Innate intelligence is not medicine’s “viz medicatrix.”
Innate intelligence is not Deepak Chopra’s “mind”.
Innate intelligence is not naturalism’s “nature”.
Innate intelligence is not a theological or religious construct.
Innate intelligence is a unique principle explained only by chiropractic philosophy, nothing more, nothing less.
PERIOD!
Hey Joe,
Can innate intelligence also be referred to as the Wisdom of the body or Law of life? I have even heard some call it “that mysterious something”.
Also, if chiropractic cannot be explained without explicit reference to ii does that mean all chiropractors who choose to practice NTOSC need to explain what ii is on day one? Otherwise, the explanation is not chiropractic..It is specific or it is nothing (I admit, this last part may be out of context)?
I think Boyd used that term (Wisdom of the body), not sure what he meant and that is the issue, defining your terms. I think Law of Life is perfectly accpetable because BJ defined it as synonomous with ii.
Reggie often used the phrase “the wisdom of the body” in spinology and said he actually preferred that spinologists use that as opposed to innate intelligence. Reason being is that ii has several different meanings among chiropractors and the public associates it with native street savy basically rendering the phrase non specific and therefore useless. Several years later at an ADIO seminar in Philly one of the speakers couldn’t make it. Reg was asked if he would fill in and without hesitation he got up on the platform. He usually didn’t hang around to listen to other speakers but today was different, and after hearing speaker after speaker misuse the phrase ii he proceeded to take a room full of chiropractors to task for that misuse and school them in 801 Philosophy. Yup, he had chutzpah for sure!! LOL
The first time I heard the phrase “wisdom of the body” Reg said it was Cannon the famous physiologist’s phrase. Not long after that, I was digging around an old used book store and I came across Walter B. Cannon’s, MD book, The Wisdom of The Body, subtitled, How the human body reacts to disturbance and danger and maintains the stability essential to life. In the preface he writes:
In 1923, the late Professor E.H. Starling, of University College, London, gave the Harveian Oration before the Royal College of Physicians. His oration he entitled “The Wisdom of the Body. Only by understanding the wisdom of the body, he declared, shall we attain that “mastery of disease and pain which will enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.” Because my own convictions coincide with those of Professor Starling, and because the facts and interpretations which I shall offer illustrate his point of view, I have chosen to give the title of his oration to the present volume.
– Walter B. Cannon
– Boston 1932
Thanks Tom.
Isn’t it true that the late Reggie Gold did not use ii or wisdom of the body in his “Chemistry of Life” explanation of chiropractic?
Do you suppose the reason you stated above is the why he avoided these terms?
That’s true Don. I questioned him about that one time and he said the first talk is simply an introduction to chiropractic and not a philosophy lesson. Some would say that Reggie’s C of L talk is too mechanistic, that it leaves out the essence of chiropractic, ii. I couldn’t argue with that. Then again I can see Reggie’s point in making the first talk very simple to the point where virtually no one could argue with its contents, thus getting them started having their spines checked leaving plenty of time down the road for continuing education.
Hey Joe,
It is true, none of those terms fully explain the concept. It seems they get the what but not the why or the why but not the how. Only innate Intelligence explains what, why and how we are what we are. You gotta love this stuff!!!
What’s witth this “hey” stuff? Slightly disrespectful, eh?.
Hey Tom 😉
You are correct.
I’ll stop.
Tom,
You are correct. 🙂
Question: Isn’t eh? used north of the border only?
North of the border? Eh, let’s not get too personal, eh?
Woops! Did I make the mistake of assuming I was the lone Canadian on this blog? My apologies Dr. Lessard.
Don,
Je suis QUEBECOIS! Eh! 😉
Hey Tom,
Hey is Hi from the south.
Hi Steve, in the north we say ‘hey’ is for horses when someone starts a sentence off with that! I suppose if you’re in a forum strictly made up of southerners that sounds ok, but that’s not the case here. 🙂
Hello Dr. Tom,
Yes I remember that little saying from grade school. It was never my intention to offend anyone, especially a Yankee. Since the War Of Northern Aggression ( what y’all call the Civil War ) is long over, I guess we will have to accept each others differences. If my phraseology in any way affects your ability to comprehend what I write or your level of enjoyment of this blog, please let me know.
Had I known your full name I would have addressed you more formally. However, since most of us here are on a first name basis I assumed hospitality and informality was the rule.
🙂
Interesting story about Deepak Chopra. One evening, many, years ago, I was reading the newspaper when I came across the tv/radio section I rarely looked at the radio section but scanned it that night and saw that Deepak Chopra, who around that time was bursting on the scene, was doing an hour long radio interview. Looking at the clock I realized that they were half way through the interview and I quick turned on a radio in time to hear, “Ok folks at the bottom of the hour we’ll be taking your calls with questions for Dr Chopra”, and they gave out the number. I quick grabbed the phone and dialed the number. The person answered and said I would be the first caller after the commercial and asked what my question was for Dr Chopra. I made something up and he said ok, hold the line, that I would be up in 30 seconds. Which was just enough time for me to think of a real question to ask. LOL Those who know me know I almost always have a tape recorder within reach and this time was no exception. I turned it on in time to record the brief dialogue:
OK, time to talk to Tom, you’re on WOR.
Tom: Thank you for taking my call. Dr Chopra, with all the information that we currently have about the human body and the mind body connection, if you could place a percentage on how much information we know about the human body right now, what do you think that percentage might be?
DC (Deepak Chopra): Laughingly he says: Less than 1/10 of 1%. But we do know something. That is, we have underestimated the wisdom of the body. We have underestimated the intelligence of the body. The human body is a field of infinite correlation which means it can do an infinite number of things all at the same time and correlate them with each other. Every cell in your body is performing 6 trillion reactions per second. A human body can think thoughts and digest food and kill germs and make a new baby and monitor the movement of stars all at the same time. And not only that it can correlate these activities with each other. A human body is the expression of what I can only call Divine Intelligence.
Interviewer: I’m thinking, if you know 1/10 of 1% of what there is to know about the human body, think of the orthodox physicians. For them it’s probably 1/100 of 1% (laughter in the studio)
DC: One of the things they are realizing is that the human body is fluid and flowing and everchanging, 98% of it renews itself once a year. It’s dynamic it’s not static. It’s a network of intelligence. It’s not random molecules. It’s energy and information, not physical matter in its essence.
Tom: Dr Chopra, my chiropractor (and I gave his name out) talks to me about innate intelligence of the body. Is that the same wisdom that you are speaking about? Chopra jumps in talking over me immediately saying:
DC: The innate intelligence, which chiropractors have talked about for a long time, is a very, very authentic label to give to what’s really happening in the body. There is an inner intelligence which is far supreme than anything that the intellect could even possibly begin to understand.
End of my call.
Just thought I would share that.
Tom,
I believe you. I can see why your call was ended abruptly.
What I can’t understand is how a physician can reconcile the concept of innate intelligence with the mechanistic (non-vitalistic) model that is medicine.
Tom,
Other than the Deepak Chopra interviews, why do you need a tape recorder within arms reach?
LOL, with all the gazillion cassettes I have I REFUSE to move into the cd era except for those times when someone would like a copy of a particular talk and I transfer it over to cd for them 🙂 I think Joe Strauss and myself have the last few cassette recorders on earth and I don’t want to let it out of my sight!! 😉