OBRL-News/Quarterly Version

This is the infrequent, Quarterly version of the OBRL-News-Bulletin,

from the Orgone Biophysical Research Lab (OBRL) in Ashland, Oregon, USA.

Please responsibly re-post and distribute to other interested persons, groups and websites.

        * Experimental Comparison of the Reich Orgone Energy Blanket with the Russian Scenar Energy Blanket,

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The Conference on New Research in Orgonomy, held at the OBRL Greensprings Center in Ashland, Oregon on August 6-7, was a wonderful event, and a big thanks goes out to all the speakers and the approximately 30 persons who attended and participated.  Most all of the presentations were made at the new outdoor amphitheatre, under the trees, in a beautiful and relaxing natural environment. Wild deer came and grazed a few meters away from the presenter's platform, listening attentively.  A microscopy demonstration, and another video presentation and apparatus demonstration (on vacor tubes and the new Life Energy Meter/Scanner) were made inside the main laboratory building.  All in all, a very successful event, marked by serious discussions all around.  As this was a scientific conference, with new research being presented, it remained exciting for both newcomers and for those with a long-time familiarity with Reich and orgonomy.

A big thank-you goes out to all the speakers, several of whom travelled to Oregon from very distant regions.  Roberto Maglione came from Italy, Peter Jones from the United Kingdom, Dave Marett from Canada, and others from the East Coast and other parts of the USA.  A similar international mix was reflected in those who attended the conference, coming from Europe, Canada and all across the USA.

A Conference booklet was prepared for all who attended, with the schedule and abstracts of presented papers.  This is now available on-line at the OBRL website, as a downloadable PDF document, without charge.  See point #2 below for the website url.  We hope to make the full papers available in a special issue of Pulse of the Planet, by next year. This Conference may be repeated in summer of next year, 2006.

* 2005 Conference Abstracts - as noted above, the booklet of Abstracts from the recent Conference on New Research in Orgonomy is available as a downloadable pdf, here:

        http://www.orgonelab.org/Abstracts2005.pdf

* Experimental Comparison of the Reich Orgone Energy Blanket with the Russian Scenar Energy Blanket, Preliminary Report, September 2005, By James DeMeo, Ph.D.

        http://www.orgonelab.org/energyblankets.htm

* Poisoning the Orgonomic Wellspring: Carlinsky and CSICOP - Open Letter on the Organized "Skeptics" War Against American Orgonomy, by James DeMeo, Ph.D.

        http://www.orgonelab.org/carlinskyletter.htm

More info on Dr. DeMeo's forthcoming lectures and seminars in Europe this November.

        Friday Nov.4th Dr. Jorgos Kavouras will make an evening lecture "Healing with Orgone-Energy. An overview of Medical Orgonomy" followed by a Saturday (morning) seminar: "Medical Orgonomy in daily use."

        Saturday Nov.5th, Dr. James DeMeo will make an evening lecture "Orgonomic Research at the Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory". A one-day seminar presentation will occur on Nov.6th, broken into morning and evening topics: A) "Update on Saharasia: New Archaeological Findings on an Ancient Period of Peace, and Implications for the Modern World"  B) "Saharasian Desert Expansion: Influences upon the Modern World Climate, including Global Warming and El Nino".  Dr. DeMeo's presentations will be in English, with Greek translation provided.

        All events are open to the public, with a fee charged for admission.  For more information on location and times, contact Thanassis Mandafounis at: thanmand(at)otenet.gr, or see the website below for updated information.

        On Wednesday Nov. 9th, Dr. DeMeo will give a lecture on "Die Reich-Forschungen des Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory" ("The Reich Research at the Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory") in English with German translation provided.  Held at the Fachhochschule fuer Wirtschaft, Badenschestr. 50, Berlin. Look for posters in the lobby identifying the room number. The lecture is open to the public without charge.

        These events are currently being organized, and are uncertain as to time and location. A fee will be charged. If any OBRL-Quarterly readers in Berlin have suggestions as to an available conference room, please contact Dr. DeMeo. See the website below for updated location and contact information.

        Saturday Nov. 12th:  "Naturwissenschaftliche Erforschung der Lebensenergie (Wilhelm Reich und andere)" ("Natural Scientific Discovery-Research with the Life Energy, from Wilhelm Reich and Others") in English with German translation.

        Sunday Nov. 13th: "Saharasian Desert Expansion: Influences upon the Modern World Climate, including Global Warming and El Nino" in English with German Translation.

* For Updated Information on all Lectures and Seminars, review this website:

        http://www.orgonelab.org/lectures.htm

        If you are interested in these events, and want updated information emailed to you directly, send a short note to Dr. DeMeo at: demeo(at)orgonelab.org requesting future notifications.  A special note will also be sent out in late October, for those who are on our regular notifications lists at Yahoo groups.

Current research at OBRL includes continued work on around-the-clock automated To-T measurements, for the thermal anomaly in the orgone energy accumulator.  This work has proceeded over the last several years, which not only confirmed the anomaly but led to a better understanding of the classical thermodynamic properties of the overall experiment.  At present, measurements have moved into an underground chamber, for shielding of background infra-red radiation, which had shown the ability to create warming effects inside control enclosures.  The preliminary results are positive, showing a near-constant +0.1 to +0.25 deg. C. To-T, with a slight pendulation correlated to weather.  The thermal anomaly continues to oppose classical thermodynamic expectations, and efforts continue to focus upon controlling for known physical explanations, to make the experiment as "bullet-proof" as possible.

If you haven't taken a look at our on-line bookstore catalog, maintained by Natural Energy Works, please do so:

http://www.naturalenergyworks.net

Our offerings include many new books and DVDs, all on solid non-mainstream scientific subjects, as well as the continual offering of works by Wilhelm Reich, James DeMeo, and others in the field of orgonomy.  Many new meters and measuring devices, including the new Experimental Life-Energy Meter (a solid-state version of Reich's original orgone energy field meter), a pocket microwave/EMF alarm, simple astronomy tools such as the Solarscope and Planetica (sorry, you have to review the website to find out what they are) and a line of beautiful 100% wool blankets in Native American and Scandinavian-Viking designs, for making really fantastic orgone blankets, and much more.  Purchase your items from our web-store and help keep our work moving forward.

Please review and respond as best as you are able.

* Reprinting of "Saharasia"  The first edition of Saharasia is nearly sold out of the printing run of 2000 copies.  This is an important milestone, and proceeds from the book were donated by Dr. DeMeo to the OBRL, to help fund ongoing research and other OBRL needs.  Our problem is, reprinting of this large book will cost around $10,000 and we simply do not have that amount available.  The first printing of Saharasia was funded by a donor who understood the importance of the Saharasian discovery, and so we are hoping another interested donor might step forward, who also would appreciate the critical importance of keeping this unique book available and in-print. It stands as the most important validation study of Wilhelm Reich's sex-economic theory of human behavior, and of his "Mass Psychology of Fascism" as set into a global cross-cultural anthropological and historical-archaeological context.  If you are interested to help out on this particular project, please contact Dr. DeMeo.

* Seeking Computer Donations  We are continuing with our data recording on the To-T experiment, using data recorders hooked to lap-top portable computers, and other experiments are underway or planned which require similar set-ups.  As a cost-saving measure, we routinely use computers which are several years old, not "top of the line", but certainly very good for our purposes. They are put into operation around-the-clock, and so there is more wear and tear on our systems than usual.  Spare parts are also in demand, so even malfunctioning computers can be useful to us. Currently in use at OBRL are Macintosh G3 and G4 computers, laptop portables, but we also could use Windows-type PC Laptops, or possibly desktop systems either Mac or Windows.  If you have any such computers which you've been considering to give away or discard, we would be interested to obtain them as a donation, for which you would get a letter from OBRL which can be used for a tax-deduction.  Primarily we seek the following Macintosh Laptop Portables:

        G3 Lombard or Pismo, Working or Malfunctioning (for parts)

        G4 Any laptop, working or malfunctioning (for parts)

        Mac G3 or G4 desktop systems

Give this some consideration and let us know what you've got.  We can then let you know if this would be workable for our needs.

* Outdoor Lecture Amphitheater  This year, OBRL spent scarce funds from savings for new chairs, a writing white-board and projection screen, with a very rough construction of an outdoor amphitheatre.  It worked magnificently, and so we have recently constructed a wood stage platform for future outdoor events.  However, we still require a better projector screen and audio-visual equipment.  A powerful computer-projector, allowing for power-point presentations, and suitable for outdoor work in the daytime (it needs to be around 5000 lumens) is still beyond our reach.

* Overseas Drought-Abatement Projects  This year, we have received requests for assistance from Portugal, which is suffering under a decades-long desertification process related to northward expansion of the Saharan Desert atmosphere. Nothing could be done to assist, unfortunately, given the absence of suitable funding.  We still seek an "angel" donor with sufficiently deep pockets to fund this and similar drought-abatement, desert-greening projects.

*  General Funding/Donation Appeal OBRL has historically "made due" and accomplished quite a lot with minimal funding.  Since we spend yearly donations on our equipment needs, or for specific projects being undertaken, and have no "endowment" or regular foundational sponsorship, future work is always dependant upon donors and sales of books. There always is a pressing need for new laboratory apparatus, and our reservoir of funds is basically depleted. If you are in a position to donate to OBRL, please do so at this webpage:

http://www.orgonelab.org/cart/donation.htm
For more details, please review our most recent Funding Letter:

http://www.orgonelab.org/funding.htm

Or, review the new listing of books available from OBRL, as noted above, and at this webpage:

http://www.orgonelab.org/cart/xnew.htm

Finally, a big thanks and appreciation to all the people who have supported OBRL and James DeMeo's work over these many years.

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Orgone Biophysical Research Lab
Greensprings Center

PO Box 1148, Ashland, Oregon 97520 USA

e-mail:   demeo(at)orgonelab.org

http://www.orgonelab.org