In his lab one day, observing the cells of dying plants in water, Riech made a miraculous discovery. As the life force of the plants faded, he witnessed luminescent blue "bubbles," coming off the plant. Once the bubbles were no longer connected to the cells the cells would die. As if he was watching the very life of the plant leave it. 

Once the blue spheres had disconnected from the plant they would begin to reconnect separately, forming a new protozoon. An individual microorganism detached entirely from the plant it was once a part of. Reich decided to name this life force Orgone.

Just as stated by the second law of thermodynamics, that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. So, too, it turns out, is true with life force. When an organism dies its life force disperses, connecting with the carbon, and oxygen, and the other building blocks of the cell, breathing life into lifeless materials. This life force that flows through all things and turns materials into cells, is called Orgone.

Wilhelm Reich devised a method of capturing organic energy in a sort of accumulation chamber, gathering up the subtle energies in the air and harnessing them to great effect. 

His accumulation chamber used alternating layers of organic and inorganic material to produce their results, the same way modern applications of orgone such as orgone pyramid's and our Orgone Blankets do.