Blog

From 2011 through 2017, after 28 years of publishing The Pivot Review, Dr. Strauss  instead began blogging thoughts and articles. We hope you are stimulated, challenged, and inspired by this collection of of over 1000 thoughts and articles.

The Innate Brain

This is where the innate intelligence assembles mental impulses. Its existence is actual but its location is theoretical. It is not subject to disease or DIS-EASE. It changes universal forces into innate forces.
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Early Chiropractic Philosophical Conflicts Q&A # 91

National College (at the time National School of Chiropractic), was antagonistic to the Palmer School, BJ and the Palmer philosophy. Its Founder J.F.Allan Howard was the most articulate spokesperson for what he called “the rational point of view. His criticisms included: 1. Making a religion out of a simple technique or calling a simple technique ... Read more
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Q&A #93, The Major Premise

Does the Major Premise(“There is a universal intelligence in all matter…”) mean that it is contained in matter or that it is omnipresentwith regard to matter
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Public Speakers

Many people are attracted to the presentation/form of the message but not impacted by the message. The problem is that many speakers do not even have a message
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The New Math

You cannot do new math in an old math mindset. You need to change your thinking. New ideas or approaches from an outside-in viewpoint (medical/”chiropractic” research) are no better from a chiropractic standpoint. We need a new viewpoint. You have to change your viewpoint from Outside-in to Above-down.
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The Results of Research

Research and its effects will never bring one person to an acceptance and understanding of the LACVS, the objective of chiropractic. It is only the message/objective given and understood. On the contrary, research will take them closer to an incorrect understanding of what chiropractic is, a medical objective that of getting sick people well.
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ADIO v OI- the Difference, Power Source Contrasts

OIBU utilizes educated intelligence which is not perfect, depending upon the limitations of matter of the educated brain and their limited effects. ADIO utilizes the innate brain, which is perfect.It is only limited by interference of its expression.
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UI as God

I can understand how BJ and many chiropractors (incorrectly) understood (and still do) the concept of universal intelligence as God. They understand as he did that there are principles derived from the Major Premise that are greater than the educated intelligence of a human being. However, BJ like the rest of us mortals, could deduce ... Read more
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Ever Seen a Dust Mite… or a vertebral subluxation?

It’s amazing how many things we take on faith/authority. I’ve never seen a dust mite. I’ve see pictures (I think) of one but that is empiricism. I must believe that the photograph is an /honest/accurate (electron microscopic picture) of one, that somebody actually took that picture and did not make up what one looked like. ... Read more
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ADIO v. OIBU

The overwhelming desire for instant solutions/gratificatiion causes people to choose an outside-in approach as opposed to an ADIO one.
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