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240 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
SIXTH NEW START
After he arrived in the United States, Reich settled with his third wife in
a rented house on Long Island, New York. The basement was used for
experiments, the dining room transformed into a laboratory and the maid's
room into an office/preparation room for laboratory cultures. Psychotherapy
took place in what had been an extra bedroom. Reich further
made a living by lecturing at the New School for Social Research as associate
professor of medical psychology until 1941.
During those years Reich's research focus was on cancer and on radiation
properties of his bions. To make certain that it was not only his own perceptions,
he had his assistants stand in the dark and pick out test tubes which
had a bluish glimmer of radiating bion cultures. Accidentally from a rubber
glove incident he had found that organic materials absorbed the radiation.
His next experiment was to design an enclosure of metal to prevent
leakage of the radiation from cultures. He lined the experimental boxes on
the outside with organic materials—cotton or wood. The experiment was
controlled by an identical metal box which was empty of bion cultures. To
his surprise, the [empty] control box luminated as if it held radiating cultures
itself. It appeared to pull the same type of radiation from the very air.
From the experiments with experiencing a lumination visually, he went
on to discover that heat concentrated in the box. It felt like the warmth
and prickling which bion cultures produced on skin ... He then learned
that metal attracted the unusual radiation and then reflected it away, to be
absorbed by the organic materials.
He then designed an accumulator with a glass window behind which a
thermometer could be inserted. An identical thermometer at the same height
outside the box measured room temperature. Reich found the accumulator
was always about a half a degree Celsius warmer than surrounding air.
What it meant was that the life force he had previously found in bion
cultures could be collected from the atmosphere by an orgone accumulator.
In its one-layer form, it is a wooden box lined with sheet metal. It
works like a one-way grid for the orgone, as in the greenhouse effect
where a radiation is allowed to enter but is reflected back inside faster
than it exits, and the concentration builds up. He and his associates
learned they could sit inside the box, soak up a greater charge of life force
than they could by sitting outside, and improve their health.
Among the experiments done with the accumulator, one type showed
that an electroscope* discharges more slowly inside it. This could not be
explained by the current theory on atmospheric electricity. Other experiments
showed body temperature of people sitting inside the accumulator
* An apparatus for detecting an electric charge.