Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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?
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  1. todd and kellyFebruary 18, 2010 at 6:52 AM

    the way we understand it: DIS-EASE is a lack of harmony in a system and disease is the name associated with a specific symptomatology.

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  2. Claude LessardFebruary 18, 2010 at 7:56 AM

    WHO knows what BJ thought. Do you think for a moment that BJ understood everything going on in his genius and coming out of his mind? According to the green books and your commentaries on them, the contradictions abound in BJ's writings and I, myself must read between the lines from my own perspective what he "might" have meant. So, Joseph, I understand your dilemma and question.
    From my introspective view point, the "conjecture" is that BJ's did not believe diseases existed... It was a product of the medical thinking.
    Today, with more information at hand, I concur that: Grouping symptoms in categories to formulate diseases is "pretending" to KNOW and LABEL that which the human mind needs in order to make some illusory sense of what CANNOT be understood,....only lived!!! The innate intelligence of the body will be expressed according to the limitation of the matter. Vertebral subluxations further limit the matter in which the innate intelligence of the body works.
    Therefore, labeling diseases, only gratify the "ego" momentarily by pretending to KNOW (di-agnosis) and to avoid the ALL encompassing innate intelligence.
    To work with the innate intelligence of the body requires the "ego" to differ to a power superior to itself. That's hard to do for human beings....

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  3. Dr Scotts BlogFebruary 18, 2010 at 6:59 PM

    Hi Joe, love the new blog. Thanks Claude, I heard you speak ,late 90's, when i first graduated. You were great!

    As a chiro and part time prof of A&P and the more I learn about physiology, the chiropractic philosophy becomes more powerful. The body at the cellular level is contantly seeking balance, or homeostasis. The body -- doesn't care what the 'name' of a disease is.. our cells strive to stay healthy and function at the best of their ability. It doesn't matter what a pathology is, when the cells work at their potential the organism works at its potential and the pathology is gone! Unfortunately, people are caught up in labelling everything. How do we influence change in their thinking. . I don't have the answer. . I only have time and energy for one person at a time.

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  4. Joseph Strauss, D.C.February 21, 2010 at 12:41 PM

    Scott,
    How fortunate are those students to learn anatomy and physiology from someone with an ADIO viewpoint of life! I sometimes think that if we could teach our practice members more a&p from an ADIO perspective it would make a big difference in their getting the big idea. Curious, do you get any flack from the mechanists in academia?

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