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Summary

During the last Century multiple lines ofconverging evidence indicated the existenceof a dynamic plasmatic energy existingwithin living organisms and water, and alsoas a background medium lling the atmo-sphere and vacuum of space. Experimenterssuch as Jacque Benveniste (memory of wa-ter), Frank Brown (external biological clockmechanism), Harold Burr (electrodynam-ic elds), Dayton Miller (cosmic ether ofspace), Bjorn Nordenstrom (bio-electricalcircuits), Giorgio Piccardi (physical-chemi-cal elds), Wilhelm Reich (bio-energy) andViktor Schauberger (living water) indepen-dently measured a similar and unique cos-mic-biological energy phenomenon. Theirexperiments frequently indicated water wasa carrier for this previously unknown ener-getic force, which typically showed signi-cant solar-terrestrial and meteorologicalcomponents. Each of these scientists rest-

ed their claims upon experimental proofs,with many independent replications. Their works integrate with astrophysical nd-ings on an interstellar medium, variouslytermed cosmic plasma, dark matter, oreven cosmic ether. These and other naturalscientists undertook decades of careful ex-perimental work indicating the presence of

a water-affecting cosmic medium, typicallybeing more active at higher altitudes, often

tangibly interacting with dielectrical mat-ter and being reected by metals. All weremarginalized or maligned by the scienticorthodoxy of their day. I successfully rep-licated some of the anomalous biological,physical and meteorological experimentsof Reich, among others, and so have beenable to ascertain important similarities intheir diverse ndings. Taken together thesestudies are suggestive of a major scientic breakthrough, of a unitary cosmic-biolog-

ical energy phenomenon, ignored or dis-missed prematurely during the 20th Cen-tury.

Introduction

Starting in the early 1970s, I reviewed indetail the historical experiments on the19th Century luminiferous cosmic ether,and related vitalist concepts about a life-

energy continuum in space. My investi-gations focused upon the Chi energy ofChinese medicine, the cosmic external bio-logical clock mechanism discovered by the biologist Frank Brown (Brown et al. 1970;Brown 1976) the external physico-chemicalcosmic factors of the chemist Giorgio Pic-cardi (1962, 1965, 1966, 1968, Piccardi and

Water as a Resonant Medium forUnusual External Environmental FactorsDeMeo J1*

1 Director, Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory, Ashland, Oregon, USA

* Correspondence: E-mail: [email protected]

Keywords: structured water, living water, memory of water, bioenergetics, cosmic ether, plasma, interstellar medium, dark matter,Chi, orgone

Received 1 March 2011; accepted 31 March 2011; Published 18 May 2011; available online 1 June 2011


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Capel-Boute 1972) and the cosmic life-en-ergy experiments of Wilhelm Reich (1960;Web ref.1). It was all very unorthodox, buthad sufcient empirical and experimentalproofs to withstand orthodox criticisms.This line of investigation ultimately led intomystery areas of the atmospheric sciences,specically the long-observed correlations

between solar variability and weather pat-terns, and new methods of regional weathermodication within drylands. These in turncarried profound but lesser-known implica-tions for the nature of what is today calledthe interstellar medium, or more generally,space-energy. These ndings also have im-plications and probable practical applica-tions for more recent investigations ofwa-ter structure, and also of the exclusion-zone

phenomenon (Pollack 2001).

My own investigations largely began withthe drought catastrophes affecting the Sa-hel region of Africa in the 1970s. People andwildlife suffered unspeakably, leaving me toask what could be done to restore rains intosuch an environment. Theory mattered not.All the better-known concepts proved tobe essentially worthless. Nobody in govern-ment or the universities had any clear ideas

on how or why the big major droughts de-veloped, nor any practical solution towardsdoing something to meaningfully helpout, other than to truck or y in massiveamounts of food aid, which was not a long-term solution. Even standard methods ofweather modication such as cloudseeding,offered no help in regions characterized bya strong inversion, thick atmospheric dustsand haze, and no clouds whatsoever.

At that time, from a group of unorthodoxnaturalists and scientists I learned of anew method of precipitation enhancementwhich employed special hollow-pipe anten-nas grounded into large moving and alivebodies of water. They had good data to show,using these antennas in a specic manner

would trigger very widespread atmospher-ic changes and reactions, the end result ofwhich was copious rainfall. It worked evenunder droughty or arid atmospheres. I wit-nessed several demonstrations which wereso astonishing in result that I began an in-depth study of the matter. My rst eld tri-als with a self-constructed apparatus, called

the cloudbuster, were undertaken duringmy graduate school years at the Universityof Kansas, Department of Geography-Mete-orology (DeMeo 1979a).

The device itself was the 1950s inventionof the radical naturalist and physician Wil-helm Reich (1960) who as history shows was severely maligned and assaulted forhis ndings (Greeneld 1974; Sharaf 1983).

His experiments suggested space and theatmosphere was lled with a ubiquitousenergy continuum, similar to the old lumi-niferous cosmic ether, but with additionalempirically-developed properties. Reichsenergy continuum which he termed theorgone, to preserve its connection with theliving was demonstrated by experimentto be excitable, compressible and pulsatory,like a giant eld of extremely thin cosmicprotoplasm. Water was strongly attracted

to this same energy, and the energy wasalso attracted to water, the two being in aconstant state of dynamical interaction orresonance. Reichs cloudbuster device was basically a large water-grounded antennawhich could be aimed at different parts ofthe sky. It capitalized upon these unortho-dox properties of water, notably how the in-tensity of orgone charge in the atmosphere, which has parallels to electrostatic forces,was a determinant of cloud formation andultimately of larger weather systems.

My work at KU demonstrated weather in-uences over the entire State of Kansas when the cloudbuster antenna was oper-ated, and later studies suggested this wasa minimal regional inuence. The antenna


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itself used no electrical or electromagneticcomponents, other than servo motors tomove the heavy antenna around. It wasan entirely passive device, like a special-ized form of water-grounded lightning rod,and therefore could not function by knownprinciples. Reichs original claims of aninterconnecting energy continuum existing

within the Earths atmosphere therebywas deserving of a serious evaluation (De-Meo 1979b).

My investigations led into the conict be-tween theories of empty space versusspace-energy, notably in relation to an-other of Reichs devices, a Faraday-type ofmetal-lined enclosure which did far morethan merely shield out electromagnet-

ic frequencies. Reichs special enclosures would anomalously intensify the energydensity within their multi-layered interi-ors, in ways wholly unexpected by classicaltheory. They resembled a hollow capaci-tor, with the interior surface made of con-ductive ferromagnetic sheet metal, and thewalls composed of alternating layers of fer-romagnetic metal and high dielectric insu-lating material. A nal layer of insulatingmaterial covered the exterior. Reich called

these devices orgone energy accumulators(Reich 1948a, 1948b, 1951a) the orgone me-dium being intensied within their interior,which would then exhibit anomalous prop-erties.

In 2009 I was invited to share my ndingson these issues at theFourth Annual Con-ference on the Physics, Chemistry and Biol-ogy of Water(Web ref.2) at Mount Snow,suggesting a growing willingness for a scien-tic reappraisal of these same concepts andndings. In this paper, I will detail some ofmy experimental investigations into Reichsclaims, and then draw comparisons toother similar lines of investigation by oth-ers, nearly all of which have a fundamentalbearing upon the nature of the atmospheric

and space environment, and how that envi-ronment affects the properties of water.

A Brief Review of Reichs Major Evi-dence

Reichs early work during and after medical

school in Vienna, starting just after WW-I, was with Freud, working as a psychoana-lyst. With Freud he studied the libido sex-ual-emotional energy in peoples bodies, aphenomenon which worked to develop apersons character and emotional structure(Reich 1949a). While Freud and other psy-choanalysts were to eventually abandon thelibido concept, Reich continued with thatline of investigation. By the 1930s he madethe rst-ever measurements of emotional

and sexual excitation with millivoltmetersattached to the skin surface of patients, in-dicating a bio-electrical component to emo-tion (Reich 1982). Further experiments un-dertaken suggested the energy of emotionand sexuality was far more powerful thanthe small millivolts measured at the skinsurface, and by a series of steps too lengthyfor discussion here, led him to discover ra-diant energy-elds around both microbesand people. From there came the develop-ment of the orgone energy accumulator,in trials designed to capture and study thesame radiant phenomenon, which could beseen, felt, trigger biological reactions, andalso had measurable physical properties(Reich, 1938, 1942, 1982).

Reichs Orgone Energy Accumulator

As noted, Reichs accumulator device

roughly resembles a large hollow capaci-tor, having a layered structure which, whenoptimally constructed, develops a high en-ergy density within its interior due to theplacement in the walls of alternating layersof high-dielectric insulating materials withferromagnetic conductor steel wool or sheetmetal. It terminates with a hollow interior


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space lined with the conductor material(Reich 1948b, 1951a) which can be accessedby a door in the enclosure. The device is thenused to observe the properties of the inte-rior space, or to charge up objects, plants orlab animals. It is a unique structure, withoutprecedent in science or engineering, and infact has only slight resemblance to the usual

Faraday shield enclosure.

A variety of demonstrable physical effectswithin the interior of the accumulator werenoted by Reich, and conrmed by his con-temporary associates. (Web ref.1) These in-clude:

A signicant slowing of electroscopic nat-ural leak discharge rates (or, increase in

charge density) inside the accumulator ascompared to the immediate outside; (Reich1939)An anomalous slight temperature increaseinside the accumulator, of around 0.1C toupwards of several degrees under specialconditions; (Reich 1944)A visible blue-glowing anomaly from with-in orgone-charged high-vacuum tubes wasphotographed; (Reich 1949b) The spontaneous fogging of unwrapped

camera lms; (Reich 1942, 1948c)The appearance on x-ray lms of a smoke-like anomaly surrounding the hands; (Reich1949c)Anomalous high counts per minute (cpm)reactions on ionization-type Geiger-Mller(GM) counters charged up inside the accu-mulator; (Reich 1951b)The weather-reactive and sunspot-reactivenature of the orgone accumulator, in that itwill increase its charge during clear weatherand high sunspot counts, but decrease itscharge during rainy-overcast weather andlow sunspot counts. (Reich 1949b, 1950,1951b)

Reich also observed the accumulator haddemonstrable revitalizing health benets

Figure 2: A small orgone accumulator asused experimentally in the authors laboratory,constructed according to Reichs protocols, whichare exacting.

Figure 1: Schematic cross-section of an orgone ac-cumulator, showing its layered construction. Theinterior layer is ferromagnetic sheet metal, theorganic-insulating layers are of high-dielectric ma-terials.

for people. Notably there were symptom-reductions for those suffering from whatReich termed the undercharged biopathies(1948b). His experiments showed a dailycharging of cancer mice inside orgone ac-cumulators would triple their life-span ascompared to a control group (1948b). Fromthis, he undertook cancer therapy experi-

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atic relief to constitute a cure. He de-veloped a special Reich Blood Test (Reich1948b; Raphael and MacDonald 1952)based upon the observable energetic chargeand resistance to disintegration of stressedred blood cells. An electronic apparatus,the orgone eld meter, which by inductivecharging of a large at accumulator withattached glow-tube and photometer, madeit possible to demonstrate the existence ofan energy-eld around people, as well as tomeasure its strength (Reich 1948d).

Reichs Method of Precipitation En-hancement: Cloudbusting

Reichs ndings on the orgone energy accu-mulator led directly into his weather-relat-ed research. By his theory, the atmosphereand cosmic space were lled with a freeform of this same biologically-activatingenergy, which exhibited pulsatory quali-ties of increased and decreased charge. The

function of pulsation within the accumula-tor appeared in coordination with dry-pe-riod expansion and wet-period contractionof the larger atmosphere. As detailed above,cyclical or pulsatory effects were apparentin biological and physical experiments withthe accumulator, including those which investigated the inuences of weather and

sunspots on the properties of high vacuum(Reich 1949b, 1950). His ndings suggesteda cosmic force at work, existing in space,but also underlying weather changes.

While the basic principles are too complexto be detailed here, the main point of inter-est is that the cloudbuster antenna device

only works properly when it is groundedinto a reasonably large body of clean andclear owing water. The water must also beof sufciently good quality as to be life-sup-porting. Stagnant ponds or polluted riversdo not reproduce the effects. One must usesubjectively living water, with a typically bluish and clear coloration, and capableof supporting higher forms of aquatic life.Only then will it work. This point, as will be

detailed later, is of critical importance tothe whole issue of water structuring.

Reich rstly used his cloudbuster deviceas a means of cloud-dissipation, when hisregion was plagued with dark non-rainyclouds associated with an episode of re-gional drought and forest death. He report-ed success in stimulating cloud growth withthe device, ending several droughts in theEastern USA. In 1952, he undertook a major

effort towards desert-greening in the aridregion around Tucson, Arizona, reportingmany positive indications such as restor-ing rains and natural grass growth to areaswhich had been barren over living memory(Reich 1955, 1957).

Reichs publications indicate he was therst scientist to describe the role of stag-nating atmospheric haze as a precipitation-blocking factor in drought and desert atmo-spheres (DeMeo 1996; Reich 1952, 1954a,1955). Reid Brysons work on a similar blocking mechanisms for desert dusts was better known (Bryson and Baerreis 1967;Bryson and Murray 1977) but the dust theo-ry suffered from the assumption that atmo-spheric haze is composed 100% of opaque

Figure 3: Orgone Energy Darkroom, at the au-thors laboratory, with several human-sized orgoneaccumulators and smaller chargers inside.


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aerosol particles. Reich attributed at leastsome of what we call haze to a stagnatedform of the atmospheric orgone, which im-pedes the transmission of light, a point for which he had considerable empirical datafrom other directions, as detailed below.Reichs orgone is an ether-like energy con-tinuum, upon which the mechanics of light-

transmission may be dependent. Brysonsarguments, like those of Reich, were neverwidely acknowledged by atmospheric scien-tists, even though his ideas were very muchin keeping with orthodox theory. As Reichdescribed repeatedly, and which I was ableto conrm in my own replication studies,however, it is apparent that desert haze can be softened and observably reduced witha few minutes work with the cloudbuster

device. If haze were fully composed of par-ticulate matter, this would not be possible.Based upon Reichs theory, and data on at-mospheric haze, I produced a comprehen-siveDesert-Drought Map which suggests atrans-oceanic global interconnectivity be-tween all desert regions of the world, from which stagnant-hazy atmospheric condi-tions periodically erupt to trigger droughtsin more distant regions (DeMeo 1989a,1994).

Reich also appears to have been the rstscientist to fully describe what was latertermed forest-death by mainstream biol-ogy (DeMeo 1996; Reich 1953a, 1957; Reichand McCullough 1955). As early as the late1940s, he described the dying of trees fromthe top-down, hazy and suffocated atmo-spheres lled with ozones and acids, black-ening rock surfaces, and other components widely observed and acknowledged today but virtually unknown to mainstream sci-ence in Reichs time. It was not until the late1960s that similar reports began to emergein public environmental discussions (Fisheret al. 1968).

Reich also was one of the rst natural scien-

tist to publish ndings on the existence ofhigh altitude wind-streams, at least outsideof military circles where high-ying bomb-ers rstly encountered them, based uponhis eld observations with the cloudbuster.(Reich 1954b) He argued for the existenceof stratospheric energy streams, derivedfrom cosmic space and moving down to

lower elevations, which helped push the at-mosphere into motion (Reich 1951, 1954b).This idea, which went completely againstthe atmospheric science of his time, is todaynding some afrmation in the existence ofstratospheric winds which provide a link between solar variability and the tropo-sphere, in the development and movementsof storm system (Labitzke 2001; Labitzkeand van Loon 1997).

Unlike Reichs prior therapeutic ndings, which were followed in serious detail bygroups of physicians, his weather-relatedresearch attracted lesser interest, certainlyin part due to an on-going media smearcampaign directed against him, and whichtriggered a misdirected investigation by the US Food and Drug Administration(Greeneld 1974; Sharaf 1983). The mostserious scientic replications of his weather

research ndings took place only in the de-cades after his death.

Replications of Reichs Findings I:The Orgone Accumulator

Electroscopical Anomalies in the

Reich Accumulator

As noted above, the interior of an orgone

accumulator using the hollow capacitoranalogy will demonstrablyslow down thenatural leak or discharge rate of a chargedstatic electroscope (Reich 1944). It is an ex-periment sufciently reproducible as to bea standard demonstration of the unusualenergetic effects of the orgone accumulator.This experiment is of particular interest for


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the issue of water, given how electrical eldor charge can inuence the structural orphase-change properties of water (Ehre etal. 2010). At my laboratory, during the drysummer period the accumulator regularlyshows the ability to slow down the dischargerate of a static electroscope by from two tove times over what happens in the open

air around the same time of day. This is so,even when the door to the accumulator isleft fully open, allowing the same room airaffecting the control location to freely enterthe accumulator.

For example, in one run of measurementsduring 27-29 September 2010, and us-ing a sensitive Kolbe-type of static electro-scope with attached photogate, I recorded

a statistically-signicant (p=0.006) almostve-fold increase in discharge times insidean orgone accumulator, with a mean timeof 596.9 sec., as compared to set of pairedcontrol-run discharge times with a meanof 122.6 sec. This experiment was run withthe door to the accumulator fully open, withthe control-run location at 1 meter distance,using the same instrument under basicallyidentical conditions around the same timesof day. In one case, the discharge inside the

accumulator appeared to halt altogether,with the needle blocking the photogate formore than 3 hours. In other rare cases, Ihave witnessed a slightly-charged staticelectroscope being literally charged up toa higher voltage when allowed to sit undis-turbed inside a strong orgone accumulator.This cannot be friction-produced electro-statics as currently understood.

In a related manner, one of Reichs otherexperimental devices, the cloudbuster an-tenna which will be discussed in detailshortly when reduced to a laboratory-scale model, has the reverse effect uponthe charged electroscope. This antenna de-vice is composed of a series of hollow pipesgrounded into moving and life-supporting

water. When aimed into central core of anisolated cloud, that cloud trends towardsdissipation, a losing of its internal charge(Reich 1952; DeMeo 1979a). The point ofinterest here, is how a charged electroscopein the open air will, like an isolated cloud,discharge more quickly if a small laborato-ry-scale cloudbuster device is aimed at it,

even though there is no physical touchingof the electroscope, nor any kind of externalvoltages applied to the cloudbuster anten-na. This experiment was conducted system-atically by Konia, (1983) who found the dis-charge rate of a charged Kolbe-type of staticelectroscope was increased or speeded byaround 37% merely by aiming at it a scaled-down and water-grounded cloudbuster an-tenna.

Thermal Anomaly in the Reich Accu-mulator

Reichs experiment showing a thermalanomaly inside the orgone accumulator(Reich 1944), using a small strong orgoneaccumulator with thermally balanced con-trol enclosure, has also been conrmed atmy laboratory. (DeMeo 2010a) This studyran over several years and used calibrated

thermistors with an automated DAQ sys-tem, in a special fully enclosed and dark-ened outdoor shelter where internal ther-mal variations were minimized. The twoexperimental enclosures (accumulator,control) were placed on a slowly rotating

Figure 4: Apparatus for the Reich Thermal Anom-aly Experiment (DeMeo 2010a)


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platform, to further equal out remainingenvironmental variations inside the struc-ture. A pulsating thermal anomaly never-theless appeared inside the accumulator.For example, in one 11-day run in Septem- ber 2008, under optimal dry conditions(see Figure 5), the accumulator spontane-ously developed an average +0.11C over

the control device, with peak temperaturesof up to +0.6 at Solar noon. Solar noon andmidnight always marked the maxima andminima of the thermal anomaly, but not thedaily high and low temperatures of around3 PM and 5 AM, which had no discernableeffect. This indicated, the temperature re-siduals inside the orgone accumulator re-ected a solar-excitation function outsideof purely thermal inuences. Also, under

rainy and overcast conditions, when the ac-cumulator is known to lose its charge and

simply become an ordinary box, the ther-mal anomaly vanished to near the limits ofthe instrumentation, even though the dailytemperature variation was considerable(DeMeo 2010).

While the magnitude of the orgone accumu-lator temperature anomaly may not appear

to great, its magnitude and signicance isroughly comparable to the 3K residual cos-mic background radiation, and may evenprovide an alternative explanation for thatresidual as the direct product of orgone-energetic processes in open space, creatingits little bit of heat in the here and now.The thermal anomaly in the orgone accu-mulator was sufciently robust and mean-ingful that when Reich demonstrated it to

Albert Einstein during a ve-hour meetingin January 1941, Einstein immediately un-

Figure 5: Representative Result from a Replication of the Reich Thermal Anomaly Experiment. (DeMeo2010a) Red line tracing is the difference between two open-air thermistors suspended near to the two en-closures (orgone accumulator and control) showing minimal differences over the course of the day. The

Blue tracing marks the differences between the interior orgone accumulator and control-enclosure tem-peratures, while the Green tracing takes the Blue values and subtracts the ambient background variationsas depicted in the Red values. The Green and Blue tracings are nearly identical, indicating the experimentwas properly shielded from environmental temperature variations, which were greatly minimized insidethe experimental shelter. A pulsating thermal heating anomaly nevertheless appeared within the orgoneaccumulator, with a peak maxima at solar noon ranging up to 0.6C, and minima near midnight. Theexperiment was unresponsive to daily temperature variations, which typically reach a maxima around 3

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derstood the implications and termed it agreat bomb in physics or bombshell forphysics. (Reich 1953b)

Luminous and High-Vacuum Anoma-lies in the Reich Accumulator

Reich wrote about direct visual and sen-

sory perceptions of the orgone energy, asone could make in the larger human-sizedaccumulators. I will report my ndings onthe objective and subjective biological reac-tions shortly, but can rstly report havingsuccessfully photographed the blue glowfrom an orgone-charged high-vacuum tube, which was kept stored inside the stron-gest of my accumulators for about a year.(DeMeo 2002a) This is shown in Figure 6.

While most evacuated tubes with a mod-erate to high vacuum will exhibit a bluishglowing effect when excited by electricity,the main observation of Reich was, that or-gone charging them reduced the amount ofelectricity necessary to elicit the glow. Hisown published photo used a tube evacuateddown to 0.5 micron pressure, applying a fewhundred volts only, showing a reductionover time in the amount of electrical excita-tion required to achieve the same effect. In

my own replication of this phenomenon, Iwas able to reproduce a similar blue glow ina similar 0.5 micron pressure tube chargedup for about a year in the orgone accumu-lator. It would glow if merely stroked withthe open hand, even though the humanhand carries only a few hundred millivoltsof charge. The glow-discharge would occurno matter what kind of wires were added totry and short it out, either by connecting thetwo tube-ends to each other, or groundingthem singly or in common, or by wrappingbare grounding wires to my own body andhands, or between my hands and the tube.Nothing could be done to eliminate the glow when the tube was stroked, as one mightstroke a cat. Such non-electrical proper-ties of this phenomenon was in part what

led Reich to conclude it was not primarilyelectrical nor ionization in nature. (Reich1949b, 1951a) I was able to make a photo-graph of the phenomenon by using 35mmcolor lm with an exposure of around 20minutes, during which time I was continu-ously stroking the tube.

GM-Counter and Radiation Anoma-lies in Reich Accumulator

Reich also obtained anomalous high-countreactions from orgone-charged GM tubesattached to standard counters of his day.(Reich 1951b) This I have also conrmedabundantly, in my own experiments overseveral years of charging up a Ludlum12-4 neutron detector. The neutron detec-

tor uses a thick-walled ionization type ofGM tube surrounded by a 12-inch diameterhigh-dielectric neutron-moderating poly- ball. The instrument is designed to reactonly with neutrons as from strong atomicradiation, which is the only way you can getany signicant number of neutrons. It wasfactory calibrated at the start of the experi-ment, and before charging up in the accu-mulator typically gave about one chirp orneutron reaction per minute, or less. It was

left to charge up inside a strong orgone ac-cumulator over many months, and periodi-cally I would turn it on to see if anomalousreadings would develop. After about two years of charging up, it suddenly becamereactive, emitting from hundreds to sev-eral thousand cpm, and was then put into

Figure 6: Blue lumination of ~450 nm, from ahigh-vacuum (0.5 micron) pressure glass tube,charged in a strong orgone accumulator over ayear. No electricity was applied. The tube glowsonly from hand-stroking. (DeMeo 2002a)


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continuous operation with a DAQ system.At this point, the neutron counter was nolonger counting neutrons, but instead asReich had noted, became reactive to a newatmospheric-energetic parameter related toweather changes and sunspot abundance.

While the data from this multi-year experi-

ment has not yet been systematically evalu-ated, the reactions are substantial enoughas to say it conrms Reich in a powerfulway. The average counts during the early tomid 2000 decade were hovering at a steadyseveral hundred cpm, but with weatherchanges or sunspot activity, would soar upto 3000 to 4000 cpm. If this high rate ofcpm truly was neutrons, it would be some-thing quite deadly. Additionally, over the

years from c.2008 through mid 2010, whensunspots remained very low, the neutroncounter also declined in activity, with re-duced counts down to around 20-30 cpm.

Since mid-2010 when solar activity has in-creased a bit, the neutron counter is againyielding several hundred up to ~1000 cpm.It therefore appears to be a direct mea-sure of solar activity, though this cannot beneutrons as conventionally understood.During the pre-2008 periods of higher sun-spots and high cpm on the orgone-charged

neutron counter, a diurnal variation wasalso observed, with maximum peak at thetime of day when the sun was at zenith.This suggests, the orgone-charged neutroncounter becomes sensitive to some kind ofsolar excitation function, just as seen in thethermal anomaly experiment, even whilethe orgone accumulator darkroom in whichit was located constitutes a steel-lined andearth-grounded enclosure, which by or-

thodox theory should shield it from mostforms of known radiation. Figure 7 showsone tracing of very high neutron countsover a 10-day period in 2005. (Web ref.3)

Figure 7: Count rate per minute from an orgone-charged Ludlum 12-4 neutron counter, over 250 hours(10.5 days) from 4-14 February 2007. The peaks, which range up to 4000 cpm, are approximately 24hours apart, marking the time of solar-noon at the laboratory site. The counter with poly-ball is shownin the inset image, inside the metal-lined orgone accumulator darkroom. The red line at the bottom isthe simultaneous cpm readings of a separate GM device (RadAlert 100), which showed no such reactionbeyond normal background counts (~20-30 cpm), indicating the choice of detectors is critical for thisexperiment. (Web ref.3)


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This unusual reaction of radiation-detectioninstruments to the orgone accumulator alsohas an associated anomaly, that direct or-gone-charging of radioactive materials hasa reported inuence upon their decay-rateconstants. This phenomenon was origi-nally reported by Reich (1951), with partialconrmations by Milian (2002) working at

the University of Valencia, Spain. Similarnatural and signicant changes in decay-rate constants have also been reported bychemists and radiation biophysics since themid-20th Century (Anderson and Spangler1973; Emery 1972).

Water Anomalies in the Reich Accu-mulator

The orgone accumulator also has the capac-ity to charge water, to yield unusual reac-tions that may help to understand the be-havior of structured water.

One of my early experiments from Sep-tember-October 1976 demonstrated wa-ter evaporation from an open Petri dish is

slowed down if kept inside an orgone en-ergy accumulator, as compared to a seconddish of water kept inside a control enclosure(DeMeo 1980). The result was suggestive ofan increased internal water cohesion andsurface tension, as one might anticipatefrom increased charge density inside theaccumulator. The primary data on this ex-

periment is reproduced in Figure 8, whichshows an episodic or pulsatory water-charging and evaporation-suppression ef-fect. The accumulator-charged water sup-pressed evaporation by up to three grams/day over the control under sunny periods when the charge inside the orgone accu-mulator is greatest. During rainy periodswhen the accumulator charge is lowest, be-ing bound up with local atmospheric water

vapor or cloud droplets, evaporation differ-ences between the accumulator and con-trol were negligible, or zero. The data alsoshowed a disruption of orgone accumulatorfunctions during the period of atomic fall-out in the laboratory region of rural Penn-sylvania, following a Chinese atomic bombtest in the atmosphere on 26 September of

Figure 8: Water Evaporation Suppression Effect of the Orgone Accumulator. Evaporation in the orgoneaccumulator (EVo) minus evaporation in the control (EV), over 42 days in 1976, at a lab in Eastern Penn-sylvania. Evaporation of water is suppressed during sunny days when the accumulator has a strongercharge, but is no longer suppressed under rainy periods. Accumulators and Control enclosures were bal-anced as to temperature and humidity, and independent plots of changing atmospheric parameters didnot show any correlations to the EVo-EV determinations. (DeMeo 1980)


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that year. The fallout was intensive enoughto prompt a warning on sales of milk prod-ucts in the NE USA, due to 131I and 137Cs con-tamination carried over the Pacic on thewinds. (Simpson et al. 1981).

These data are preliminary, but neverthe-less suggest not only that the orgone accu-

mulators charge-density factors can inu-ence the tensional-cohesion of water verydirectly, such that its evaporation is sup-pressed; but also that this charge-densityfactor is disrupted when the accumulatorand/or the water samples are exposed totoxic levels of nuclear radiation.

The orgone accumulator also affects thespectral properties of water, as I discovered

using a UV-Visible spectrometer (OceanOptics USB4000 UV-VIS) with a range of220-950 nm. An ordinary sample of verygood tasting and clear uncontaminated wa-ter from a deep mountain well fed by snow-melt, has a pronounced UV absorptionacross the range from 250 through 330 nm,as compared to a distilled water sample.Frequencies below ~400 nm are invisibleto the eye, and one only encounters visibledark purple or blue frequencies above 400

nm. Ordinary bottled distilled water, or thatfrom a city-water tap also absorbs this invis-ible UV, but not to the same extent. Conse-quently, the absorption peak of 250-330 nmis clearly associated with whatever the wa-ter picks up as runoff or later underground.But this spectral absorption reaction doesnot appear to be due to the mineral contentof the water, as that absorption peak be-gins to dissipate once it is taken from theground, even when kept in a sealed storagecontainer. Experiments with the orgone ac-cumulator further suggest this is the case.

As mentioned, our good mountain well wa-ter begins to lose its capacity to absorb UV inthe 250-330 nm range within a few days orweeks after being removed from the ground-

water, specically when placed inside spe-cial 10 cm. sealed quartz-glass cuvettes, asused for the experiment I will describe. Twowater samples were drawn in October 2010,labeled as Control Cuvette A and Test Cu-vette B, the latter of which would ultimately be charged inside an orgone accumulator.A baseline spectral analysis was performed

on both samples before charging, over theperiod from October through December.During that period both cuvettes showed aroughly equal but progressively diminishingUV absorption, both cuvettes progressivelyloosing their UV-absorbing qualities overtime. Just before charging of Test CuvetteB, it showed a slightly lower absorptionwith negative values of from -0.02 to -0.03absorption units, as compared to Control

Cuvette A. After about one month of charg-ing in the orgone accumulator, however,Test Cuvette B had halted further declinesin its UV-absorption, eventually showing ahigher absorption than Control Cuvette A,by from +0.015 to +0.03 units. This rever-sal was not a large difference, but one mustconsider the highly transparent nature ofwater samples, which make even small dif-ferences potentially signicant. Ordinary 1cm cuvettes would not show any result, so

this experiment was made using 10 cm cu-vettes, to give a longer path for the light totravel, and interact with the water.

Figure 9 shows this result, with a greaterabsorption in the orgone-charged sample ofTest Cuvette B, as compared to Control Cu-vette A. Again, it is difcult to explain thisresult as due to the mineral content of thewater samples, which remained the same inboth cases. These ndings indicate the or-gone energy accumulator does somethingto the water, affecting its structural quali-ties as were present when the samples wererstly drawn from the mountain water well,allowing the charged sample to more read-ily retain those qualities over time. What-ever is imparted to the water by the orgone


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accumulator appears to be the factor ab-sorbing these UV frequencies.

Interestingly, a nearly-identical absorptionof UV frequencies has been observed withinhighly-ordered structured water within theexclusion zone found near to high-dielectricand hydrophilic materials or membranesurfaces, as noted by Chai et al. (2008). Wa-ter in contact with such materials spontane-ously assembles into highly ordered layersof structured water up to several hundredmicrometers deep, well beyond that antici-pated by conventional theory. The water inthese exclusion zones, which also repulsessolutes and particulates, shows an absorp-tion peak at ~270 nm, ranging across 250-300 nm, similar to the UV-absorbance of

orgone-accumulator-charged water notedabove. Chai et als experiments also yield-ed uorescence emission-spectra reactionspeaking in approximately the blue-frequen-cy range, of 400-500 nm, similar to thatnoted by Reich for his bluish orgone lumi-nation, as seen also in the various photo-graphs and examples given in this paper.

Reich identied such a blue as the spe-cic color-signature of the orgone energy,as seen above in Figure 6, of an orgone-charged high-vacuum tube excited intoblue uorescence by simple hand-stroking(DeMeo 2002a). He argued for a similarblue lumination-uorescence process indeep ocean or lake waters, in the radiation-elds of certain microbes as viewed in themicroscope, and as sometimes seen in theopen air surrounding healthy forests andmountains, as well as in many differentnatural phenomena, including the bluishcolor of the open daytime sky. In this, hisideas contrasted sharply with the Rayleighlight-scattering theory, substituting insteada set of concepts very similar to what is sug-gested in these spectroscopy experiments.

I have also observed this same bluish colorto anomalously exist in shallow thermal hotsprings and glacial pools, as I discuss below, which also challenge the light-scatteringtheory and speaks more in favor of Reichslumination-uorescence mechanism.

From this, we may offer a few postulates:

Figure 9: UV absorption of a well-water sample is inuenced by charging inside an orgone accumu-lator. In this case, the slow loss of UV absorption over several months was slowed retarded by orgone-

charging of the Cuvette B sample. Prior to charging, Cuvette B consistently showed a lower absorptionthan Cuvette A. After charging, Cuvette B showed a higher absorption, possibly due to an effect uponwater structuring.


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Natural and unpolluted water sources, orthe water in cells and under other circum-stances of a higher charge-density, not onlyexhibits greater structural properties, butunder sufcient excitation UV light in thiscase also shows a bluish lumination ex-actly as Reich described. Or, in the terms ofmodern spectroscopy, there is a visibleu-

orescence of the charged water within the blue-color range of 450-490 nm. It is alsoreasonable to anticipate, the more intensiveis the charge-density factor in the water, orin the atmosphere, and the greater the ex-citing energy, the greater would be the lu-minous uorescence from it. Exclusion zonewater may have similar physical propertiesto our accumulator-charged water, and tonatural highly-charged blue-glowing water

sources, all of which indicate a greater co-hesion of the water molecules, and a similarabsorbance and uorescence spectra. Con-sequently, we may be dealing with a similarmechanism. These postulates have yet tobe established beyond a few indicatory ex-periments, but they are reasonable workinghypotheses, with potentially very practicalapplications. At minimum, they give us awhole new appreciation for the termfreshwater.

Plant-Growth Experiments with theReich Accumulator

Seed-sprouting experiments undertaken inthe orgone accumulator at my laboratorytypically show from 30% to 40% increase ingrowth over the control groups. Figure 10presents a photograph of a representativeexample of this seed-charging effect, for both control and orgone-charged samples.Figure 11 further shows two histogramsfrom a controlled seed-charging experi-ment which ran over three summers from1998 to 2000. (DeMeo 2002b) Mung beanseeds placed into evaporation dishes weresprouted in a strong orgone accumulator.An identical control group was sprouted in

a special nearby shelter allowing for controlof other variables. The accumulator group yielded a 34% increase in growth-lengthof the sprouted seedlings over the con-trol group, with a high level of signicance(p


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can be increased by from 50% to 200% overcontrols, merely by charging them up in-side an orgone accumulator for an hour perday. A mouse wound-healing experiment byBaker et al. (1984-85) showed from a 1% to12% increase in healing rates.

Human Physiology and Healing Ex-

periments with the Reich Accumula-tor

Regarding human subjects, there are twodouble-blind controlled studies which havebeen undertaken to evaluate the orgone ac-cumulator over a dummy-box or sham de-vice. Both of these showed very clear effectsfrom the accumulator, verifying Reichsoriginal claims for a mild parasympathetic

stimulus, with attending slight increasesin body core temperature, and modera-tions of blood pressure, pulse rate, andother physiological measures. The studyby Mschenich and Gebauer (1986) at theUniversity of Marburg, and by Hebenstre-it (1995) at the University of Vienna, bothproduced positive results of moderate sta-tistical signicance. A control dummy-boxused in both these studies, where neitherthe participants nor those carrying out the

experiments knew the reasons for havingpeople sit inside a mere box over a peri-od of a half-hour. Alvarez (2008) also con-ducted an evaluation of the orgone blanket a device similar to an orgone accumula-tor box, but of lighter construction andtypically reduced intensity of effects. Thisexperiment evaluated physiological andpsychological parameters, such as urinaryexcretion of free radicals as measured bythe colorimetric tests, and dehydroepian-drosterone (DHEA) levels as measured insaliva. Positive trends were observed, butthe results were not statistically signicant,possibly due to the weaker orgone-chargeas found in orgone blankets, and rainy epi-sodes during the test period. Figure 11: Histograms of Orgone-Charged versus

Control Mung Bean growths, from a 3-year study.(DeMeo 2002b)

Extended clinical reviews of the accumula-tors effectiveness, showing most promis-ing positive results for a variety of healthconditions and injuries were published byFuckert (1989), Lassek (1991) and Kavou-ras (2005). Additionally, Maglione andMazzocchi (2011) undertook a controlledstudy of human physiological response tothe orgone accumulator, using body coretemperature and the Ryodoraku techniqueof electro-acupuncture for analysis. Thestudy showed a signicant result on body-core temperature, with average increases of0.24C. (p=0.006) but mixed result on theRyodoraku technique. Mschenich (1995)


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has also elaborated on Reichs concepts ofhealth and bioenergy, while DeMeo andSenf (1997) edited a volume of experimen-tal papers by various authors supportingReichs ndings.

There also are two interesting studies onthe relationship between Reichs orgone

energy to the acupuncture energy of Chi-nese medicine. Senf (1979) made a study where acupuncture meridians were stimu-lated by a small orgone acupuncture de-vice, consisting of a hollow steel tube of 1cm diameter with multiple capacitor-typeexterior wrappings of thin steel mesh anddielectric insulating plastic. One open endof the tube was aimed at the acupuncturepoints of test subjects, who reacted to this

acupuncture tube (which did not eventouch the skin) in a manner identical to, butfrequently stronger than the kind of reac-tion they would normally have with regularacupuncture-needle treatment. A similarorgone-acupuncture device was construct-ed and subjected to controlled evaluationsby Southgate (2009), also with positive re-sults. These experiments suggest orgone en-ergy as concentrated out of the atmospherein special narrow-tube accumulating struc-

tures, is one and the same as the Chi energyof Chinese medicine, able to stimulate itscharge and movement along acupuncturemeridians.

While clinical reports evaluating the accu-mulator were abundant during Reichs time(Web ref.1), the assault upon his researchefforts by the FDA starting in 1947 nallyending in government book-burning of hisresearch journals and books, and his deathin prison in 1957 (Greeneld 1974; Sharaf1983) basically suppressed open working with Reichs concepts within the medicalprofession. The major exception here is thegrowing number of body-oriented psycho-therapists employing the emotion-releasemethods which Reich pioneered (Web

ref.4). As an effort to avoid prosecutions bymainstream medicine and the increasingly-powerful Food and Drug Administration(DeMeo 1993a) there is an undergroundmovement to apply the orgone accumula-tor by physicians, and for self-treatment bylaypersons but it reminds one of some-thing comparable to the Dark Age period

when physicians who wanted to learn anat-omy had to steal corpses from graveyardsin the dead of night. For such reasons, therst major book on the orgone accumulatoras a healing tool, to appear in the Englishlanguage since Reichs death was authoredin 1989 by myself (DeMeo 2010) a non-physician who does not offer treatments topatients, and therefore is immune from thelong reach of medical orthodoxy.

Replications of Reichs Findings II:The Water-Grounded Cloudbuster

Antenna

Reichs specialized water-grounded weath-er-antenna, the cloudbuster device, wasrstly announced in a 1952 publication(Reich 1952), following which, as detailedabove, came a series of other papers on thesubject. The apparatus is simple in design,and has no kind of electrical or electromag-netic inputs, nor does it use any chemicals it is entirely passive, similar to a lightningrod, except that it must be grounded into

Figure 12: Cloudbuster Antenna used by the au-thor in eld trials in the Kansas, American South-east and Southwest experiments described here.


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a large body of clear, owing or moving,and life-supporting water, similar to whatis suggested in our blue luminating-uo-rescing samples with a higher charge-den-sity. The charge-density factor in the atmo-sphere which Reich termed the orgone, canthen be inuenced, by the antenna, whichis grounded in the highly-charged water.

Maglione (2007) has provided the mostcomprehensive single overview of researchin this eld, including Reichs original eldresearch papers, plus the major ndings ofBaker, Blasband, DeMeo, Eden, and Kelly.All of these scientists undertook consider-able eld experiments to evaluate the newmethods, and did in fact provide signicantempirical support to Reichs claim that thedevice actually worked. Below I will limit

the discussion to my own primary eld ex-periments.

DeMeos Field Experiments in theUSA

My own experimental eld evaluations ofthe cloudbuster have yielded signicantpositive results in support of Reich. A 1979study of the cloudbuster conducted as partof my graduate work at the University of

Kansas, showed signicant atmosphericreactions, with increases in percent cloudcover and measured rainfall over the en-tire State of Kansas, using ofcial NationalWeather Service (NWS) rainfall data in theanalysis (DeMeo 1979a). Figure 12 showsthe cloudbuster apparatus I constructed forthese Kansas eld trials. Figure 13 repro-duces one of the major graphics from thatstudy, indicating the development of great-

er cloud-growth and increased precipita-tion starting within about an hour, on av-erage, shortly after the cloudbuster antennawas put into operation.

Figure 13: Effects from 12 Cloudbuster Tests on the Weather over the State of Kansas. Upper and lowergraphics are percent cloud cover and hourly precipitation from six Kansas stations. Inset graph is daily

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In 1986, I led a team using two cloudbusterantennas into the American Southeast,Georgia and South Carolina specically,ending a two-year drought of historical pro-portions with only about a week of work(DeMeo and Morris 1987a, 1987b). Rainsdeveloped over the entire southeast, show-ing a clear persistence effect reecting, by

Reichs earlier observations, a return to-wards atmospheric pulsation and self-reg-ulation, a recurring cycle of rain and dryepisodes each lasting several days.

In 1989, a more ambitious and signicantdesert-greening eld trial was undertakenin the arid American Southwest, involv-ing ve separate pre-announced eld tri-als. Each experiment would last a few days,

once per month from May through Septem- ber. Evaluations of results as always were made from ofcial NWS data sources. A precipitation analysis for the ve sepa-rate operations of 1989, given in Figure 14,showed an average rainfall doubling effectfor a full week-long period, starting within

48 hours of our eld operations (DeMeo1991). It was an amazing positive result insupport of Reich, but ofcial reactionswere disbelieving and regrettably obstruc-tionist.

Field Experiments in Israel and Na-mibia

The Arizona experiments did becomeknown through my lectures and publica-tions, however, eventually attracting theinterest of private parties overseas wholived in desert or droughty environments,and for whom the theories of meteorologymeant less than practical results. My work was then sponsored by a private founda-tion and the government of Israel over the

Winter of 1991-92, towards ending of a ma-jor three year drought which had left mostof their reservoirs nearly empty and dry. Aten-day operation with the cloudbuster an-tenna triggered a restoration of atmospher-ic pulsation and rains (opened the stormdoors by the weathermans account) which

Figure 14: Averaged Daily Precipitation Percentages for the ve 1989 American Southwest Cloudbust-ing Operations Combined. Starting shortly after the onset of the eld operations (arrows starting at day

zero) a signicant increase in precipitation begins about 48 hours later, persisting for approximately oneweek thereafter a rainfall-doubling effect. (DeMeo 1991)


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persisted throughout that entire rainy sea-son, and broke all historical rainfall records(DeMeo 1993b). A year later, the govern-ment of Namibia sponsored eld opera-tions towards ending of a 12-year drought,which had become critical over the prior 3years, leading to a dramatic exhaustion ofwater resources and wildlife over the whole

of Southern Africa. Over a two week period,the operations undertaken by the team I di-rected, using one large cloudbuster anten-na, turned the situation around, with copi-ous and continuing rains which recoveredthe entire southern part of Africa (DeMeo1993c) and persisted over many months.

In both the above cases, of Israel and Na-mibia, not only was the drought ended for

the several-months period immediatelyafter our work, but the subsequent rainyseasons were excellent, without a returnof drought for around three years. Theseresults supported Reich not only on the ef-fects of the cloudbuster, but also his points

about how the device could restore the lostproperty of atmospheric pulsation.

Field Experiments in Eritrea: A5-Year Project

Word of the good results from the Israel andNamibia experiments spread, even while

the ndings found publication only withinlesser-known journals, and with a few ofmy presentations at scholarly societies. Thegovernment of Eritrea, in the Horn of Af-rica, learned of these experiments, and ex-pressed an interest towards using the meth-od to end their long-term drought situation.For nearly 30 years, they had suffered un-der below-normal rains, compounded byopen war with neighboring Ethiopia. Res-

ervoirs were exceedingly low, and the land-scape was barren, from both drought andsocial turmoil. I proposed and they agreedto a ve-year test project, starting in sum-mer of 1994 (DeMeo 2002c). Over the nextve years, my international team of dedi-

Figure 15: Israel Cloudbusting Operation, Early Results: Percentage of Normal Precipitation Map,Eastern Mediterranean, Nov. 27 to Dec. 7, 1991. Isolines showing rainfall contours for the rst majorstorm to enter Israel in many years. This exceptionally heavy rainfall episode began only 10 days af-ter cloudbusting operations were initiated, and only three days after those operations ended. The stormwhich brought these rains had developed in the western and central Mediterranean during the cloudbust-ing operations. It slowly moved eastward, intensifying as it approached the coast of Israel. Six additionalepisodes of moderate-to-heavy rainfall sequentially entered Israel after this storm, from mid-Decemberthrough March of 1992, breaking all their historical rainfall records. (DeMeo 1993b)


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cated professionals undertook operationsover several weeks of each Eritrean sum-mer, with the goals to insure no return ofdrought, and boost their rainfall. And in fact, as seen in Figure 16, ofcialweather data from the Eritrean Civil Avia-tion department indicated a statistically-signicant (p150% of the percent-of-maximum during the before period, for a statistically-signicant(p


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The result of this massive increase in rainswas ve giant new overow lakes in the openSahara about 200 km to the West South-west of Aswan, as seen in Figure 17. Thesegiant lakes were so large that one could notsee across them, and they readily appearedin satellite images. Even today they can beseen via internet, using Google Earth (Web

ref.5). Unfortunately, these lakes have beenrapidly drying out ever since their forma-tion, as the Nile River Basin has not re-ceived additional rains of similar or suf-cient magnitude to re-ll Lake Nasser to thepoint of overowing, such that new waterscould again be diverted into them (DeMeo2002c).

Unusual External Environmental

Factors

The various results noted above, nearly allof which fall outside the boundaries of conventional expectations or thinking, haveparallels in research ndings quite indepen-dent from Reich and his circle of associates.While the published literature on these in-dependent ndings is so extensive I couldnot hope to even summarize it here, there

are two annotated bibliographies whichcan be referenced (Burns 1994, 1997). TheCIFA organization (Comite Internationalde Recherche et dEtude de Facteurs delAmbiance) also web-posts materials fromEuropean and Russian researchers (Webref.6). Nearly all of the scholars cited inthese bibliographies have identied uctu-

ating cyclical patterns in the behavior oftheir experiments, reminiscent of Reichsdiscussions on self-sustaining pulsatorylife-energy functions, which show cosmic-sidereal components that independentlyvalidate much of what has already been giv-en above. It should be noted, these naturalscientists go well beyond mere correlationanalysis, and like Reich are presenting ex-perimental results suggestive of the actual

mechanism and driving force behind thesecorrelations. A very limited review follows.

The Chemical Tests of Giorgio Piccardi

In the 1960s, biochemist Giorgio Picca-rdi discovered a cosmic, physico-chemicaluctuating phenomenon at work in physi-cal chemistry experiments, especially asregarding phase-change chemistry, all ofwhich revealed cyclical patterns tied to cos-

mic variables. His ndings mirror thoseof Reich in all but the terms being used,though we have no record that Reich andPiccardi even knew about each other. Pic-cardi experimentally investigated the largerissue of water-structuring, especially as re-lated to variations in the precipitation rateof standardized preparations of bismuthoxychloride, and regarding the freezingrates of super-cooled water (Piccardi 1962,1965, 1966, 1968; Piccardi and Cael-Boute1972). In prefacing his ndings, Piccardiroutinely noted various industrial process-es and chemical experiments which showedanomalous reactions to solar variationsand weather changes. He gave a listing ofchemical solutions which have proven re-active to unknown subtle energetic param-

Figure 17: Satellite image of the Nile River aroundLake Nasser and Aswan High Dam, 10 Oct. 2000.The exceptional rainfalls in the Nile River Basin af-ter c.1994 slowly lled Lake Nasser to capacity, forthe rst time in its 35-year history. The excess wa-ters were diverted into the Toshka Depression, outin the open Sahara Desert, where four giant over-

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eters of the environment beyond merelymechanical thermal, humidity or baromet-ric indications. Colloidal arsenic trisulphidesolutions, calcium phosphate precipitates,polyvinyl pyrrolidon solutions, sodiumthiosulphate titrations, the sineresis (waterseparation) of agar gels, and freezing of su-per-cool water, all show variations in rates

or quantities uctuating according to exter-nal sidereal, solar, lunar and/or meteoro-logical factors (Piccardi 1962).

The Piccardi effect, in agreement withReichs empirical ndings on the orgoneenergy, was more active or powerful athigher altitudes, and possessing of signi-cant solar-terrestrial, biological and me-teorological components. The effect was

also reectable by metal shields, and couldbe amplied within metallic enclosures. Inparticular, Piccardis ndings showed vari-ations in the freezing of super-cooled watertied to sunspot variations, which helped tounderstand the mechanism of solar varia-tion upon weather. Piccardi noted clear sea-sonal-sidereal patterns in the variability ofhis chemical tests, patterns which matchedin both Northern and Southern Hemi-sphere, and thereby could not be explained

by the usual solar-seasonal inuences. Heargued that space itself was charged with asomething that could affect the proper-ties of water, and he specically noted cer-tain times of year when by astrophysicaldeterminations, the Earth would be racingthrough this background medium of spaceat higher speeds. Those periods, notablyfrom March through June, yielded up thestrongest reactions in his chemical tests,while the period of November through Feb-ruary when the Earth was moving at avery slow speed in the background of space showed the lowest rates of chemical reac-tions. Figure 18 presents a photograph of amodel Piccardi constructed (Piccardi 1962)and as I will shortly demonstrate, it is in full

agreement with Reichs cosmic superimpo-sition theory (DeMeo 1951c).

Piccardis experiments also made full use ofspecial water-structuring device known as ascale-buoy. This device consists of a blob ofmercury enclosed within a glass bulb, with apartial evacuation of the atmosphere sev-eral examples are shown in Figure 19. Whenshaken, this bulb will show a subtle blue-green ash of light. According to a literaturereview assembled by Faigl (1990) the scale-buoy will emit radiofrequencies in the 6-9Mhz range, with an attendant crumblingerosion of scales. They were used commer-cially in the rst half of the 20th Century toinhibit the formation of boiler scale, or tokeep minerals in suspension within water,whose solvent properties were changed bythe inuences of the scale-buoy. When wa-ter is activated by being exposed to the fre-quency emission discharges of the agitatedscale-buoy, it becomes especially reactiveto external factors as with sunspots and

the like. Why this should be so is not yetunderstood, and certainly requires a con-certed experimental effort towards clari-cation but the activation principle doessuggest something along the lines of themyriad effects observed from the orgoneaccumulator which via its increased en-

Figure 18: Piccardis apparatus showing the he-licoidal motion of the Earth around the Sun, andthe variable speeding-up and slowing-down of the

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cumulator and cloudbuster, while certainlyfar less orthodox than Baumers postulate,nonetheless has more experimental proofsto support its foundational claims and the-ory. Sferics frequencies had been studiedin the USA during the 1960s, as a poten-tial method for severe weather forecasting(Church 1993) but the subject was largely

abandoned by the early 1970s.

Biological effects of such cosmic uctuatingphenomenon also were identied beforePiccardi, in the 1940s work of Takata (1951;Shults 1967) who discovered variations inthe aking numbers of human blood se-rum, as identied in different laboratoriesaround the world, and correlated to sun-spots traversing over the central meridian

of the Sun. Related breakthrough studies asthose by the clinician William Petersen onThe Patient and the Weather(1934), or his Man, Weather, Sun (1947) provided solidevidence of a powerful biological reactivityto cosmic and meteorological environmen-tal variables such as sunspots and ares,lunar cycles, and nearby thunderstorms orweather fronts. Today, the Piccardi Group which once was an integral part of theIn-ternational Society for Biometeorology, is

no more. For some years, theJournal of In-terdisciplinary Cycle Research presentedresearch ndings on the subject, but thisline of research is today primarily beingadvanced by scientists working within theEuropean CIFA organization which holdsconferences and acts as a common meetingground for investigations following this lineof research (Web ref.6).

Another quite independent line of investi-gation previously mentioned is representedin the work by Gerald Pollack (2001), re-garding the exclusion-zone phenomenonalong cellular membranes and gels. Severalinternational conferences devoted to theunusual properties of water have been held(Web ref.7) reporting on diverse phenom-

Figure 19: Early Scale-Buoy Devices, as used forboiler de-scaling and several of the Piccardi experi-ments (Piccardi 1962; Faigl 1990)

ergy charge-density can affect the UV spec-tral absorption of water, and also chargeup plants to greater growth, inhibit tumordevelopment in mice, and affect the ioniza-tion parameters inside high-vacuum tubesand GM counters. In both cases, of Piccar-dis scale-buoy and Reich orgone accumula-tors, the affected object or substance gets a

boost of some sort which affects a signi-cant change in its basic properties.

Even before Piccardi, Bortels (1956, 1965)maintained the issue of water reactiv-ity was central to the matter of sunspot-weather reactions, and he speculated aboutthe existence of a specic weather-radia-tion, which got close to the ideas of Reich,though he never identied just what kind

of radiation was involved. In later years,this same line of thinking re-appears in the work of Baumer, whose work Sferics: DieEntdeckung der Wetterstrahlung (Baumer1987) went so far as to declare the sfericsfrequencies, between 500 to 50,000 cycles,was the answer to the puzzle. However, hiscase failed in that no experiments were everput forward subjecting water or other solu-tions to articially-generated frequencies inthose sferics ranges. Nobody showed that

one could affect clouds or weather by arti-cial application of sferics frequencies, to myknowledge, and Reichs weather device usesno such transmitting equipment. In this re-gard, the work of Reich with the orgone ac-


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ena frequently similar to those reported byPiccardi and associates.

Frank Brown and External BiologicalClocks

Like Reich and Piccardi, biologist FrankBrown independently identied experi-

mentally an unshieldable cosmic solar-lunar and galactic-sidereal phenomenoncapable of affecting the behavior and me-tabolism of many living creatures (Brown etal. 1970; Brown 1976). Tidal forces of lunarperiodicity could be transmitted through building roofs and walls into the indooraquaria of his laboratory, for one example, where isolated creatures kept under con-stant temperature, light, humidity and even

pressure conditions nevertheless followedthe rhythms of lunar or sidereal-day cycles.For example, oysters kept in a controlled-environment aquarium at Browns labora-tory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts wouldopen and close according to the local lunar-tidal variations at the nearby shoreline,but not according to simple solar circadianday-night variations. When transportedto a similar controlled laboratory environ-ment near Chicago, the opening and clos-

ing of the oysters re-set to the lunar tidalforce at the new location and longitude,even though there was no ocean in Chicagoto yield up a tide. Likewise, bean seedlingwater uptake experiments undertaken overmany years showed decidedly clear lunar-cycle reactions taking up more water dur-ing new and full-moon periods but alsoshowing sidereal-day variations in keeping with larger though more subtle galactic-sidereal variations. Brown showed similarlunar reactions in the behavior of crabsand various mammals (Brown et al. 1970;Brown 1976). None of this could be under-stood in conventional terms.

Considered to be the world authority on theexternal biological clock mechanism, this

line of research was never refuted, but ba-sically vanished from study and discussion,and withered on the vine after Browns re-tirement and death. Today, nearly all stud-ies on the biological clock speak aboutunproven but assumed internal DNA mo-lecular oscillators as the driving force, andthe issues of lunar or sidereal periodicities,

which imply unusual new forces in nature,are hardly ever mentioned. One exceptionis the incorporation of Browns ndings byJohn Alden Knight, a naturalist who inde-pendently discovered a lunar periodicityin wild animal activity (Knight 1975) andwhose advice on the best times for huntingand shing has many enthusiastic support-ers.

Bioelectrical Signatures with a Cos-mic Component

During the 20th Century, physicians suchas Harold Burr (1971) and Bjorn Norden-strom (1983) argued for a specic electro-dynamic energy in the body, which theymeasured independently via bioelectricityand other parameters, decades apart and ondifferent continents. This electro-dynam-ic energy showed great similarities to the

phenomenon worked with independentlyby Reich, Piccardi and Brown, as well as todiscoveries within clinical elds of energy-medicine, such as the homeopathic energyphenomenon which grew out of Europeanfolk-medicine, and acupuncture energy ofChinese medicine. Burr identied bioelec-tric elds in the millivolt range surroundingseedlings, embryos, nerve bers, and otherbiological tissues. He determined there wasa strong charge present during growth andhealing, as well as identiable patterns instates of organic illness and degeneration.He also made long-term studies of the vari-able bioelectric potentials of trees, showingclear correlations to lunar and sunspot cy-cles. From this he concluded the existenceof an electrodynamic eld, which orches-


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trated simultaneous increases or decreasesin the net electrical charge of all objects andcreatures within a given geographical vicin-ity and longitude (Burr 1971). Variations inthe local elecrodynamic eld, he argued,gave rise to cyclical variations within boththe living and non-living worlds. And these variations were predominantly correlated

with lunar-tidal or sunspot cycles, in addi-tion to having a solar day/night variations,and meteorological reactions.

Nordenstroms work as director of the Kar-olinska Radiological Institute in Copen-hagen led him to study the phenomenonof bioelectricity as it relates to the x-rayghostorphantom effect, which is an un-usual fogging of x-ray lms showing either

fuzzy blotches or lightning-bolt patterns,in addition to the expected images of boneand tissue. I have already noted how Reichmade such x-ray photos of the orgone eldof human hands showing an apparentlysimilar anomalous fogging or ghost-likeeffect (Reich 1949c). However, Reichs pho-tos revealed the phenomenon to exist in theopen atmosphere between the hands, sev-eral inches distant from the tissues.

I have seen this kind of ghost pattern asReich described and photographed, in theolder c.1970s type of x-ray machine usedfor screening of airline carry-on bags. Theseolder machines were constantly turned onsuch that one could view the bags as theymoved slowly under the x-ray beam on aconveyor belt. In these cases, the phenom-enon would appear as a kind of darker-colored swirling smoke that would wispin and out of view in the x-ray uorescentscreen. On x-ray lm plates, this phenome-non may sometimes appear as Reich record-ed it, as a kind of smoke, or it may appearas a fuzzy blob, or like branching tree-limbsor plasma laments as seen in the varioustoyplasma-ball devices. Sweeney (1983)has published a swamp static image of

a similar anomaly. It is considered an an-noyance by most radiologists, something toavoid. Others such as Dumitrescu and Ken-yon (1983) have expanded upon how thesephenomenon can be useful for medical di-agnosis, and to be made even more visibleand apparent, without the use of x-rays andfollowing more closely along the track of

Burr. Korotkov has also progressed alongthis path, in the development of new elec-trographic imaging devices for small bodysurfaces such a ngertips, or for determin-ing the energy-eld charge of blood or liq-uid samples (Korotkov 2002).

Nordenstrom also included this phenom-enon into his studies, and found it had cor-related bioelectrical components. His stud-

ies led to the conclusion there was a largerbioenergetic force at work in the body, onewhich moved along the acupuncture merid-ians, which affected water-structure andcolloidal chemistry within and betweencells, and was a determinant of health andhealing. The subtitle of his book declared itexplicitly: Clinical, Experimental and The-oretical Evidence for an Additional Circu-latory System (Nordenstrom 1983) but asystem circulating of what, exactly?

Some may argue, solutions to such myster-ies might be found in purely electromag-netic mechanisms, (Presman 1970) or byreference to biophotons, as documented byPopp and associates (Popp and Beloussov2010; MaeWan et al. 1974). These kinds ofexperiments carry good evidence for the ba-sic existence of an anomalous emission oflight and other frequencies from both indi-vidual cells and the whole body. However,they also stretch considerably our under-standing of both photons and electromag-netic waves, which were postulated over200 years ago, and were never intended toexplain the correlated variations betweensuch diverse biological and chemical phe-nomena, much less the larger solar, lunar


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or meteorological events. Becker made acogent review and analysis of similar phe-nomena in his popular workThe Body Elec-tric (Becker and Selden 1985) where it wasopenly asked, What is an electron? In do-ing so, he came around to the larger ques-tions Reich had originally raised with hisorgone energy, and Burr had raised in pro-

posing his electrodynamic eld theory, and which Piccardi, Brown, Nordenstrom andothers likewise raised. Everyones physiol-ogy and behavior is affected or even drivenby these energetic forces in daily life, and we see the effects in both industrial andorganic chemistry. Even our blood showsclear reactions, as with the bioelectric eldzeta-potentials of red blood cells, which isa prime health determinant (Bauer 1987).

Reichs own blood testing method reliedupon a similar parameter of the red bloodcells energy eld (Raphael and MacDonald1952) and his development of an orgone orlife-energy eld meter (Reich 1948c) stillsuggests the world of electronic imaginghas much to learn from him in this regard.Raw electrons, photons, or electromagneticwaves or particles seem rather inadequatefor understanding such things, which attheir fundament require action-at-a-dis-

tance reactivity to connect living creaturesand raw chemistry into the full fabric of cos-mic activity.

While the physicists generally feel they havegood answers about basic particles such aselectrons and photons, after reviewing theliving aspects of these phenomena, suchas bioelectricity, x-ray phantoms, the blueuorescence and such, can we really saythe basic essence of such a thing is trulyknown? Theres more along this line of crit-ical thinking.

Lessons from Homeopathy and Acu-puncture

The whole eld of homeopathic medicine as

developed by Hahnemann and still in wide-spread use today further leads us to viewwater as a special substance, one which hasthe ability to carry both charge and informa-tion content, even if the term informationis still not yet scientically understood.When water has a toxin placed into it, andis then succussed, or strongly shaken such

as to impart myriad vortex motions withinits volume, it develops a reactive physicalchemistry, similar to the water-activation which resulted from Piccardis use of thescale-buoy device. This shaken vortex-wa-ter, we may postulate, acquires propertiesmuch like a primitive immune system.The activated water literally reacts to what-ever minute irritating or toxic chemicals areput into it. The water is not alive per se,

but either the water, or some life-energeticconstituent within the water appears to re-act much like raw protoplasm to the pres-ence of irritants. And that reaction cannotbe diluted out. The reactive principle thenpersists even when the toxic component isdiluted down well below Avogadros Num-ber, indicating that not even one moleculeof it ought to be remaining.

The experiments of biologist Jacque Ben-

veniste (Davenas et al. 1988) are notableamong those who have investigated andsupported the memory of water effect, asshown in cellular reactions to a water sam-ple into which an antigen has been mixed,but then homeopathically diluted out of ex-istence within that sample. In spite of thealarming hysterical reactions his work pro-voked within the editorial board atNature,experiments such as these have proven theexistence of a life-like reactive energeticchemistry in water, even when no chemis-try per se was present. Clearly this requiressomething other than conventional wisdomto explain, and I do believe the introductionof Reichs ndings on the orgone energywill aid in this understanding.


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Here, I would argue the same life-energyfunctions are at work in both the humanimmune system and in homeopathic acti-vated water preparations. And, in all likeli-hood, this is derived from a more commonset of energetic principles pre-existing life,something which exists in water all by itself,and which can later be subsequently found

in the living creatures made predominantlyfrom water. Homeopathy produces a de-cidedly non-chemical reaction in the livingsystem. It is suggestive of the very samekind of transmission of qualities affect-ing phase-changes one nds in the Piccardiactivated water chemical tests, which showreactions within water solutions to sunspotsand solar ares, even while the energy vari-ations as they come to us from 93 million

miles distance, are so miniscule as to havelost the capacity to affect chemical bondsor molecular rotational structures. Look-ing for a chemical-molecular mechanismtherefore would appear fruitless. And yet,the effects are real enough. We must lookoutside of classical physical chemistry forthe mechanism. They demand some kind ofnon-chemical matrix or energetic substrateby which water structuring is accomplished,something which resides within the water,

or something that comes into the waterin variable quantities or with qualitative dif-ferences, but which is not merely the raw water molecules, nor any simple conglom-eration of them.

We may also favorably compare Europeanhomeopathy to Chinese acupuncture in thisregard, that both have a good record of suc-cessful applications, even while both havecentral questions waiting to be answered interms of their exact physical mechanisms.But traditional Chinese medicine also in-cludes the concept of a bio-energy, calledChi or Qi, and I have given above severalexamples of clinical acupuncture experi-ments suggesting the orgone accumulatoreffect, when properly channeled into tiny

conduits, can even without physical con-tact trigger reactions in people identical toacupuncture needles inserted at the samepoints. This implies not only that the orgoneenergy of Reich is agreeable with core as-pects of the Chinese system of acupuncture,but also that they are both eliciting their bi-ological effects via mechanisms which work

at a deeper level than biochemistry.

Viktor Schauberger and the LivingWater Postulate

Intuitive naturalist Viktor Schauberger(Schauberger 1998; Coates 2002) arguedfor a specic quality of alive or living wa-ter, and made practical applications of thisin European forestry and hydrology during

the rst half of the 20th

Century. Schauber-ger argued that waters natural motion wasa vortex curve or spiral, and that certainphysical properties and life-giving qualitiesof water could be enhanced or diminishedbased only upon the form of its movement.He applied this principle in Austrian for-ests, nding he could oat larger logs downa given plume-works merely by causing thewater to ow in a spiral-wave motion. Thisprinciple, so he argued, changed the struc-

ture and density of the water allowing anincrease in its buoyancy. He applied thisprinciple also to restore the meandering within streams which had previously beenstraightened out by ditching or canaliza-tion, to restore water quality and oxygen-ation which thereafter beneted sh andother wildlife. The spiral motion of streams,he argued, increased the density and capac-ity of water to move its sediment load, andthis also re-invigorated the water with oxy-gen and other life-giving qualities. Spiralmotion could also speed the motion of waterthrough pipes, he argued, as compared tostraight-line ow. While lacking in formaleducation, and somewhat mystical in ter-minology, Schauberger independently de-veloped methods which could signicantly


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change the properties of water in large vol-umes, as they owed in natural streams.

Healing Mineral Water Hot Springsand Natural Lakes

In a related theme, virtually all of ancienthistory is peppered with references to natu-

ral mineral hot-springs as places of healingand recuperation, and the waters in suchspecial places were typically revered andconsidered quite special. (DeMeo 2010c).The Romans, Britons and others built largespas around them, to contain and gatherup the waters into deeper pools. Cities andtowns across Europe were frequently lo-cated at these special places. Lourdes inFrance is one such well-known mineral hot-

springs, and for which many observationsof near-miracle cures have been claimed.Typically, such waters have a bluish glow,a point which may hold signicance fortheir healing possibilities, beyond the merepresence of high oxygenation. While someunknown part of the healing effects of suchholy waters could be a purely psychoso-matic effect, they appear sufciently well-documented to be applied clinically in manyplaces today.

In modern-day Europe, the tradition ofbuilding health-recuperation spas at natu-ral mineral hot springs is most widely de-veloped. There are hundreds of such well-established healing baths in Germanyalone, calledHeilbder, with physicians inattendance to help people who have come tond a nature-cure, all under auspices of theofcial health-care system. German physi-cians may actually prescribe a visit to sucha hot springs mineral water health resort,and have it paid for by the German health-care system. There are multiple recognizedcategories of healing baths: the Mineral-heilbad, the Moorheilbad, the Seeheilbad,the Soleheilbad, and those forRadon-Bal-neologie the application of natural radon

gas as found in the waters (DeMeo 2010c).This latter application of radon-gas watersfor healing constitutes a kind of homeo-pathic dose of natural radiation, possiblythrough the effects of hormesis as identi-ed by classical radiation biophysics, whichhas a whole-body stimulus. (Luckey 1991;Sanders 2009).

This tradition of the healing waters was also well-developed in the Americas, and usedwidely by Native Americans and early colo-nials alike. Unfortunately in the early 20thCentury, the use of mineral hot-springs forhealth and healing was attacked by main-stream medicine via their allies in the USFood and Drug Administration, in whatbecame a literal open warfare by organized

allopathic medicine against natural heal-ing methods. (Walker 1993; DeMeo 1993a).Health benets were typically reported andadvertised by these healing-water spas, no-tably for arthritis and rheumatism. Suchwaters were also frequently bottled up fordrinking, with advertised health-benets.President Franklin D. Roosevelt, for exam-ple, frequented the healing waters of WarmSprings, Georgia, which continues to beused as a therapeutic center for polio hydro-

therapy. It survived, however, only becauseRoosevelt bought the place and created aninstitute to guarantee its survival. Today,most of these same mineral hot-springsstill exist, but the old health spas build onthem have frequently vanished. Some alsoare now located within National Parks, buttheir older emphasis as places of healing israrely so openly advertised.

We may inquire with fresh eyes, just whatis it that made these waters so special andhealing in their qualities? The standardconsideration of enriched minerals and hot water baths creating soothing relaxationcertainly is at work. But is that all?

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with blue-luminating orgone energy, andsome plant-growth experiments also show water charged inside an orgone accumula-tor is sufcient to develop an increase ingrowth of plants (Espanca 1981-1986). Aspreviously discussed, accumulator-chargedwater also has a greater UV absorption. Theaccumulator itself shows myriad anomalies

including effects upon biology and elec-trical charge parameters. Its healing ef-fects upon laboratory animals and peopleis very much like that of the blue-glowingmineral-springs, suggesting a similar ener-getic mechanism. The Schauberger theoryof living waters similarly argued for specialphysical qualities in water due to naturalmotional components which then allowedits charging up or activation, with blue-

glowing properties. Piccardi used the scale-buoy devices to activate water, which alsoproduced a bluish discharge into the waterto achieve that function. Lourdes, and manyother mineral hot-spring healing waters arefrequently described as blue waters or blue-glowing in nature. All of this leans towardssupport of Reichs larger theory of a physi-cal background cosmic medium which,under conditions of excitation would glowblue, and could also charge up water.

Regarding this blue color, many of the blueluminating hot-springs are shallow, nomore than a few meters in depth, and yetthey have a decidedly strong blue luminos-ity in their central core depths. One can seethis most profoundly in the YellowstonePark Morning Glory Poolwhich is only afew meters across, and perhaps two meters

at its deepest and most visible dark-bluecore parts. Figure 21 is a photo I took of thisremarkable pool in Summer 2000, usingan ordinary lm camera with Ektachromeslide lm, ASA 400, and without any l-ters or subsequent digital enhancements.The National Park Service posted othereven more deeply bluish-glowing images ofthis shallow hot water pool to their website(Web ref.8).

Mechanistic explanations are most fre-quently given for the blue-glowing waters ofsuch mineral hot springs, such as they con-tain large numbers of thermophilic bacteriawhich are blue glowing by some photolumi-nescence phenomenon. But as noted above,these hot springs do not intrinsically glow blue at night, and nobody at Yellowstone,to my knowledge, has either witnessed oradvocated the same kind of luminous bac-

terium as one sees in some oceans, where

Figure 20: Typical Advertisements for Hormetic Radium Healing Water Hot Springs, c.1930.


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mere agitation by swimming or surf will setthem to glow. Also, should these waters belled with microbes sufciently abundantfor their material bodies to give a bluish col-or to the water, then the same water shouldappear turbid blue, rather than as one sees:transparent and blue. The bluishness of the waters, therefore, appears more as some-

thing invisible which has come into the wa-ter, something which more strongly thanusual subtracts out the reds and yellows, orsomething which has changed its physicalstructure or properties whereby natural di-rect or diffuse sunlight falling upon it createsa blue uorescence or luminositywhich canbe seen, but which is not an expression ofmerely Rayleigh scattering, nor of any mi-crobial abundance or contaminant. This

something in the water also imparts heal-ing qualities in many cases, as well as all theother factors previously discussed.

Other examples are found in shallow glacialmelt-water pools of about the same depth,only a few meters, which also have a strongblue luminosity, something which also canbe seen in hollow cavities within the glaciersor fresh mountain snow-falls (Web ref.13).Figures 22 and 23 show another exampl

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