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.