D.D. Palmer’s Quotes
The following quotes are from D.D. Palmer’s book, The Chiropractor’s Adjuster (also called The Text-Book of the Science, Art and Philosophy of Chiropractic). The book was originally published in 1910, and reprinted in 1966 by his grandson, David Palmer.
“For thousands of years professions that ministered to the sick disregarded the centrifugal or inside force (Innate Intelligence), and searched the heavens and earth in a vain attempt to externally find the cause of disease.”
Disease: “The kind of disease depends upon what nerves are too tense or too slack.”
For intellectual abnormalities: “Chiropractors correct abnormalities of the intellect as well as those of the body.”
Life and Religion: “I have answered the timeworn question: “What is life?: A dualistic system -spirit & body- united by intellectual life, is the basis of this science of biology.”
“There can be no healing without teaching…”
“There is a vast difference between treating effects and adjusting the causes.”
“Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; through & into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.”
“Innate cannot do when there is a vertebral subluxation between Innate and Educated brains which interferes with the 100 per cent normal quantity and quality of flow.”
“As the vertebral subluxation creates an insane and unnatural value on Education, to that extent the sane and natural becomes unreal – “uneducated”.
“Education does no harm if what there is of it is natural and has true relation with Innate.”
“But when education becomes egotistical and paramount and displaces the correct values of Innate, all else becomes “uneducated”, non-conscious, subconscious or unconscious. Education then becomes an impenetrable wall Innate does not and cannot break through.”
“Even where Innate has an uninterrupted flow between the brains, opportunity must exist to permit it to come forth into the individual to express itself in any line of activity the educated man would like to perform.”
“Given two people, both with uninterrupted flows between Innate and Educated, if one delivered and the other refused, one would prove by his accomplishments he was great, and the other would prove by his lack of accomplishments that he was the ordinary run-of-the-mill type.”
“Anything any man has ever thought in his educated mind has come from the Innate as the source within him. There is nothing new under the sun. All things conceived in the mind of educated man existed previous to him in created natural objects. Man imitates that which existed before him.”
“Lack of understanding of the unknown, absence of comprehension of the mysterious, induces belief and faith which fortifies hope that in some strange way something better may come to pass. Religions and medical principles and practices are based on faith and beliefs.”
“As a matter of religion and common sense, we acknowledge, admit and confirm “The Kingdom of God” within; but as a matter of medical science, we deny any and all such, and substitute birth-to-death theories which belittle such, assuming its dormancy.”
“We, as Chiropractors, make it possible to permit the restoration of one with the other (law and matter), that the duality of life may be normal, healthy, and sane.”
“Why should man, this wonderful product, be under the dominance, control, and dictation of less than his producer?”
Our comments:
Experience is the only teacher that will bring you insight. NOT research, reading, thinking, meditating, or contemplating.
Why do scientific breakthroughs happen the way they do? Because they come from experience (experiment). Scientific insights do not come through reading or theorizing. They come from observing the results of a practical application of a set of principles in a real-world environment.
