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.
Slipping on the Road
Thinking Straight | 3 Comments
|TSC is not part of the “evolution” of straight chiropractic but a devolution, a departure from the 33 principles that the outside in “road” chiropractors took in the 1980’s to become/join the mixers of 2017
Read More Results or RESULT.
Thinking Straight
|When we began to focus on the results of correcting vs and which diseases people could get well from, we’ve lost/set aside the RESULT of chiropractic (RESTORING THE EXPRESSION OF INTELLIGENCE THROUGH MATTER– LIFE
Read More Chiropractic Testing
Thinking Straight
|Each day, perhaps with each practice member, we are tested as to whether we will practice an outside-in approach/viewpoint or an ADIO one. Getting sick people well/addressing symptoms or their cause is succumbing to the OI (medical) viewpoint/objective. All of us (including BJ) often fail the test. Fortunately the 33 principles make it an open ... Read more
Read More OI vs. ADIO Viewpoint or TSC vs. OSC
Thinking Straight
|Outside-in viewpoint, when mixed with ADIO viewpoint, always seems to water down the ADIO viewpoint.
Read More Universal Intelligence, God, and Idolatry
Thinking Straight | 10 Comments
|Is calling the Major Premise “God,” worshiping the creature/creation rather than the Creator, or at the least setting up an idol?
Read More The Medical (Therapeutic) Viewpoint (MV)
Thinking Straight | 7 Comments
|We must be aware that most people (coming to us) have a MV. Asking people haw they feel is the most subtle way of feeding into and reinforcing their MV. Where the MV and chiropractic are explained together, the MV usually predominates.
Read More Q&A # 105-Mixing the Creator and the creation
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|Definition of syncretisim: 1. The combination of different forms of belief or practice 2. The fusion of two or more different inflectional forms. Was BJ/RWS being sycronistic when they combined universal intelligence and God or just making our major premise a theological construct/principle?
Read More Rapport
Thinking Straight
|How do you gain rapport by giving a practical nod to the outside-in approach. A falsE objective of trying to correct the cause of disease.
Read More Q&A, CCE regulations and standards
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|Why has no professional organization,group, agency, ever challenged the constitutionality of the legislatures’ in supporting the CCE. In the 80’s it was because the colleges and organizations felt that it (the CCE) was compatible with their traditional chiropractic approach. Is that now the case and why or why not?
Read More OSC Rationale
Thinking Straight | 4 Comments
|rationale def. am explanation of controlling principles of opinion belief practice or phenomena 2. an underlying reason :BASIS The first and only rationale established by DD Palmer was that the cause of deafness was vertebral subluxation… until he found that some deaf people did not get well …but that other conditions did. Then his rationale ... Read more
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