Energy Medicine. C. Norman Shealy
Names of patients were rotated constantly through a computer and the energy fields provided by this deliberately intended electronic device were compared to control names that were not “touched” by the imprinted device. The health of those affected by the intentionally imprinted device was significantly improved over a period of seven months.
The L-Field, Orgone, and Sexual Energy
The L-Field
Harold Saxton Burr, Ph.D., was the E.K. Hunt Professor of Anatomy at Yale University. He had a doctorate in anatomy, and, over a period of forty years, he published extensively on the electromagnetic properties of the human body. He published important papers, such as, “The Electro-Dynamic Theory of Life” and “Electrical Characteristics of Living Systems.” Using a simple Hewlett-Packard DC Vacuum Tube Voltmeter Model 412A to detect the electromagnetic potential of the body, he demonstrated electrical aspects of cancer cells, ovulation, menstruation, “en-trainment” to diurnal lunar signals, and an annual cycle. In perhaps his most important work, A Blueprint for Immortality, he stated, “The Universe in which we find ourselves and from which we cannot be separated is a place of Law and Order. It is not an accident, nor chaos. It is organized and maintained by an electro-dynamic field capable of turning the position and movement of all charged particles.” He argued that electromagnetic fields molded and controlled the development, health, and mood of the organisms. He named the electromagnetic field of life itself the L-Field. Interestingly, as with so many such things, the scientific community has ignored his work.
Using what is now an antique voltmeter, Burr actually measured the electromagnetic L-Field of trees over a number of decades and found correlations between phases of the moon, sun spot activity, thunderstorms, and readings from the tree. He found that the axis of electromagnetic polarity in a frog’s egg could predict the spinal axis of fetal development. He could chart and predict the ovulation cycle of women, locate a scar internally, and diagnose potential physical ailments just by reading an individual’s L-Field. He found that the L-Field reaches the peak of activity at the full moon, and one of his students, Leonard Ravitz, concluded that “Both emotional activity and stimuli of any sort involve mobilization of electrical energy, as indicated on the galvanometer. Hence, both emotions and stimuli evoke the same energy. Emotions can be equated with energy.” Ravitz showed that the L-Field actually disappears just before physical death.
Burr’s work, to some extent, was a precursor to the work carried out later by Wilhelm Reich, who will be discussed next, and even later by Robert Becker, who has perhaps written more on this subject (see his book The Body Electric) than any other individual.
Wilhelm Reich and Orgone
Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich pursued an understanding of sexual energy and a universal life force that he termed orgone, a word coined from the same root as “organism” and “orgasm.” He worked with Sigmund Freud in the 1920s, however when Adolf Hitler came to power, Nazi newspapers attacked Reich’s pamphlet, “The Sexual Struggle of Youth.” He recognized the risk of remaining in Germany and in 1939 moved to the United States.
Once in the United States, however, Reich was attacked by the FDA more vigorously than any other person in its history! He was jailed in August 1956 and several tons of his publications were burned in the public square by the FDA. In A Book of Dreams, his son, Peter Reich, accused the FDA of murdering Reich. Considering some of their actions, this was not a far-out possibility!
Whereas Freud had argued that the sexual energy is libido and which he described as “something which is capable of increase, decrease, displacement and discharge, and which extends itself over the memory traces of an idea like an electric charge over the surface of the body,” he later rejected that idea and considered libido only physical energy. However, Reich took the idea much further, arguing that he had discovered this primordial cosmic energy, orgone, the study of which being called orgonomy. He reported that orgone is blue in color, omnipresent, can be seen with the naked eye. It is responsible for weather, the color of the sky, gravity, the formation of galaxies, and the biological expressions of emotion and sexuality. Actually, the easiest way to “see” orgone is to lie down on a clear day, not looking at the sun but looking without focusing directly into an overhead sky. One will see numerous small, very bright, shiny objects speeding around like small comets. These are orgone energy. Interestingly, he believed that this orgone was freely available in the atmosphere and that the body itself acted as an accumulator of this energy. This could cause excess energy to build up with blockage in various parts of the body, largely because of muscle tension or spasm from emotional hang-ups or blocks. In addition to using vigorous massage and pressure on the body, the best way to balance orgone was through sexual orgasm. He is reported to have said that anyone who goes without orgasm for three months would go insane.
He then began to build machines called “orgone accumulators” to concentrate the orgone from the atmosphere. These boxes consisted of alternating layers of steel wool and organic insulators that possessed a high dielectric constant. All illness, Reich believed, was caused by depletion or blockages of orgone energy. He conducted a number of tests in individuals suffering from a variety of illnesses who sat in the accumulator or used a smaller orgone blanket. The blanket consists of layers of fine mesh steel wool, wool, and cotton. He reported that the effects boosted the immune system even to the point of destroying certain types of tumors. His tests on mice with cancer and on plant growth convinced Reich of the benefits of orgone therapy. Of course, the establishment rejected everything that he said as quackery.
Working with volunteers, one of our Holos University Graduate Seminary doctoral students working with volunteers used a device called an orgone blanket. The blanket was used over the subjects thirty minutes daily for three days. The student demonstrated some changes in DHEA and free radical reduction. Obviously, use over a longer period would be even more important, as I have found that it takes six to twelve weeks of daily stimulation of my acupuncture pattern, Ring of Fire, to raise DHEA. Our cat prefers our orgone blanket over all other soft materials for sleep. Jim DeMeo, Ph.D., has continued to do extensive work with orgone energy. (See his The Orgone Accumulator Handbook for many details.) See more on Reich and orgone in Chapter 11.
Sexual Energy
From a psychological point of view, perhaps Reich’s book, The Bioelectrical Investigation of Sexuality Anxiety, would be his most important work. Reich was one of the first modern physicians to study sexuality. He considered the basic function of all living matter to be tension and relaxation, charge and discharge. Orgasmic discharge produces a feeling of pleasure and fusion, while blocking this, on the other hand, produces a feeling of anxiety and separation from the object. The function of orgasm then is one of the most important points of the body-soul problem—that is the conflict between the body, mind, and soul.
Interestingly, Reich even took this to the other considerable extreme from the theoretical point of view. He felt that “people who are able to experience frictionally induced orgasms from manual or genital stimulation are much more capable of maintaining monogamous relationships than people who experience only the sensation stemming from mechanical release.” Moreover, he said, “The monogamous behavior is based neither on the inhibition of polygamous impulses nor on moral considerations, but on the sex-economic principle of genuine pleasure which is repeatedly experienced. The basis for such pleasure is full sexual harmony with a partner.”
Sexuality, in its normal expression, and anxiety are opposites. He was the first to measure physiological aspects of kissing and the electrical aspects of orgasm. In addition to the controversy surrounding his work with orgone accumulators, Reich proposed an energy the opposite of orgone, DORR or “deadly orgone.” He felt that accumulation of DORR played a role in desertification. In other words DORR kills all plants—as well as humans. It is especially produced by nuclear explosions.
He also designed a cloud buster to manipulate streams of orgone for orgone energy to induce rain and conducted dozens of other experiments. In July 1953 in