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Dielectric Orgone Blankets

Dielectric material is particularly good at supporting an electrostatic field while being a poor conductor of electricity – it won’t give you a static shock from the electrostatic field that it contains. Solid types of dielectric material include ceramic and porcelain and is commonly used as insulation between the plates of a capacitor. (WhatIsDielectricMaterial)

*Post initially published March 7, 2020 on earth-ocean.info.

Pete the cat likes the dielectric ‘orgone’ lap blanket – it is in a pillowcase to help keep it clean. Don’t ‘wash’ one of these blankets as the steel wool will rust if it gets wet.

Which for the non-electricians in the crowd (me) leads directly to the question What is a capacitor? ““a capacitor stores energy in the form of an electrostatic field between its plates.” (2) Thanks. It also has two terminals so you can tap into the stored electric field. The plates of a capacitor are electrically conductive wires or metal which can have a difference in charge.

A dielectric Orgone Blanket is somewhat like a capacitor in that it has two layers of electrically active steel wool separated by a dielectric layer of cotton or wool quilt batting but it is not connected to any other wiring. The steel wool layers are surrounded by another layer of dielectric batting and encased in cotton. The layers of dielectric cotton or wool support an electrostatic field, which will feel like warmth and possibly tingling sensations within yourself rather than being a static shock from the fabric. Exposure to the increased energy field by using the blanket regularly may have healing benefits, noted for wounds and prevention of common cold type of infections, but for some people caution may be needed.

The heart rate may become affected by the electrostatic field of the Orgone Blanket. Use for a half hour to an hour is recommended rather than use all night. Directions and safety guidance is available in the book: The Orgone Accumulator Handbook: Wilhelm Reich’s Life Energy Discoveries and Healing Tools for the 21st Century, with Construction Plans, (orgonelab.org).

Fluffiness is key for capturing an electrostatic field in pockets of air throughout the dielectric material. Ceramic seems solid yet it is full of tiny air bubbles throughout the clay. Wool and cotton quilt batting is a loose mesh of fibers, and steel wool is a loose mesh of steel wire which can be sharp. Caution, wear leather or canvas work gloves when handling the steel wool.

Fine steel wool, large roll purchased at an automotive supply store.

The supplies for a 24-inch square blanket include fine steel wool, but with no added chemical cleansers like in oven cleaning steel wool scrubbies. The spool of fine steel wool can be ordered from automotive supply companies.

Having a long quilting needle helps to add a few quilting type stiches through all of the layers after the pieces are cut and assembled.

A sturdy cotton muslin fabric cut in a rectangle that will be a couple inches larger than a 24-inch square doubled. About a yard and a half of fabric will be needed for the outer casing. Cotton quilt batting of a similar amount will be needed to make into three 24-inch squares. We are assembling a cheeseburger, except it will be fabric-cotton batting-steel wool-cotton batting-steel wool-fabric and the outside edges of the fabric will be folded over and sewn shut – pinned and machine sewn or handsewn.

This dielectric blanket was machine sewn around the edges after assembling the layers and hand stitching in a few spots with a quilting needle, to hold all of the layers together for long term stability. We are making a mini quilt, but with layers of metal to increase the electrical attraction and storage effect. The lap blanket warms as you use it and can become too hot and even irritating after longer use. It is meant to be used for about 30 minutes, like a heating pad.
Supplies – sturdy cotton or linen type organic fabric (not polyester), cotton or wool type organic batting (also not polyester, quilting supply or an old fluffy blanket), a generous amount of steel wool – it will be stretched, so it is less ‘yardage’ than the fabric.

Steps:

  • Put one layer of cotton batting on one half of the muslin rectangle so that you will be able to fold half the muslin over the top at the end and encase the final stack of layers of batting and steel wool with a seam allowance to spare. It will be a stack of three layers of cotton or wool batting with two layers of steel wool between them.
  • On the batting, place a 24-inch length of steel wool down the length of one side of the batting and then gently stretch out the mesh somewhat so it covers about eight inches instead of the compressed four-inch original size. This will cover one third of the square, repeat with two more 24-inch lengths of steel wool. The spool of steel wool in the image is about four inches wide and would make six or more lap blankets.
  • Cover the layer of stretched out pieces of steel wool with another 24-inch square of cotton batting. Repeat the step of adding three lengths of steel wool. Cover with the last 24-inch square of cotton batting.
  • Fold the muslin rectangle over the top with the layers of batting held in place by the fold. Gently fold the ends of fabric together into an enclosed seam/hem and pin in place. The sides will also need to be folded into an enclosed seam and pined in place. Pleating a little excess fabric at the corners gives a box corner that helps encase the fluffy stack. The end result will not be a flat envelope but a very short pillow or tall blanket.
  • Baste securely with quilt thread and/or finish the edges with a sewing machine.
  • Hand quilt through the entire stack using a long needle designed for doll-makers. Trying to keep it very loose quilting to retain the fluffiness, secure the stack with a stich every four to eight inches or so.
  • Use with a pillowcase ideally and keep it clean and dry. The steel wool will rust if it gets wet.
Dielectric lap blanket, simple handstiching to hold the edges, and then machine finished for sturdiness.

Ideally do not use dielectric Orgone Blankets near or store them near strong EMF emitting devices such as an internet modem, cell phone, or laptop. The goal is to increase time in a healing electric field, not in an electric field that might have negative effects on health. The dielectric blanket has a warming effect and may help increase blood flow like a normal heating pad, it just uses your own body heat as the electricity source – or a cat – or the energy of the ambient air conditions, or all three.

There would be more ether/orgone energy at high altitudes in open air – like in the mountain top retreat and less, possibly very little, in the enclosed air of the basement of a building near sea level.

I have found my Orgone blanket helpful for soothing a sore shoulder with a chronic muscle cramp, and for temporary relief of pain for a bruised hand and it seemed to speed healing of a bruise. I folded the blanket around the hand and lower arm for an hour or two, several days in a row – which was when the pain and inflammation was better. Anecdotal experience.

Dielectric blankets have been used with therapeutic massage in health clinics and with prenatal care by Wilhelm Reich’s daughter, Eva Reich, M.D. (4) and others.

Returning to the idea of a capacitor – the electrostatic field is being supported by the air and fiber weave of the batting layers which are also acting as insulation around the electrically active ~ ‘capacitor plates’ of the two steel wool layers. Holding the blanket is allowing your hand to be in the energy field – no terminals are needed for a gentle mingling of energy fields.

Plasma energy fields have been used effectively for helping with wound healing. (5) Plasma energy refers to a liquid like flow of energy throughout the area of the field, rather than referring to some liquid such as blood plasma. Plasma is the fourth state of matter, involving ionized gas instead of a solid, liquid, or gas.

“The fourth state of matter, plasma, consists of partially ionized, electrically neutral gas.” (5)

Electromagnetic fields (EMF) are involved in our health and brain activity at the microscopic level of microtubules, which may act like antenna in orienting and broadcasting electrical fields. (Previous post: 7) Specific types of EMF fields have also been used for healing purposes. (6) The type of EMF from electronic/internet devices and from high powered electric lines can be inflammatory.


Disclaimer: This information is provided for educational purposes within the guidelines of Fair Use. It is not intended to provide individual guidance. Please seek a health care provider for individualized health care guidance.

Reference List:

  1. Margaret Rouse, What is Dielectric Material? WhatIs.com, https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/dielectric-material
  2. Colin Cunningham, What is a Capacitor?, series, Circuit Playground: C is for Capacitor, learn.adafruit.com, https://learn.adafruit.com/circuit-playground-c-is-for-capacitor/what-is-a-capacitor
  3. James DeMeo, The Orgone Accumulator Handbook: Wilhelm Reich’s Life Energy Discoveries and Healing Tools for the 21st Century, with Construction Plans, orgonelab.com, http://www.orgonelab.org/oracs.htm
  4. Eva Reich, Eszter Zornanszky, Lebensenergie durch Sanfte Bioenergetik, 1997, https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/lebensenergie-sanfte-bioenergetik/author/eva-reich/
  5. Eswaramoorthy N, McKenzie DR. Plasma treatments of dressings for wound healing: a review. Biophys Rev. 2017;9(6):895–917. doi:10.1007/s12551-017-0327-x https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5711699/
  6. Muehsam D, Chevalier G, Barsotti T, Gurfein BT. An Overview of Biofield Devices. Glob Adv Health Med. 2015;4(Suppl):42–51. doi:10.7453/gahmj.2015.022.suppl https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4654784/
  7. J. Depew, Quantum biology, microtubules – antennae for energy? – links, earth-ocean.info https://www.earth-ocean.info/post/quantum-biology-microtubules-antennae-for-energy-links
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Physics took a wrong turn in 1887; and the meaning of Null.

Experimental research protocol requires defining an expected result for an experiment in advance, called the hypothesis, in order to help reduce risk of bias or error. Null results would mean that the hypothesis as written had not occurred as the experimental result – making the experiment negative or null for that specific hypothesis statement. Null does not necessarily mean zero, however.

*Post originally published on earth-ocean.info, March 5, 2020.

In 1887 there were results reported as null for an experiment regarding the theory of ether which had been the prevailing idea regarding space – that there is a substance of some sort throughout space rather than it being empty and it was called ether or aether. The experimental hypothesis had predicted a large ether effect, a large drag occurring on a beam of light by this ether substance in the atmosphere, enough to effect the path of the rays of light by a predicted amount. The results were reported as Null by the academic community, correctly in some ways, because the drag effect the research team (Michelson-Morley) measured was not what they had predicted.

It was much smaller, a twentieth smaller – but it was not zero – their study did support the theory that space had some substance in it that would drag while flowing around a planet, moon, or star.

The idea at the time of the first of the Morley & Michelson experiments was that the substance was still and it was the planets that were spinning. The much smaller effect that was measured instead supports a theory later shown to be more accurate that the substance is slowing moving. It is likely the force of it flowing around things with cross currents providing force from two sides of astral objects that causes gravitational effects.

Our planet is orbiting the sun in an ellipse but it is more like a children’s Slinky toy, a long continuous spiral, then rotations of the hands on a old-fashioned clock. The sun and all of the planets are all spiraling in a group towards the same direction. The substance seems to move in spiral patterns similar to the way water looks in whirl pool eddies, or the sky in Vincent Van Gogh’s painting The Starry Night, (MoMA), – or spiral nebulae in outer space: (spiral nebulae images).

The Starry Night, by Vincent Van Gogh, via (x.com/MarioNawfal).

The substance that was known as ether has been measured in experiments that improved on the 1887 methods and modified the hypothesis to include movement of the ether. Other researchers unrelated to the original theory or experiment have also discovered anomalies that match the strength of the effect or the energy. One called it orgone and developed ways to affect the weather and increase rain or break up a larger storm system into a lower energy, more diffuse pattern, (Wilhelm Reich). Reducing desertification has also been shown to be possible with the low tech methods.

Long story short – there is a type of energy around everything that is not entropic – chaotic as expected of everything in nature – a tendency to decompose and become more disorganized instead of becoming more organized. The ether energy generally becomes more organized. It tends to coalesce like water molecules, and has an affinity for water. It is attracted to water, especially moving water, and that tendency was able to be used to modify the weather.

Desertification of land can be a result of the energy becoming non-flowing and unhealthy. It can be easily modified by simple to build tools but which need to be used with caution because weather modification can turn into storms, not just spring showers.

This is very exciting information but more people need to read and understand the implications – turns what we have been doing and believing on its head – topsy turvy, let’s start over again at Null, which doesn’t equal zero. For the skeptics and/or rocket fans in the room – the drag effect that was discovered and confirmed by later unrelated researchers is roughly equivalent to the amount of force it takes for a rocket to leave the planet’s atmosphere.

The Dynamic Ether of Cosmic Space: Correcting a Major Error in Modern Science, by James DeMeo, (Amazon)

Here’s the book to read, The Dynamic Ether of Cosmic Space: Correcting a Major Error in Modern Science, by James DeMeo, (Amazon) then report back for a craft project next – a dielectric blanket (see this post, a DIY project that can soothe inflammation) – no plug-in outlet needed, because it gathers ambient energy from the air or from your body energy and can have healing effects.

Preview of Cosmic Ether Exists: Correcting a Major Error in Modern Science. James DeMeo (now deceased). (Youtube)

This pdf of a really old book is free – it discusses ether theory as the current thing still. Einstein’s theory that space is empty came a few years after 1902. Ether theory had been predominant.

For something totally different – Christmas lectures from 1902, a 1923 4th Edition: 

  • Waves and Ripples in Water, Air, and Aether, being the 76th course of Christmas lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, by J. A. Fleming, MA, DSc., FRS. (dropbox.com)
  • A few screen shots are in this post: Free ebooks – Live Pain Free Cookbook & Waves and Ripples (denutrients.substack)

I started summarizing James DeMeo’s book in a series on Substack, this is the first post. Second post. Third post. Fourth post.

More recently, Vincent Van Gogh was in the news – the flow that he painted in The Starry Night, was found to accurately portray movement of air flow. Fifth post. Aether energy flows like water and is attracted to moving water and to iron/magnetic attracting metals. It is also attracted to tubes. Our blood has both flowing water and iron rich hemoglobin and travels in tubes – blood vessels.

  1. The Dynamic Ether of Cosmic Space, a book summary (series), Part 1. / Regreening of Israel by Cloud Buster & Iranian clouds? — First post.
  2. The speed of light is variable – news to know, from the 1800s. Chapter 2 & 3 / Bonus link: “skepsis” via Hopeful Grump/Substack. — Second post.
  3. Ether flows and everything flows along with it. Where is it flowing? -> Chapter Four. — Third post.
  4. Air flow, aether, and Van Gogh’s Starry Night, Chapter Four continued; & Lion’s Mane mushroom and Avocado seed flour – two super foods. / Link to Vejon Covid-19 Review, re autoimmune risk. — Fourth post.
  5. Van Gogh and Fluid Dynamics in the News. — Fifth post.

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Who owns science? or, should all ideas be shared?

The question of whether a scientist should share all of his discoveries was considered by a mathematician after the devastation the atomic bombs caused in Japan during WWII was observed. The topic of whether science advances are always progress or not is a theme in a book I picked up yesterday. “The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic” is a biography of the famous fiction author Kurt Vonnegut and his brother Bernard Vonnegut who was a scientist more famous during their earlier years than Kurt.

Bernard worked on plane de-icing strategies for use during WWII while Kurt was an enlisted man who became a Prisoner of War of the Nazi’s. The family feared he was dead for several months before he eventually was released at the end of the war and arrived home unexpectedly. Bernard’s career continued to involve ice in the form of cloud seeding for the purpose of creating snow where moisture was desired or potentially to be able to modify storm patterns to reduce their danger. His work involved dry ice and then silver iodide for dispersing in clouds. Super-cooled moisture within the cloud would form snow when the particles of dry ice or silver iodide were present. Ultimately it was found that health hazards were caused by silver iodide in the environment and the work was discontinued. It led to both brothers questioning the advisability of science experiments or technology being used when potential risks weren’t well understood.

Kurt wondered what might happen if a scientist refused to share information with the military. The leading mathematician of the day had done it after seeing the atomic bomb’s tragic results on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Professor Norbert Wiener of MIT wrote an essay that was published in November 1948, ‘A Rebellious Scientist After Two Years,’ that included the statement:

“degradation of the position of the scientist as an independent worker and thinker to that of a morally irresponsible stooge in a science-factory has proceeded even more rapidly and devastatingly than I had expected. In view of this, I still see no reason to turn over to any person, whether he be an army officer or the kept scientist of a great corporation, any results which I obtain if I think they are not going to be used for the best interests of science and of humanity.” – page 114-115, The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic, by Ginger Strand (Great, Strauss and Giroux, 2015, New York)

The ‘House of Magic‘ referred to in the title was the nickname of the lab where Bernard Vonnegut worked professionally.

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Banana Republics – an old novel for a current era

11/2017 – the USDA Food Composition Database is still missing critically important information – and until we can discuss that there is much else that isn’t going to be discussed. Note – this is about my concern that the entire public is being victimized by inadequate health care options as well as the information missing from a public database, and the history likely involves the radioactive incidents and factory work that took place in Hanford, Washington. Adequate iodine supply helps protect the body and thyroid gland from developing cancer and yet instead of educating the public regarding that fact the opposite occurred. Radioactive iodine is treated as a therapy for detecting cancer with the use of X-ray machines and for destroying thyroid cancer. Emergency supplies of higher dose iodine are produced for use in case of a nuclear incident but long term adequacy of iodine would work just as well or better than a short term use of high dose iodine if/when a nuclear incident occurred. The negative health effects of radioactive iodine have also been tested on the U.S. public without permission in covert experiments that took place during the Cold War years. See number six: http://theweek.com/articles/622448/8-government-conspiracy-theories-how-could-right/

Another plant can help reduce radiation in the soil – sunflowers have been used to help clean up radioactive hazardous waste sites. So instead of growing banana plants it might be helpful in some areas to plant sunflowers. https://gardencollage.com/change/sustainability/scientists-using-sunflowers-clean-nuclear-radiation/

Happy Holidays anyway – food sources for iodine and selenium, another trace mineral that is important for thyroid health is collected in an initial draft on my newer website: https://effectivecare.info/g9-iodine-%26-thyroid

Don Quixote, USA is a novel by Richard Powell that I read many times as a youth. Banana growing was a serious love for a nerdy young man who joined the Peace Corps and went to a South American country to help teach others. Somehow in the ensuing comedic adventures and misadventures he managed to grow bananas and takeover a Banana Republic – it is never too late to catch up on the classics.

I read the Reader’s Digest version which is mentioned in this book review. Reader’s Digest publishes slightly condensed versions of full length novels and publishes a book that includes four novels. Having read a few of the novels in their original and the Reader’s Digest condensed version I would say, great job Reader’s Digest at putting books in young adult’s and adult’s hands. I have not read the full length version of Don Quixote, USA but trust that it is even better than the Reader’s Digest version. Part of their success might be in choosing great books in the first place.

Book Review: Don Quixote, USA by Richard Powell

The novel is also available in a Kindle version and has an all star review on Amazon: Don Quixote, USA .

Take home lesson – if you don’t like something don’t just smash walnuts, unless you can also grow bananas. Read Don Quixote, USA to find  out more.

/Or spoiler for those who like to take things the wrong way, when the nerdy looking Peace Corps first arrives he is met by the current dictator who liked to crack nuts – smashing them – with the handle end of his pistol. When the now swash buckling Peace Corps member finds himself in the dictator’s chair as the people’s choice he finds the desktop has rounded indentations that do hold the walnut in place for handing cracking with the pistol handle (or whatever type it was, I don’t quite remember). The point in my sharing this is about negative smear campaigns against information – why is iodine information being withheld from the U.S. public when it was once available. No other nutrients seem to be missing and several non-nutrients are included. In 2012 I had an account on a social media site and multiple fake looking accounts were following it in a way that seemed to be trying to link me to the President in office at the time – I closed the account as the simplest way to end the parody followers attempt at a negative smear campaign. I didn’t know who might have been behind the fake looking followers but there were many of the same type of persona.

More on the less amusing history of the term Banana Republic is available on the Smithsonian website: Where we got the term Banana Republic. 

The take home lesson – don’t let your country be taken over by a business dictatorship where money talks, dictators listen, and everyone else asks how high to jump because they know that more than walnuts will be smashed.

Disclosure: Among my many houseplants I have grown a banana plant. they would need more sun than normal indoor light provides to actually produce fruit but as a large, lovely green tropical plant banana plants grow quickly and easily. https://www.thespruce.com/grow-bananas-indoors-1902483

Growing bananas in the right outdoor climate is relatively easy because new sprouts grow around the base of the older fruit bearing plant which can be the size of a small tree. The individual small plants can be dug up, and replanted with more space around them so that they all will be able to have the nutrients and sunlight that they will need in order to become a fullsize fruit bearing plant. I’ve never grown more than one potted plant banana but the book explains the process and it is an important part of the story – the young man changed himself in the process of helping the struggling people grow a more productive product for export. The dictator was overthrown by the will of the people who had grown to appreciate the young man’s help.

The Peace Corps volunteer knew about the amazing properties of the banana plant and his hard work led to a productive country, while the dictator that had been in charge knew more about cracking walnuts. The book includes details about growing bananas as the problem with the dictatorship at the time was a lack of productivity and lack of income.

The lesson isn’t about one Peace Corps worker or one dictator, it is about the group of people learning productive skills – no one alone can grow an entire field of bananas – it took a while for the young man to get enough interest and help.

A row of immature banana plants that need to be separated and replanted in a field. Or needed to be separated and replanted before they got this big. Ideally the sprouts would be used when they first appear and are only a few inches tall. This row would have roots that are too intertwined to be able to be separated.

A full size banana plant in the autumn, with a row of immature sprouts at the base – used for decorative purposes, I just happened to notice them.

And a daily reminder iodine content in our food supply was removed from a public database. This would not have been an accident – government agencies do what they are told. Why would the Obama Administration want to remove iodine information from public use? and why would the Trump Administration continue the policy? Food sources and other information about iodine and selenium is collected in a draft form on a different website: G9: Iodine & Thyroid

Where’s the iodine? Still missing from the USDA Food Composition Database, November, 2017.

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