Who Invented the Orgone Box?

Wilhelm Reich developed a metal-lined device named the Orgone Accumulator, believing that the box trapped orgone energy that he could harness in groundbreaking approaches towards psychiatry, medicine, the social sciences, biology and weather research.

Who discovered orgone?

Orgone energy was discovered by Wilhelm Reich, a psychoanalyst, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Reich's method was to place different layers of organic and inorganic materials in boxes that people could sit in. Orgone Energy helps battle the electromagnetic frequencies in the air, he claimed.

What does an orgone box do?

a cabinetlike device constructed of layers of wood and other materials, as tin, claimed by its inventor, Wilhelm Reich, to restore orgone energy to persons sitting in it, thereby aiding in the cure of impotence, cancer, the common cold, etc. Also called or·gone-en·er·gy accu·mulator [awr-gohn-en-er-jee].