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Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich pursued an understanding of sexual energy and a universal life force that he termed orgone, a word coined from the same root as “organism” and “orgasm.” He worked with Sigmund Freud in the 1920s, however when Adolf Hitler came to power, Nazi newspapers attacked Reich’s pamphlet, “The Sexual Struggle of Youth.” He recognized the risk of remaining in Germany and in 1939 moved to the United States.

Once in the United States, however, Reich was attacked by the FDA more vigorously than any other person in its history! He was jailed in August 1956 and several tons of his publications were burned in the public square by the FDA. In A Book of Dreams, his son, Peter Reich, accused the FDA of murdering Reich. Considering some of their actions, this was not a far-out possibility!

Whereas Freud had argued that the sexual energy is libido and which he described as “something which is capable of increase, decrease, displacement and discharge, and which extends itself over the memory traces of an idea like an electric charge over the surface of the body,” he later rejected that idea and considered libido only physical energy. However, Reich took the idea much further, arguing that he had discovered this primordial cosmic energy, orgone, the study of which being called orgonomy. He reported that orgone is blue in color, omnipresent, can be seen with the naked eye. It is responsible for weather, the color of the sky, gravity, the formation of galaxies, and the biological expressions of emotion and sexuality. Actually, the easiest way to “see” orgone is to lie down on a clear day, not looking at the sun but looking without focusing directly into an overhead sky. One will see numerous small, very bright, shiny objects speeding around like small comets. These are orgone energy. Interestingly, he believed that this orgone was freely available in the atmosphere and that the body itself acted as an accumulator of this energy. This could cause excess energy to build up with blockage in various parts of the body, largely because of muscle tension or spasm from emotional hang-ups or blocks. In addition to using vigorous massage and pressure on the body, the best way to balance orgone was through sexual orgasm. He is reported to have said that anyone who goes without orgasm for three months would go insane.

He then began to build machines called “orgone accumulators” to concentrate the orgone from the atmosphere. These boxes consisted of alternating layers of steel wool and organic insulators that possessed a high dielectric constant. All illness, Reich believed, was caused by depletion or blockages of orgone energy. He conducted a number of tests in individuals suffering from a variety of illnesses who sat in the accumulator or used a smaller orgone blanket. The blanket consists of layers of fine mesh steel wool, wool, and cotton. He reported that the effects boosted the immune system even to the point of destroying certain types of tumors. His tests on mice with cancer and on plant growth convinced Reich of the benefits of orgone therapy. Of course, the establishment rejected everything that he said as quackery.

Working with volunteers, one of our Holos University Graduate Seminary doctoral students working with volunteers used a device called an orgone blanket. The blanket was used over the subjects thirty minutes daily for three days. The student demonstrated some changes in DHEA and free radical reduction. Obviously, use over a longer period would be even more important, as I have found that it takes six to twelve weeks of daily stimulation of my acupuncture pattern, Ring of Fire, to raise DHEA. Our cat prefers our orgone blanket over all other soft materials for sleep. Jim DeMeo, Ph.D., has continued to do extensive work with orgone energy. (See his The Orgone Accumulator Handbook for many details.) See more on Reich and orgone in Chapter 11.