The Dynamic Ether of Cosmic Space
James DeMeo, PhD
2019
(except pp.341-345)
emphasis in the original

Towards a Dynamic Life- and Cosmic-Energetic Future

The clash of ideas outlined in this book is basically that of experimentalists versus theoreticians. Michelson, Morley, Miller, Sagnac, Galaev, and Múnera represent the original ether experimenters who created marvelously sensitive apparatus, and used them to examine the nature of light and the universe. Reich, Piccardi and Brown figure harmoniously into the same line of universal cosmic functions, as experimental scientists ruled by the results of their experiments. By contrast, the empty-space advocates and their arm-chair mathematical wizardry represent the opposition theoreticians. They offer little hope for scientific breakthroughs, but they always come running behind each new scientific discovery, a-posteriori, claiming their complex other-worldly theories predicted the new findings, or can explain them (or explain them away). The experimental empirical scientist is then viewed as somehow inferior to the theory-math wizards. Biology and other disciplines are similarly irrelevant to their line of thinking, as living empiricism cannot be so easily reduced to mathematical formalism. The Einstein theories, by virtue of their dominance, thereby apply a powerful brake against any new concept or invention which might take humanity out of the empty space, dead universe doldrums. While Einstein once correctly stated "experimentum summus judex" (experiment is the final judge), he rarely acted with such graciousness towards experimental challenges. His true persona and beliefs were presented most clearly in a 1929 article in The New York Times, "Field Theories, Old and New", exposing an alarming bit of hubris, in the claimed superiority of mental gymnastics over empirical experimentally determined facts:

The ether was invented, penetrating everything, filling the whole of space, and was admitted as a new kind of matter. Thus it was overlooked that by this procedure space itself had been brought to life. It is clear that this had really happened, since the ether was considered to be a sort of matter which could nowhere be removed. It was thus to some degree identical with space itself...
The characteristics which especially distinguish the general theory of relativity and even more the new third stage of the theory, the unitary field theory, from other physical theories, are the degree of formal speculation, the slender empirical basis, the boldness in theoretical construction, and finally the fundamental reliance on the uniformity of the secrets of natural law and their accessibility to the speculative intellect. It is this feature which appears as a weakness to physicists who incline towards realism or positivism, but it is especially attractive, nay, fascinating to the speculative mathematical mind. (Einstein 1929. Emphasis added.)

The above words come directly from Einstein. He presents a glowing boast of his mental powers boast of his mental powers and mathematical prowess, with a clear bias against empirically determined facts, and against any concept that would breathe life and motion into cosmic space. His form of speculative arrogance and pseudo-intellectualism, with its explanatory monopoly over experimental findings, flooded into science of the post-ether period. Einstein's relativity, the big-bang theory, quantum entanglement, and other similar other-worldly concepts collectively smothered out the flames of critical scientific curiosity and rational dissent, placing theoreticians shackles upon just what was possible, and what was not.
Consider how the negative attitudes that "humans cannot fly" or "going to the Moon is folly" affected generations of young inventors and scientists. And when airplanes were finally successful (invented by two bicycle mechanics!) the mantra of "cannot" shifted to the "sound barrier".

Aircraft were predicted to crash into a thick wall of air which could not possibly move out of their path at velocities above the speed of sound. By clever engineering, humans flew, broke the sound barrier, and went to the Moon. But firstly the imaginative genius of inventors and engineers had to believe it was possible, and then devote themselves to all-consuming tasks with real, practical results that frequently were opposed and feared, by most of the Academy and the citizenry. Now consider how the Einstein theory, invoking a cosmic speed limit, that "empty space" has no creative energy or power, became immensely popular in a quick and easy manner. It has a stifling effect upon modern thinking. And where defeatist thinking was insufficient to dissuade the incentive genius or dissenter, there was always censorship, public slander, book-burning and prison. All were used by 20th Century science, medicine and media in the post-ether period, to squelch competing ideas. The same ugly toolkit is still put to work, even today.
Aside from the research of Wilhelm Reich in his discovery of a biologically-active cosmic energy, I am reminded of the neglected work of Thomas Townsend Brown on electrogravitics, which is still a potential method of significant propulsion. He privately embraced the cosmic ether, but later adopted the language of the Einstein relativists, hoping for funding. They rejected him anyhow. Also the heretic Immanuel Velikovsky who proposed an electric universe theory, was unethically attacked and battered by the astrophysicists, including skeptic-clubbers Carl Sagan and Harlow Shapely, who denounced his ideas as worthless. Shapely got Velikovsky's books censored, and later confessed he had never read those books, and had no intention of doing so! And he was hardly alone in such shabby conduct.
Tesla also embraced the cosmic ether concept, gave humanity our current system of electrical motors and generators, and spoke of extracting electrical power from the "wheelwork of nature". He made immense fortunes for Westinghouse and J.P. Morgan, after which they abandoned him to poverty in old age. Thomas Edison affirmed an "etheric force" as early as 1875, a guiding concept for virtually all his incentive life, but later in 1923, at 75 years old, he declared against the ether. Marconi and similar inventors of the early 20th Century gave us fantastic news inventions, at a time when ether theory was used as a working fundament. Reich felt the rejection of the ether theory to be a "catastrophe" for science, but went on to discover a similar cosmic life-energy. He applied it to heal the sick, make rains in the desert, and even developed a small motor that ran on the cosmic energy. His reward was public slander, death in prison, his books burned. It is still the case that physicians go to prison for using healing methods "not approved" by the same book-burning FDA. The mystery of energy motors remains with us, but it seems, however they might function, the solution to their riddles is linked to the gravitational and motional cosmic medium, the dynamic ether/life-energy. Einstein's relativity, the big-bang and quantum theory provide no help to the inventor or engineer, who continues to use older empirical Newtonian and wave theory, and materials science in the design of new electronics and products.
By contrast, the post-ether world appears rather bleak in absence of such major breakthroughs as made in the era of cosmic ether: the automobile, telephone, railroads, airplanes, radio, TV, vacuum tubes, Electromagnetic discovery, the liquid fuel rocket, electrical generators and motors, the battery, early computers, etc. They all got going during the era of widespread use of cosmic ether concepts. Most of modern inventiveness has been limited to improvements upon those older discoveries when cosmic ether was out guiding light. Medicine has also been a disaster in the post-ether era, when the medical/pharmaceutical cartel gained control over government institutions.

Revitalizing and economical natural treatments for degenerative illness such as cancer were developed by poorly-funded medical pioneers of the early 20th Century, such as Reich and Max Gerson, or the herbalist Harry Hoxsey. They were all attacked and shut down by force. Life-Energy Medicine is today confined to small private clinics, or practiced underground, banished from the hospitals where they are needed most. The average citizen is equally to blame, as they embrace death-medicine just as surely as astrophysics embraces empty space and a dead universe. At his trial, one of Reich's detractors, FDA agent Maguire said it best, "They talk about pre-atomic, orgone energy! What's that? ...we are getting the H-bomb!" (Sharaf 1983, p. 451)

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Einstein A (1929) "Field Theories, Old and New ". NY Times, 3 Feb.

Sharaf M (1983) Fury on Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich. St. Martin's, Marek, NY.

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As Thomas Kuhn showed so well, the path of science is characterized by periods of revolution during which the dogmatic system of beliefs derived from the past is replaced by a new paradigm—a new view of how things work. This change is brought about by the gradually increasing failure of the established paradigm to deliver on its promises and the ability of the new one [better to] explain reality. As in all revolutions, the change in ideas is always bitterly opposed by the practitioners of the established paradigm.
The paradigm that was in place in the 1950s was based on the chemical-mechanistic concept of life. In this view, living things were chemical-mechanistic machines whose capabilities were constrained to those functions permitted by this model; there was no place for any characteristics, such as autonomy or self-healing, that did not fit this mold. This was reinforced until it became a dogma, the proponents of which claimed to know everything there was to know about life. This paradigm not only dominated our society but ruled the medical profession as well, limiting both the methods that could be used to bring about a cure and our perception of the ability of the human body to hear itself.
As each technological advance entered medical practice, we found ourselves paying an increasing price of unexpected side effects. Most technological cures for cancer, for example, were found to be carcinogenic themselves. Because such unexpected side effects have required additional "technological fixes," we now find ourselves in a spiral in which technological applications are piled one atop another, with no end in sight and no cure for the patient.
The chemical-mechanistic paradigm has failed, and a medical revolution has begun. Today, motivated by a growing dissatisfaction with the mechanistic concept and the treatments it dictates, many physicians are reexamining and applying therapeutic techniques that were previously discarded as "unscientific" by academic medicine. The use of foods, herbs, meditation, and acupuncture are only a few examples. This radical change in medical practice is deeply rooted in Ancient concepts of life, energy, and medicine, and it includes a reaffirmation of the innate healing ability of living things.

Robert O. Becker, M.D.
1990
Cross Currents
The Promise of Electromedicine
The Perils of Electropollution
pp.xii-xiii