Exploring Wilhelm Reich and Orgone Energy

Um, have you heard of the scientist who

discovered a mysterious life

force energy, something that could heal, influence the weather, and then

suddenly he was arrested, his work was destroyed, and he died

weirdly very soonly after? Let me introduce you to

Wilhelm Reich and what he called orgone energy.

So he was a doctor of medicine and a psychoanalyst,

a second-generation one after Freud, and he was from Austria.

His work followed the work of Anna Freud, who was actually the daughter of Sigmund

Freud. He was the founder of psychoanalysis.

He helped shape gestalt therapy and bioenergetic

analysis. He claimed to discover what is called orgone energy,

an invisible life force that exists everywhere.

He got these words from the word organism and a word that sounds just like that but

is a little bit more flirtatious, if you catch my drift.

He believed this energy could explain the weather, emotions, and even

human health. He was also very close to what

is called animal magnetism.

Animal magnetism, also known as mesmerism, was believed to be a force

of a universal magnetic fluid. Some of you might know where I'm going

already.

This emanated from the body and the stars.

Plasma.

I'll get to that in a second. He used this force for hypnotic

treatments.

He called it animal magnetism. It also was thought to heal

several ailments and disorders. So basically, he got that idea

from that and thinks that they're the same thing.

Okay, this is where it starts to get really-