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first thing we must do when discussing "Innate
Intelligence" is to clarify the concept of
intelligence. It is important to understand that we are
not talking about education or the ability to learn
things. Human beings can attend school and learn computer
programming, or can "pick up" several foreign
languages when they travel. But this is not what we mean
when we say intelligence.
The intelligence we're talking about is the
"knowledge" that every living entity is born
with, and which allows it to adapt to the environment in
order to survive. If you put a plant on a window sill, in
a day or so it will have turned its leaves to face the
light. Turn the plant around and in another day or so, it
again will have turned its leaves to receive the light it
needs to maintain its normal functions.
The plant doesn't use logic to figure out that it needs
light, or decide to turn its leaves around to face the
window. It doesn't "think" and it isn't
self-aware. Yet, the intelligence it possesses allows it
to go from a tiny seed to a lush plant, to send roots into
the soil to find water and nutrients, to search out and
utilize light and air, to transform those elements into
additional leaves, roots, sprouts, and even more seeds
which will be carried on the wind to start the process all
over somewhere else. Not random action, but intelligence.
Not education, but inborn knowledge. Innate
Intelligence.
But what is this intelligence? Where does it come from?
How does it work? No one knows the answers to these
questions. Living things are not random collections of
molecules and atoms. They all are organized into
functioning entities that adapt to their environment.
Therefore, we accept as a basic principle that there is an
order to the body, which we have chosen to call Innate
Intelligence. But, like Universal Intelligence, we do not
have the ability to understand exactly what this
intelligence is or how it works. We know only that it
exists.
In a human being, it is the Innate Intelligence that
tells a newborn baby how many times its heart should beat
each minute; how to ingest and digest nutrients and
eliminate the waste; how to develop and utilize white
blood cells to fight infections; how to communicate its
need for outside assistance. No one has to teach an infant
these things.
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Yet,
Innate Intelligence can only guide the internal
functioning of that child. It cannot enable her to
manipulate her environment or do more than her body will
permit. She can't, for instance, walk over to the
refrigerator and get a snack if she's hungry (anymore than
a plant can turn on a lamp if it needs more light). That
action will take training and education rather than inborn
Intelligence.
Remarkably, every living thing possesses 100% of the
Innate Intelligence it needs. You'll never see a plant
which "knows" that its roots need to grow into
the soil, but doesn't also "know" that its
leaves need to grow upward toward the light. Can you
imagine the poor plant pushing both its roots and its
leaves downward because it only had 50% of its Innate
Intelligence?
If an entity is alive, it possesses 100% of the Innate
Intelligence it needs. Moreover, by its very definition,
the Innate Intelligence is always normal, and its function
is always normal. What this means is that our bodies
"know" exactly what they need and how to adapt
to our environment in order to function best.
If our physical and emotional health relied solely on
our Innate Intelligence, we would all be
"perfectly" healthy. But there are other factors
at work. A master carpenter might be an expert in building
a table, but if his arm is in a cast and he can't apply
force to his hammer, or if he doesn't have the proper
tools, the table won't come out very well.
Your Innate Intelligence is an expert in running your
body, but if it is hampered by the lack of force (Innate
Energy) or the lack of proper tools (Innate Matter), the
result will be a less-than-normal-functioning. These three
elements – Innate Intelligence, Innate Energy, and
Innate Matter – make up the "Triune of Life."
Since a person's Innate Intelligence has the
"expertise" it needs to properly maintain that
body, chiropractors don't address themselves to that area.
Nor do they involve themselves with the actual
"tools" provided to each person – the body and
internal organs. Their concern is with the Innate Energy
or force which provides the link between the Innate
Intelligence and Innate Matter. |