Subject: OBRL - New Research Information (Gordon)..
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 032109 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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.......Fascinating research that may, indeed, have relevancy to
our mission here on EMF-L......
(I would like to know more about the history of Dr. Reich's persecution
by the FDA.....???)
Roy Beavers (EMFguru) You gotta SHOWME -- I'm from Missouri....
roy@emfguru.com
.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
NEW!!! Website... http://emfguru.com
...................People are more important than profits.................
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Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 03:40:46 -0400
From: Jeff Gordon
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Subject: (fwd) OBRL - New Research Information
Hi, Roy --
Sending this because it's interesting, but also because of the
reference to "Faraday cage"; wondering if EMFs are affecting our crops
along with cattle and folks.
-- Jeff --
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Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 03:39:15 -0400
From: Jeff Gordon
To: ncndiscuss-l@newciv.org, ncnculture-l@newciv.org
Subject: (fwd) OBRL - New Research Information
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> Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 13:51:21 -0700
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> Subject:- New Research Information, Orgone Biophysical Research Lab
Orgone Biophysical Research Lab
http://www.orgonelab.org
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New Research Information, Orgone Biophysical Research Lab
Dr. James DeMeo will present a paper on "Seed Sprouting Inside the Orgone
Energy Accumulator" to a June 8-10 meeting of the Society for Scientific
Exploration, to be held at Kings College, University of Western Ontario, in
London, Ontario, Canada. His presentation will be given at 10 AM on June
9th. For conference information, contact SSE:
http://www.scientificexploration.org
http://www.scientificexploration.org/meetings.html
An Abstract of the paper follows:
ABSTRACT
Seed Sprouting Inside the Orgone Energy Accumulator, by James DeMeo
In the 1940s, Wilhelm Reich published experimental findings on the
discovery of a biological life-energy, called orgone energy, which
existed in the atmosphere and could be accumulated inside a special
metal-lined enclosure called the orgone energy accumulator.
His work was attacked in the press and subject to a
politically-inspired Food and Drug Administration injunction which led
to Reich's death in prison in 1957, and the court-ordered burning of
his books and research journals.
Starting in the 1970s, I undertook experimental examination of Reich's
original claims regarding the accumulator, including a simple
seed-sprouting experiment. Mung beans obtained from a local health food
store were mixed, counted into groups of 100, placed into open glass
dishes with 50ml of water, and allowed to sprout inside both a strong
orgone accumulator and environmentally-matched control enclosure which
excluded all metals.
The accumulator and control shared nearly identical humidity and
temperatures, with light being totally excluded; fresh water was added
daily to each dish as necessary to keep the sprouting seeds moist, for
a period of approximately 10 days, after which the sprouted seeds were
photographed, blotted dry, teased apart and measured. Early trials
demonstrated from 160% to a maximum of 500% growth increase inside the
accumulator as compared to the controls, while later trials with more
rigorous environmental controls yielded a 140% growth increase inside
the accumulator.
These latter experiments, undertaken during the summers of 1998-99 at
my high-altitude laboratory in rural Oregon under exceptionally clean
environmental conditions, showed mean growth lengths of bean sprouts at
130mm. for controls and 183mm. for orgone-charged (n.=400), with
medians of 90mm. and 150mm. respectively, and maximums of 270mm. and
350mm. respectively. Orgone charged sprouts also yielded greater
absolute weight increases, with a fresher smell and sweeter taste as
compared to controls.
The developed seed-sprouting protocol has yielded consistent and
repeatable results, and orgone experiments of a similar design and
result have been reported upon both plants and animals since the 1940s.
These experiments, taken together, strongly suggest Reich made an
important new discovery.
The similarities of his orgone accumulator to a Faraday cage also
suggest observations of anomalous effects observed inside Faraday cage
"controls" by other experimenters might be the consequence of
phenomenon similar to what Reich's reported for the orgone accumulator.
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New Article posted at the OBRL web site, as presented to a recent meeting
of the Natural Philosophy Alliance in Berkeley, California.
http://www.orgonelab.org/miller.htm
ABSTRACT
"Critical Review of the Shankland, et al, Analysis of Dayton Miller's
Ether-Drift Experiments", by James DeMeo
Dayton Miller's work on dynamic ether drift (1933) is nearly unknown
today in large measure due to a 1955 critique by Shankland, et al
(1955) published after Miller's death. Miller's interferometer
fringe-shifts showed sidereal-cosmic variations at all times of day and
seasons of the year, along the same cosmological axis. Shankland
acknowledged the systematic patterns in Miller's data, but explained
them away as the consequence of temperature artifacts.
My review of the subject suggests this dismissal was not
well-supported. Shankland misrepresented the background history (ie.,
only Miller obtained positive results for ether) and displayed a strong
bias against ether -- only passing reference was given to Miller's
counter-critique to the temperature argument, which he had addressed in
control experiments and successfully rebutted while alive.
Selected sets of Miller's interferometer data, with minimal variations
most easily supporting the temperature argument, were dissected and
criticized, while other sets of higher magnitude fringe-shift data were
apparently ignored. Shankland, et al, did not provide a serious
challenge to Miller, and the entire subject of ether-drift begs for
renewed open discussion and experimental evaluation.
The NPA web site is:
http://members.home.net/saiph/npahome.html
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