Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800-2010 by Sebastian Normandin & Charles T. Wolfe

Author:Sebastian Normandin & Charles T. Wolfe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

Reich believed he solved some of these intractable dilemmas with the orgone. Through orgone energy Reich had found a unifying principle, a variation on historical “life forces,” but with pragmatic and practical applications: The color of the orgone is blue or bluish grey. In our laboratory, the atmospheric orgone is accumulated by means of especially constructed apparatus. A special arrangement of materials … make[s] it visible. The stoppage of the kinetic energy of the orgone expresses itself as temperature rise. The concentration of the orgone energy is reflected in the varying speed of the discharge in the static electroscope. The orgone contains three different kinds of radiation: bluish gray fog-like formations; deep blue-violet expanding and contracting dots; and whitish, rapidly moving dots and lines. The color of the atmospheric orgone is apparent in the blue sky and the bluish haze which one sees in the distance, particularly on hot summer days. Similarly, the blue-gray Northern lights, the so-called St. Elmo’s Fire and the bluish formations which astronomers recently observed during a period of increased sunspot activity, are manifestations of the orgone energy. Cloud formation and thunderstorms – phenomena which to date have remained unexplained – depend on the changes in atmospheric orgone.… The living organism contains orgone energy in every one of its cells, and keeps charging itself orgonotically from the atmosphere by the process of breathing.52

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