I have watched with interest - now have something to share..

Dear List....I have been on this group for over a year and have watched the 
information go by with great interest.   I have not had planting capability 
for 2 years, but NEXT YEAR I will be armed with your great information, and 
for this I say thank you.   

The information below just came in....Hope it is of interest to some of you.
Blessings, walk softly,   Shoshanna

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From: OBRL-News <demeo@mind.net>
To: obrl-news@lists.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject:- New Research Information, Orgone Biophysical Research Lab

Orgone Biophysical Research Lab <demeo@mind.net>
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New Research Information, Orgone Biophysical Research Lab

Dr. James DeMeo will present a paper on "Seed Sprouting Inside the Orgone
Energy Accumulator" to a June 8-10 meeting of the Society for Scientific
Exploration, to be held at Kings College, University of Western Ontario, in
London, Ontario, Canada.  His presentation will be given at 10 AM on June
9th.  For conference information, contact SSE:
http://www.scientificexploration.org
http://www.scientificexploration.org/meetings.html
An Abstract of the paper follows:

ABSTRACT
Seed Sprouting Inside the Orgone Energy Accumulator, by James DeMeo

In the 1940s, Wilhelm Reich published experimental findings on the
discovery of a biological life-energy, called orgone energy, which existed
in the atmosphere and could be accumulated inside a special metal-lined
enclosure called the orgone energy accumulator. His work was attacked in
the press and subject to a politically-inspired Food and Drug
Administration injunction which led to Reich's death in prison in 1957, and
the court-ordered burning of his books and research journals.  Starting in
the 1970s, I undertook experimental examination of Reich's original claims
regarding the accumulator, including a simple seed-sprouting experiment.
Mung beans obtained from a local health food store were mixed, counted into
groups of 100, placed into open glass dishes with 50ml of water, and
allowed to sprout inside both a strong orgone accumulator and
environmentally-matched control enclosure which excluded all metals. The
accumulator and control shared nearly identical humidity and temperatures,
with light being totally excluded; fresh water was added daily to each dish
as necessary to keep the sprouting seeds moist, for a period of
approximately 10 days, after which the sprouted seeds were photographed,
blotted dry, teased apart and measured.  Early trials demonstrated from
160% to a maximum of 500% growth increase inside the accumulator as
compared to the controls, while later trials with more rigorous
environmental controls yielded a 140% growth increase inside the
accumulator.  These latter experiments, undertaken during the summers of
1998-99 at my high-altitude laboratory in rural Oregon under exceptionally
clean environmental conditions, showed mean growth lengths of bean sprouts
at 130mm. for controls and 183mm. for orgone-charged (n.=400), with medians
of 90mm. and 150mm. respectively, and maximums of 270mm. and 350mm.
respectively.  Orgone charged sprouts also yielded greater absolute weight
increases, with a fresher smell and sweeter taste as compared to controls.
The developed seed-sprouting protocol has yielded consistent and repeatable
results, and orgone experiments of a similar design and result have been
reported upon both plants and animals since the 1940s.  These experiments,
taken together, strongly suggest Reich made an important new discovery.
The similarities of his orgone accumulator to a Faraday cage also suggest
observations of anomalous effects observed inside Faraday cage "controls"
by other experimenters might be the consequence of phenomenon similar to
what Reich's reported for the orgone accumulator.
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New Article posted at the OBRL web site, as presented to a recent meeting
of the Natural Philosophy Alliance in Berkeley, California.

http://www.orgonelab.org/miller.htm

ABSTRACT
"Critical Review of the Shankland, et al, Analysis of Dayton Miller's
Ether-Drift Experiments", by James DeMeo

Dayton Miller's work on dynamic ether drift (1933) is nearly unknown today
in large measure due to a 1955 critique by Shankland, et al (1955)
published after Miller's death.  Miller's interferometer fringe-shifts
showed sidereal-cosmic variations at all times of day and seasons of the
year, along the same cosmological axis.  Shankland acknowledged the
systematic patterns in Miller's data, but explained them away as the
consequence of temperature artifacts.  My review of the subject suggests
this dismissal was not well-supported.  Shankland misrepresented the
background history (ie., only Miller obtained positive results for ether)
and displayed a strong bias against ether -- only passing reference was
given to Miller's counter-critique to the temperature argument, which he
had addressed in control experiments and successfully rebutted while alive.
Selected sets of Miller's interferometer data, with minimal variations most
easily supporting the temperature argument, were dissected and criticized,
while other sets of higher magnitude fringe-shift data were apparently
ignored. Shankland, et al, did not provide a serious challenge to Miller,
and the entire subject of ether-drift begs for renewed open discussion and
experimental evaluation.

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