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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.

Remind me again why we are doing research.

How many times did Archimedes have to sit down in his bathtub to prove his principle? How many times did Newton have to be hit on the head with an apple to prove gravity? How many people had to go to the guillotine to prove the body works better with a good nerve supply? How ... Read more
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Somatopsychic Conditions

Everyone has heard of psychosomatic, the mind causing physical problems, real not imagined problems, real medical conditions in the body. It is an accepted medical phenomena and its effects are treated medically. Often, however, the psychiatrist attempts to treat what he considers the cause, a problem in the psyche or in the mind. Here is ... Read more
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Quote

Sometimes we have to do what we don’t want to do in order to become what we always wanted to be. -Tom Landry
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Selfless vs Selfish Cells

A “selfless” cell (without interference to mental impulses) expresses 100% the innate intelligence of the body and 0% the innate intelligence of the cell, just as a an airplane in flight expresses 100% the law of aerodynamics and 0% the law of gravity. Those two laws (aerodynamics and gravity) are still in existence just not ... Read more
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Denying the existence of a vital life force.

Mechanists do not deny the existence of a force, just that it is a vital force.
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Teaching With Authority

In order to teach with authority you must speak the same language. Perhaps that is part of the problem with our country. We do not require immigrants to learn the language so that they understand the founding principles like the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. In a similar manner we must teach the ... Read more
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Head or Heart Knowledge

Understanding the chiropractic philosophy is not for the purpose of giving us a bigger head but a bigger heart.
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Measuring the Mental Impulse

Some have suggested that the” footprint” of the mental impulse can be measured, However they are not measuring the footprint but the shoeprint. They are measuring a partial “physical representation” of the foot. The foot is inside the shoe. It may be helpful in giving us an idea of the length and width of the ... Read more
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Species Intelligence? Q&A #49

Some have suggested that there appears to be species or behavior intelligence. It is not universal intelligence because universal intelligence acts the same on all matter. It is not innate intelligence because , whatever it is , it often causes matter to act in a manner contrary to its own best interest and innate intelligence ... Read more
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Further thoughts on partial death:

Vertebral Subluxation leads to interference with the mental impulse causing a lack of intelligent active organization. (is that phrase redundant?) We must keep in mind that in chiropractic we are dealing with two kinds of life, universal life (existence, Principles #1,2) and innate life (biological life, Principle #20). Theology addresses more, such as soul life ... Read more
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