Crop Circle Sickness:
Do Reich's "Oranur" Experiments Give Clue to Mystery?

There seems to be growing doubt in the collective consciousness of cereologists as to whether crop circles are always safe places to be. This may just be a backlash against an initial euphoria or it may be wisdom born of maturity.

Reports of negative effects have ranged from the psychological -- feelings of panic, oppressiveness, general unease -- through to the physiological -- aches, pains, headaches, nausea etc. My own reaction to a 'bad' circle is usually a lingering ache in one leg, although I have twice now had the alarming experience of waking up 'the morning after' to find a square grid of clearly defined circular welts caused by broken blood vessels on my back. Fortunately such physical symptoms seem to be rare. Most physical effects seem to be limited to equipment malfunctions, 'gremlins' etc.

There is a well-documented precedent for many anomalous ill-effects similar to 'circle sickness' to be found in the records of the 'Oranur Experiment' of Dr. Wilhelm Reich in the early 1950s. They are well worth reading, and have the benefit of being entirely consistent with the 'Orgone Hypothesis' of circle formation.

The disasterous Oranur Experiments -- so named because they set Orgone Radiation (OR) Against Nuclear Radiation (NR), were conducted at Reich's ranch in Orgonon, Maine with the stated aim of proving whether a degree of immunity against nuclear radiation in living creatures could be achieved by prior exposure to concentrated orgone energy. However, before beginning the experiment proper Reich decided to run a preliminary experiment to explore the effects of orgone energy on radioactive material itself. On January 5, 1951, Reich began the fateful experiment by placing just one milligram of radium, in lead shielding, inside a powerful twenty-fold orgone accumulator. He intended to see if the accumulator could neutralize the effects of the radium as compared to a control sample. In fact something entirely opposite happened.

After five hours the gauges on the laboratory's Geiger-Muller counter persistently jammed when brought near to the accumulator, showing that the radiation count in the room was more than the meter could measure, and an oppressive feeling of heaviness with symptoms of headaches and nausea built up in the laboratory to such an extent that all work had to cease. Reich, who lest one forget was a qualified medical doctor by training, listed some of the typical symptoms of the 'Oranur Sickness' experienced by himself and colleagues as: malaise; pressure in head, chest etc.; cramps and twitching of muscles and other organs; hot and cold shivers; fatigue; return of old or latent disease symptoms; inflammation of conjunctivae; dryness of throat; severe thirst. More severe symptoms included chronic fatigue and fainting spells. Typically each person was attacked at their point of greatest weakness.

Herr Bruder Wilhelm Reich und Freund

However, Reich was not psychologically suited to giving up easily, and unwisely persisted with the experiment for a further six days. By this time the atmosphere in the laboratory had become clouded with a purple haze and many of Reich's staff and family were in states of seriously distressed health. Finally, sick to the pit of his stomach and dizzy, Reich gave up and buried the orgone-charged radium in a field half a mile from the laboratory. Reich had all the accumulators on the site dismantled and banned all radioactive materials, even down to luminous watch dials, from the vicinity.

It was not enough. By March 1952 Orgonon was evacuated. Ludicrously high GM counts persisted and trees in the area were reported to be bending over 'like rubber hoses' and covered with strange blackish deposits which came to be know as 'melanor'. During this period the laboratories were frequently overflown by what we would now call Unknown Aerial Phenomena, but what were then called flying saucers, and plagued by equipment gremlins.

Much of the above has a familiar ring to it. Some, perhaps all, of the symptoms of Oranur sickness seem similar to 'Circle Sickness'. The description of trees bending over like rubber hoses must also strike a chord of familiarity. Indeed Wilhelm Reich's son Peter in his autobiographical 'Book of Dreams' describes once finding on his father's ranch 'a big place in the grass we hadn't mowed where it was all matted down'. When giving the explanation that that must be where a deer had been sleeping, his companion comments, 'She must have been a pretty big one'. Sounds familiar?

(Incidentally, I once tried to [question] Peter Reich on the similarity of what he saw to modern-day circles, but received only a non-committal reply -- perhaps the persecution of his father by the authorities has made him understandably wary.)

As to the 'melanor' -- Peter Sorenson described finding something remarkably similar in the Cherhill pictogram in August 1993. Analysis by Dr. Levengood describes it as being an 'extremely unusual' glaze of partially fused magnetic spheres, each a fraction of a millimetre across, of iron and oxygen.

So, should we avoid crop circles? I think we should at least treat them respectfully as potentially harmful to health. Reich came to believe that in an atmosphere of concentrated orgone radiation, which is basically the 'stuff of life', even minuscule amounts of nuclear radiation have the effect of causing the orgone in living systems to turn against itself. It is not the nuclear radiation that destroys, but the effect is has of turning healthy orgone into DOR, deadly orgone, attacking each living system at its point of greatest weakness, that does the damage. Hence 'Circle Sickness' may not necessarily manifest in the same way in two different people, or in the same person at different times.

Andy Collins proposed that circles may in effect be 'flat plan' accumulators. If this theory is true, or if for any other reason we are dealing with concentrations of orgone in circle formations, then Reich's experience teaches that we should be very careful about what we take into them, even down to ourselves. Hopefully nobody is going to deliberately take radioactive materials into the fields, but Reich came to ban even luminous watches, and who knows the effect that the electrical circuits in all our modern cameras may be having.

Of particular interest must be the health experiences of those who have regularly entered formations over long periods of time, particularly the dowsers who of necessity are 'tuning-in' to an unknown energy that may not always be compatible with good health. Perhaps I am just getting cautious as I get older, but personally I have made the decision for the moment not to foolishly rush in 'where Angels fear to tread'.

From ISCNI*Flash -- Vol. 1, No. 20, Part 1 -- January 1, 1996

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Space Ships, DOR and Drought

Visitors From Outer Space

Two books, both about so-called FLYING SAUCERS, reached Orgonon in November 1953. The first Flying Saucers Have Landed by Leslie and Adamski; the other Flying Saucers From Outer Space by Major Keyhoe. [Keyhoe's Flying Saucers Are Real was not available to me until March 1954. Scully's Behind the Flying Saucers was not known to me until April 1954.] The first differed greatly from the second report in style and approach, but the factual observations were to a great extent the same. To me they brought surprise only as to the great number of saucer sightings, and as to the evasive manner in which this tremendous subject had been handled by some mechanistic scientists.

I was not surprised at the reality of visitors from outer space, since I have never believed in the theories which for no factual or logical reasons attempted to restrict Life to the tiny, insignificant planet, called Earth. I had taken the many rumors about flying saucers as a matter of fact.

Space Ships and Desert Development

One day, at noon, in August 1952, on the terrace of my home, I had heard, but not seen, an object crossing the sky from horizon to horizon in a few seconds with a speed unknown on earth. I knew it was a space ship. There was no undue surprise connected with this observation; it was not even written down in the Log book. Several people had reported seeing "flying saucers" near Orgonon during 1952. However, the fact of visitors from outer space did not connect yet with the DOR emergency at Orgonon; not until the two books mentioned above revealed detailed information which filled many gaps in our understanding of the happenings at Orgonon during the severe emergency. These reports, quite knowingly, left little doubt as to the type of energy used in these space ships. All functions mentioned so far pointed to well known functions of the cosmic, primordial energy.

Let us now, for our own use, change the accidental name "Flying Saucers" into the more appropriate one "Space Ships" of CORE men. "CORE" here is to indicate the fact that these beings from outer space were using the techniques of COSMIC ENGINEERING (CORE). We shall now proceed to enumerate the reasons why it seems certain that the CORE men operate with Cosmic Energy.

1. Cosmic Energy is objectively (on colored film) and subjectively BLUE. The reports on the space ships were unanimous in reporting that the machines of the CORE men showed bluish light shining through the openings, and also that the field around the machines, though at times changing color with the speed, was bluish-greenish. The reported change of color to white and red belongs, too, into the realm of orgonotic phenomena; however, this fact cannot be discussed at this point intelligently witbout elaboration of many new, as yet unpublished facts about light in relation to OR energy. Suffice it to indicate that red and purple appear in some OR energy functions of strong concentration, and that the white of sun and daylight, too, corresponds to certain high energy states of OR energy.

2. The comparatively silent movements of the CORE machines: Unless transmitted by or transformed into certain mechanical or electrical functions, OR functions usually operate silently, such as in the living organism where tremendous energies are at work with each movement, and yet no noise whatever is being heard. By way of certain arrangements, however, it is possible to obtain sound from these silent movements, such as putting the membrane of a stethoscope upon the eyeball with closed eyelid, or touching the grid wire of a GM counter, high voltage off, with the finger.

3. The CORE men operate their machines with the help of orgonotic field effects of the OR energy in space and in the envelope of our planet. Since the OR energy field of the OR envelope of the earth's globe also governs the functions of its gravitation, it is no wonder that the CORE men are able to maneuver their space ships in the manner described in the two above mentioned reports. During the ORANUR experiment, observations have been secured at Orgonon which make it certain that ORANUR changes gravitational field functions in direction and intensity. No more can be said about this point of Cosmic Engineering.

CORE space ship sightings in April, 1952

4. The severe DOR effects began at Orgonon during the vernal equinox for three years. Leslie starts his report with the 30th of March, 1952; my own report on the "Blackening Rocks" (OEB, V/1, 2, 1953) starts with the new emergency at Orgonon on March 24th, 1952. This is no mere coincidence. The month of April 1952 was reported in the ORANUR report just mentioned as the period when the nauseating DOR clouds were observed for the first time in the Rangeley region. April, 1952, is, according to Leslie's report, also the month with the most frequent sightings of CORE space ships. The nauseating DOR clouds must have some connection with the space ships.

5. The CORE space ships are probably using the OR energy streams of the universe as their thoroughfares, as it were. This is not certain by all means; they may well travel also in other vector fields of cosmic energy, just as automobiles could use meadows to ride on when hard surface roads are also available. The suggestion mentioned above is warranted by the following facts:

a. the role of the true path of the sun (crossing the celestial equator), evidently also played a part in the reoccurrence of the sharpening of the DOR emergency during the vernal equinox. This assumption requires ample investigation and clarification.

b. The space ships most likely use the so-called "Galactic OR Energy stream"; according to theoretical deductions (see COSMIC SUPERIMPOSITION, 1951) it runs at an angle of 62 degrees north of the equatorial plane. It cannot be a mere coincidence that most sightings point to a SW to NE direction of the movement of the ships, although many other directions occur, too. This assumption appeared important enough to be mentioned. It is supported by the frequency of tornadoes that developed in Texas near the Mexican Gulf, and its coincidence with nearly exactly 62 degrees north-northeast movement of hurricanes and tornadoes in North America. In February, March 1954, this region was harassed by climatic catastrophes such as sandstorms, dustbowl development, etc.

6. The question necessarily imposed itself upon a heap of other problems already at hand at Orgonon, what may have induced the CORE men to inspect so frequently the earth globe during the last two to three years. (Any attempt to answer this question thoroughly would necessarily have to take into account all "sightings" recorded in as yet undisclosed files of the US Government.) ORANUR seemed to provide the most satisfying answer to this question which, of course, requires still much elaboration:

The Cosmic OR Energy fills the universe: To judge from what we already know about its characteristics, it becomes irritated and runs amok if excited by nuclear energy action. This had been disclosed by the ORANUR experiment in 1951 beyond any doubt whatever. From this fact follows the logical conclusion that the highly sensitive OR energy ocean in the universe had been greatly irritated by the atomic energy explosions which took place at an accelerated rate during the past 3 to 4 years. Since the CORE people apparently use Cosmic Energy in propelling their space ships, they may have decided to investigate the source and the nature of this new menace to their existence. The unmistakable blackening of the rocks on the moon indicated the extent of this irritation, even if only in a nutshell, as it were.

From this cause would derive an answer to our question about the frequent visits by living beings from outer space. The fact that their space ships were sighted for the most part (though not exclusively) over or near atomic energy plants, seems to fit well with this assumption. To KNOW, really, we would have to meet them and ask them point blank.

Thus, the ORANUR effects of the atomic energy blasts, reaching far out into cosmic space, have brought down the CORE men, who are in full possession of the use of Cosmic OR Energy. So far, to judge from the available reports, these CORE men came peacefully, investigating only. Let us hope that we can meet their peacefulness with peacefulness of our own.

7. There can no longer be any doubt as to the source of the substance called Melanor. It disclosed heretofore entirely unknown characteristics. Melanor stems from the CORE men and their space ships. However, there are several questions which must be answered in due time if the menace which the DOR clouds as well as Melanor present for the human race, is to be met. Any definite answer to these questions is as yet not possible. However, the questions themselves should be formulated now. They may direct us toward the true, valid answer in due time.

These questions are:

A. Are the DOR clouds which so typically come in from the west and southwest, in other words, on the main galactic "highways," exhaust fumes or similar offal of cosmic OR energy used by the CORE men in their travels through space?

B. Are the DOR clouds only the carriers of Melanor which these CORE men may deliberately pour into our atmosphere?

C. If the DOR clouds are results of deliberate action on the part of the people from space:

a. Are these intentions benign? Do they want to help us? This possibility cannot be and should not be excluded, since ORANUR and DOR have disclosed most fantastic curative qualities, in spite of the DOR sickness, or maybe just because of the DOR sickness, it represents a kind of immunization which the people on Earth are bound to go through.

b. Or, are these DOR clouds designed to change our green planet into a wasteland of desert similar to the moon's surface? The severe droughts of late which coincide with the DOR as well as CORE men problem, may well be results of such deliberate action. In this case, let us not fool ourselves: The war between Earth and an invading enemy from space, using weapons strange to us, is already on and must be met right away.

It is not rational to assume that wars are always fought only the way we know them with their preceding diplomatic quibbling, followed by war with or without declaration of war with noisy bang-bang of all kinds of shooting machinery resuiting in crumbling buildings and sudden destruction of all cities on earth as visualized in the instructive US film on Flying Saucers (1953).

We must permit ourselves to think of war as a silent, unnoticed, slow working but deliberate destruction of life on a planet, a satellite, or even a star. We must be ready to change every single view we have held sacred if it contradicts new facts and new experiences.

War may be going on right now with no one being aware of it, with men dying, with trees bending like rubber hoses, green pastures turning into dust bowls, and with academic and civil institutions explaining it all away as with "just this" or "just that". In short, it may turn out correct what one would otherwise feel inclined to ascribe to a schizophrenic mind -- namely, that instead of shooting at the victims of war with bullets, one could very well sap life energy out of the war victims with machines which operate according to the orgonomic potential of the Cosmic Energy.

8. The CORE men doubtlessly know not only the physical properties of the Cosmic Primordial Energy. They also know what has been assumed in Orgonomy for more than two decades as the quality of LIFE contained in this energy. This connection has been fully revealed, and is already being worked out in this laboratory as what came to be called "ORENE" (Oe). This is a substance which, as said before, stems from Melanor and is LIFE ENERGY IN MATTER-LIKE FORM.

Principles of Life on Earth Challenged

:. Some Holy Reichian CloudBusters© :.

We are facing an emergency, facing it not only as the species mankind; the principle of LIFE ITSELF on Earth is challenged. We can no longer permit ourselves to be as petty as to continue our Little Men's quibbling over nothing, as if nothing at all has happened. We are in a process of deep and crucial change of our total existence, biological, physical, emotional and cosmic. Let us, therefore, start behaving in accordance with these facts.

The gist of the peril is this:

If we, here on Earth, are undergoing a threat to our existence by way of Desert Development, it is imperative to concentrate on the measures to be taken, if any are available, to meet the menace intelligently.

-Wilhelm Reich, M.D., July, 1954

Secrets of Western Tantra: The Sexuality of the Middle Path

Dr. Hyatt has decided to publish real "Secrets" -- techniques of actually transforming yourself from a programmed robot into a self-programmer. Some of these techniques have been around for centuries, and probably for millennia, as closely-guarded "inner-inner teachings" of certain esoteric orders of alchemists and Illuminati. Some of them are very new, and only emerged in recent decades as Dr. Wilhelm Reich's pioneering work on "dissolving the character armor and muscular armor" has been adapted, modified and improved by various avant garde psychotherapists and "body workers." As organized by Dr. Hyatt, the corpus of these old and new techniques makes up a curriculum in Self-Liberation absolutely unique in mystical, psychological or philosophical literature: the world's first scientific experimental yoga to be published without expurgating the more controversial (sensory-sensual-sexual) aspects of the Great Work.

Aleister Crowley hinted at much of this -- but he only dared to hint, and never wrote all the explicit details. Dr. Reich bluntly declared that his body therapy was intended to liberate the patient from conventional morality -- but never published the actual physical details of the work. Dr. Israel Regardie synthesized the best of Crowley and Reich -- and a great deal of miscellaneous wisdom acquired elsewhere -- but never published the actual details of the physical manipulations that unleash radical body/mind transformation.

What was the fate of these three great prophets? Crowley became the target of what P.R. Stephenson called "a campaign of vilification without precedent in literary history." Reich was kicked out of the International Psychoanalytical Society, the Communist Party, and the Socialist Party, and had his books burned by the U.S. Government. Regardie lived on into a more liberal age, but had learned from the histories of Crowley and Reich and did not test the "liberalism" too much by revealing all he knew.

Dr. Hyatt has decided that the time has come for full disclosure, and I think he is right. There will be howls and anathemas hurled at this book; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth; there will be the predictable charges of Anarchy and Satanism; but the hour is too late for caution, hermeticism or concealment, all of which have become the habits of the Old Aeon's dying Establishment in seats of power everywhere. The only truly revolutionary act today is to tell the truth about everything.

I hail Dr. Hyatt for his wisdom, but even more I hail him for his courage.

Like a loaded gun, this book should be treated with great respect. You are not dealing with mere "ideas" here. You hold in your hands the keys to actual changes in your self and in your relations with every man, every woman and every sentient being in space-time. If it took courage to publish this, as it did, it will take intelligence to use it properly. Every copy should be labeled, "Handle With Care."

-Robert Anton Wilson