Our unique role as chiropractors.

We all fill a unique role in life. We all make a unique contribution to our family, or profession, our work, our community, the world. If we do not fulfill that contribution, nobody else will. Some may cover parts of it but no one will make our unique contribution. By analogy, every cell in he body has a function. If we lose it, no other cell fills that need. We may compensate to a degree but something is lost.

The cause of disease

The only single cause to disease is trauma. Otherwise diseases all have multiple causes. It is interesting and noteworthy that trauma (external invasive forces) is the single cause of vertebral subluxation.

Understanding Subluxation

IF innate intelligence exists it is immaterial/metaphysical in nature.
IF innate intelligence creates a mental impulse, it too must be metaphysical.
Therefore the mental impulse can never be demonstrated, explained or even understood in physical/scientific terms anymore than innate intelligence can.
That creates two choices for the chiropractor. He must abandon his historical subluxation correction approach because subluxation correction involves an inteference with this non-material phenomena of an innate intelligence created mental impulse and he must become a practitioner of a physical therapeutic model
OR
he must make the metaphysical philosophy and its ramifications the center of his understanding and explanation of chiropractic rather than trying to explain or prove chiropractic in a scientific framework. Science does not accept anything outside of a materialistic paradigm.

Just a thought

The medical model of education is not only unhealthy from a philosophical standpoint but also from a physical standpoint. The need for long hours, no sleep, stressful exams, etc, take their toll on the physician-student. It carries into practice making m.d.s one of the unhealthiest group of professionals. Our mimicing of the medical profession may be making unhealthy chiropractic students. NBCE tests, too many finals, cadaver smelling, competitiveness,etc., not onle takes them away from what is important (philosophy and technique), it makes them unhealthy.
Am I making wusses of our students or is it a legitimate concern?

External Invasive Forces

Man was apparently better able to handle EIF in the past. They did not have nearly the detrimental effects. The earth and its environment were closer to perfect then. It is also a reason why we probably need adjustments more often than did our ancestors.

An Observation in Understanding Our Philosophy

The greatest obstacle to learning is prior knowledge.

Mixing v. Straight Practice

We can do something good or well but is that important if we can do something great? Babe Ruth was a good pitcher.

Our Chiropractic Treasure

Until something has been evaluated by an expert, we cannot know its real value. What seems to be junk may be an antique conversely we often overvalue objects. We can spend our lives looking for something of value which is not there and ignoring that which is of value. An example is the South African who drilled constantly for oil on his land. After he died penniless his heirs found one of the richest S. African diamond mines among his diggings.

Practice Member Education.

You know you are educating your practice members when they start asking you how they feel rather than telling you how they feel.

An Observation

Most volume practices get larger and larger after the chiropractor retires from active practice!

Wish I'd Said That

"The principles of philosophy cannot be put in words like other studies. Acquaintance with them must come after a long period of instruction and close companionship, then suddenly like a blaze kindled by a leaping spark, knowledge is generated in the soul and sustains itself there."

Plato

Spinal Rehabilitation

Spinal Rehabilitation is not straight chiropractic. If chiropractic is exercise to strengthen the spine, then it is also nutrition to nourish the spinal muscles. It is also stress management, positive attitude principles, ergonomics, rest and just about everything else. For everything affects everything.

An Historical Perspective in Straight Chiropractic

BJ Palmer always addressed the cause of DIS-EASE. However, he only did it for sick people. Consequently, chiropractic became associated with disease. This is not hard to see. Virtually all chiropractors agree that chiropractic is beneficial to people with more than bad backs and stiff necks, yet the world largely associates chiropractic with that. The straight movement seeing this problem decided to disassociate chiropractic totally from disease recognizing that the presense or absense of disase did not matter anyhow.

Innate or Instinct?

Innate adaptative action is individual. In response to heat some bodies may perspire more than others. However an instinct is something that every animal of the species will do in response to an outside stimulus. That is a function of the genetic makeup-the matter not the intelligence. All snakes will seek shade on a sunny day (instinct). Some will innately crawl into a hole, others under a rock. Still others under the shadow of a cactus.

The Boring from Within spoken of by BJ

It has been said that no country can be destroyed until it first destroys itself. Similarly, no profession can be destroyed by another profession until it first destroys itself. If we are worrying aboutwhat medicine will do to us perhaps we need to look within.

Wish I'd Said That

There are many angles at which you can fall but only one at which you can stand straight.
G.K. Chesterton

If you do not stand for straight chiropractic you'll fall for anything.

Purposeful Action

The dog eats in order to satisfy hunger. When a man eats, he has an implicit, conceptual awareness of what he is doing and the end it serves. He understands the concept of digestion, metabolism and nourishment. He also understands eating for pleasure, to sample new food, experiment in nutrition, or to please a host. The dog's is based on perceptual association of memory rather than conceptualization.

Historical Straight Chiropractic

Vertebral Subluxation

It is important to understand that nerve interference is not necessarily a reduction of mental impulse but a distortion of them. That distortion could be from a lack of or an increase in the action of the nerve fiber.

On the subject of deduction....

Perhaps it is time the leadership in the straight chiropractic movement step back and take a long critical look at its approach. The approach(es)has been a Power Politics/Pacifist Politics cycle for the past 40-50 years rather than deduction/logic approach. For a time the straights would fight against the mixing element in the profession. Then a group would rise to position of power and advocate working together with the mixers but retaining our seperate identity. The working together or Pacifist part of the cycle always lasted a much shorter time than did the fighting or Power phase. Eventually, toward the end of the passive cycle a group of "idealistic" straights would come to the realization that the chiropractic principle was being sold down the river and "war" would once again break out. Unfortunately, the casualties would weaken the movement. We are now moving toward the Pacifist phase. (eg. getting rid of hostile, descriptive terms like "straight"). Apart from a major split into two professions, we must do a better job of communicating our philosophy and the difference to the profession and the public.

Thinking Deductively

Reggie once said that if only the governments of the world would think deductively. They can not because they have no Major Premise. Not only don't they but they do not believe that one exists because they reject absolutes.

Stem Cell Research and outside-in thinking

Isn't it interesting? The prochoice crowd want to save cells for research that MAY have the potential to cure a disease in the very distant future and in the process they are willing to destroy ones that have an almost certain potential to become a healthy human being in less than 9 months. Sounds terriby selfish to me.

Traditional Chiropractic

Leaving things as they are (traditional chiropractic) does not keep them the same. It would be nice if it did. They will always deteriorate if left alone.(law of entropy). We must constantly give attention to our chiropractic practice. Our philosophy must be constantly attended to or it will deteriorate just as a white picket fence constantly has to be painted white or it will turn black with age.

Wish I'd Said That-Growth

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

C.S Lewis

A thought on Negativism

Sometimes you need to get rid of a bad idea before you can accept a new idea.

A Sense of Organization

an ability to see phenomena in light of an organizing principle.
Claude Bernard

*Important* What Should We Do? *Important*

Today I read the article in Dynamic Chiropractic about the conflict between the Texas Medical Association (TMA) and the Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners. The mds have brought suit against the chiropractic board for allowing chiropractors to diagnose. The TMA’s position is that diagnosis is part of the practice of medicine. They are going after alternative approaches that want to treat medical conditions without the expertise/license of an m.d. or d.o. and chiropractic is their first target.
Ordinarily, I would not get into a battle between mds and dcs but as I read the article, and with the events of the past few years, I began to wonder whether I should ignore it. Live and let live has not worked for us straights. We naively believed that if we got our schools and an accrediting agency we could go our way and the mixers could go theirs. But in the past 25 years since that battle began it has become obvious that the mixers are not interested in a live and let live philosophy. They are threatened by our philosophy. I think they know that we represent a position that organized medicine could get behind. Consequently, they are forcing their therapeutic philosophy on us whether we want it or not. I present as facts for that position:
1. They fought against and destroyed our accrediting agency.
2. They closed down two of our straight schools despite the fact that the graduates proved they were competent-passing state boards and being productive members of the profession.
3. They have forced the only remaining straight school to incorporate procedures that are in conflict with the non-diagnostic philosophy.
4. They are forcing the school to teach P.T.
5. They are pushing for a doctor of chiropractic medicine degree. Why would that be? Will we be forced to acquire/use that degree?
6. The are pushing for the right to prescribe drugs. Will that lead to the requirement to do so?
Unless you are blind or have your head in the sand, you can see what their intention is, for the profession and ALL of its members. We are not an alternative to them or a fringe aspect of the profession. We represent a major obstacle in carrying out their master plan. We have the exact position that the TMA has and a way to explain that approach to chiropractic, one that is consistent with both the medical viewpoint on this issue and true chiropractic.
Here is my question; should we offer our support to the TMA legal suit? Should we offer the ammunition, the testimony and whatever else they need in order to present a rational chiropractic approach to their position? Should we get involved as individuals, should Sherman get involved, should the FSCO? This TMA suit is the greatest threat to the master plan of ACA/CCE/NBCE for controlling the profession and turning it into a branch of medicine. I would like some input. I believe this suit may be the last hope to preserve chiropractic as BJ and DD envisioned it. For this reason I believe that those who would medicalize our profession will stop at nothing (and I mean nothing) to accomplish their ends. Should we stand by and allow that to happen or should we take a stand and incur the wrath of perhaps thousands of chiropractors who would see us as a threat to their livelihood? I need some input from all of you and others who may read this blog.

ADIO vs Outside-in

"We have met the enemy and he is us."
Pogo



I think that only a few chiropractors truly understand ADIO thinking versus outside-in thinking. I recently saw the following statement in an ad for a nutritional supplement. They called it, "The Greatest Natural Health Discovery Since Penicillin." If you think that Penicillin has anything to do with natural health, you probably don't even understand what the acronym "ADIO" stands for! Our profession as a whole has so obliterated the lines of demarcation that we do not even know what is therapeutic and what is non-therapeutic, what meets the medical objective and what is designed to meet a chiropractic objective. That's why when a chiropractic school wants to call their degree "chiropractic medicine" or a state wants to legalize chiropractors prescribing drugs, the majority of the profession does not rise up in righteous indignation. There are no lines anymore. It's not that we have changed the definition of chiropractic. It's that we no longer want chiropractic to be defined.

Argument from Ignorance and the Mental Impulse

To say that we do not know the working of the mental impulse so we have made up a metaphysical theory begs the question. Science with all its studies, money, research, grants, and universities has not demonstrated a mechanistic explanation for the transmission of information from the brain to the tissue cells. The problem is theoretical inadequacy and global disciplinary failure of neurophysiology. They have no other theories that work and all attempts to falsify our theory have failed.

AThought

You cannot practice chiropractic as it should be practiced until you give up the fear of losing practice members.

Chiropractors as Technicians

Thr vitalistic philosophy of chiropractic and the detrimental effects of the vertebral subluxation gives what we do much more meaning. If we look at subluxation correction as a mechanistic procedure then it is not much more important than cutting hair, clipping nails, rubbing backs, or taking x-rays.

Wish I'd Said That

It is not a matter of whether you have a philosophy or not. Even the rejection of philosophy is a philosophy. The issue is whether you have critically evaluated your philosophy or not in light of logic.

Gary Dunn

Smorgasbord Chiropractic

Chiropractic is not a smorgasbord. We cannot pick and choose what we want it to be and expect to be accepted and respected as a legitimate part of the heath care delivery system by other professsionals and the public in general.

Medicine V Chiropractic

Medicine in the 19th century was largey about treating symptoms, not disease. In the last 150 years it has focused more on disease. Consequently, it is more successful and has less failures go to a chiropractor than our forefathers had. However, they are still not getting to the cause of a lack of health. You can treat a disease, removing its cause, make the patient look, feel, seem, and even be better. But you have not restored health. DIS-EASE will ultimately manifest itself in another place and further, what was done to the body to remove the disease and/or its cause may leave the person worse off than before.

Universal and Divine Laws

Chiropractic philosophy teaches that the universe is organized, has laws and that we can live better, more productive and fulfiling lives if we live in accordance with those laws. There are also divine laws and we must live in accordance with them.

Wish I Said That

Counting the Cost: It is a disgrace to start then not finish something. Sociologist today say that much of our society is characterized by cheap committment. "You are going to give your life to something or else throw it away on nothing".


Haddon W. Robinson

A Question

Why did the ancient greeks know the existance of pores in the skin but germs causing small pox not discovered until 1762? Why did no one see the contagiousness of pueperal fever until 1823 in view of the Mosaic Law or pasteurization not occur until 1860 with the principles set forth in the Old Testament? Apparently, the ADIO philosophy of life enables an individual to come to a knowledge of truth sooner.

Educated/Innate Intelligence

Apparently the educated brain is functional even when we sleep. It enables us to keep from falling out of bed because it remembers that the edge of the bed exists and when we get too close to it we will fall. The infant rolls out of bed hence the need for a crib and side rails. The infant has an ii which is limited by limitations of matter so it cannot know the edge and the danger until it's too late. Not rolling out of bed appears to be a learned response

Wish I Said That

The government wants to pass laws controlling what we eat, supplements, our water, etc. How come they think it's okay to control our digestive system but we should not pass laws regarding a woman's reproductive system?

Rush Limbaugh

Recognizing the Metaphysical

Just as medicine by ignoring the non-material aspect of man runs into problems, science dealing only with empirical information comes up short. In a like manner, the chiropractic profession when it does not recognize the immaterial aspect of man will fail.

A Thot

The pendulum of my granfather clock is moving in response to the gravitational pull on the weights. An intelligence designed the clock so that the universal forces are adapted for constructive purposes. It also necessitates an intelligence to keep it going (raising the weight every week).

Settling for Less

It is amazing how little we are satisfied with in chiropractic. I once showed a video to a group of straight chiropractic students. The first part was a panel discussion on chiropractic by a group of mixers. It was an absolutely poor explanation of chiropractic. The second part was a better explanation of chiropractic. It used nerve interference instead of a strictly musculoskeletal approach. The problem was that it also missed the mark bya mile. However the students saw the relative merit of the second in comparison to the first. They would settle for the second because the first was so much worse. Yet the second would have ultimately taken the public just as afar of the field of straight of straight chiropractic as the first. Just in a different direction.

Professional Education

A professional education should have more applicable and practical teaching than superfluos. Is chiropractic professional on that basis? Much of our education is never used..even for mixers. Conversely much of medicine is professional. When we brag that our students learn more neurology, anatomy, and physiology than an md, the question is are we getting unnecessary education? Apparently the medical profession realizes that that much education in those areas is not necessary.

Unity

All chiropractors recognize that there are certain procedures that are not part of the practice of chiropractic. The problem is that only one group of is in agreement as to what they are. The straight chiropractor says that every procedure other than the location, analysis, and correction of vertebral subluxation is not part of the practice of chiropractic. This is the point of unity. We can all unite on that. No one can agree on everything or even anything else. What then is the point of unity these organizations espouse? ACA wants to unite on the inability to agree on what is the practice of chiropractic. WCA unites on the idea that no one care what is the practice of chiropractic and the ICA unites on outwardly agreeing but inwardly disagreeing on what it is.

A Thought

People should be empowered (but free) to make their own decisions concerning their life, health, and well-being.
Our responsibility is to give them sufficient information in order to make intelligent decisions.

The Adjustment

Is it possible that the innate intelligence of the body can use the force we introduce for a purpose greater than the correction of vertebral subluxation? Sure...but that is not our objective.

Educating Practice Members

Many people will stop their thought processes rather than go on because going on necessitates shifting from rational thought to faith or from empiricism to reason and they are not accustomed to, comfortable with, or desire to think outside their comfort zone. As a result they never give a concept or a subject "further thought". Our job as chiropractic educators is to evoke further thought. The less discomfort we can cause in doing that the more successful we will be.

Conflicts in Philosophy

Chiropractic maintains that we cannot know with any certainity those things that science in general and medicine in particular claim we can know (normal b.p., heartrate, etc.) . Conversely, we maintain that we can know with certainity those things that science claims we cannot know (absolutes, innate/universal intelligence, etc.).

A thought on WALVs

You can never come to understand a WALV by dissecting it, reducing it to its component parts. It can only be understood by assembling it into an overall concept, an overarching plan. You do not understand a painting by getting up close and looking at the parts, you understand it by standing back and taking it all in. Medicine tries to understand the human body, function, and life by reducing it to its components and looking at them closely. Chiropractic attempts to understand it by looking at the big picture (Big idea).

Chiropractic is Mainstream

We nee to qualify the term "mainstream thinking" ( eg. mainstream science, mainstream politics). Chiropractic involves mainstream thinking. Medicine does not. The problem is that most people think inconsistently with their world view. Our job is to get people to think consistently with their world view. If we can do that they will see how sensible chiropractic is and how illogical outside in therapeutics is.

Wish I'd Said That III

Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call them "impressions" and if you get a different "impression", so what, can't we all be brothers?

Jack Handey

Alternative Health Care

The term alternative health care has hurt chiropractic. People are ready for an alternative to medicine (in treating disease) and more than willing to put chiropractic in that niche. This confuses the true objective of chiropractic and leads the public astray.

The Philosophy of Science

You cannot have an amoral philosophy like that of science and expect it to function for the benefit of society. I needs a moral code as its authority.

A Thot on Prescribing

The educated brain unlike the innate intelligence learns by trial and error. Therefore we must allow people the opportunity and freedom to learn by failure when it comes to issues of health or else they will never learn.

Our World and Life Viewpoint

Do people see us as the healer or do they see the innate intelligence of the body as the healer? If we view the innate intelligence of the body in the same way we view ourselves we will never make the distinction or develop the distinction of what we do. Do they see us as getting them well or the wisdom of their body as getting them well? Do they refer people to us because of us or do they refer people to us because we give the credit to the innate intelligence of the body? Do they see the healer in us or the healer in them? Do they recognize us and our hands as making the difference in their life and well-being or do they recognize the God-created principle of life that has made a difference?
Perhaps the problem with us is us. We want the credit, we want the praise and we want the honor and glory. It is only when we can manage to get out of the way, when we can direct their focus on the inborn wisdom of their body that we can build the practice. Because it is not our practice. It is the innate intelligence's practice. That is our WALV.

Inconsistent Thinking

If government really believed that addiction was a disease why would they run, advertise, allow, and promote daily lotteries?

Chiropractic and Purpose

The great genius Stephen Hawkins says that "We are determined (that is have purose in our life and in our existance) but since we do not know for what, we might as well not be." Aren't you thankful to be a chiropractor and know what your purpose is and have the opportunity to accomplish that purpose. I would suggest that Dr. Hawkins greatest handicap in life is not physical.

Chiropractic and Drug Prescriptions

Chiropractors like to think that the chiropractic profession's ability to be involved with drug prescriptions and disbursements is because we have elevated our level of respect among the medical community but perhaps it is because the drug industry and those that oversee it have lowered their standards.

Wish I'd Said That II

We think we are who we are because of what we do. No, we should do what we do because of who we are.
Ravi Zacharias

The Inadequacy of Science

For those who would want to see chiropractic become more scientific perhaps some thoughts about science might be helpful. Science is amoral. It has no conscience, no morality, no right or wrong. It is merelt "a brannch of study concerned with observation and classification of facts" (Webster). It relates only to the physical world. Right away we see that apart from a materialistic, temporal world and life viewpoint, it is inadequate. There is more to the human being and human existance than the mere human part. Man is a being.

Cause of disease

There is no single cause for a disease. Anything and everything that contributes to the body's inability to function properly is a cause. Whether a disease occurs is a matter of the number and the severity of the causes.

Back from Vacation

I was in Fl last week for a little R&R. But I'm back and recharged. The Practice Builder should be out this week. The Pivot will be online next week. Today, my newest book, a compilation of Pivot articles from 1998 through 2003, arrived.

Wish I'd Said That

There are certain forms of stupidity that one has to be highly intelligent and educated to commit.

Dr. J Budzisewski

Fighting disease

Getting rid of a disease is only a matter of making a living (micro) organism extinct. That is not going to make the world any healthier. If we rid the world of all the crows, will that stop roadkill? of course not! They don't cause it. Further, there will just be something else to feed upon the roadkill.

ADIO v. OIBU

Dr. Bruce Lipton says that the environment types on the cells computer keys. Chiropractic philosophy says that the innate intelligence of the body types on the computer to make the biochemical and genetic effects. With Liptons model we must change the environment. With chiropractic we must remove interference to innate intelligence expressing itself. Lipton is a great guy and a friend but methinks he is a reductionist.

Straight Education

The question is can a straight school increase the ability of its students to score better in the non-straight portion of the National Board and at the same time not decrease the quality of the straight chiropractic product? In other words, is the better our students do on Parts III,IV etc., the less straight they will be when they get into practice?

Outside-in thinking

Recently, dozens of college presidents signed a document saying that the drinking age should be lowered because the higher age only causes more drinking of underage college students and causes irresponsible activities. However the same people think that making the possession of guns on campus illegal will stop the would be criminal and the shooting of students on campus. And these people are supposed to be the leaders of our educational system?

Another Reggie quote6-17-95 (okay, I save everything)

We are not studying the sum of the parts (including innate intelligence). We are studying some of the parts (inductively). There is also the synergistic factor that must be considered

Compromise

We need to compromise on issues that are non-essential. Objective straight chiropractic needs to say what is essential and what is not, what we will compromise on and what we will not.

Charges and Responses

1. "You're not scientific."
Science doesn't have all the answers.
2. "We need to prove chiropractic"
To who, a bunch of pointy headed, scientific snobs?
3. "The public expects us to be scientific"
No, the public expects us to be honest and competent and will accept us by virtue of the logic of our philosophy.

disease v. DIS-EASE

Why does B.J. refer to diseases as DIS-EASES? Is it because he does not recognize such a thing as disease or because he sees the words as interchangeable?

I Once Heard Rggie Say:

There is a difference between a self-evident truth and a universally accepted truth. A self-evident truth can be determined by the individual without being convinced by someone else. It is one that is accepted based upon logic. A universally accepted truth is one that is accepted because everyone else accepts it.

ADIO World and Life Viewpoint

Hearing with different ears.
Seeing with different eyes.
Thinking with a different mind.
When you have an ADIO World and Life Viewpoint everything is different.

What is the reason for chiropractic's success?

Our success and survival for 100+ years has not been because chiropractic works. Everything works to some degree. It is because we unlike other fields have successfully merged the immaterial factors involved with the healing of man with the material factors involved in that healing, in just the right proportion, without an inordinate amount of emphasis on one or the other. The other so called healing arts which have come and gone (and some have come again) failed in this respect. At best they only had a limited application to overcoming effects.

Acting on Principle

Too often we are told to do things for the sake of others, for humanity, etc. That is often outside in thinking and the greatest reason for mixing. Most important it is trying to avoid saying "do it because it's the right thing to do". Saying it's the right thing to do connotes some sort of moral imperative, a principle, a standard by which we should conduct ourselves. I don't litter, not for generations to come but because it is wrong. If I wouldn't trash my own property, I shouldn't trash someone elses whether that someone is my next door neighbor or the highway department.

Chiropractic Education

One of the worst things we can do for people ( chiropractic students and practice members) is to give them education without purpose, without values, without principles, without standards, without a world and life viewpoint.
It's better to have purpose without education than education without purpose.

ADIO v. OIBU v.?

There appears to be a third category of viewpoint beside the outside in and ADIO viepoints and that is what we might call the "no viewpoint" viewpoint. There are a certain group of people who do not appearto live their lives based upon any viewpoint. They use a combination of emotion, habit, tradition, peer pressure, among other things upon which they base decisions and actions. There is no deepseated basis or extensive thought process or principles for their actions. They are the people, who you never know how they are going to vote or what their position will be on any issue. They appear to be capricious in their decision making. They can be converted to the ADIO philosophy if they are taught to think or if they begin to embrace a principle upon which to base their life. Chiropractic should be part of that principle.

Metaphysical and Supernatural

Metaphysical is not supernatural. It is part of the natural world but inexplicable by present scientific means. There is a metaphysical component birds being able to fly south for the winter. Elephants flying south for the winter would be supernatural. Life is metaphysical. Ressurection is supernatural. Innate intelligence is metaphysical. Your innate intelligence being able to communicate with someone else's innate intelligence would be supernatural. (If it could happen and it cannot).

Thought

You can accomplish more with two chiropractors who believe that chiropractic is subluxation correction and nothing else than you can with 2000, each of whom believes that it is subluxation correction and one of 2000 other things.

Odd isn't it?

Isn't it odd that the medical doctor (and some in our profession) can blame sickness and disease on a microscopically small bacteria and an even smaller virus. Yet they cannot conceive of the small movement of a vertebra from its proper position putting a slight pressure on a nerve and interfering with the proper function of the body.

The environment

The environment is not a positive or even a passive entity. It is a negative one as far as mankind is concerned. The reason is theological, not chiropractic. We acknowledge it in chiropractic terms by saying universal forces are destructive toward structural matter. Nature is universal forces. It is our antagonist. We and medicine agree on this fact. Where our difference lies is in the belief that we have the wherewithal to, under normal circumstances, adapt to nature and overcome universal forces. Chiropractors believe that we do. Medical doctors believe that we do not.

The 100th Monkey Effect

Too often we clothe theories, beliefs and dogmas in scientific or philosophical trappings which gives them credibility and unfortunately, makes people think they are fact. We could call it the "100th monkey" effect. A purely seculative, wishful thinking theory, by constant repitition became accepted by many as fact. Some quantum physics theories and chiropractic technique theories fall into this category.

The Adjustment

There are many things that may be happening in the process of giving an adjustment. Whether there is an exchange or transfer of energy has nothing to do with chiropractic. (If anything it is magnetic healing.) Whether there is an emotional, psychological, or mental activity taking place between doctor and practice member has nothing to do with chiropractic. Whether there are changes taking place in the PM's body by the touching of the chiropractor's hand above or apart from the adjustment has nothing to do withchiropractic.

If innate intelligence is the same in all organisms (plants and animals) then it is a principle. It then, is what makes us alive but it does not make us human beings. That takes (IMO) a soul. If the soul made us alive then all living things would have a soul. Therefore biological life (expressing innate intelligence) and human life are different.

Outside-in vs. ADIO

The outside-in system is attractive to the desperate person. He/she is looking for a quick solution, easy answers, immediate relief for his/her personal, social, spiritual and physical problems. The ADIO philosophydoes not offer easy solutions. It is the consistent day in day out applications of principles and laws. They want to hear the quick fix answers. Desperation means deterioation of the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical life and it is a long rode back.
Chiropractc removes the cause of DIS-EASE or lack of health. The most obvious manisfestation of DIS-EASE happens to be disease consequently the confusion. But the most common manifestation of DIS-EASE is a body working at less than its fullest potential. The problem occurs when our emphasis is placed upon the manifestation and not the cause.

Principles in Chiropractic

Ther are untestable "principles" in chiropractic eg. innate intelligence. There are also testable principles, eg the supremacy of the nerve system. The two make up chiropractic. Unfortunately science is only able to study and evaluate testable principles making it inadequate in the validation of chiropractic.