We have been enticed, or more correctly, allowed ourselves to be enticed, into mainstream healthcare acceptance by taking a limited outside-in approach to our profession. We have sold our birthright (correcting vertebral subluxations for better innate expression) for a bowl of pottage (treating musculoskeletal conditions). We did it for the same reason Esau did. We … Read more
We seem to be anxious to criticize and challenge the practices of medicine but rarely do we ever question the philosophy of medicine. What’s wrong with the philosophy of medicine, or all outside-in approaches for that matter? Hopefully, we can come up with more than one thing.
We seem to be anxious to criticize and challenge the practices of medicine but rarely do we ever question the philosophy of medicine. What’s wrong with the philosophy of medicine, or all outside-in approaches for that matter? Hopefully, we can come up with more than one thing.
The chiropractic philosophy is the compass for our profession. The chiropractic objective is due north. A compass is worthless unless it points north.
In my opinion, the greatest thing Reggie Gold ever did in his life was to give the chiropractic profession a non-therapeutic, objective driven approach to the practice of chiropractic. The greatest thing we can do to honor his memory is to practice and perpetuate that approach and in doing so preserve the philosophy that he so dearly loved.
Reggie has told the story of an old Ben Casey T.V. program in which Dr. Casey comes out of surgery and tells the distraught parents of a child he has just performed surgery on that “we have done all that we can do, it’s now out of our hands.” As I remember it, the point Reggie … Read more
A straight chiropractor reads and follows DD’s and BJ’s philosophy. A non-therapeutic, straight chiropractor understands the philosophy in light of its objective.
The issue of the soul is answered by chiropractic philosophy. Innate life is not soul life. Thomas Acquinas et al were forced to conclude different soul levels to account for various forms of life. All living organisms, including one-celled organisms, have innate life. Only human beings have soul life.
If we put the Green Books on a pedestal, above and to the exclusion of everything else, then are we essentially saying that chiropractic is a mystery, a secret fraternity, one that can only be understood by the initiated, those who have studied and gotten B.J.’s message through reading them? Everyone else is a little … Read more
Recently there has been some lengthy discussion on the blog about God and universal intelligence, whether they are the same or different. Whenever discussions about chiropractic, theology and/or medicine are brought up, there seem to be different positions taken. With regard to religion and the therapies, we can, and probably should say, it’s not a chiropractic discussion. … Read more