Orgone Accumulator Handbook:
Chapter 5: Objective Demonstration of the Orgone Energy
by James DeMeo, Ph.D.
Copyright (C) 1989, All Rights Reserved
A number of techniques have been developed over the years to document, measure, and objectify the orgone energy. These techniques are briefly listed, but the interested reader is directed to the references for more specific details.

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.

NOTE: Full citations are found in the published book.