Wilhelm Reich and orgone energy

Wilhelm Reich Austrian doctor, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He worked for a time with the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society being one of Freud's most brilliant disciples, he believed that the concept of libido was actually biologically based and that mental health depended on libidinal flow.

Reich worked on sexuality and the psyche, arguing that "a person's mental health can be measured by his orgasmic potential." He affirmed with this theory that a person with neurosis cannot enjoy sex without limits or inhibitions. In one of his discoveries he points out that non-neurotic people experience "the orgasm reflex" this means that they can experience the spasms that occur in the hip as involuntary and repeated movements without having control over them during the orgasmic moment.

This biophysical theory led him to the development of the concept of orgone energy that describes it as the universal life force in a concept similar to what we now know as oriental practices: prana, chi, kundalini, etc. All his theories focused mainly on the word orgone that has the same root as organism and orgasm. According to this theory, orgone is as important as light, it is omnipresent and blue in color so that the human eye can see it in the sky and the sea, being present in everything and everyone.

In 1940, he built the first Organic Energy Accumulator. Visibly it was a box with a metal lining where he put his patients in order to make the energy flow in their bodies.

Reich confirmed that each person is creating a shell that does not let the natural energy flow, said shell is created by each person from their thoughts, habits and attitudes. Reich claimed that the breastplate is located at seven points on the body: eyes, mouth, neck, solar plexus, pelvis and genitals. The therapies he performed on his patients were to unblock them and that the orgone could flow in their bodies through exercises, sounds and movements.

When he began to market the orgone accumulators, he was sentenced and called a scammer. He was chased by the USA and Hitler. He was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to burn laboratory supplies and his manuscripts. Reich was one of the most persecuted and censored men of that time.

What would happen to a Wilhelm Reich with an opportunity for freedom of investigation and expression these days?