As an object of faith chiropractic is not worthy of belief. It is not meant to get sick people well or relieve pain. As such it would fail almost as often as it would succeed. If there is to be belief, it is in the validity of the Law Of Life, the idea that the innate intelligence of the body “heals” by creating new living tissue. The rest can be taken care of by empiricism and deductive reasoning.
Had you said…”therapeutic” chiropractic is not worthy… I could agree. However as BJ said, When you have a Dr that can deliver, and a patient that can accept, (non-therapeutic)chiropractic works every time. Chiropractic demonstrates “Palmer’s Law Of Life”. So the question becomes is there an ii. or is it just electrochemical reflexes. I don’t think naming something not fully understood requires belief. Electricity for example, many theories yet no proven principle. We use it every day but we’re not sure how it works. Do you believe in electricity Joe? ADIO is very logical but there must be a starting point (above). We choose to call it innate intelligence. Just because something is intangible or metaphysical does not mean it requires belief to exist, for it will exist whether you believe in it or not.
The art aspect of chiropractic is not a matter of belief. I don’t believe or disbelieve in baseball. The science of chiropractic has been demonstrated empirically…no need for belief. I don’t understand the relevance of your BJ quote. Chiroprators ‘
“deliver” every day and patients accept that and still don’t get well. I’m not sure of your point. Electricity does not demand belief, neither does chiropractic. But accepting and understanding the philosophy at some point demands a step of faith. The MP of chiropractic, imo, demands something more than inductive reasoning and we will never demonstrate it empirically.
BJ said chiropractic worked every time, not people got well every time. He was I believe, speaking of the principle, ie. to remove the subluxation is to restore life(PLOL). Therefore as agreed above, no faith needed. However, I still see the MP as DD put it, a recognition of intelligence logically related to the observable order of the universe. Where is the leap of faith. To define or categorize that intelligence or it’s source would indeed take a belief system as it seems beyond our comprehension. Just as knowing and useing electricity without comprehending how it works, does not require faith. You can believe it is a transfer of electrons, or believe it is a shift of current, but that belief, right or wrong is not necessary for our enjoyment of lights and heat.
You know Steve, I wish I could believe that about BJ. But in all honesty I think he believed that chiropractic got sick people well eveytime and if not it was because the chiropractor did not clear out the subluxation. I don’t believe that he really thought there was such a thing as L of M, at least not as far a chiropractic getting sick people well is concerned. For all he wrote I would like to see his thoughts on why people do not get well under chiropractic care. If anyone has a treatise on that subject written by BJ, I sure would like to read it.
Don’t hold your breath Joseph. There no such treatise on that subject from BJ. It could not have happened before the 1960’s.
Look, even you started that “way” when YOU began practicing in 1967. The shift from “getting sick people well” TO “providing people with a full expression of the innate intelligence of the body” had not occurred yet. It was in processing.
You Joseph, and a few others were the pioneers of this TRANS-FORM-ation. You literally gave RISE to NEW FORMS and it is NOW in a process of RE-FORM-ation. And with this IN-FORM-ation that is NEW, chiropractors WHO, from all over the world, NOW, can CHOOSE to BE an Objective Straight Chiropractor practicing the objective of chiropractic which is to LACVS for a full expression of the innate intelligence of the body. PERIOD.
BJ went to his grave with the conviction that chiropractic gets sick people well as long as the chiropractor locates the subluxation (atlas/axis location ONLY), analyzes it for the proper listing, and introduces a force/thrust with a specific line-o-drive, using toggle-recoil with pisiform/posterior arch of C1or pisiform/lamina-pedicle junction of C2 as contact points and a solid knee-chest table for the specific purpose of correcting the subluxation. BJ was about ONE cause, ONE adjustment, ONE cure”. His conviction was unshakable.
BJ did not have the information necessary to think otherwise. He was way beyond his time. It is truly AMAZING that he contributed so much with so little. BJ ran out of time and information, and matter.
Now WHAT?
Nope!
Now WHO?
Ha!
AMAZING ISN’T IT? đŸ™‚
You may be right Joe. Although when I read the Greenbooks I came away with the idea that BJ felt the subluxation was enough justification for adjusting, regardless of presence or absence of symptoms. Even BJ did not boast a 100% symptomatic success rate in Vol.18 with specific care. He also talked about other benefits to the innate connection as in the development of man and mankind(potential). You know Joe, some say we are defined by our enemies. Maybe that was just the mountain he had to climb first (healthcare). As you said in your E-book, a clear nerve system does promote healing but not necessarily cause it due to other factors.
Steve,
It was YOUR idea that YOU came away with when YOU read the Greenbooks with YOUR particular awareness (50 years after BJ passed away). I repeat, it is YOUR idea and not BJ’s.
While BJ developed the philosophy, the “CORE” principles which ALWAYS were (not invented ONLY “seen” with NEW awareness), WERE articulated in his time with WHAT he “saw” within the limitations of his educated mind. BJ did exceptionally well based upon the little information he had to work with. Remember that ALL of WHAT was “seen” was NEW to human awareness. Prior to 1895 ALL of it was in motion and was in processing…. NOT conscious to any educated minds yet. It was DD WHO was the first well-developed mind to capture the essence of WHAT was slowly becoming conscious (probably “brewing” INSIDE him a few years before the famous day of September 18, 1895 while he was a magnetic healer).
So Steve, YOU prove that, in our era (our time which is NEW to us), and with NEW awareness, YOU can THINK and come away with NEW insights and ideas. That’s exactly HOW the philosophy is the WHY of chiropractic, reasoned by WHO you choose to BE with the NEW awareness coming from UP-TO-DOWN, from BEHIND-FORWARD.
Now WHAT?
Nope!
Now WHO?
Ha!
AMAZING ISN’T IT?