Digital Dr Stone — Writings of Polarity Therapy founder Randolph Stone, DO, DC, ND (1890-1981) have been digitized, indexed and made searchable in this new free resource for Polarity students, practitioners and teachers.

Principles & Application

Health Building, page 23 figure

The caduceus pictured above* was carried by the messenger of the God of life, called Hermes by the Greeks and Egyptians and Mercury by the Romans, always pictured with wings on his feet. The caduceus was the symbol of healing for the physicians of old, who understood some of this mystery of life and applied it in their limited way. A globe with two wings symbolizes the two hemispheres of the brain, with a central staff or trunk of this tree of life, which is the spinal cord. The two life-breaths wind down this tree of life as two serpents of mind and emotional impulses, or energy fields expressed in their stepped-down energy as the two life-breaths,

* This illustration is from Dr. Stone's book Polarity Therapy. Various charts and illustrations of this principle are also found in his book The Wireless Anatomy of Man (e.g., chart 12 on "the tree of life").

Illustration Text: Soul energy, life and consciousness, ultrasonic energy, radiant light energy, brain, neuter [neutral], respiratory, digestive, generative, eliminative, life breath waves, polarized brain waves, 5 [five] radiating energy waves - 5 [five] senses, positive, negative, +, -

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