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.
Stupid Statement #2
Thinking Straight | 1 Comment
|Candy Gunther Brown maintains in her essay, Chiropractic and Christianity: The Power of Pain to Adjust Cultural Alignments that chiropractic grew out of or is an extension of Paracelsus’s (magnetism) or Mesmer’s (hypnotism) work. That is akin to maintaining that modern brain surgery is the natural extension of the ancient art of trephination in which ... Read more
Read More American Exceptionalism/Chiropractic Exceptionalism
Future of Chiropractic, Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|Sometime back, President Obama and Vladimir Putin got into a discussion over what is “American exceptionalism.” American exceptionalism has always been not what we the people can and cannot do, but rather what the government can and cannot do. No other country has limited the rights of government and delegated all other rights to the ... Read more
Read More Chiropractic
Thinking Straight | 7 Comments
|Chiropractic means more than just “done by hand”, it means done by the law of life. We don’t just work with our hands, we are working with, or more correctly, working for the innate intelligence of the practice member’s body.
Read More A Callous or Scar Tissue
Thinking Straight | 4 Comments
|a callous is the manifestation of the innate intelligence of the body creating special, tough, hard tissue that resists friction, resists injury greater than but does not have all the other abilities of epidermis. Scar tissue is the result of the innate intelligence of the body adapting to trauma that is too great to heal. ... Read more
Read More The Mind, Chiropractic and Faith
Patient Education, Thinking Straight | 19 Comments
|The mind cannot get you well anymore than iodine cures a cut finger. Iodine may remove an interference to the healing process (bacteria). Likewise negative mental attitudes are an interference to the healing process. But positive mental attitude does not stimulate healing or help healing, as people like Bernie Siegel maintain. It merely returns the ... Read more
Read More Active Organization
Thinking Straight | 13 Comments
|Active organization refers to principle No. 21, the mission of innate intelligence. While it is true 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 (or the interaction of the cell’s components in the case of ... Read more
Read More Chiropractic Q&A # 56
Chiropractic Q&A, Thinking Straight
|Which of the 33 principles is either not in some form known by the average person or cannot logically or by common sense be demonstrated to them?
Read More The Wisdom of the Past
Thinking Straight
|Going back to the wisdom of the past is going back to the 33 principles which existed long before DD, BJ and Stephenson. We don’t say gravity existed only since the apple hit Newton on the head.
Read More Quote
Thinking Straight
|If people knew about chiropractic, they would not want to walk around subluxated.
Read More The Afferent Side
Thinking Straight
|If the afferent transmission is a mental impulse, it must be generated by the innate intelligence of the body and come from the innate brain. So where specifically is it going?
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