orgone
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- noun
- /ɔrˈgoʊn/
- Archaic
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orgón
- Many practitioners believe that orgone can improve physical health and emotional well-being.
- orgone energy
- orgone box
Examples
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He said he had discovered a form of energy, which he called "orgone," that permeated the atmosphere and all living matter, and he built "orgone accumulators," which his patients sat inside to harness the energy for its reputed health benefits.
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Orgone boxes, the creation of the renegade analyst Wilhelm Reich, with Norman Mailer doing passionate PR for its properties.
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And he built this box called the orgone box.
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Folks get cancer 'cause they run out of orgone.
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I asked if anyone knew about orgone and got no responses, and a couple of days later, it was mentioned several times.
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I give you the orgone accumulator!
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Orgone therapists are probably the very best at guiding this.
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And you would sit in there and... I think Reich's theory was that sitting in there would allow you... to gather certain accumulations of orgone energy, as he called it.
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I showed Jimmy the orgone box I have here, and we agreed that orgone accumulators in pyramid form and/or using magnetized iron could be much more powerful.
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The concept of orgone energy was introduced by Wilhelm Reich as a universal life force.
Synonyms
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An imagined energy that makes living things grow and move
A single inner spirit that connects all living things
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word orgone was invented by the scientist Wilhelm Reich from the part org-, as in organ and organic, to suggest 'life' energy. He used it for a claimed universal 'life force' that he said could improve health, but most scientists do not accept this idea.