RANGELEY — The Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust has announced the dates for its summer Conference at Orgonon. Wilhelm Reich’s Origin of Life and Cancer Research: A Laboratory Course will be held July 11 to 15. 

This summer, the conference building will temporarily function in its original role as a student laboratory. Microscopes and objectives, Bunsen burners, pipettes, slides, cover slips and autoclaves will fill the tables as participants gather to study the microscopic work that led to Reich’s discovery of the bionous nature of living matter and its significance for an understanding and treatment of cancer.

Instructors Stephen S. Nagy, M.D., C. Grier Sellers, Ph.D. and James Strick, Ph.D. will introduce participants to the historical context and evolution of Reich’s experiments, and to a basic understanding of the light microscope and Reich’s use of and observations through this instrument.

Each day will include lectures; hands-on work with microscopes to examine preparations described in Reich’s books “The Bion Experiments” and “The Cancer Biopathy;” an optional open laboratory period in the afternoon; and evening presentations of Reich’s original time-lapse films of bions and living cancer cells.

In addition, demonstrations of the Reich Blood Test will be performed on willing volunteers who are then able to observe their blood at high magnifications using Dr. Nagy’s sophisticated Zeiss microscope.

The registration fee is $275 or $206.25 for full-time students with student documentation. The registration fee includes tuition, information packet, daily homemade breakfast and refreshments.

FMI, register: 207-864-3443, [email protected], www.wilhelmreichtrust.org/update_16_02.html.