Thinking Straight

A Spark of the Divine

Everybody has a small expression of the divine in them. That does not make us divine any more than one word makes up the Declaration of Independence. What that part is, is a means to understand what being an expression of the divine is and how we fall short of that state. It also gives us … Read more

Philosophical Hindrances

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

Why Do They Make It So Hard?

Some chiropractors want to get people in the office with back problems….but that’s only  a relatively few. OR They want to get sick people well…but that’s only a few and then they get well. OR To prevent disease… but eventually people get a disease in spite of chiropractic. We make it easier: We want to … Read more

Life

We must keep in mind that in chiropractic we are dealing with two kinds of life, universal life (existence, Principles #1,2) and innate life (biological life, Principle #20). Theology addresses more, such as soul life although B.J. apparently (mis)used that theological term and applied it to biological life(when he wrote “the subtle substance of the … Read more

Did Archimedes Prove Chiropractic (once and for all)?

The only form of chiropractic that can be accepted based upon clinical/rational results is objective straight chiropractic, in part,  because of the limitations of its claims. If just one person in all of history got well with or without chiropractic care, that proves the basic tenet of objective chiropractic (that the innate intelligence of the body does the healing). … Read more

Educating non-English speaking PMs

A problem with practice member education for non-English speaking people is that we tend to explain chiropractic in a mechanistic model like a hard bone on a soft nerve, using anatomy and physiology concepts, and fail to explain the 4th component/criteria of the vertebral subluxation. That will no more make them lifetime PMs than it … Read more

Spinology

The reason Spinology can stay away from theological concepts is that it begins further down the “deductive line”. This avoids the real philosophical issue that Stephenson, B.J. and I address and apparently differ on. That’s the Spinologist’s prerogative and is a difference between spinology and OSC. The Spinologist never tells you where he gets his … Read more

DIS-EASE

In my understanding of the Palmer philosophy, it seems to me that BJ saw DIS-EASE as synonymous with an interference with the forces of the innate intelligence of the body, as incoordination or a lack of active organization. When we say active organization, we are referring to the expression of innate intelligence’s forces through innate … Read more

FORCE

Force in chiropractic philosophy is not the nerve impulse. It is the “wish” of the innate intelligence of the body that is being carried by the mental impulse. it is not just elecricity. Electricity can travel to the microwave, T.V. or in the form of a lightning bolt. But when you fip a light switch, … Read more