The amount of force created by intelligence is always 100% (Principle #9).
That’s a simple, straight forward principle. In other words, the innate intelligence of the body never creates less or more force than is necessary. The confusing aspect of this principle for many students is the use of the word “amount” which connotes the idea of a quantity. What Stephenson is saying is that the “quantity” of mental impulse is always 100%, exactly what is needed by the body at that moment. Unfortunately, that leads to thinking that the force has a quantitative aspect to it and the mistaken conclusion that the force can be dammed up. Stephenson says that is an error in the thinking of the student. Seaman has referred to it as the “curse of chiropractic” (See: https://chiropracticoutsidethebox.com/2006/10/01/the-curse-of-chiropractic/.)
On page 29 of his text, Chiropractic Philosophy, Stephenson refers to the mental impulse as a “special message to a tissue cell for a present instant.” If Stephenson had just stayed with the message concept and not gotten into the “water pipe analogy” (page 103), it would have prevented the confusion. Water pipes can be blocked or dammed up because there is a quantity to the flow of water. (I pay for that quantity to the local municipality). A message has no quantity to it, only quality. From that I would suggest that the mental impulse has no quantity, just quality.
Let’s look at an analogy. Which message has more “quantity”…a message saying “the dog is brown” or “the dog is black and white?” There are less words in the first message. However, it is not the number of words at issue, but rather, the message. The messages are both the same in quality (100%). One describes a single-color dog, the other, one of two colors. But the messages are both perfect for what they were intended to do…describe two different dogs. On the other hand, if in describing a brown and white dog, one message said “the dog is brown” and the other message, referring to the same dog, said the dog is black and white,” both messages are incorrect. Not because the number of words (quantity) is incorrect, but because the content of the message is incorrect. Here’s the point. It does not matter how many words (quantity) are being used. If the message (the thought) is not correct, then more words are not going to make it more accurate and less words make it less accurate.
Within the body there is an innate message (a thought) attached to the mental impulse. If that impulse is interfered with then it is not a message. A distorted message due to an interference in the conveying material is no message at all. It does not matter whether too many or too few impulses are getting through…the wishes of the innate intelligence of the body are not being conveyed to the tissues. There is no message. Half a message is no message (insufficient impulses). A message and a half is no message (too many impulses). The innate intelligence will always generate the perfect message. If there is no interference then that perfect message will reach the tissue cell. If there is an interference then no message reaches the tissue cell. Any impulse that happens to reach the cell is not an innate force (a message) but is, in fact, a universal force and has the potential to be destructive toward the structural matter of the body (the recipient tissue cells.) So it’s not a message being slowed down or dammed up. That would be like your spouse calling you on your cell phone to pick up a loaf of bread on your way home from work and getting the message as you are pulling into the driveway. A message must be received at the tissue cell at just the right instant with just the right content or it is not a mental impulse.
Ok let me get this straight… I.I. creates foruns or force units, to propel the mental impulse to the tissue cell, via the nerve system. However, if the matter of the nerve is compromised, it vanishes completely? What happen to “too much or not enough functionating”? If no message got through, then why abnormal action of tissue? Does subluxation eliminate or distort the mental impulse?
Before we say there is no damming back, please google and check out NEW GERMAN MEDICINE theory. Dr Hammer has identified focal lesions of inflammation in the brain corresponding to diseased tissue in the body. To me it sounds a lot like “Superior congestion and inferior starvation”, except he leaves out the subluxation
Steve, see my response to Jim for background… the message, the mental impulse “vanishes” as you say, but the carrier force which is now a nerve impulse, a universal force and tends to be destructive to structural matter is still transmitted. This UF causes the too much or too little functioning if it is not adapted by the ii of the cell. These unadapted UF are causing “abnormal action” . How does this relate to Hammer’s work? You thought you were giving me a homework assignment? I’ll just put it back on you. We must keep in mind that a MI is purely a metaphysical thing but it is carried by a physical thing, electrical energy of some sort, over physical nerve pathways. The MI is all or nothing but the nerve energy or whatever we call it is subject to scientific scrutiny, which is Dr. Hammer’s area of expertise. With regard to foruns, I’m notsure they are metaphysical, physical or a combination of both. You can also investigate that! Just kidding…well half kidding.
YES! YES! YES!
Joseph, if chiropractors were to get what you so brilliantly described, they would be practicing the objective of chiropractic. Period.
Jack Benny was once asked what was it that makes a good joke teller better than another, and he replied: TIMING!
I too have some fundamental misgivings with the concept of all or none. It seems to me that there are times that part of the signal gets through the compromised communication system. I surmise that the mi cannot be dammed up because the portion that does not get through simply vanishes as heat much like electric current against a resistor.
Good question Jim,
I think part of the “signal” as you call it does get through. But that is not the message part. It may be the carrier of the message like the envelope of a letter. Did you ever mail a letter and forget to put in the letter, mailing an empty envelope, no messdage? Your’e probably to young to have done that but us senile old men have. What I see as getting through is the envelope or carrier wave, the electromagnetic impulse that carries a morse code message over the telegraph. It may be what we are measuring with emg, NCM etc. The message itsef cannot “vanish as heat” because it is metaphysical but the nerve impulse (the impulse without a message-not mental) is still carried. It may produce heat because it is a form of energy. But in actuality, it is a universal force and must be adapted by the ii of the individual cell so as not to destroy the cell(because there is ii in the cell). It may be the trophic impulse that some talk about. But that is a whole other can of worms and I’ve probably confused the issue enough already. PS Welcome to the blog, glad to have your input.
Joseph,
You’re getting good at this!!!
Dr. Joe, I like your analogy to the postal service and it does change my thinking. It does make sense that it’s an all or nothing phenomena, that 100% vibration (force) is the message. In that context as you are saying it also makes sense that the mental impulse is the message not the vibration. Thanks.