James DeMeo

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James DeMeo (* 1949 in the USA ) is an American geographer who conducts his own empirical research on the basis of the sex- economic and orgonomic work of Wilhelm Reich . As a result, he published a dissertation in 1986 and a book based on it, Saharasia ( suitcase word from Sahara, Arabia and Asia) in 1998 , according to the subtitle a study on the origins of child abuse, sexual oppression, warfare and social violence in the period around 4000 BC. In the desert regions of the Old World.

»Saharasia«

DeMeo has published the results of his extensive studies under the title »Saharasia«, which are intended to substantiate his main thesis, “that with the transition from relatively humid to extremely dry, desert-forming climatic conditions in North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia around 4000 BC. The change from matristic ('unarmored') to patristic ('armored') forms of society also went hand in hand. From this desert belt - called 'Saharasia' by DeMeo - the spread of patrism with its repressive , 'armor' enforcing manners and customs under the pressure of devastation, famine and forced migration took its course. "

Behaviors such as neglect, abuse and obedience training of children, sexual oppression of young people, subjugation of women, combined with hierarchical structures, monotheistic religion , social violence and war are related to each other and shown on maps.

It shows that cultures of the desert belt (Sahara, Near / Middle East, Central Asia - called "Saharasia") show the most elements of patriarchal order, authority, sex negation, subjugation of women and child abuse. They are patristic, heavily “armored”, dominant ( Riane Eisler ) cultural types.

It also shows that regions that are a great distance from “Saharasia”, such as Oceania and the New World, have mostly developed matristic , peaceful and cooperative cultural types.

In between there would be regions in which the two types of culture overlap.

All available data indicated that the starting region for the patristic, warlike type of culture was in "Saharasia", when it was around 4000 BC. BC transformed this zone from half-forested savannah into desert.

Fonts

  • Preliminary Analysis of Changes in Kansas Weather Coincidental to Experimental Operations with a Reich Cloudbuster . KU Geography-Meteorology Dept, Thesis, 1979. Republished, Natural Energy Works, 2010, ISBN 978-0962185540
  • On the Origins and Diffusion of Patrism: The Saharasian Connection . University of Kansas, Geography-Meteorology Dept, Dissertation, 1986
  • Saharasia: The 4000 BCE Origins of Child Abuse, Sex-Repression, Warfare and Social Violence in the Deserts of the Old World. The Revolutionary Discovery of a Geographic Basis to Human Behavior , 2nd Revised Edition, Natural Energy Works 2011, ISBN 978-0980231649 , http://www.saharasia.org/
  • The Origins and Diffusion of Patrism in Saharasia, c.4000 BCE: Evidence for a Worldwide, Climate-linked Geographical Pattern in Human Behavior , World Futures, 30: pp. 247-271, 1991
  • The orgone accumulator. A manual. Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt 1994 (7th edition 2001) ISBN 3-86150-067-1 ;
    • Revised and updated edition: The Orgon Accumulator Manual. Wilhelm Reich's discovery of life energy. Armory for the 21st century. For Self-Healing and General Improvement ... , Natural Energy Works Press, Ashland / Oregon 2015, ISBN 978-0989139038
  • Origin and expansion of patriarchy - the "Saharasia" thesis , in: After Reich: New Research on Orgonomy , ed. v. James DeMeo and Bernd Senf , Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt 1997, pp. 377-410 ISBN 3-86150-239-9
  • A Saharasian Climate-Linked Geographical Pattern in the Global Cross-Cultural Data on Human Behavior , World Cultures 14 (2): pp. 111-143, 2003.
  • Peaceful Versus Warlike Societies in Pre-Columbian America: What Does Archeology and Anthropology Tell Us? , in Unlearning the Language of Conquest , Don Jacobs, Editor, University of Texas Press, 2006, pp. 134-152
  • Water as a Resonant Medium for Unusual External Environmental Factors , Water, 3: pp. 1-47, 2011
  • In Defense of Wilhelm Reich: An Open Response to Nature and the Scientific / Medical Community , Water, 4: pp. 72–81, 2012
  • In Defense of Wilhelm Reich: Opposing the 80-Years' War of Mainstream Defamatory Slander Against One of the 20th Century's Most Brilliant Physicians and Natural Scientists , Natural Energy Works Press, Ashland / Oregon 2013, ISBN 978-0-9802316-7-0
  • Saharasia: Geographical Comparisons of World Cultures and Civilizations , Comparative Civilizations Review, No. 69, Fall 2013, pp. 4–22

literature

  • S. Taylor: Where Did It All Go Wrong? James DeMeo's Saharasia Thesis and the Origins of War. In: Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 9, No. 8, 2002, pp. 73–82 ( abstract )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Orgone Biophysical Research Lab, Ashland, Oregon ( July 9, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ "Armor" in the sense of Wilhelm Reich's concept of character armor
  3. ↑ Summary of DeMeo's chapter on the emergence and expansion of patriarchy . In: After Reich ... , p. 377
personal data
SURNAME DeMeo, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geographer and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH United States