American College of Orgonomy

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and other members of the scientific community are concluding that a strange “dark energy” fills the universe. This energy appears to exist everywhere, they say, even in vacuums. It also exhibits unusual properties. It seems to be invisible and its gravity repels rather than attracts. According to the scientists this energy is measurable and pervasive. So pervasive, in fact, they believe it occupies seventy percent of the cosmos.

“The case for dark energy has been building brick by brick for nearly a decade,” say Princeton University professors Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Paul J. Steinhardt in a recent article for Scientific American (“Quintessential Universe,” January 2001). The co-authors go on to explain how this mysterious energy is a discovery of the highest magnitude. Indeed, they admit, “…we have been missing most of the story.”

Some of us have. Congratulations may be in order for these scientists in having discovered cosmic orgone energy more than a half a century after Wilhelm Reich detailed its properties and effect on the universe. Reich writes, “The ‘field’ is real, of a measurable, observable, and thus physical nature. Space is not empty but is filled in a continuous manner without gaps.” (Emphasis in original.) (Cosmic Superimposition, The Noonday Press, New York, NY (1973)).

How is it possible that nearly the entire universe is made up of an energy that had for so long remained invisible to the scientific community? Part of the answer lies in the approach most scientists take when they have discovered something quite new. Rather than report observations for what they are—perplexing findings—they manipulate the contradictions they have discovered to fit in the many holes of existing theories.

Also missing in virtually all scientific research is a broader, functional approach that has the potential for true advancement of knowledge. Writing of his research on celestial motion, Robert A. Harman, M.D. states, “Nowhere could I find a model, diagram or data designed to illustrate the relationship of the planets to the larger universe. One cannot escape the feeling that some simple, natural viewpoint is being excluded” (“Celestial Motion I,” The Journal of Orgonomy, Vol. 27, #1 (1993)).

It is clear that the cosmologists who are now exploring the so-called “dark energy” are lacking a functional approach. The Scientific American article is filled with charts and graphs that attempt to explain why, mathematically, this energy must exist. At the same time, rather than opening a portal to a comprehensive explanation of celestial motion, the researchers have come up with more questions than answers. Ostriker and Steinhardt ponder why the energy is invisible to them and how it seems to create pressure to move celestial bodies. They wonder, “Where would such a strange field come from?” Not having a functional, energetic orientation they have come upon a dead end and the scientists are forced into something akin to mysticism, speculating that this mysterious field may originate in another dimension.

It is interesting to see how the researchers have chosen to characterize their new finding. The name given, “dark energy,” has a mysterious and ominous sound. Moreover, the researchers speculate that because of dark energy the matter and energy in the universe might “become more and more diluted and space will stretch too rapidly to enable new structures to form. Living things will find the cosmos increasingly hostile.” Because they cannot understand that this discovery is both energy and life affirming, the universe is viewed as a dissipating, doomed wasteland.

The admission that a ubiquitous energy exists and has profound effects on the functioning of the universe is a major step for the scientific community. However, without a broader understanding of the energy—as it exists in all living organisms as well as in the cosmos—accurate scientific conclusions will remain elusive.