What Is Chiropractic Anyway?

The human body is made up of over a trillion cells. Each cell, on average, undergoes about 100,000 chemical reactions per second [1]. An exquisite feat considering the innumerable functions throughout each system the body must co-ordinate simultaneously for perfect homoeostasis, and further, autopoeisis, which is continual self creation. It has to be understood that in order for this to occur, even at a simplistic level, quantum theories have to be applied to the human being. A mechanical, spinal model of understanding in chiropractic is no longer feasible. It almost falls under Era I of Larry Dossey's three major periods in the history of medicine [2]. This was when drugs and surgery were the modal of choice in the 1850s, opposed to a twenty-first century Era III, which embraces that within the matrix of consciousness, we have the ability to reach out beyond ourselves and heal others.

Health is a state of perfect subatomic communication and ill health is a state of communication break down. Ill health can also be viewed as the body responding inappropriately. For appropriate communication and subsequent function, the organism needs to be completely self aware at all times, and then perfect form follows perfect function. Current research - which to relay would be beyond the scope of this prose - illustrates that communication is local and non local. The body is a sea of energy. If two sticks were placed in the sand at the edge of this sea, and a wave washed in, both would fall at the same time. If the observer wasn't aware of the wave, it would appear one stick affected the other non locally. This is the field of cellular communication because each cell emits a field - it is how magnetic resonance images are able to be captured. When energy reaches a certain threshold, molecules vibrate in unison, create coherence and exhibit quantum qualities, affecting each other non locally. Practically, this implies that addressing one area of the body will have quantum effects in other regions, warranting re-investigation and not owning what was found on first examination. The body's communication systems are akin to the internet: Logging on connects one everywhere, simultaneously.

Further, cells are known to emit light. There is abundant historical reference to our spiritual nature being associated with light, and there are physiological structures and functions in the brain that could organise endogenous light (light from within) into resonant interference patterns [3]. Since interference patterns can themselves interfere with one another, endogenous light in the brain may interact with a broader substrate of interfering light in its own frame of reference (God) to produce consciousness. A hologram of sorts. And consciousness is a state of awareness the body requires for self preservation and self creation.

Albert Einstein, Time's "person of the century" [4], stated that the only reality is the field. So it is time now, as emerging chiropractors of the next generation in health care provision, to bridge the explanatory gap: That which fails to explain consciousness in terms of present neuroanatomical and neurophysiologic knowledge. However, it is at least here that we must begin our journey in changing the face of chiropractic and shifting public perception of the profession. If not; if chiropractic retains its façade of mechanistic manipulations for conditions that have little relevance to the objectives so many practitioners claim to serve, then the profession will never be able to reclaim its long-lost heritage because the race for higher levels of consciousness in health care will be swallowed by the mediocrity of services that are suddenly emerging, basing what they have to offer on the current research chiropractors do not read. The more we learn, the easier it is for others to follow in our footsteps.