The Orgone Accumulator Handbook
| Author | James DeMeo, with a foreword by Eva Reich |
|---|---|
| Format | Book |
TL;DR — A handbook by James DeMeo on building and using Wilhelm Reich’s “orgone accumulator”, a box Reich claimed concentrated a life energy.
Published by DeMeo’s own Natural Energy Works (the scan’s file name gives 2007; the book has had several editions since 1989), with a foreword by Eva Reich, Wilhelm Reich’s daughter. It explains how to build accumulators from layered materials and describes experiments and claimed uses on plants, people and the environment.
The back cover recounts the US government’s 1950s legal action against Reich, in which his books were ordered destroyed and he died in prison. Orgone energy has never been accepted by mainstream science.
What it is: pseudo-science from a small press run by the author, an advocate of Reich’s ideas. Useful as a document of the orgone movement, not as science.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
175 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.