Thinking Straight

Yes or No? and Why?

….was to demonstrate that chiropractic “cured” more than the cause of some musculoskeletal conditions. I guess that makes it more than mixing chiropractic, but far less than it was intended to be.

… correcting vertebral subluxations (for the wrong reason, to get sick people well)so far, has had the effect of enabling chiropractic to reach a level of success since 1895. Would OSC have enabled a greater, lesser or the same level to have been reached?

Freedom does not remove people from all authority. That is anarchy. The chiropractic profession seems to be buying into the CCE model that the greatest authority is the absence of authority…every man doing what is right in his own eyes, making his own educated intelligence his authority.

The first/only rationale established by D.D. Palmer was that VS was the cause of deafness until after Harvey Lillard, and the next person did not get well from their deafness but from another condition. Eventually he reasoned that it was the cause of all disease. Finally, it took his son to conclude that it was … Read more

Definition:evidence that tends to prove a fact by proving other events or which afford a basis for a reasonable inference of the fact in issue.”Chiropractic gets sick people well” does not even rise to the level of circumstantial evidence, at least not to the degree that convinces enough people to be acceptable to the public. … Read more

… is all about being subject to an authority outside of one’s self. That authority is the innate intelligence and how it is expressed in the 33 principles. Where does “innate thought flashes” come to bear in this issue.

The innate intelligence of the body will endeavor to take any universal force, invest it with new character, making it an innate force and thereby utilizing it to correct a vertebral subluxation. The more (educatedly) intelligently directed that universal force the greater likelihood of that adjustment taking place by the P M’s body.

….would be analogous to overcoming people’s volition. Reggie merely gave students/chiropractors a brilliantly crafted explanation and allowed them to decide for themselves. Some of us bought it, some did not. He did not coerce anyone. His chiropractic philosophy was reaching a hand down and offering to anyone who would reach up. BJ on the other … Read more

People establish their world and life viewpoint to a great degree by the importance they place upon their method of perception. That is greatly the result of teaching and training. I might add that most people grew up the same way.I grew up placing my importance on faith/AUTHORITY as the primary method of perception.. I … Read more