2.2. Discoveries of Wilhelm Reich

In the first half of the twentieth century, we find methodical scientific experiments on the use of light energy for medical treatment. The established American scientist Wilhelm Reich conducted experiments on sun energy to capture it, store it and use it for medical treatment. He worked on and registered the general phenomenon that people exposed to the sun behave differently: that people are in a good mood, cheerful and happy, that they feel healthy when the day is nice and sunny; and vice versa, that they feel bad, that they are weak, that they are not cheerful and joyful, that they are low-spirited if there is no bright sun and the weather is cloudy or rainy.

His examination how to capture light energy, which he called orgone energy, and how to then reuse it in practice, brought him to the creation of the so-called collectors of light energy or orgone accumulators. He used wood to make large wardrobe-like cases, the interior of which was coated with leather and other natural materials. He left these cases in the sun for so long as the material accepted, i.e. absorbed, sun energy. He then put into them depressive patients, who felt much better after such a therapy.

In the American society of his time, Wilhelm Reich was not accepted with understanding, although he was the first scientist to use the accumulation of sun energy needed for life with a special intention, and the first scientist to use it intentionally for the treatment of patients. He set the rule – which did not last long – that sun energy is accumulated or stored and then used. The father of the accumulation of orgone energy and its use died disappointed and humiliated.