THE TRUTH

"We chiropractors work with the subtle substance of the soul. We release the imprisoned impulse, the tiny rivulets of force, that emanates from the mind and flows over the nerves to cells and stirs them into life. We deal with the majestic power that transforms common food into living, loving, thinking clay; that robes the earth with beauty and hues and scents the flowers with the glory of the air. In the dim, dark, distant long-ago, when the sun first bowed to the morning star, this power spoke and there was life; it quickened the slime of the sea and the dust of the earth and drove to union with its fellows and countless living forms. Through eons of time, it finned the fish and winged the bird and fanged the beast. Endlessly, it worked, evolving its form until it produced the crowning glory of them all. With tireless energy, it blows the bubble of each individual life and then, silently, relentlessly dissolves the form and absorbs the spirit into itself. And yet, you ask, ‘Can chiropractors cure appendicitis or the flu?’ Have you more faith in a spoongful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?”  - B.J. Palmer, D.C., Ph.C. "The Developer of Chiropractic"

Innate Intelligence. What is that?

If you have been to chiropractor before, and this term is new to you, that’s a problem. (If you have been to a chiropractor who is merely a back and neck pain fixer, you haven’t heard about this, for sure.) You see, and understanding and appreciation of Innate Intelligence is the core of Chiropractic.

There is a Universal Intelligence that keeps the Universe in order. These are the physical laws, what holds an atom together, what holds the Earth in orbit around the Sun, etc. Things, processes, are not random or accidental. There is an order.

Innate Intelligence is that part of Universal Intelligence that runs through living organisms. It is the sum total of billions of years of evolution. It knows, when a seed planted in the ground sprouts, to go upward towards the sunlight. The seed does not require “Seed School.” It just knows. This is the Intelligence that drives the sperm to union with the egg, that guides the development of that fertilized egg to a living, breathing human being in the span of about nine months, towards further development to become an adult of between 25 and 40 quadrillion cells. Innate Intelligence is always perfect. It needs no help from the outside, just no interference with its expression.

Is Innate Intelligence the same, or similar to Educated Intelligence, what one would learn in school? No, not at all. Innate Intelligence is, well, innate, or “inborn.” It comes with the package, you, from the moment of your conception, until the moment of your death. It didn’t have to be told how to divide from one cell, to two, four, and so on, nor, while you developed inside your mother’s womb, how to make your heart or your kidneys or your toes or your immune system. Now, your Innate Intelligence runs everything. It heals you when you are sick. It mends you when you are injured. It knows to slow your heart rate when you sleep, and increase it when you are faced with danger. It knows how to “retire” your old (about 120 days) red blood cells, and replace them, without you having any idea of the process. It knows how to heal a cut, even if you have no “educated” knowledge of the cascade of factors and processes that make up the clotting process. But, what happens if you cut the finger of a dead man? Nothing. The difference? Life.

To illustrate this subject far better than I, here are the words of Dr. B. J. Palmer, known as the “Developer of Chiropractic” (son of the founder of Chiropractic, Dr. D. D. Palmer), from his book, “Evolution or Revolution”:
 

“A bone is fractured; its continuity is disconnected. There was a concussion of forces, external invasion, internal resistance. Invasion was greater than resistance, cleavage occurred, hence fracture. Innate conceived, developed and intended to have a contiguous bone. Now it is one or more segments. The two or more sections will be welded back into one bone, uniting the segments by osseous synthesis. Can you, by process of what you learn in any school out of books, called education, perform this uniting, mending process? Do you know where the nearest osseous tissue centers are, above and below the fracture? Do you know how many cells need to be expended out of them? Do you know exactly where and how many need to be expended? Could you, from what you have learned out of books, direct them to unite these sections? Does your diploma guarantee you to be an artificer of osseous welding of fractures? If you cannot do this, what is inside of us which does?”

Medicine is, totally, the application of the Educated Intelligence, an attempt to tell the vastly superior Innate Intelligence what to do. Stop and think. Does your doctor, the laboratory, the pharmaceutical company, really know exactly what your blood pressure, your cholesterol levels, etc. should be? Might you be different than Joe or Josephine Average? Might your health needs, your personal “normals,” be different now than they were a year ago, ten years ago? Might they be different today, from yesterday? Of course. The educated intelligence of all of these “great minds” cannot possibly know. But, your Innate Intelligence knows. It will properly regulate all of these levels and more, unless there is interference. Medicine is, well, forcing down levels that they believe are too high, and elevating levels that they think are too low. And you wonder why there are so many side effects? You wonder why they fail?

Chiropractors who attempt to mimic Medicine, who try to be what they think is “scientific,” also place their paltry educated efforts over the wisdom of Innate Intelligence. Silly. Even in their self-imposed crude, limited scope of practice, just trying to fix sore backs and necks, they attempt to tell the body what to do. That’s why they use pain-relieving goo to rub on your skin, all manner of hot packs, cold packs, electrical stimulation, ultrasound, cold lasers and disk decompression tables. They do not, they cannot, know better than Innate Intelligence. That is why they fail, as well.

A real chiropractor, or what is known as a “straight chiropractor,” does not impose his or her Educated Intelligence upon your Innate Intelligence. A straight chiropractor does not pose as a “Healer.” The role of the straight chiropractor is to remove interference to the expression of Innate Intelligence, Vertebral Subluxation, by means of the chiropractic adjustment. After removing that interference, Innate Intelligence is free to express itself, so that the body is better able to heal, to regulate itself properly, even to self-perfect, to better express its genetic potential. Rather than dealing with, covering up symptoms… effects… a straight chiropractor seeks to remove cause, so that your amazing Innate Intelligence can express itself as it should.

Perhaps this is why, after some folks with what they view as complicated case, tell me, undoubtedly trying to impress me, that they have been to Stamford Medical Center, UCSF, and even the Mayo Clinic. So, after they have seen “the biggest and the best,” the come to me, “the smallest and the shortest,” and they get better. Since I work with Innate Intelligence instead of against it, success happens here... naturally.