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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.

True Jubilee and Freedom

Jubilee def.-a year of emancipation and restoration…..by the emancipation of slaves… I believe that BJ was looking forward to the year of true Jubilee when all chiropractors would be freed from the slavery of being shackled to the medical model of merely “getting sick people well,” free to correct vertebral subluxations in order to enable ... Read more
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Mechanism and Innate Intelligence

Mechanism and naturalism do no so much maintain that innate intelligence does not exist but, more important, that it need not exist. That may be our major point of disagreement in our world and life viewpoints.
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Grace and Chiropractic

Grace doesn’t mean doing nothing, just doing something that is non-meritorious, deserves no credit. Pushing on the right place in the right manner on the spine is meritorious and deserves some (financial) reward. The adjustment and the subsequent changes, whatever they might be, are done by the innate intelligence of the practice member’s body and ... Read more
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Freedom and Tyranny

Every bit of freedom we have is the result of our military. Every bit of tyranny we experience is a result of our government
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The Palmer Philosophy Q&A #60

What is the difference between taking the philosophy exactly as DD and BJ presented it or taking what they gave us and refining and expanding upon it? How do we insure that in doing the latter we are not changing their original intent? In other word, what truly is the Palmer philosophy, in their own ... Read more
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Educated Brain Interference

The greatest hindrance to understanding and applying the chiropractic philosophy is the refusal to disregard previous ideas, paradigms, and thinking and begin to look at the world in light of an ADIO viewpoint.
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Death-Philosophically and Theologically Contrasted

Death (D.) is never the cessation of existence but the separation of a relationship. Theologically there are at least 7 deaths. They relate to the state of the soul in relationship to the body (in Judeao-Christian theology, the only theology I feel somewhat adequate in commenting upon) and include what I am going to categorize ... Read more
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Empiricism

The problem with empiricism is that you never have all the facts. The best you can say is ” all the facts that I have lead me to think…” To conclude that you have disccovered all the facts is the arrogance of believing you are omniscient.
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Democracy in Chiropractic.

Democracy is the rule of the majority, however when the majority does not recognize the rights of individuals but only the right of the majority it is nothing more than mob rule. Obama doesn’t care whether Islamic countries or their extremism controls the country, just as long as they are the democratic majority and in ... Read more
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When Good Scientists Go Bad

Rupert Sheldrake, a plant physiologist at Cambridge University, left his position there and began to philosophize/theorize in order to solve the genesis of form issue. He was understandably dissatisfied with the scientific explanation that the dimensional form of living organisms is ordered by the DNA. He correctly concluded exactly what we chiropractors conclude – that ... Read more
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