Islamic fanatics was hampered by some on the political Left who, because they are biophysically incapable of the required contraction and aggression, continued their efforts to undermine U.S. determination to wage a successful war.

To combat an infectious disease, precise identification of the pathogenic agent (bacteria, virus) as well as understanding it's metabolism, life cycle and pathophysiology is crucial for effective eradication. Similarly, it is essential to specifically identify the emotional plague characters (e.g., bin Laden), their sociopolitical character type and their way of functioning in order to effectively contain and counter the emotional plague attack.

It is not enough, however, to identify the perpetrators and leadership of the emotional plague attack. It is equally important to understand the relationship between the leader and the fanatic masses. Leaders come and go and the elimination of a particular individual will only result in his replacement by another. It is a requirement of the mystical masses that they have a leader, one who has a certain degree of charisma, single-mindedness and cleverness to excite them into action. Because the masses are essentially helpless, with little or no ability to improve themselves on their own, they place hope for a better life on their leaders. The relationship between the masses of Islamic fanatics and their leader is one of simple opposition:

The Islamic cult leader can not take hold of the masses if they are not ready and willing to identify with, be taken care of, and be led by him. In the Islamic masses from the lower socio-economic strata, the religious and the authoritarian fixation are identical. The significance of the Islamic cult leader for the masses is that he personifies the religious movement. An emotional attachment to him develops to the extent to which he actually personifies the religious movement in terms of the mystical feeling of the masses. If he knows how to arouse a family attachment in the individual, he also becomes an authoritarian father figure. He becomes the object of all the emotional attitudes which the individual as a child had toward the protecting father. The followers believe the cult leader knows everything much better than the individual and that he "can do it all." This attitude, on the part of the mass individual, of blind trust and of seeking protection gives the cult leader the power to "do it all" and at the same time to direct the individual to do his bidding.

Of equal importance is the identification of the mass individual with the cult leader. The more helpless an individual is made by his upbringing, the more strongly he identifies himself with the cult leader. This tendency to identification is the basis of religious narcissism: that is, of a self-confidence based on identification with the "greatness of the religious movement." On the basis of this identification the individual feels himself the defender of the religion. His personal misery and insignificance is drowned out by his mystical identification with the great leader. These individuals constitute the masses of fundamentalist fanatics who are prepared to do the bidding of the cult leader, whomever it may be.

Reich has shown that the permeation of mysticism in the character structure of the masses is essential for the acceptance of black fascist ideology (Reich 1946, 98). Therefore, an understanding of Islamic black fascism is not possible without knowing how mysticism becomes anchored in the individual and also knowing what the energy source of mysticism is.

In the unarmored individual ideas and feelings about God and sexuality are closely related. In primitive religions religiosity and sexuality are identical. There is no antithesis between the two states of feeling. When society became armored 4 the unity of religion and sexuality underwent a dissociation and religion became antithetical to sexuality (Reich 1946, 125). The sexual feelings of the individual were repressed and became opposed to religious feelings. Once the separation between sexual and religious feelings occurred, religious excitation assumed a new function, that of being a substitute for the lost sexual pleasure, now no longer affirmed by society. Therefore the energy source of religious fervor is repressed sexual excitation.

According to Reich, the structure of the mystical individual can be described as follows: "Biologically, he is subject to states of sexual tension like any other living being. But, through the assimilation of the sex-negating religious ideas in general and the fear of punishment in particular, he has lost all capacity for natural sexual excitation and gratification. As a result, he suffers from a chronic state of excessive somatic excitation which he is constantly forced to master. Happiness in this world is not only unattainable for him, but it does not even seem desirable to him. Since he expects happiness in the hereafter, he develops a feeling of being incapable of happiness in this world. But, being a biological organism and thus unable to renounce happiness, relaxation and satisfaction, there is only one thing left for him to do: to seek the illusory happiness provided by the religious forepleasure excitations, the well-known vegetative currents and excitations in the body."

In Christianity the idea of original sin has as its core the repression of pleasurable sexual excitation. In general, all forms of mystical experience are based on a distorted perception of sexual excitation and pleasurable sexual gratification. This arises because sex-negative attitudes and childrearing renders full, natural sexual pleasure unattainable, and substitute measures for obtaining gratification become necessary.

Furthermore, the degree of sexual repression and hence frustration produced by the fundamentalist Islamic religion is more severe than the orthodox sects of Judeo-Christianity. In fundamentalist Islamic countries there is no separation between religion and the state. Punishment for transgressions of extremist Islamic law is meted out not only by God (as in Judeo-Christianity) but also through human intervention. The latter is a more effective method of producing terror than punishment by God. In general, the capacity to produce armor by fundamentalist Islamic religions is more effective and more incapacitating than that produced by Judeo-Christian religions. Therefore Islamic fundamentalists are farther to the right on the socio-political spectrum than even the most orthodox sects of Judeo-Christianity. This places them in the category of the black fascist.

In Islamic societies men and women cannot show demonstrations of affection in public. However, men are permitted to kiss and hold hands anywhere. Sexual feelings are also discharged through the mystical practice of prayer and discussions of Islamic ideology. Mysticism not only provides for partial substitute sexual gratification, but also serves to avoid personally painful and often terrifying feelings by providing a mystical sense of expansion.

According to Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic countries are the original motherland of the human race and the Islamic people are fighting a holy war against the infidels, against corrupt Western civilization. Their goal is to reunite warring humanity into one universal family in which each nation takes its proper place under the divine sovereignty of Allah's appointed minister on earth. "Islam" is, in fact, the Arabic word meaning "submission to God's will." This ideology and mystical religious text provide the rationale for the violent form of Islamic expansionism both in the individual fanatic acts of the fundamentalists and collectively in jihad, or holy war.

The Koran, for example, is replete with such commandments as: "fight and slay the Pagans wherever you find them…those who reject our signs we shall soon cast into the fire…those who disbelieve, garments of fire will be cut out for them: boiling fluid will be poured down on their heads…as to the deviator, they are the fuel of hell."

According to Osama bin Laden: "Being killed for Allah's cause is a great honor achieved by only those who are the elite of the nation. We love this kind of death for Allah's cause as much as you like to live. We have nothing to fear. It is something we wish for," 5 and "Our work targets world infidels. Our enemy is the crusader alliance led by America, Britain and Israel. It is a crusader-Jewish alliance." 6

To kill the infidel is linked to Allah's cause, "submission to the will of God." To die for Allah's cause involves a masochistic mechanism of being made to burst through death, a way of surrendering to preorgastic feelings-this is literally true for the suicide bomber. The social consequence of this level of sexual repression in Muslim countries speaks for itself. With the exception of Turkey and Bangladesh, there are no real elections in any Muslim country. Two thirds of the world's political prisoners are held in Muslim countries which carry out 80% of all executions each year. Those familiar with textbooks in most Muslim countries know the twisted view of the world they propagate and the hatred they promote. Their media, editorials, articles on the Internet, their sermons in virtually every mosque, including many in the West, are vehemently anti-Western, especially anti-American. 7 These are expressions of the emotional plague.

There are two parts to a person's character, a sociopolitical and an individual component.

Since fanatics belong to both extremes of the political spectrum, they are either black or red fascists. People belonging to the fundamentalist religions are to the extreme right. The further they are to the right, the greater is the degree of sexual repression and the greater is their tendency to express sadism and brutality in the form of sex-negative laws and religious wars. Since Islamic fanatics are black fascists, their hatred originates primarily from their emotions and not from their intellect. Their intellectual defenses that are in the service of expressing their hatred are not as well developed as in the case of the red fascist (communist). Therefore, the irrationalism of their ideology is easy to detect. Nevertheless, there is enormous emotional power behind their mystical thinking.

Maintaining the purity of the race is the foundation of all black fascist ideology, including Nazism and Islamic fundamentalism. Race mingling is viewed as a decline not only of the "pure race" but also of culture. Therefore, keeping the purity of the race and/or culture is a primary function of religious fanatics. The Muslim fundamentalists see the Islamic world as a monolith and believe that the entire Islamic community is opposed to racial contamination from the outside world, which is viewed as inferior. Black fascism combines reactionary (racist) ideology with revolutionary emotions. This form of the emotional plague is highly contagious to those mystics belonging to the extreme right on the sociopolitical spectrum.

The idea of mixing with foreign races is equated with the idea of permitting sexual intercourse. The ideology of racial or cultural purity is therefore the rationale for maintaining sexual repression. Unexpressed sexual feelings produced by inhibition of the sexual impulse are the origin of all sadistic, cruel behavior. The degree of mystical, sentimental and sadistic feelings exactly corresponds to the degree of disturbance in the capacity for healthy, non-neurotic sexual gratification. The inevitable result of this inhibition is a constant unconscious longing for orgastic release which is accompanied by sensations of tension in the region of the solar plexus. Since the build-up of tension cannot be released naturally through sexual discharge, it leads to masochistic feelings of bursting, or to sadistic feelings leading to violent, explosive behavior. 8

Like Hitler, all black fascist characters are also repressed ocular characters. Thus, they belong to the diagnostic entity known as the paranoid schizophrenic character. These individuals have displaced their paranoid delusional ideation from their personal lives onto the sociopolitical arena. In their delusional system, Islam is under siege by the corrupt West, particularly by the United States. The oppression of Islam by America is the reason given justifying their hatred of and desire to destroy the United States. Their potential for violence also indicates a major impulsive (psychopathic) characterological component. The time of the anchoring of anti-sexual religious ideas in the individual is of crucial importance. The earlier this process of indoctrination is carried out in the child's developmental years, the more likely its predominance in the adult. 9 Those rigidly indoctrinated in Islamic ideology are taught to view other cultures, particularly the West, with hostility, fear and suspicion. In short, they are bred to become instruments of destruction. Fueled by their mystical and paranoid ideology, they are primed to act out their delusions in the real world. Their paranoid thinking provides them with an organized, albeit distorted, sense of reality that protects them from becoming overtly psychotic.

There are cultural factors that also serve to intensify pre-existing ocular repression. The custom of women wearing veils is designed to discourage men and women from looking at each other and to prevent sexual excitation between them. Males are taught from early childhood not to look at women who are partially clad. When Islamic males look at women it is usually done secretly. Even the degree of visual obstruction of the veil corresponds to the degree of sexual repression imposed by the particular Islamic culture. In Afghanistan, for example, the Taliban government requires women to wear a full hooded veil that allows them to see only through a screened area in front of their eyes (Esposito 1999). Another factor that is in the service of ocular repression is the practice of mystical education. Teaching children to accept mystical ideas is an effective way to train them to unconsciously avoid using their eyes, to not rely on their observations, to become subservient and blindly listen to the ideas of irrational authority figures. 10 Having no natural way to discharge energy, the build-up of sexual tension leads to non-sexual forms of discharge such as mystical, ecstatic experiences. From this perspective the religious schools in Islamic countries like Pakistan not only inculcate Islamic ideology but are also the early training ground for future young murderers.

Thus far we have discussed the biophysical basis for the intense hatred of Islamic fanatics. At this time we must ask why this hatred is directed toward America.

The background for this hatred is contained in the mystical elements of the Islamic religion itself. Islam also stands in condemnation of Western culture, which is depicted as hedonistic and morally depraved, with dysfunctional families, people hooked on drugs, sexual immorality, meaningless lives and psychological disorders (Esposito 1999). These ideas, however, do not account for the full intensity of Islamic hatred of America. They are only the soil upon which the seeds of hatred are planted under the right social conditions.

1. Black fascists belong to the extreme right on the sociopolitical spectrum. Red fascists belong to the extreme left on the sociopolitical spectrum. back to text

2. It is difficult to pinpoint the time of the war's onset. It can be argued that it started with the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, the bombing of the U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998, or the U.S.S Cole in 2000. back to text

3. Orgonometry is a system of thought and representation closely aligned to the natural operation of functions and functional processes. back to text

4. The function of armor (defensive rigidity) is, in part, to prevent the expression of destructive emotions. back to text

5. From a CNN interview, 1997. back to text

6. From a Time interview, 1998. back to text

7. Wall Street Journal, October 24, 2001, "Islam Can't Escape Blame for September 11th," by Amir Taheri back to text

8. The chosen method of the September 11th attack-blowing up a plane-bespeaks the desire, physically, to burst. back to text

9. Throughout the Islamic world "religious" schools indoctrinate young boys to believe that Islam is under attack, and must be defended with one's life. The students are required to memorize the Koran by rote. They are taken away from their families and prevented from having contact with the opposite sex. back to text

10. "Mysticism" comes from the Greek word myein, meaning "to close the eyes." back to text