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2010
http://www.orgonelab.org/cart/xdemeo.htm#ORACBOOK In the 1940s, the physician and natural scientist Dr. Wilhelm Reich claimed discovery of a new form of energy which charged up living organisms and also existed in the open atmosphere and in high vacuum. Reich's laboratory and clinical findings indicated this new energy, which he called the orgone, could be photographed and measured, and had powerful life-positive biological effects. Reich trained other scientists and physicians in his findings, and together they set about applying the inexpensive orgone treatment methods - using a device called the orgone energy accumulator - against various illness, including cancer, with remarkably good results. His published findings shocked the scientific world of his day, however, ultimately leading to numerous smear articles in the popular press, and trumped-up charges by a power-drunk Food and Drug Administration. The FDA & "investigation" lead to a court trial of much greater significance than the better-known "Scopes Monkey Trial". Ignoring Reich's evidence and declaring "the orgone energy does not exist", US Courts ordered all books on the orgone subject to be literally banned and burned. Reich was thrown into prison, where he died. His work was nearly forgotten except by a small group of supporters. In this book, former university professor Dr. James DeMeo examines Reich's evidence and reports on his own observations and laboratory experiments, which have repeatedly confirmed the reality of the orgone phenomenon. Dr. DeMeo also recounts the observations and experiments of others, particularly physicians working in private European clinics where open use of Reich's controversial orgone energy accumulator proceeds today. This Handbook gives a warning about low-level atomic and electromagnetic radiations, as from nuclear power plants, power-line fields and cell-phones, along with advice on measurement and protection against such toxic energy. The book also gives a discussion on the subject of healing waters from natural hot springs, a form of energy medicine which once was widely used in North America before the rise of the authoritarian MD-hospital system and the powerful federal bureaucracy of the FDA. Dr. DeMeo also gives detailed construction plans for people to build their own orgone energy blankets and accumulators, which are inexpensive and simple to construct, though requiring specific direction as to their materials and environments. This is the Third Revised and Expanded 2010 Edition of the Orgone Accumulator Handbook, nearly 100 pages larger than prior editions and carrying a Foreword by Dr. Eva Reich (the daughter of Dr. Wilhelm Reich), along with many photos, diagrams and charts. It retains all the original construction plans, updated to address new issues about the best materials for orgone accumulator and blanket construction. Two Appendix documents are also included, one which summarizes a double-blind and controlled clinical experiment proving the physiological effects of the orgone accumulator on volunteer subjects in a German university, and another which details the similarities of Reich's orgone energy to the cosmic ether and "dark matter" of modern physics. This new edition also includes a section providing New Evidence on the Persecution of Reich, along with a bibliography, index and many weblinks for added information. It has many new photos and materials extracted from Dr. DeMeo's publications verifying the reality of the orgone energy, and is a must-have for all those interested in the issue of life-energy, subtle-energy or energy-medicine research. This is an excellent introduction to a major scientific discovery, organized for the educated layperson but with sufficient detail and citations to stimulate the curiosity of the open-minded physician and scientist.
2013 •
http://www.orgonelab.org/cart/xdemeo.htm#IDOWR Dr. Wilhelm Reich is the man whom nearly everyone loves to hate. No other figure in 20th Century science and medicine could be named who has been so badly maligned in popular media, scientific and medical circles, nor so shabbily mistreated by power-drunk federal agencies and arrogant judges. Publicly denounced and slandered in both Europe and America by Nazis, Communists and psychoanalysts, placed on both Hitler’s and Stalin’s death lists but narrowly escaping to the USA, subjected to new public slanders and attacks by American journalists and psychiatrists who deliberately lied and provoked an “investigation” by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), imprisoned by American courts which ignored his legal writs and pleas about prosecutorial and FDA fraud, denied appeals all the way up to the US Supreme Court, which rubber-stamped the FDA’s demands for the banning and burning of his scientific books and research journals, and finally dying alone in prison – who was this man, Wilhelm Reich, and why today, some 50 years after his death, does he continue to stir up such emotional antipathy? It is a literal 80-Years’ War of continuing misrepresentation, slander and defamation. Who were and are Reich’s attackers? And what stands behind their obsession to utterly rid the world of him, and of his work? What are the facts regarding Reich’s social-sexual theories and his experimental work on the orgone energy, or life-energy? Author and Natural Scientist James DeMeo takes on the book-burners, exposing with clarity and documentation their many slanderous fabrications, half-truths and lies of omission. In so doing, he also summarizes the lesser-known facts about Reich’s important clinical and life-energetic experimental findings, now verified by scientists and physicians worldwide, and holding great promise for the future. "
2013 •
http://www.orgonelab.org/cart/xdemeo.htm#ORACIT Bandito e Bruciato dall’FDA! “L’energia orgonica non esiste” dichiarò nel 1954 un giudice americano della corte federale basandosi sulle calunnie dei giornalisti e dell’FDA, ordinando la distruzione di tutte le pubblicazioni che contenevano la parola proibita “orgone”. In seguito il dottor Reich fu trascinato in prigione, dove morì. Uno scandalo peggiore dello “Scope Monkey Trial” (Processo delle scimmie) mentre i fatti che riguardano Reich vengono ancora oggi celati o travisati. In questo libro, l’ex professore universitario e scienziato naturale James DeMeo attinge alle sue vaste indagini e sperimentazioni per presentare i risultati concreti riguardo alle scoperte di Reich, focalizzandosi in modo particolare sul controverso Accumulatore di Energia Orgonica, che è una forma affidabile di Medicina Energetica usata in tutto il mondo. Qui il lettore imparerà a costruire e usare in modo sicuro le coperte e gli accumulatori orgonici; in più troverà ulteriori dettagli sulle Acque Vitali cariche di orgone tipiche delle sorgenti calde naturali e delle acque termali terapeutiche, e molte altre questioni correlate. Imparate a concentrare e adoperare l’energia orgonica (vitale), caratterizzata da un bagliore blu, usando dei materiali semplici e prontamente disponibili. Una quantità illimitata è liberamente disponibile nell’atmosfera. Nel manuale sono incluse diverse fotografie e diagrammi, più un articolo di ricerca in appendice, la bibliografia, l’indice e i riferimenti a svariati link.
Tercera Edición Revisada y Aumentada, con Nuevas Secciones sobre el Agua Viva y el Éter Cósmico del Espacio. Con Muchos Enlaces Web para Información Adicional. http://www.orgonelab.org/cart/xdemeo.htm#ORACSP
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"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 theory of Reich, is produced from the rarified motional-pulsating orgone energy continuum which is concentrated inside the ORAC, producing a 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 luminiferous cosmic 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, and contrasted to the temperature within a thermally-balanced but non-orgone-accumulating Control enclosure, following the protocols of Reich. Exceptional care was taken in the construction of the apparatus and in control procedures, with instrumentation calibrated down to ~0.002°C. The experiment was undertaken in a well-ventilated but fully dark-shaded outdoor thermal shelter specially constructed for the evaluations. Under the optimal conditions for ORAC functioning (i.e., low humidity, light or no winds, clear skies), a cyclical positive thermal anomaly was systematically detected, with an average of +0.13°C differential in two 10-day experimental 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 source by classical “empty space” determinations."
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Water: Multidisciplinary Research Journal
Anomalous “Living” Spectrographic Changes in Water Structures: Explorations in New Territory2018 •
Unusual spectrographic signatures can be induced into water by radiant non-contact material-environmental influences. Far-ultraviolet (UV) absorption and near-UV/blue fluorescence properties were observed to appear in distilled water samples by charging inside the controversial Wilhelm Reich Orgone Accumulator (ORAC), where no chemical or material contacts were made between the charging ORAC device and the water being treated. Similar spectral absorbance and fluorescence reactions were identified in natural rainwater and snowmelt samples, being nearly identical in spectral properties to the ORAC-charged water samples. Spectral similarities, as found in other studies of water structure or activation – such as exclusion-zone (EZ) water samples, and in aqueous solutions of DNA – have also been identified. These repeating spectral absorbance and fluorescence similarities as found in such diverse experimental or natural influences, involving both direct physical contact and non-contact radiant induction, are postulated to indicate a substantive cosmic energy which infuses into favorably-exposed water. Widely-observed natural optical phenomena of a similar blue color, almost uniformly detected by spectral intensity measures suggestive of water-structure fluorescence reactions, but rarely considered as such, are also discussed. Examples include certain exceptionally blue mountain lakes, blue glowing atmospheres over certain mountain ranges, blue-glowing waters and hot springs with healing properties, and blue glacial ice blocks and snow holes, as observed under both direct sunlight and overcast conditions. Certain blue-glowing astrophysical phenomena are also considered, which take on a new light given the more recent discoveries on the abundance of water in the universe. Water, 10:41-81, 2018
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"Starting in Summer of 1996, and for each Summer thereafter, the Orgone Biophysical Research Lab (OBRL) has offered a weekend laboratory seminar on Bions and the Reich Blood Test. The basic discoveries of Wilhelm Reich on bions and biogenesis1 were covered, as well as his findings on the cancer biopathy, and the specific protocols of the Reich blood test2. Instructors for the seminar have included Dr. Bernard Grad, Dr. Richard Blasband, Dr. Stephen Nagy and Dr. James DeMeo, who covered a far-ranging subject material: the basics of light-microscopy of living preparations, various experiments and preparations for the creation and observation of Reich’s bions (orgone energy vesicles), the technique and interpretation of the Reich blood test, reviews of Reich’s findings on the cancer biopathy, and the relationship of these findings to modern discoveries in biology and medicine. On this last point, for example, Reich’s bions appear quite similar to the extremophiles and nanobacteria of modern biology. In medicine, mycoplasma and cell-wall deficient forms are suggestive of bionous origins, while the widely-used term “apoptosis” describes a process of cellular disintegration and breakdown into micro-vesicles appearing functionally identical to Reich’s discovery of the bionous disintegration of cells. For these and other reasons, Reich’s findings from the 1930s still attract scientific interest."
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During the last Century multiple lines of converging evidence indicated the existence of a dynamic plasmatic energy existing within living organisms and water, and also as a background medium filling the atmosphere and vacuum of space. Experimenters such as Jacque Benveniste (memory of water), Frank Brown (external biological clock mechanism), Harold Burr (electrodynamic fields), Dayton Miller (cosmic ether of space), Bjorn Nordenstrom (bio-electrical circuits), Giorgio Piccardi (physical-chemical fields), Wilhelm Reich (bio-energy) and Viktor Schauberger (living water) independently measured a similar and unique cosmic-biological energy phenomenon. Their experiments frequently indicated water was a carrier for this previously unknown energetic force, which typically showed significant solar-terrestrial and meteorological components. Each of these scientists rested their claims upon experimental proofs, with many independent replications. Their works integrate with astrophysical findings on an interstellar medium, variously termed cosmic plasma, dark matter, or even cosmic ether. These and other natural scientists undertook decades of careful experimental work indicating the presence of a water-affecting cosmic medium, typically being more active at higher altitudes, often tangibly interacting with dielectrical matter and being reflected by metals. All were marginalized or maligned by the scientific orthodoxy of their day. I successfully replicated some of the anomalous biological, physical and meteorological experiments of Reich, among others, and so have been able to ascertain important similarities in their diverse findings. Taken together these studies are suggestive of a major scientific breakthrough, of a unitary cosmic-biological energy phenomenon, ignored or dismissed prematurely during the 20th Century. Water 3:1-47, 2011.
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"A controlled experiment was undertaken over three summers, from 1998 to 2000, for evaluation of the growth-enhancement effects of the Reich orgone accumulator on sprouting mung beans. An overview of published accounts from both professional journals and a popular magazine indicated this device, which has been subjected to unprecedented hostility since the time of its discovery, has real lifepositive benefits to people, laboratory animals and plants. Early preliminary tests by the author confirmed a clear growth-enhancement effect upon sprouting mung beans. This paper reports on a more systematic and controlled study. Mung bean seedlings were selected for ease of use and ability to control for various environmental factors. The experiment proceeded outdoors, at the author’s high altitude laboratory, in paired orgone accumulator and control enclosures. Mung beans were randomly selected from the same well-mixed batch of seeds, divided into orgone-charge and control groups, placed into their respective enclosures, supplied with fresh water daily, and maintained under nearly identical darkened, confined and sheltered environmental conditions. A 34% increase in growth was observed in the group of seedlings kept inside the orgone accumulator, as compared to the control group (p<0.0001) kept inside a non-accumulating enclosure; the orgone accumulator group also showed increases in germination rate, water consumption, and group weight gain, though sugar content as determined by both taste and measured refractive index of sprout juices (brix readings) was higher in the control group. A separate experiment was undertaken within two control enclosures, to determine how small temperature variations alone might influence the seedling growth. Only a very slight and fully insignificant influence, of around 0.6% growth increase, was observed in seedling groups deliberately kept at a temperature up to 1.5°C higher than the other. This amount of thermal variation was about three times that recorded in the actual orgone-charged versus control experiment indicating the much larger growth-boosting effect from the orgone accumulator could not have been due to observed half-degree residual thermal variations. The results confirm, the orgone accumulator is a special device of importance, able to significantly influence the growth of seedlings."
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