SOME HEAT EXPERIMENTS IMPLICATING THE EXISTENCE OF A SUBTLE ENERGY

Abstract

Wilhelm Reich claimed that there existed a cosmic energy, orgone which could be accumulated in a wooden cabinet lined with sheet metal. The experiments in this paper utilized an orgone accumulator (Orac) made from a sheet metal funnel surrounded by sawdust in a cardboard box. The non-Orac control was a similar-sized plastic funnel also surrounded by sawdust and sitting next to the Orac in the same box. The relative responsiveness of the Orac and non-Orac to the heat of a warming plate was investigated in 4 experiments.

On initial exposure to the heat from the warming plate in Experiment 1, the temperature of the Orac (Tl) rose more quickly than that of the non-Orac (T2). This was because the metallic funnel was more reactive to heat than the plastic one. Tl also cooled down faster than T2 when the heat was shut off because the metallic funnel was more reactive to heat loss. In this experiment, Tl, T2 and TI-T2 (Td) correlated significantly positvely with each other.

In contrast to Experiment 1, where the heat was switched off when Tl and T2 reached a maximum, the warming place in Experiments 2, 3 and 4 was left on for 39 days, 36 days, and 22 months respectively. In these 3 experiments, Tl and T2 correlated significantly positvely with each other as in Experiment 1. However, in contrast to Experiment 1, Td correlated significantly negatively with Tl and T2 in Experiments 2, 3 and 4, indicating that Tl was less reactive than T2, an anomalous finding explained by implicating the cosmic orgone energy. Experiments were also conducted in which T d was used to measure local variations in the cosmic orgone as well as more distant ones, for example, those possibly related to distance from the sun.