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Wiktionary
n. ether energy distributed throughout the universe and available for collection, storage, and further use.
Wikipedia
Orgone is a pseudoscientific and spiritual concept described as an esoteric energy or hypothetical universal life force, originally proposed in the 1930s by Wilhelm Reich. As developed by Reich's student Charles Kelley after Reich's death in 1957, orgone was conceived as the anti-entropic principle of the universe, a creative substratum in all of nature comparable to Mesmer's animal magnetism (1779), to the Odic force (1845) of Carl Reichenbach and to Henri Bergson's élan vital (1907). Orgone was seen as a massless, omnipresent substance, similar to luminiferous aether, but more closely associated with living energy than with inert matter. It could allegedly coalesce to create organization on all scales, from the smallest microscopic units—called "bions" in orgone theory—to macroscopic structures like organisms, clouds, or even galaxies.
Reich stated that deficits or constrictions in bodily orgone were at the root of many diseases, much as deficits or constrictions in the libido could produce neuroses in Freudian theory. Reich founded the Orgone Institute ca. 1942 to pursue research into orgone energy after he immigrated to the US in 1939, and used it to publish literature and distribute material relating to the topic for more than a decade. Reich designed special "orgone accumulators"—devices ostensibly collecting and storing orgone energy from the environment—for improvement of general health or even for weather control. Ultimately, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) obtained a federal injunction barring the interstate distribution of orgone-related materials, on the grounds that Reich and his associates were making false and misleading claims, and later jailed Reich and destroyed all orgone-related materials at the institute after Reich violated the injunction. Reich rescinded the claim that accumulator could provide orgastic potency, but this was not enough to stop the action.
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health lists orgone as a type of "putative energy". There is no empirical support for the concept of orgone in medicine or the physical sciences, and research into the concept ceased with the end of the Institute.
Orgone is an American band from Los Angeles, California. The group's sound draws from 1960s and 1970s-era funk and soul.
While several members of the band played together from the early 1990s, Orgone did not coalesce into a regular band until around 1999. Many of their early gigs were as a backing band for hip-hop musicians. After a 2001 debut release, the band added vocalist Fanny Franklin to do a cover of " Funky Nassau" by The Beginning of the End; she remained as a full-time member, although much of their music is instrumental. The group released its second album, The Killion Floor in 2007, which featured "Funky Nassau" as well as covers of "Do Your Thing" by Isaac Hayes and "I Get Lifted" by Harry Wayne Casey of K.C. and the Sunshine Band. In 2010 the band opened for Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings on tour.
Usage examples of "orgone".
For apparently, when I pulled the lever to introduce the power surge, a goodly portion of the orgone from the toga party streamed through his wires and zapped him a half-mile away.
He climbed out from that gateway even more charged with orgone than he had been when he entered it.
In the other leg of the L, besides the armchair, were more books, a heavy concertina blind sealing off the window, two narrow doors that I supposed were those of a closet and a lavatory, and what looked like a slightly scaled-down and windowless telephone booth until I guessed it must be an orgone box of the sort Reich had invented to restore the libido when the patient occupies it.
The vibrating soundless hum of deep forest orgone accumulators, the sudden silence of cities when the junky cops and even the Commuter buzzes clogged lines of cholesterol for contact.
DOOM PATROL, we meet hermaphroditic aliens and transvestite city streets, orgone cops and psychedelic pranksters, Gnostic terrorists and insect theologians and cultists who worship Jack the Ripper as God.
Then, once he was in residence, the retiree would be regularly burglarized of the contraband color TVs, sciatica-diathermy machines, VCRs, gland-rejuvenation orgone boxes, portable saunas, gland-rejuvenation hyperbaric oxygen cabinets and other such indispensables he had gone to so much trouble to smuggle across the border without paying Mexican import duty on.
It was lined with wards and layers of soil and tinfoilit was a form of orgone box, although infinitely more sophisticatedand the man who squatted inside on a narrow bench seat blinked at me.
No one envisaged that the most valuable real estate at the heart of most of our old cities would be tax-exempt, as churches and temples and orgone boxes increased their holdings and portfolios.
As Congress will never act, this must be a grass-roots movement to amend the Constitution, even though nothing in the original First Amendment says a word about tax exemptions or any other special rights to churches, temples, orgone boxes.
The living cannot be made a golembecause with the vitality of orgone, flesh and vegetable is matter interacting with its own mechanisms.
Filled to bursting with overheated orgone it flapped into high gear and tore towards the horizon.
The light on the horizon flashed stroboscopically, releasing huge vertical slashes of orgone currents that rocked the mountainside.
Burroughs is out in the yard, catatonic in his orgone box, a copy of the Mayan codices in his lap.