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Limitations of Matter

In modern-day straight chiropractic, the objective straight chiropractor has totally eliminated the problem of limitations of matter except with regard to whether the practice member can accept the introduction of the force. Once we abandoned the objective of getting sick people well and began to concentrate on the objective of correcting vertebral subluxations simply because … Read more

Getting Well

What does it mean to get well from a chiropractic standpoint? Does it relate at all to how you feel? For most people it definitely does. People even verbalize it on occasions with a statement like, “I don’t feel well today.” Yet we know that “well” does not relate to the presence or absence of … Read more

An Apology

Every so often an event or circumstance will bring to light something that should have seemed very obvious. We all knew that there were terrorists in the world who hated the United States and attacked us in foreign countries. We also knew that we have virtually no system to keep would-be terrorists out of the … Read more

Thought

Innate intelligence is not a theological concept but it is an important concept to theology because it is the difference between biological life and human life, between a living organism and a living soul. V18n2

Limitations of Matter

In modern-day straight chiropractic, the objective straight chiropractor has eliminated the problem of limitations of matter except with regard to whether the practice member can accept the introduction of the force.  Once we abandoned the objective of getting sick people well and began to concentrate on the objective of correcting vertebral subluxations simply because they … Read more

The Adio Viewpoint of Life ~ Introduction

The concept of an ADIO viewpoint is very nebulous to many chiropractors.  If one sees chiropractic as just another therapeutic approach and not completely different than all the so-called healing arts, then it is understandable that the ADIO viewpoint would be elusive.  Reading B.J. is not all that helpful.  He never really saw the ADIO … Read more

From the Mailbox

Dear Joe, “A patient asked this question: ‘How do you know that by … adjusting the spine you are actually improving nerve supply from the brain.” Dr. R.B. One of the difficulties that we have as objective straight chiropractors is that we are performing a service that does not necessarily have noticeable benefits. Sometimes it … Read more

Mission Trips

Traveling to a foreign country for a week or so to give the inhabitants chiropractic care seems to be a favorite activity of many chiropractors. They come back fired up by the wonder of an extraordinary experience. Usually they share with us the details of how they personally adjusted hundreds of people in a day. … Read more