Leon Southgate on Reich’s Forbidden Science

In this episode of Basis Actual for Food for Thought Radio, I revisit the origins of The Bases Project and our early 1990s interviews with Barry King and Lisa Williams before diving deep with guest Leon Southgate into orgonomy, Wilhelm Reich’s disputed life‑energy research, and the technologies and controversies it sparked. We cover Reich’s bions and the Oranur experiment, cloudbusting and weather work, Trevor James Constable’s “bioforms,” Royal Rife’s frequency and microscopy claims, and the long arc of suppression around ether physics from Michelson–Morley to the present day. Leon shares his own 2017 Oranur replication, attempts to interface consciousness with subtle energy using an Egely wheel, and how these ideas intersect with agriculture, water, and health. Along the way we connect cultural touchpoints and researchers who helped carry these threads forward: Kate Bush’s Cloudbusting and Peter Reich’s A Book of Dreams; Terry Nation’s Blake’s 7 and the character ORAC; Victor Schauberger’s vortex insights; and contemporary orgonomy resources. If you’re new to this territory, this conversation offers a brisk primer; if you’ve travelled it for years, you’ll appreciate the specifics, dates, and pointers to primary materials.'The Bases Project' (official): https://thebasesproject.org/'Bases TV' (official hub): https://www.basestv.org/'The Journal of Psychiatric Orgone Therapy' (Psychorgone): https://www.psychorgone.com/Leon Southgate author page (Psychorgone): https://www.psychorgone.com/authors/leon-southgateOrgone & Consciousness by Leon Southgate (Substack): https://orgoneandconsciousness.substack.com/Wilhelm Reich Museum (Orgonon): https://wilhelmreichmuseum.org/Egely Wheel (official): https://egelywheel.net/shopQuest for the Invisibles – Nick Hayes: https://www.questfortheinvisibles.co.uk/Trevor James Constable – The Cosmic Pulse of Life (Book Tree edition): https://thebooktree.com/the-cosmic-pulse-of-life/Trevor James Constable – They Live in the Sky (Book Tree edition): https://thebooktree.com/they-live-in-the-sky/Peter Reich – A Book of Dreams (publisher record via Google Books): https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Book_of_Dreams.html?id=gQ5tAAAAMAAJKate Bush – Cloudbusting (reference): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudbustingBlake’s 7 (series overview): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake%27s_7Royal Raymond Rife (overview): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_RifeJames DeMeo – Publications and Orgone Accumulator Handbook (ORGONE Lab): https://www.orgonelab.org/demeopubs.htm'Left at East Gate' – Larry Warren & Peter Robbins (Google Books record): https://books.google.com/books/about/Left_at_East_Gate.html?id=vfRGPSzlpooCVictor Schauberger (overview): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_SchaubergerCarl (Baron) von Reichenbach – Odic force (overview): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_ReichenbachFranz Anton Mesmer – Animal Magnetism (overview): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_MesmerMichelson–Morley experiment (context): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_experimentPsychorgone article – An Orgone and Consciousness Study (Part Two): https://www.psychorgone.com/orgone-biophysics/an-orgone-and-consciousness-study-part-two