 It was shortly after he arrived in New York in 1939 that Reich first said he had discovered a biological or cosmic energy , an extension of Freud 's idea of the libido . He called it " orgone energy " or " orgone radiation , " and the study of it " <unk> . " Reich said he had seen orgone when he injected his mice with bions and in the sky at night through an " <unk> , " a special telescope . He argued that it is in the soil and air ( indeed , is omnipresent ) , is blue or blue @-@ grey , and that humanity had divided its knowledge of it in two : aether for the physical aspect and God for the spiritual . The colour of the sky , the northern lights , St Elmo 's Fire , and the blue of sexually excited frogs are manifestations of orgone , he wrote . He also argued that protozoa , red corpuscles , cancer cells and the chlorophyll of plants are charged with it . 
