About this archive
“In this age of over specialization, with emphasis on chemistry, bacteriology, and mechanical and surgical research, we have lost sight of the over-all picture of man as a living being with lines of force working in fields of finer energies.”
This archive preserves the surviving Digital Dr. Stone transcriptions and images and makes them available through a searchable reading site. It does not represent every surviving record as complete: some text was not recovered, some image references have no corresponding file, and some source records contain transcribed chart text without a scan.
The original project
The original project homepage says that Dr. Randolph Stone began self-publishing books and pamphlets in 1948. His books combined continuous text with hand-lettered charts, which made much of the material unavailable to ordinary text search.
The Associate Polarity Practitioner Class of 2010 at the Colorado School of Energy Studies transcribed the hand-lettered charts for searchable access. The surviving acknowledgements credit John Chitty with providing the initial resources and asking how the material could be made more accessible, Lori Olcott with organization, design, and formatting, and David Harel with technical support.
The acknowledgements credit ten people together for transcription and proofreading. The surviving record does not assign particular pages to individual contributors.
How the transcriptions were edited
The project's proofreading instructions called for Stone's spellings and phrases to be preserved, with modern or American equivalents appended in brackets. Capitalization was an explicit exception: words set in capitals in a chart could be changed for easier reading on a computer.
Text inside illustrations was reproduced in adjacent lettered lists or under Illustration Keywords so that it could be searched. The team also added editorial notes, search terms, and standardized linked chart references. Those additions belong to the original transcription project; they are not Stone's words and are not additions made by this restoration.
The checklist asked proofreaders to compare the transcription, title, thumbnail, chart image, links, illustration text, spacing, and overall appearance with the original chart, then report which pages they had reviewed in a shared record. It documents the intended method, but it does not establish that every surviving page completed every check.
Later work on the original site
A surviving technical note documents maintenance after the first pages were made: single-digit chart filenames and links were converted to two digits, and matching page titles were updated. The note does not identify who performed the work or when it was done.
The surviving site records that the American Polarity Therapy Association presented its 2012 Outstanding Service Award to the Colorado School of Energy Studies for the Digital Dr. Stone Project. This is the site's own account of the award.
How this edition was restored
The repository records Andrew Todd Marcus as the author of the September 2026 import, recovery, and reconstruction commits. This edition draws on two surviving bodies of material: a working copy kept in the Colorado School of Energy Studies shared files and separately dated captures of the public Digital Dr. Stone site. The public captures supply material missing from the working copy, so the result is a merge rather than a reproduction of one snapshot.
The restored site preserves the recovered transcription together with the original project's editorial additions. It separately records structures added during restoration, including stable document references derived from legacy page names, book and page relationships, extracted headings, reading sequences, normalized keyword navigation, and accessibility descriptions. These structures help readers find and move through the material; they do not claim that every inferred chart position is the verified order of the printed books.
This archive edition
Each recovered document has a stable identifier derived from its legacy filename. The archive records its work, kind, printed label, source, availability, assets, and reading position without changing the recovered transcription.
Original keyword forms remain recorded separately from approved discovery aliases, so added search language does not replace the historical wording. Reading positions also carry their method, evidence, and certainty instead of presenting every reconstructed sequence as verified printed order.
Coverage
Archive schema 1 describes 673 recovered documents across 7 books and 1 pamphlet: 156 charts, 494 numbered text pages, and 23 front-matter pages.
The discovery index records 337 terms and 444 appearances. The coverage record distinguishes 8 charts with a recovered scan but no transcription, 37 image references to 37 unrecovered files, and 9 text-gap records.
The repository recovery date is 2026-09-11. The migration from the unversioned archive model to schema 1 was applied on 2026-09-17. Publication and archive-capture dates describe the source history; the recovery date describes the repository restoration; the migration date describes this data revision.
How reading order is established
Some chart positions come directly from a surviving contents table. Others are reconstructed from links, headings, neighbouring records, or explanation pages and are identified as inferences.
Book 1, Chart 1 is placed on printed page 33. The archive records this placement as explicit. The recovered Book 1 contents table assigns this chart to that printed page.
Book 5, Chart 2 — Structural Balance Functional Contacts is placed on printed page 15. The archive records this placement as inferred. Book 5 has no equivalent contents table; a linked heading on the following text page supports this reconstructed placement.
Limits of the surviving material
A gap in page numbering does not by itself show that text was missing, because some chart pages occupy numbered positions and the surviving sequences are incomplete. Where the archive marks text as not recovered, that means it was absent from the sources used for this edition; it does not establish that the original project never transcribed it.
A missing referenced image means that a surviving page points to an image file that was not present in either recovered source. A text-only chart record means that transcribed chart words survived without a corresponding scan in that source record. These conditions are recorded separately because they describe different kinds of evidence.
The date of the original site's launch and the completion status of page-by-page proofreading are not established by the surviving files. Archive capture dates record when individual files were collected, while the restoration and data-migration dates describe later work on this edition.
Sources for this account
- Original Digital Dr. Stone homepage: Project history, class credit, transcription conventions, and Stone quotation
- Original Digital Dr. Stone acknowledgements: Named roles and combined transcription and proofreading credit
- Digital Dr. Stone proofreaders' checklist: Surviving project document describing the intended transcription and review process
- Chart-filename maintenance note: Surviving project instructions for changing single-digit chart filenames, links, and titles to two digits
- Archived-file manifest: Capture dates and checksums for separately recovered public-site files
- Restoration import report: Sources, transformations, known gaps, and generated output for the restored edition
- Restoration repository history: Dated record of the 2026 import, recovery, and site reconstruction