# Me and Me and the Orgone

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-and-me-and-the-orgone/350529>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [March 30, 2006, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-and-me-and-the-orgone/350529 "2006-03-30T10:12:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-and-me-and-the-orgone/350529/1 "2006-03-30T10:12:31Z")

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Was I was in seventh grade, I was told your could find dirty books in the library. So I was looking in the sex ed section and accidentally pulled out a book by a comedian who was always on the Tonight show named Orson Bean. It was called [Me and the Orgone](http://www.orgonomy.org/article_003.html). Of course I couldn’t understand it, that is to say, I couldn’t understand what the fuss was about. Essentially, what I read was that Bean went nuts during the therapy and felt good about it afterwards. Fastforward ten years, friends I knew were pushing EST and telling me similar things and my bullshit meter went into critical. After googling I found that the Orgone org still exists? I wonder what Orson Bean thinks about it now?

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-and-me-and-the-orgone/350529/2 "2006-03-30T16:48:01Z")

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A link to the column is appreciated. The one in question is [What’s the story on Wilhelm Reich and his orgone energy?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_073.html)