The Big Idea

THE TRUTH - by B.J. Palmer, Developer of Chiropractic

We Chiropractors work with the subtle substance of the soul. We release the imprisoned impulse, a tiny rivulet of force, that emanates from the mind and flows over the nerves to the cells, and stirs them into life. We deal with the magic 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 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 the cell to union with the fellows in 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 dissolved the form, and absorbs the spirit into itself again.

And yet you ask, "Can Chiropractic cure appendicitis or the flu?" Have you more faith in a knife or a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?

THE SUBLUXATION AND HUMAN EVOLUTION -by Sue Brown, DC, Developer of Bio-Geometrical Integration

"A subluxation means a separation from wholeness that interferes with the body's ability to function in a whole way." "

And even in more esoteric terms, this same idea of separation, i.e. a separation from light, is suggested."

"sub: less than; lux: light; i.e. a condition of less than the usual mount of light in the body." "This separation is typically associated with the dis-ease which it creates in the body.

Because of the dis-ease associated with it, the subluxation has been viewed as something "bad." It has been seen as an entity which should be battled and eliminated from all existence. However, in seeing only the dis-ease it creates, we miss the deeper value and purpose of the subluxation. By perceiving subluxation only with "secular" eyes we miss the gift presented by the creation of the subluxation, that gift being the separation itself."

"Separation allows distance. And from distance, two qualities emerge, polarity and perspective. These qualities are ultimately what allow the experience of the subluxation to bear its fruit. The subluxation, in creating separation between Innate and the full experience of Innate, offers the individual distance. With distance, one experiences that from which one is separated and is "rewarded" with a new perspective, often "seeing" it for the first time. A pull is also felt to reconnect with that part of oneself which now feels absent. The dis-ease experienced with the subluxation may be felt as a pain, an illness, a chemical dependency or just a vague sense that something is not quite right. It truly doesn't matter how it expresses, just that the dis-ease is expressed, because it is the dis-ease that calls one's attention to the separation. When the forces of Innate were flowing freely through the body, no note was made of it. Innate was there, requiring no conscious thought and no attention. When, how-ever, one is separated from Innate by the subluxation, one feels the dis-ease that is the natural and uncomfortable by-product of that separation. The dis-ease draws attention to the distance that now seemingly exists between the body and Innate. Even though Innate did not leave, the distance is experienced because transmission of Innate has been altered. And so one experiences polarity and perspective, the qualities of separation which will ultimately allow not only the reconnection with Innate, but the gaining of awareness of Innate as well. In the next sub-sections, polarity and perspective are explored in more detail."