You can never come to understand a WALV by dissecting it, reducing it to its component parts. It can only be understood by assembling it into an overall concept, an overarching plan. You do not understand a painting by getting up close and looking at the parts, you understand it by standing back and taking … Read more
We nee to qualify the term “mainstream thinking” ( eg. mainstream science, mainstream politics). Chiropractic involves mainstream thinking. Medicine does not. The problem is that most people think inconsistently with their world view. Our job is to get people to think consistently with their world view. If we can do that they will see how … Read more
Instead of having “answers” on a math test, they should just call them “impressions” and if you get a different “impression”, so what, can’t we all be brothers? Jack Handey April 21, 2010
The term alternative health care has hurt chiropractic. People are ready for an alternative to medicine (in treating disease) and more than willing to put chiropractic in that niche. This confuses the true objective of chiropractic and leads the public astray. April 21, 2010
You cannot have an amoral philosophy like that of science and expect it to function for the benefit of society. I needs a moral code as its authority. April 14,2010
The educated brain unlike the innate intelligence learns by trial and error. Therefore we must allow people the opportunity and freedom to learn by failure when it comes to issues of health or else they will never learn. April 14,2010
Do people see us as the healer or do they see the innate intelligence of the body as the healer? If we view the innate intelligence of the body in the same way we view ourselves we will never make the distinction or develop the distinction of what we do. Do they see us as … Read more
If government really believed that addiction was a disease why would they run, advertise, allow, and promote daily lotteries? April 7, 2010
There seems to be an ever-increasing effort within the straight chiropractic movement to emphasize the importance of the vertebral subluxation. There are seminars that teach how to “sell” the vertebral subluxation. In the communication courses at Sherman they strongly emphasize the importance of explaining the vertebral subluxation to the practice member—what it is, how it … Read more
The division within our profession is one of philosophy and that philosophy is part of our world and life viewpoint. It touches upon every aspect of our profession, including how we view the future of our profession. Further, and without question, how we view our profession affects the politics of chiropractic. The ADIO viewpoint maintains … Read more