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My first steps on the Orgonite trail took place in Spring 2008, when I decided to distribute the mysterious ‘pucks’ of resin, metal and crystal among friends with allotments and gardens. The resultant, and unexpected, vegetable growth (FT249:24) only served to send me further down the path. Orgonite is a recent invention building on the concept of Dr Wilhelm Reich’s Orgone Accumulator, a device he believed stored and concentrated positive energy (see FT107:26–30). The Orgonite pucks are solid-state versions of the same concept which are intended to take in negative energies and emit positive ones.

In 2009, I decided to find out more about how this simple composite mat­erial – made from aluminium shavings, resin and a crystal – functioned when used by a wider group of people.