About the DeMeo-Reich category

This subcategory is for discussion of the work and theories of James DeMeo, Ph.D., and Dr. Wilhelm Reich. These men are known for their work regarding a substance called "orgone."

We would like to note that both of these men are also known for their political writings and beliefs which are considered off-topic here. This is a place for discussing their scientific research and work, not a place for political debates.

James DeMeo's websites:

This orgone substance is related to the concept of the Ether, although it might not be considered exactly the same thing.

From James DeMeo's page entitled Reconciling Miller's Ether-Drift with Reich's Dynamic Orgone:

Less than 20 years after [Dayton] Miller's milestone research, in the 1950s, Wilhelm Reich was documenting the existence of a unique and new form of energy, called the orgone, which existed in living organisms and the atmosphere, and was postulated to exist in cosmic space as well, with properties remarkably similar to Miller's ether:

A) Mass-free orgone energy filled all space, much like a cosmic ether. Orgone could penetrate matter easily, but also weakly interacted with it, being attracted to and charging all matter. Organic materials held the orgone charge strongly, while metals rapidly discharged, or reflected it.

B) Orgone energy was postulated to play a fundamental role in planetary dynamics, specifically the rotation of planets on their axis, and the revolution of planets around their suns, and of moons around planets. Orgone energy also was postulated to be the medium of transmission of electromagnetic waves, and of the energetic excitation which led to the local development of light.

C) Reich's theory postulated the existence of large spiraling streams of orgone in cosmic space, notably a streaming motion along the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy, with secondary streams flowing parallel to the Plane of the Ecliptic (of the Solar System), and to the Earth's equator. Reich described these spiral wave-forms, giving them the German name Kreiselwelle (spinning wave or, literally, "gyroscopic-wave"), which he believed underlay various biological, atmospheric and cosmic motions.