Paul Laffoley
Paul Laffoley was born into an Irish
Catholic family in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1940. He
spoke his first word, "Constantinople," at six months, then remained
silent until the age of four (having been diagnosed as slightly autistic),
when he began to draw and paint. In his senior year at Brown University,
he was given eight electric-shock treatments. He was dismissed from the
Harvard Graduate School of Design, but managed to apprentice with the sculptor
Mirko Baseldella, before going to New York to apprentice with the visionary
architect Frederick Kiesler. In 1968 he moved into an eighteen- by thirty-foot
utility room to found a one-man "think tank" and creative unit
called the Boston Visionary Cell. Laffoley supports himself with a job at
the Boston Museum of Science, returning to the BVC not only to eat and sleep
but to work on multimedia renderings of his visions of alternative futures
and complex realities. During a routine CAT-scan of his head in 1992, a
miniature metallic implant, 3/8 of an inch long, was discovered in the occipital
lobe of his brain, near the pineal gland. Local M.U.F.O.N. investigators
declared it to be an alien nanotechnological laboratory. He has come to
believe that the "implant" is extraterrestrial in origin and is
the main motivation behind his ideas and theories.
The Orgone Motor
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