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Pain Relief through orgone and Reiki energies

Darren Burke • January 31, 2025

Reiki, Orgone, and Pain Relief

A study into the healing effects of Reiki and orgone accumulator blankets

Healing, in the context of this blog, is a restoration of wholeness. It is the act of restoring somebody to the state their mind, body and soul are meant to be at. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine NCCAM in America defines “energy healing therapy” as “the channeling of healing energy through the hands of a practitioner into the client’s body to restore a normal energy balance and, therefore, health”.

 

The NCCAM also addresses the concept of energy fields and says: “Practices based on putative energy fields (also called biofields) generally reflect the concept that human beings are infused with subtle forms of energy; qi gong, Reiki, and healing touch are examples of such practices.”

 

Energy Medicine or healing is a collection of holistic healing therapies that access “life force” to create balance and wellness. Life force has been known by dozens of names over thousands of years. It is called chi in China, ki in Japan; prana among Hindu and Tibetan cultures; mana in Polynesia; and baraka in North Africa. We all have the ability to heal but sometimes the healing language needs to be switched on or taught. You need to learn a language your body already speaks and understands – the language of energy.

 

Our body’s cells continually emit and respond to electrochemical signals that keeps us breathing, keeps our hearts pumping, digests food, and keeps us safe when microorganisms and other nasties invade.



So how does healing help the body?

 

The energy system of the human body consists of:

 

  • meridians (energy pathways). These are lines of energy running through the body. They look like a railway network. In a similar way, they link parts of the body at various points along the track. Think acupuncture where needles are placed on specific meridian points
  • chakras (energy centers). These are clockwise spinning vortexes within us. We tend to just recognise and work with the seven main ones although there are multiple other chakras too. Google it and you’ll see total numbers ranging of 22, 112, and even 88,000.
  • the aura or biofield (the body’s own electromagnetic field). This is made of several auric fields extending outwards from the body

 

All of these emit light and electromagnetic energy. It is these parts of the human anatomy that an energy healer engages to balance and restore health. We are a series of interacting multidimensional subtle-energy systems, and that if these energy systems become imbalanced will affect the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual planes. Healing will rebalance the subtle energy templates with the right frequency of vibrational medicine. Consider the word disease as being hyphenated to dis-ease i.e. the body not being at ease with itself.

 

Healing in the sense of non-surgical or medicinal interventions isn’t widely accepted by the mainstream health professions. As science can’t prove the benefits, or even that they exist, they simply debunk them. Yet some of what are known as complementary or alternative therapies were the only healing methods available before modern medicine. Acupuncture for example has been noted in records dating back 10,000 years.

 

So, on to the healing modalities that I used in a case study over the last few months. I have been studying and channelling Reiki for over 4 years. I use it daily in my own life. Most of you will know what Reiki is so I’ll not go into it here. I will instead focus on orgone energy.

 

I met Katja, the founder and creative driver, of the Orgone Room (www.theorgoneroom.com) several times when we both traded at various spiritual events. I was fascinated by the energy benefits that the blanket promised. Katja talked with such enthusiasm, passion, and knowledge and I was intrigued by its benefits.

 

In February 2024 I bought myself one. The moment I excitedly opened the package I knew I had made the right choice. Within 10 seconds of wrapping myself in the blanket, I felt incredibly strong waves of energy to my solar plexus and sacral chakras. As a Reiki healer, I knew I had to test the blanket out on clients. Little did I know just what a profound effect it was to have on them.

 

The pioneer of orgone energy was Wilhelm Reich (1897 – 1957). Reich was an apprentice of Sigmund Freud and a prominent psychoanalyst in Freud’s inner circle. He believed that neuroses and physical illness existed due to a lack of orgone energy within the body. This orgone energy he theorised existed in the atmosphere as well as within us.

Dr Reich applied research of psychological disorders to the behaviour of orgone. He found that energy blocked by traumatic memories was stored in the tissues of the body, which can cause muscular tension. He called this accumulation and blockage “armouring.” We know it better as stored trauma or PTSD nowadays. 

He felt that giving the body extra orgone energy might enable it to overcome the blockages, so he designed and built a box called the “orgone accumulator”. The accumulator’s organic layers attracted atmospheric energy which was directed inward by the metal (non-organic) layers. Any energy reflected outward by the metal layers was immediately re-absorbed by the organic material, attracted back to the metal, and directed toward the inside of the box. The result was a higher concentration of orgone energy inside the box. The more layers, the stronger the concentration.

 

He constructed accumulators large enough for a person to sit in and in 1941 began experimental treatments with cancer patients. All were terminal cases. Reich promised no cure nor charged any money. Over a period of time, the patients showed marked improvement: relief of pain, healthier blood condition, weight gain. The treatment wasn’t intended to reverse the patients’ terminal diagnosis, but it did ease pain and suffering.

“We consider the discovery of the orgone energy among the greatest events in human history.”

(from a letter to the American Medical Association, signed by 17 medical doctors in 1949)

Reich was vilified by some in the establishment for his views and work. Undeterred, he continued to experiment with orgone and created a cloudbuster – an inverted version of the orgone accumulator, designed to break down orgone in clouds and cause rainfall. In 1953, two farmers paid him to create rain to protect their crops. This did happen, crops survived, he was paid, but there is no scientific evidence, just anecdotal evidence. It did put him on the radar of the Federal Drug Administration though. In 1954 an injunction was granted stopping Reich from selling or promoting the orgone generators across state lines. 

 

In 1956 a well-meaning colleague transported a generator to a different county. Reich was arrested and found guilty of contempt of court. He was incarcinated and six tons of Reichs’ books, journals and papers were confiscated then burned in New York. He subsequently died in prison. 

 

Reich's son, Peter, said of his father in 2011, "He was a nineteenth-century scientist; he wasn't a twentieth-century scientist. He didn't practice science the way scientists do today. He was a nineteenth-century mind who came crashing into twentieth-century America. And boom!” Therein lies the problem – energy healing can’t be proven by science, so scientists debunk it saying it doesn’t exist!

 

Interest in Reich’s work existed long after his death. In 2018, a non-scientific study placed some subjects in an accumulator box, and others in a wooden box. Sensors were placed on subjects.

  • Heart rate monitors showed no noticeable difference between subjects. 
  • The breathing monitors showed those in the accumulator box exhibited deeper states of breathing, which suggests the subjects entered a deeper state of tranquility.
  • Stress sensors showed that stress levels of subjects in the fake accumulator rose the longer they stayed inside the box. Stress levels of those in the real accumulator decline. 

 

Although not a conclusive study, it does indicate that the box created along the lines of Reich’s work had greater benefit.

 

Using Reich’s findings of orgone generating via organic and non-organic matter, all manner of things have been created, including blankets. The blanket I have is similar in shape to a duvet and covers the body from the root to throat chakra. It contains alternating layers of British sheep wool and pliable steel wool. My experience of the blanket’s energy when I first used it led me to starting a trial. 

 

I offered treatments where initially clients would receive only Reiki. Then I would conclude the session by placing the orgone blanket over the subject. In total I gave approximately 25 treatments to 20 different clients. While writing this blog, I also saw a few others! Some of the subjects had received Reiki treatments with me prior to this study, most hadn’t.

 

As this isn’t a full scientific study, I will just give points of feedback from sessions rather than a few thousand words of somewhat dry rhetoric. Apologies to those I saw for calling them “subjects” but all client data I hold is anonymous. I thank you again for helping and supporting me. 

 

Subjects had a mix of experiences of energy healing. I needed that to be so. To get a representative view needed a representative group. There were a mix of ages, the group was mainly female. Subjects either laid on the blanket, or the blanket placed on them. Areas of known pain were covered by the blanket.

 

During treatments given to the first few subjects, they reported feeling the usual effects of Reiki i.e. relaxed, calmed, content, regaining balance within themselves. After the blanket was placed over them though, these sensations became more heightened. One subject who has fibromyalgia reported that the blanket left the areas that are normally inflamed and painful feeling cool and pain free. From this feedback, I decided to change the parameters of the study to focus solely on whether pain relief can be achieved through Reiki and orgone energies.

 

Most subjects had increased levels of stress or emotional struggle. Physical and chronic conditions included fibromyalgia, auto-immune weakness, unstable blood limits, lupus, heart conditions (including recent heart attack and angina), bulging disc, sciatic discomfort, skin disorders, menopause.

 

All feedback from the sessions was positive. All subjects reported changes either physically or emotionally. Comments included:

 

  • Felt comfortably cool/cold causing physical discomfort to subside
  • Felt the energy more on left side, but I have recently been working on feminine energy
  • Hands tingling from the start of the treatment
  • I felt heavier energy down the right arm, gentler on left
  • It felt like a weighted blanket without the weight
  • It grounded my nervous energy
  • Where the blanket was, my legs, arm, and head felt disconnected and light
  • Calmed my energy from the inside
  • Felt heavy, then floaty, sinking into relaxation
  • Deep relaxation. I don’t normally sleep except in my own bed. I did sleep here
  • I felt a flow across the sacral chakra
  • Felt like I was lifting off the bed
  • Internally, the blanket cooled me, so this reduced the discomfort of fibromyalgia
  • Pain in legs reduced as I moved the blanket over my knees.
  • My fibro felt cooled
  • I was anxious when I arrived but calmer at the end
  • I felt energy flowing down my left side
  • After the session I felt grounded, calm inside, and feelings of disconnect I arrived with had disappeared; the blanket created a feeling of energetic connection
  • I had been feeling leg cramps since I had a stent fitted. The blanket stopped the cramps

 

Some subjects reported an extremely relaxing night’s sleep the evening of the treatment, with the benefits carrying forward to the next day. 

 

Wilhelm Reich asserted that energy blockages would benefit from orgone energy. The blanket used in the study followed the designs Reich used in his accumulator in that it uses layers of organic and inorganic materials. It is safe to say that the positive results this study reported are consistent with those experienced by Reich and also in the 2018 study. 

 

In conclusion, this study combined Reiki energy, orgone energy, and connections made with subjects that had known short term and chronic conditions. All subjects without exception reported positive outcomes. It is my belief that the positive outcomes can be attributed to:

 

  • The connection created between the Reiki practitioner and the subjects
  • The intention of the Reiki practitioner to create balance between orgone and Reiki energies being delivered
  • The experience of the practitioner of channelling Reiki
  • The setting created by the Reiki practitioner
  • The intuitive abilities of the Reiki practitioner to understand the relationship between the energies, and the delivery of them to the subjects
  • The stored energy of the blanket remaining high due to the care given by the practitioner when it wasn’t in use


The treatments given by the author are classed as complementary therapies.  The author is a fully qualified, experienced, and insured holistic and body work therapist.


At no time did this study promise to deliver long-term alleviation or cure to subjects' conditions. Results were short term relief and do not replace mainstream medical treatments subjects currently receive.


The content of this study is the copyrighted property of Darren Burke of Darren Burke Energy Healing. It may be reproduced in part or whole, but reference and credit must be given to Darren Burke as the creator and author.

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