Part Two:
Results & Conclusions

“Here we touch upon the greatest riddle of life: the function of self-perception and self-awareness” Reich, Selected Writings, pp519.

A. SYNOPSIS

In Part one of this paper the background to the orgone consciousness study was discussed. Namely, Reich’s views on consciousness in his middle and latter periods, the repeat of the oranur experiment by Southgate in 2017 and the building of a philosophical framework regarding orgone and consciousness.

The paper examined the rationale and methods involved in the study. It also looked at the problems of using a technological approach to examine consciousness outside of organisms. A rationale was given that only direct experiential evidence suffices to examine whether non-organism entities (like an energy field) possess consciousness. The methods were also based on the idea of synchronicity increasing due to consciousness (based on the organisational aspects of consciousness).

In the experimental sessions a participant asks a question of the energy field, numbers are evinced mechanically (from the field) and then the person spends the night in the energy and dreams are recorded.

The object of the study is to examine if there were unusual or increased synchronicity occurring between the above parameters. Two aspects were considered possible evidence: direct communication within the dream state and increases in synchronicity demonstrated by the numbers and their correlations. Synchronicity, or anomalous organisation, may be an effect of the increase in quantity, and activity of conscious energy.

This second part of this paper outlines the results of the study and makes some conclusions.

Its main conclusion was that the participant questions were answered and that increased synchronicity did take place. This is proposed as possible evidence of consciousness in an energy.

B. RESULTS

A full account of each participant’s session is available (1). For this report a condensed version is given outlining the key correlations.

Run 1, Summer 2025.

Participant #1

• 56-year-old male working in healthcare.

• Normally dreams moderately with average recall.

• Dream lucidity and recall was significantly greater. Effects continued afterward.

• Question: about romance.

• Specific dream answers to his question, highlighting both a cause, effects and solutions.

• Key number correlation – 64.

• Key dream scene: an anchor which tied to a scene in the movie, ’Yellow Submarine’ which in turn tied to the song, ‘When I’m 64’.

• Many ties between 64 (and its factor, 8) to the dreams, question, movie and song.

• The unexplained oranur sound (termed the rumble by the researcher) occurred just before the session.

• Energy field seemed to prompt him to awaken and record information during the night.

Synchronicity in Real life:

• Before one of the later sessions the dream scene with the anchor appeared to be re-enacted in the researcher’s life in a large coastal search and rescue operation he witnessed at close hand.

Participant #2

• 21-year-old female student and data analyst.

• Normally dreams quite intensely, fair recall.

• Dreaming style changed. Lucidity was baseline, quantity and recall greater.

• Question: about her new university course.

• Oranur rumble occurred during the participant’s arrival.

• Multiple pre-cognitive numbers and words from participant.

• Key number correlations, 1,7.

• Experimental numbers were statistically mostly the less significant median of 1 but their significance increased for other reasons: the exact and multiple pre-cognition and that another participant, #5, also had a similar sequence of the median number. It also linked to the correlation principle of Run 2 (triple digit repeat numbers: more later).

• Energy felt like it prompted her to awaken and write the dreams down.

• Participant felt nervous of the session.

• Dreams (and numbers) specifically answered her question: follow her ‘singular path’.

• Dreams spoke of the key things holding her back.

• Joke in the dreams about a rat and the feeling of not being nourished.

Synchronicity in Real Life:

• Experimental and precognitive number, 117, ‘leaked out’ in bizarre ways, firstly in an accident regarding water and a mobile phone. The phone later unexpectedly recovered but the researcher now had two smartphones. It turned out to be essential for the experiment to have two devices (to evidence the existence of the oranur sound, the rumble).

• An overheard, loud and improbable conversation from a supermarket worker featuring 117 (same worker was to ‘take part’ again in Run 2).

• The ‘dream rat’ appeared for real. A huge dead rat turned up outside a local school. The researcher had to remove it.

Participant #3

• Mid-70s, male, ex-head-gardener, artistic.

• Dreams a lot, good recall, regular bad dreams.

• Mildly increased dream recall, vivid dreams just before awakening.

• Precognitive number during meditation. Number referenced his conversation with the energy and his key experimental number – 3 or 33.

• Question: about health, wealth and peace. Dreams and numbers appeared to be answering a deeper narrative regarding fear of death, worries about being looked after, and having power over his life. Also, the repayment of ‘debts.’

• Had felt anxious about the session.

• Most of the night spent in a healing phase due to tiredness.

• No prior oranur rumble sound.

• Key experimental number reflected in the dreams – 33. There were two key scenes both having a central component of three people, so 3 and 3 or 33. The 33 also had multiple references both to the participant’s question and to his life.

Participant #4

• 65-year-old male, social activist, ex-Royal Navy, served in Falklands war.

• Normally dreams little with minimal recall.

• Dreaming pattern reversed. Dreamt continually with excellent recall, waking up at regular intervals to record his impressions.

• Question: about bringing joy and positivity to the world and about being true to himself.

• Had the largest outlier in the Run 1 numbers with a three-digit number – 104. This was also his key correlation number.

• Snapshot dreams involving a photo of himself (self-reflection) and a dream of a song (reminiscent of orgone), A dream offering advice about activism and one about the positivity of social engagement. Lastly, about plasma/energy and AI (a current interest).

• Oranur energy in the premises seemed very strong the night of the session.

• The outlier number, 104, had multiple references, it signified crowds, which were prominent in many of the dreams but also the Liver Building, war and empire. Power struggles were referenced by the other numbers.

• The participant was himself an ‘outlier’ due to his normal dreaming patterns.

• Rumble sound before session.

Synchronicity in Real Life:

• The researcher sleeping upstairs nearly had an OBE (Out of Body Experience) brought on by a reverberating sound like that which occurred in the oranur experiment of Southgate in 2017 (2).

Participant #5

• 43-year-old male, vegetable gardener and carer.

• Dreams vividly in long sequences nightly, good recall.

• Short, impactful key scenes, mostly involving the playing of games (two of which correlated with his key experimental number, 8). There was one non-game scene, about waiting, in which he perhaps felt, ‘snookered’. (This refers to being unable to move or in a difficult position generally, taken from the game of snooker). The participant was waiting for a big leg operation for himself and a major operation for his mother, scheduled for the same time.

• Question: about a mission to activate energy sites around the world and about a partner.

• His numbers had 3 instances of the mode and a 5 but these numbers were highly significant symbolically as they tied into the dream games and Participant #2’s similar numbers. Also, the sum of his numbers tied directly to a key number of Run 1 – 8. He additionally had a connection to Run 2 via 3-digit repeat numbers.

• The 8 also signifies astrological aspects – the symbol for eternity being an 8 on its side – ∞. It also factors 4 twice which can be a reference to the earth (4 compass directions). Therefore, ‘astrological functions upon the earth’ and ‘couple’.

Synchronicity in Real life:

• Not long after the session participant had a mild OBE.

 

Run 2, Winter 2025

Participant #6

• 56-year-old male (also Participant #1).

• Hard getting to sleep, excess of energy was felt.

• Normally average dream lucidity and recall.

• Dream lucidity, quantity and recall higher than session 1, much higher than baseline.

• Question: chronological past-life overview.

• 8 dreams and 2 hypnagogic episodes: 10 episodes in total. 8 dreams clearly recalled, 2 dreams having partial recall. (Hypnagogic episodes are halfway between being awake and dreaming, the person is not fully unconscious).

• Extensive overview of possible past lives via a hypnagogic episode and dreams. Connections to England, Germany and Asia through the British Empire. Past lives apparently mainly ET, then animal, then earth human, in that order.

• The key number was 8 which is the numerology of the sum of the experimental numbers (26 or 2 + 6 = 8).

• Key number correlated to the dreams via the number of dreams – 8.

• 8 was also a key number theme from Run 1.

• Correlation to the number of hypnagogic episodes from the first digit of the sum – 2 of 26.

• Key number via the sum connected to the first session for this participant where the key number was also the sum – 64.

• Twenty-Six is also 62 mirrored, indicating 2nd as 62 is 2 less than 64.

• ‘Double cosmological cycles’, 12 x 2, (12 meaning cosmos) implied via the sum of the second and fourth experimental numbers – 24. The first and second numbers also created a power number or 1,1.

Participant #7

• 23-year-old language teacher. National level athlete in her teens. Learning Vedic astrology (traditional Indian astrology). Moving to southern Europe shortly.

• Normally dreams most nights with clear dreams and good recall 2/3 times a week.

• Dream recall/clarity possibly slightly improved compared to her nightly average.

• Took her a while to get to sleep, her day had been busy. Felt a pressure band around her head shortly before retiring, which dissipated – possibly an effect from oranur.

• Vivid dream with good recall.

• Question: about her move abroad.

• Has a strong energy field: her experimental numbers were correspondingly high, in the low hundreds.

• Key correlating number – 2. It appeared 3 times as digits within the other experimental numbers.

• Many 2’s in her dream, mostly through use of duality, 4 instances.

• Experimental numbers focused on 2 via its appearance as a digit three times in the initial numbers and via factorisation – there was 2 experimental numbers which had 2 factors only (one was a prime thus having only 2 factors overall, 127, and one had 4 factors, 226, but only two prime factors). One of her experimental numbers contained a double 2, 226. The sum ended in 2.

• The sum, 712, also reflected that she was the 7th participant with an interest in astrology – 12.

• After the dreaming it was found out that she had a strong personal ‘angel’ number of 2, 2, 2.

• There were some 12 instances of her angel number 2 associated with the session altogether, again reflecting the sum (7, 12).

• Her numbers, via numerology, reflected her friend’s numbers (Participant #2) of 1, 1, 7, 1. Participant #7’s numbers in Run 2 reduced in numerology to 7, 1, 1, 1, a number anagram of 1, 1, 7, 1. Participant #7’s sum also reflects a key number from Run 1 – 17, the 71(2) mirrored.

• The session finished on the 22nd of the 11th, another occurrence of her angel number (2, 2, and 2 – the 11th as 1 + 1 = 2).

• No prior rumble.

Synchronicity in Real Life:

• The oranur device started rumbling at 2.22pm the day after the session.

• Researcher had two supermarket-based, unlikely coincidences involving multiple 2’s.

• Double prolonged sighting of a large and rare bird (in an urban area) by the researcher, a British Buzzard (which perhaps signifies the ‘taking flight’ of the participant). The Buteo Buteo or common British Buzzard is a large bird of prey, usually brown in colour with a wingspan of about 1.25 metres. It is usually seen in countryside locations. It has recovered well from being endangered in the early 1900s. It has wide wings, a gliding motion in flight and feeds on small animals and insects. It is very unusual for such a bird to be seen in an urban area.

• Humorous occurrence with a dog breed and name (also indicating a very unlikely 2 but separated in time by some 43 years).

• A clock appeared to the participant in real life during the session displaying her angel number (2, 2, 2) instead of the actual time (8am).

Participant #8

• 21-year-old female (also participant #2).

• Normally, vivid dreaming, fair recall.

• Dream lucidity and recall significantly raised from 1st session and from normal.

• Question: where is her soul from?

• Was anxious about the session.

• Before and afterwards: hyper-lucid dreams occurred connected to the session.

• Highest experimental number was 177, reflecting her key number in 1st session (117 or 17).

• New phenomenon: One of the dreams was a hybrid of an OBE and a dream.

• The question answered by a strange, violent scene within the OBE/dream. Decoded it stated that she was ‘from’ a divine source and had been ‘spoken’ into existence.

• There was one occurrence of angel number, 1, 1, 1 within the dream encoded as a time on her phone (the phone appeared as an OBE/dream entity in the dream). The number also appeared in a hypnagogic episode between dreams as a voice recounting a time.

• Although the participant mainly asked about the origin of her soul, she was also given an extensive past life overview within 7 dreams.

• Key correlating number, like Run 1, was 7, but here correlated by 7 dreams.

• The past life overview concerned lives as a warrior as well as non-human lives, possibly in other dimensions, and problems encountered in multiple past existences. Dreams also reflected that she had known her partner and current family before.

Synchronicity in Real Life:

• Oranur device appeared to precognitively predict both the session number and some contents. Three days before the session the oranur rumble sound occurred but the main band of sound changed pitch from 32 Hz to 35 Hz, 3 + 5 = 8 for the 8th session. This is the only time the main band has changed pitch.

• The oranur rumble sound, on the day of the session, predicted a key number from the dreams, 3, through the unusually short length of the rumble (3 minutes). It also referenced the prior key number of ‘17’ via the clock time it occurred and finished.

• Sighting of possible plasma orbs and strange drone by the participant before the session of her friend, Participant #7.

Follow-up support required and ongoing.

Participant #9

• Energetic female in mid-70s with 3 adult children that she raised alone. Loves dancing and music. She is thinking about moving to Asia.

• Normally vivid dreaming, excellent recall.

• Instead had key, lucid scenes.

• Question: about a move abroad.

• Like Participants #6 and #8 felt prompted to awaken between each dream.

• Series of dream flashes with 7 key scenes. Key correlation number – 7.

• She also had an OBE/dream hybrid. In one dream she watched a fly crawling along the actual bed covering she was sleeping under.

• Dreams answered her question.

• Aural dream of a current pop song, the lyrics of which reference her question in multiple ways.

• Angel number of 1, 1, 1 appeared twice within the experimental numbers (6 x the 1 digit).

Synchronicity in Real Life:

• Day of the session oranur rumble sound started up at 5.40pm, 3 bands of sounds instead of 1, the main one at its usual 32 Hz but also a new secondary one at 64 and 100 Hz, so a 3. The rumble occurred at 5.40pm which is 5 + 4 + 0 = 9, mirroring the 9th participant. Since this time the tri-band appearance of the rumble has continued.

• Had precognitive numbers. Her ‘lucky’ numbers sum to 17, 7 being her key correlation number and 17 being a key correlation for the experiment overall, especially Run 1. Her second experimental number was 1710.

• Buzzard was seen again, like participant #7 who was just about to move abroad – to ‘take flight’, Participant #9 also had connections to the same buzzard (and is considering a move abroad). The researcher saw the buzzard 3 days before and 3 days after session #9.

• Researcher experienced an anomaly involving the time of 3.11am and a freezer being mysteriously unplugged shortly after the session. He narrowly avoiding the spoiling of an expensive Christmas item – a goose, a bird known for migrations.

• After the session when the researcher was visiting to do an acupuncture treatment. There was a black Hackney cab in her carpark with the rare registration plate of 111. (A Hackney cab is the traditional black taxi often associated with London, though they are also used in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool and Manchester).

Participant #10

• Busy grandmother with 3 grown-up children. Recently active Christian.

• Normally dreams nightly but with little recall. There is one or two vivid dreams a month with recall.

• Question: what is her true path for herself and family and what it is that is guiding her.

• Quite tired on arrival.

• Had been a little anxious regarding the session.

• Slept unusually well by the oranur device.

• Vivid vision during evening by oranur device – in motion and colour. Does not normally have visions. She saw a telescope or tunnel through which she could see a pink night sky with lots of stars and a pink/purple egg-shaped object travelling through the cosmos. It was around the time of 3iAtlas’s perihelion.

• Prior to session #10 the researcher’s dreaming changed. This continued for a week afterwards. There was a dream about a trauma connected to the researcher’s father and his passing during covid era. Also, there was a vivid dream about orgonomy’s recognition in the future (likely at least 50 years from now). Also, further dreams about his father set in a dramatically changed, future London. Dreams had an intense ‘oranur’ quality despite not being directly next to the device.

• Participant dreamt during the session but without recall. It appears the main dream was had on her behalf by the researcher.

• The numbers took a while to elucidate. A manual stop had to be added as there was no zero point (as per additional rule 1). Thereafter her numbers were straightforward.

• She could feel the oranur device’s energy via a sensation of touch. Also, when her thoughts increased, the audible clicks from the wheel count (during number collection) seemed to increase in unison, she reported.

• The key correlation number was 50, third of her four experimental numbers. Five represents the original number in her immediate family and zero is symbolic of family losses experienced (first brother’s passing, her husband in divorce).

• First experimental number may have answered latter part of her question, ‘who is guiding me?’ In numerology, 89 reduces to 17 (commonly meaning the divine) and then to 8 (the oranur device code).

• Her vision answered the 1st part of her question: she should use her acute vision to explore the cosmos. An underlying aspect of the question (regarding her family) was then answered by the researcher’s dream on her behalf.

• Session #10 presaged further research. The experimenter is wondering what would happen if more than 1 person was sleeping in the oranur. Would a shared experience develop, as in Charles Tart’s mutual hypnosis? (3).

• She has a personal angel number of 4, often appearing as 444 or 1414. This connected her to participants #6, #7, #8 and #9 who also had angel numbers appear in Run 2. The number 14 connects her to participants #1, #3 and #4 via Liverpool, the Ark of the Covenant and the Liver building symbology (all 4’s and 14’s). It also connects her to the Biblical aspects of her being a committed Christian recently (144 being a key Biblical number). The 4 was hidden within the numerology of her experimental numbers.

• She was the only participant with two prime numbers in her data. Many of the other prime numbers in the study seemed to also relate to her, representing various aspects of her immediate family.

• On the night of the session the researcher had a vivid dream with the same enhanced feel as the oranur dreams. It was of the researcher going up a lift in a residential tower block with 4 or 5 other people. It was black and white (representing the past). There was an older gent carrying a baby (the lift may represent passing upwards into a new environment). The researcher knew immediately it was significant.

• The next day it was discovered that the researcher’s dream may have been related to a key family event of the participant. The older man in his dream may have been her father. In the late 1950s her mother was pregnant with her first son. The son was born stillborn at full term. Traumatically, the hospital made no provision. Her mother was put into a post-labour ward full of newborns. Her father was sent home with the baby’s body in a box.

Synchronicity in Real Life:

• The morning following the overnight session the researcher was walking in the memorial gardens. He saw the same buzzard but perched on the only tree in the gardens to be in early spring-time blossom (late December, early Cherry Blossom). Unusually, the buzzard was perched low, about 9 foot off the ground. It did not fly away. The researcher had shortly before this point asked for a sign that he had interpreted his dream correctly.

• The oranur was strong overnight waking the researcher up at 4.50am with a sun-tan feeling (indicating high oranur) and a high pitch sound (not the oranur rumble, also indicating high oranur). Four is her personal angel number and 50 was her key experimental correlation number.

• The next day, the researcher, working in nearby Liverpool, saw the rare Hackney taxi-cab plate, ‘3’.

C. CONCLUSIONS

First Run Conclusion

Run 1 was conducted in summer, 2025. The average age was 51, ranging from 21 to 74. There were 4 male participants and 1 female. Younger, female, active participants would be the most sensitive to orgone according to Southgate’s early study (4).

Participants #2, #3 and #5 normally dream quite vividly, Participant #1 is medium, and Participant #4 does not dream much. All 5 participants had different dreaming during the sessions, especially #4. This wasn’t a simple heightening however, some dreamed more, some less. This indicates there could be an intentional process because the dreams appeared to be adjusted to enable better recall. Those who dreamt profusely, dreamt less, but in key scenes. Those who dreamt medium, had heightened lucidity and recall, whilst one person who hardly dreams, dreamt continually.

There was a correlation between the oranur device making the rumbling sound and the commencement of the sessions, 4 out of 5 sessions were preceded by the rumble. This is unusual. The rumble occurs intermittently as little as once a month. Two of the sessions which had a preceding rumble took place on consecutive nights. The rumble has been absent for some time after the experimental runs, especially Run 2. There is no known control over it.

All 5 numerical datasets were meaningful in answering the participant’s questions.

All 5 datasets had multiple number correlations between the numbers and the actual dream content. For example, Participant #1 had a dream about an anchor and two figures nearby. The numbers correlated with the song ‘When I’m 64’ which is in the movie ‘Yellow Submarine’. This movie has an underwater scene featuring an anchor and two figures, one of whom is setting out to rescue people, just as in the dream. The song scene in the movie prominently references Participant #3’s key number too, 33. He is connected to the movie in real life and knows Participant #1. The anchor scene also bizarrely ‘leaked’ into real life for the researcher.

Participant #2’s connection was through the number 7. There was 7 characters in her dreams. Also, the 1s in her data indicated following her ‘singular’ path, 7 indicates completeness.

Participant #3’s connection was through the number 33. There were 2 sets of 3 characters in his dream, one in life, one in death. The participant had multiple problems with broken bones, 33 represents bones as well (via the spinal column). Thirty-three connects to birds and to Liverpool (Liver Birds) through the phoenix symbol of the 33rd degree of masonry. He is a keen bird-keeper raised in Liverpool.

Participant #4’s connection was through the aspect of ’many’ and Navy associations of the number 104 (minus the zero so fourteen for the Liver Building which looks out onto the sea. The building has 14 partial globes on its roof. Digits 1 plus 4, thus 5 signifying the Pentagon, therefore ‘military’, 1 + 0 + 4 = 5).

Participant #5’s association was through the word ‘game’ and through the game of pool represented by the number 8 (which associates with pool) and by the dream snooker cue.

Overall, the numbers are evenly distributed though with a preponderance of ones. There are eleven ‘1’s, the median number. There are nine numbers, or nearly 50% of the dataset that are of greater significance. There are six numbers that are of medium to high significance, (between 10 and 100) and one number over 100, the greatest outlier (Participant #4) and the most significant single number in Run 1. He was literally an ‘outlier’ as he doesn’t normally dream. This was something not known by the researcher beforehand.

Participant #1’s data had the most significant numbers and departure from the median followed by Participant #3. Participants #2 and #5 both had a dominance of the median but their dreams either reflected the key number, 7, or the sum of their numbers, 8 respectively. Both had the mode number three times. There was a connection through the symbolism of the snooker game too (through their age difference and the number of balls in snooker – 22). Triple repeat numbers also tie both in with Run 2. Both participants had an actual connection to Run 2.

Participant #4’s dataset had a sum of 117, a key number for Participant #2 and which kept turning up in real life as well as the 117 or 17 (with the strange synchronicities described).

The entire dataset in Run 1 sums to 255. This number factors by 17, a key number overall, especially in participant #2’s data. Also 17 in numerology turns to 8, the key number for oranur. The number 255 divides by 17 exactly 15 times. The number 15 was the first number in the Run 1 dataset. If one takes the sum of the entire Run 1 dataset as the last number, we have the alpha and omega, a reflection. The two last numbers of the Run 1 dataset, 1 and 5 reflect the first number, 15, another mirror. Five also reflects the 5 participants in 1 experiment, 15. Fifteen also mirrors 51. Oranur was of course discovered in ’51 (1951).

Lastly, the dream content in all 5 sets of dreams answered the question posed by the participants. This is itself a departure from semi-random dreaming. One wouldn’t expect 5 sets of significant dreaming in a row especially in a new environment. All 5 people dreamt and had good recall. Some felt that they were prompted to awake and record their dreams (particularly #1 and #2).

Patterns and references between the individual data also counters coincidence. For example, Participant’s #1 and #3 had a mirror through the number 56 (a sum for Participant #3 and Participant #1’s age). Participant’s #2 and #4’s mirrored through 117. Participants #2 and #5, the youngest participants in Run 1, had two mirrors (three times the median of 1 and the number 22 – representing snooker but also their age difference). Participants #1 and #5 had a mirror through the number 8 and the concept of ‘game’ (chess and pool respectively).

ChatGPT’s analysis noted that Participant #1, #3 and #5’s numbers all encoded the number 8. Participant #1’s numbers factor into 8, as do #3’s. Participant #5’s numbers summed to 8. This was seen as significant by ChatGPT, possibly a deliberate clue left within the data. Participant #1’s data was felt to be the most informative set overall by the AI. It was also noted that Participant #4’s data had the most significant single number as a likely deliberate extreme outlier – 104. All analysis has been by a human apart from that labelled as from AI.

The encoding of the 8 is like a ‘signature’ as 8 is a possible code number for oranur.

No suggestion had been given to elicit the precognitive numbers (Participant #2 and #3).

The number to dream correlation was often based on the number of people in the dream. Participants #2, #3 and #4 had correlations via this method. Participant #5’s correlation was via a concept (games). Participant #1 was via an object connected to a song and movie. The main correlation method changed in Run 2.

Lastly, all 5 participants in Run 1 had at least three 1’s appearing within their experimental numbers. This connects them to the triple digit repeat principle of Run 2, more later.

Tables 1 and 2 summarises the data obtained from the Run 1 participants.

 

Second Run Conclusion

Run 2 was conducted in winter, 2025. Participants had a gender mirror with Run 1 which had 4 males and 1 female. Run 2 had 4 females and 1 male. There was a similar mix of ages and backgrounds with a similar average age (49 years in Run 2). The youngest and the oldest participants had the same ages in both runs (21 and 74).

There were also mirrors between the runs in terms of the actual number data. More later.

The prior rumble sound of the oranur device mirrored between runs. In both runs it rumbled before 4 out of 5 sessions.

Run 2 had some new effects with the rumble sound via the apparent precognitive timing (the rumble length and timing appeared precognitive).

Three participants had greatly changed dreaming, one had a possible small change, one didn’t recall her dreaming but had a significant hypnagogic episode during the evening.

In Run 2, unlike Run 1, the number to dream correlation was often via the number of dreams remembered (in Run 1 it was usually via the number of people in the dreams). In Run 2 there was also not nearly so much correlation between the individual datasets numerically. The main correlation appeared to be via the notion of a repeat 3-digit angel number. The overall sum in Run 2 (3255) signifies the key correlating method by its first digit, 3. The first two digits and the last three digits of the sum have other parallels, more later.

There was two people who were also in Run 1. They both showed a cumulative effect. The second session was much stronger. As in Run 1, some of the people felt they were physically prompted by the energy to awaken and record their dreams – 3 this time.

Some new aspects occurred in Run 2. Firstly, a new possible parameter of oranur was found. Surprisingly, low levels of oranur appear sensitive to ambient temperature. Mechanical effects become more active at 16 to 21°C approximately. Oranur appears to prefer conditions conducive to body temperature. It was already known that oranur prefers dry conditions. In the summer run the premises were unheated and it was relatively cool in the evenings. In the winter run the house was centrally warmed to 16 to 18°C. All heating was off during number collection and sleep periods.

Another new phenomenon in Run 2 was the apparent ability of OBEs and the dream state to hybridise. Twice a new crossover phenomenon occurred with elements from both. This is strange and unexpected.

The mode number in Run 2 was still the 1 but the incidence was lower (5 occurrences or 25%, down from about 50% in Run 1). The individual numbers themselves were highly significant in the tens and hundreds. This may be due to the more conducive ambient temperature in Run 2, despite it being winter. The number values between runs are not quantitatively comparable for this reason though the data is consistent within each run. The symbology of a number does not vary greatly with its numerical value so the symbolic comparison between runs is valid, for example 170, 1170 and 17 would all have similar energies. There were however still striking parallels between the numerical run data, especially the sums.

ChatGPT’s AI analysis of the Run 2 data indicated that it was non-random and had definite patterns at multiple levels. It noted the Run 1 and 2 data was differently organised. In Run 2 it found that there were patterns occurring by the type of number (small, medium and large). Also, that each individual dataset had one dominant number. However, it didn’t find patterns between individual datasets with the specific numbers as in Run 1 (for example, the 8 pattern). It noted that Run 1 and 2 had different energetic situations. It also intuited that Session #10 had different characteristics to the other Run 2 sessions, which was perceptive.

Tables 3 and 4 summarises the data obtained from the Run 2 participants.

Overall Conclusion

Counting both runs there were 10 experimental sessions and 8 participants. That 2 participants took part twice was useful in assessing cumulative effects.

A new phenomenon of a dream-OBE hybrid was found in Run 2. Also Run 2 confirmed a new aspect of low levels of oranur (activity appears sensitive to ambient temperature).

There were many parallels between the sums of the data in the two runs. Run 1’s data sums to 255, mirroring Run 2 which summed to 3, 255. There were 2 runs each with 5 people, so 2, 5, 5. In Run 2, the oranur device appeared to be precognitive via the oranur rumble sound timing. The frequency of the rumble is 32 Hz, so 32, 55. Excluding itself, there are 15 positive factors of 3255 which references one of the key number themes in Run 1 – 15. If one includes all factors of 3255, it is 32 (counting both positive and negative numbers and the sum itself). This again reflects the oranur rumble sound of 32 Hz. If one adds the 3 + 2 from the 32(55) it is 5, 3 x the 5’s in the whole number is then 15, again a key from Run 1. One also gets 5, 5, 5 mirroring the angel number connecting principle of Run 2. Additionally, fifteen is an oranur number as it is the mirror of 51 or (19)51 when Reich discovered oranur.

It could be argued that the researcher fitted the numbers and dreams from subconscious associations of his own. That there are patterns throughout the Run 1 data, such as the number 8, 15, 117 and the significant outlier number argues against this. In Run 2 there was less numerical patterns within the data, but the numbers were statistically more significant individually, being mostly in the tens and hundreds (it is easier for lower numbers to be produced mechanically in the experiment). The dreams in Run 2 were differently connected to their key correlation number – most reflected a pattern via the number of recollected dreams (the amount of which was itself anomalous).

The position could be made that the energy merely makes the dreams stronger through increasing a metabolic process. However, some of the participants had greatly increased dreaming and some significantly decreased, in both runs. There was also the increase in paranormal activity which seemed to be centred on the numbers which came up in the closest session. This was partly why the experiment was emotionally intense for the researcher (as well as for some of the participants). Three participants were anxious about the sessions, but did it anyway, the rest looked forward to them. All got a lot out of the process. The researcher is very grateful for the huge effort they have all put in. Each person made a significant contribution of their time and energy.

Some 90% of participants had vivid dreams during the sessions, 100% had significant imagery episodes (one participant had an intense vision rather than a dream), 100% of the personal questions were answered in detail. Additionally, 100% of the dreams featured a key correlating number that had been given previously but was unknown at the time. The methods for correlation had a continuing aspect. They mostly used number of dream people in Run 1 and number of actual dreams in Run 2. Both runs also used symbolic correlations via objects or principles (anchor, snooker cue, games, duality, grief).

In Run 1 the participant who had no prior rumble had a precognition himself. In Run 2 the participant who had no prior rumble had an apparent ‘recognition’ from the device afterwards (the rumble at 2.22pm).

In summary:

a)   There appears to be some kind of real energy interacting with the participant’s consciousness.

b)   This energy field may affect dream intensity and recall.

c)   The energy field may have some kind of conscious awareness and precognition evidenced by the crossover between the numbers supplied beforehand and their later appearing hidden within the dreams.

d)   The energy may precipitate OBEs, OBE/dream hybrids and hyper-lucid dreams – both at the time and afterwards.

e)   In Run 2 the oranur device demonstrated possible precognition in the timing of its rumble sound.

f)    The device was perhaps ‘greeting’ the participants with its rumble (4 out of 5 participants in Run 1 and 2).

g)   Two of the participants in Run 1 had premonitions of the oranur numbers. Participant #2 had two numerical sets and word premonitions as well. In Run 2 there was also 2 sets of premonitory numbers but based on their prior ‘lucky’ numbers.

h)   All ten sets of dreams answered the questions posed in both runs. One would expect some of the dreams to answer the question but not all of them. A question in Run 2 was complex and all 3 aspects of it were answered (Session #10). Another question in Run 2 was simple but much additional, background information was given (Session #8). The deeper, hidden aspects of Participant #2’s question was intuited correctly.

i)    There were at least 20 incidences of paranormal correlations during the experiment.

j)    Every single participant had a significant visual episode, 90% had significant dreams with good recall.

k)   Of the participants who dreamt, all had dreams which correlated with the experimental numbers.

l)    There might be some level of shared consciousness occurring when more than one person is in the field for extended periods (particularly session #10).

m)  Effects continue afterwards and can start beforehand.

At the end of the experiment, on the day of finishing writing the first part of the paper the researcher was in the large memorial garden nearby. Even this place appears to reflect the key numbers of the experiment. The buzzard was again seen, this time in a different area. It is an unusual place as it has three large sections, war sections and mass burial sections for poor Victorians. The buzzard had never been seen in the ‘non-conformist’ section before as it is the area nearest the main urban roads nearby.

It wasn’t far from three unusual items that encode key numbers from the experiment. There is a unique Egyptian monument which encodes the number 17 throughout (17 owls, 17 ankhs and so on). Near to this is a Christian stone which references Verse 17 from Psalm 139 – a Psalm which has special paranormal significance for the researcher (words from it appeared to him via a ‘voice’ in 2023). The nearby chapel also references the key oranur number of 8. The large cross there is made of octagonal lengths. The chapel tower has 8 sides at the top. There is also an eight-sided unusual tower at the Monroe Institute, which is the foremost place for the study of OBEs in the US. The Egyptian monument in the memorial gardens commemorates a pioneering Welsh astrologist who passed away on July 17th (17, 7). This connects to the experiment in three ways. Participant #10 was told her key mission was exploration of the cosmos visually, so telescopes, Participant #8 had a key number of 177 and 17 was a key number generally.

Twenty-six minutes after finishing writing up Part 2, the oranur device rumbled for the first time in 26 days. It continued for about 2 hours, the longest since the first continual rumble sound about a year ago (possibly 117 minutes in length though I was unable to confirm the end point exactly). Twenty-six was also one of the key numbers from Run 2 (the sum of Participant #6’s data). Some days after this the device rumbled for 17 minutes which was repeated a few days later, as if to underline the number. The researcher and Participant #2 were in the memorial gardens around this time. The buzzard appeared again, multiple times. It has never been seen in the afternoon before and for so long (it is usually seen very early when it is quietest and quite briefly). It was lightly raining so there were less people about.

Even the age of the participants connected. The two youngest participants in Run 1 had symbology connecting them – the 22-year age gap and snooker symbology. The eldest participants in both runs were the same and reflected a gematria for ‘ORGONE’ – 74. The youngest participant in both runs was the same, 21.

The researcher felt as though he was existing within a bubble of increased synchronicity during the whole experiment, often for days at a time. This reminded him of the scenes in the science fiction series. Foundation, where mathematical formulas are represented as holographic, interactive bubbles of liquid light energy. Increasing maths led to increasing consciousness effects in the series. This is exactly how it felt in the experiment, everything was connected, purposeful, even preordained.

On a more mundane level, it is unclear whether moon phase makes any difference in the effects, though it might. It does not appear that oranur has significant seasonal variation.

If consciousness creates patterns and orgone is conscious energy, one might expect synchronicity to increase with quantity and activity of orgone. Oranur is orgone in a state of increased energy and enhanced quantity. It appears that synchronicity did increase during the experiment as evidenced by the number connections to the dreams and the dream content. This was underlined by synchronicity regarding the numbers and dream symbols within the outside environment. It also appeared that direct communication may have occurred between the energy field, dream contents and environmental happenings. There was precognitive activity as well (both by persons and apparently, by the device).

There were some 14 numerical correlations between the individual Run 1 datasets and a single correlation principle in Run 2 (triple digit numbers). There were over 100 incidences of correlations and synchronicities altogether in both runs.

The experiment was a hybrid of quantitative and qualitative methods, psychological and physical research. It could be said therefore that although a single numerical significance value is naturally hard to place, that the experimental null hypothesis was nonetheless rejected (there is no evidence for increased synchronicity or direct communication).

There is therefore preliminary evidence that orgone may indeed possess consciousness.

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1. Southgate, L (2026) Orgone and Consciousness Accounts, Orgoneandconsciousness.substack.com
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4. Southgate, L. (2002) Traditional Chinese Medicine and Reichian Theory, Northern College of Acupuncture and University of Wales, MSc Thesis. See also: European Journal of Chinese Medicine, Vol 4, Num 4.

A. SYNOPSIS

An experimental investigation of whether orgone energy may have consciousness, undertaken July to December 2025. It was a small but in-depth study with 10 participants. It was conducted in 2 experimental runs, summer and winter. There were 5 female and 5 male participants with a wide variety of ages and backgrounds.

It had been found that oranur energy (energised orgone) may induce dream and hypnagogic states. (Hypnagogic states are those halfway between the awake and the dream state). Additionally, the researcher found a method whereby a stream of numbers can be created through the movement of oranur. This is by using a simple wheeled device placed within the energy field.

The experiment used dream states within the oranur, alongside the energy-derived numbers, to examine if synchronicities might occur. Such synchronicity was hypothesised as indicating that the oranur energy might possess some level of consciousness. (Consciousness may increase synchronicity by increasing organisation).

The experiment concluded that synchronicity did indeed occur between the dreams, the numbers and the personal questions posed by the participants as part of the experiment. Further synchronicities between the individual number sets and with the entire dataset were also seen alongside some unusual environmental occurrences.

Part One of this paper examines the background, methods and rationale of the experiment. Part Two discusses the results and makes some conclusions.

B. BACKGROUND

In 2000 the researcher examined the relationship between orgone and Qi in Chinese medicine in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study (1). In 2017 he repeated Reich’s oranur experiment (2). Prior to this, around 2016, the researcher realised there was a missing area in orgonomy. This has been the researcher’s central endeavour ever since.

The functions of orgone as emotions, in organisms and in the cosmos were all evidenced within the science of orgonomy. Reich had kept hidden the relationship of orgone to electricity, which he uncovered around 1947, but the basic principles have been elucidated by Maglione and others (3). The social consequences of orgone energy’s movement, or lack thereof, in the organism have been outlined too (4).

In the 1950s, the unity of the objective and subjective (following the oranur experiment) was discovered. Lastly, the understanding of the human emotional desert was illuminated by Reich and later developed by Demeo (5). There was, however, one complete unknown: the relationship of orgone to consciousness itself.

A comprehensive philosophical framework to begin to understand orgone and consciousness has been developed by Southgate (6). Reich did however have a view of orgone and consciousness termed Part-Perception (7). This theory did not explain the existence of consciousness. It was rather a ‘systems’ theory describing the evolution of self-awareness. Reich assigned awareness to the whole body, specifically its plasma. The orgonomist, Koopman, did consider that orgone might be the actual medium of thought (8). But Reich, in his middle period, could not go this far. In Reich’s view, self-awareness emerges from the unification of separate bodily perceptions into one larger synthesis. Reich said, “all plasmatic matter perceives – with or without sensory nerves,” and that the organs themselves are, “self-active living creatures” (9). Reich followed the integration of this part-awareness, rooted in the body systems, toward the overall higher consciousness of the self.

One of the many correlations between Reich’s work and Chinese medicine, see (1) is that both theories have this same understanding of the emergence of self-consciousness.

Reich’s theory was not an orgonomic one surprisingly. It also implied a dualistic view of consciousness (energy/matter and consciousness exist in two separate realms). Reich had moved consciousness from the mainstream conception (the neuron or brain) to the body plasma but left it as a material effect. Dualism is considered problematic in consciousness theories as it doesn’t elucidate how energy/matter and consciousness relate. Materialism is also considered problematic as it downgrades consciousness to a mere side-effect of unthinking matter.

After the oranur experiment of 1951, Reich realised that the objective (the physical orgone) and the subjective (consciousness ultimately) were one thing. However, he was far from comfortable with the implications. He now noted that cosmic energy had behaviour that was “meaningful” and which possessed “psychological” ramifications. It had, “functions akin to the very basis of all functions.” It was something, “truly physical,” but which was also emotional. In the microscopic bions, “playful” behaviour was seen (10). Although Reich often stated that what was thought of as God and the aether were one, his notion in 1951 was closer to the Buddhist concept of a universal, impersonal, creative force. Reich attempts to contain his universal Common Functioning Principle within his prior perspective, but it does not really work.

Reich indeed saw that orgone had consciousness as early as 1951, but he couldn’t integrate this knowledge. Reich’s view of orgone and consciousness in his middle period (orgone is not conscious outside of organisms) was diametrically opposed to that of his latter period (orgone at least appears to be conscious in itself).

This leaves obscure the relationship of orgone to consciousness. Does orgone, when it is not in an organism, have awareness? Reich argued against this in his middle period because he knew that if orgone was found to be conscious then this would imply a theological position. In the end, Reich took a theological position personally (11) but left the wider question of orgone and consciousness unanswered.

To examine orgone and consciousness the author has followed the example of Reich’s ‘Red Thread’. The author considered, what are the commonalities that accompany consciousness in organisms? The first thread is that there is a constantly higher orgone charge in organisms than in their environment. The oranur experiment was the highest orgone charge Reich achieved. It also led Reich to become aware that orgone has sentience. The author therefore considered that repeating the oranur experiment, but in a safer manner, must be the first step in examining orgone and consciousness.

In 2017, the researcher repeated Reich’s oranur experiment using a similarly high orgone charge but a lower level of radiation. Most of Reich’s findings from the 1951 experiment were confirmed, see (2). Oranur means excited orgone energy. Reich’s acronym meant excitation via radioactive means (ORgone Against NUcleaR) but can be used more generally to describe any type of orgonotic excitation. Many different parameters were investigated, from temperature to electrical tension, from plasma luminosity to charged particles counts. There were also multiple psychic and paranormal effects seen (12). It was noted that oranur had a strong effect on psychics and shamans particularly. Shamans are healers and spiritual leaders of native tribes but the term is often used to describe practitioners who adhere to a similar outlook and who conduct similar ceremonies today in the West.

There seemed to be a heightening of some kind of consciousness field around oranur. It was hypothesised that oranur may even be the medium of paranormal phenomena (13). The author came to believe that it was possible that oranur itself may possess consciousness. But how to test this? The researcher wanted to make orgone literally ‘talk’ and it was assumed that this would be through technology.

AI is a non-organism entity which possesses intelligence and already clearly speaks. According to Southgate’s definition it has obvious ‘mind’ (14). The researcher defines mind as systemic, coherent patterns, whether mental or material. Mind is not the consciousness using those patterns, it could be thought of as the operating system, or vehicle. Alternatively, consciousness itself can be thought of as the actual awareness behind the system.

Intelligence, on the other hand, is simply success at a process. One is intelligent by being successful at one’s goals. Clearly machines can have mind (coherent patterns) and intelligence (success at goals) but whether either of these constitutes evidence of consciousness is debateable.

If AI, clearly possesses both mind and intelligence, why do most people not view AI as also conscious? It became clear to the author that no matter how human-like a machine became most would still not consider that machine capable of being conscious. Thus, even if the orgone were likewise to speak, would it not just be dismissed? It started to look like a technological approach to examining consciousness in orgone might be a dead end. People are subconsciously, but intuitively aware, that intelligence and mind are distinct to consciousness. The researcher defines consciousness as simply any perception or experience.

Many state that consciousness in AI is impossible in principle. One prominent exponent is the physicist Penrose. He believes consciousness is not a computable process. He aligns with the main quantum theory of consciousness (called Orchestrated Objective Reduction, or ORCH-OR). This states that consciousness is, literally, a quantum wave. Southgate believes however that mathematical computation could lead to non-computational results. Computation can do some very unexpected things.

There are mathematical formulas that generate unending complexity, beautiful fractals, chaos, uncertainty, even organism-like qualities, things that are non-computational in essence. Even outcomes one cannot know beforehand can be generated. Computation could lead to non-computational effects. Some have argued that this leaves a crack in the mathematics through which consciousness can insert itself.

The conscious quantum wave physically occurs within a biological tube (the cellular microtubules). It is a physical theory of consciousness, much like Southgate’s orgone theory, see (6). The quantum theory of consciousness was developed because in anaesthesia, when the microtubules appear to be switched off, ordinary consciousness sleeps. This is true across all organisms. Incidentally, the tubules are something which could be considered an organic, microscopic cloudbuster (a tube which entrains life-energy in weather manipulation, invented by Reich in 1952).

ORCH-OR and orgone consciousness theories are compatible. The author’s view of consciousness likewise states that orgone is consciousness, just as it is, in its primal state. There is no need for membranes or organisms (both of which Reich, at least in his middle period, thought essential for consciousness). Membranes and organisms are important but are a later development of a consciousness that already exists as the original orgone in Southgate’s view.

The above points led to the view that to evidence consciousness in an energy field only direct experiential contact, would do.

When the researcher had slept near to an oranur field it was noted that dreams can become very intense. Oranur has even resulted in Out of Body Experiences (OBE) occurring in the early parts of Southgate’s repeat of the oranur experiment, see (13). OBEs have also been occurring within the recent consciousness experiments and will be discussed in the second part of this paper. If the energy has psychic effects and can intrude upon the dream state perhaps it can communicate directly with people. It was also known that the energy flow can be translated into numbers.

A process emerged whereby using a subtle energy device from Eastern Europe, called the Egely Wheel, clicks on a small wheel turned by the oranur could be counted as numbers. These numbers could be used to directly examine whether there is consciousness within the oranur. If synchronicity occurred between any heightened oranur dreams and the numbers generated, then this might evidence some kind of anomalous communication. Synchronicity is perhaps evidence of increasing conscious organisation, spontaneously occurring.

If a person’s dreaming was changed or even produced by the oranur (it can increase dream frequency) and further, if these dreams are linked with numbers created beforehand, then this synchronicity may suggest that communication occurred (between the energy field and the person). This might be evidence of direct communication rather than through a technological intermediary. The actual content of the dreams could also be analysed to see if a consciousness was attempting to use any dream imagery to answer a prior question, posed by the participant. Each participant was to ask a meaningful question of the energy field. The experiment was proposing a three-way test of synchronicity: questions, numbers and dreams.

Number Symbolism

This study used number symbolism, personal background, dream and hypnagogic imagery alongside personal questions to try and communicate with an energy field. The following explains the forms of number symbolism used.

Numbers are a universal cosmic language. Each number has an energetic quality: one-ness, two-ness and so on. There are common methods of converting numbers into meaning. Multiple methods are used here. It was found that the oranur energy translated more easily into certain symbolic number systems. It did not translate well directly into words – too restrictive perhaps.

Firstly, one can reference concepts when numbers are transcribed into words. This can be done via ciphers (or codes). The process of changing numbers into words, or vice versa, is known as gematria and was originally based on Hebrew (which has always had number equivalents for each letter). There are many types of gematria, but the main ones used here are those based on the English language. English has become the main world language so that is reflected in our common consciousness. The most well-known gematria cipher is English Ordinal. In all gematria, letters, and thus words, are directly turned into numbers: A, B, C becomes 1, 2, 3 in English Ordinal. Words can then have a number reflection. By adding up the number values of the individual letters a single number can be created. For example, the word ORGONE has a value of 74 in English Ordinal gematria and 88 in English Reverse Reduction gematria.

Secondly, there are common social and Biblical meanings of numbers which are shared throughout Western societies. For example, the number 12, 40 and 144 all have strong Biblical associations. The number 7 and 13 have various connotations culturally as well as Biblically (7 often denotes perfection, the 4 compass directions plus the trinity, 13 is complex with some conflicting meanings).

Thirdly, numerology (which is a specific process within broader number symbolism) is also used. A large number is reduced into a smaller number through addition of its integers. Some believe that each base number, 0 to 9, has a special energy or characteristic beyond those of larger numbers. Repeating digit numbers are also considered special power numbers in this system and are added to the 0-9. Mainly the first three are used, 11, 22 and 33. Triple digit, repeat numbers are often associated with ‘angel numbers.’ People consider angel numbers to have special positive significance.

Fourthly, there is shape, geographic and astrological symbolism. For example, the number 8 also looks like the symbol for eternity, ∞. The number 4 can be associated with the Earth or materiality as there are four directions to the shape of the compass. Four is a sturdy number as it is box-like. Four is important to orgonomy as Reich’s Four-Beat Life Formula. The number 12 can correspond with the cosmos due to their being 12 astrological houses in the sky.

Fifth, as numbers are ultimately energy types, ‘oneness,’ twoness,’ each number has its own special energy signature. Some signatures are more closely related than others. For example, using mirroring, the number 71 and 17 would be closely related. They have similar energies as 71 is a mirror of 17. Factoring also reveals close relationships and is an important aspect in this study (which is concerned with relationships and communication). The number 4 is energetically related to the number 12 as 4 factors into 12 three times exactly. Four represents earth and 12, the sky, together in harmony. They are sociable numbers. Number ‘anagrams’ also reveal relationships and are used occasionally. Word anagrams are when letters are rearranged to make a new meaning. In number anagrams the individual digits are rearranged. For example, 1, 1, 1, 7 could be an anagram of 7, 1, 1, 1.

Sixth, there is cultural and political symbology with numbers. For example, the number 13 might represent the USA as there were 13 original colonies and it is a number that appears hidden on the dollar bill.

Seventh, prime numbers (numbers that only divide by one and themselves) have been used in this study but infrequently. Prime numbers are more self-focused. The relationships between numbers via factoring, mirroring and addition were found to be more useful generally.

Lastly, number to body symbolism has been used. For example, the number 33 symbolises the spine and more widely bones, as there are 33 vertebrae.

In essence, rather than think of numbers as something purely symbolic it is perhaps better to think of them as energy signatures or even archetypes. Each number has a unique energy and could even be considered an archetype (or a personified character) not just an abstract symbol.

Numbers are a universal language and have multiple, unlimited layers of meaning.

The Oranur Sound

About 8 years after Southgate’s oranur experiment it was noticed by another person and the experimenter that the device (15) was continually emitting a low pitch rumbling sound. It was like a binaural beat, such as used in meditation, but oscillating at a very low bass. Only three people have been present when it has occurred, two of them being able to hear it and a third not. An Earth microphone for recording low pitched natural sounds was acquired but repeatedly failed to record the sound. Ordinary microphones of various types were also unable to record it. However, the rumbling sound could be clearly heard by myself and one other and was distinctly seen on a smartphone app for analysing sound frequencies visually (the app is marketed as Spectroid). The rumble appeared as a thick band of continual sound at 32 Hertz. It is heard by the whole head rather than just the ears.

Mobile phone microphones are surprisingly sophisticated and discern sounds to as low as 10 or 20 Hertz, below most people’s hearing range. Smartphones can easily pick up the sound of a plane passing overhead or weather and traffic information. Using two smartphones, one to analyse the rumble sound on the app and one to record the first phone it can be shown visually that the sound bands tail off when moving away from the device and recommence when approaching it (16). This has been done many times with the same characteristics every time. The sound is in bands that go as far as 24’ from the device. The other person, who is younger, can hear it at a greater distance than the experimenter. It varies in volume and occasionally has other harmonics. Once it changed pitch a little. The two persons always agree on the sound characteristics. The sound can start gradually (over about a minute) but often cuts off suddenly, again this is clearly seen in the visualisation app.

When the rumble first started it was continual for perhaps two weeks. Now it is occasional and can occur often in the early evening for 20 or 30 minutes. No physical parameter appears to precipitate the rumbling. Microwave, light (of various types), heat, sound, radioactivity and meditation have all been tried to precipitate it. The rumbling now occurs as little as once a month, sometimes as often as once every few days. It has been ongoing for about a year now. The main band is at 32 Hertz but there are other bands sometimes appearing at lesser volumes. The decibel rating (which is a complex measurement) is minus 80-90 Decibels approximately.

The timing and frequency of the rumble appeared to interact with the consciousness experiment as will be detailed in the second part of this paper.

There are similar phenomena in Archeo-acoustics research which investigates sounds created by ancient stone structures and buildings.

Related Areas

There are also some related areas of research in consciousness studies. The scientific Out of Body Experience research carried out by the Monroe Institute since the late 1950s is one such area (17). Much work has been undertaken by the institute in laboratory conditions. The author has thought there are some oranur energy effects involved in this work (18). Secondly, the now extensive Near-Death research (19) also implies that consciousness is something not limited to the material body and can be studied scientifically. Remote Viewing research (20) would also come into this category. There is the area of psychedelic research too which is just now becoming viable again after being suppressed for some decades since it’s heyday in the 1960s (21). Jungian analysis values archetypes (which informs the number analysis herein) and synchronicity (again a key element). Freudian psychotherapy has an interest in dream analysis generally. There is a long tradition of the importance of dream meaning in Biblical and Greek traditions. Also, in native tribal views the dream realms are often considered equally real to consensus reality. 

C. METHODS

Experimental Null Hypothesis

The energy field of the device will not create synchronicity between the oranur-related dreams, participant question/background and the experimentally derived number sequences. Direct symbolic communication (between the energy and persons) will also not occur.

Experimental Procedure

The oranur energy reaction was enabled to charge up the energy device a day before each session. This was chosen as a period to allow the energy some time to settle before the experimental intervention. This was done by using a 1950s uranium-glass plate placed within the device for a period. This plate has a slightly raised activity compared to the normal background radioactivity for the area. The plate is 1.35 µSv/h, (micro-Sieverts per hour) approximately. Background is 0.012 µSv/h. The radiation prior to the experimental session was around the normal background for the area (which as a limestone region has a higher count than many areas in England). The plate itself is one originally used as a fruit bowl. The levels of radiation are low and tailor off to background within a few inches. The plate was not within the device and was kept outside the building during the experimental sessions.

No appliances with a large Electro-Magnetic Field (EMF) would be used within 24 hours of the sessions, for example, washing machines and electric ovens. This was due to the possibility of their strong EMF impacting the oranur field. The area where the device is kept is shielded from outside EMF by nearby buildings and vegetation and the whole house is hardwired so microwave levels from devices are very low in the experimental area, lower than most countryside locations.

Figure 1
Oranur Cabinet and Plate

 

The participant was asked beforehand to spend some time thinking about a key question to present to the device in the meditation. This question could be anything, the only stipulations being that it was meaningful and not something that can be answered by a simple yes/no. This was to ensure the question and answer had sufficient complexity.

The participant would arrive in the early evening. There would be some relaxation time. A 5-minute meditation was done beside the device. After this the participant would present the question mentally to the device. The question would be written down and read back to the participant.

With the participant and researcher in the room, the Egely Wheel subtle energy device was placed on the top, to the righthand corner of the closed energy device. The device is in a house on top of a limestone hill near Liverpool, England. This wheel placement on the device has been found to be the best place for free movement of the wheel. The wheel was developed to measure levels of subtle energy emanating from human hands by a company in Hungary based on the work of Professor Egely. There is good evidence provided by this company that it does not react to heat, light or other energies but only to subtle energies, really orgone in the researcher’s view, coming from the body (22). The researcher’s experience over some years confirms the veracity of the company’s claims.

The oranur device, at its perimeter (much like an organism) also seems to be able to move the wheel better than at points within it, reflecting a higher charge at the outside. The device does not usually move the wheel as fast as a human but enough for movement to be clearly discerned (it is perhaps easier for a person to concentrate their energy at a point, like the hands). Other measurements have been tried but none provide the dynamic, complex and small changes that are needed for this type of experimentation. Most orgone readings, for example Geiger counts or temperature are much too static. The room has no direct sunshine during the experiments, has no drafts, no central or other heating switched on during the number or sleep process. The doors are kept closed. There is modern, double-glazed, draft-free windows that are curtained and well away from the wheel device.

Figure 2
Energy Cabinet and Egely Wheel

 

When the wheel is placed on the oranur device and the audio switch turned on, each movement of the tiny fins on the very outermost aspect of the white wheel going past the internal sensor creates an individual electronic beep. The disturbance of placing the wheel on the device and switching the audio button on causes the wheel to move mechanically for a short while. When the mechanical movement stops this is counted as the zero point for the number counting. Four numbers are collected for each participant. Each beep being counted as one integer place. When the wheel either stops completely or changes direction (it is free to move both clockwise and anticlockwise) then this is counted as a new number. Direction of the wheel, or speed, isn’t usually considered. A video is taken of the wheel turning.

It was decided beforehand to limit the numbers to four per participant. Generally, this would take a few minutes of recording though in practise it took as long as nearly 30 minutes on occasions. Some of the number sequences were much more complex. The wheel speed also varied between participants. There was one session particularly that had a large outlier of the wheel characteristics.

One additional rule: if no zero-point occurred (the first stop after activating the wheel) one can be added by stopping the wheel manually by gently using a pen inserted between the wheel spokes. A few seconds must be allowed for any wobble to completely dissipate (as confirmed by slow motion video). The wheel is completely still before the count then begins and only the energy is thus appearing to move the wheel. At least 10 minutes must be allowed for a natural stop to occur before considering an artificial one. The first additional rule, manual zero, only had to be used once (Session #10).

There was a second additional rule which was not needed (by a very small margin). If there were not four stops overall within 30 minutes, then significant wheel speed changes could be counted as new numbers (as the wheel can often suddenly change speed). This last rule might be required in any larger studies in the future.

It is also considered that if future larger scale studies were conducted a specialised electronic apparatus and recording app may need to be developed. Decoding the numbers was very time consuming. Numbers were rechecked multiple times with multiple apps. The process could take hours.

After the numbers were recorded the participant and the author relaxed for the evening.

About ten or eleven the participant would retire and the researcher would go to his bedroom upstairs. There was a very comfortable camp-bed placed alongside the device. That the person is relaxed and comfortable is very important. It appears people tend not to dream as much if they are fatigued. The sleep period may concentrate on healing in that case. Future studies could better standardise and assess the prior relaxation and fatigue levels although attempts at standardisation were made in this study (the evening relaxation period).

A bedside light, notebook and pens were beside the bed. The person would sleep and record any dreams, visions or perceptions that they had. Any perceptions before the dream state, such as during the meditation, were also recorded (this included in one instance, a vision, in two cases hypnagogic periods and in multiple instances, precognitive numbers). Time during the evening to chat was required to help standardise the relaxation levels and to get background information that was relevant to decoding the dreams. Provision was made for ongoing follow-up support (this turned out to be important in some cases).

The oranur device was kept shut during the sleep process but in hindsight stronger results may have occurred with the lid open. It is difficult to gauge the correct dose of oranur to precipitate psychic effects. Too strong a field can be unpleasant in the researcher’s experience, resulting in physical symptoms and disturbed dreams. The oranur device is the same one used in the oranur experiment in 2017. It is now less strong, hence storable in the premises and suited for these purposes. The device had been kept covered but outdoors for a period and it lost some of its charge then compared to the height of its charge in about 2017.

Figure 3
Experimental Set-Up Overnight

 

The next day the video recording would be decoded to retrieve the oranur-generated numbers. Special apps for slow motion of the video and for enlarging the view were used to ensure exact counting. Numbers were rechecked multiple times. The participant question, dream contents and the numbers were then analysed to examine what parallels may exist.

At the time of the dreaming process the experimental numbers were unknown.

Part 2 of this paper will elucidate the results of the experiment and offer some conclusions. 

 

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