Wilhelm Reich was a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and a natural scientist. He studied and worked with Sigmund Freud in the 1920s, was briefly active in politics during the 20s and 30s, but focused completely on his Orgone energy research during the 40s and 50s - passing on at a state prison on 3rd November 1957. See also Odyle
Having spent 1934 through 1939 in Oslo and Scandinavia in general conducting research into Bions, Wilhelm Reich moved into the United States of America at the end of 1939 and spent close to two decades in New York and also Rangeley, Maine - where the Wilhelm Reich Museum / Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust still maintain his legacy.
During the course of his lifetime, he nurtured life in all its forms, first as a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, then as the originator of Character Analytic Vegeto-Therapy, later moving steadfastly towards the natural sciences with his Orgone Physics and Orgone Therapy. At the end of his life, he was developing and testing devices for conducting weather engineering and weather modification - such as the device which became to be called a Cloudbuster.
The various psychoanalytic movements still treasure his book "Character Analysis" (published in 1933), but choose to ignore the rest of his work.
The life-work of Wilhelm Reich is almost too trailblazing to be conceived in its absolute whole, ranging from major steps forward in psychiatry and psychoanalysis to measurement of bio-electricity, concentration and decentration of Orgone energy charges, the development and testing of an Orgone Accumulator (ORAC) with animal test subjects, human test subjects and also magnets - the identification of a temperature difference between an Orgone Accumulator and outside it - with which he interested Dr. Einstein for a while before one of Einstein's assistants convinced him that there was nothing there - which led to a brief flurry of letters from Wilhelm Reich to Einstein - never to be replied to (As an aside, Einstein said simply: "If this effect is true, it would be a bomb-shell in physics", during the 5 hour meeting between him and Dr. Reich.) - and much, much more.
The Wilhelm Reich Museum lists as Dr. Reich's most appreciable and important discoveries, in chronological order:
1923-1934 - Orgasm theory and technique of Character Analysis
1928-1934 - Respiratory block and muscular armor
1923-1934 - Sex-economic self-regulation of primary natural drives in their distinction from secondary, perverted drives
1930-1934 - The role of irrationalism and human sex-economy in the origin of dictatorship of all political denominations
1934 - The orgasm reflex
1935-1936 - The bio-electrical nature of sexuality and anxiety
1936-1939 - Orgone energy vesicles (bions)
1936-1939 - Origin of the cancer cell from bionously disintegrated animal tissue, and the organization of protozoa from bionously disintegrated moss and grass
1937 - T-bacilli in sarcoma
1939 - Discovery of the bio-energy (Orgone Energy) in sand packet (SAPA) bions
1940 - Discovery of Orgone Energy in the atmosphere
1940 - Invention of the Orgone Energy Accumulator
1944 - Invention of the Orgone Energy Field Meter
1940-1945 - Experimental orgone therapy of the cancer biopathy
1945 - Experimental investigation of primary biogenesis (Experiment XX)
1945 - Method of Orgonomic Functionalism
1947 - Emotional Plague of man as a disease of the bio-energetic equilibrium
1949-1950 - Orgonometric equations
1951 - Hypothesis of cosmic superimposition of two Orgone Energy streams as the basis of hurricanes and galaxy formation
1947-1951 - Anti-nuclear radiation effects of Orgone Energy
1951-1952 - Discovery of DOR (Deadly Orgone Energy) and identification of its properties, including a specific toxicity (DOR sickness)
1951-1954 - Identification of Melanor, Orite, Brownite, Orene; and initial steps toward pre-atomic chemistry
1952-1955 - Use of "reversed" orgonomic potential in removing DOR from the atmosphere in cloudbusting and weather control
1954-1955 - Theory of desert formation in nature and in man (the emotional plague) and demonstration of reversibility (OROP Desert Ea and the Medical DOR-Buster)
1954-1955 - Theory of disease based on DOR accumulation in the tissues
1950-1957 - Equations of gravity and anti-gravity
Noteworthy reading / watching:
Wilhelm Reich: A Man's Right to Know - 28 minutes, DVD/VHS available here
Man's Right To Know Part 1 of 3
Man's Right To Know Part 2 of 3
Man's Right To Know Part 3 of 3
Wilhelm Reich: Beyond Psychology - Letters and Journals 1934-1939
Wilhelm Reich: American Odyssey - Letters and Journals 1940-1947
It is interesting to note similarities between findings of Reich and L. Ron Hubbard. These similarities ought to be further investigated. [DP]
In 1954, the United States government did something you were never taught in school. They got a federal court order... And used it to burn books. In America. In New York City. In a public incinerator. Six of them. Every copy they could find. They confiscated every device the author had built. In 1956, they arrested him. He was sentenced to two years in federal prison. He died there. In 1957. He wasn't charged with fraud. Not endangerment. Not malpractice. He was charged with contempt — for refusing to stop distributing the devices the court had ordered destroyed. What were the devices? Wooden chambers, lined with alternating layers of organic and metallic material. He called them orgone accumulators. The people who used them reported something strange: more energy. Clearer thinking. Less anxiety. A quality of aliveness they said they hadn't felt in years. His name was Wilhelm Reich. And for the next fifty years, his name was a punchline. In 2007 — fifty years after his death — his personal archives were unsealed at the Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University. A historian of science named James Strick spent years examining Reich's laboratory notebooks. In 2015, Harvard University Press published Strick's findings. What the notebooks documented was not what the government had claimed. Not pseudoscience. Not delusion. Not fraud. What they documented was rigorous. Detailed. Methodical. And decades ahead of its time. The bioelectric field Reich measured — the field they burned his books for studying — is now being documented by multiple independent research institutions. HeartMath Institute has measured the heart's electromagnetic field extending three to four feet outside the body. Five thousand times magnetically stronger than the brain's field. Carrying the rhythm of the heartbeat — coherent or incoherent — to every nervous system in proximity. A molecular biologist at Washington State University has published peer-reviewed research mapping the exact cellular mechanism by which electromagnetic fields interact with voltage-gated calcium channels in every cell — the tiny electrical gates that control cellular signaling, nervous system coherence, and the quality of the body's electromagnetic broadcast. A Swedish oncologist has traced the institutional conflicts of interest that have kept this research from entering mainstream policy — the revolving door between regulatory bodies and telecommunications industry lobbying groups, the $132 million per year spent on Congressional influence, the safety standards that haven't been updated since 1996. Three completely independent lines of research. Separated by decades. Coming from completely different disciplines. All arriving at the same conclusion Reich arrived at in the 1940s: The human body generates and responds to an electromagnetic field. That field can be disrupted. And it can be restored. They burned his books because he said this. Now it's being measured. Published. Replicated. And the devices he built — the ones they confiscated and destroyed — were crude. Massive. Room-sized. Built with the materials and understanding available in the 1940s. What if the same principle — alternating layers of organic and metallic material, arranged in a specific geometric structure — could be refined? Miniaturized? Precision-engineered using modern materials science? Tested with instruments Reich didn't have access to? What if someone rebuilt what they destroyed — and made it work better? I'm not asking you to take my word for any of this. I'm asking you to notice that the people who called him a fraud never read the notebooks Harvard just published. You just did. Which brings us to what we now know. Your body is electric. Your thoughts are electrical pulses. Your heartbeat is electrical rhythm. Your cells communicate through voltage. And when EMFs force your Voltage Gates open... Calcium floods in. And your biofield collapses. Which is why IF you feel: → Foggy → Anxious → Disconnected → Like reality isn't responding to you It may be because you’re not broadcasting a clear signal anymore. You're broadcasting static. And reality doesn't respond to static. It responds to signal. What Dr. Reich discovered before they shut him down? It still works. You can restore your biofield. Using piezoelectric compression to recohere it. See, quartz crystal has this unique property. When you compress it... it generates an electrical charge. This is literally how quartz watches work. And here's where it gets interesting. When you arrange multiple quartz crystals in a specific geometric pattern... With the right compression ratio... Oriented precisely toward a copper apex... Something happens. The crystals start generating a continuous electromagnetic field. A field that's coherent. Not chaotic like WiFi. Not scrambled like your phone. Organized. Rhythmic. And when you place that field near your body... It does what Reich's accumulators did. It realigns your cells. Closes those Voltage Gates. Stops the calcium flooding. And brings your biofield back online. These are the same principles used in: → Medical ultrasound machines → Sonar equipment → Precision timing devices → Quartz watches Except instead of telling time... It's realigning your cells. Amplifying your body's natural vibrational broadcast. And bringing your manifestation field back to life. So opportunities start finding you again. Synchronicities start stacking. Brain fog lifts. Energy returns. And you stop feeling invisible. Not because you changed. But because your frequency did. https://theloomie.com/
ChatGPT Compares Wilhelm Reich and SVP [2/18/25]: [1] https://chatgpt.com/share/67b483aa-7b50-800d-97b6-bbdbaeb2e036
See Also
AI Interpretations of SVP
Biophysical Research Lab - James DeMeo's continuing investigations into Reich's work.
James DeMeo
Orgone Accumulator
Orgone Energy
Orgonomy
Review of Demeo's work
Figure 6.0 - Dr. Wilhelm Reich
https://www.orgonearchive.com/pdf/YEARINDEX.pdf