Transcript Chiropractic-Philosophy

Mind-Body-Spirit
A Chiropractic Philosophical Approach
Reasons People Go To A Chiropractor
 To have their symptoms treated and / or their diseases
cured.
 To have their diseases and symptoms prevented.
 To unfold their genetic potential.
 To allow their bodies to work at maximum efficiency.
Purpose of Chiropractic
 Chiropractors restore the integrity of the nervous
system so that the innate intelligence of the body can
express itself to its fullest potential.
Approaches to Looking at Living
Things
 Mechanism
 Vitalism
Vitalism Vs. Mechanism
 Plato (left) and Aristotle
(right), a detail of The
School of Athens by
Raphael.
 Aristotle gestures to the
earth, representing his
belief in knowledge through
empirical observation and
experience, while Plato
points up to the heavens
showing his belief in the
ultimate truth.
Mechanism
 Mechanism is the doctrine that natural processes are
mechanically determined and capable of explanation by
the laws of physics and chemistry.
 Two types of mechanists
 True mechanist – The true mechanist is a strict materialist.
He totally rejects any non-mechanistic concept or any
processes that he cannot empirically demonstrate.
 Pseudo-mechanist – The pseudo-mechanist acknowledges
the existence of a force which he cannot see or
demonstrate, but denies its ability to run the universe or
his body.
Vitalism
 Vitalism is the doctrine that the processes of life are not
explicable by the laws of physics and chemistry alone and
that life is in some part self-determining.
 This is because life is more than just a set of chemical
reactions.
 Vitalism is part of a philosophy that B.J. Palmer called Above
Down Inside Out (A.D.I.O.). As above so below, as within so
without (And the inverse).
 Vitalism forces man to acknowledge that there is a power
greater than he.
 Vitalism leads to emphasis upon the metaphysical.
Vitalism and Chiropractic
 Chiropractic care is vitalistic in nature.
 At the beginning of the Enlightenment, Western science
and the healing arts began to divorce themselves from
vitalism.
 Chiropractic care is an approach to health that
embraces / returns to vitalism through the concept of
Universal Intelligence.
Watchmaker Analogy
William Paley (1743-1805)
. . . when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive. . .
that its several parts are framed and put together for a
purpose, e.g. that they are so formed and adjusted as to
produce motion, and that motion so regulated as to point
out the hour of the day; that if the different parts had been
differently shaped from what they are, or placed after any
other manner or in any other order than that in which they
are placed, either no motion at all would have been carried
on in the machine, or none which would have answered the
use that is now served by it. . . . the inference we think is
inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker -- that
there must have existed, at some time and at some place or
other, an artificer or artificers who formed it for the
purpose which we find it actually to answer, who
comprehended its construction and designed its use.
William Paley
Watchmaker Analogy
Universal Intelligence
 “There is a Universal Intelligence in all matter that
continually gives to it all its properties and actions thus
maintaining it in existence.”
 Universal Intelligence is intangible.
 Empiricism cannot be used to demonstrate its
existence.
 Faith is often utilized to establish its existence;
however, reason is a better method. Faith is better
reserved for God.
Universal Intelligence
 God and Universal Intelligence are not synonymous.
 God has the ability to supersede or set aside natural laws.
 Universal Intelligence only functions in accordance with
natural law.
 Inductive reasoning is utilized to establish Universal
Intelligence. We look at the parts and draw conclusions
about the whole. The presence of order and
organization in the universe and the human body help us
to understand this.
Universal Intelligence
Innate Intelligence
 All forms of matter express Universal Intelligence but
living matter is also governed and organized by the
principle of innate intelligence.
Innate Intelligence
Universal / Innate Intelligence
 Universal Intelligence organizes matter on more of an atomic
level.
 Innate Intelligence deals with interrelationships,
interdependence, and intercommunication between certain
material structures (i.e. communication of cells).
 Universal Intelligence is in all matter, but Innate Intelligence
is not.
 Universal Intelligence organizes things atomically while Innate
Intelligence organizes them actively.
 Innate Intelligence is a part of yet apart from Universal
Intelligence.
 A sunbeam is a part of the sun yet apart from it.
Two Levels of Matter in the Universe
and the Human Body
 Living Matter
 Non-living Matter
Criteria of Life on Earth
 Metabolic Processes
 Generative Processes
 Responsive Processes
 Control Processes
 Unique Structural Organization
Abiogenesis (Biopoiesis)
 Abiogenesis is the study of how biological life (living
matter) arises from inorganic (non-living) matter
through natural processes.
 The first living things on earth are thought to have been
single cell prokaryotes (no nucleus).
Miller-Urey Experiment
 This experiment simulated the hypothetical conditions
thought to be present on the early Earth and tested for
the chemical origins of life.
 The hypothesis suggests that the conditions on primitive
earth favored chemical reactions that synthesized organic
compounds from inorganic precursors.
 25 different amino acids were produced from his
experiment. 20 different naturally occurring amino acids
are utilized by all living things on this planet.
 These organic molecules, while the building blocks of life,
are still inanimate.
Abiogenesis
Levels of Organization
 Subatomic, atomic, molecular, organelles, cells, tissues
(connective, epithelial, muscular, nervous), organs,
organ systems, population, community, ecosystem,
biome, biosphere).
 Different levels of intelligence are acting upon these
different levels of organization.
 Every cell maintains its individuality, yet cells are not
just acting for their own welfare, but also for the
welfare of the greater organism. There is a higher
purpose. A greater authority governs this.
Levels of Body Organization
 Chemical level
 Cellular level
 Tissue level
 Organ level
 System level
 Organism
Levels of Body Organization
Levels of Organization
 Different levels of intelligence are being expressed at the
cellular, tissue, organ, organ system, and organism level.
 Cancer cells are alive, but only express intelligence at the
cellular level (they only care about themselves).
 Death occurs when the Innate Intelligence of the body can no
longer adapt to its environment.
 An organ taken out of a dead body continues to manifest
organ intelligence and can continue to function for a period of
time.
 An apple removed from a tree no longer expresses the
organism intelligence and the flesh will begin to decay, but
there is still a seed intelligence that can manifest as new life.
Life
 Life is the expression of Innate Intelligence through
matter.
 Matter falls into one of two categories:
 Innate living matter
 Universal non-living matter
 Matter can go from one category to another.
 Living things die and Innate become Universal, but when a
cow eats it and assimilates it, the matter becomes Innate
again.
Triune of Life
 Life is a trinity having three necessary united factors.
 Intelligence – always 100% perfect.
 Force – the force created by Intelligence is also 100%
perfect. It is the link between Intelligence and Matter.
 Matter – The expression of Innate Intelligence through
Matter is the chiropractic definition of life.
Triune of Life
Limitations of Matter
 Matter is capable of being less than 100% perfect.
 Limitations of Matter (i.e. the flow of nerve impulses)
can be caused by many factors.
 Impingement of the nerve (vertebral subluxation), death of
tissue, nutritional deficiencies, trauma to the matter, etc.
 Innate Intelligence is limited by the limitations of
Matter.
 Chiropractic care involves ensuring that there is an
unbroken link between the three parts of the triune.
This is done by removing the interference and resolving
/ rebalancing the Dis-Ease.
Disease Vs. Dis-Ease
 Disease is a state in which certain physical signs and
symptoms appear and are categorized for the purpose
of effective treatment.
 Dis-Ease is a chiropractic term meaning “not having
ease”. The body lacks ease, health, coordination,
transmission, adaptation, 100% well being, balance, etc.
 We want to eliminate Dis-Ease so that the body may
fight off disease effectively.