Orgone energy is a hypothetical universal
life force originally proposed in the 1930s by
Wilhelm Reich.
[1][2][3] In its final conception, developed by Reich's student Charles Kelly after Reich's death, Orgone was conceived as the anti-entropic principle of the universe, a creative substratum in all of nature comparable to
Mesmer's
animal magnetism, the
Odic force of
Carl Reichenbach and
Henri Bergson's
élan vital.
[4] Orgone was seen as a massless, omnipresent substance, similar to
luminiferous aether, but more closely associated with living energy than inert matter. It could coalesce to create organization on all scales, from the smallest microscopic units—called bions in orgone theory—to macroscopic structures like organisms, clouds, or even galaxies.
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