Randolph Stone was an Austrian-American chiropractor, osteopath and naturopath who founded polarity therapy, a technique of alternative medicine.
11 Facts About Randolph Stone
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Randolph Stone had an interest in philosophy and religions, and encountered Ayurvedic philosophy on a trip to India.
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Randolph Stone immigrated with his family to the United States in 1898 and changed his name to Randolf Stone in the 1920s.
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Randolph Stone first published his concepts of polarity therapy in 1947 in a book entitled Energy, and then published a series of books and pamphlets to explain his ideas and methods.
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Randolph Stone had concluded that an observable 'electromagnetic polarity' was a reflection of health.
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Randolph Stone held the opinion that this energy was influenced by touch, diet, movement, sound, attitude, relationships and by environmental factors.
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Randolph Stone had a successful private practice in Chicago and he worked for about 10 years in a clinic in India.
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Randolph Stone spent the last eight years of his life with his niece Louise Hilger in a house at the Radha Soami center in Beas, India.
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Randolph Stone's ideas have been dismissed by medical health experts as quackery or untestable.
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Randolph Stone's ideas are thus interpreted widely, and polarity therapists vary in their approaches.
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Randolph Stone's ideas were later popularized by Pierre Pannetier, a naturopath who had studied under Stone.