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deadly orgone

In 1951 a near fatal experiment with radium led Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957),
an eccentric Austrian-born physician and practicing psychoanalyst, to con-
clude that he had discovered a new type of proprietary energy he called “deadly
orgone,” which, in its material form, he claimed, appeared in the air as black
toxic specks that could calm the winds, cause tree leaves to droop, silence the
birds and insects, and even sicken humans. The following year, Reich invented
a “cloudbuster,” a cluster of hollow pipes resembling a Gatling gun, to attract
and remove the deadly orgone from the atmosphere. Running water through
the tubes served to rinse out and drain off the accumulated toxins. or so
he claimed.
Reich, who had worked with Sigmund Freud on human sexuality in the 1920s,
moved to Germany in 1930 and joined the Communist Party, seeking to combine
social theory and personal liberation from sexual taboos. When the Nazis came
to power, Reich was forced into an itinerant life in a number of Scandinavian
countries, where he experimented, using basic electrical equipment, on what he
termed “bioelectric energy.” His experiments led him to believe that he had dis-
covered a fundamental motive power of the universe, which he first called “bions”
and later “orgone energy.” He postulated that this energy permeated all life and
was also present in the atmosphere. Moving from Norway to the United States in
1939, Reich lectured on the psychological aspects of orgone energy and devised
a simple device he named the orgone Energy Accumulator to demonstrate his
theories on both healthy and cancerous tissue. In the late 1940s, accused of fraud
and suspected of conducting a sex racket, Reich moved his operation to a remote
location in Rangely, Maine, to an estate he called organon. It was here that he
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Reich claimed to be able to prevent or produce rain wherever he pointed his
cloudbuster; he even devised a smaller-scale medical device that he pointed at
his patients! After all, isn’t it either raining or not raining all the time? And
aren’t patients either mostly healthy or unhealthy? An eyewitness to a demon-
stration in Maine in 1953 reported: “The strangest looking clouds you ever saw
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began to form soon after they got the thing rolling.” Maintaining Reich’s leg-
acy, a dedicated band of enthusiasts is currently clearing the air of “chemtrails,”
with homemade cloudbusters constructed from copper pipe, quartz crystals,
and metal filings. They are “repairing the sky.” They do so at the risk of their
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health, however, since plans published on the Internet do not include a drain
for the deadly orgone. Use of this device will be followed by rain or clearing
skies—your choice.

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