During the 1960s and 70s, there was a massive explosion of interest in both Wilhelm's I Ching and Reich’s orgone accumulators. Many PDF files circulating today are scanned pamphlets or zines from this era. These documents often have a raw, experimental quality, treating Reich as a physicist of the mystic and the I Ching as a manual for navigating the cosmic energy grids.

If a researcher were to download a document titled with these keywords, they would likely encounter one of three types of content:

Because Reich’s books were burned and his Orgone Institute Press went defunct, many of his works (e.g., The Bio-Electrical Investigation of Sexuality and Anxiety ) are out of print. Similarly, the Bollingen edition of the I Ching is expensive. Thus, the search for becomes a political act of preserving outlawed science and expensive wisdom.

The connection between these ideas reached its peak in 20th-century counterculture. For example: The Man in the High Castle : In his novel, Philip K. Dick heavily used the Richard Wilhelm I Ching

: Reich noted that orgone energy followed a "complementary functioning of opposites," which mirrors the Yin/Yang patterns central to the hexagrams of the I Ching .