CORE (Cosmic Orgone Engineering), Volume 6, Numbers 1–4 (July 1954)

Provenance and Historical Source

This material originates from the historical Reich Orgone Archive / Reich Archive West preservation and microfilm project devoted to preserving and disseminating the published works of Wilhelm Reich, M.D.

Historical microfilm documentation records that Eva Reich Moise, M.D., produced the original silver-base microfilm masters in 1957 at Rangeley, Maine, with the assistance of William Moise. Eva Reich is identified as Compiler and Project Consultant, and Harold Treacy as Production Co-ordinator.

The subsequent microfilm operation was sponsored by the Reich Orgone Archive, with surviving documentation identifying the project with Reich Archive West, San Francisco, 1973.

The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) independently documents the historical existence of Reich Archive West. The Aurora Karrer Reich Collection (MS C 580) contains an archival item specifically catalogued:

“Reich Archive West – year index and automatic title finder, 1975”

Box 2, Folder 19 — Creation: 1975

National Library of Medicine - Reich Archive West

The present digital reproduction forms part of the documented historical transmission and preservation of Wilhelm Reich's published materials through the Reich Orgone Archive / Reich Archive West preservation project.

This provenance information is provided to document the historical chain of preservation and reproduction associated with the material and to assist researchers in understanding its archival history.

Historical microfilm documentation: Wilhelm Reich, M.D. Microfilm Collection — Table of Contents, identifying Eva Reich, M.D., William Moise, Harold Treacy, the Reich Orgone Archive, and Reich Archive West.

• Author: Wilhelm Reich, M.D.
• Core Content: An epistemological mapping establishing the historical, technical, and socio-pathological framework of the OROP Desert Project.
• Key Assertions: Wilhelm Reich coins the operational term "OROP" to designate technological engineering operations utilizing primordial cosmic energy functions to combat physical desert expansion and regional droughts. He argues that the physical deserts spreading across the globe (such as the American Southwest and the Near East) are natural expressions of atmospheric dehydration and energetic immobilization. Crucially, Wilhelm Reich asserts that the primary obstacle to reversing these ecological dead zones is not the physical wilderness, but the "Emotional Desert" of armored humanity. He institutes a structural division between OROP Desert (engineering operations involving the outer physical wilderness) and OREP (operations regarding the Emotional Plague of mankind), proving that both systems share a functional identity rooted in the somatic shrinkage, immobilization, and dying of core biological vitality.

• Author: Wilhelm Reich, M.D.
• Core Content: A natural-scientific survey tracking the seasonal, mechanical, and visual parameters of the planetary orgone energy envelope.
• Key Assertions: The text re-interprets common weather phenomena through functional energetic dynamics:
  • Smoke Behavior: The vertical or horizontal drifting of chimney smoke is shown to depend directly on the expansive or contractive state of the surrounding orgone envelope, which actively counteracts or yields to the pull of gravitational acceleration.
  • Fog Dynamics: Morning fog on autumn days is modeled as water vapor trapped due to a seasonal weakening of the envelope's expansive, anti-gravity capacity in lower-temperature zones; solar radiation excites the field, boosting its dispersive power to lift and carry the vapor high up into the sky.
  • Arid Distribution: Wilhelm Reich links chronic drought zones to highly uniform, even distributions of atmospheric energy that completely lack potential differences, thereby preventing the local concentrations required to condense water vapor into clouds.
  • Solar Rings: The visual ring appearing around the sun or moon before bad weather is shown to vary in diameter based on the orgonotic contraction of the planetary envelope, which pulls downward toward the earth's crust to condense moisture prior to rainfall

• Author: Wilhelm Reich, M.D.
• Core Content: The formal blueprint, directional drawing rules, and atmospheric equations governing the operation of the Cloudbuster apparatus.
• Key Assertions: Wilhem Reich outlines how the Cloudbuster functions by shifting the standard setup of a lightning rod. Rather than grounding sudden bolts, the device utilizes a series of long, hollow parallel pipes connected via flexible steel cables to a flowing body of water to slowly and steadily draw off atmospheric charges according to the orgonomic potential.
  • Cloud Destruction: Achieved by aiming the pipes directly at the core center of a cloud mass, drawing out its inner charge, and lowering its cohesive capacity so the water vapor can no longer remain suspended.
  • Cloud Creation: Achieved by aiming the pipes into the clear sky directly adjacent to a small cloud, drawing energy away from the periphery to artificially increase the potential difference and influence the cloud mass to grow.
  • Fog Lifting via the Spiral Draw: Because dense fog presents a uniform, static physical state devoid of potential differences, the operator must actively puncture this equilibrium. The protocol requires drilling a hole directly into the zenith for 15–45 seconds, then turning the pipes in a slow, downward spiral toward the horizon with brief 2–5 second stops across 4 to 8 full revolutions, followed by a brief 30-second triggering push.
     
     

• Core Content: Real-time engineering logs tracking the programmatic execution of regional atmospheric draws.
• Key Assertions: The issue catalogs multiple successful field trials: 
  • OROP Rangeley (August 1–2, 1952): Reich utilized an 8-pipe truck-mounted unit to execute an extended 80-minute draw directed NNW, successfully building a high potential that broke a severe New England drought and sent unpredicted rain fronts propagating across Maine.
  • OROP Ellsworth (July 5–6, 1953): Executed upon the request of local blueberry growers on a "produce and pay" contract. By executing a 70-minute draw from the east to reverse the planetary current, the operation built a massive potential that pulled a dense marine fog front inland from the Atlantic Ocean, dropping 1.74 inches of unpredicted, steady rain that completely broke a multi-week drought.
  • OROP Children's Parade (August 8–9, 1953): Successfully tested rain prevention over Rangeley by keeping only a single pipe open at a 15-degree angle pointing westward to act as an energetic barrier, drawing off just enough charge to keep oncoming clouds in a state of continuous dissipation over the town while it rained heavily across the surrounding countryside.
  • OROP Boston (September 2, 1953): A simultaneous, long-range draw utilizing three separate Cloudbuster units stationed at Orgonon. The draw built a major potential 250 miles away over Boston, triggering a sudden, unpredicted 40 mph storm that broke a lethal 97-degree urban heat wave.

• Core Content: Hand-drawn ledger plates tracking the first 97 field operations, paired with registered correspondence sent to federal authorities to secure legal protection.
• Key Assertions: The appendix reproduces the primary handwritten log pages from 1952 detailing the exact dates, directions, and wind-shift effects that tracked the development of cloud engineering. The section compiles a critical record of legal notifications: a formal registered warning sent to Fred J. Nutter (Maine Commissioner of Agriculture) sharing the responsibility of rainmaking to prevent vexatious liability; a notice sent to Governor Burton M. Cross predicting a coming severe drought; and a formal telegram sent directly to President Eisenhower warning that the killer heat waves of 1954 were due to DOR clouds and offering the services of the institute. The issue documents the creation of the U.S. Government's official Weather Evaluation Board under Captain Howard T. Orville, and closes with a technical notice sent to the Air Force Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, ensuring that the project's data on spaceships and space propulsion remained safely embedded within the public record.