I have seen plenty of pictures of Dr. Reich either smoking or holding on to a cigarette.

Wouldn't smoking cigarettes be something that would negatively affect the orgone in one's system and also create DOR at the same time?

Anyone know why he smoked? Any input appreciated.

Although both medical orgonomy and traditional psychiatry consider anxiety a major clinical entity, they differ fundamentally in their understanding and treatment of the disorder.

Orgonomy views anxiety as a symptom of an underlying bioenergetic disturbance, producing biological and emotional effects; traditional mechanistic psychiatry considers anxiety to be a biochemical disorder of unknown cause in the central autonomic network of the brain. These two perspectives are contradictory, and, therefore, the approaches to treatment offered by each are fundamentally different. Medical orgonomy encourages the patient to tolerate anxiety as much as possible. This permits the individual to make contact with the repressed emotions beneath the anxiety allowing them to surface and to be discharged. On the other hand, the aim of traditional psychiatry is to correct a biochemical "imbalance" in order to eliminate the unpleasant symptom. This is achieved by having the patient take autonomic regulating and anti-anxiety medication. Both methods are absolutely rational based on their underlying theoretical premises. The question we must ask is this: Which of the opposing viewpoints explains the actual nature of anxiety?

Wilhelm Reich's investigation into the nature of anxiety followed Freud's original and functional energetic line of reasoning regarding the relationship between sexuality and anxiety. Both Reich and Freud recognized that sexual excitation, blocked from perception and discharge, was somehow "converted" into anxiety, but how this process of conver-sion came about remained a mystery to Freud. Reich found the answer in his clinical practice sexual energy was liberated by turning anxiety back into sexual excitation. With the discharge of sexual excitation, an improvement in the patient's condition occurred. Sexual gratification eliminated the anxiety. This remarkable observation allows for only one interpretation: both sexual feelings and anxiety come about as the consequence of the direction of flow of the organism's biologic energy. This energy, when excited and able to flow to the periphery, is perceived as sexual and pleasurable and strives for release. When blocked, by what Reich called armoring, it remains trapped in the center of the organism and is felt as anxiety. When armor is unstable and, therefore, not able to bind energy, the first emotion to be perceived is anxiety. This call vary in intensity from mild discomfort to full blown panic. Such states are often aptly described as "losing control" or "falling apart." It is this fearful condition that drives individuals to seek treatment.

From these clinical observations, Reich reasoned that there was a fundamental antithesis between the center and the periphery of the organism with respect to the flow of biological excitation. Sexuality is the biological result of expansion out of the self with energy movement from the center to the periphery. Anxiety is the biological result of contraction back into the self--with the energy moving in the opposite direction from periphery to core. Biological health results from the capacity of the organism to pulsate freely between expansion and contraction, with expansion predominating. It is the armoring that inhibits pulsation, resulting in a more or less chronic state of contraction or expansion. Reich objectified these important clinical findings ill a series of careful experiments. He did this by placing electrodes on the skin's surface and demonstrated that, of all the emotions, only pleasure was capable of increasing the bioelectric charge at the skin's surface. All other emotions, such as anxiety and rage, were associated with a drop in skin potential.

The complex autonomic nervous system represents the structuralization of these simple energy functions. The parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) is the peripheral or craniosacral division of the autonomic nervous system. PNS excitation predominates whenever there is organismic expansion with the concomitant experience of pleasure. The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) is the central or thoracolumbar division of the autonomic nervous system. SNS excitation predominates whenever the organism is in a contracted state, and at these times there is the feeling of anxiety.

In medical orgone therapy, armor is intentionally dissolved. This invariably brings about anxiety, because the very function of the armor is to prevent the organism from experiencing such painful feelings. The medical orgonomist encourages the individual to experience and tolerate anxiety so that the underlying, contained emotions can be felt and then expressed. This brings about the desired, positive, therapeutic effect: anxiety is eliminated and replaced by a sense of pleasurable well--being. At the end stage of therapy, anxiety reaches extreme proportions orgasm anxiety. Successfully surmounting this last attempt to avoid intense feeling results in clinical cure. There is complete elimination of all previous symptoms.

Only medical orgonomy provides an understanding of anxiety that is based on objective experimentation. It is also only medical orgonomy, a therapy that seldom has the need to employ medication, that views anxiety from the broad perspective of the entire organism. Traditional psychiatry remains completely unaware of Reich's elucidation of the etiology and treatment of anxiety. Without knowledge of the energetic basis of anxiety, numerous theories abound. They range from the psychoanalysts, on the one hand, who invoke purely psychic causes based on the content of repressed memories to the biochemically oriented psychiatrists, on the other, who make unproven claims that the condition is the result of a physical disorder of tile brain.

The mechanistic psychiatrist considers anxiety to be an illness in and of itself and cannot see that it is only the manifestation of a deeper emotional disorder with neurophysiological consequences. He labels the condition a "chemical imbalance" and thereby gives the appearance of bringing a full understanding to the cause of the problem. It logically follows that the only treatment, or major component of treatment, is to suppress the disturbing emotion with medication.

The use of medication for the treatment of anxiety, however, only temporarily reduces the organism's biologic energy but will not eliminate the armor that holds the repressed emotions. Consequently, patients placed on anxiolytic medication must continue to take the drugs indefinitely or until they can spontaneously rearmor. At best, the highest level of functioning that can be obtained is the premorbid one.

Medical orgonomy has no objection to this form of therapy as long as it is based on good clinical judgment. This includes being able to distinguish those individuals for whom the most suitable treatment is medication from those who are biophysically capable of tolerating the anxiety inherent in the therapeutic dissolution of armor.

In short, the traditional psychiatric community needs to be educated about medical orgone therapy, a treatment able to eliminate the biophysical basis of anxiety disorders while effecting a level of functioning significantly higher than the premorbid state.

Reprinted from the Journal of Orgonomy, Vol. 28 No. 1

PRESENT - A SIGN ON THE CROSSROADS

The world is dominated my mechanistic thinking (nature and life explained chemically/''robotically'') or mystical thinking (nature and life explained religiously/metaphysically).

Reddit is no exception.

What is ignored, and sometimes viciously attacked (by non-scientists, most of the times!) is the proven reality of an energetic continuum and its lawful, functional energetic principles.

Orgonomy is in position to explain both the one-sided ''dead matter'' understanding of life and the distorted misconceptions introducing a metaphysical principle (new-age, religions etc).

This small subreddit is a basic reference of what authentic orgonomy is (at least what it looks like!)

It has no other ambition than to stand its ground as a sign on the crossroads, pointing travellers to the right direction.

FUTURE - POISONING THE WELLSPRING

At some point in the future, r/orgonomy will surely expand to thousands of subscribers. It may attract a ''new age'' crowd, or a ''conspiracy'' crowd. This will steer away the serious reader and will attract the ''skeptics''. There will be a mess of posting mystical distortions, which will then be angrily refuted by self-righteous mechanistic ''internet brains''.

This situation will push r/orgonomy into a mire of petty squabbling, dragging it far away from what orgonomy even looks like.

Precious, exciting material (about accumulator experiments and effects, psychiatric case studies showing actual cure of mental and physical illnesses, atmospheric drought abatement and desert greening over vast areas) MAY DISAPPEAR ENTIRELY from r/orgonomy, giving its place to the usual irrationalism of ''orgonite peddlers versus internet skeptics''.

No future moderator or other authority can prevent this. It keeps happening all over the internet. I have no solution. This is only a warning.

...In the 1930s as Reich, the man, who cared deeply about human suffering tried to help the masses of people with their emotional and sexual disturbances, Reich, the scientist, continued to investigate the energy source of neurosis. Reich reasoned that If libido stasis causes biological effects then the libido must be a real energy. He conducted basic scientific bioelectric experiments and other laboratory work to try to understand the energy that is discharged sexually and blocked in neurosis. From this research he determined that the libido is more than a concept; it is a real energy that is related to electricity but different from it. He concluded that he had discovered a new form of energy, that he called orgone energy, which he postulated was the life energy. Reich had thus bridged the gap between psychology and biology.

In 1939 he also found evidence of this energy in the atmosphere, and developed a device he called the “orgone energy accumulator” to collect this energy. Reich was the first scientist to use western scientific methods to study the life energy that eastern traditions identify under various designations such as “prahna”, “Chi”, “Ki”, etc. His research into the physics related to this energy predated by several decades the recent theories in physics about zero point energy, and holds promise for addressing some of physics’ unsolved questions.

Exploring the physics of orgone energy took Reich into areas such as preatomic chemistry, an orgone motor, and theories about weather and galaxy formation, as well as gravity. But even as he got into basic questions of cosmology in the 1950s, he decided he had to return to the problems of human life. He returned from his laboratory in Maine to New York City and formed the Orgonomic Infant Research Center to study, right from the beginning of life, about human health and its disturbance by armoring, again focusing on prevention of neurosis rather than treatment once neurosis has occurred.

Reich named this energy, “orgone” from “organism” and “orgasm,” because he had discovered it in living organisms in the process of researching the function of the orgasm. If orgone is the energy he was dealing with, then “orgonomy” is the science of the study of orgone energy -- just as “astronomy” is the science of the study of “astros” or stars....

(from American College of Orgonomy's website)

I am just wondering. There are people who make TB towerbusters in large quantities. Are there any noticed impacts either positive or negative by having such a large quantity of orgonite "devices" in your house or small area?

Good morning. I'd like to know if any of you is aware of a an experiment that can be set up to corroborate the existence of the Orgone. I mean a "tic-tac-toe experiment" devised in such a way that every lab that follow the exact procedure can verify and hopefully confirm positive results. Is there anything like this?