Paul Laffoley
(b. 1940, Cambridge,
Massachusetts)
The Orgone Motor
1981
Oil, Acrylic, Lettering on Canvas
73 1/2 x 73 1/2 in.
Subject:
A Motor Powered by Meta-energy--An Unrealized Dream of Wilheim Reich
Symbol Evocation: The Cosmic Egg
Comments: In terms of its output, the motor is a simple
reciprocating engine that produces kato-enery. However, its input energy
is Meta-energy, or in Reich's terms, Orgone energy. Meta-energy is energy
that is efficacious without motion, whereas Kato-energy is energy that
is efficacious with motion.
The energy cycle functions as follows: a) Orgone is collected. b) A special
psychotronic generator converts the Orgone energy into an amplified form
of psychokinesis in single timed pulses. c) The pulses are then discharged
into the water box.
The Oraccu, or Orgone collection boxes, act like condensers of Meta-energy
from natural singularities that exist in all fluids. Any vortex in a medium
utilizes the equiangular spiral and is therefore a Phi-ratio singularity.
Air has the same vortex quality as fluids and in this case, it is from
air that the Meta-energy is drawn. A liquid crystal focuses the collected
orgone energy that then enters the longitudinal electromagnetic axis of
a freshly fertilized turtle egg. As the blasto-disc descends toward the
center of the yoke, the electromagnetic axis rotates ninety degrees transferring
the Orgone energy to the ivory arms of the Orgonome. A single pulse is
released from the Orgonome (an example of non-human psychokinesis) and
discharged into the water box, which then undergoes simple translational
motion back and forth within the frame of the motor. A control singularity,
the tetrakis-hexahedron-heptahedron, holds the pulse of Orgone energy
a fraction of a second before it is released into the water box to create
a time-delay pattern so that the pulses of the two sides of Oroccu boxes
are out of phase with each other. Thus, when one set of Oraccu boxes and
their Orgonomes are producing psychokinesis, the other set is at rest
and vice-versa. The controls are made of piezoelectric crystals that must
be stared at for at least one hour daily while blinking at the rate of
two blinks per second. This means that two people must blink out of phase
with each other by a half-second at four control crystals at once to get
them working properly. The crystals' effect as controls is further modified
by rotating them.
As a biotechnic machine, this design phase exhibits a relatively low order
of work efficiency, which will be improved in later designs.
