When and How

The following italicised copy is reprinted and paraphrased from Green Book Vol XXII: The Bigness of the Fellow Within, Chapter 24, pgs 77-78, BJ Palmer, 1949.  The discussion which follows is that of Dr. Nardi.

When and How

That there is a Universal Intelligence, which many call God, which regulates worlds for all time, is obvious.  It is conceded by all. 

When and how does Universal Intelligence become Innate Intelligence?

What transition, if any, occurs when Universal Intelligence becomes Innate Intelligence?

Does it lose its Universal Intelligence characteristics when it becomes an Innate Intelligence?

Think about this:

One question which confuses all is whether native, savage or educated people are better off.  The save judges from his viewpoint; the educated from his. Neither judges entirely from what is natural.

The savage lives in the jungle.  He is born without clothes.  He lives without them.  he does not struggle, strain twist, or wrench himself moving mountains or building forty-story buildings; therefore, he has few, if an, vertebral subluxation; therefore, he is healthy which does not necessitate his building an educated practice of medicine to stimulate or inhibit function to attempt to force back health.  He has natural methods of afflictions, which are few, which are largely in agreement with Chiropractic principle and practice.

He walks up hills and over mountains.  he has no ambitions to conquer the air, dig into the bowels for oil.  He is surrounded with all hie needs and does not seek to know the other side of the world in 3 hours at 700 miles an hour. He sleeps when he is tired.  He works when he wants to and only as necessity demands.  He is happy with little and would be disgusted with much.  He owns little but likes it all.  he is carefree, jolly, laughing, and singing his folk songs.  He is contented and unconcerned.  He does what he pleases, as he pleases, and lets you do the same….

… We educated mortals use certain spoons, forks, knives, for certain foods; a salad fork for salads, a soup spoon for soups; a butter knife for butter, a meat knife for meas,; a certain plate for each.  The tea-cup is different from the coffee cup.  Education has fashioned and educated us on these things.  … we have speech which calls for education in grammar, correct spelling, certain pronunciation, we are ignorant if we violate these inflexible educated rules.  We must go to school, graduate, secure a diploma to learn proper education in what these rules and regulations are.  

Which is better?

The native rubs noses as a salutation of greeting.  We wait until we are formally introduced, then shake hands before we speak to a woman, otherwise she calls us “wolf”.  We think our way better.  

Is it?

With educated mortals the picture changes.  We are born “free and equal.”  But are we?

Discussion

Dr. Palmer goes on for many pages from here contrasting those who live a “natural” existence with our “educated” ways.  Everything we want, they have.  Joy, laughter, easier life, no worries.  All we wish to eliminate is made up of our own creation.

This is not to completely denounce all that man has made.  Rather, are we better off looking at some man-made items and eliminating them from our lives?

Examples:

baby formula…. why do the labels say “most like breast milk”?  Could it be that they are attempting to imitate the best provision for the infant?

medications are based on plant derivatives… why not just use the plant? Aloe products for skin burns and itches, why not just grow an aloe plant?  Extracts for perfumes and oils, why not just grow a lavender or rose plant?  These are just a few examples.

This summer we are teaching our kids to fish.  Our one son is a cub scout and is taking to the outdoors.  HE wants to eat what he catches.  I reminded him of a couple of things.  First, fishing isn’t a quick as you see on television, it requires patience and being.  Second, in order to eat a fish, he has to kill it and clean it as fish in the wild don’t come pre-fileted like at the supermarket.  This requires a violation of the sanctity of life and also a prayer of thankfulness to God for the provision.

When teaching people to eat healthier, everyone is in agreement, if the food comes from the ground or eats from the ground, it is healthier that the foods which do not.  Another way to look at this is, if it comes in a box (or is processed) it isn’t healthy.  Salads are healthy, sugar cereals aren’t.  Free-range, Grass fed beef is healthy, chickens eating arsenic laced, GMO “feed” are unhealthy.  Everyone, across all professions agree on these points, unless they have something to sell you.

Many of these unhealthy foods are good for reversing malnourishment as they can be provided in abundance.  That creates a multitude of issues while solving one.

Same goes with our health care.  Chiropractic is natural health care.  Medicine is processed.  Medical doctors utilize Chiropractic.  Chiropractors utilize medicine.  A Chiropractor’s hands are skilled at allowing the patient’s body to best express itself.  The Medical surgeon’s hands are skilled at solving severe problems.

The point here is to think deeply and rationally.  While I believe a natural approach is better, we shouldn’t discount the benefits of our modern society.  In fact living a natural life in our modern society provides the best of both worlds.