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.
Partial Death
Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 19 Comments
|Principle No. 2 in our chiropractic philosophy says “life is the expression of intelligence through matter”. From that principle we can conclude that death is the separation of the intelligence and the matter. We know that in our present system. Principle No. 2 is referring to universal life or existence, in that sense death (as ... Read more
Read More Informed Consent Form
Thinking Straight | 4 Comments
|We have had some discussion on the blog concerning an “informed consent form” and whether chiropractors need to have one. I think not. But inasmuch as most state boards are trying to place chiropractic into the medical model, they may require one now or in the near future. I have created one that I think ... Read more
Read More A Reader's Question
Chiropractic Q&A, Thinking Straight | 38 Comments
|A Reader asks: Is the ADIO concept uniquely chiropractic? No, not in my opinion. While the idea of chiropractic as ADIO was first given to us by BJ, chiropractic can be practiced from an ADIO viewpoint ( NTOSC) or from an outside-in perspective (therapeutic). Many other things beside chiropractic can be seen from an ADIO ... Read more
Read More Mechanism vs Mechanics
Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 10 Comments
|Mechanism is a philosophy Mechanics is a physical, observable, measurable (within the limits of our science) activity. Mechanism says that mechanics is all that there is. Its existence is a product of time plus chance and our ability to observe it. Vitalism says that there is something else, not physical, something that is immaterial but ... Read more
Read More QUOTE-RE:The CCE?
Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 1 Comment
|Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit.-P.J. O’Rourke
Read More Thank you Sir Isaac
Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 21 Comments
|According to Bruce Lipton, PhD, Newtonian Physics maintains that force and matter are not the same. Quantum Physics, on the other hand, maintains that energy and matter are two aspects of the same entity, just in different forms. Newton’s model separated matter, force, and intelligence. Some in chiropractic seem to be embracing the new physics ... Read more
Read More Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Patient Education, Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 1 Comment
|We are all born with an innate intelligence that is 100%, making us all equal in that way with regard to biological life (the expression of innate intelligence through matter). We (human beings) all have the liberty (freedom) to choose how we express that biological life and whether we want to pursue temporary (OIBU) happiness ... Read more
Read More A Spark of the Divine
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|Everybody has a small expression of the divine in them. That does not make us divine any more than one word makes up the Declaration of Independence. What that part is, is a means to understand what being an expression of the divine is and how we fall short of that state. It also gives us ... Read more
Read More Philosophical Hindrances
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|The greatest hindrance to understanding and applying chiropractic philosophy is the refusal to disregard previous ideas, paradigms, and thinking and failure to look at the world in light of the ADIO viewpoint.
Read More Why Do They Make It So Hard?
Thinking Straight | 6 Comments
|Some chiropractors want to get people in the office with back problems….but that’s only a relatively few. OR They want to get sick people well…but that’s only a few and then they get well. OR To prevent disease… but eventually people get a disease in spite of chiropractic. We make it easier: We want to ... Read more
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