I'm postponing the cloudbuster build

Vortices, torsion fields, orgone good and gone bad

In the kick-off of this year’s studies in unorthodox energy theories, I thought it might be nice to offer a comparison of the biographies of Victor Schauberger and Wilhelm Reich.

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Dates and Places of Birth:
🌀Schauberger: June 30, 1885 Holzschlag, Austria
☁️Reich: March 24, 1897, Dobrzanica, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Dobrianychi, Ukraine)

Dates and Places of Death:
🌀Schauberger: September 25, 1958, Linz, Austria, age 73.
☁️Reich: November 3, 1957, US Penitentiary, Lewisburg, PA, age 60

Primary places of work and nationalities:
🌀Schauberger: educated as a forester and from a family of foresters, primarily lived and worked in Austria
☁️Reich: Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway. Immigrated to the US in 1939. Primary place of work in the US was in Rangeley, Maine.

Fields of research:
🌀Schauberger: implosion technology, high-voltage technology, bio-technology
☁️Reich: cosmic orgone energy, psychoanalysis, health improvements through orgonomy, weather modification

Primary inventions:
🌀Schauberger: implosion motor, hydrogen extractor, high-voltage electricity producer, flying saucer
☁️Reich: cloudbuster, orgone accumulator

Books, biographers, sources:
🌀Schauberger: Callum Coats has translated and compiled some of Schauberger’s works into English
☁️Reich: Reich’s books are available from the Orgonon Press in English. James DeMeo wrote The Orgone Accumulator Handbook, as well as extensive other works and articles making Reich’s scientific work available.

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A cloudbuster is a simple device that can be constructed with no moving parts. At a small scale, it can be made by a hobbyist with basic wood working tools in an afternoon. Theoretically, in conjunction with the operator’s skill, it can be used to transform/move atmospheric orgone energies to either create or stop rain. These effects can be felt, theoretically, on a regional scale, and so the operator must be responsible. It might be fiction, it might be placebo, it might be real. (Here’s an article written by Dennis Klocek about his experiments with the device)

The inventor of the cloudbuster was Wilhelm Reich, who died in 1957 after being imprisoned by the FDA and having his books burned. In the 1950s, the FDA had spent the equivalent of $117 million in today’s dollars to accomplish this imprisonment. Reich died in prison, 3 days before a parole hearing, at age 60 of a heart attack. (Do you believe that?) I have written more about Reich’s story in this article from last year.

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This past spring, I read some about Schauberger in the beautiful and authoritative work by Callum Coats called Living Energies. But the book was heavy and big, and I’ve been carrying around much smaller works in the past month of back and forth, and so was much surprised to find the surprise ending in The Hunt for Zero Point by Nick Cook to be all about… Schauberger.

The Hunt for Zero Point starts off as a fast paced pond-crossing pop-journalism exploration of military black programs, with a focus on antigravity technologies. (a.k.a. gravity shielding and other euphemisms.) The author briefly introduces, and then quickly dismisses Schauberger’s nature-oriented, almost mystical research. But, after jumping back and forth between Britain, USA, Germany, Poland, and other continental sites, he offers the suprise ending twist: (spoiler alert) by way of things like Operation Paperclip, Schauberger, who was forced to work for the SS under threat of hanging, might actually have been the original source behind the now deep black US military unorthodox propulsion and gravity shielding tech.

The biggest clue being, in the mid 1990s, a Russian scientist, Dr. Evgeny Podkletnov, working in Finland demonstrated and published a gravity-shielding effect. The author of Hunt for Zero-Point describes interviewing Podkletnov and finding out that the scientist’s father, also an engineer, had received original copies of Schauberger’s work after the fall of Nazi Germany and the Russian forces sacking of Schauberger’s apartment.

And so we find that the Russians had access to the work Schauberger was forced to perform by the SS. But of course, so did the USA. A detail of which I was unaware, outlined in Hunt for Zero Point, was the extent of the planned and organized effort to extract as much German technology as possible with the fall of the Nazis. There were also serious underground facilities. The author reports, quoting a USAAF report, that,

“Although the Germans did not go underground at a large scale until March 1944, they managed to get approximately 143 underground factories into production by the last few months of the war” (p. 68 The Hunt for Zero Point, 2003 paperback)

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Wilhelm Reich’s work tracks a different set of theories around energy, and was not focused on propulsion effects or other forms of motive power. Perhaps that is why he was imprisoned by the FDA, as opposed to something like the military.

I am in the middle of reading some of Reich’s books, as well as those by supplementary secondary authors, and my unfortunate impression is of hubris. Reich refers to himself throughout the book Ether, God, and Devil, as the discoverer of orgone, in lines such as:

“The discovery of cosmic energy occurred in a similar fashion [to Columbus ‘discovering’ America]. In reality, I have made only one single discovery: the function of orgastic plasma production…
In one respect, the discovery of orgone differs from the discovery of America: orgone energy functions in all human beings and before all eyes. America first had to be found.” (p. 5 Ether, God, & Devil and Cosmic Superimposition, 1973, p.o.d. edition)

Beyond the obvious ways that this analogy fails seventy-five years hence, Reich does go on to imply that cosmic orgone energy is the substrate for both the theories of God and ether, while also stating “I do not claim to have discovered God or ether.” (p. 44)

This framing of God and ether sets up Reich’s antithesis of “mystical” versus “mechanistic” people. Both are, in this system, incorrect, in different mirror-image ways.

As what I have gathered to date, Reich’s theory of orgone includes:

• there is good, health-giving orgone as well as dangerous orgone

• dangerous orgone is referred to as dor.

• orgone is present everywhere, and it can be accumulated or manipulated (the boxes, the cloudbuster)

• people who have biophysical (psychological-physiological) armoring are not suited to accurately perceiving or manipulating orgone.

• radium and other radioactives create “bad orgone” (the oronor effect was discovered when Reich put a small amount of radium in an orgone acculmulator and it demonstrated a health-harmful effect locally)

• an orgone accumulator is a closet-type box constructed of wood outer-layer and walls created through layering organic materials (example, sheep wool) with sheet metal. The more alternating layers, the more potency. Sitting inside of the box is supposed to have the effect of accumulating good orgone and providing health benefits (the FDA took issue with this.) But, sitting inside of an accumulator in a dangerous-orgone environment might be risky.

• a cloudbuster is a series of long tubes (say 1 inch metal pipes) inserted through a plate which allows them to be aimed at the sky/clouds. The ‘ground side’ of the tubes is connected to a natural water source via flexible tubes.

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Schauberger’s inventions are described in The Hunt for Zero Point thus:

“One was a water purifier. Another was a device capable of generating high-voltage electricity. A third was for ‘biosynthesizing’ hydrogen fuel from water. A fourth was a machine that ‘naturally’ produced intense heat or cold. The fifth, dubbed the ‘fleigende scheibe’ or ‘flying saucer',’ was the unconventional aero-engine that had come to the attention of Heinkel and others during 1941.” (p.218)

Schauberger’s work is characterized by its nature-mimicry of vortex forms, and then use of these forms at extremely high RPMs (20,000 or more) to (probably) generate torsion fields. One of the visible effects was a bluish-white light, an effect also reported with Reich’s experiments.

Schauberger was encouraged to go to the US to work with a wealthy businessman who promised to manufacture Schauberger’s inventions. Schauberger, already unwell, was tricked into signing away all of his designs, patents, and inventions. Likely in part due to despair, Schauberger died five days later after returning to Austria. The US businessman had connections to military intelligence. (Details outlined in The Hunt for Zero Point and Living Energies)

What is zero-point, and what is a torsion field? Again, from The Hunt for Zero Point, where the author describes speaking with Marckus, his physicist-confidante:

“There was evidence, Marckus had told me, that particles appeared to slow down when they entered a torsion field. ‘Since the zero-point energy field is composed of billions of tiny fluctuations of energy that pop in and out of existence every split second, relentlessly and infinitely,’ he’d explained, ‘anything that can mesh with those fluctuations, so the theory goes, can tap into them and extract energy from the field. That’s what some people, myself included, believe that a torsion field does.’” (p. 232)

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I find the term “free-energy” to be a little obfuscating, though it is the best-recognized term referring to the conglomeration of alternate theories about how things work.

But, I’d point out, if a system is expensive to build and has undesirable environmental side effects, it’s hardly “free” even if the fuel source is right there for the taking (hydro, solar panels and batteries, wind turbines, whatever mainstream alternate comes next.) Because of the environmental effects, these are no more “free” fuel sources than oil or wood.

Zero-point is the term for a specific free-energy theory,as described above.

For this reason, I will refer to the grouping of this body of research as “unorthodox energy theories.”

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What’s your favorite unorthodox energy theory out there?