Dr. DeMeo is bringing a selection of his books to the BD
Conference Oct 4. He is donating a percentage of book sales to
help defray the expense of bringing him to Northern Virginia. Books
purchased through the conference will be signed by him and can be
shipped to you. I'll try to post a concise list of books, but you can
see them, for the most part, at www.orgonelab.org.
The article below is from those pages and holds a lot of promise
for seed starters.
-Allan
- "Seed Sprouting Inside the Orgone Energy Accumulator", Presented to the Society for Scientific Exploration, Annual Meeting, Kings College, University of Western Ontario, Canada, 8-10 June 2000, Programs & Abstracts p.16. Also in The SSE Explorer: Newsletter, Summer 2000, 16(3), p.vii.
In the 1940s, Wilhelm Reich published experimental findings on the discovery of a biological life-energy, called orgone energy, which existed in the atmosphere and could be accumulated inside a special metal-lined enclosure called the orgone energy accumulator. His work was attacked in the press and subject to a politically-inspired Food and Drug Administration injunction which led to Reich's death in prison in 1957, and the court-ordered burning of his books and research journals. Starting in the 1970s, I undertook experimental examination of Reich's original claims regarding the accumulator, including a simple seed-sprouting experiment. Mung beans obtained from a local health food store were mixed, counted into groups of 100, placed into open glass dishes with 50ml of water, and allowed to sprout inside both a strong orgone accumulator and environmentally-matched control enclosure which excluded all metals. The accumulator and control shared nearly identical humidity and temperatures, with light being totally excluded; fresh water was added daily to each dish as necessary to keep the sprouting seeds moist, for a period of approximately 10 days, after which the sprouted seeds were photographed, blotted dry, teased apart and measured. Early trials demonstrated from 160% to a maximum of 500% growth increase inside the accumulator as compared to the controls, while later trials with more rigorous environmental controls yielded a 140% growth increase inside the accumulator. These latter experiments, undertaken during the summers of 1998-99 at my high-altitude laboratory in rural Oregon under exceptionally clean environmental conditions, showed mean growth lengths of bean sprouts at 130mm. for controls and 183mm. for orgone-charged (n.=400), with medians of 132mm. and 185mm. respectively, and maximums of 265mm. and 337mm. respectively. A paired means comparison based upon an hypothesized difference of zero between the two groups indicated these results were highly significant, with P < 0.0001. Orgone charged sprouts also yielded greater absolute weight increases, with a fresher smell and sweeter taste as compared to controls. The developed seed-sprouting protocol has yielded consistent and repeatable results, and orgone experiments of a similar design and result have been reported upon both plants and animals since the 1940s. These experiments, taken together, strongly suggest Reich made an important new discovery. The similarities of his orgone accumulator to a Faraday cage also suggest observations of anomalous effects observed inside Faraday cage "controls" by other experimenters might be the consequence of phenomenon similar to what Reich's reported for the orgone accumulator.
