The philosophy of chiropractic stands alone and apart from everything else. Not above, or better and surely not less or worse, just different. The successs of the profession has and will continue to be, based upon maintaining that separation and clearly defining the uniqueness of its practice and its objective. It is not the practice … Read more
If we cannot get our approach to chiropractic across to the public today with all the different types of media we have at our disposal, what makes us think we will do any better by giving the profession a new or different name?
If we make our philosophy, our principles, our faith, beliefs and our standards of conduct a private matter as some have suggested, what will be the standard by which we measure the value of public discourse and its resultant activity? Everyone doing what is right in his own eyes? Except for the objective straights, that’s … Read more
Some complain that the chiropractic philosophy is confining? A philosophy is made up of principles and laws which are not necessarily confining. Laws with penalties are designed to restrict the activity of people who do not have integrity. They are not intended for people with integrity. Those people will do what is right with or … Read more
As long as we maintain our objective (correcting vertebral subluxation to enable the innate intelligence of the body to be more fully expressed), nothing more and nothing less, we will never lose our philosophy. When we ignore or change our objective such as remove the “vertebral” from it, we drift in our philosophy. Does your … Read more
Here is the cause of the whole collapse and huge blunder of this generation. We have mixed up two different, opposite things. Progress should mean that we are changing the world to reflect our vision. It has come to mean, at this time, that we are changing our vision. – G.K. Chesterton (paraphrased) Are we … Read more
You must know your enemy. Our enemy today is an outside-in, mechanistic, naturalistic viewpoint. It is not a person, not an accrediting agency or any organization. It is a way of thinking. We don’t have to fight against people or organizations, just change their way of thinking until it reflects our vision. We can only … Read more
One thing the recent pro and anti CCE internet conversation has shown us is that neither side has a corner on vitriol, naivety, or an ability to present an emotional argument with absolutely no facts at hand. All of that could be rectified if each side was armed with an understanding of the history of … Read more
My first reaction to the concerted effort on the part of many relative to the present CCE furor was “where were all of you in the late 70’s and 80’s when a few of us were fighting this battle?” Of course, I realized right away that most of you were not even in chiropractic yet, … Read more
Alright, before a mob gathers to burn me at the stake, let me present my arguments. The Green Books are not holy writ. No one had gotten together and canonized them. In fact, historically, there has been very little academic criticism of them. Virtually none was done at the time of their writing. Most of … Read more