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Innate Intelligence (the True Healer)
INNATE INTELLIGENCE - THE INBORN INTELLIGENCE OF THE BODY

Dr. B.J. Palmer (the developer of Chiropractic science) states: Man has within his living being two intelligences – Innate and Educated. One is an involuntary gift to his body complete at birth (it beats your heart, digests your food, oxygenates your blood, etc.). The other he voluntarily develops from nothing to what we hope is something. Innate Intelligence is a gift of God. Educated Intelligence is what you develop day by day, year by year. Innate Intelligence is greater than Educated Intelligence.

The Chiropractic profession, from its very inception, has taught of Innate Intelligence and how it controls and runs all of the functions of the body. Innate Intelligence is in touch with every tissue cell of the body, with all the organs (including the brain). The U.S. News & World Report magazine ran an article on the brain calling it the “Human Computer” showing that the brain controls everything in the body. Actually this ability to run the body, the organs, the functions, to analyze at all times everything in the body, to coordinate them to see that everything is running to the best ability that the body is capable of doing, is Innate Intelligence at work. A good Chiropractor never claims to heal the body but releases pressure on the impinged nerve to allow it to once again carry messages from Innate Intelligence (in the brain) to the dis-eased tissue cells anywhere in the body. Once the dis-eased tissue cells receive mental impulses from the brain, they are able to function normally unless there has been too much damage caused by the vertebral subluxation.

It should be noted here that Chiropractic Philosophy teaches that Innate Intelligence is separate from the brain and uses the brain as an organ to carry out its commands. When Chiropractic Philosophy was first being developed, it was not known how nerves transmitted mental impulses, or how much electricity was sent over or through a nerve. Science is just now starting to learn this. What was once Chiropractic theory is now being proven as scientific fact! Be that as it may, Innate Intelligence tells the brain what messages to send to all tissue cells of the body. It makes decisions on messages the brain receives from the body, and acts upon all information that the brain receives in order to carry out the regulation of all parts of the body. (Look up the word “innervate” in the dictionary to see that the brain innervates all tissue cells and organs in the body.)

There is not one tissue cell of the body that works independently of Innate. Innate Intelligence is in charge of everything, running the body normally, telling the heart how many beats in a minute to beat, telling glands to secrete their fluids in just the right amounts, telling the stomach how much digestive secretions to make, telling the intestines what to do, the liver, the kidneys, etc.

Innate Intelligence is in charge of repairing the body that is injured or dis-eased. Innate will repair that which needs to be repaired in the body the best way that is open to it with the materials and resources at hand. If you cut your hand, you do not mentally say: “hand - heal yourself.” You know that healing will normally take place without thinking about it because experience has taught you that it will. How? - under the direction of Innate Intelligence. This Innate is at work because it will know which white blood cells have to come into action, what red blood cells have to do, the materials needed to make a scar, whether a scar will have to be made, whether the skin can be patched without scarring. Innate is in charge, and to make sure that it is in communication with all parts of the body, we, as Chiropractors, keep the spinal nerves free from being impinged (subluxated) by a vertebra out of place. We, as Chiropractors, try to keep the avenues of communication between the brain and the tissue cells open. By doing so, Innate Intelligence is able to maintain the body in the best possible condition, allowing the organ and tissue cells to function optimally.

To back up the previous statements, I would like to quote the following from Gray’s Anatomy book, 28th edition, page 4: “The Nervous System (neurology) includes the Central Nervous System which is composed of the brain and spinal cord, the Peripheral Nervous System which is composed of nerves and ganglia and the Sense organs, such as the eye and ear. Its function is to control and coordinate all the other organs and structures and to relate the individual to his environment.”

The last two lines tell you that if Innate relates the individual to his environment – there will be no allergies. i.e. hay fever, asthma, etc. Strange, asthma is medically incurable, yet we have had patients with asthma who have had oxygen at home, oxygen in the car, and oxygen at school or work get totally well!
 
 
CHIROPRACTIC PREMISES:
1. Innate Intelligence resides in the brain and uses the brain to make mental impulses. The law of Innate Intelligence is the preservation of life in the body!
2. We call mental impulses LIFE FORCES because each tissue cell in the body has to receive these Life Forces before they can live and function, hence, giving life to each tissue cell.
3. Life Forces flow throughout all the nerves of the body and from the body BACK to the brain.
4. The function of a nerve is the conduction of Life Forces – called mental impulses.
5. The spinal cord with its meninges is the size of the spinal canal*. Any minute movement of a vertebra can produce pressure upon the spinal cord, thus interfering with the transmission of Life Force from Innate Intelligence over the spinal nerves.
6. The functions of the vertebrae include: they provide protection of the spinal cord; they house the spinal cord within their framework; they are built for limited motion; they serve for muscle and ligament attachments; they are built for strength to hold the body erect.
7. Vertebrae moving beyond their normal limits will produce pressure on the spinal cord and/or the spinal nerve interfering with conduction of these mental forces producing dis-ease.
8. A vertebra that is not able to return to its normal position keeps pressure on the spinal cord and/or the spinal nerve. This in turn interferes with the Life Force supply from Innate Intelligence to the tissue cells of the body which if continued WILL cause death.
9. Interference with Life Force supply for Innate Intelligence makes the organ supplied by that pinched nerve weak or non-functioning. The organ works at PARTIAL OR NO capacity, the tissue cell dies in the latter instance.
10. THE PATIENT IS ILL!!
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*An argument broke out in the early history of Chiropractic between the Medics and Chiropractors over whether or not a vertebra could apply pressure on a spinal nerve or the spinal cord. The Medics were going by the millions of dissections on human bodies that they had done in which they found the spinal cord much smaller than the spinal canal. To prove that the spinal cord is exactly the same size and diameter as the spinal canal, Dr. B.J. Palmer went to the Spateholtz Laboratories in Dresden, Germany because there was no lab in the United States who would do this research for him. He talked to Drs. Spalteholtz, Guenther, and Mueller who told B.J. that the research had to be done on a human body immediately upon pronouncement of death, quick frozen, slices made micro-thin for microscopic study, etc. They did this research, issued a document stating that the spinal cord and spinal canal are the same size and then gave the times that tissue shrink, i.e. the spinal cord will shrink 50% within 24 hours. To this day, the medical profession has never argued, taught, written or stated that the spinal cord is of different size than the spinal canal. Drs. Spalteholtz, Guenther and Mueller did this on several specimens, one of which (called the “wet specimen”) is at the Palmer College of Chiropractic.