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.
The Difference Between Evolution and Adaptation
Thinking Straight | 30 Comments
|Evoulution is a theory based upon the premise that a lesser form can change into a more complex or more adaptable form as a result of time plus chance. Adaptation, on the other hand, is intelligently-directed changes in an organism, the result of temporary or permanent changes in the matter, as a response to the ... Read more
Read More Q&A #34 Symptoms
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|Are the manifestations of chronic disease what the body is doing to adapt to a vertebral subluxation, in other words, the changes have been put there by the innate intelligence of the body? Or is it the result of limitations of matter? Is there any way we can say that any medical problem is the ... Read more
Read More Raising Potential
Patient Education, Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 1 Comment
|Chiropractors cannot do anything to add to one’s potential with regard to life and health but we can remove an interference, the vertebral subluxation, that prevents one from reaching his/her potential in every area of life and health.
Read More Wellness Care
Patient Education, Thinking Straight | 42 Comments
|Making recommendations regarding lifestyle, diet, rest, and exercise, involves being an authority. There is only one authority when it comes to matters of healthy living-the innate intelligence of the body. Assuming that role is the practice of medicine.
Read More Understanding Cycles
Thinking Straight | 24 Comments
|Cycles are an important concept in the Palmer philosophy. B.J., Craven and Stephenson wrote many pages of text explaining them. They need to be examined, understood and further developed. I have addressed a number of cycles before in various ways, in an attempt to bring further light to our understanding… always being met with questions ... Read more
Read More The Law Of Organization
Thinking Straight | 4 Comments
|The law of organization/universal intelligence organizes matter on the atomic level because all matter is made up of atoms. That is why its forces can be said to be destructive toward structural matter and not be considered “bad.” The atomic level is the most stable state of matter. Living matter, that which is functioning in ... Read more
Read More Faith/Authority
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|There are only three types of perception: rationalism, empiricism and faith/authority. Some outside-in concepts that masquerade as above-down ask us to reject the first two and utilze the third for the perception and acceptance of truth. That is not wrong in and of itself as long as the authority you are putting your faith in ... Read more
Read More Q&A #33 Upper Cervical Technique
Chiropractic Q&A, Thinking Straight | 35 Comments
|There are a number of good arguments for HIO but I recently heard an old one that leaves me perplexed. The argument is that the more you allow the body to do for itself like correct subluxations below Axis the stronger it becomes. Conversely, the more you do for it, like correct those subluxations, the ... Read more
Read More Q&A #33 Upper Cervical Technique
Chiropractic Q&A, Thinking Straight | 35 Comments
|There are a number of good arguments for HIO but I recently heard an old one that leaves me perplexed. The argument is that the more you allow the body to do for itself like correct subluxations below Axis the stronger it becomes. Conversely, the more you do for it, like correct those subluxations, the ... Read more
Read More A New Look at the Safety Pin Cycle
Thinking Straight | 16 Comments
|To truly understand the Safety Pin Cycle and every other cycle for that matter, we need to understand the chiropractic philosophical construct called the ” innate brain.” We must first understand that “there is no transmission of mental impulses from innate intelligence to innate brain” (Stephenson p.13). We seem to confuse the location of the ... Read more
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