Behind the Scenes | Rangeley Reactor Facility

The Rangeley, Maine Facility houses the world’s first Orgone Energy Reactor Core and is located underground, under Orgonon, the home-turned-museum of the late psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. The Order, having secretly developed his orgone energy research beyond its known limitations, uses the facility to collect, convert, and store orgone from the atmosphere for ambiguous—and slightly nefarious—purposes.

The two images below represent 1) the initial sketch of the reactor core that informed the a...