Welcome to the Rosetta Stone Institute
In the past several decades, medical researchers have discovered that electromagnetic systems control life processes which were earlier thought to be governed strictly by chemical means. The mission of the Rosetta Stone Institute is to understand these systems and put them to use so that people can heal themselves in new and astonishing ways.
In order to do this, we are bringing together two distinct traditions. First of all, the recent scientific research into these electromagnetic systems, and secondly, the Chinese tradition of acupuncture. We think there is a strong likelihood that acupuncture works by means of systems similar to the ones recently documented in the West.
We also think that an in-depth and scientific understanding of both these streams of thought can lead to significant breakthroughs in medical technology. This website explains some of the background to our thinking, and the research directions we are pursuing.
Legs That Grow Back
Frogs and salamanders are a lot alike. But unlike a frog, if a salamander loses a leg, it grows back.
Wouldn’t it be great if people could do that?
Several decades ago, orthopedic surgeon Robert O. Becker, M.D., showed how frogs, too, could regenerate limbs. By altering the part of the frog’s electromagnetic field that surrounded the area of the lost limb, he was able to promote the growth of a new one.
Becker’s findings demonstrated that some physiological systems are electrical and magnetic in nature rather than biochemical. These systems as a whole make up an energetic physiology of the human body. The Rosetta Stone Institute is working to map this energetic physiology so technology can be developed to heal our bodies in unprecedented ways.
Stem Cells
In order to enable frogs to regrow their limbs, Robert Becker reversed the polarity of their body’s electromagnetic field in the area where the injury had occurred. As his research proceeded, he noticed that this reversal of polarity triggered changes in the cells at the opening of the wound. Cells that had already specialized as bone cells, tissue cells, or nerve cells were able to dedifferentiate. That is, they were able to “grow backwards in time” and regain the characteristics of embryonic cells. These cells would then be capable of developing into the many kinds of cells needed to re-grow the limb.
These dedifferentiated cells are more commonly known as adult stem cells. They are at the heart of high-profile research programs that typically clone stem cells outside the body and then inject them back into the body. These efforts show great promise.
Biochemistry and Biophysics
However, current stem cell research is costly, raises significant safety issues, and will always be limited to small-scale tissue recovery. Despite these and other shortcomings, few researchers in mainstream institutions are seriously studying the energetic physiology we have just described as a way to activate latent human regeneration capabilities. This is largely due to the strictly biochemical paradigm that drives most research.
To focus on energetic physiology would require that researchers make a conceptual leap from the notion that chemistry is the only important factor in health and healing. They would need to understand that what you could call biophysical processes and systems often play a decisive role in human healing.
The Rosetta Stone Institute has made this leap.
Natural Regeneration
Unlike artificial stem cell manipulation, the regeneration Becker studied is a natural process controlled by the organism itself. When he extended this ability to frogs, he was merely accessing their innate “command and control” systems, which in turn made use of the body’s “blueprint” in order to rebuild just the injured part — and no more.
This type of regeneration is an appropriately limited recreation of the embryological events that orchestrate the growth of living organisms. It is thus both safer and potentially more robust than the artificial stem cell approach that currently dominates research.
A Plan for Human Regeneration of Limbs and Organs
The ultimate goal of the Rosetta Stone Institute is to empower our bodies to regenerate limbs and organs as needed. A goal of this magnitude can’t be reached overnight, but we have developed a plan to take the first steps towards getting there.
Our first step is to understand the basic mechanism of acupuncture.
In his many years as an acupuncturist, Michael Gandy, L.Ac., has found that the organization of the acupuncture system and the nature of the effects produced by acupuncture treatments indicate a relationship between the acupuncture system and the semiconducting electrical system that Robert Becker established as crucial for natural regeneration. If this is true, it seems likely that electroacupuncture may play a role in natural regeneration. The understanding gained in this first project would then be directly applicable to work on regeneration in humans.
The next step will be to apply electrophysiological monitoring instruments and a novel form of electroacupuncture to study the most highly-developed human regeneration capability — that of the human hair follicle. By understanding the biophysical and biochemical steps that occur naturally in human regeneration of up to 80 percent of the hair follicle, we may be able to reverse the effects of balding.
The hair follicle on the human head provides a simple and accessible model for studying the biophysics of regeneration in detail. For one thing, the biochemical, genetic, and immunological aspects of balding have been studied in depth. And since the regeneration process is occurring on the surface of the body, the steps in the process can be monitored more easily, and with immediate visual feedback.
If hair follicle regeneration is successful, we will seek funding for our next step, the treatment of juvenile (Type I) diabetes. This will be an opportunity to extend our new electroacupuncture technologies to regenerate inaccessible tissues, namely the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas.
Once we have an understanding of how to enhance our energetic physiology in order to control regeneration in the specific cases of balding and diabetes, we should be able to develop a generic model that can be applied to many other diseases characterized by autoimmune damage and tissue loss. We will then develop plans for treating loss of tissue from other diseases and trauma and ultimately learn how to reverse large-scale tissue, limb or organ loss.
We Need Your Help!
This brief outline has been designed to present an overview of our goals at the Rosetta Stone Institute. If you would like to know more about our work — and especially if you would like to help us make it a force for human healing — please take a look at the following pages on our website: