James DeMeo, R.I.P.

On April 5, 2022, the Wilhelm Reich Museum announced the death of Reichian researcher, James DeMeo (author of THE ORGONE ACCUMULATOR HANDBOOK and THE DYNAMIC ETHER OF COSMIC SPACE):

It is with sorrow that we note the death of James DeMeo, PhD, a researcher and teacher of Reich’s work for more than 40 years. As a student in the Geography Department at the University of Kansas, DeMeo demonstrated significant effects on rainfall from use of a cloudbuster, resulting in his 1979 Masters thesis “Preliminary Analysis of Changes in Kansas Weather Coincidental to Experimental Operations with a Reich Cloudbuster,” which he self-published as a book in 2010. His subsequent work on a hypothesis about the origins of human armoring in the same department led to his 1986 PhD dissertation, expanded and published in 1998 as Saharasia: The 4000 BCE Origins of Child Abuse, Sex-Repression, Warfare and Social Violence, In the Deserts of the Old World. DeMeo published an orgonomic journal, Pulse of the Planet for a number of years beginning in 1989. An enlarged issue of this was published in 2002 under the title Heretics’ Notebook. Most recently, in 2019, he published an extended historical study, The Dynamic Ether of Cosmic Space.

DeMeo started an independent research and teaching lab, Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory in 1979, from which until his death he continued research and teaching on bion experiments, the effects of the orgone accumulator (e.g., on plant growth), weather modification using the cloudbuster (e.g., in the American southwest), and other related subjects. He was hired during droughts in Greece, Eritrea and other places to use the cloudbuster in attempts to produce rain and achieved some noted successes. He described much of this work in a talk at the 2007 International Conference on Orgonomy in Rangeley, Maine sponsored by the Wilhelm Reich Museum.

Click HERE to visit DeMeo's website. 

In January of 2020, DeMeo appeared on THE HIGHERSIDE CHATS. You can hear that interview directly below....

James DeMeo | Wilhelm Reich, Orgone Energy Devices, & The Cosmic Ether