Life Energy Meter
Life Energy Meter
Life Energy Meter
2012)
Using the OEFM and other methods, Reich was able to demonstrate
variable life-energy charge or energy-field readings for both humans and
other living creatures. This included the recording of the progressive
loss of energy readings with the death of a small fish. His findings were
suggestive of the later work of Semyon and Valentina Kirlian, who used
photographic films to make images of the human energy field using a
similar metal plate and induction-coil for exciting the life-energy field
into a visible glow, or what has been termed a bio-plasma discharge.
Reich’s OEFM can be considered as an early analog apparatus for
measuring what the Kirlian method revealed graphically on films.
My own early reproductions of Reich’s original design, for the OEFM,
basically validated his observations. Reich’s OEFM, as I reconstructed
it, operated quite exactly as he described it, and provided clear readings
of the human energy field. It also reacted to metals and to water, as well
as to other living creatures. My first reproduction of the OEFM was a
primitive and heavy table-top design using a Tesla-type induction coil,
and so did not allow determinations of variable field-strengths, as from
one person to another. Later designs were more portable, hand-held
varieties, and suggested the potentials of this device to eventually
become a serious instrument for scientific and diagnostic health
research. However, the Tesla induction coil which lay at the heart of the
instrument, as we reconstructed it, always created irritating sparks and
ozone, pushing the background life-energy field of my laboratory into a
mild and temporary oranur effect (See the chapter on The Oranur
Experiment in Reich’s book Selected Writings* for details). Our OEFM
reproduction additionally was prone to giving both the test subject and
the instrument operator the occasional jolting shock. As I was not
skilled in electronic design, that is as far as my own efforts went, and
other research dominated my attention.
* http://www.orgonelab.org/cart/xReich.htm
Use the Supplied Power Source: The LEM can be used both indoors or
outdoors, wherever a suitable connection to the power mains can be
found. Experiments have shown it cannot be used with batteries, due to
the necessity for a good earth grounding. Experiments have shown, it
can be powered by an automobile battery, where the negative terminal
also has a separate grounding rod into the earth. The voltage is not the
issue here, so much as the grounding. We therefore suggest, especially
for your first experiments, to use it only with the supplied power source.
Allow the LEM to Warm Up: When turning on the meter, allow it
approximately 30 minutes to warm up, especially for more detailed
readings. It will show typical reactions immediately after being turned
on, but will be difficult to zero until it is warmed.
Keep Your Hands Away! If you bring your hand close to the LEM, it
will react. This is fine if you are measuring your hands, but not good if
you are measuring something else. So don’t hold items in your hand as
you measure them. Place them on the SMALL PLATE ELECTRODE
or otherwise secure them with a holding system and move them closer or
farther from the LEM using the VACUUM TUBE ELECTRODE.
1. Find a clear space on a desk or table-top where the LEM can sit all by
itself, without nearby objects.
3. With the meter OFF, plug in the power supply to the instrument and
to the wall power outlet.
6. With these settings, the meter will now readily react to the movement
of your hand towards the meter. You can touch the electrodes to get a
maximal reading, which should not drive it above the 100% mark.
10. Increase the sensitivity RANGE to the 10x or 100x positions. With
these settings, the LEM will now react, and probably be driven off-scale
above the 100x, if you try and touch the electrodes. However, it will
then reveal more dramatically the life-energy field at a distance.
1. With the power supply and electrodes removed, examine the bottom
of the LEM. Note the small hole in the middle. This is for attaching to a
camera tripod or hand-grip with standard quarter-inch screw.
4. When zeroed, you can now move the LEM near to another person
who must stand still and relaxed. You can scan their body from top to
bottom, on front and back sides, and note there are variations in the field
strength unrelated to only distance. Re-zero as necessary. It may be
necessary to use an extension cable such that the power-supply wires are
of sufficient length.
3. After warming and zeroing, move the vacuum tube electrode close to
the leaves of a living plant. It will show a reaction which is roughly in
keeping with the vigor of plant growth. The tips of growing plant
branches, or the top-most growing tip, will give higher readings than
older growth on the sides of branches, or along the trunk. At least, this
is our experience using the LEM for small conifers and larger trees in
the Pacific Northwest USA, as well as for a few deciduous varieties and
potted plants.
Experiment 4: Measuring the Human Energy Field with the Large Plate
Electrode:
One can lay the Large Plate Electrode flat on a smooth floor and have
people stand on it with the bare feet, or with socks, to make additional
comparisons. Or, it can be taped to a wall, where people can stand close
to it – again, the distance from the electrodes will change the readings,
so if you want to make meaningful comparisons, keep the distances
identical.
3. Set up the LEM as previously, using the 1x scale and wood Small
Plate Electrode, allowing to warm, and then zero.
4. Lay one layer of the wool felt on the small plate electrode. You will
note it hardly reacts. Then lay down a square swatch of steel wool
which is just a bit smaller size as the wool felt piece, and then another
layer of wool felt, to complete the creation of a primitive 1-ply orgone
blanket. The reading will now be up to around 8%.
5. Now lay down another series of sandwiched steel wool swatches and
wool felt swatches, one after another, until you have four layers of steel
wool sandwiched in between five layers of sheep’s wool felt. The
bottom and top-most layers will be composed of sheep’s wool felt. You
can compress them down with your hand. The readings, when your
hand is removed, will now be up to around 12%, for this primitive 4-ply
orgone blanket.
6. Repeat step 5, adding another four layers of steel wool and sheep’s
wool, to build up to an 8-ply orgone blanket. The reading will now
increase to around 15%.
These readings may vary depending upon weather or other factors, such
as how thick are the layers of fabric or steel wool layers you use. But if
you are consistent in the layerings, it should reproduce the basic effect,
which also shows that the number of layers or “plys” in construction of
an orgone blanket does not automatically yield a direct linear increase in
its charge. There is an increase in charge which suggests a plateau will
eventually be reached.
If you repeat this experiment using a 10-cm (4”) square of thin sheet
metal plate as the very first layer, and put that directly in contact with
the metal square of the Small Plate Electrode, the reactions are far
greater, showing around 25% right off. When the layerings of wool felt
and steel wool are now added, they show a proportionately greater
reading at the LEM, such that the 12-plys of fabric and steel wool
sandwiched together produces an overall additional 25% of reading,
pushing the total for the metal-plate plus 12-ply orgone blanket to a full
50% reading. These observations confirm the more general and
subjective observations of Reich and others, that
a) increasing the plys of an orgone blanket or accumulator does not
produce any simple arithmetic increase in the strength of its radiant
orgone field, or its bio-effects; and
b) the box-type orgone accumulator with an interior composed of
metal plate produces a stronger radiant field than an orgone blanket of
an equal number of layers or plys.
More Challenging Experiments: Quantitative Differences of
Life-Energy Charge in Liquids and Fruits, and Other Items.
Tip! In those cases where a person or sample drives the LEM off-scale
at the 1x or 10x, but then yields too little on the higher sensitivity
selections, you can decrease the sensitivity of the Small Plate Electrode
by putting down a layer of thin paper or cardboard. The Vacuum Tube
Electrode can also be decreased in sensitivity by making making a small
round tube of similar paper-cardboard material. This material does not
react significantly to the LEM, but provides a bit of “insulation” and
dead-air space which can help in making more difficult measures.
Experiment 6: Comparisons of Fruits and Vegetables
A large fruit or vegetable will yield a stronger reading than a small one
of identical species, in nearly all cases. When they are of nearly the
same size and species, and from the same tree or orchard, the readings
will be of generally the same magnitude but not exactly so. Given the
many variables involved, such as moisture content, different species, or
even the vitality of different trees which only the farmer could about,
special control procedures may become necessary to make accurate or
meaningful determinations.
1. Use the LEM on a flat table surface, turn on and warm using the
Small Plate Electrode and zero as usual.
The Cut-Weight Method: Cut similarly shaped and size slices of the
fruit, and standardize their weight by use of a sensitive scale, cutting a
bit off the heavier of the samples until the weight readings are close to
identical. They can then be measured on the LEM more meaningfully.
Two samples alone may not suffice, however, so for good scientific
procedure, a group of ten samples from each of the two groups –
bioorganic versus chemical grown for example – should be used. Re-
zero the LEM after each reading, if necessary.
Much has been said about living water versus dead water, the subject of
water structure or activation chemistry. We have preliminary
indications this can be studied by use of the LEM, and that at least some
of this parameter is an expression of the life-energy as it charges up the
water. For this type of experiment, one must have a good laboratory
with other test equipment so as to make the most rigorous of control
procedures.
3. One can rule out the role of electrical conductivity in the mineralized
water samples by adding a small bit of NaCl table salt into the distilled
water sample. Use a conductivity meter and add sufficient salt to the
distilled water so it has a conductivity identical to the well-water sample.
This particular salt control measure reduced the differences between the
well and distilled samples by a small amount, indicating that the LEM
readings can be influenced by conductivity parameters. However, a
difference of 3% to 8% persisted, in our experience. This demonstrated
the water drawn from the earth carried an innate charge, detected by the
LEM, which was not present in the distilled sample, even when the
parameter of conductivity was controlled out of the experiment.
Grounding the two water samples with a wire for some period, so as to
eliminate electrical potential differences, does not eliminate this factor.
The higher sensitivity ranges of 1000x and 2000x are fully experimental
in nature. They have limited uses for most applications, but do provide
some interesting readings when set up with a computer and DAQ system
for long-term recording. For these experiments, it is advised to set up
the instrument and electrode in a location where it will not be perturbed
by people walking by. It should be monitored and adjusted for the initial
period to insure the zeroing is proper for changing environmental
parameters, and that it won’t be simply driven off-scale.
Summary and Comparisons to Other Measuring Devices
Taken together, all these kinds of readings with the LEM as discussed or
shown above, appear functionally identical to the life-energy charge of
the object or person.
It is also not clear that the LEM readings are comparable to what
homeopathic physicians or radionics experimenters are observing.
Those kinds of readings appear more qualitative in nature, as opposed to
the quantitative parameter of energy charge. Much remains to be
clarified in this respect, and for these reasons we do not offer the LEM
as any kind of diagnostic instrument, even for such things as
comparative kinesiology testing. But we certainly do encourage
experimentation and good scientific research study of the LEM’s
possibilities.
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