Ignorance of the philosophy of chiropractic, for whatever reason, precludes the application of it in practice. Yet many students are perfectly willing to attend a chiropractic college that purposely does not teach it. Ignorance is no excuse.
Matter that acts in a manner inconsistent with the matter around it necessitates another law acting upon that matter (an airplane under the law of aerodynamics in contrast to raindrops falling to the ground due to gravity). Matter existing in the universe under universal law tends to be broken down into its simplest components. However, one type of matter (living matter) does not break … Read more
Propaganda: the spreading of ideas or information to further or damage a cause. The first thing that must be done to make propaganda effective is to undermine established authority or create a new authority. The authority of chiropractic is not, as some would maintain, D.D. or B.J. It is our chiropractic philosophy. If it were D.D. … Read more
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude-G.K. Chesterton I have often thought that it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days early in adult life. The darkness would make him more appreciative … Read more
The only people vehemently resistant to chiropractic philosophy, non-therapeutic chiropractic, and family care are not the public but many chiropractors.
The late Dr. Don Harrison maintained that one could not come up with a subluxation listing (obviously concluding that there was a subluxation) unless there was such a thing as an ideal normal spinal model. He then proceeded to disqualify everyone else’s criteria, ostensibly leaving only his criteria, having come up with it through mathematical … Read more
If things can improve, this means that there must be some absolute standard of good above and outside the cosmic process to which that progress can approximate. There is no sense in talking of ‘becoming better’ if better means simply ‘what we are becoming’-its like congratulating yourself on reaching your destination and defining destination as ‘the … Read more
What did B.J. mean by the use of the term things natural” in his 1927 definition found in Stephenson’s Textbook?
If the American public knew about chiropractic what the average chiropractor knows, they wouldn’t know any more than they now know.
congruency-the quality or state of agreeing or coinciding. Try as we might to educate society about chiropractic, we will never succeed until we have congruency and that includes congruency in our objective, our Major Premise, our understanding of innate intelligence, our technique (what the technique is trying to achieve) and our talk (what we say to people).