Analysis
Overview
Mister Tachyon S01E06: Does Orgone Energy Exist is a fairly casual 22 minute long entertainment documentary.
Despite the time constraint and requirement to make it entertaining, it was generally well researched and the experiments were completed to a good standard.
Orgonite
There were two separate pieces of “orgonite” used in the experiments. The piece used in the first experiment, placed on top of the glass here:
And the piece used in the second experiment, placed a few inches above the glass here:
This is really frustrating, not only because the pieces are different to each other, but because part of the first piece, and the complete second piece is not technically orgonite at all.
Orgonite, in terms of the standard Croft-style tower busters and HHG cones, is a 50/50 mix of metal and resin, with quartz crystal in the matrix.
Any part of an orgonite piece that is just resin is not orgonite. At best it decreases the efficiency of the piece for it’s size, and at worst it simply doesn’t function as orgonite.
Here are examples of real orgonite using a 50/50 mix of resin and metal with quartz crystal in the matrix:
First piece - on top of the glass
Nobody should be discouraged from making simple orgonite, and the first piece (on top of the glass) seems to at least have a portion of metal shavings/resin, and a crystal - so thrown out into the environment, it will do the job of converting negative orgone into positive orgone.
However, the piece is clearly made for use within personal space, so it is right to hold it to higher standards.
From a technical point of view, because of how this piece is made made, orgone is attracted in through the top of the pyramid - as that is where a bulk of resin (organic material) is located.
It flows to the crystal at the top, and perhaps through the copper coil. Orgone is generally attracted from low density to high density concentrations, so from the resin/coil it flows to the first layer of metal, and down to the second layer of metal.
At the base there is another band of only resin, which attracts orgone, inhibiting the function of the piece further.
This piece can be improved by leaving out the coil (it is simply not required and unless expertly and precisely made and positioned, it can have negative effects), and placing the higher density band of metal at the top, encasing the crystal in the mix, and placing the lower density band of metal at the bottom, leaving a minimal strip or band of resin at the bottom.
This will mean that orgone is generally attracted to the band at the bottom, flowing through the low density band of metal, and into the higher density band of metal and out through the tip.
This utilises the shape of the piece, in addition to best practices in orgonite making in order to create the most efficient piece possible. This way there is a natural perpetual flow of orgone through the device, base to tip.
On a personal note, I prefer a cone shape to a pyramid shape, as I feel it gives a smoother and more radiant flow of orgone, but this is subjective and some people have very good results with pyramid shapes.
Second piece - placed a few inches above the glass
With regards to the second piece, placed a few inches above the water:
This piece simply is not orgonite. Pieces like this normally originate from India, and are sold as orgonite, when they aren’t. Thus far it seems that nobody is really holding anyone to account for intentionally mislabelling resin ornaments as orgonite.
The properties of the crystal are still present, and this is likely what produced the positive result in the experiment, but its rather disappointing that the only experiment that showed positive results for orgonite technically didn’t use a piece of orgonite, and further fuels the mislabelled or fake orgonite problem.
For anyone interested, I’ve previously written about this, and other things to check when looking for orgonite, so I won’t go into any further detail here.
The orgonite cloudbuster
I thought Patrick Chuang’s segment was a rather weak attempt at debunking cloudbusters. There are numerous documented reports of cloudbusters constructed using a series of hollow metal pipes affecting the atmosphere and weather.
One example:
Reich continued to develop new ways to visualize, measure, and harness orgone energy from the atmosphere. The cloudbuster, for example, was an experimental instrument that could affect weather patterns by altering concentrations of orgone energy in the atmosphere. It comprised a set of hollow metal pipes and cables inserted into water, creating a stronger orgone energy system than that in the surrounding atmosphere. Water, which strongly attracts and absorbs orgone, draws the atmospheric orgone through the pipes. This movement of orgone from a lower to a higher energy system was used by Reich to create clouds and to dissipate them.
Reich used the cloudbuster to conduct dozens of experiments involving what he called “Cosmic Orgone Engineering (C.O.R.E.).” One of the most notable occurred in 1953. During a long drought that threatened the Maine blueberry crop, several farmers offered to pay Reich if he could bring rain to the parched region. The weather bureau had forecast no rain for several days when Reich began his cloudbusting operations. Ten hours later, a light rain began to fall. Over the next few days, close to two inches fell. The blueberry crop was saved, and in local newspaper articles the farmers credited Reich.
http://www.wilhelmreichtrust.org/biography.html
Documentary: Wilhelm Reich - Man's Right to Know
Orgonite cloudbusters are something slightly different, but work in a similar way - using crystals in the pipes, with the pipes encased in orgonite rather than connected to water via tubes.
There is a lot of anecdotal evidence for the orgonite cloudbuster or chembuster, and much of this has been documented with photos and detailed descriptions for the last 20 years or so.
However, there needs to be detailed research undertaken with meteorological experts to assess the impact of orgonite CBs on short, medium and long term local weather patterns. Positioning, period of operation, timing, etc. are all variables that need to be investigated in detail.
There are concerns that such devices could potentially cause localised droughts if left operational for long periods, and it would be good to settle this with hard data.
“I need to do more experiments”
The documentary ended with the line “I need to do more experiments”, which perhaps leaves the door open for a more detailed look at orgone energy in a future episode.
Orgonite cloudbuster experiment
It may be outside of the scope of this show, but an experiment could be conducted by surrounding a weather station with orgonite cloudbusters. The weather station would need to have existed for a long time, and for its data to be correlated with other stations say 25, 50, 150, 300 miles away.
The cloudbusters could be operational for a period of a year at least, and any differences in rainfall and sunshine can be compared against the history of the weather station, and also against the surrounding weather stations during the period of the experiment.
Orgone accumulator experiments
In terms of the experiments conducted on subjects within the orgone accumulator and dummy box, this was excellent in demonstrating the positive effects of the accumulator.
However, it would be advisable to place orgonite pieces on top of and around the accumulator box, because it will not discriminate in the energy it accumulates - it will accumulate negative orgone (DOR or deadly orgone) if there is a source of this close-by, which would have negative effects on the subjects.
An alternative would be to place the box far away from any electrical equipment, and use absolute minimal equipment in the experiments.
Its also worth mentioning that the main anomaly that remains to this day is the temperature difference inside the accumulator box compared to the control. This was verified by Einstein in 1941, and it would be good to see the show reproduce it.
The other anomaly is increased plant growth in orgone accumulator boxes, so this would be an interesting experiment - sprouting seeds and growing plants inside the accumulator compared to the control.
Orgonite experiments
The same goes for orgonite - apart from the ice tests, plant growth is the other reproducible experiment that can be conducted, and would be interesting to see the show conduct orgonite experiments with plant growth.
Summary
Mister Tachyon: Does Orgone Energy Exist? is a good short documentary, entertaining and informing viewers in the field of orgone energy. As discussed, there are some shortcomings, the most significant of which was mistakenly using an object thought to be orgonite in an experiment, which wasn’t orgonite at all.
It is overwhelmingly positive to see orgone and orgonite taken seriously in mainstream media, and there seems to be a big opportunity for this show or others (such as BBC’s Trust me I’m a Doctor - in the UK) to explore this field in more detail.
Orgonite is gradually becoming more and more widespread, as demonstrated by Google Trends:
With this episode first airing at the end of August 2018, it seems like the spike of interest in orgonite highlighted in the above graph in September is due, at least in part, to Mister Tachyon.
