posted 09-07-2002 11:03 PM            

I just compared notes with a few of my colleagues and on September 4th at approxmately 3:00 AM east coast time, we got hit by one of the worst thunderstorms that I have ever seen and was wondering if there was any kind of solar disturbance that could have been responsible for it. Sure enough, there was a disturbance.

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On Tuesday, Sept. 3rd, with no warning, the interplanetary magnetic field near Earth turned south and triggered a G2-class geomagnetic storm. Canadians, northern Europeans, and some sky watchers in northern US states saw vivid green auroras for more than 9 hours on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, Sept. 4th.

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Check out the images here. http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/aurora/gallery_04sep02.html

This is what I posted on 09-05-2002 at 12:29 AM on the CT Reports thresd concerning the storm:

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All hell broke loose Wednesday morning at around 3:00 AM with one of the worst thunderstorms that I have ever seen. At first it started with muffled rolling thunder that sounded like an earthquake and almost stroboscopic flashes of lightning. There were so many flashes of lightning, a few people actually thought we were under attack. It kind of reminded me of an out of control fireworks display because of the rumbling and the number of flashes. This went on till almost 3:30 and then suddenly the storm hit us full force with driving wind and rain and earth shattering thunder...

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posted 09-07-2002 11:14 PM            

No "Northern lights" tonight.

9/8/02 12:31EST. Latest Mauna Loa Observation.

Some nice Flare activity throughout the entire Corona!!!

posted 09-08-2002 12:35 AM            

Geomagnetic Storm started to drift south around 1:30 AM EST.

posted 09-09-2002 12:14 AM            

For example, orgone accumulators, particularly those intended for biological experiments or human use, should never be used in rooms with the following orgone-irritating devices:
Fluorescent lights, television sets, computer or microcomputer, other cathode ray tube devices, microwave ovens, eddy-current stoves, electric blankets (even if only plugged in, and off), electric space heaters, diathermy, x-ray machines sparking electric motors induction devices or coils other electromagnetic devices ionization-type radioactive smoke detectors clocks, wristwatches, or other devices containing radioactive glow-in-the-dark materials (phospholuminescent materials, which work on the principle of absorbed visible light, are OK), other radioactive materials, or strong chemical fumes.

Orgone accumulators should not be used even in the same buildings where the more powerful of the above kinds of devices (such as x-ray machines) are used, or were recently used. Experiments by Reich, and more recently by others in large German hospitals, have demonstrated that x-ray equipment will destroy the life-enhancing effects of tht orgone radiation. Additionally, there is a persistence effect. wherein toxic energetic conditions remain for a time after the irritating devices are shut down and removed from a room or building. Orgone accumulators should likewise no be used in the immediate neighborhoods or vicinities where the following facilities are located:
Airport radar systems, cellular telephone or microwave relay towers, very high-tension power lines, AM, FM, or TV broadcast towers, nuclear power plants and storage facilities, or nuclear waste dumps, military installations with nuclear bomb storage, past or present nuclear bomb testing areas

Reich and others associated with him made warning. about these devices in the 1940s and 1960s, but only today do we see epidemiological studies corroborating their lifenegative effects. Part of this problem has hinged upon the difficulty that, by simply demonstrating a correlation between two events, you do not prove causality. One has to show or demonstrate just what the mechanism is, and objectively demonstrate each step between the two correlated events, before cause and effect are proven. This is in most cases a very wise policy, but it is very unevenly applied in the world of the sciences. Orthodox theorems are rarely subjected to valid critical review based upon their failures to meet this strict criteria (eg, "bad genes", invisible viruses, etc.), while unorthodox theories are denied funding or simply thrown out or repressed for whatever weaknesses they may have. Industrial polluters may also raise this issue to avoid taking responsibility for the environmental damage they have done.

Regarding energetic questions, according to the best calculations of the physical scientists, low-level radiation ought not to have a deleterious effect upon the living system. The energy present in the low-level radiation, as detected with conventional radiation detection instruments, is simply not sufficient to do significant damage. And yet, the damage occurs. I emphasize the concern about "conventional radiation detection instruments", because a major fallacy of physics is that if an instrument does not measure an environmental disturbance, then no disturbance has occurred. The error here lies in the false assumption that their energy detection instruments must be detecting 100% of any disturbance. This unprovable assumption is, of course, challenged by biological or epidemiological evidence which demonstrates that an effect does exist. There is furthermore a great distrust of the body in the modern sciences, in that average people who are made sick by our modern energy radiating devices often are not believed, or are viewed suspiciously.

It is precisely here that Reich's findings on the orgone energy provide a clarification, as the life energy (and disturbances within it) cannot be detected with ordinary nuclear or electromagnetic sensing instruments. One has to modify the instrument to pick it up, or use entirely different methods. The orgone is also an interconnecting energy continuum, which provides a connection between the offending facility or appliance (nuclear plant, microwave tower, fluorescent light, TV set) and the living creature that is affected. As the local orgone energy field of the Earth, or the energy field of a home is badly disturbed and agitated by these devices, so too does the orgone energy field of a person in that environment become disturbed.

Modern physics partly acknowledges these connections, in that all nuclear bombs, nuclear reactors, and related facilities are said to radiate of unshieldable, undetectable, theoretical neutrinos in tremendous quantities. These neutrinos race out from the facilities, penetrating all forms of radiation shielding, and impinge upon the bodies of everyone for miles around. Theoretically, they do not do any damage, but this is purely a speculative assumption. The major observed fact is that according to the best theories of classical physics, significant energy is constantly being lost from the heart of the nuclear reactor, through the heavy reactor shielding into the surrounding countryside, that cannot be detected with ordinary radiation detectors. From the perspective of Reich's findings, it appears that this lost energy is not discharged as "particles", but is discharged directly back into the cosmic orgone energy continuum, which becomes greatly agitated and overcharged. Given the ability of the orgone energy to penetrate material substance, this energetic disturbance is quickly propagated outward, through the reactor shielding to affect living creatures and weather in the surrounding area.

Likewise, the dilemma of illness provoked from lowlevel electromagnetism. Such radiation ought not be making people sick, but it does. The theoretical difficulty here is that physics says these electromagnetic waves are transmitted across the countryside and around the globe without any medium of transmission. This position is similar to someone studying and working with sound waves, or water waves, but denying the existence of the air or water. But the nuclear and electromagnetic "particle-waves" need a medium through which they can propagate. The big myth of modern physics is that this medium was never discovered, and this fallacy was discussed in a previous chapter.

Nuclear and electromagnetic devices and facilities do have deleterious effects upon the health of their workers, and of people who live nearby, whether or not one accepts the bioenergetic point of view outlined here. In general, the health hazards are not evenly distributed among a given population. Certain very high energy, or very low energy people, and in general the very young and very old, are more sensitive to these toxic energies, and will react to them more quickly and strongly. A few cases may be given. I met a secretary who was unable to make the transition from typewriter to word-processor computer. Every time she sat in front of the computer, she developed a metallic taste in her mouth, and became nauseous. This effect would last for weeks after a single exposure to the computer. Her boss and friends thought she was crazy, but she was simply more sensitive than they were. In another case I met a fellow who lived one mile from a large radio broadcasting tower, which was irradiating the entire area with a strong dose of electromagnetism at radiowave and microwave frequencies. By the time he realized the danger of his situation, his children had contracted leukemia, and he had to move out of the area. Medical practitioners who are confronted by such symptoms usually do not make a diagnosis based upon the energetic ecology of a patient's home and work environment. In a chapter below, I give a number of practical things people can do to protect themselves, and their accumulators, from these environmental hazards.

Reich's observations on the life-negative aspects of these devices and facilities cannot be explained according to conventional theories of physics and biology, but they have been corroborated to a greater or lesser extent. The various electromagnetic and nuclear devices and materials listed above are known to irritate the orgone energy, driving it into a wild, frenzied state which Reich identified as the oranur effect. Oranur was inadvertently discovered after small amounts of nuclear material were introduced into a strong orgone accumulator. Reich kept several large, 20-ply accumulators inside an even larger room-sized orgone accumulator at his laboratory in rural Maine. When the radioactive material was introduced into this highly- charged environment, the orgone energy field of the entire mountain region of his laboratory was driven into a state of wild agitation, which could be readily felt and seen. Laboratory workers became quite ill, and experimental mice kept in another building died in large numbers.

Reich found that the oranur effect persisted long after the nuclear materials were removed from the laboratory accumulators, making the facilities unusable for several years. Under such persisting oranur agitation, the orgone energy eventually becomes immobilized and "dead". Reich identified this deadened energetic state as dor, which was short for deadly orgone. A room charged with dor will feel unbearably stuffy, and it will be hard to get a good breath out of it. One also feels constantly dehydrated, given the waterhungry nature of dor. Some people react to dor with edema, and a particular extreme form of dor-sickness was identified by Reich and his co-workers. The organism responds with lethargy, immobilization, and emotional contactlessness. These effects are quite tangible, sensible, and measurable.

A great deal was learned about the atmospheric life energy from this experimental accident, and a 1951 work by Reich titled The Oranur Experiment describes the dramatic events. Reich later identified a number of other sources of mild to severe oranur, which could disturb the orgone energy within a home, office, building, neighborhood, or region.

In most people's homes, the most common orgone irritants are the TV set, the microwave oven, and fluorescent lights of any kind (the full-spectrum varieties reduce, but do not eliminate this problem). Fluorescent lights often produce hyperactive plants, with enlarged, oversized leaves, and so fool people into thinking that the lights are "good". Some studies have even shown that depressed people can be agitated to a greater activity or metabolism by exposure to fluorescent lights. Examples are wintertime emotional depression, depressed newborn infants, and even "depressed" office workers, all of whom are agitated to a temporary increase in activity under fluorescent oranur. In many cases, the increased activity was linked to light color or frequency, and this also has its influence. But the problem of fluorescent oranur excitation is usually not addressed as a factor in those studies. Oranur is, however, produced by all types of fluorescent lights, TV sets, and microwave ovens. It can be objectively measured through the disturbed electrical potential of a house plant exposed to such devices, through use of an orgone charged geiger counter, or by making extended measurements of accumulator functions, and observing the perturbation which occurs during oranur and dor conditions.

In any given city neighborhood, radio broadcast towers, airport radars, and microwave telephone communications towers also constitute hazards, and producers of oranur. Like microwave ovens, and TV sets, they are allowed to leak relatively high levels of radiation into their local environments. Infrared automatic door opening sensors, or automatic light switches, also operate closer to the microwave end of the infrared spectrum, as do library or commercial inventory scanners, which are designed to stop petty larceny. These smaller sensors are powerful enough to trigger your automobile police radar detector at several hundred yards, and may pose a danger to workers who sit near to them day after day; the actual risk here is simply unknown. Like microwave ovens and TV sets, they are allowed to expose the "average" person with an "average" dose, which is irrationally assumed to be harmless. Until more is known about them, you should err on the side of caution. Do not site an accumulator near any of these devices.

Nuclear plants likewise are permitted to vent (or rather, dump) significant quantities of measurable radiation into the cooling water and ventilation air that passes through the facilities. Aside from the fact that the local population breathes and often drinks this waste, which can accumulate in the food chain, there is the problem of oranur and dor. Both are created by nuclear plants, and the atmospheric energy in these areas will be affected, with one qualitative state predominating over the other. Sensitive people can literally feel the difference in a region after a nuclear reactor has been operating for a period, and careful observations will sometimes reveal changes in weather patterns.

Underground atomic bomb tests are perhaps the worst offenders, as they badly shock and agitate the orgone energy field of the entire planet. There is some evidence suggesting that severe weather extremes, such as drought or severe storms, plus epidemics of "flu" symptoms, may be triggered by underground atomic bomb tests, through a widespread disturbance of the Earth's energy field. Some evidence, currently under review, has suggested that the entire Earth is disturbed in its rotational dynamics, and the upper atmosphere overheated and perturbed, by underground atomic bomb tests. These kinds of effects make no sense whatsoever from the viewpoint of classical biology and physics, which denies the existence of any vital energy principle, and assumes that space is "empty". From the standpoint of orgone biophysics, these effects do make sense.

Biophysically, the oranur effect can be felt by sensitive individuals as a jumpy, overexcited, possibly heated or slightly feverish feeling. One may feel a constant agitation; some people may mildly contract when it is present, while tempers may flare among others. Severe oranur affects each person at their weakest point, and tends to drive latent medical symptoms to the surface. The palms of the hands may exhibit a mottled characteristic, and sleep may be nearly impossible. There is a tendency towards inability to maintain a coherent focus upon work or other activities. The atmospheric expression of oranur is also one of overcharge. Skies may maintain a strong blue color, but significant haziness will appear on the horizon. Clouds do not coalesce or grow under oranur conditions, partly because the highly charged and agitated atmosphere cannot contract, and the charge within clouds cannot build beyond a certain point. Winds may be chaotic under oranur conditions, as if confused or agitated. Approaching rainstorms usually begin to fragment or dissipate as they approach an oranur-affected region. The atmosphere may have-a "tense" or "strained" quality, reflecting the generally overcharged conditions. Rains will decrease, particularly as oranur is eventually replaced by deadened, immobilized dor conditions.

Dor has an atmospheric expression as well, and when sufficiently widespread, is associated with drought or desert conditions. It appears on the landscape as a steel-grey haze that reduces visibility, gives sunlight a burning or scorching quality, turns rains acidic, or completely blocks the rainfall. Clouds are rendered into a tattered state, similar to slightly dirty, shredded cotton, and never grow beyond a certain small size. Unusual small clouds with a black or dark grey coloration sometimes appear; in contrast to other small clouds in the area, these darkish clouds maintain their dull coloration even when directly illuminated by sunlight. These are what Reich called dor clouds. They often form and reform continually over certain locations on the landscape, as if energetically attached to that spot.

While oranur and dor often exist together within a given region, one expression will generally predominate over the other. Being energetic phenomena, oranur and dor cannot be "blown away" by winds, though a good rainstorm may sequester and clean them out. Under exceptionally strong oranur or dor conditions, rainstorms are blocked and diverted, giving rise to prolonged drought. Desert locations are generally charged with great quantities of dor, particularly on the lower-lying portions of the topography. Regions with multiple nuclear power, refining, and waste storage facilities tend to be very highly charged with both dor and oranur. Sequential episodes of drought often occur in those areas, given that the life energy is rarely in a natural state, and is periodically overexcited, or deadened.

Contrast the above descriptions of oranur or dor conditions with that of the orgone energy in its normally sparkling and pulsing condition. When the orgone continuum maintains a state of healthy and vigorous atmospheric pulsation, regular cycles of rain-dry-rain-dry occur. The atmosphere is clean and transparent, sparkling and crisp, and does not have any notable atmospheric haze. The contrast between clouds and blue sky is apparent all the way down to the horizon. The open sky has a deep blue color, and cloud boundaries are sharp and well-defined. Clouds maintain a rounded shape, like buds of cauliflower, and build vertically without leaning sideways, or collapsing. Distant mountains maintain a bluish or purple coloration. The vegetation is also lush and crisp, full of life. Birds are active and soaring, and other animal life is also active. The sunlight warms, but does not scorch or burn as readily. The general subjective feeling during clear weather conditions is of great expansion, abounding energy, contactfullness, and liveliness. Breathing is so easy that the air literally pushes into your lungs. Most people feel exceptionally alive and alert, and more relaxed than usual. All of life is pushing upwards, against gravity, as an expression of the surging, gently pushing and expansive nature of the life energy. During rainy conditions, one may feel less energetic or sleepy, but still comfortable and at ease. Rains occur with a cyclical regularity.

Most older people are aware that this quality of atmosphere is increasingly rare. It was more commonly observed in the past than today. Hazy, stagnant dorish qualities are fast becoming the "norm", such that many young people, particularly in the big polluted cities, do not know what a really crisp and sparkling day is like. For example, older airline pilots remember when dorish haze was present only over a few industrial areas of the Northeast USA. Today, however, dorish haze can be observed in unbroken fashion, from coast to coast, and also a considerable distance out to sea as well! Likewise, with the continuing rampant deforestation and desertification that is occurring world wide, dorish desert conditions are spreading into regions that were once much more lush and wet. In wetter regions, as the atmosphere becomes dorish, regular rainstorms are replaced by foggy acidic drizzles. Naturalists report that the blue orgone glow over mountains vanishes about two years prior to the onset of massive forest death, a phenomena which is likewise associated with hazy and stagnant air pollution. Indeed, the blue orgone glow of the oceans, rivers, forests, and atmosphere is vanishing at a disturbing pace, foretelling a collapse of entire ecosystems. Just when the life energy has been documented and objectified, it is being polluted out of existence, and killed.

To describe the energetic states of oranur and dor, Reich used the example of a wild animal placed into a cage. At first, the animal reacts with fury, attempting to break free of the constraining enclosure. Later, the animal exhausts itself, and becomes inert and lethargic. This response, observed by zoo keepers around the world, has likewise been corroborated by John Ott in his work Health and Light. Ott demonstrated that laboratory mice exposed to agitating radiation from a TV set would at first become overexcited; later, the same mice would become inert and lethargic, eventually developing degenerative diseases. Ott gave many examples where aggressive behavior among breeding animals, such as mink and aquarium fish, were eliminated by removing oranurproducing fluorescent lights. Similar effects upon schoolchildren, from fluorescent lights in the classroom, are at work. Some school teachers have found that disruptive behavior in the classroom is often easily eliminated by simply turning off the fluorescent lights.

I have observed a similar reaction among children who are allowed to spend enormous amounts of time "watching" TV. During the early phases of a child's TV exposure, there is often little focus upon program content. The kids simply want the TV on, and they will often busy themselves with other things while sitting in front of it. One often sees this strange behavior among entire families, where the evening or weekend family activity revolves around the big color TV. Nobody seems to care what program is on, just so long as the TV is on. Like cocaine-eating laboratory mice, both children and adults may become addicted to the oranur effects of the TV set. Later, like Ott's mice, they may enter an inert, lethargic, or immobilized stage, what is popularly called the couch-potato syndrome, which may be a precursor to degenerative disease. Of course, there is an emotional component at work here, where emotionally contracted adults and children may use the TV as a means of escaping an unhappy social or family situation. But recall Reich's discovery that the orgone is the energy of the emotions. The effect of the TV is more than just a "cognitive" escape, and has distinct bioenergetic effects.

This bioenergetic form of electromagnetic/oranur addiction is most clearly seen when someone tries to turn the TV set off. Agitated or lethargic children, who were bathing themselves in the TV radiation, but paying scant attention to the program, may suddenly object quite vocally when attempts are made to shut it off. Even adults suffering from this syndrome will be discomforted by the thought of shutting the TV off, forcing them, as it would, out of a mildly catatonic state, into more direct emotional (bioenergetic) contact with other human beings. Of course, program content also plays a role, in that the more violent, cruel, and sexually titillating it is, the more it will touch upon the repressed sexual longing and bottled-up anger of people in our society, to further feed the syndrome. Couch potatoes, adults or children, rarely if ever watch the educational channel.

Another response that belongs in this category is the child in a video game parlor who has run out of quarters, or who is ordered to leave. Anguish and even violent outbursts may occur as the child or adult is weaned away. Ott has shown that these devices, TV and fluorescent lights in particular, are often a cause of childhood hyperactivity. Other researchers are today have observed similar behavioral disorders, reinforcing social isolation and emotional contraction among young children who are addicted to their microcomputers. Some of these computer-addicted kids are now getting cataracts, from constant exposure to the computer CRT, and leukemia may likewise be an associated disorder of the technology. The oranur in school computer rooms, and in video game parlors is so intense that it is readily sensible. The TV departments of large stores, which also have many fluorescent lights, also assault the casual passers-by with intense oranur.

I saw one clear case of TV radiation addiction with three hyperactive children who spent hours each day in front of the set, but paid little attention to program content. The minute they came home from school, the set had to be on. When the TV was finally shut down (the frustrated mother had to cut the power cord to defeat the clever kids), there was a wail of agonizing protest, and a period of even more agitated behavior. After about a week, however, the kids calmed down and began to develop new friendships and activities, and the hyperactivity disappeared completely. She got rid of the big color TV, and got a smaller black and white set. Even though the kids were later allowed to watch the black and white set as much as they wanted, they never fell back into the same trap, and the hyperactive syndrome did not occur again. In these cases, the energy system of the human had become addicted to the electromagnetic/oranur agitation, which took a clear and conscious effort to overcome.

When using the orgone accumulator in an oranur or dor environment, all of the above considerations are most important, as the accumulator will amplify whatever kinds of energy conditions are present in the local environment. If oranur or dor is present, an accumulator will amplify those tendencies, imparting a toxic, life-negative quality to its charge. In some cases, the effects of oranur and dor are both persistent and widespread, and cannot be affected by simply changing things in your own home. This is often the case with large polluted cities, and certainly in the regions near to nuclear power facilities. Regarding nuclear power facilities, a distance of around 30 to 50 miles is minimal for safety regarding both the biological effects of emitted low-level radiation, as well as for use of an accumulator. Similarly, if you are within a few miles of very high voltage electrical transmission wires, or large radio broadcasting towers, use of an accumulator is disadvised. Likewise, do not use an accumulator if your area has been recently subjected to a nuclear accident, and fallout is present.

One last set of considerations. Accumulators should never be used inside mobile homes or houses with aluminum skin or side paneling. Aluminum imparts a lifenegative characteristic to the orgone energy, and it is advisable not to live inside such a structure even if an accumulator is not built or stored there. Mobile homes with wooden siding are safer, and no problem inherently exists with them. However, note that some mobile homes and buildings are insulated with fibreglass batting that has an aluminum backing. If this kind of insulation is widely used, it will act very much like aluminum siding, and turn the house into a large, aluminum accumulator. Also, houses with metal roofs, or new homes that use steel wall braces, instead of wooden components, will act somewhat like a large accumulator. I have lived inside such structures for short periods, and even without an accumulator, they tend to develop a very high charge inside. They can disturb a person's sleeping cycle, and lead to an amplification of the oranur effect if fluorescent lights, microwave ovens, or TV sets are used. Newer homes designed for energy efficiency often do not have adequate ventilation, which makes the energetic situations even worse. One does not wish to live inside an accumulator, and most sensitive people will be driven a bit crazy by the overcharge that spontaneously develops within such a structure.

Learn to recognize dor and oranur, such that if the feeling inside a building or accumulator is ever disturbed or uneasy, you can take necessary steps and precautions to eliminate those effects. Air the room out, and check to make sure that TV sets, fluorescent lights or other such apparatus are not in use in nearby rooms or on floors above and below. If an accumulator is already present in such a location, air it out also, and learn the steps for water-cleaning it. Follow the steps and guidelines given in the next chapter for "Cleaning Up Your Energetic Environment". The subjective feeling in an accumulator should be one of warmth, comfort and relaxation. This is where it becomes most important that you learn about your energetic environment, and to get in touch with your own body and organ sensations. It is clear that factors related to "civilized" living often have distinctly negative influences upon both the orgone energy field of the Earth, of our homes, and ourselves. Whatever can disturb or agitate the atmospheric orgone energy field of the Earth, or of your home, will likewise badly affect our own life energy. The next chapter focuses directly on what can be done to mitigate or eliminate these toxic effects.

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posted 09-09-2002 12:16 AM            

A) Bioelectric Fields: Reich identified various bioelectrical phenomenon which he felt demonstrated a more powerful energy current at work in the body. The small millivolt currents of "bioelectricity", he argued, were only a small portion of this stronger energy current in the body, which he identified as being both emotional and sexual in nature, and which was later objectively identified as the orgone energy.

B) Radiant Effects from Bion Cultures: Special bion cultures derived from beach sand emitted a powerful radiation which could be felt and seen in darkrooms. This radiation did not register on instruments for detecting nuclear or electromagnetic energies. Additionally, the radiation could fog film, impart a static charge to insulators, and a magnetic charge to steel laboratory implements.

C) Darkroom and Atmospheric Observations, the Orgonoscope: Reich also observed and categorized various observable phenomena which could be seen by the dark adjusted eye in the open air of darkrooms. Scintillating fog-like forms, and dancing, luminescent pin-points of light were observed, and numerous techniques were developed which demonstrated their real, objective nature. One of these techniques involved the development of a new instrument, the orgonoscope, which used hollow tubes, lenses, and a fluorescent screen for magnifying the various subjective light phenomena. Large room-sized orgone accumulators were also constructed, and observations made in these amplified and clarified many of the effects. A special corpuscular orgone unit was identified, whose lawful behavior changed according to cosmic and meteorological factors. These macroscopic particles were also observed in the daytime sky with the unaided eye, as a generally common phenomenon, visible to most people once they were pointed out. The Earth was observed to possess its own orgone energy envelope, or energy field, much as did individual living creatures.

D) X-Ray Photographs: Reich observed that the x-ray "ghost" phenomenon (spontaneous, unexplained fogging of x-ray films) could be explained as an effect of the orgone radiation, or life energy. He published several photos where the ghosts were purposefully created by excitation of orgone energy within the field of the x-ray machine.

E) Visible Light Photographs: Reich observed that his special radiating bion cultures would fog film stored in nearby metal cabinets. Culture dishes of radiating bions set directly upon the film would also render an image of the culture dish and its contents. More recently, Thelma Moss of UCLA has shown that life energy field photos can be made without electrical stimulation (as with Kirlian techniques), by energy field enhancement; living objects placed directly on a film for a few days within a darkened orgone accumulator will, under the proper conditions, render an image.

F) The Orgone Energy Field Meter: Reich developed this device to measure the strength of energy fields. Using a Tesla coil and special accumulator-like metal plates, the device could quantify the differences in energy level between people or objects.

G) The Orgone Energy Pulsation Demonstrator: Reich demonstrated that the energy field pulsations of a large metal sphere were capable of setting into motion a smaller metallic/ organic pendulum suspended nearby.

H) The Accumulator Temperature Differential (To-T): An accumulator will spontaneously develop a slightly higher temperature than either its surroundings or a control enclosure, on those sunny and clear days when the orgone charge at the Earth's surface is strong. The effect vanishes during stormy, rainy weather, when the orgone charge at the Earth's surface is weak (but strong in the Atmosphere). The results of this temperature experiment, which has been replicated many times, demonstrates that the orgone energy functions in opposition to the second law of thermodynamics.

I) The Accumulator Electrostatic Effects: An electroscope kept inside an orgone accumulator will dissipate its charge more slowly than an identical one kept in the open air, or inside of a control enclosure. A partly charged, or uncharged static electroscope which is kept inside an accumulator will sometimes spontaneously charge itself up. As with the temperature differential effect, the electrostatic effects vanished during rainy or overcast weather, when the orgone charge at the Earth's surface is weak.

J) The Accumulator Ionization Suppression / Amplification Effect: Geiger-Muller tubes and counters charged up inside a very strong accumulator for several weeks or months tend to go "dead" for a period, but may eventually yield an erratic count rate for background. Special vacuum tubes, which Reich had constructed and called vacor tubes (which mimic the design of the Geiger-Muller tube but are evacuated well below the level at which ionization could occur), will initially not yield any counts when hooked to a radiation detector. After charging up inside a very strong accumulator for weeks or months, however, these same vacor tubes will begin to yield very high counts per minute for background, even at very low exciting voltages. The results of this experiment run counter to the classical interpretation of the ionization effect inside the GeigerMuller tube, and hence, to the classical particulate interpretation of radioactive decay.

K) The Accumulator Humidity/Water Evaporation Effect (EVo-EV): More recent studies have suggested that an accumulator tends to attract a slightly higher humidity into itself, and suppress the evaporation of water from an open vessel inside. As with other accumulator phenomena, this effect also diminishes or vanishes during rainy weather.

L) Atmospheric Energetic Pulsation. and the Reversed Orgonotic Potential: Based upon observations of the thermal, electroscopical, and ionization characteristics of the orgone accumulator, Reich identified a patterned and lawful energetic cycle at work within the atmosphere and energy field of the Earth. These observations likewise led to the identification of a reversed potential at work in the orgone energy, running counter to thermodynamic principles, which explained why natural orgonotic systems (organisms, weather systems, planets) maintained a higher concentration of energy than their surrounding environments. The stronger of two orgonotic systems will drain energy from the weaker system, and increase its own potential or charge, until the weaker system is drained, or some maximum capacity level is achieved. Discharge may occur thereafter. Under sunny, clear weather, the orgone charge at the Earth's surface is quite strong, and in a state of expansion, preventing any significant growth of clouds. Where overcast or stormy conditions prevail, the orgone charge at the Earth's surface is weak, while the charge in the atmosphere is strong and in a state of general contraction. This loss of charge at the Earth's surface during rainy weather slows down the activity of living creatures, and the accumulator will not function well at those times.

M) The Millivoltmeter: Virtually all objects and organisms within a given environment, to include the air, water, and the Earth itself, have a charge that will increase and decrease in a cyclical or pulsatory manner, timed to cosmic and meteorological factors. In living creatures, high potentials produce more active physical and emotional periods, while low potentials signal less active periods. In Nature, high atmospheric potentials signal cloudy periods with stronger storms, while high Earth potentials signal cloud free conditions. The tiny currents are excellent predictors of powerful biological or environmental processes, but are themselves too slight and weak to be the causative agent. Reich, and other researchers who have examined these small voltage potentials (such as H.S. Burr), viewed them as indicative of a more powerful, ubiquitous natural phenomena which energetically linked together the Sun, Moon, Earth, weather systems, and all living creatures.

N) Plant Growth Enhancement Studies: Seeds and plants correctly charged up inside an accumulator demonstrate higher growth rates and yields of fruit. This is one of the more telling, and widely replicated experiments with the orgone accumulator. In my own trials, I have seen a six-fold increase in the length of mung bean sprouts inside a strong accumulator, as compared to a control group of sprouts. Germination rates, growth rates, budding, flowering and fruiting can be increased by charging seeds or growing plants directly inside the accumulator. The seeds can be sprouted directly inside the accumulator, or charged up for a few hours, days, or weeks prior to planting. Growth enhancement effects may also occur when the water alone is charged, and then externally given to the plants.

O) Non-Human Animal Studies: Controlled studies on the effects of orgone radiation from an accumulator on cancer mice and wounded mice have been performed. These studies generally confirm Reich's earlier arguments that tissues with a stronger energetic charge will heal more quickly, and develop tumors more slowly, or not at all, as compared to energetically weakened tissues. These findings invalidate many aspects of the DNA theory of cellular differentiation, which appears to be more directly under the structuring influence of the organism's own life energy field.

P) Human Studies: Aside from those clinical trials performed by Reich and his co-workers in the 1940s and 1950s, very little work has been done in the USA regarding the bioeffects of the accumulator on humans. All research into these questions was halted by medical police actions in the 1950s. Recent studies from Germany, however, have confirmed such bioeffects. In general, a person sitting inside an accumulator will feel a variety of warm, glowing, or sometimes tingling sensations at the skin surface; their body core temperature will rise and skin flush, while blood pressure and pulse rate will trend towards moderate levels, being neither too high or low. When properly used, it has a distinct vagotonic, enlivening effect. The chapter on "Physiological and Biomedical Effects" will provide details on these questions.

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The actual discovery of the orgone energy and accumulator was first announced by Reich in the 1942 issue (Volume 1) of the International Journal of Sex-Economy and Orgone Research, in a section on the "Construction of a Radiating Enclosure". That journal focused also upon the emotional aspects of the cancer biopathy, the relationship of cancer to emotional resignation, sexual starvation, and chronic energy depletion. Reich also published his findings on the spontaneous organization of cancer cells from the patient's own bionously disintegrating tissues. Additional information was later published in the Cancer Biopathy, the Orgone Energy Bulletin, and the Orgonomic Diagnosis of Cancer Biopathy. Reich's findings on cancer were confirmed by others, who likewise published in his journals. But he never saw the accumulator as a simple "cure" for cancer, and explicitly said so on a number of occasions. However, he did lay claim to the following discoveries:

1) Cancer is a systemic disorder, and not just a tumor.
2) The cancer biopathy starts in early life, with a major component related to early childhood trauma, and the consequent respiratory block and suppression of emotions; later in adolescence, and in adulthood, the individual has great difficulty establishing a love life, and eventually resigns from sexual pleasure, and from joy or meaning in life.
3) The cancer patient possesses significant bioenergetic neuromuscular contraction and tension (armoring) that restricts circulation and oxygenation in certain body areas, notably the sexual organs.
4) The cancer patient suffers from a chronic loss, and gradual depletion of bioenergetic charge of body tissues.
5) Shortly before onset of tumor development, the individual experiences a powerful emotional blow, such as loss of a special loved one, which reinforces their emotional resignation.
6) The cancer cell originates from bionous processes, arising from the disintegration of the patients own energetically weakened tissues.
7) A specific t-bacilli is found in copious quantities in the tissues and blood of cancer patients; t-bacilli are culturable, and when inoculated into mice will cause tumors to form.
8) Use of the accumulator could not by itself reverse the deeper biopathic nature of the cancer disease; in a limited way, however, it could stimulate the bioenergy system to expand, recharge the tissues, and even disintegrate tumors.

While this last point may sound like a cure for cancer, Reich was cautious about this, though clearly optimistic. Of the case histories given in his writings, he emphasized the failures over the successes. He was constantly making careful evaluations of the patient's blood, and also developed a new bioenergetic blood test, that allowed even precancerous tendencies to be identified. He also observed that the gentle vagotonic, parasympathetic excitation the accumulator provided would often deepen the respiration of the patient, and help to bring long-buried feeling to the surface. Reich also worked with his patients characterologically, to overcome the emotional and respiratory blocking and sexual stasis associated with the cancer. The highly-charged blood would distribute new life energy from the accumulator throughout the body, into every organ and tissue, as patterns of emotional holding were likewise being relaxed, and the respiration deepened.

It was clear that the accumulator could recharge the organism, and even in a limited way help to overcome many secondary complications of the disorder. People would often regain lost organ functions and an increase in energy, for a few years, or sometimes in association with a complete remission of symptoms. But often, at least in the published accounts, a relapse would occur. In some cases, it was apparent that as the patient's tumors began to disintegrate, they would become debilitated by the toxic break-down products of the tumor, and die of secondary complications, such as kidney or liver failure. This was a particular problem when tumors deep inside the body were being broken down, and easy discharge of toxic tumor debris was not possible.

In some cases when the patient's bioenergy level was being recharged by the accumulator, they began to feel a welling-up of buried feelings, which they often did not want to deal with. In some cases, as they began to recover, they developed pains in the genital area or thighs, related to their sexual stasis. Reich found that almost all of his cancer patients had not had sexual intercourse for years, were trapped in a loveless, compulsive marriage, or were deeply religious. In such cases, overcoming the obstacle of sexual stasis and blocked emotion, and restoring their desire to live, was the key to a remission. In a few cases, as these emotional problems surfaced,.his patients would discontinue further treatment with the accumulator, even though significant tumor reduction and restoration of body function had occurred.

For these reasons, and also to emphasize his interest in cancer prevention, Reich focused upon the central role of emotional and sexual resignation in the life histories of cancer patients. Where this resignation from life and feeling could be overcome, Reich observed that the prognosis was better than where the resignation was left untouched. This factor appears to explain the common observation that cancer patients who become emotionally mobilized, who learn to express their sadness, rage, and terror, and who regain a desire to live, will have a better prognosis.

Given Reich's findings on the emotional component of cancer, the following question has to be asked: What effect upon emotional and sexual resignation occurs when radical cancer surgery deforms or incapacitates the sexual organs, or other body areas? Or similarly, what happens emotionally when the body is so badly assaulted by caustic chemicals and radiation, such that visible, frightening deformity occurs, and normal body functions, such as eating, defecation, or sexual arousal, are no longer possible? Such horrific treatments of degenerative illness surely can only increase emotional resignation and sexual stasis. Having done so, they cannot help but to also increase the rate of degeneration, and likewise increase the rate of relapse and metastases. In this context, it is no wonder that the mutilating surgeries and toxic chemical treatments advocated by cancer specialists today do not have any greater benefit to patients than the treatments of 30 or even 50 years ago!

Of course, the better known unorthodox treatments, which are banned in the USA (but not in Europe, Canada, or Mexico) can do much better than this. They commonly offer the patient natural foods and herbal remedies that energize and detoxify, in a manner similar to the bionous baths and bion packs discussed above. Reich, unfortunately, had his hands full with the discovery of the life energy, and other matters, and spent little time focused upon methods for detoxification. In The Cancer Biopathy, he did demonstrate, with use of a special {luorophotometer, that honey had about eight times the orgone charge of refined sugar, and also that unpasteurized milk carried twice the charge of pasteurized milk. The implication here is that natural foods are highly charged with life energy, as compared with synthetic, devitalized, and refined food products. The treatments developed by Gerson, Hoxey, Livingstone, and others, appear to have independently discovered these kinds of nutritional differences through empirical means, and are clearly more advanced than Reich on the effects of diet and detoxification. (A list of clinics and research centers that specialize in these alternative treatments is given in the "Information" section.) These practitioners likewise employ special herbal or nutritional treatments that appear to have a significant bioenergetic component.

Without detracting anything from these alternative treatment methods, Reich's findings do more clearly provide a scientific basis for the origins of the cancer biopathy and cancer cell. His discussions on the emotional roots of cancer have been independently confirmed, and should assist in providing effective emotional invigoration of cancer patients. Reich's findings are also compatible with the various theorems on the causation of cancer from inadequate nutrition or environmental toxins, through the question of energy level. The measurable energy level of an individual appears functionally identical to the classical concept of immunity, or disease resistance, and is a key to understanding why one person gets sick, while another does not, under similar toxic environmental or dietary influences. Social and emotional factors, as well inherited factors, work a powerful influence upon the energy level, or charge of the tissues. Likewise, the discovery of viraUbacterial pleomorphism (capability of microbes to change form: viruses into bacteria, and vice versa), the independent observations of the tbacilli, and the rediscovery of the bions by various biogenesis researchers, all confirm Reich's positions on the bionous, self-generated nature of the cancer cell. The following fact cannot be emphasized enough: the causation, process of development, and reasonably effective, non-toxic therapies for cancer have existed for over 30 years. The obstacle has not been a failure of science, but of the corrupting influence of politics, and the abuse of the courts and police by the orthodox medical establishment.

In spite of many difficulties, a lot of very clear and positive evidence has been gathered on the effectiveness of the accumulator for treatment of a variety of symptoms and disorders. Very effective pain relief for, and subsequent rapid healing of severe burns has been reported. Likewise, a great reduction in pain was reported when the accumulator was used by cancer patients with tumors, and by persons suffering from arthritis. Besides Reich, other doctors associated with his research effort published case studies on the treatment of cancer with the accumulator. These published accounts demonstrated a significant and promising therapy for the disease. Complete remissions were rare, but people always experienced a reduction in pain and other symptoms, with a lengthening of life by at least several months to years beyond the conventional prognosis. Other medical problems were experimentally approached, such as diabetes, arthritis, tuberculosis, rheumatic fever, anemia, abscesses ulcers, and ichthyosis. In these cases, benefits from orgone radiation and therapy were suggested. Reich also wrote about the promising application of the therapy to leukemia. Additional benefits in the form of an immunity to flu and colds, the elimination of skin problems, and general increased vigor and energy level were also discussed in the pages of his research journals.

To my knowledge, no clinical studies on treatment of human disease with the accumulator have taken place in the USA since Reich's death in prison. Only animals studies have taken place, mainly the effects of the accumulator on cancer mice, and on wound healing in mice. These laboratory trials with mice do confirm the wound-healing and anti-cancer effects of the accumulator. More recent human clinical trials from hospitals in Germany have taken place and prescription of the accumulator is a standard procedure or some German doctors. Several of the German physicians I met told me that the somatic effects of the orgone energy accumulator were more powerful in the treatment of cancer than any other form of conventional or natural therapy they had tried. They reported to me the following effects of the accumulator on cancer patients:

1. Pain was relieved, the appetite was stimulated, and the patients became more alert and active, often leaving the hospital bed, or the hospital itself, to resume activities that interested them.
2. The blood picture cleaned up, with red cells showing a stronger energetic charge, and fewer t-bacilli.
3. Tumors ceased growing, and in some cases, declined dramatically in size.
4. While patients often gave the outward appearance of a "cure", accumulator treatment alone could not touch the emotional aspect of the biopathy, which would continue to deplete the patient in a manner that could not be compensated for. While the accumulator would usually extend the life of the patient by months or even years, the patient would generally experience a relapse at some point, with a sudden recurrence of all symptoms, and a quick, less painful death.
5. The German doctors also stated that many cancer patients were presented to them that did not possess the character traits of the fully-blown cancer biopathy, as described by Reich in the 1940s. In particular, many younger people and children came to them with tumors and a very poor blood picture, and with evidence of a greatly depleted energy level; but they did not have the complete sexual stasis or emotional resignation typical of the disorder among older persons. They attributed this tG the prior exposure of the patient to environmental toxins and pollutants, and the increasingly devitalized nature of co;nmon foods. These observations suggested that, under conditions of environmental and dietary stress, energetically weak individuals are prone to tissue disintegration and tumor formation, while energetically strong individuals are not. In such cases, accumulator treatment gave excellent results, with a much better prognosis for long-term recovery.

Other German scholars have evaluated the somatic effects of the orgone accumulator. One double-blind, controlled study, published as a dissertation through the University of Marburg, is titled the Psycho-Physiological Effects of the Reich Orgone Energy Accumulator. An extended abstract of that important study appears as an Appendix in this Handbook. Based upon these kinds of published findings, we may once again summarize the biological efreets of astrong orgone charge:

A) General vagotonic, expansive effect on the entire system.
B) Sensations of tingling and warmth at skin surface.
C) Increased core and skin temperature, flushing.
D) Moderation of blood pressure and pulse rate.
E) Increased peristalsis, deeper respiration.
F) Increased germination, budding, flowering and fruiting of plants.
G) Increased rates of tissue growth and repair, as determined through animal studies and human clinical trials.
H) Increased field strength, charge, integrity of tissues and immunity.
I) Greater energy level, activity, and liveliness.

Given these facts, it is not surprising that the accumulator might stimulate the recession of any symptom which is related to low energy charge in the blood or tissues, or to chronic overstimulation of the sympathetic nervous system. However, some medical problems are the result of chronic overcharge, and in those cases, use of an accumulator is disadvised, or advised only with caution, as previously mentioned. Again, Reich warned persons with a history of hypertension, decompensated heart diseases, brain tumors, arteriosclerosis, glaucoma, epilepsy, heavy obesity, apoplexia, skin inflammations or conjunctivitis not to use the accumulator, or to do so only with great caution and for shorter periods, due to the dangers of overcharge in those cases. Not all people suffer from a lack of energy, or even from "low energy". Quite often, people suffer more from a clamping down, or holding back of the emotional energy which they already have. In some cases, additional energy from an accumulator may simply give a person more energy to clamp down with. One should recognize this fact, and understand that regular accumulator use is not mandated for everyone, nor is it a panacea.

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The energetic absorbing or drawing effect of water can be changed in character, into a combined drawing and energizing effect, through use of dissolved crystals, such as epsom salts, which increase the energy potential of the water, thereby making it a more powerful attractor and mobilizer of our own biological energy. A similar energizing and drawing effect can be brought about by soaking in a tub of water which contains 1 pound each of sea salt and baking soda. Salt and soda baths, lasting around 20 minutes, can be used to reduce tension and overcharge, or to drain off a toxic charge of energy.

The mineral baths at various natural springs where the water has observed healing properties appears to be based upon similar principles. Many resorts and health spas are built at locations where hot springs, or other waters or earth materials (muds, clays, ash) of an unusual nature exist. It is common for people to soak in these mineral waters, or in special mud or ash baths, after which they feel greatly relaxed, uncommonly energized, or even healed of chronic ailments. Medical symptoms may be relieved, temporarily at least, by partaking of these soaking baths. This tradition of the healing waters is more popular in Europe, given the hostility in the USA to noninvasive, natural kinds of treatment. The threat of criminal prosecution and jail often prevents clinics and health spas built on such mineral springs from openly competing with the hospitals.

Reich's work provides a basic explanation for these effects of natural waters and earth baths. Reich discovered the orgone energy, or life energy, during experiments which demonstrated that microscopic, energy radiating vesicles could be derived from the disintegration of various organic and inorganic materials. Clay, soil, ground rock, beach sand, and iron filings were among the inorganic materials that, when allowed to disintegrate and swell in water or sterile nutrient broth solutions, would form the small radiating vesicles, which he later called bions. Certain sands from Scandinavian beaches were found to form bions of an exceptionally strong, bluish, radiating character. The blue bions from these preparations developed energy fields that could irradiate people and objects, and for a period, Reich experimentally used the energetic bion solutions for the treatment of various disease symptoms. Bion solutions were injected into experimental animals, where they had an immobilizing influence upon pathogenic bacteria and cancer cells. Later, poultices made from bions, or special bion packs, were made by which the energy directly liberated from the disintegrating substance could be used to irradiate the body. After the discovery of the orgone energy accumulator, which developed its charge directly from the atmosphere, Reich ceased experimental development of bion packs for such purposes. In later years, however, with the energetic and chemical poisoning of the atmosphere, and the consequent problem of contamination of the accumulator, interest in bion packs has been rekindled.

The following simple recipe for the bion pack was developed from a variety of sources. A bion pack can be made from clean beach sand or other earthen or clay materials known to have healing properties. A large handful of the earthen material is wrapped in a thick sock, or other heavy fabric container, like a sausage, about one foot in length and 1/2 foot in width. It should be tied or sewn shut so that the material cannot spill out. The bion pack is subsequently saturated and boiled in water, or in a pressure cooker, for about 15 minutes. After this, it is wrapped in wax paper or plastic and allowed to freeze solid, in the freezer. For the first use of the bion pack, the boiling and freezing process should be alternated several times. It should not be cooked in a microwave oven. The bion pack is used after one of the boilings, being allow to cool, with excess water drained off. The pack is then applied to the body, with additional cloth insulation in case it is too hot. As the beach sand disintegrates from the cooking and freezing, radiating microscopic blue bions will form. The radiation from such a bion pack should continue even after the pack has cooled off, and it can be rejuvenated after drying out by repeating the boiling. Orgone radiation can be obtained from this natural source, even in very dorish, polluted atmospheres, when use of an orgone blanket or accumulator would be disadvised. The effect was discovered by Reich early in his research, and both the existence and behavior of the bions has been confirmed by other scientists.

Before the modern era of drugs, health professionals used special kinds of warming, radiant clay or sand packs, or plasters, which were used to relieve aches and pains, or for healing wounds or infections. Many of these poultices or plasters were learned from native healers, who knew which muds or plants gave the best effects. The author does not know if these kinds of packs or poultices are still commercially available. There are many plastic or rubber "plasters" and "warmth packs" available from drug stores, but these are based solely upon thermal phenomena. However, the various health spas and mineral spring resorts, where people soak in special muds, clays, or ash baths, are using the principles of life energy radiation, liberated from those natural Earth substances through the principles of bionous disintegration. The people running such spas would know where to find the best materials for your bion pack. A similar bionous process may also be at work regarding the use of rock dust fertilizers, for reinvigoration of dying forests, and in the "mud facials" or "clay masques" applied to refresh the face, and tighten the sagging skin.

Another way to clean up the energetic atmosphere within a home or apartment is the use of draw tubes or draw buckets. Like the accumulator, these devices are very simple, passive instruments that function by virtue of basic energetic principles. Draw tubes are hollow metal tubes, made from 3/4" or 1" galvanized steel electrical conduit pipe, cut to around 2' lengths. The draw bucket is simply a plastic or metal pail, placed on a drain board, into which water is allowed to slowly circulate and overflow. The draw tubes are halfway inserted into the draw bucket, and are allowed to point off into various parts of the room or apartment which needs energetic cleansing.

As the water slowly circulates in the bucket, toxic forms of orgone energy are drained out of the room, and possibly from adjacent rooms as well. Dor tends to be exceptionally water-hungry, and will be removed from the room, assuming that additional quantities are not being created. Oranur will also be lessened, as the draw tubes and bucket gradually lower the energy level in the room, reducing agitation and overcharge. After the draw system has been in place and operating for awhile, you can hold your hand in front of the tubes and sometimes feel a slight tingling or a "cool breeze" phenomenon. It is recommended that the tubes be positioned away from where people are resting or sleeping; they should likewise not be pointed to any part of the body longer than a few seconds. They can be set up for constant use in an office or working environment, to reduce oranur overcharge and agitation. On several occasions, I have seen such a system in use to lessen oranur in rooms with operating computer systems. In these cases, where a sink or drain is not near the areas to be treated, several lengths of hollow, flexible steel greenfield or BX cable can be used to extend the drawing effect from a sink or bathtub full of water into adjacent rooms. Point the open ends of the greenfield cable to the areas you want to clean. This kind of cable is used for electrical wiring, and can be purchased at most large hardware or electrical supply stores. Do not use aluminum greenfield cable, and do not run any wires inside it.

It is essential that the grounding water be clean, unpolluted, and circulating or moving. It must be constantly refreshed, even if only by a trickle of fresh water. A bucket sink, or bathtub can be used. The tubes should be made of galvanized steel or stainless steel, though the former is cheaper and easier to cut. Silver is also very good, but quite expensive. The tubes must be hollow, without dust or dirt on the interior. One end of each tube must be completely immersed into the water, and a number of tubes should be used. They may have a plastic coating on the outside.

The principles of the draw tube and bucket are based upon Reich's findings that water has the capacity to strongly attract and absorb orgone energy, and that hollow metal tubes has the capacity to focus or extend the drawing influence of the water some distance outward. At one point in his research, Reich developed a device called the medical dor-buster, which was used experimentally on patients, to remove overcharge and dor from the body. Larger devices called cloudbusters, based upon this same principle, were later used to remove accumulations of dor and oranur from the atmosphere, to restore atmospheric sparkle and rainfall during oppressive, drought conditions. Both of these devices pose considerable hazards and health risks for people who would experiment with them, and consequently they not discussed here. However, a good deal of research has gone into studying these devices. The author, for example, has engaged in research with the cloudbuster for more than a decade and has used the apparatus to terminate a number of severe droughts; other experiments have demonstrated a clear ability to increase clouds and rain in deserts. The cloudbuster constitute as great of a breakthrough in the environmental sciences as does the accumulator for the health sciences. Space does not permit a discussion here of this remarkable technology, but the interested reader can obtain more information by contacting the author through the Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory, listed in the Information section.

When draw tubes ant buckets are allowed to work in a room for several hours or days, the room gains a softer feeling and sweeter smelling condition; stuffy or oppressive conditions generally varnish. The metal tubes amplify the natural drawing effects of the water, grounding out stale and toxic forms of the orgone energy, changing it from a life-negative to life-positive character.

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Observations by Ordinary People, versus Scientific Theory

Open Questions and Discussion, by James DeMeo, Ph.D.
Director, Orgone Biophysical Research Lab Ashland, Oregon, USA

"Aurora is a living creature,
and when we blow a whistle,
they will come near to us out of curiosity."
Eskimo Myth

Classical physics says aurora phenomenon originate at heights from 60 to 400 km, and don't go lower than this because the atmosphere is too dense to allow for ionization. Aurora, from this perspective, requires a partial vacuum containing only rarified, ionizable gases which are excited by the solar wind, causing the air to glow. The different colors of the aurora are thereby described as a function of the kind of gas predominating (nitrogen, helium, hydrogen, etc.) at a given high altitude. The living and organic quality of aurora movements are basically ignored from this perspective, which assumes empty space and a dead universe.

An atmosphere similar to what exists within the troposphere (where clouds and weather exist) or even in the lower stratosphere is simply to weak of a vacuum, and too filled with ordinary atmospheric gasses to allow ionization to occur. Therefore, orthodox science claims all observations of aurora at lower levels are but optical illusions, or otherwise faulty. And from this, there is dismissive treatment of the many credible reports of audible sounds from the aurora, especially those reports which claim the coordinated movement of aurora with audible sounds. These are "impossible" according to most classical theorists, given the problems with the slow speed of sound through the atmosphere.

Classical aurora theory demands that aurora phenomenon occur only at altitudes many times higher up than even a high-flying jet aircraft. We know the roar of multiple jet engines from a passing high-altitude jet will arrive at the earth's surface only many tens of seconds after the jet has passed overhead, the sound propagating downward at a speed of approximately 1000 km per hour, depending upon atmospheric density. If auroral sounds were really transmitted from 100 km altitude, it would require at least six minutes for the sound to propagate downward, and this would only be possible if the aurora were exceedingly loud (louder than a jet aircraft), and in any case, most all of the audible frequencies would be dissipated long before they arrived. And, there could be no possibility of coordinated observations of auroral movement and auroral sounds.

Some efforts are being made to explain (and in some cases, to "explain away") aurora sounds as due to some kind of electrical or electromagnetic phenomenon, which people pick up in their skull bones, or in the metal fillings in their teeth, or in their eye-glass frames. This approach has not been too successful in convincing anyone, especially the people who report the audible hearing of aurora, and doubly-so for those who have observed the aurora moving "at tree-top level". The phenomena of audible auroras is a rare phenomenon, so if it were merely caused by electrical or electromagnetic transmissions from a high altitude, one would expect a lot more people to report hearing them -- but that's not the case. Audible tree-top auroras are something a person living in Alaska or Canada might witness only several times over a decade or even a lifetime, and this problem confounds the efforts of those who would forever banish the auroras to the edge of space.

The observations audible tree-top aurora, correlated with its very organic, life-like movements are highly suggestive of basic life-energetic processes as originally described by Wilhelm Reich in the 1950s (ref: Cosmic Superimposition). Such movement and activity of the aurora seem to excite ordinary people much moreso than today's crop of "unnatural" scientists, who spend more time in front of computer screens pouring over their data, than outdoors, directly observing living nature, from which their data are but only a tiny slice of reality. From this perspective, the glowing streaming currents of the aurora can be considered a primary expression of the Earth's life-energy system, in a manner analogous to the life energy which flows through the human body along acupuncture meridians, and forms an energy field which can be measured and even photographed through various methods.

There are other phenomenon which could be classified in a similar manner, notably anomalous lights which occur shortly before, during and after large earthquakes, and anomalous bluish glows observed in forested regions in daytime. There also are experiments from the work of Reich, where vacuum tubes containing almost no ionizable gasses, being evacuated well below the level necessary for ionization, will show aurora-like soft blue coloration after being charged up inside his orgone energy accumulators. We have several of these tubes at our laboratory in rural Oregon, and they emit a soft blue-grey glow simply after being stroked with the hand, without electrical excitation. Most all of these kinds of observable phenomenon have been routinely dismissed by all but a handful of scientific people, but they have been observed for generations by ordinary people. We will try to post several photos of these other phenomenon to this web page in the near future.

In a way, the "theoretical necessity" to reject audible auroras moving at close to the ground level parallels the prior rejection of meteorites by the scientific community, which steadfastly refused to believe that rocks could fall from the sky. The rocks fell, however, and the aurora does occasionally come down to the trees, even if only on rare occasions, and then apparently only for those whom the life-force chooses. Some specific examples are given below.

Scientist observes and describes loud, ground-level aurora:
"In March 1897, I was making a trip over the portage from Behring Sea to Anvik, on the Yukon River. By getting an early start on the last day we could reach Anvik before dark, so we got on the way about three o'clock in the morning. We noticed