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Some time back an article appeared in a chiropractic publication discussing the idea that end-of-life care is part of a vitalistic approach and that chiropractic as part of Vitalism should address this issue. I’m not sure whether end-of-life care is part of vitalism but it is not part of the practice of chiropractic. End-of-life care ... Read more

It seems to me that Traditional Chiropractic and Objective Chiropractic both address Vertebral Subluxation as the cause of DIS-EASE. The difference is that TC sees DIS-EASE as the cause of (all, many, most, some?) diseases and OC makes no such assertion, maintaining that DIS-EASE, results in partial death (lack of the full expression of intelligence ... Read more

Just when you think you have figured out the game, somebody changes the rules or at least changes the numbers on the players backs. Last week I sent my latest book to be edited for the final version. The book is contrasting traditional straight chiropractic and objective straight chiropractic. The next night I heard that ... Read more

Life is the expression of intelligence through matter. Death then is the lack of expression of intelligence through matter. That leads some to believe that the lack of expression means that life ceases to exist. Yet we know from our major premise (and P. # 2) that matter is still maintained in existence, still manifesting ... Read more

The only real revolution is the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character. The only real emancipation is individual. The only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints. Will Durant

In chiropractic you will never be effective if you care what the masses think or care whether they care what you think. Recently, in conversation, a chiropractor tried to impress me with his “philosophy of chiropractic” indicating that it was evaluated and accepted by hundreds of researchers, scientists, academicians and philosophers. My response was “so ... Read more

1.The concept of innate intelligence comes from and is deduced from the Major Premise of chiropractic. If there is a universal intelligence in all matter, then there is an intelligence, inborn within living matter. We make this distinction simply because we observe that living matter behaves or acts differently than does non-living matter. To designate ... Read more

Chiropractic in Pennsylvania: The Pittsburgh College of Chiropractic began in 1912 under a Delaware charter. In 1917 it merged with Universal College of Chiropractic located in Davenport Iowa. This was the school started by those who rebelled against BJ Palmer (presumably over the introduction of the NCM )including Joy M Loban, DC, the Dean of ... Read more

We are not born with humility, because the innate intelligence of the body is selfish. The baby lets everyone know when he is hungry, when he needs his diaper changed. That is normal and natural. Unfortunately, we often educatedly learn what is innately understood and should be confined to innate function and then transfer it ... Read more

In the language of the first century Greek, developed by a Macedonian hillbilly called Alexander the Great(who had a teacher named Aristotle), the intellectual understanding of a subject was called gnosis. It is just that, intellectual understanding, what we might call “head knowledge” and it was stored in the nous (what science calls the left ... Read more