ORGONE ENERGY

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Orgone energy was Wilhelm Reich's term for an omnipresent, "life positive" energy he claimed to have discovered in 1939. Reich often used 'orgone energy' as a catch-all to explain every natural phenomenon for which there was no conventional explanation (or for which Reich did not know there existed a conventional explanation), as a kind of a God of the gaps. Those few properties of orgone energy Reich did spell out as definite included:

• Orgone is attracted by organic substances
• Orgone is attracted, but then immediately re-radiated, by metallic substances
• Earth has an orgone energy field that flows west-to-east faster than the Earth rotates, except when a storm is approaching and the flow reverses its direction

Origins

In 1939, while doing an experiment with bions, one of Reich's students accidentally put ocean sand instead of dirt into the autoclave for sterilization. Nonplussed, Reich soaked the sterilized sand in water for a time (as was his standard practice in his bion experiments) and then observed it under a microscope. The sand had formed into tiny microscopic clumps that Reich dubbed Sand Packets, or SAPA bions.

Much to Reich's surprise, the SAPA bions appeared to be glowing with a faint bluish-purplish light. Experiments with the light given off by the SAPA bions tended to yield results similar to those for ultraviolet light. However, Reich lacked the training in the hard sciences to recognize it as ultraviolet light, and instead leapt to the conclusion that he was witnessing an entirely new form of radiation no one had ever discovered before. He then began "seeing" the same bluish glow around objects that were nowhere near his SAPA bion preparations, and so concluded that this radiation must be some form of energy that is present everywhere. As a final leap of unjustified faith, he decided a priori that it was this energy that was responsible for living processes, emotions, and the things he'd previously measured in his bioelectrical experiments.

Reich's claims

Reich claimed that orgone energy was basically responsible for all living functions. The movement of sufficient orgone energy was necessary to maintain health; "blockages" of orgone flow within the body, or an insufficient quantity of orgone within the body ("anorgonia"), were responsible for nearly every malady under the sun, both physiological ("biopathic") and psychological.

Believing thusly, in the early 1940s Reich built large boxes big enough to sit in, which he called orgone accumulators. These boxes had cotton lining the outside and steel wool lining the inside, and so would supposedly absorb "atmospheric" orgone energy from the local environment and then re-radiate that orgone energy into the box's interior. Reich claimed that sitting inside the box for 15-20 minutes would "recharge" a patient's orgone energy supply and would thus improve the patient's health. (Reich even went so far as claiming that sitting in an orgone accumulator would have an impact on cancer, which he believed was a "biopathic" illness.) These accumulators comprised part, but not all, of the techniques that Reich employed in orgone therapy.

Reich mentioned the blue "glow" of orgone energy to anyone who asked about it non-maliciously, and so when some of his patients reported seeing little blue streaks of light inside a darkened orgone accumulator, Reich claimed this as more evidence that orgone energy was real. Those patients who did not see little blue streaks of light inside a darkened accumulator, though, would often get branded by Reich as too "blocked" or "emotionally rigid" to see the obvious evidence before their eyes.

Later, Reich claimed to have discovered orgone energy's "evil twin", a black energy that he called DOR (for Deadly ORgone). DOR was supposedly caused by air pollution, putrefaction, radioactivity, high-energy electrical discharge, and just about anything else Reich thought of as foul or evil; it was also absorbed and "held" by water, which was why (as far as Reich was concerned) water can become stagnant. However, he quickly "discovered" a way to manipulate DOR and get rid of it. He believed that by attaching one end of a garden hose to the back end of an iron pipe, and submerging the other end of the hose in a source of fresh running water, DOR would be "drawn" into the pipe from great distances. He built a large array of such hose-attached pipes and put them on a mount that could be pointed toward any location in the sky. When this device drew DOR out of the atmosphere, so Reich reasoned, it would pull along any water-vapor clouds that the DOR was being held inside of. Reich dubbed this device a cloudbuster, and called the act of using it to affect weather patterns cloudbusting.