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If as Gallup polls assert, 82% of Americans profess to believe in the foundational principle of our chiropractic philosophy, how did such a small minority manage to gain control of areas such as science and education? Further, this minority is allowed to convey, largely unchallenged,  the idea that belief in an ADIO viewpoint represents a kind of mystical irrationality.

What’s the difference between innate intelligence and instinct?

Knowing and understanding a principle is not enough. You have not learned it until you can remember it and can apply it.

How is an understanding of universal intelligence of value to our chiropractic philosophy, other than as a mechanism for deduction? In other words, if every individual started off accepting  an inborn wisdom of the body, would it be necessary to even have a major premise? Why?

There is only one authority in establishing a healthy lifestyle for your practice member. It is not the M.D. or the D.C. It is the innate intelligence of that person’s own body.

Chiropractic is about the intention of the innate intelligence of the body, not the desire of the chiropractor or the practice member. Our education program should be a reflection that intention.

If we were dealing with energy alone in analyzing the mental impulse, it may be able to be measured or empirically demonstrated. But, if we are addressing an immaterial thought, either wholly or in part, we will never measure that component. We must always use our philosophy to understand the mental impulse.

We as chiropractors  must be careful to maintain our integrity and the purity of our position. Mixing is not what you do in the office, it is first what you think in the privacy of your soul. If you think in the internalist or ADIO realm, your actions will follow. When you begin to think ... Read more

Life should be like a candle…burn brightly until the end, flicker once or twice and go out.-Reggie Gold Candles come in different sizes and shapes and burn for different periods of time. If our “candle” goes out before it has reached its full potential (whatever that may be), it’s not the “desire” of the innate intelligence ... Read more

Great discussion guys! The mechanists denied that there was any vitalistic component to functions like the patellar reflex. BJ disagreed, said it was an innate function. Of course he was correct. So, how does this reflex action philosophically  occur? Where would you theorize the innate brain was and the mechanism by which this action occurred? ... Read more