Thinking Straight

Every  organization, company, business or profession  must have a purpose. Just making money is not or should not be the purpose.

We must distinguish between physical, metaphysical and spiritual. Chiropractic does not unite man the physical and man the spiritual-that’s theology. But it does unite the physical aspect of man and the metaphysical. Imagine if everyone understood that concept.

It isn’t how much philosophy you know it is how consistent you are in living and expressing that philosophy every day.

We have no ability to improve our environment either internal or external, just the ability to bring it back closer to what it should be and once was by removing one interference. The only problem is that we don’t know what it should be.  It is only arrogance to think that we do.

It is interesting that in 1988, when Sherman and Penn Straight received equal (to the CCE) recognition by the U.S. Department of Education, due to the unexpected and unwelcomed, by the CCE, decision by the Secretary of Education William Bennet. At that time the president of National College was suggesting that it was perhaps time … Read more

Last month, while on vacation, I lost another long-time close friend. Dick Plummer was a friend  since his chiropractor, a former classmate of mine, began taking him to Reggie Gold’s Saturday night gatherings in 1969. He eventually enrolled at Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic and I’m sure you know the rest of his history. Dick … Read more

We have probably all read BJ’s humorous little saying “Christian Science is all mind, never matter. Medical science is all matter, never mind! Often truth is contained in humor. Combining the metaphysical and the physical is what makes  chiropractic unique. Both Christian Science and medicine ignore the other component and by doing that demonstrate their … Read more

Biological life is in all living organisms. Animal life is in the blood. Human life is in the soul.                                                                         … Read more

One of the most exciting aspects of a football game is watching a player running down the field toward the end-zone, in the clear, looking like he is going to score a touchdown. Sometimes they may even run almost the entire length of the field but they  never seem to celebrate  with their teammates at … Read more

Chiropractic as a cure for deafness-1895 Chiropractic as a cure for all disease-circa 1896 Chiropractic as a correction of DIS-EASE-circa 1900 DIS-EASE as the cause of all disease-circa 1905 DIS-EASE as the cause of some disease-1914 The cause of DIS-EASE-1927 Vertebral subluxation as the cause of DIS-EASE-1927 Purpose driven/mission driven or objective driven chiropractic. circa … Read more