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Ideas will prevail. Leaders point the direction- Thom Gelardi

Of all the “health care professions” throughout history only a few are still around and enjoy any level of success. All the rest have either been absorbed or eradicated by medicine. Dentistry and podiatry are the two most widely known ones. Both have four things in common: 1. They adhere to their mission and or ... Read more

Gambit def. 1: a chess opening in which a player risks one or more minor pieces to gain an advantage in position. The checkmate that traditional chiropractic has fallen into today is that its practitioners are adjusting people with a medical condition and expecting that the correction of the vertebral subluxation will make a difference ... Read more

The task or mission of chiropractic is the center of the profession, the What,to correct vertebral subluxation. The objective of chiropractic is the end purpose, the Why,to enable the innate intelligence of the body and its forces to be more fully expressed.

1. The Major Premise – A Universal Intelligence is in all matter and continually gives to it all its properties and actions, thus maintaining it in existence. 2. The Chiropractic Meaning of Life – The expression of this intelligence through matter is the Chiropractic meaning of life. 3. The Union of Intelligence and Matter – ... Read more

Vertebral Subluxation causes State: DIS-EASE Status: partial death, the body is still alive, expressing the innate intelligence of the body. But the cells, tissues or organs affected are not expressing the forces of the innate intelligence of the body and are dead (lacking the expression of intelligence through the matter) from the body’s perspective. Condition ... Read more

Dr. Thom Gelardi who is responsible directly and indirectly for some of the greatest and most important contributions to modern chiropractic philosophy and practice has given us a term that demands study and analysis. He said recently that the mission of the chiropractic profession is the center of the profession. Whenever Dr. Gelardi speaks, he ... Read more

There is a fine but distinct line between adjusting someone for vertebral subluxations who, coincidentally has a medical condition and adjusting someone for a medical condition who coincidentally has a vertebral subluxation. I am not sure that as chiropractors many of us are: 1. Fully cognizant of that fine line. 2. Not concerned about whether ... Read more

We must keep in mind that in chiropractic we are dealing with two kinds of life, universal life (existence, Principles #1,2,3,4,5,10) and innate life (biological, Principle #20). Theology addresses more, such as soul life although BJ apparently (mis)used that theological term and applied it to biological life (innate intelligence). Theology also addresses eternal existence and ... Read more

Consensus is the absence of leadership.- Margaret Thatcher