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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.

Viewpoints on Therapy and Progress

We speak of the benefits of sunlight on vegetation and the body, but the energy principle in the sunlight, with its life-giving vitality which mingles with the air and oxygen and gives warmth and life to the blood and tissues, has also escaped our attention because it is too fine a nature and we have no instruments to evaluate its effect as the fire of life and the vital principle in the breath which is the driving power behind all the body's actions, secretions and functions in general.[1]

It takes a broad, impersonal and active mind to include new fields and find answers to unsolved problems. Only the true pioneers undertake the clearing of new fields and ploughing the rough terrain so others may sow and reap.

IN DIS-EASE [disease] the finer currents are not flowing through the denser fields of the body, or they are blocked and act excessively at the points of resistance, which appear as symptoms and intense, acute pains. This clearly indicates that the best therapy is that which balances the forces in that particular individual with his inner center of gravity, around which these currents revolve. In this manner the normal attractive power of the current is re-established with the Whole. The outside cosmic field is the reservoir where this supply comes from for the function of the denser particles of matter, which keeps the body as a unit representative here among all the five aspects of matter in their three modes of motion.

As long as man's body is considered as merely matter and tested only as such, it comes under the law of gravity, as does all mass and weight when in action in relation to the field of gravity. If this were true and all-inclusive of man, then the body would consistently respond to established routine methods the same as matter does, and there would be no problem whatsoever. Results could be calculated with true precision as in all fields of mechanics and chemistry. But, alas, when dealing with the constitution of man, we know from sad experience that this is not so. There are other factors involved which have not yet been recognized by science, nor have they been evaluated or tabulated.

These unknown factors are the problems in the healing art of today because they are not represented in our field of findings nor in the application of therapies. The purpose of my writing is to bring all factors concerned to the surface where they may receive attention and be included in all fields of the healing art. Nature is impartial and all-inclusive; it has no favorites. Only those who adapt themselves to the law and the Truth of life and being are the recipients of her benefits.

Comparative Values of Principles in Therapeutics

If man had only a material body, then all measures would fall within the limits of the senses and their application to mechanical and purely chemical tests. Then our present-day procedure and precision would work out fine. Since this is not the case except in the shortest vision and in very few instances, we know there is something amiss which constantly sends us off in search of new methods and therapies, new remedies and serums to combat the unknown factors or keep them in check by repeated doses or applications of remedies or physiological corrections. Some unknown factor fails to co-operate and stay within the bounds of balance. Thus the body remains unstable and in the field of symptoms of suffering. Would it not be reasonable to assume that this unknown or hidden factor was overlooked in all our calculations and tests which we have applied so far?

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1 In the 1970's, it was found that sunlight directly affects the production of melatonin in the pineal gland. Melatonin is a hormone that regulates the body's sleep/wake cycle and influences many other bodily systems, although research is still being done to discover how.

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