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EXPERIMENTAL CONFIRMATIONOF THE REICH ORGONEACCUMULATOR THERMAL ANOMALY

by James DeMeo, Ph.D.

ABSTRACT

Experimental investigations were undertaken by the author, of the thermal anomaly (To-T) inside the orgone energy accumulator (ORAC),a phenomenon firstly observed by the late Dr. Wilhelm Reich, who invented the ORAC device. This thermal anomaly, by the theoryof Reich, is produced from the rarified motional-pulsating orgone energy continuum which is concentrated inside the ORAC, producinga frictional thermal heating of the air. Discussion is given on the experimental proofs standing behind Reich’s theory and claims,drawing attention to similar concepts in the modern sciences. The orgone energy is similar in many respects to the older luminiferouscosmic ether in that it fills all space, but also fulfills the role of an atmospheric-biological life-energy, in that it is pulsatory and excitable,and charges living tissues. In the To-T experiment, air temperature was measured inside the upper part of a 10 cm cubical ORAC, andcontrasted to the temperature within a thermally-balanced but non-orgone-accumulating Control enclosure, following the protocols ofReich. Exceptional care was taken in the construction of the apparatus and in control procedures, with instrumentation calibrateddown to ~0.002˚C. The experiment was undertaken in a well-ventilated but fully dark-shaded outdoor thermal shelter speciallyconstructed for the evaluations. Under the optimal conditions for ORAC functioning (i.e., low humidity, light or no winds, clearskies), a cyclical positive thermal anomaly was systematically detected, with an average of +0.13˚C differential in two 10-dayexperimental runs presented here, with maxima peaking daily around +0.5˚C warmer than the Control, and minima at around -0.1˚C.The experiments confirmed Reich’s claims of a slight spontaneous heating effect inside the ORAC, which has no known energy sourceby classical “empty space” determinations.

Keywords: Wilhelm Reich, orgone energy, orgone accumulator, thermal anomaly, To-T

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Research

INTRODUCTION

This report presents the preliminary findings froman extended experimental evaluation of the

thermal heat anomaly within the orgone energyaccumulator (ORAC), or To-T effect. The To-T is oneof several experimental proofs developed by the late Dr.Wilhelm Reich for the existence of what he called theorgone energy, or cosmic life energy. From Reich’s theory,the thermal anomaly is produced due to a postulatedsubtle friction-heating of the air, from the rarifiedmotional-pulsating orgone energy continuum which ispreferentially attracted into and concentrated inside theORAC, but less so inside the Control. Myexperimental investigations into this phenomenonextend back to c.1970, but I began in earnest toevaluate theTo-T experiment under optimal laboratoryconditions around 2000. Early in my work I was usingsensitive mercury thermometers, calibrated to NISTstandards and with tenth-degree markings, which byuse of a magnifying glass could be evaluated forhundredth-degree determinations. These were latergiven up for thermocouple measuring systems, whichfor other reasons also proved unsuitable for theexperiment. Ultimately, I settled upon sensitive high-quality thermistors, which could be individuallycalibrated electronically by software adjustments. I alsoexperimentally tested different shapes and sizes ofORACs, such as cone-shapes, and sizes ranging from 1cubic foot, down to a 10 cm cube. ORACs andControl devices were tested inside special chambers,underground in dug pits, as well as above ground, inthe shade and in open sunlight. In the end, a simplemethodology was finally settled upon which producedrelatively consistent and positive results, as given below.

REICH’S DISCOVERY OF THE ORGONE,AND EXPERIMENTAL CONFIRMATIONSThe discovery of the orgone was claimed by Reichoriginally as a sensible bioelectrical current which movedalong the skin surface during states of emotional andsexual excitation.1 His later work examining biologicalexcitation in single-cell microorganisms demonstrateda similar sensible, but also visible and photographableblue-glowing energy-field emitted by special micro-

spheroid vesicles derived from crushed beach sandheated to red-hot incandescence, and then quicklyplunged into sterile nutrient solutions.2 Hedocumented various protocellular life-like forms byboth heating and freezing of preparations.2,3 Reich’sblue-glowing vesicles were around 1 micron, and couldbe observed and photographed in the lightmicroscope.3,4,7,8 He called these vesicles the bions, andgiven their pulsatory movements and culturability,considered them to be a transitional entity betweenliving and non-living matter.2,3,4,7 His now-validatedexperiments on this subject predate and anticipatedsimilar findings on the development of life-like micro-spheroid vesicles produced under conditions of heatingand/or freezing some 30 years later by scientists such asBahadur, Carnes-Smith, and Fox.5 The existence ofthermophillic microbes as from deep-sea hydrothermalvents or hot springs, which today stand at the cutting-edge of research on the “origins of life” question, wereanticipated by Reich’s early experiments. Thetherapeutic value of natural hot springs, which aretypically enriched with mineral vesicles, is fullyaccepted by folk medicine and natural-orientedphysicians as having healing properties similar to whatReich previously documented with the radiating bions.Reich’s findings on the bions were originally replicatedby Roger duTeil and they jointly communicated thefindings to the French Academy of Sciences in 1938.6

However, Reich’s bion discovery remained relativelyunknown and unacknowledged due to the events ofWorld War II and the Vichy take-over in France,particularly given his public anti-Nazi writings. Hecame to the USA in 1939, just ahead of the Naziinvasion of Norway.

Reich also observed an anomalous blue-energyradiation around living red blood cells viewedmicroscopically, a phenomenon which also registers onphotographs.3,4,7,8 This appears to be one and the sameas the classically-described zeta potential of electrostaticcharge around the blood cells, and which is acceptedas a measure of overall vitality as expressed in thesedimentation testing of blood.9 Broth cultures of thesand-bions were also observed to have strong radianteffects which passed through glass containers to create

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biological reactions among laboratory workers(conjunctivitis of the eye from prolonged microscopicalobservation, plus an irritation or tanning of the skin).Physical effects were also noted, such as the fogging ofphotographic plates, the spontaneous magnetization ofmetal laboratory implements kept near to the radiatingsand-bion cultures, and non-frictional electrostaticcharging of nearby insulators.10 These kinds ofobservations led Reich to understand he was dealingwith an entirely new form of energy, something relatedto bioelectricity and life, but also with clear physicalexpressions in non-living material.

In efforts to better study this radiation, which couldnot be detected via standard electromagneticinstrumentation, Reich constructed a special metal-lined insulated box, to capture and amplify thephenomenon for closer study. This effort wassuccessful, and Reich observed this would enhance theobserved visible and sensible effects of the radiatingsand-bion cultures. However, the metal boxsurrounded with insulation also showed similarphenomenon without inclusion of the radiant sand-bion cultures. After considerable puzzlement andinvestigation, Reich concluded the atmosphere wasfilled with the same energy which charged and radiatedfrom the sand-bion cultures, though in a form notbound directly to life or matter.11

Reich thereby made the simultaneous discovery of theorgone energy, and invention of the orgone energyaccumulator. The discovery led him into medicalresearch on the health effects of this radiant andluminous energy, and investigations into the bestmaterials and environmental conditions forconstructing and using the orgone accumulator. At hislaboratory, Reich and his associates were injecting theradiant blue-glowing sand-bions into experimentalcancer mice, and also having human subjects sit insidelarger orgone accumulators (ORACs), for directexposure to the radiant energy. His experiments alongthese lines were controversial, as they producedremarkable life-positive effects, including prolongationof life in cancer mice, plus remissions of various healthproblems not anticipated by classical biology or

medicine. Reich eventually came to believe the“resistance to disease” was basically a condition of life-energy charge and pulsation within the organism.3,7

Both during his lifetime and in the years after, theORAC has been shown to produce powerfulphysiological effects in clinical research for treatmentof humans against what he called low energy biopathies,which included most cancers.3,7 While stopping shortof claiming a “cure”, his orgone accumulator therapy hasspread both informally “through the grapevine” andthrough professional and scholarly groups, and is todaywidely used in both Europe and North America,though almost exclusively outside of the hospitalsystem of the medical mainstream.12,13 The ORAC hasalso been shown to stimulate an increased growth andvigor in controlled experiments with plants, andincreased life-span and slowed tumor growth in cancermice.14,15 Published clinical case-studies of the effectivebenefit of the orgone accumulator on human diseasesare too abundant to review here, but there are severaldouble-blind and controlled experiments, undertakenat European universities and published in more recentyears, confirming Reich’s observations on the orgoneaccumulator’s parasympathetic influence upon thehuman organism.16 A German government ministryin the state of Niedersachsen also included orgoneaccumulator therapy as a recommended form of energymedicine along with homeopathy and acupuncture, forharmonization within EU medical practice.17 Othercontrolled and blinded clinical experiments employingorgone-radiating tubes as substitutes or additions toacupuncture needles, strongly suggest that orgoneenergy is also the acupuncture energy of Chinesemedicine.18 These and other findings are stronglysuggestive also of the work by Popp and othersdocumenting a weak but permanent biophoton flux inthe visible and ultraviolet range.19

Reich’s studies on the physical properties of the orgoneenergy were equally remarkable. The ORAC coulddevelop a higher electrical charge-density inside itself ascompared to the exterior, as determined through delayedelectroscopic discharge-rate experiments.20 My ownexperiments indicate orgone energy can charge up water,


suppressing its evaporation.21 Orgone accumulators werealso shown, including within my own laboratory, tocharge up high-vacuum tubes, yielding anomalousluminous and electrical effects, indicating high vacuumtubes approaching deep-space environments remainedfilled with a mass-free energetic substrate.22 Reich’s high-vacuum experiments are thereby suggestive of classicalphysics concepts invoking terms like “dark matter,”“neutrino sea,” or “zero-point vacuum fluctuation,” todescribe a still-unsettled issue about what actually existsin the core of a deep-vacuum.23 Geiger Muller tubes forradiation detection were also shown, after sufficientcharging inside an ORAC, to yield anomalously highcounts for background radiation alone.24 I havereplicated this effect in my laboratory where upwards of4000 counts perminute have been recorded fromGeiger-Müller tubes charged in strong ORACs for about a year,and exposed only to normal background radiation.25

A thermal anomaly was also noted by Reich inside theorgone accumulator, with special experimental testsdeveloped for its measure. This experiment, which inits basics has been replicated many times, shows howthe ORAC spontaneously develops a slightly highertemperature inside itself than in a thermally-balancedcontrol enclosure.26

All of these experimental anomalies were replicated andthe effects corroborated by other scientists, eitherduring Reich’s lifetime or in the decades after his death.

A “GREAT BOMB” FORPHYSICS, WITH DISMISSALSOne of the scientists who corroborated the ORACthermal anomaly was Albert Einstein, who met withReich over five hours at his Princeton home on 13January 1941.27 Reich brought several of hisinstruments to their meeting, including anorgonoscope which allowed for visual objectificationof atmospheric orgone phenomenon, as well as a specialorgone accumulator for demonstrating the thermalanomaly. During the demonstrations, Einsteindeclared to Reich, “should it be true, it would be a greatbomb,” presumably because of its implications forclassical physics theory.28

At the end of their meeting, Reich’s devices were loanedto Einstein for further study. Einstein confirmed theeffect in a subsequent letter of 7 February to Reich.29

Unfortunately, one of Einstein’s assistants offered theexplanation that the To-T effect was an artifact ofthermal-convection in the room. Einstein acceptedthat explanation without further attention and in thesame letter communicated his opinion to Reich. Reichsubsequently wrote back to Einstein on 20 February,outlining various control experiments which, ifundertaken, would refute the idea of simple convectioneffects. However, Einstein never replied back to Reichon this issue of control experiments, and there is noevidence he ever bothered to undertake furtherinvestigations.27

Today we know Reich’s orgone energy, which is asimilar cosmic medium to the older cosmic ether ofspace, would have undermined Einstein’s theory ofrelativity, which demands that space be empty of anylight-affecting medium. Only eight years earlier,Einstein had been confronted with experimentalevidence of a similar cosmic energy continuum by theAmerican physicist Dayton Miller. Miller hadundertaken several decades of work on the etherquestion, including a definitive series of interferometertests over four seasonal epochs atop Mt.Wilson, in thelate 1920s. There, he detected an ether-drift signalwhich overcame the small and less conclusive results ofthe better-known Michelson-Morley experiment.30, 31

Einstein never embraced the Miller results, however,dismissing them ex-cathedra as “thermal artifacts,” aclaim which Miller successfully rebutted when stillalive.31 The same “explanation” was resurrected byEinstein to dismiss Reich’s troubling findings, whichalso suggested the discovery of a ponderable medium –the orgone energy in Reich’s case.27 Today, we knowthe Miller ether-drift experiment was corroborated byseveral others, including the late Albert Michelson, andin more recent years by Yuri Galaev at the UkraineRadiophysics Institute.31-33 The most forward-lookingphysicists today speak about the “intergalacticmedium” or mysterious “dark matter,” and there are agrowing number of scientists and engineers who


increasingly speak about the cosmic ether of space, basedupon these and other experimental confirmations.34

All of this newer research provides support to conceptswhich are quite similar to Reich’s cosmic orgonecontinuum.35

AN AROUND-THE-CLOCKTHERMODYNAMICALLY-CONTROLLEDPROTOCOLThe basic To-T or thermal anomaly inside the orgoneaccumulator has been replicated by different scientistssince Reich’s time, with varying degrees of certainty.Prior to my own studies on this issue, and beyond thework presented by Reich, successful replications wereundertaken notably by Blasband, Baker, Fuckert, Grad,Konia, and Seiler.26,36-40 My own experiments benefitedfrom those earlier studies, but additionally addressed anumber of potential issues, using a protocol to rule outall known classical thermodynamic objections.41 Myown experiment would additionally be run around-the-clock over many days, using an automated data-acquisitions (DAQ) system, and with greater precisionthan in prior trials. Space does not allow a fullexposition of the methodology, but I can summarize.

The most definitive results came from using matchingthermistors of high sensitivity and accuracy, whichallowed very exacting calibrations down to 0.002˚ C,with around-the-clock automated To-T recordings.These were used inside a small but strong ORAC, anda thermally-balanced Control enclosure, with hollowinterior dimensions of 10 cm in both cases, andexterior of 17 cm, the difference being composed of thevariable materials from which they were composed.The goal, which was achieved through empiricallaboratory thermal stress-testing, was for the ORACand Control to have nearly identical thermal resistanceand heat capacity, such that ordinary natural diurnalthermal variation would create nearly identical thermalreactions within their interiors. Whatever residualeffects were noted, then, could be viewed as a possibleinfluence of the orgone energy phenomenon actingwithin the ORAC, but not in the control.

Reich’s original determinations on the best materials

for an orgone accumulator require use of ferromagneticmetals (galvanized sheet steel or steel-wool products)interlayered with insulators of a high-dielectricproperty (rough sheep’s wool blankets or wool-fluff,fiberglass materials, certain plastics such as styrene oracrylic felt, mason-board or fiber-board materials).12, 42

From these guidelines, and following my ownexperimental testing of materials, the ORAC wascomposed as follows:

1. An inner 10 cm box of thin galvanized steel sheetmetal, 27-gauge (~0.5 mm thick) was constructed.One of the metal sheets had a ¼ inch hole drilledthrough, for insertion of the measuring thermistor.

2. This metal cube was firmly nested inside another boxcomposed of ½ inch fiber-board material, (i.e.,Celotex brand) which is typically composed ofcrushed agricultural residues (i.e., sugar-cane stalks),which at the factory is mixed with binding glues,spread out flat and allowed to harden into semi-rigidsheets, one side of which is typically given a whitecoat of paint. It is used for ceiling tiles or insulation,and is readily available in most building-supplystores in North America. These fiber panels coveredthe exterior sides of the metal cube, overlapping tocompose a slightly larger cube which was glued andcoated with a white silica-based paint of a high-dielectric property. One of the fiber-board panelsalso had a hole drilled into it, to match up with thehole in the sheet metal. This side with the holebecame the top of the ORAC. A straight and rigidhollow plastic tube of around 10 cm length was thenfixed through and cemented into the hole in thefiber-board panel, but resting against the outside ofthe metal plate, such that the thermistor (fittedinside a separate rigid jacket which allowed only itssensing tip to be exposed) could easily be inserteddown the tube and precisely into the top-interior ofthe metal box. A cotton-fluff insulation gasket wasfitted to the thermistor jacket such that, when fullyinserted down the tube, the top-hole in the ORACinterior would be fully sealed from outside air.


3. A layer of “000”-grade steel-wool was then laiddown to cover the full cube, and that was in turncovered over with a double-layer of acrylic felt, ascan be obtained in fabric shops. 100% wool feltalso could be used (but not polyester). Three suchalternating layers of steel-wool/double-felt wereapplied in turn. The final exterior layer wascomposed of a double-layer of acrylic felt.Standard masking tape was used to hold the steel-wool/felt layers together during the constructionprocess.

4. A final exterior layer of thin plastic kitchen food-wrap was added, to slow or eliminate air-intrusion.

This ORAC construction design employing layeredferromagnetic conductive material with high-dielectricinsulation material, creates, by my observation, a typeof hollow capacitor, which has no history ofexperimental development outside of Reich’s discovery,and which attracts a higher charge of the cosmic life-energy inside itself.43

The Control enclosure used similar insulating materialsbut no metals whatsoever, as follows, from the inside out:

1. Five layers of 110-pound card-stock (from a printingshop as used for post-cards) were lightly cementedtogether in a stack and then cut to compose a 10 cmcube, with hollow interior, matching in size themetal cube of the ORAC. A ¼ inch hole is drilledfor thermistor insertion, identical to the ORAC.

2. A surrounding box of ½ inch fiber-board materialwas created, exactly the same as in the ORAC,snugly fitting around and lightly cemented to theoutside of the constructed card-stock box. Amatching hole was also drilled in the fiber-board,with the addition of an identical rigid plastic tubefor insertion of the thermistor, as was done with theORAC.

3. Multiple layers of the same acrylic felt, but no steelwool, were used for the Control, which did notinclude metals in its construction. Because there was

no steel wool, the Control required about twice asmuch acrylic felt layering as used for the ORAC.

4. A final exterior layer of thin plastic kitchen food-wrap was added, as before, to slow or eliminate air-intrusion.

Several times during the construction process, thematerials were evaluated empirically as to their thermalproperties. The choice of 5 card-stock layers in theControl to match against the single layer of steel in theORAC was determined empirically, by experimentalmeasurement of their heat-resistance properties. Athermal heat lamp and/or radiant heater was used todetermine the number of card-stock layers necessary tomatch the thermal resistance of the 27-gauge (~0.5 mmthick) sheet steel, by measuring temperature rise andfall on the side opposing the heat source. By thismethod, I determined that 5 card-stock layersproduced nearly identical thermal shielding from theheat sources, as did the single metal layer being used.While one might anticipate the metal layer would morequickly conduct a thermal impulse across and throughits dimensions as compared to card-stock materials, onemust keep in mind the metal also reflects away muchof the incident thermal infra-red which strikes itssurface. By classical theory, this difference would workagainst any mechanically-produced thermal heatanomaly in the ORAC, as discussed below.

A subsequent thermal evaluation of the composedmetal box and cardstock box was also made, and laterstill of these boxes with their respective fiber-boardcovers, verifying the accumulator and control yieldedvery close thermal reactions to the intensive heat lamp.This thermal-stress evaluation was repeated again todetermine how many layers of acrylic felt was necessaryon the Control to compensate for the steel-wool/feltconstruction of the ORAC. By adding or subtractinglayers of acrylic felt to the Control, I was able toproduce a nearly identical thermal-resistance and lag-time response between the two enclosures. The overallsize of the ORAC and Control ended up nearlyidentically also, at ~17cm on each side.


The metal components of the ORAC would, byclassical theory, reflect away a significant quantity ofwhatever thermal infra-red (IR) energy was incidentupon them. One might therefore expect, with noorgone energy and equal thermal dynamics, the orgoneaccumulator would never get as warm as the Control.Consequently, by classical thermodynamic theory andno orgone energy effects, the ORAC should produce amuch more shallow oscillating curve over the course ofthe day as compared to the Control, the latter of whichwould allow radiant IR energy more directly into itsinterior, yielding a greater warming effect. By thisreasoning, even with identical thermal effects from airtemperature, as from air conduction and convectionincident upon the exteriors of the ORAC and Controlenclosures, the accumulator should never get as warmas the control. The ORAC should constantly bereflecting away considerable IR energy, and henceremain slightly cooler than the Control in the daytimewhen the Sun is heating up the atmosphere andlandscape. Over the cooling night period, andassuming no orgone energy thermal effects, the ORACwould retain more of the thermal energy it hadacquired in its interior during the day, given theinward-reflecting nature of its metal components.

In this regard, the thermal reactions of the ORAC bearsome similarity to how modern building design uses

metal foils with insulation materials to reflect thermalIR energy: To keep a building cool in a hotenvironment, the metal foil reflects away the unwanteddaytime heat; in a cold environment, the metal foillayer helps retain a building’s internal heat by inward-reflection. Likewise, metal-foil-lined “survivalblankets” retain body heat in cold environments, whilefoil lined beverage coolers ward off IR heat from theoutside. Consequently, there are several lines ofclassical thermodynamic argument which predict theORAC should show a lower temperature than theControl during the daytime, and a possibly warmercondition during the night. As will be shown, just theopposite was the case.

It was also important to create an outdoors, ventilatedbut dark-shaded environment in which to run the To-T experiment, where no significant differences inthermal energy input could preferentially arrive ateither the ORAC or Control, to create a mechanicalwarming or cooling of one of them over the other. Icould not use the standard kind of laboratoryenvironmental-chamber, notably because they do notallow for fresh-air mixing, and are composed of metals,both of which would predictably affect the orgone-energy dynamics of the experiment.

Frommany sources 12-16, 42 it is known the more sensitiveorgone accumulator experiments require a well-ventilated but dry space, away from any kinds of metallicstructures, and without interfering low-levelelectromagnetic fields from either 60-cycle power lines,VLF from computers or electronic equipment, and RFfrom wi-fi, cell phones and towers, and similarradiations. Nuclear materials must also be excludedfrom within the proximity, with a preferred distance ofaround 50 miles from any nuclear reactors or similaratomic facilities, and the experiment should optimallybe undertaken at higher altitudes. Reich’s laboratory inRangeley Maine met such standards, and my ownlaboratory was selected for those exact properties, in theforests of SW Oregon at a high altitude of 4300 foot(~1300 m) elevation, with a pronounced summer dryseason -- conditions known for stronger orgonoticeffects. This essential aspect of the experimental protocol


Figure 1. General layout of the To-T Experiment. Thermistorsmeasure the temperature in the upper interior of both ORAC andControl enclosures, with separate air temperature measurements.

is in fact no more stringent than, for example, thedifferent but equally specific demands that a cosmic-raytelescope be located in an isolated high-altitude regiondistant from city lights, or that neutrino-detectionexperiments be isolated deep underground or within ahuge mass of glacial ice, and also fully away from atomicpower reactors. As previously cited, others have madereasonably goodmeasures of the thermal anomaly underconditions less-than-optimal. But a negative resultunder non-optimal conditions would be no moredefinitive than a cosmic-ray photograph fogged up bylights from a local airport, which the incautiousastronomer thought would be irrelevant, but wasn’t.

Initially I devoted considerable effort to running thisexperiment within a sheltered enclosure inside mylaboratory building. However, multiple problems andissues forced moving the experiment outdoors into aspecial ventilated thermal shelter. This shelter, shownfrom the outside in Figure 2, was located under ashaded tree canopy on the forest floor away from allother structures. The walls were composed of double-layered plywood with numerous gaps allowing slowmixing with the outside air. Fresh air is necessary forgood orgone accumulator functioning. It was paintedwhite on the outside, with additional interior andexterior 1 inch Styrofoam insulation-shade panels. Theroof was plywood with composite asphalt shingles toshed precipitation, and also covered with Styrofoampanels on the top. The entrance door was on the northside corner, covered over with a heavy tarp andplywood sheet when closed up for the experiment.During those times, the interior was quite dark,requiring a flashlight to view things. The exterior ofthe structure received only spotty direct sunlight aswould filter diffusely through the thick cedar and pineforest canopy which rises overhead to around 150 feetin height at this location. By empirically adjustingplywood shade and Styrofoam insulation panels, I wasable to create a shelter where the internal thermalgradient was typically no greater than ~0.2˚Cdifference from one interior side to the other over thecourse of the day. This was determined firstly by use ofan infrared thermometer-scanner, and later confirmedby separate measuring with thermistors during actual

experimental runs. It becomes quite essential, thatthere be no great variance in internal air temperature,nor point-sources of IR heat (as from the Sun) whichwould thereby skew the results.

Once the thermal shelter was prepared, I created arotating pivot on the interior ceiling, and from this wassuspended by ropes a platform composed of simpleplywood measuring ~25 cm width and ~1.25 meterlength. The ORAC and Control were placed on thisplank about 1 meter distance from each other, at about1 meter height. The orientation of the axis, andlocation of the ORAC and Control enclosures, couldthen be moved around, or the locations reversed, toevaluate the effects of environmental influences. Thisis seen in Figure 3.

In later experiments this whole platform would be putinto slow rotation by a DCmotor, of around 1 rotationper 3 minutes, so that both the ORAC and Controlwould be progressively exposed to whatevertemperature variations existed inside the thermalshelter, from the various walls. In practice, this rotationsystem often malfunctioned, so it was used onlyintermittently, but it finally did produce some of thebest results. Confounding problems existed withpower black-outs from winter blizzards or summerthunderstorms, causing computer crashes and lost data.Occasionally on windy days there would be asignificant flow of warm summer or cold winter air that


Figure 2. Exterior of Ventilated Thermal Shelter undera heavy tree canopy, with air-gap double-walls and

protective shade panels.

would enter the interior of the ventilated shelterpreferentially on one side, and skew the interiortemperatures and the To-T results. This wasdetermined by separate thermistors set to monitor theopen air temperature near to both the ORAC andControl. The best results were consistently obtainedon low-wind and low humidity summer days, duringthe Oregon dry season.

Thermistors used in the measurements were coupledto a Vernier Lab-Pro DAQ system, with a hard-wiredremote USB connection to a laptop inside the mainlaboratory building, running Vernier Logger Prosoftware.44 Once an experiment was up and running,the door into the thermal shelter was covered withopaque plastic and the interior remained dark and withonly very diffuse light entering inside. Four termistorswere used, identified as the ORAC, Control, Air3, andAir4. These latter two thermistors were placed in theopen air, covered only by a thin plastic tube with singlefelt-layer cover, to moderate against short-termfluctuations. These were positioned about 10 cmdistant from the respective ORAC and Controlenclosures, and at the same height, to monitor theactual air temperature differences within the thermal

shelter close to the two experimental enclosures. As Iwill note later, under the most satisfactory conditions– and this became a determinant between usable andnon-usable runs -- the difference between the Air3 andAir4 thermistors was typically less than what wasrecorded from the ORAC-Control (or To-T)difference. When this Air3 and Air4 temperaturedifference became greater than around 0.2˚ all by itself,or being extremely variable, I considered that particularrun as questionable even if it had a very positive To-T.

With all these considerations in place, one final stepwas necessary. Off the shelf, the thermistors (VernierSTS-BTA) would yield very stable readings over timefor the same absolute temperature, but could be offfrom each other by as much as ~0.2˚C. Fortunately,the Vernier software allowed for electronic adjustmentsof their absolute readings. To evaluate and correct thisfactor, I created a special highly insulated CalibrationChamber, composed of nested Styrofoam boxes. Allfour of the thermistor probes were firstly inserted intoa small clear-plastic pill box where they shared the sameair within a tiny space of around 1 cm3. This plasticbox was then inserted inside a Styrofoam enclosure,which in turn went inside the larger Styrofoam box,which was then sealed to prevent air intrusion. Theoverall Calibration Chamber was then placed intorotation on the same platform used for theexperiments, inside the thermal shelter. The thermistorprobe-wires then connected back through the DAQsystem just as when an experiment would be run.During these calibration runs, I could monitor which,if any of the thermistors yielded higher or lowerreadings for the same absolute temperature inside thecore of the Calibration Chamber. By adjusting thecalibration values in the software, corrections could bemade to each thermistor, bringing their values towithin a remarkable ~0.002˚C of each other. Thisminimal variation was possible even as temperaturevaried over the course of the day and night, whichcould be as much as ~10-20˚C. Frequently, I wouldrun the calibrations over several days and observed oncebeing adjusted, they would retain the same values forthe same absolute temperature for a considerableperiod. Once the calibrations were completed, the


Figure 3. Interior of the Thermal Shelter, showing platformwith ORAC and Control enclosures. Thermistors enter themfrom the top. Separate Air3 and Air4 thermistors are also

attached to dowels at the far end of each platform. ORAC andControl are ~1 meter apart. White Styrofoam insulation panels

are seen in the background, and these covered a full circlearound the device, as well as above it.

actual experimental runs would begin. Withoutchanging any of the electronics or settings, and withthe full system continuing to run, I would carefullyremove the thermistors from the Calibration Chamberand place them inside the ORAC and Controlenclosures. The Air3 and Air4 thermistors werelikewise placed into position, near to the ORAC andControl, and I would exit the shelter, cover the door,and the actual experimental measurement run wouldbegin.

CONTROLLED MEASURESOF THE THERMAL ANOMALYOnce I had completed the calibrations and set-up fora run of measurements inside the thermal shelter, anddeparted back to the laboratory, typically it would takeseveral hours for the thermal variations from my body-heat and handling of the thermistors to dissipate andstabilize. I could then study and review whateverthermal energy anomaly might be produced inside theORAC relative to the Control. With the Air3 and Air4thermometers in place, I could also monitor the effectsof wind or Sun on the shelter’s thermal dynamics. Ialso developed a method to mathematicallycompensate for smaller variations within the thermalshelter. When one side of the thermal shelter waswarmer or colder than the other, determined by thedifference between the Air3 and Air4 thermistors, Icould subtract that environmental difference from theactual To-T to create a new value, of the Adjusted To-T. When winds were very light, the Air3-Air4difference was within 0.1˚ to 0.2˚C of zero. In thosecases, one could say the conditions were optimal forthe most significant determinations, and in fact theactual To-T and the Adjusted To-T was very close ifnot identical at those times. Presented below are severalselected experimental runs made during those mostexacting and optimal conditions.

Figure 4 for example, shows one selected 10-day run in2008 where the ORAC and Control sat on the plywoodplatform inside the thermal shelter, but without anyrotation of the platform. This was under light wind orno wind conditions, with clear skies and humidity lowerthan 50%. Under those conditions, the graphs show

persisting though cyclical positive To-T readings, givenin the blue line. Here the ORAC developed an anomalyaveraging around +0.088˚C, and typically peakedaround +0.5˚C warmer than the Control at Solar Noon,with minima of approximately -0.1˚C close toMidnight. The red line is the temperature differencebetween two air-exposed thermistors, Air3 and Air4 onopposite ends of the platform, indicating a naturalthermal gradient within the shelter of an average-0.055˚C, with the environment of the ORAC beingthat much cooler. This means, the actual temperaturegradients inside the thermal shelter worked against the


Figure 4. To-T in Clear Weather, Outdoor Thermal Shelter –thermal anomaly is present. N (with yellow dot) = Solar Noon,

Grey dot = midnight.

Figure 5. To-T in Clear Weather on Rotating Platform inOutdoor Thermal Shelter – thermal anomaly is present. N

(with yellow dot) = Solar Noon, Grey dot = midnight.

To-T effect by this average -0.055˚C. The green lineprovides the AdjustedTo-T, which compensates for thisgradient, yielding an average anomaly of +0.143˚C(0.088˚ + 0.055˚), with peaks up to around +0.7˚C.The blue To-T and green Adjusted To-T curves arequite close, and predominantly above the zero line,indicating an anomalous heat source entering theORAC which is unrelated to the natural thermalgradient within the shelter.

In Figure 5, made several weeks later, the entireexperimental platform was put into rotation, at about1 rotation per 3 minutes, which immediately reducedthe effects of thermal gradients within the shelter toabout one-fifth of that without rotation, reducing theAir3-Air4 temperature difference down to an average of-0.011˚C. Because of several days of overcast weathernear the beginning and end of this particular run, thepeak To-T on those days was also reduced, yielding anoverall average of +0.101˚C, and an Adjusted To-Taveraging +0.112˚C.

Neither of these temperature curves yield up theclassical thermodynamic expectation of a zero or “null”effect, nor of a cooled or negative daytimeTo-T as froma blocking of diffuse and scattered thermal IR radiationwithin the thermal shelter, due to the reflective metalcomponents of the ORAC. Nor is there any “thermallag” effect, which would typically cycle over the 24-hour clock with readings above and below the zero linein equal proportions. Note that in early AM or full-daytime periods of Figures 4 and 5, the Air3temperature, located only 10 cm from the ORAC,developed a cooling trend of between -0.1˚ to -0.2˚Cover the Air4, near the Control, indicating theenvironment was exerting a cooling effect upon theORAC during those times when the To-T wasnevertheless surging ahead and showing its maximums.But this raises the question, what would a data curvelook like if there was no orgone energy thermal effectat work? What if we accept the narrow classicalargument that the ORAC and Control were merelytwo “empty boxes” of no significance other than beingof similar thermodynamic construction? We cananswer this question by reviewing their thermal

behavior during long periods of rainy and overcastweather, when orgone energy effects are minimal orabsent. During those times, the ORAC essentiallybecomes an “empty box” without orgone energy effects.Figure 6 shows a trace made over 10 days between 4-13Nov. 2006, when constant overcast, drizzle and veryhigh relative humidity prevailed, and the To-T effectbasically vanished. At those times, by Reich’s theoryand all prior experimental determinations, orgoneenergy is bound up by atmospheric water vapor, andby the liquid water saturating the soil and landscape.In this wet-environment experiment, we basicallydocument the thermal dynamics of two “empty boxes”,ORAC and Control, in the absence of any significantorgone energy effects. And indeed, under thiscondition, with the same exact set-up and operation,there is noTo-T effect apparent. The thermal anomalyfor this wet-environment graph averaged at +0.021˚C,while the Air3-Air4 difference was at +0.014˚C, andthe Adjusted To-T was a fully insignificant +0.007˚C.

DISCUSSION

The data in Figure 6 from a wet period was obtainedwhen we do not expect to see any significant To-


Figure 6. To-T, RainyWetWeather, in Outdoor ThermalShelter (no platform rotation) – thermal anomaly has vanished.A strong cold-front passed through the area on the third day,

resulting in a slight mechanically-produced thermalperturbation. Otherwise, the graph is close to zero andinsignificant. N (with yellow dot) = Solar Noon,

Grey dot = midnight.

T effect, and the relatively flat nature of that data graphis itself a confirmation of the basic methodology, andaccuracy of the original empirical testing andcalibrations used for construction of the experiment.Had there been some major error in the constructionof the ORAC versus the Control enclosures, such thattheir thermal resistance or heat capacity wassignificantly different, or if the calibration procedureswere inaccurate or faulty, then the data displayed inFigure 6, acquired under conditions when no orgoneenergy effects were anticipated, is where we shouldexpect to see such errors expressed. Daily temperaturevariations, from night minima to daytime maxima onthis particular run of wet conditions were from 5˚ to12˚C daily, which is similar to what existed in both theprior two graphics Figure 4 and 5, under dryconditions of clear positive To-T effects, which bothhad daily variations of around 8˚ to 14˚C. This alsowas indicative, the positive To-T readings were not dueto thermal-lag reactions to diurnal temperaturevariations. The To-T is not created by mechanicaltemperature bias due to slight differences in thethermal properties of the two enclosures. If that werethe case, we would see a significant oscillatingtemperature mimicking the To-T even during wetperiods, due solely to daily temperature variation. Thisnever happened. Wet conditions always extinguishedall but the most insignificant thermal variations.Figure 6 thereby provides added support to theanomalistic nature of measurements in Figures 4 and 5,where a clear and positive To-T was obtained under theexact optimal conditions when we expect the orgone

accumulator to generate a high charge inside itself.

Table 1 summarizes these overall results, which showthe Average To-T values for the two dry periods ofhigher orgonotic charge to be from 4 to 5 times as greatas during the wet periods of no anticipated orgonoticeffects. The Adjusted To-T shows an even largerdifference, the dry periods of expected high chargeyielding a thermal response from 16 to 20 times asgreat as during the wet periods of no anticipatedorgonotic effects.

There is yet another even more telling factor in the To-T data indicating the thermal anomaly is not theproduct of mere “solar heating” either, as might beconsidered given how the data has a diurnal periodicity(and ignoring for the moment, the significant shadingand insulation provided by the thermal shelter).Significantly, note the locations of the yellow dotswhich mark Solar Noon, and the grey dots which markMidnight. This also is anomalous as it shows theORAC is peaking out in temperature not at the hottesttime of day, which occurs some 3-4 hours later, norbottoming out at the coldest time of the night, justbefore sunrise.

In both Figure 4 and 5, the temperature anomalyincreases in the daytime and peaks out at solar-noon,even though the experiment proceeds in near-darknessinside the shaded and insulated thermal shelter. Theyellow dots on the graphs mark those points of SolarNoon, over the ten-day period, while midnight is


identified by the grey dots. Significantly, the peakdaytime air temperature of 3-4 PM showed nodiscernable influence on the To-T readings, and theminima is similarly anomalous, trending towards zeroanomaly at the time of midnight. Therefore, theminimum night air temperature of 5-6 AM, just beforesunrise, showed no effect upon the measured To-Tminima either, and the steady increase in To-T duringthe early AM hours is one of the more interestingaspects of the anomaly. The ORAC gradually loses itsinterior heat source from noon towards midnight, butthen picks up again, as if a tiny and growing heat sourcehas returned; this continues from midnight towards apeak at noontime, after which it falls off once again.

This indicates, the ORAC is responding to some factorrelated to the absolute position of the Sun in the sky, ratherthan merely to the effects of solar-heating at the Earth’ssurface. Somehow, without any direct thermalinfluence, the experiment can detect when the Sun isdirectly overhead, or even more significantly, underfootat midnight.

Over many runs of this experiment, I never saw evenonce a purely mechanically-determined temperaturecurve, peaking at the hottest time of day andbottoming-out during the coldest. The anomalyreveals a pulsatory diurnal effect, suggesting a non-thermal solar excitation influence directly upon thebackground orgone energy ocean. The To-T curvesfactually correlate with tidal forces related togravitation, something which Reich’s own work ledhim to postulate.45 I should also note, this kind ofsolar-noon diurnal influence has also been noted bybiologists and naturalists, who have argued for a tidalinfluence upon biological clock cycles.46,47 Fromgeology and meteorology we also have long-timeevidence of tidal forces influencing the Earth’s crust andatmosphere, in ways which are not always sostraightforwardly understood as mere products ofgravitation alone, which itself remains a point of greatmystery to natural science.

We do not anticipate ordinary ferromagnetic metalslayered with high dielectric insulators – be it described

as a hollow capacitor or orgone accumulator – to produceheat inside itself, nor does classical physics give us anyhint as to why this might occur. The ORAC andControl enclosures, balanced in construction as theyare, should behave nearly identically so far as classicalphysics is concerned. And they do, but only duringwet periods when no orgone energy effects are present.During dry periods, the orgone accumulator functionsexactly as Reich described.26,42

While the magnitudes of the To-T effect demonstratedhere are small, in only tenths of a degree, they are stillconsistent and up to 20 times greater than what classicalthermodynamics alone will produce in the sameapparatus – as seen in Figure 6 and Table 1. To betterunderstand this thermal anomaly, we must give credenceto Reich’s original theories on the matter, and likewiseconsult the voices of those radical scientists of the 20thCentury whose work provides independent support forthis more dynamic view of nature. While space does notallow discussion, I would especially point to thediscoveries of Frank Brown, Giorgio Piccardi, HaroldBurr, and Dayton Miller.30,31,46,48,49 Elsewhere, I havepresented entire lists of such dissenting scholars andscientists whose work gave support in this direction, andso unhesitatingly assert that Reich was not alone inproclaiming the existence of such a dynamic andubiquitous cosmic energetic phenomenon.50

My results therefore confirmedWilhelm Reich’s originalfindings on the thermal anomaly within the orgoneaccumulator, as well as to validate the priorconfirmations of others. This confirmation is beyondall known thermodynamic expectations, and is nowdocumented in a most carefully-conductedexperimental protocol. There is no other known causefor the anomaly, other than a true and real effect of theorgone energy, or something very similar to it. Thisbeing the case, it is yet another call for an open scientificand medical reappraisal of Reich’s larger body of work.

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CORRESPONDENCE: James DeMeo, PhD,Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory, Ashland, Oregon, [email protected] www.orgonelab.org www.saharasia.org


REFERENCES & NOTES1. W. Reich, The Bioelectrical Investigation of Sexuality and

Anxiety (1937) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 1982).2. W. Reich, The Bion Experiments: On the Origin of Life (1938)

(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 1979).3. W. Reich, The Cancer Biopathy, Vol.2, Discovery of the Orgone

(1945) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 1973).4. For example see the photo plates of experimentally produced

bions and protocells in: R. Dew, Reich's Experiment XX,Annals, Institute for Orgonomic Science, 6(1):1-32, September1989. M. Snyder, Some Observations on Reich'sExperiment 20, Pulse of the Planet 5:88-94, 2002. Also see:B. Grad, Wilhelm Reich's Experiment XX, Cosmic OrgoneEngineering, VII(3-4):130-143, 1955. B. Grad, Studies onthe Origin of Life: The Preparation of Primordial Cell-LikeForms, Pulse of the Planet, 5:79-87, 2002. S. Shanahan,Elektronenmikroskopische Fotografien von Bionen ausEisenstaub, Nach Reich, J. DeMeo & B. Senf, Editors(Zweitausendeins Verlag, Frankfurt 1997), pp.582-585.

5. K. Bahadur, A Functional Approach to the Origin of LifeProblem (National Academy of Sciences, India: GoldenJubilee Commemoration Volume, 1980). K. Bahadur,Jeewanu, The Protocell, (Ramnarainlal Beni Prasad,Allahabad, India, 1966). A.G. Cairns-Smith, GeneticTakeover and the Mineral Origins of Life (Cambridge Univ.Press, New York, 1982). A.G Cairns-Smith, Seven Clues tothe Origin of Life: A Scientific Detective Story (CambridgeUniversity Press, NY 1985). S.W. Fox & K. Dose, MolecularEvolution and the Origin of Life (Marcel Dekker, New York,1977).

6. R. duTeil, Leben und Materie: Drei Versuchsreihen (ThreeSeries of Experiments Based on the Tension-ChargePrinciple), Communication to the Natural PhilosophySociety, Nice, and Academie des Sciences, Paris, France,1938. Reprinted in W. Reich, The Bion Experiments: On theOrigin of Life (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 1979).

7. C. Raphael & H.E. MacDonald, Orgonomic Diagnosis ofCancer Biopathy,Wilhelm Reich Foundation, Maine, 1952;originally published as Orgone Energy Bulletin, IV(2):65-128,1952.

8. J. DeMeo, Bion-Biogenesis Research and Seminars at OBRL:Progress Report, Pulse of the Planet 5:100-113, 2002.

9. K. Jan & S. Chien, Role of Surface Electric Charge in RedBlood Cell Interactions, J. General Physiology, Vol.6i,pp.638-654, May I973. I. Bauer, ErythrocyteSedimentation: A New Parameter for the Measurement ofEnergetic Vitality, Annals, Institute for Orgonomic Science,4(1):49-65, September 1987.

10. W. Reich, The Cancer Biopathy, ibid, pp.81-90.11. W. Reich, The Cancer Biopathy, ibid, Chapter 4.12. J. DeMeo, The Orgone Accumulator Handbook: Construction

Plans, Experimental Use and Protection Against Toxic Energy,2nd Revised Edition (Natural Energy Works, Ashland,Oregon 1989).

13. J. Kavouras, Heilen mit Orgonenergie: Die medizinischeOrgonomie (Turm Verlag, Bietighem, Germany, 2005).

14. M. Courie, Plant Response to Orgone Energy, CosmicOrgone Engineering, VII(3-4):203-204, 1955. L. Lance,Effects of the Orgone Accumulator on Growing Plants,

Journal of Orgonomy, 11(1):68-71, 1977. J. Espanca, TheEffect of Orgone on Plant Life: Part I, Offshoots of Orgonomy,3:23-28, Autumn 1981 [continued in Espanca, Offshoots ofOrgonomy, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986]. J. Heckman(pseud. H. Claymond), Effect of the Orgone Accumulatoron Potato and Onion Plants, Annals, Institute for OrgonomicScience, 4(1):44-48, September 1987. J. DeMeo, SeedSprouting Inside the Orgone Accumulator, Journal ofOrgonomy, 12(2):253-258, 1978. J. DeMeo, OrgoneAccumulator Stimulation of Sprouting Mung Beans, Pulse ofthe Planet 5:168-176, 2002.

15. W. Reich, The Cancer Biopathy, ibid, pp.290-309. R.Blasband, The Orgone Energy Accumulator in the Treatmentof Cancer Mice, Journal of Orgonomy, 7(1):81-85, 1973. R.Blasband, Effects of the Orac on Cancer in Mice: ThreeExperiments, Journal of Orgonomy, 18(2):202-211, 1984. C.Baker & R. Dew, Studies of the Reich Blood Test in CancerMice, Annals, Institute for Orgonomic Science, 3(1):1-11,September 1986. B. Grad, The Accumulator Effect onLeukemia Mice, Journal of Orgonomy, 26(2):199-218, 1992.

16. S. Müschenich & R. Gebauer, Die (Psycho-) PhysiologischenWirkungen des Reich'schen Orgonakkumulators auf denmenschlichen Organismus [The (Psycho) Physiological Effectsof the Reich Orgone Accumulator], University of Marburg(W. Germany), Department of Psychology, Dissertation,1986. S. Müschenich, Der Gesundheitsbegriff im Werk desArztes Wilhelm Reich (The Concept of Health in the Worksof Dr. Wilhelm Reich), Doktorarbeit am FachbereichHumanmedizin der Philipps-Universität Marburg (VerlagGorich &Weiershauser, Marburg 1995). G. Hebenstreit,Der Orgonakkumulator nach Wilhelm Reich. EineExperimentelle Untersuchung zur Spannungs-Ladungs-Formel, Diplomarbeit zur Erlangung des Magistergrades derPhilosophie an der Grung- und Integrativ-wissenschaftlichenFakultät der Universität Wien, 1995.

17. See: Natural Healing Methods for the European Community,Doc. Reg. V.5, Min. of Tech., Niedersachsen (Univ.Lueneburg, Germany 1991).

18. B. Senf, Wilhelm Reich: Discoverer of Acupuncture Energy?American Journal of Acupuncture. 2(7):109-18, 1979 April-June, 1979. L. Southgate, Chinese Medicine andWilhelmReich: An Analysis of Chinese Medical and Reichian Theories ofLife Force, and Experimental Orgone-Acupuncture Study(Lambert Academic Publishing, London 2009).

19. F. Popp (Ed.) et al, Integrative Biophysics: Biophotonics(Springer Netherlands, 2009). J. Chang (Ed.) et al,Biophotons (Springer Netherlands, 2009).

20. W. Reich, Three Experiments with Rubber at the Electroscope(1939), Orgone Energy Bulletin, III(3):144-145, 1951. W.Reich, Thermal and Electroscopical Orgonometry (Discoveryof the Orgone, part 2), International Journal of Sex-Economy& Orgone Research, III(1):1-16, March 1944. Reprinted inReich Cancer Biopathy 1948. C. Baker (pseud. C.F.Rosenblum), The Electroscope - Part I, Journal of Orgonomy,3(2):188-197, 1969. - Part II, Journal of Orgonomy, 4(1):79-90, 1970. The Electroscope III: Atmospheric Pulsation,Journal of Orgonomy, 10(1):57-80, 1976. The ElectroscopeIV: Atmospheric Pulsation, Journal of Orgonomy, 11(1):35-48, 1977. M. Fuckert, Measurements of the Atmospheric


Orgone Energy, Annals, Institute for Orgonomic Science,8(1):1-16, September 1991.

21. J. DeMeo, Water Evaporation Inside the OrgoneAccumulator, Journal of Orgonomy, 14(2):171-175, 1980.

22. W. Reich, Orgonotic Light Functions 3: FurtherCharacteristics of Vacor Lumination, Orgone Energy Bulletin,I(3):97-99, 1949. W. Reich, The Oranur Experiment, FirstReport (1947-1951) (Wilhelm Reich Foundation, Maine,1951). W. Reich, The Orgone Energy Charged VacuumTubes (VACOR), Orgone Energy Bulletin, III(4):235-266,1951. B. Bizzi, Light in Deep Vacuum Lamps and VitalEnergy, Energy & Character, 3(3):16-17, 1972. J. DeMeo,Research Progress Reports: Photographing the OrgoneEnergy, Pulse of the Planet 5:254-255, 2002.

23. For a discussion on this see: J. DeMeo, A Dynamic andSubstantive Cosmological Ether, in Proceedings of the NaturalPhilosophy Alliance, Cynthia Whitney, Editor, Vol.1, No.1,Spring 2004, pp.15-20. Internet posting:http://www.orgonelab.org/DynamicEther.pdf

24. W. Reich, The Geiger-Müller Effect of Cosmic OrgoneEnergy, Orgone Energy Bulletin, III(4):201-234, 1951. Alsoin W. Reich, The Oranur Experiment, ibid.

25. J. DeMeo, New Experiments at OBRL: Reich's Geiger-Müller and To-T Effects Confirmed, Abstracts Of Papers,Conference On New Research In Orgonomy, Chipping, UK,18-19 August 2007, pp.11-12. J. DeMeo, OrgoneAccumulator GM Effect, OBRL Quarterly Newsletter #19,August 2008, pp.7.

26. W. Reich, Thermal and Electroscopical Orgonometry(Discovery of the Orgone, Part 2), International Journal ofSex-Economy & Orgone Research, III(1):1-16, March 1944.Reprinted in Reich Cancer Biopathy 1948, ibid.

27. W. Reich, The Einstein Affair, Wilhelm Reich BiographicalMaterial, History of the Discovery of the Life Energy, AmericanPeriod 1939-1952, Documentary Volume A-IX-E (OrgoneInstitute Press, Rangeley, Maine, 1953).

28. Letter from Wilhelm Reich to A.S. Neill, 6 Sept. 1943.Contained in Record of a Friendship, B.R. Placzek, Editor,Gollancz, London, 1982, pp.98.

29. Letter from Albert Einstein to Wilhelm Reich, 7 Feb.41, “Ihave now investigated your apparatus... [and] made enoughreadings without any changes in your arrangements. The box-thermometer showed regularly a temperature of about 0.3 – 0.40higher than the one suspended freely.” Contained in W. Reich,The Einstein Affair, ibid.

30. D. Miller, The Ether-Drift Experiment and theDetermination of the Absolute Motion of the Earth, Reviewsof Modern Physics, Vol.5(2), pp.203-242, July 1933.

31. J. DeMeo, Dayton Miller's Ether-Drift Experiments: A FreshLook, Pulse of the Planet 5:114-130 2002. Internet postedhttp://www.orgonelab.org/miller.htm

32. A. Michelson, F. Pease & F. Pearson, Repetition of theMichelson-Morley Experiment, Nature, 123:88, 19 Jan.1929; also in J. Optical Society of America, 18:181, 1929.

33. Y.M. Galaev, Ether-drift Effects in the Experiments on RadioWave Propagation, Radiophysics and Electronics, Institute forRadiophysics and Electronics of the National Academy ofSciences of Ukraine, Vol.5, No.1, pp.119-132, 2000. Y.M.Galaev, Ethereal Wind in Experience of Millimetric

Radiowaves Propagation, Spacetime and Substance, Vol.2,No.5 (10), 2001, pp.211-225. Y.M. Galaev, The Measuringof Ether-Drift Velocity and Kinematic Ether ViscosityWithin Optical Waves Band, Spacetime and Substance, Vol.3,No.5 (15), 2002, pp.207-224.

34. J. Levy (Editor), Ether Space-Time and Cosmology, in threevolumes. (Aperion 2009). S. Deutsch, Return of the Ether(SciTech Publishing, 1999). J. Milutis, Ether: The NothingThat Connects Everything (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2006).

35. J. DeMeo, Reconciling Miller's Ether-Drift with Reich'sDynamic Orgone, Pulse of the Planet 5:137-146 2002. AlsoJ. DeMeo in refs. 23 and 31 above.

36. R. Blasband, Thermal Orgonometry, Journal of Orgonomy,5(2):175-188, 1971. C. F. Baker (pseud. C. F. Rosenblum),The Temperature Difference: An Experimental Protocol,Journal of Orgonomy, 6(1):61-71, 1972.

37. Fuckert, 1991, ibid.38. B. Grad, Some Heat Experiments Implicating the Existence

of a Subtle Energy, Subtle Energies, 7(3):239-262, 1997.39. C. Konia, An Investigation of the Thermal Properties of the

ORAC -- Part I, Journal of Orgonomy, 8(1):47-64, 1974; -Part II, Journal of Orgonomy, 12(2):244-252, 1978.

40. H. Seiler, New Experiments in Thermical Orgonometry,Journal of Orgonomy, 16(2):197-206, 1982.

41. Early in my investigation, it was determined that one ofReich’s methods, to measure the To-T above the top metalplate of the ORAC, was particularly susceptible to thermalartifacts from downward-directed IR radiation. Iconsequently abandoned that approach and only mademeasurements within the upper-interior of the accumulator.Also, one published report of a high To-T reading averaging~8.0˚C appeared suspect, due to inadequate shading fromSolar IR radiation, with data recorded only over part of theday, and then using only a bare metal box, rather than anauthentic well-constructed orgone accumulator. Myreplication of that experiment under full shade over the 24-hour clock showed the large readings were due to ordinarySolar IR and inadvertent selective measurement ofmechanically-produced diurnal thermal lag. This did notinvalidate Reich’s thermal anomaly claims, however. See: P.Correa & A. Correa, The Reproducible Thermal Anomaly ofthe Reich-Einstein Experiment Under limit Conditions,Infinite Energy, #37, 2001. J. DeMeo, Preliminary Report ona Bare metal-Box 'Naked Accumulator' To-T Experiment,with Negative Results, Dec. 2001. Internet published:http://www.orgonelab.org/correas2.htm

42. W. Reich, The Orgone Energy Accumulator, Its Scientific AndMedical Use (Orgone Institute Press, Maine, 1951).

43. Some have likened the orgone accumulator to a FaradayCage. However, over the long history of people making andusing Faraday grounding cages, few or none of the anomaliesor properties of the orgone accumulator have been notedwithin them. While there are similarities in theirconstruction, the layered nature of the ORAC, without anyneed for an Earth-ground, suggests a fundamental difference.

44. http://www.vernier.com45. W. Reich, Ether, God & Devil / Cosmic Superimposition

(1951) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 1973).46. F. Brown, Evidence for External Timing in Biological


Clocks, in An Introduction to Biological Rhythms, J. Palmer,ed. ... The first part is a chapter contribution by Brown,within the larger book by Palmer.

47. J.A. Knight,Moon Up, Moon Down (Solunar Press,Montoursville, PA, 1972).

48. G. Piccardi, Chemical Basis of Medical Climatology (CharlesThomas, Springfield, 1962).

49. H.S. Burr, Blueprint For Immortality (Neville Spearman,London, 1971); The Fields of Life (Ballantine Books, NY,1972).

50. J. DeMeo, The Orgone Energy Continuum: Some Old andNew Evidence, Pulse of the Planet 2:3-9 Fall 1989.

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