CHAPTER 1 What is Polarity Therapy?
Polarity Therapy is a comprehensive health care system based on an understanding of energy in the healing arts. Created by Randolph Stone, D.C., D.O., Polarity Therapy is the culmination of over sixty years of the study and practice of esoteric healing and natural therapies. Through his studies of the ancient wisdom, Dr. Stone exalted his consciousness and penetrated the deepest mysteries of life and the healing process.
Polarity Therapy understands the body as energy. Ten currents of energy emanate from the ultrasonic core of the caduceus and chakra system.
In the evolutionary paradigm, all energy in creation is the energy of an ever-expanding universe. The Polarity Therapist understands the client as the personification of the leading edge of the evolution of the universe. The life of the client is sacred.
The path between birth and death is a cycle of growth. Life is understood as a learning experience for the Soul.
Accidents and illness may be an unconscious statement of issues that are too threatening for the ego to deal with consciously.
In an evolutionary perspective every cell of the body is sentient. The cells contract and energy is blocked when it is too painful to be present in our feelings.
Dr. Stone viewed the soul … the animating force … as the nucleus of the energy fields of the body. In chart #1 from Polarity Therapy Dr. Stone portrays the step-down of the soul energy into the physical fields of the body through the caduceus, “a dual force of positive and negative life breaths which are conveyed to all the tissues of the body.
Our attunement with Spirit is the key to healing and health.
In the Sanatana Dharma, these three principles are called sattva guna (neutral), rajas guna (positive) and tamas guna (negative). The word “guna” is derived from the Indo-European base gere, to “twirl” or “wind.” The gunas describe spiraling vortices of vibrating energy fields. The neutral principle, sattva guna, is the force of equilibrium in nature. Sattva guna is an all-pervasive unified field of living consciousness. The Sanskrit word Sat refers to the Supreme Being which sustains existence.
All vibration is the spiraling undulation of three forces. Centrifugal ascending, centripetal descending around a stable core. All vibration is the spiraling balance of these three forces.
CHAPTER 11 Babbitt’s Atom: The Key to the Secret Teachings of All Ages
Manly P. Hall has been called the “dean” of American esoteric studies. Centered on the very first page of his magnum opus, The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy, is an illustration of Babbitt’s atom.
Babbitt’s atom is based on the principle of polarity. The positive fields are characterized by heat and expansion; the negative are cold and contracting. Babbitt’s model portrays a hierarchy of energy fields.
In the Sanatana Dharma, all creation is a moment-to-moment emanation from the all-pervasive holograph of the Unitive Field. The sages who experienced this level of consciousness described it as a “realm of jewels, where each jewel reflected the light of all the other jewels, and indeed each jewel was all the other jewels.” This jewel is consciousness, the omniscience of the all-pervasiveness of the Self. All creation is an appearance within
While the past and future are always changing, the present is immutable as the presence, the consciousness of Being. All creation shares this essence of the awareness of Being. Creation is a moment-to-moment emanation from the Unitive Field of awareness.
‘All in one and one in all.’
theomorphic humanity, made in the image of the Creator.
The Solar archetype is heroic: “Yang prefers and feels comfortable in a stimulating, complex environment, and acts quickly and impulsively as if endowed with an unlimited supply of stamina and an invincible immunity to harm.”
What it is that is actually conscious in each of us is the One Self. “Innermost element, Everywhere, always, Being of Beings, Changeless, Eternal, For Ever and Ever.”4 Each of us is the eminence of The Omnipresence of Consciousness and the personification of the Mystery of Eternal Life.
The Over-Soul, Sat Purusha, is the constant witness as the subjectivity of each individual.
Tension and resistance dam the flow of life force in its step-down from within to without. This energy block is a fixation upon trauma that has us hooked into the past. In an energy block we lose our ability to resonate with the finer forces of higher intelligence. The body is a mind. Each of the elemental archetypes is an aspect of Immortal Being personified as an aspect of the body. Each archetype is conscious, sentient, present as the omnipresence of the Intelligence which is the universe. The Cosmic Person (Sat Purusha) is present as every atom of creation. In the Sanatana Dharma, God as illimitable consciousness becomes the world. Spirit is present as the illimitable depth of sentience within each being, indeed, within each atom of being. In the wisdom of the Sanatana Dharma, God lives within you, as you.
They invite us to surrender to a higher Intelligence within our being and to lose our “self” (ego) to find our “Self” (Mystery).
The Sanatana Dharma offers a manual for life, a way of life that, when practiced, tunes us into a higher level of presence, intelligence, and guidance in our lives.
Identification Is the Essence of Ignorance All of our problems are rooted in ignorance. All of our problems flow from not knowing who we are.
Ken Wilber explains: “Anytime you identify with a problem, an anxiety, a mental state, a memory, a desire, a bodily sensation, or emotion, you are throwing yourself into bondage, limitation, fear, constriction, and ultimately death.”12 In incessant obsession, our ego-minds whine, “I am lonely,” “I am angry,” “I am fat,” “I am a victim of—” Our emotions blindly follow our thoughts. Each of us is deeply identified with the story that we tell ourselves. Our minds are fixated upon our personal dramas.
But the mystics explain that Emptiness is the container for everything. What else is vast enough? Emptiness is Freedom itself. Emptiness is the quality-less absolute of the present, which is the unchanging background, the witness to the play of consciousness.
The sage S. Radhakrishnan asserts: “When the Supreme is seen, the knots of the heart are cut asunder, the doubts of the intellect are dispelled and the effects of our actions are destroyed. There can be no sorrow or pain or fear when there is no other. The freed soul is like a blind man who has gained his sight, a sick man made whole. He cannot have any doubt for he is full and abiding knowledge.”15
Self-realization has profound implications for psychotherapy, as Wilber explains: To the extent that you realize that you are not, for example, your anxieties, then your anxieties no longer threaten you. Even if anxiety is present, it no longer overwhelms you because you are no longer exclusively tied to it. You are no longer courting it, fighting it, resisting it, or running from it. In the most radical fashion, anxiety is throughly accepted as it is and allowed to move as it will. You have nothing to lose, nothing to gain by its presence or absence, for you are simply watching it pass by. Thus, any emotion, sensation, thought, memory, or experience that disturbs you is simply one with which you have exclusively identified yourself, and the ultimate resolution of the disturbance is simply to disidentify with it. As you realize your true Self, you are liberated from the obsessive suffering of the persona’s drama. The incessant insecurity drops away and a knowing strength emerges from Self-knowledge.
Brahmavidya: Ultimate Truth Brahmavidya, ultimate truth, is the healing balm of a transpersonal perspective for the suffering of our ignorance. If attachment is the cause of suffering, detachment is the stuff of liberation. Mathaji Vanamali explains: The highest form of detachment comes from knowledge, knowledge of the oneness of reality, that exists equally between subject and object … detachment … flowers from the recognition of the omnipresence of the supreme person … which at once, deals a death blow to all desires. Just as, when we wake up from the dream, the desires of the dream fall away by themselves. So also,
the problems of life melt away in the presence of God, who is the reality of all existence. There is an automatic rising of the Soul, to an awareness where desires lose their significance altogether.
Lord Krishna’s teaching is that through dedicated, unselfish service, every action in life can be yoga. The consciousness of the omnipresence of the One dissolves the painful illusion of separateness: all action becomes divine action.
Only when we consciously and willingly accept the fact that we are but mere instruments in the movement of the great universal Karma can we give up our egos and our personal desires and thus become fit to be called karmayogis. Sri Krishna explains that the profound despondency of our worldly dilemma is a painful fiction rooted in our ignorance and identification with this separate ego.
“When your intellect has cleared itself of delusions, you will become indifferent to the results of all action … To unite the heart with Brahman and then to act: that is the secret of non-attached work. ”24 To realize the unity and sacredness of all life is to be released from the ontological insecurity, the shame, suffering, and selfish grasping of the separate ego. Sri Krishna explains that unselfish service based on unitive consciousness, without attachment to the outcome, is the key to freedom.
In the Sanatana Dharma, “Truth” is not a concept, but a way of life. Dharma can only be practiced, it can only be lived.
Hatha yoga facilitates health practices that promote resonance with the finer forces of higher intelligence to unite the individual life with the Eternal Life. Jnana yoga is the way of knowledge, a pathway of the most earnest searching and contemplation to elevate one’s personal consciousness to a transpersonal state of Self-realization. Raja yoga offers a system for stilling the workings of the mind to unite with that which is beyond the mind. Bhakti Yoga offers a devotional psychology and practices to facilitate integration of the personal with the Mystery through rapture of ecstatic Soul communion. Karma yoga is a pathway to the transpersonal, where the sacredness of life is experienced through dedicated unselfish service.
We can use golden or diamond white light in the visualization or we can use color breathing. Color is a pure form of vibration. Color breathing and visualization is a way of focusing consciousness and a healing intention toward the client. In the Tantric tradition, the color yellow resonates with the Earth, white with Water, red with Fire, green with Air, violet with Ether. Because the lower chakras are blessed by the cosmic guru Brihaspati (Jupiter), his fire of wisdom predominates in red, orange, and gold, radiating from the first three chakras, which are driven by the evolutionary return currents.
Metaphor invokes healing mechanisms beyond the linear mind. It speaks to the limitless Creative Intelligence of being. Each of us is a study in creativity and mystery. Metaphor empowers the mystery in the healing process. Any model or paradigm of healing ultimately is metaphor. Consciousness is illimitable
APPENDIX C The Polarity Cleansing Diet
The diet offers an opportunity to break dietary patterns and examine emotional patterns associated with eating. It also offers understanding and support for making a commitment to a healthier lifestyle. The diet is an opportunity to experience enhanced mental and emotional clarity as well as enhanced vitality and well-being. One should stay with this diet a minimum of seven days or until an enhanced state of health has been achieved. This is a cleansing diet, not a maintenance diet, and should not be used indefinitely.
Polarity Liver-Flush Cocktail Take 4 to 8 ounces as your morning meal. More is not better! In a blender add: 3 to 4 tablespoons of cold pressed olive or almond oil the juice of one peeled organic lemon 1 or 2 medium size cloves of garlic an equal amount of fresh ginger (a piece about 1 inch long) the juice of one organic grapefruit
Polarity Cleansing Tea To boiling water add a blend of equal amounts of: ginger root, anise or fennel seed flax seed fenugreek seed twice as much licorice root,
If you have diarrhea, use no licorice, liver-flush, or ginger, but substitute cinnamon bark in the Polarity cleansing tea and eat ground cinnamon with baked apples and/or dates and raisins, chewed thoroughly.
Only alkaline-forming foods are allowed on this diet: No starches or protein are to be eaten. No meat, dairy, grains, potatoes, rice, bread, coffee, tea, sugar, eggs, yeast, or tamari. Keep things simple. Do not try to get around the diet. If you need to ask the question: “Is this on the diet?” The answer is, “No …” Eat less and chew more.
Our touch resonates with divine love and is the living presence of Spirit in the world.
End Notes Throughout this work, we refer to Dr. Stone’s works variously by title, book number, and abbreviation. Following the order of publication, Book I, then, is Energy; Book II, The Wireless Anatomy of Man; Book III, Polarity Therapy; Book IV, The Mysterious Sacrum; Book V, Vitality Balance; EEC, Evolutionary Energy Charts; ET, Energy Tracing; PN, Private Notes; HB, Health Building. Where Polarity Therapy: The Complete Collected Works of Dr. Randolph Stone is referenced by volume, Volume I contains Books I, II, and III. Volume II contains Books IV, V, EEC, ET, and PN.