Institute
The Orgone Institute
Wilhelm Reich’s research institute for “orgone,” the life-energy he claimed to have discovered.
Institute · Founded 1,942 · New York, USA & Rangeley, Maine (Orgonon) · Dissolved
Founded by Wilhelm Reich
What it was
Wilhelm Reich founded the Orgone Institute in the early 1940s to research what he called orgone energy — a cosmic life-force he attempted to accumulate and measure.
The work ended amid US government prosecution and the burning of his books before his death in 1957, but it influenced later body-psychotherapy and energy-based practice.
Its place in the lineage
An early, ill-fated attempt to put the life-energy of the esoteric traditions on a laboratory footing — a forerunner of somatic and energy psychology.
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