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For the Younger Student of Orgonomy C O R E is keen to bring in younger students to orgonomy and to support you in your studies. A version of our booklet An Introduction to Orgonomy has already been written with the younger reader in mind. We have also written A Glossary for the Younger Reader. This explains most of the new words that you may come across in orgonomic literature, many of which you will not find in ordinary dictionaries. Please remember that to make any headway with your orgonomic studies you will, anyway, have to do quite a lot of looking things up. The study of orgonomy in a country where it is almost completely unknown and where there are no textbooks is not very easy and there is no point in pretending otherwise. You will definitely need the habits of a ferret, perseverance and courage, to get on with orgonomy. The more of you become active in orgonomy the easier it will be for other newcomers to the subject. Some of our other booklets, especially those on scientific topics, have been written with younger readers in mind. You are the most likely to be open-minded enough to try the orgonomic experiments in Three Experiments with the Microscope for the Amateur Orgonomist or to observe nature at large with orgonomic functions in mind. Our booklet on Natural History and Orgonomy should give you some ideas for what to look for and the processes and orgonomic functions that you may be able to observe in nature out in the world. Orgonomic Functionalism will give you some deeper insight into the way in which orgonomy understands and interprets natural functions. The main thing to understand as you start your orgonomic observations is the overwhelming importance of pulsation in nature and the vital part it plays in the orgonomic understanding of life and all the sciences, both natural science (biology, physics, medicine, and so on) and social science (psychology, history, medicine, philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, and so on). C O R E's 2007 Conference If you have read the rest of C O R E's website you will know about our 2007 conference. (Go to Conference 2007 for more information.) We plan to have a standing exhibition of orgonomic equipment and experiments during this conference. There will be hands-on exhibits and experiments that you can participate in and experienced orgonomic researchers who will be happy to talk to you and answer your questions. This will be a good opportunity for newcomers to orgonomy to familiarise themselves with the basic orgonomic experiments such as the bions, seed-germination in an orgone accumulator, observation of the atmospheric orgone energy, both in the sky and in an improvised orgone dark-room, and the construction of an orgone accumulator. This exhibition will be open without charge to visitors. Admission to the conference presentations, demonstrations, and other events will be reduced to half-price for those under eighteen. Please contact C O R E if you are interested in attending. There is cheap camping barn accommodation available in Chipping village for £5:00 a night. Orgonomic Apprenticeships C O R E is in urgent need of help with several experimental projects that need pairs of hands to assist us. There are also several jobs, for example, cataloguing our orgonomic library, that need doing. We invite serious students of orgonomy to come and help us with these tasks. In return for your work C O R E will be happy to give you any orgonomic tuition you want and the chance to use our scientific equipment to carry out your own orgonomic experimental projects. These could be anything that you have thought of during your orgonomic studies, though as a first step there is no substitute for repeating the basic orgonomic projects, the bion experiments, the observation of the orgone in the dark, the seed-germination experiment, and building your own orgone accumulator. In particular we recommend that you build your own orgone accumulator. This sounds fairly simple and unscientific. In a way it is; no more than an ordinary do-it-yourself carpentry job. On the other hand it is a massively educational experience, one that you will never forget, to carry out this job and to actually see and feel the accumulator's effects. However sympathetic you feel to Reich's writings and orgonomy there is a great difference between having read about these projects theoretically and having carried them out yourself, so that you can say to a sceptic - I'm sorry, it works, I have built one and measured the rise in temperature. Have you built one? Have you ever sat in one? (No, of course they haven't.) Right, then. Build one, test it, and come back and argue with me then. Summer School in Orgonomy for Younger Students We hope that the publicity stemming from the 2007 conference will bring about enough interest in orgonomy for us to be able to run our summer school in orgonomy for younger learners, a project that we have been wanting to set up for several years. This has not been possible so far because of the lack of interest in orgonomy in this country. This week-long school will probably take place in the Easter holidays as we hope to be busy in the summer period running an annual conference and/or summer school for adults once orgonomy takes off in this country. We hope to run the first of these schools in the Easter holidays, 2008. Please contact C O R E for more up-to-date information. The school's programme will (provisionally) cover the following topics:
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