Fw: OBRL - L-forms, Mycoplasmas, Bions, Somatids...
Jim Shaffer, Jr. ( (no email) )
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:11:28 -0500
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> Subject:- L-forms, Mycoplasmas, Bions, Somatids...
>
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> The following letter by James DeMeo was recently sent to an AIDS criticism
> discussion list, which was engaged on the question of "co-factors" and
> related microscopical particles.
>
>
> Dear -----,
>
> Regarding the L-forms you describe, and their possible role in AIDS... have
> you made any comparisons between what you are observing/calling "L-forms"
> or even mycoplasma to what Wilhelm Reich called "bions" back in the 1930s -
> 1950s? ("Die Bione", Zweitausendeins Verlag, Frankfurt, 1998; "The Bion
> Experiments" Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 1970s) We routinely make bion
> preparations here at my lab, from living blood -- they also can be obtained
> from inorganic materials heated to incandescence and "grown" in sterile
> nutrient broths -- in all cases, they appear to be produced from cellular
> or material disintegration, and appear to be acquired in blood plasma from
> the gut via breakdown of foodstuffs in digestive processes.
>
> At my facility, we use light- and dark-field light microscopy, but not
> electron microscopy, in order to view the preparations under living
> conditions. Bion particles have been observed by many others but given
> different names: Naessen calls them "somatids", as seen in blood plasma.
> Enderlein called them "protids", Bechamp called them "microzymas". Even
> more modern researchers in the field of biogenesis research have observed
> the bions, giving them different names: Sidney Fox called them
> "microspherules", Krishnan Bahadur called them "jewanu", etc. etc. These
> small and indestructable particles are directly observable in abundance in
> living blood plasma in healthy individuals, and may in fact be what are
> portioned off in gradient density blood tests, and perhaps they change in
> character (and mass) depending upon health or illness -- lingering beyond
> any bout with illness as "antibody" particles.
>
> Since so few biologists or electron-microscopists or medical people bother
> to look at living preparations at high magnifications these days, the
> findings on bions are mostly ignored, but they have been corroborated.
> Unfortunately, if you mention the name of Reich or Naessens, so great has
> been the smear campaign against their works by the organized "skeptics",
> that you risk to be dismissed out-of-hand -- Reich actually died in an
> American prison after an extensive media/medical smear campaign, and had
> his books literally "banned and burned" by court order, while Naessens
> nearly suffered a similar fate in Canada; I know of one American physician
> who spent two years in prison for daring to apply Naessens' methods
> (successfully) to treat sick people.
>
> Bions are therefore "dirty pictures" for the biological community, but they
> are real and observable and photographable. Maybe they are similar to
> L-forms and mycoplasma, as they also appear within cells and at the margin
> of cells prior to their final breakdown and death by bionous disintegration
> ("cell death by apoptosis"). If any AIDS critics have an interest to
> observe these particles in living blood plasma, they are welcome to come to
> my lab and take a look in the microscope. We also offer a two-day
> laboratory seminar each summer on this very issue.
>
> Blood bions or somatids can be observed with the proper equipment:
>
> * Light microscope with dark-field
> * Good apochromatic lenses are best, though acromats will suffice
> * Image of approximately 2,000x minimum.
> * Smal drop of blood on a warmed (body-temperature) slide with cover slip,
> compressed to a thin layer so blood cells are spread evenly with plenty of
> plasma-space between individual cells.
> * Use of oil immersion
>
> Naessens claims a special condenser and UV light source is necessary, but
> in my experience this is not required for basic observations. There will
> be about 5 to 20 "food bions" or "somatids" for every red cell, each being
> slightly less than one micron in diameter, dancing vigorously in the blood
> plasma. They appear nearly indestructable, and will remain on the slide
> for days or weeks even as the slide slowly dries out (with a cover slip,
> the blood plasma will coaguate at the edges, sealing the slide preparation
> from evaporation). Over time, they will change shapes, with club-shaped
> forms, or elongated chains which mimic the appearance of "infectious
> organisms". It is probable that these same observable forms change shape,
> size and structrure when killed, dried out and bombarded under the electron
> microscope. Much of the phenomenon of "pleomorphism" appears to be
> artifacts related to how living material is processed in our efforts to
> observe it.
>
> These particles also can be seen in light-field, but magnification must be
> higher, perhaps at 4000x. This is theoretically described as "empty
> magnification" by most microbiologists, but in fact at 4000x or 5000x one
> can see many things not visible at the lower powers. If your optical
> system is sufficient, the plasma bions can be made visible even in
> bright-field (I have a Leitz system with 160x apochromat objective, 25x
> eyepieces and 1.25x tube magnifier, which makes them easily observable). I
> believe these must be part of what is being electron-photographed and
> called "cellular debris", "viroid-like particles", "mycoplasmas", or even
> "viruses" in many published papers. However, the issue of the
> "infectability" of these particles is generally undermined by the abundance
> of these particles as observed in healthy people. If Reich, Naessens,
> Bechamp and others are correct, these plasma particles serve basic
> life-processes, but they also change in abundance and quality when one is
> struggling with infectious or degenerative disease processes, or toxic
> stress.
>
> Naessens argues the more somatids one has in the blood plasma, the greater
> is the general health and vitality of the individual. Reich observed that
> healthy people produced red blood cells which were observably different
> from those suffering illness or stress, as observed in the living
> condition. Healthy red cells stressed by immersion in a physiological
> saline solution would take a long time to crenate and disintegrate, and
> then produce large bluish bions. Weak red cells stressed by physiological
> saline would crenate and disintegrate quickly into both blue bions and a
> smaller particle he called "t-bacilli", which he felt was indicative of
> degenerative illness and a poor "resistance to disease".
>
> Overall, it appears the blood plasma of healthy people is filled with
> bionous particles from food and possibly also some from occasional cellular
> disintegration and possibly from prior immunological stress (antibody
> particles?). Persons suffering under (oxidative?) stress would have blood
> plasma filled with bions of a different character -- perhaps of a greater
> abundance of particles, and particles of different masses as compared to
> healthier people. Possibly, eating of foods of a high nutritional quality
> would yield "food bions" of a quantitatively different nature than of low
> nutritional quality. Certain foods and drugs, including antibiotics, are
> highly bionous and particulate in character (they do not fully dissolve,
> but remain as bion-sized particles) when observed in distilled water,
> suggesting they might enter the gut and blood plasma similarly as
> "particles" which could later be imaged in an electron microphoto (and
> mistakenly identified as some infectious agent).
>
> How much of this particulate "stuff" in the blood, directly observable in
> the light microscope, is actually showing up in the gradient-density "AIDS
> tests", or rendered on electron microscope images? Questions without
> answers for the moment, but the published reports from the mid 20th Century
> on are quite suggestive. For example, what does a living blood test of
> someone dying of clinical immune-breakdown look like, as compared to
> others? What does AZT look like under the microscope in distilled water --
> does it fully dissolve, or remain as particles that enter the blood
> directly? And if particles, would they yield typical "HIV" bands in the
> "tests". What does a typical "HIV" gradient-density band (isolated or not)
> look like in the light microscope, in physiological saline or distilled
> water -- are the same-appearing particles present? (If anyone wants to
> send me an AZT pill, or a living or gradient-density "HIV" sample, I'll
> make a microscope preparation, try to photograph it, and share the
> observations.)
>
> For me, it is a question of research and curiosity. I am not a medical
> doctor and do not treat people, but am one of the few natural scientists
> interested Reich and the others listed above with skills in
> light-microscopy who also is an open critic of the orthodox view of AIDS.
>
> Feedback/discussion would be welcomed
>
> James DeMeo, Ph.D.
>
> Orgone Biophysical Research Lab
> PO Box 1148
> Ashland, Oregon 97520 USA
> 541-552-0118
> demeo@mind.net
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