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Disclaimer The Connection Between the Mind and the Body Bions and Biogenesis The Discovery of Orgone Energy Accumulating Orgone Energy Orgone Energy in the Body The Biopathies Reversing the Shrinking Biopathy The Function of the Orgone Accumulator Who Can Use an Orgone Accumulator Overcharge Conditions Strength & Materials of the Accumulator The Energetic Environment Where to Place and Store Orgone Accumulators Blankets, Shooter/Charger Boxes Orgone Accumulators are Experimental Bibliography
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One thing I want to be very clear about: at no time did Wilhelm Reich ever claim that the orgone accumulator "cured" anything. During the period when he was treating people with orgone accumulators, he was extremely cautious about either himself, or his colleagues, falling into the illusion that they had discovered a remedy for the ills of mankind. More than anyone, even today, he understood the origins of what he called "biopathic" illnesses as rooted in the social and emotional misery of people's everyday lives. Reich always acknowledged that his case studies were limited in number; not nearly enough to be definitive, and he always stressed his failures and the remaining questions that required additional research. Having said this, it is also true that the decades-long, pioneering research Reich did accomplish, points to promising directions in which the alleviation, and certainly the prevention, of particular biopathies may someday be possible. I must stress that: Orgone accumulator devices are experimental; they are not medical devices, and not a substitute for professional medical care. If you have a medical condition, please consult a health care professional. In modern, western culture, "energy medicine" is a rather new phenomena with homeopathy one of the first forms. In older, Asian cultures, energy medicine has been practiced much longer as in acupuncture and other forms of Traditional Chinese Medicine. How the different approaches can be understood and possibly integrated is unknown. How Reich's discovery of orgone energy and the orgone energy accumulators will be part of these newer discoveries and older practices is also not fully known. Only systematic research will be able to reveal the answers to the many questions that remain. I am presenting here only a very abbreviated history of Reich's discoveries. In the near future, a fuller account will be given. At the end is a bibliography and resource list where you can find additional information about subjects that I only touch upon. However, because of the amount and importance of information here, I recommend you print these long pages out rather than try to read them off the computer screen. Theirrie Cook Sole Proprietor Orgonics
energy flowed from the inside body core to the outside surface (towards the world) when a person felt pleasure or expansion; and conversely, it flowed from the surface to the interior (away from the world) during states of anxiety, fear, and contraction. (2) Reich also noted that the conditions of expansion and contraction affected a person, not only emotionally, but down to the autonomic nervous system, to the cellular, and even chemical levels. (3) States of expansion produce parasympathetic conditions associated with dilation of the blood vessels and increased circulation, pain relief, better digestion and peristalsis, lower blood pressure; and the stimulation of potassium and lecithin production; along with creating a sense of well-being, and sexual excitement. States of contraction, however, produce sympathetic effects: constricted blood vessels, less blood flow, and often pain. In addition, the contracted condition increases blood pressure and heart beat rate, adrenaline flow and cholesterol; it inhibits digestion and blood supply to the genitals and is associated with the emotions of anxiety and "stress". The ability of the body to expand and contract and not become "stuck" in one mode, created what Reich called the pulsation of life which distinguished the living from the non-living. This pulsation of expansion and contraction also followed a specific four-beat rhythm:
Sympathetic
Parasympathetic
A. Vesicles inside a disintegrating blade of grass. 1500X (illustration) B. Bions breaking free of grass and clumping. C. Clumps of bions with a membrane formed around them and internal movement. D. The same organism in a contracted and elongated form: pulsing back and forth. These organisms were observed to swim freely, develop a mouth, and "eat". Some of these organisms stopped returning to the spheroid shape, retaining the elongated shape, and developed further into amoeba. Reich made movies of this process of biogenesis in the mid 1930s.
While further studying the formation and function of the bions, Reich found that they could be made from disintegrating inorganic matter as well as organic and could even be placed on a nutrient media and grown as a culture. One such culture of bions produced from heated sand, had very unusual properties: in the dark, the culture dishes radiated a soft blue color; when held in the hand, a "prickling" could be felt; nearby small lab tools became magnetized; skin of the lab workers became tan under their clothing and when a small amount of the culture was placed next to bacteria, the strongly radiating bions would immobilize and kill them.
* it fills all space and is everywhere * it's mass free and is the primordial, cosmic energy * it penetrates matter, but at different speeds * it pulsates and is observable and measurable
* it has a strong affinity and attraction to/by water * it is accumulated naturally in the living organism by ingesting foods, breathing, and
through the skin * the mutual attraction and excitation of separate orgonotic systems result in the merging, or superimposition, of the systems; and the emergence of a new system * orgone energy is negatively entropic: highly charged orgone systems attract lesser charged, which Reich described as the orgonotic potential * orgone energy is excited by secondary energies such as electromagnetism and nuclear energy * when it is concentrated, orgone energy often has a blue-to-violet color. The Interaction of the Orgone Energy Field of a Person Sitting Inside of An Orgone Energy Accumulator.
The outside, atmospheric orgone energy (dotted lines) is attracted to, and penetrates the inside of the orgone accumulator, making contact with the person's own energy field; the two fields interact, causing lumination.
sunlight, which Reich felt was a major source of orgone energy radiation in the atmosphere. (7) These sources refuel the energy at the biological core and the tensioncharge-discharge-relaxation metabolism throughout the body. In a healthy individual, these functions are uninhibited.
The Biopathies
Reich knew from his character-analytic work with patients (8), that most people, mainly because of anxiety, suppress emotions and block their energy flow. We do this by inhibiting our breathing and tensing muscles that prevent a complete pulsation of charge and discharge in our bodies. When the shallow breathing and spastic muscles become chronic, a contractive state sets in and the amount of orgone energy in the body is diminished. Consequently, the orgone field around the red blood cells decreases, the plasma in the cells shrinks, and they more quickly breakdown into the toxic T-bacilli. The entire body is further weakened and becomes susceptible to illness. Reich termed this underlying crippling of the energy functions and the weakening of the body a biopathy. The root word "bio" means life, and "pathy" means disease or suffering. Various physical disorders are only symptoms, or expressions, of this deeper energetic disturbance that affects the body all the way down to the cellular level. Reich identified two main biopathies which result from a blocking of energy functions. One is the cardiovascular biopathy in which the body's biological core continues to produce energy to the fullest extent and sexual functioning remains alive. However, when the energy hits the contracting blocks, the person reacts with outbreaks of anxiety or anger. Physical symptoms include excessive heart rate, overactive thyroid, diarrhea, etc. The other biopathy is the shrinking biopathy which occurs when the biological core reduces its energy production and sexual excitation and emotions become weaker and weaker; chronic resignation sets in, fatigue, and an energy suffocation of the cells and tissues. This depletion of cellular energy leads to an accelerated breakdown, an autoinfestation of T-bacilli, and, if prolonged, the appearance of anemia, immune system dysfunctions, degenerative illnesses, and cancer cells. Another condition, which can occur in both the cardiovascular and shrinking biopathies, is the sudden, excessive clamping down of the energy functions in the body which can directly and severely reduce the amount of energy available from the core to the rest of the body. When this condition becomes chronic, it can become part of the shrinking biopathy; or it can occur only when a person experiences severe sexual anxiety. Reich called this condition anorgonia.
What Reich discovered from his work with bions, is that cancer cells don't develop from healthy cells but a series of changes in the healthy cells must happen first and often long before the cancer cells form. Furthermore, he found that these local changes in healthy tissue are caused by a more general pathology of the entire body. In other words, the formation of the cancer cell is only the last phase of a systemic illness called "cancer". What were the steps in Reich's research of cancer? First, he examined tissue and cells in a living state, not fixed (killed) and stained with chemicals, and also at very high magnification - over 2000x. He was also the first to make a study of all readily available cells in a cancer patient: blood, sputum, urine, feces, skin, and mucous membranes. He found a special, miss-shapen, club-like cell in cancer patients in areas other than the actual tumor. He also found numerous T-bacilli. This research led to the development of the PAP smear later on by another scientist. Reich himself developed three blood tests that can determine the health of an individual before a tumor develops by evaluating the presence of the special club-shaped cells and T-bacilli in the blood. After years of research, Reich uncovered the process of cancer cell formation in the body from what was once healthy tissue: The tissue first becomes weakened from energy stagnation and cells quickly break down into small vesicles or bions that clump together and around which a membrane forms. The new "cells" become the club-shaped cancer cells that gradually become motile and eventually become actual protozoa. Usually death occurs before the protozoa form in humans, but he was able to view and film the entire process in cancer mice. What cancer is doing is breaking down our tissues into protozoans -- a living death! But what triggers this breakdown in tissue resulting in the cancer tumor? Reich found that chronic energy stasis in the body, accompanied by inhibited respiration and local muscle spasms, often in the area of the tumor, create the preconditions for cancer. This systemic condition is an advanced form of the Shrinking Biopathy; it creates an energy and oxygen suffocation of the tissues. As the weakened cell itself begins to shrink, the cell plasma becomes less in relation to the nucleus which then triggers a survival mechanism in the cell nucleus to divide and multiply. In the highly energetic process of dividing, the nucleus is also discharging great amounts of energy by the "tension-charge-dischargerelaxation" formula found in mitosis. It's as though the rapidly dividing cancer cells try to take up the function of energy discharge for the whole, weakened body. The cancer cell nucleus, by its rapid, energetic division seems to be trying to restore energetic pulsation to the entire body: actually trying to preserve life! However, the cancer cells are also biologically very weak and easily disintegrate into both T-bacilli and bion clumps and the formation of cancer cells increase.
Pain Relief
The autonomic nervous system is mobile -- it both expands and contracts as Reich was able to observe in transparent meal worms under a microscope. Impulses are first manifested in the movements of the autonomic nervous system and then transmitted secondarily to the mechanical locomotor organs/muscles. The autonomic nervous system
is nothing more than organized contractile plasma and the direction of its flow is expressed by emotional, physical and autonomic movement. For example, what we feel as pleasure is the expansion of our autonomic nervous system, and anxiety is the contracting and shrinking within the body; what we feel is the very real process of expansion and contraction of the autonomous nervous system. The "pulling" or "tearing" pain felt by cancer patients, when not caused by an open lesion, is actually the pulling away of the autonomic nervous system from the site of the tumor. To ease the pain, a reversal of the contraction is needed, ie. an expansion of the system.
The increased absorption of the same bio-energy that is in the body helps the body to expand, thereby reducing the contractive state and promoting natural pulsation. The restoration of the parasympathetic response improves the flow of blood to tissues and organs which allows them to function better, resist damage and recover easier from injury; it promotes cellular growth, eases tension and pain, assists digestion and peristalsis, improves appetite when this is impaired, increases core body temperature and can impart an emotional sense of well-being. The orgone accumulator helps the body to help itself by supplying concentrated orgone energy In experiments using laboratory mice, Reich (and other researchers since) found that the orgone accumulator had a remarkable affect on wounds and burns. In addition, because of the stimulation of the expansive parasympathetic response, the symptoms of "shock" could be affected. Reich believed that the main contribution of his discovery of the orgone energy accumulator was aiding in the prevention of severe biopathic disturbances.The increased orgone energy recharges the red blood cells and tissues which may reverse the cellular degeneration from a T-bacilli reaction to the healthier bion reaction, thereby improving the entire body's resistance. However, depending upon the severity of the biopathy, this is not necessarily an easy thing to do. The liver and kidneys can have difficulty eliminating the products of degenerative tissues and cells. Detoxifying programs can be especially helpful in relieving this problem. (9) Today, we have many environmentally provoked cancers (such as smoking or asbestos and lung cancers) where the chronic damaging of tissues can create a localized T-bacilli reaction which can eventually develop into a tumor. Reich noted even in these situations, that the spreading of a tumor was always preceded by the accelerated degeneration of tissue into bions and especially T-bacilli: cancer never spread into healthy, orgone charged tissue.
or only under very close supervision: decompensated heart disease, high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis or heavy obesity. In addition, people with the following blocked, high energy states should NOT use an orgone accumulator: brain tumors, glaucoma, epilepsy or people who suffer from apoplectic attacks Preliminary experience indicates that caution be used with people suffering from ALS or MS. Conditions that can worsen with orgone accumulator use are skin inflammations, rashes, and conjunctivitis. Within the last twenty years, two double-blind experiments using orgone accumulators were performed at medical universities in Germany and Austria. (10) The results confirmed some of Reich's findings: the subjects using the orgone accumulator recorded both higher core body temperatures and also, initially, a faster heart beat rate. In addition, most reported feeling a sense of well-being and various effects associated with a stimulation of the parasympathetic system. Individuals with very low energy or shrinking biopathies should use the stronger accumulators. How often and for how long a person should use an orgone accumulator is a question that concerns both the energetic strength of the user and the accumulator. A person with robust energy may use a 3 ply accumulator once a week for 10 minutes or only when they are feeling especially tired. An average person may use it twice a week for 15 to 20 minutes, or only when needed. A weaker or aging person may use a 5 ply every other day for 20 minutes, or only when needed; and someone with a severe shrinking biopathy may use a 7 or 10 ply for 20 minutes to an hour every other day for a month. There is no mechanical rule as to how long or when to use an orgone accumulator and it is something the individual needs to work out for themselves. After using an orgone accumulator for some minutes, a warmth, relaxation and sometimes a prickliness may be felt. The skin may flush and sweat develop. There is a feeling of a "soft glow", and of well-being. When these sensations are no longer felt, or there is a sudden urge to do other things, the session should end. Some people who have very low energy fields may take a month or more of use before they are recharged enough to feel these effects. When using an orgone accumulator, a person wears as little clothing as is comfortable so that the energy can more easily penetrate the skin. However, being fully clothed is also just fine as the energy will penetrate the clothing, too; it will just take a little longer for the charge to build.
Overcharge Conditions
There is the possibility of becoming overcharged by using the orgone accumulator for too long a time during a session, or too often. The body can only take in so much energy; when this capacity is exceeded, an overcharge is felt. The symptoms of overcharge are a dizziness, pressure in the head, headache, and slight nausea. Simply ending the session and resting in fresh air will quickly dissipate the overcharge. Soaking baths can help reduce the charge also. Another sign of overcharge is when a person has been using an accumulator daily, notices their energy improving, but they also find it difficult to get to sleep at night or they become constantly flushed in the face, or chronically irritable. If this occurs, cutting back either the amount of time in a session, or not using it every day can alleviate this problem. It is not advisable to continually become overcharged and better to use an accumulator for short sessions, several times a day, than for one over-extended time. It may also be the case that an orgone accumulating device should not be used long term, every day for months, and especially, years on end; but only when needed for short periods. Even if the user continues to feel benefits after daily long-term use, an overcharge may be present that is not readily felt and that may disturb the natural pulsation of the body. In addition, if a person has a physical problem, using an orgone accumulator will impart more energy, but this may not be solving the underlying problem that caused the lack of energy to begin with. Continual, daily use of an orgone accumulator for months can possibly develop chronic overcharge conditions and should be avoided. Emotions such as anger, anxiety or sadness can also be stimulated by using an orgone accumulator. These feelings surface when the building energy charge hits a block that can provoke an emotional discharge. An increased energy charge can also create sexual feeling much as cardiovascular exercise can; but it is not a "cure" for orgastic impotency or other neuroses: only emotional therapy can fully address these problems.
Right: 3 Ply Orgone Accumulator showing the inside metal walls, a Shooter/Charger Box for the seat, and a Chest/Leg Board folded and leaning against the wall.
strong as a 3 ply. However, the 3 ply may create more than 5 times the concentration of orgone energy than in the surrounding atmosphere and is often more than adequate for the average user.
a fresh charge. (11) Above: Hazy "dor" conditions visible in a countryside setting where there are not any sulphite pollution sources such as factories or heavy auto traffic. Note the lack of deep blue sky color and a dullness to the vegetation even though this is a clear, sunny day. Severe dor conditions are when the stand of trees beyond the field would only be barely visible due to heavy dor haze. Reich also found that strong secondary energies can irritate the orgone accumulator creating an unpleasant, agitated energy reaction called oranur. Reich discovered this
reaction while he was experimenting with radioactive materials. (12) The orgone energy went into a frenzied state that irritated and severely overcharged people. If prolonged, the oranur reaction can eventually deaden the healthy orgone, creating a hazy dor condition. The oranur reaction can also occur in the presence of strong electromagnetic fields. In particular, cathode ray guns not only give off strong EM fields from their transformers, but the electron beam itself is so highly charged that it can give off low-dose x-rays. (13) For these reasons, it is extremely important not to use or store an orgone accumulator near operating TVs, fluorescent lights or CRT computers. Nor should they be used around x-ray machines, radioactive smoke detectors, or within 50 miles of a nuclear reactor. Living near electrical transformer stations, microwave towers and other highpowered energy carriers is not advisable whether you have an orgone accumulator or not. In addition, due to high EM fields, orgone accumulators should not be used near electric sparking motors, air ionizing machines, microwave ovens, or with electric blankets. Strong chemical fumes also disturb the orgone energy. Normal incandescent light bulbs or household appliances do not generate very high EM fields and are usually not a problem on or off. Strong electromagnetic and radioactive fields are harmful to living things whether or not an orgone energy accumulator is present. Remember, the human body is an orgone energy system, too, and is affected by these radiations even though we may not directly feel them. This is observed especially in children who often become over-excited when they start to watch TV (oranur reaction); however, if their exposure is prolonged, they soon tire and become the "couch potato" (dor condition). Orgonics sells various energy detection meters to help determine the quality of the energy environment so that changes can be made to clean it up.
Industrial, urban environments contain an atmosphere that is often chemically polluted and saturated with EM fields. It still might be possible to have an orgone accumulator in such an environment; however, special precautions must be taken. The room a large orgone accumulator is located in, should be seldom used and have absolutely no orgone irritating devices like computers, fluorescent lights or electric heaters. The room should have constant, good ventilation. A bowl of water should be placed inside the accumulator when not in use and the walls wiped down at least weekly to maintain a healthy charge. Numerous houseplants also help keep the atmosphere in the room fresh. If the room or apartment does become overcharged, there should be a contingency plan for a relocation of the accumulating device so that the charge in the home can return to normal. I should note that some people, usually with low energy, report the presence of an accumulating device in their home as "energizing and soothing"; however, others have great difficulty tolerating the additional charge and it can be harmful to them. With the increases in high energy solar storms, nuclearized areas, and dor weather emergencies, it is often advisable to store all orgone energy devices outside the living area when not actually being used.
Comment by Wilhelm Reich about the importance and function of orgone energy in the body: "If you assume that the material atom particle is the basic unit of the universe, including life, then you are also correct in assuming that the chemical compounds you find in a specific disease are building stones of that particular disease. "However, you are fundamenatlly wrong in concluding thus if it is conclusively shown that all subjects of chemistry are SECONDARY products of primary MASSFREE energy functions in the living organism. The chemical compound one may find in schizophenia or cancer is not its "cause" or "sources of existence"; it is merely a by-product of the disease process. As a by-product, it may also contribute SECONDARILY to the development of the disease picture.
"Arteriosclerosis, for example, shows hard deposits in the walls of the blood vessels. But these deposits are not the cause of arteriosclerosis. It is one of its secondary characteristics. To understand the disease process "arteriosclerosis" we must learn to know what kind of dysfunction in the PRIMAL ENERGY METABOLISM is responsible for the production of this deposit. Could it be that chronic contraction of blood vessels will necessarily change certain massfree PREATOMIC OR[orgone] functions - such as DOR into Melanor and then possibly into calcium mass? This opens the door for us to the functional, PRE-ATOMIC, bio-energetic aspect of disease." Wilhelm Reich in editorial notes to Rocky Road to Functionalism, by Robert McCullough, CORE, Vol. VII, Nos. 3-4, Dec. 1955
On the left are bean sprouts grown in a regular box (control) and on the right grown in an orgone accumulator (ORAC). The accumulator produced three times the growth.
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