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C O R E

Centre for Orgonomic Research and Education

2008

    The Centre for Orgonomic Research and Education was founded in 1996 by Peter Jones, who has been involved in orgonomic work for many years. The centre aims to be a source of information on orgonomy, to conduct orgonomic research, and to support others working in orgonomy. New to orgonomy? Go to What is Orgonomy?

    The centre aims to present orgonomy to the many people who might benefit from it and who have never heard of it and to be a resource to those who already know of orgonomy and wish to learn more. 

    Newcomers to orgonomy may find interesting our booklet Orgonomy, a brief introduction to some of the aspects of orgonomy most relevant to the common reader. (For a full list of C O R E's booklets go to booklets.) C O R E’s library, with some extremely rare texts on the origin of life question, and our prototype life-energy scanner, one of only three in the world, places C O R E in the forefront of orgonomic research. The arrival of the scanner and the difficulties encountered in setting it up show clearly C O R E’s urgent need for proper accommodation. It is clear that we now need space for a small workshop to maintain and set up research projects as well as room for the equipment in use, not to mention space for group activities, teaching, a standing exhibition of orgonomic equipment and experiments, and accommodation for students wishing to use C O R E's extensive orgonomic research library.

 

2007 Anniversary Conference

    C O R E's most important recent  event was a conference and research seminar in Chipping, Lancashire, to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the founder of orgonomy, Wilhelm Reich. The conference lasted five days and was an opportunity to hear from and meet some of the worlds best known orgonomic teachers and researchers. The research seminar over the following weekend was a collection of presentations of the latest orgonomic research from contributors from around the world. This weekend seminar was the second in a series of regular two-yearly seminars presented by Dr James DeMeo and OBRL in Oregon, USA. He is presenting a further research seminar in the summer of 2009, (Go to http://www.orgonelab.org for more information on this meeting.) 

 

The Orgone Accumulator

    The orgone accumulator was one of Reich’s most useful innovations. The centre owns two accumulators, one suitable for therapeutic use with adults and a smaller one for experimental work These are available on short-term loan and we can assist anyone interested in building their own accumulator. Building one of these devices is, anyway, a basic step in any student’s orgonomic education. C O R E publishes a booklet How to Build and Use Your Own Orgone Accumulator. It is not a difficult job to construct an accumulator. It demands average do-it-yourself skills. Some of the operations will be easier if you have an assistant on hand to hold things in position while you work on them. Second Nature Ltd of Penrith have very kindly donated to C O R E a quantity of their wool-based insulating material which is suitable for the insulating layers of an accumulator. We are willing to let anyone constructing their own accumulator have some of this material. This is much more pleasant to use than the traditional material first recommended by Reich, fibre-glass insulation, which is itchy and unpleasant to use and potentially dangerous to children or animals.

Orgone Therapy in Childbirth and Orgone Therapy with Babies

    We have started a research project to test the effectiveness of orgone-therapeutic preparation for childbirth and are seeking further volunteer participants. We also run workshops in orgone therapy for parents and babies. These two areas are of enormous importance to everyone’s lives where Reich‘s discoveries can be applied without much difficulty. C O R E runs workshops on these subjects for parents, parents-to-be, and for interested professionals. Please enquire for details if you are interested in this work. Orgone therapy with babies is an extremely effective way of undoing the damage to a baby caused by a difficult birth or emotional distress caused by parenting difficulties. It also helps greatly to improve parents’ emotional contact with their baby. For more detailed information go to orgonomic midwifery and baby therapy

Collaborating with C O R E

    There are several really interesting orgonomic research projects within psychology, medicine, horticulture, and meteorology, which are waiting to be done and which need motivated workers. We have also repeated some of the experiments of H C Bastian, (1837-1915), whose pioneering research foreshadows Reich’s work on the bions. His discoveries were ignored and rejected at the time but have, like Reich’s, never been disproved. Reich’s discoveries answer some of the unsolved questions raised by Bastian. Generally the problem with orgonomic research is that even a few simple experiments lead on to new questions and new investigations. There is simply far too much for one person or even a few people to do. Orgonomy urgently needs new workers, especially workers with scientific skills or students who are willing to study the subject and learn new skills. We also urgently need help with computer graphics for the illustration of our books that await publication. Our work is now seriously held up for the lack of a volunteer helper with IT skills who could help us with setting up an improved web-site and also with the use of data-acquisition software for some of our experimental projects. If you have these skills and would like to assist C O R E please get in touch. For details of C O R E's current research projects go to research facilities and projects

     We need practical help, too. If you would like to assist please get in touch. We need help with word-processing, photo-copying, graphic design, publicity material, photography, microscopy and laboratory work, (both skilled and simple), and writing and research (following up references and looking out rare publications). Students of biology will find orgonomic laboratory work extremely interesting and challenging.

C O R E can offer

See activities and events for details of C O R E's forthcoming events