From Wilhelm Reich’s book The Orgone Energy Accumulator: Its Scientific and Medical Use, Orgone Institute Press, pp. 9-16
The Cosmic Primordial Energy, called COSMIC ORGONE ENERGY (COE), was discovered between 1936 and 1939 in Norway. The initial discovery was basically completed in 1940 in Maine in the USA. It was then the result of complicated researches in the realms of nature in general and human bio-energetic functions in particular over a period of some 20 years. The discoverer is WILHELM REICH, M.D.
Since 1940, a scientific organization, comprising physicians, psychiatrists, physicists, biologists, educators and social workers, and with daughter institutions in several countries, has slowly developed around the discovery of the cosmic orgone energy.
This basic and revolutionary discovery has forced its own way into the public.
Cosmic orgone energy and “ether“
From the book Ether, God and Devil/Cosmic Superimposition by Wilhelm Reich, M.D., Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 1973, pp. 139-161
It is not our objective here to prove the existence of an all-pervading ether; neither is it intended to prove the identity of the cosmic orgone energy and the postulated ether. All that is to be established at this point is the fact that there exists an all-pervading, observable and demonstrable energy. It is filling gaps in the comprehension of the universe, gaps that many generations of physicists and philosophers tried hard, but in vain, to fill with the concept of an all-pervading “ether” as the primal substratum of the basic functions in nature.
The time in which cosmic orgonomic functions have been studied is very short. It comprises not more than a decade. However, all observations within this short period have led to the following conclusion:
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “EMPTY SPACE.” THERE EXISTS NO “VACUUM.” SPACE REVEALS DEFINITE PHYSICAL QUALITIES. THESE QUALITIES CAN BE OBSERVED AND DEMONSTRATED; SOME CAN BE REPRODUCED EXPERIMENTALLY AND CONTROLLED. IT IS A WELL-DEFINED ENERGY THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PHYSICAL QUALITIES OF SPACE. THIS ENERGY HAS BEEN TERMED “COSMIC ORGONE ENERGY.”
