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.
Changing the World
Future of Chiropractic, Patient Education, Thinking Straight
|“changing the world” seems to be the objective of many and varied groups today. Religious and pseudo-religious groups emphasize that the changes are necessary in the individual and in doing that they can affect a change in the world as a whole (even if that individual change comes by threat of death). The environmentalists believe ... Read more
Read More Active Organization
Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 9 Comments
|Active organization refers to principle No. 21, the mission of innate intelligence. While there is active organization on the atomic level (the motion of electrons), it is generally confined to the interaction of cells for the good of the entire organism. So it is not ordinarily used in referring to the expression of universal intelligence. ... Read more
Read More The Irony of the CCE Philosophy
Future of Chiropractic, Thinking Straight | 3 Comments
|Isn’t it ironic that the CCE believes everyone should be allowed to practice chiropractic as they see fit, including PT,prescribing drugs and other medical procedures. The only exception are those who want to practice it in an objective straight chiropractic manner.
Read More Innate Humility
Thinking Straight, Thoughts
|No one is born with an innate humility. There is no need for humility. Innate intelligence is perfect, as a principle Humility must be taught. It is an expression of the educated intelligence. Innate function on the contrary is selfish, only caring about self. A baby innately cries when he is hungry, tired or needs ... Read more
Read More Why chiropractic is not a health profession.
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|You can have health and disease at the same time. First, health and disease as it is understood by the public are mutually exclusive. As they are understood by chiropractic, they can exist at the same time and in the same person. In all health professions they are mutually exclusive. Second, the vertebral subluxation (as ... Read more
Read More Reasons for my faith by BJ Palmer
Thinking Straight | 5 Comments
|BJ wrote a small booklet in the early 20s, titled Reasons For My Faith. As near as I can figure the booklet was writtenin the earl 20’s about the time of the invention of the NCM and for the purpose of introducing that instrument to the profession. While I am not totally in agreement with ... Read more
Read More The CCE Therapeutic Goal
Future of Chiropractic, Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 3 Comments
|OSC must be wiped out, be legislated against. As long as it exists, it tells the world what chiropractic is all about, what it should be about and gives both chiropractors and the public the opportunity to accept and utilize it.
Read More Wisdom
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|Wisdom is knowledge transferred by experience through humility.
Read More A Chiropractic Chronology
Thinking Straight
|Chiropractic as a cure for deafness-1895 Chiropractic as a cure for all disease-circa 1896 Chiropractic as a correction of DIS-EASE-circa 1900 DIS-EASE as the cause of all disease-circa 1905 DIS-EASE as the cause of some disease-1914 The cause of DIS-EASE-1927 Vertebral subluxation as the cause of DIS-EASE-1927 Purpose driven/mission driven or objective driven chiropractic. circa ... Read more
Read More A Facebook Post
Thinking Straight
|A short while back on one of the Facebook groups, someone posed the question as to who were the 3 best speakers in chiropractic. As with most Facebook postings there was a wide disagreement in responses. (They probably said speakers rather than writers because other than social media one would be hard-pressed to find three ... Read more
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