C
O R E's Research Facilities and Projects
November 2008
An
Olympus BX50 biological microscope suitable for the Reich blood tests, the bion
experiments and other orgonomic experiments; this is equipped with
phase-contrast and dark-field facilities and a magnification changer giving a
top magnification of x3000. We have recently acquired a high magnification
objective, x160, for this microscope, which gives it the high magnification
facility used by Reich in some of his experiments. This is a research grade microscope with very
high-standard optics;
an
Olympus stereoscopic microscope;
a
Zenith Microlab 2000TPH and two Brunel microscopes, and now, (November 2008),
various other models for student work and public demonstrations. C O R E now has
enough microscopes for classroom workshops on the bion experiments;
Two
orgone accumulators – a large one suitable for the orgone-treatment of adults
or a small child or baby on an adult’s knee and a much smaller one for
research with seeds, plants, or small organisms and the experimental
orgone-irradiation of water or soil;
An
incubator for use in experiments with bions, micro-organisms and Bastian’s
studies in heterogenesis;
An
Experimental Life-Energy Meter, supplied by James DeMeo’s Orgone Biophysical
Research Lab. This makes possible the quantitative measurement of the relative
energy charge of many items such as individuals, bion preparations, plants, and
soil samples. We have also just acquired a new device, an adaptation of this
meter, that scans a human bio-energy field and produces a read-out. We are lucky
enough to have acquired one of only three prototypes in existence.
C O R E now has sufficient microscope facilities for small practical workshops on the bion experiments and the Reich blood tests. We have researched extensively the microscope market and have purchased and tested two models at the cheaper end of the market that are adequate for the amateur student who wishes to do the bion experiments and the Reich blood tests. The cheaper of these two models, the Brunel SP40 costs only £340, the dearer model, the SP100 £478. Probably very few students of orgonomy realise that it is possible to repeat the bion experiments on such inexpensive instruments. These microscopes are not the last word in optical technology but they will do the job for you. We do urge you to collect the money for this project and to repeat the experiments yourself. There is no substitute for actually doing it, as opposed to reading about it. If you do repeat these experiments you will possess knowledge and experience that even most biology graduates do not have. This puts you in a position to stand up and speak for orgonomy in a way that the armchair 'Reichian' just cannot do. See C O R E's booklet Three Experiments with the Microscope for the Amateur Orgonomist for further guidance, if you have no access to The Bion Experiments or The Cancer Biopathy, which contain Reich's original research reports.
Atmospheric Observatory
C O R E has excellent observing facilities accommodated on a fourth floor balcony which overlooks a vast panorama of Lancashire countryside, areas of Preston's suburbs and the horizon from east to west through an arc of about 160 degrees. We also have some excellent observing equipment. All this equipment and our observing activities need a proper observatory in which equipment can be left in position all the time. Equipment includes the following:-
A high-quality Newtonian reflector telescope;
A
high-power refractor telescope, binoculars, a spotting ‘scope, and (a recent
purchase) a pair of ‘giant binoculars’ for observation of the atmospheric
orgone energy and night sky;
A To-T apparatus – a small orgone accumulator and a control container, similar in all respects, but with no iron layers within and thus no accumulating capacity. Both contain an accurate thermometer. There is a slight positive temperature differential between the To and T-containers which varies according to atmospheric conditions.
Labjack software which we hope to use to document the variations in the atmospheric twinkle at night.
PIP (Polycontrast Interference Photography) software. This allows us to see, photograph, or film the human bio-energy field. This opens many research pathways in orgonomy. We can demonstrate this to serious enquirers by arrangement.
Established Research Projects
Repetition of Reich's basic bion experiments and the testing of a large range of other substances for the growth of bions. We have recently tested some meteorite dust for bionous growth and shortly hope to receive small amounts of meteorite dust known to have originated from the moon and Mars, which we will test for bionous growth.
repetition of some of the earliest investigations carried out by pioneers of the microscope such as Leeuwenhoek, Needham, and Brown to see if these early observers actually saw bions in their preparations without, of course, knowing what they were looking at.
Repetition of some of the simpler investigations of the British researcher H C Bastian. Peter Jones reported on this work at the 2005 Research seminar at the Orgone Biophysical Research Lab in Oregon.
Observation of the atmospheric orgone energy. For more information on this see C O R E's booklet - Observing the Atmospheric Orgone Energy.
The use of orgone therapeutic preparation for and support in childbirth. If interest in this builds up enough we hope to start running orgone-therapeutic birth preparation groups. For more information go to orgonomic midwifery and baby therapy
Extensive testing of the two inexpensive microscope models mentioned above, repeating many of the basic bion experiments and H C Bastian's cyclops investigation* to ascertain whether the images obtained are adequate for the beginner student of orgonomy and orgonomic study and research purposes. (* This is an experiment devised by Bastian and reported on in his 1903 text Studies in Heterogegensis. In this investigation he claimed to have observed the formation of bacteria inside the setae of a dead cyclops, a small freshwater crustacean common in all standing water. These bacteria must surely be bions, as anyone who does the investigation will confirm. Peter Jones gave a presentation on this project at the first OBRL research seminar in 2005. A paper on the topic is available to interested enquirers.)
Forthcoming
Scanning volunteers' orgone energy fields using our prototype energy field scanner supplied by Heliognosis. We hope eventually to adapt this instrument so that it can be safely used to scans the energy fields of babies. In its present form it can only be used to scan the energy field of a person in a standing position.
T°-T. We hope to take long-term recordings of this temperature difference and correlate it with the atmospheric twinkle at night, recording this through a telescope and data-acquisition software. This demands a thermically neutral environment for the T-T apparatus, which we do not at present have. This is another good reason for acquiring our own research premises that can be adapted or, if new, constructed to suit this experiment. If this experiment showed a direct, positive correlation between the atmospheric twinkle and the T-T difference, it would be a result of enormous significance for both orgonomy and conventional physics.
The development of a test for soil vitality based on orgonomic criteria rather than the usual ones of chemical content.