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Ira is a retired Registered Pulmonary Function Technologist and Respiratory Therapist. Presently, he is the Vice-President of The Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory, which is devoted to the work of Wilhelm Reich, the discoverer of the universal cosmic energy which he termed “Orgone.”

Ira worked in the medical profession for 55 years. The first 15 years he functioned as a Respiratory Therapist, ending up as Director of Respiratory Therapy at Long Beach Medical Center on Long Island, New York. Although he enjoyed the clinical aspect of his work, he developed more of an interest in the research and diagnostic end of things and became Chief Pulmonary Technologist, for 20 years, at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He finished his last 20 years as Director of the Pulmonary Function Lab at the VA Medical Center in Northport, New York. At both of those jobs, he was a clinical instructor for the State University of Stony Brook Hospital and Medical School, teaching medical students, pulmonary residents and fellows, and attending physicians.

Despite working in allopathic medicine most of his life, his true avocation was his passion for the work of Wilhelm Reich, whom he learned about in his freshman year of college. It had a profound effect on his life and continues to do so to this very day. Ira feels Reich’s discoveries in the fields of psychiatry, biology and physics are among the most profound in the history of mankind.

From 1982-1987 he worked on developing a simple, easily quantifiable blood test, related to Reich’s work, that could measure a person’s overall energetic vitality. The study spanned 5 years, comprised 1,100 patients, and covered a full spectrum of pathologies from the common cold all the way to cancer. The study was published in the 1987 issue of The Annals of the Institute for Orgonomic Science. In addition to the blood test, Ira was engaged in weather-modification work (cloud-busting) under the supervision of one of the Reichian Therapists and made some innovative modifications to the equipment which helped miniaturize the device.

Other activities included a 9-year research study to test the effects of inhaled insulin on patients’ lung function, training doctors in Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing, and authoring a White Paper on Cold-Air Challenge testing for asthmatic patients.

Ira's additional interests include the works of Antoine Béchamp, Gunther Enderlein, Walter Russell, Royal Raymond Rife, Gaston Naessans, George Wiseman (of Brown’s Gas fame), Gerald Pollack (discoverer of EZ-water), and the overall study of Terrain Theory as it relates to the nature of health and disease.

David Parker is a certified Electrical and Mechanical engineer, who is recently retired. In addition, he is an author and researcher with special interests in natural health, the origin of civilisation and the nature of reality. David is also Vice-President for Communications at The Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory, which is devoted to the work of Wilhelm Reich.

David worked in the industrial field for over fifty years and spent several decades in senior technical management for a number of large international companies, in both the UK and Europe. During this time, he was responsible for the design and implementation of many multi-million-pound projects. Later in his career he chose to become self-employed as a freelance engineer, affording him the flexibility to pursue his divergent areas of interest.

It's well known that the arena of electrical engineering clearly requires an aptitude for logic, and this proved extremely useful for David when applying this skill to his many avocations. As Einstein claimed, a problem cannot be solved by using the same way of thinking that created it in the first place. Better results are often achieved if one is not bound by the inherent biases within a particular discipline.

One of David’s passions was to find better answers regarding the actual nature, and causes of illness. This entailed an investigation that required more than ten years of research and resulted in the book he co-authored called, “What Really Makes You Ill? Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong.” The book has become a world-wide best seller.