Thinking Straight

Grace and Chiropractic

Grace doesn’t mean doing nothing, just doing something that is non-meritorious, deserves no credit. Pushing on the right place in the right manner on the spine is meritorious and deserves some (financial) reward. The adjustment and the subsequent changes, whatever they might be, are done by the innate intelligence of the practice member’s body and … Read more

The Palmer Philosophy Q&A #60

What is the difference between taking the philosophy exactly as DD and BJ presented it or taking what they gave us and refining and expanding upon it? How do we insure that in doing the latter we are not changing their original intent? In other word, what truly is the Palmer philosophy, in their own … Read more

Educated Brain Interference

The greatest hindrance to understanding and applying the chiropractic philosophy is the refusal to disregard previous ideas, paradigms, and thinking and begin to look at the world in light of an ADIO viewpoint.

Death-Philosophically and Theologically Contrasted

Death (D.) is never the cessation of existence but the separation of a relationship. Theologically there are at least 7 deaths. They relate to the state of the soul in relationship to the body (in Judeao-Christian theology, the only theology I feel somewhat adequate in commenting upon) and include what I am going to categorize … Read more

Empiricism

The problem with empiricism is that you never have all the facts. The best you can say is ” all the facts that I have lead me to think…” To conclude that you have disccovered all the facts is the arrogance of believing you are omniscient.

Democracy in Chiropractic.

Democracy is the rule of the majority, however when the majority does not recognize the rights of individuals but only the right of the majority it is nothing more than mob rule. Obama doesn’t care whether Islamic countries or their extremism controls the country, just as long as they are the democratic majority and in … Read more

When Good Scientists Go Bad

Rupert Sheldrake, a plant physiologist at Cambridge University, left his position there and began to philosophize/theorize in order to solve the genesis of form issue. He was understandably dissatisfied with the scientific explanation that the dimensional form of living organisms is ordered by the DNA. He correctly concluded exactly what we chiropractors conclude – that … Read more