"The cosmic orgone energy was discovered as a result of the consistent application of the

functional technique of thinking. It was these methodical, rigidly-controlled thought

processes that led from one fact to another, weaving--across a span of about twenty five
years--seemingly disparate facts into a unified picture of the function of nature; a picture
which is submitted to the verdict of the world as the still unfinished doctrinal framework of
Orgonomy."
Wilhelm Reich, M.D.
(from Chapter One of Ether, God and Devil)

There is great excitement and interest today in what is described as the "paradigm shift" in
science. Humanity's understanding of the universe and its place in it is changing
dramatically. Wilhelm Reich's Ether, God and Devil (1949) and Cosmic
Superimposition(1951) are two groundbreaking books that helped initiate the current
paradigm shift long before the concept was popularized in Thomas Kuhn's 1962 book The
Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and the later works of such best-selling authors as Fritjof
Capra, Gary Zukav, Timothy Ferris, and many more.
In Ether, God and Devil, Reich describes his process of thinking--which he called orgonomic
functionalism--and shows how the inner logic of this objective thought technique led him to
the discovery of the cosmic orgone energy.
In Cosmic Superimposition, Reich steps out of our current framework of mechanisticmystical thinking and comes to a radically different understanding of how man is rooted in
nature. He shows clearly how the superimposition of two orgone energy streams-demonstrable in the human genital embrace and in the formation of spiral galaxies--is the
common functioning principle in all of nature. Concluding this work, Reich ponders what is
perhaps the greatest riddle of all: "the ability of man to think, and by mere thinking to know
what nature is and how it works."

Together, these two works usher in a fundamentally new view of humanity, nature, and
man's place in the cosmos.