(PDF) The Oranur Experiment

Description This 159-page publication first appeared as the entire October 1951 issue of the Orgone Energy Bulletin. In it, Reich documents his 1950-1951 laboratory experiments at Orgonon to test the effects of concentrated orgone energy on nuclear energy. Reich’s principal objective was the “investigation of possible anti-nuclear radiation effects in the atmospheric orgone energy.” The most critical of these experiments took place in January 1951, when Reich placed a one-milligram needle of radium (procured from the Canadian Radium and Uranium Corporation in New York City) into a small one-layer orgone accumulator that was placed into a 20-layer orgone accumulator that was located inside the metal-lined Orgone Room in the Student Laboratory. The unexpected results of this experiment would be a major leap forward in Reich’s orgone energy research. The first half of this report comprises Reich’s documentation of his earlier laboratory and field work leading up to the Oranur Experiment. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction and Survey Integration of Visual Orgone Energy Functions Blueness “Particles” in the air The Geiger-Müller Effect of Cosmic Orgone Energy The Discovery of the Motor Reactions of Orgone Energy The Orgone Energy Charged Vacuum Tubes (Vacor) Quest for Higher CPM Output The Orgone Energy Pulse in Living and Nonliving Systems The Alive Antenna-Grid Wire in the Radio Orgonotic Geiger Action Without Gas Ions Methods of Measurement of the Vacor Energy Field Orgone Energy (OR) Versus Nuclear Energy (NR) — ORANUR Introductory Remarks Basic Premises of the Oranur Project Sequence of Events Orgone Energy Runs Amok (DOR): “Oranur Sickness” Specific Biological Reactions Atmospheric Oranur Chain Reaction Oranur Results in Mice Health Measures and Evacuation of Diseased Workers A Close Call for One Physician Interruption of the Oranur Experiment Xray Effects and Oranur Sickness From the Record: April 12-April 30, 1951