BJ Palmer, Chiropractic Philosophy, Science and Art 1955, Chapter 15, Pages 50 - 54
EVERY “EDUCATED” PERSON is secretly or openly ambitious. He wants to climb the mountain and view the valleys beneath and behind him. He looks about, sees what others have accomplished, and wants to duplicate in part or better. He thinks about the great musicians—Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Irving Berlin. He recognizes the greatness of the inventors—Westinghouse, Tesla, Steinmetz, Marconi, Edison. He wishes he could be their equal. He reads the works of the philosophers and wishes he, too, could philosophize as they did. He looks upon them as possessing genius.
And, what is genius? Edison once said it was 98 per cent perspiration and 2 per cent inspiration. True, the average individual does make it 98 per cent hard work and 2 per cent flowing from within. But that individual who is extraordinary reverses the order and makes it 98 per cent inspiration and 2 per cent labor. He who composes, invents, writes, inspires, enjoys his work because it is an unfolding process from within. From whence came the music of the musicians, the ideas of inventors, the writings of writers? Every one opened the flood gates of that which was within himself and let it flow outward. The Innate within each of us is the sum total of Westinghouse, Tesla, Marconi, Edison, Steinmetz, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Irving Berlin, D. D. Palmer—and more. Innate is everything to everybody. It is all that everybody has been, has thought, said, written, or printed. Innate is everybody who lives. You, too, are living. The potentials are there. They may be dormant, but they can be active. Unlock any door you prefer, it is yours for knowing how. Any man, if he knows how, can open any room of his Innate. Any man can do what others have done. Westinghouse could have composed Bach; Bach could have invented Westinghouse; Tesla could have done what Beethoven did, and vice versa. No one had any special educated “talents.” In fact, most of them did not. Each had whatever every one had—the Universal Intelligence, the Innate Intelligence within, which was the same in all and everything all of them had. The only difference between any one or the other was that each wanted to do certain things. He released the imprisoned Innate and let it flow forth. Not being overly educated, he didn’t know it couldn’t be done by him, so he proceeded to do it. In you today is the same Innate. Any of you can be what any of them were; or what any other man is today. The potential is in you. It lies dormant, inactive, like a smoldering volcano choking back its pent-up fires, ready to burst forth as soon as a natural opening is made possible. In an inactive sense, all of you want to be what any other “great” man of history was or is. None of these men considered themselves “great.” In an active sense, you forbid yourself trying because you have plastered on an artificial granite wall on the outside of yourself, layer upon layer. The more layers, the worse you are, for each layer makes greater the impenetrable wall for Innate to get through. That is why so-called “ignorance” is a blessing in disguise. The question could be consistently asked: “Could I write music like Bach or any of the other composers?” Let me ask: Where did Bach get his music? Did he borrow it from others, steal the writings of others before him? Did Gershwin steal his Rhapsody in Blue? The same source is in each of us. There is no special talent in these men. If there were, where did they get it? Most all the great and near-great, who have accomplished achievements which made them great, had parents who were ordinary, average, and in many instances, less than average people. It could not be contended that Schopenhauer had parents the sum total of their talents being equal to his, and they passed on their talents to the son who became great. As a student of human nature, all of us have our urges to do things. Rather than encourage them, coax them to come through, willing to take the taunts and ridicule of the world that surrounds us, they choke those urges backward, refuse to do, and, for all we know, the world has lost another great man. Every person who has an urge to compose, write, invent, should seek opportunities to develop these so-called “talents,” “intuitions.” This conflict between educations on the outside and Innates on the inside has been going on for centuries. Many a great man is born, has within him greatness, and dies great, stifled because his education can’t take it, his education won’t let him, his education ridicules him, and the educations of his family or friends keep him submerged. Those who have climbed the heights can understand this explanation because they have gone through it. Those who have refused to climb the scale, misunderstand—but that is to be expected—and the people who have climbed take it for granted because that is the price he pays for climbing. We all can endure trials, troubles, and tribulations and triumph over them if we know how to use the surprisingly strong inner resources. We are stronger Innately than we educationally have been taught. Is there a something, a force, a factor, a power, a science, a knowledge—call it what you will—which a few people understand and use to overcome their difficulties and achieve outstanding success? We firmly know there is, and it is our desire to explain it so that you may use it if you desire. Today it is recognized that we have two minds, each endowed with separate and distinct personalities and attributes and each capable of independent action under certain conditions. To draw upon the limitless resources and powers of the Innate Intelligence within and awaken it into action, you must first be sure the channels of inter-communication are open. If they are, you will have no need to ask for something that is naturally and rightfully yours, for the Innate manifests itself only according to the capabilities of the person. You must wait patiently while the Innate is assimilating the elements of your problem and then goes about its own way and time to work your problems out for you. You must receive the message from Innate freely and, after understanding it, you must act on it at once. Only by so doing will you make Innate serve you and continue to respond when you call upon it. You must have positive knowledge in the power and wisdom of Innate, and obediently perform the seemingly irrelevant thing. Remember that Innate, in addition to being the seat of knowledge and power, is a repository of inexhaustible resources. The more you call upon these, the more there are placed at your disposal. Innate is ageless; it never can grow old or tired! and you can draw on it all your life, even unto the moment of death. Many men and women who have left their imprints on history have done so without educated knowledge of the existence of a law within them, working for them. Other men and women have also left their imprints on history, believing there was such a law, that it was possibly within them, but not being conscious of any help gained from it. Then there is a small minority who have also left their imprints on history who, knowingly, consciously, and understandingly let the law work through them in their daily lives. Obviously, success came to all alike. The majority, however, are without conscious understanding of the existence of a law within themselves. This group places education as supreme, and acknowledges no other source of values. Thousands of Harvard and Yale graduates are driving street cars in cities. They have so much education that they have no sense of understanding of anything else. In the same sense, many so-called “ignorant” and “uneducated” men have accomplished superior accomplishments because of their ability to seek the law and let it work through them. They might have been woefully shy of “education” but they were brilliant with knowledge and wisdom from a greater source than books, schools, or blank-repeating teachers. Herschel Stanford, D.C., puts it this way: When a principle that is right is used right, the one so using it will succeed. When a principle that is right is wrongly used, the one so using it will fail. To condemn a principle because wrong application produced failure is to condemn creation itself. Another way to say this is: If one accidentally uses a right principle, he will succeed. If one purposely uses a right principle, he will succeed. If one accidentally uses a principle the wrong way, he will fail. If one purposely uses a principle the wrong way, he will fail. One may succeed or fail accidentally. One may succeed or fail purposely. If one succeeds by accident, the chances of his succeeding again are against him; he does not know why he succeeded. If he fails by accident, the chances are that he will continue to fail; he would not know why he failed. If one succeeds on purpose, design, definite rules based on right principle, then one may duplicate that success any given numbers of times. The Chiropractic principle and practice are based on a set of definite rules which are so exacting, accurate, that any who know, understand, and apply them correctly may do so. ———— Fight cancer! Fight tuberculosis! Fight infantile paralysis! We have built up an impenetrable wall of medical education of trying to eradicate effects by fighting effects! There has been built up a medical armamentarium to fight, kill, or stamp out disease after it is in existence. “Easter seals to help crippled children.” Why become crippled? If cause were known and corrected, there would be no cripples. Medicine does not know the cause. Getting cases in their acute stages, they should know how to correct that which would prevent chronic cripples. Selling or buying Easter seals after children become cripples is like putting a horse in the stall after it has been stolen. It is so easy to help life, health, Innate. Helping the good is better than fighting the bad. Help God rather than fight the devil. An ounce of correction of cause is worth a pound of cure of disease. A trifle of internal knowledge is more than a hogshead of external ignorance. A bit of Innate ability is more than a great deal of educated blundering. Thou shalt is better than Thou shalt not!
The power within us to heal us and help us LIVE more vibrant Lives, and experience HEALTH in such a dramatically beneficial way, needs to be released from its captivity that interference to the Nervous System produces. There is NOTHING that the human body, when properly and completely functioning, cannot and will not correct and cure. But the trick is making sure it is clear of nervous system interference. Once the BRain – Body connection has been restored, the body will heal, if given enough time for Innate to correct the damage done by years of neglect and abuse.
Give yourself a chance to heal by having your Interference Removed by a Principled Chiropractor. Yours and Your Family’s Health and Life do depend on it!
. So without a principle, just an application, their application is that of toxicity and surgery. Dr. I. F. Kebler, M.D. said “Why should a patient swallow a poison because he is sick, or take that which would make a WELL MAN SICK”? And the MOST IMPRESSIVE statement of all… Eli Lily, head of the Eli Lily Drug Company said – “Any drug without toxic effects is not a drug at all”.