As I have come to know the leaders and members of the World Chiropractic Alliance, I see their goals parallel my own. Their belief in the subluxation concept and their more inclusive understanding and desire to uncover the truths regarding the true nature of the subluxation complex is similar to mine. Their openness to truth in science is a wonderfully refreshing wind of optimism.

Anyone that has been in one of my classes or seminars, read my articles or books, or spoken with me usually realizes rather quickly that my life's work in the science, philosophy and art of chiropractic has always involved the total wellness model that is underwritten by the WCA. My work also involves a more inclusive understanding of exactly what constitutes the subluxation complex and moreover, what causes it.

For many years, I wondered why a vertebra returns to the subluxation position after having been properly corrected. This has led me far beyond the simple "bone on nerve" chiropractic philosophical concept and into a comprehensive understanding of holistic wellness.

While maintaining an axiomatic cognizance that only the Power that made the body can heal the body, my research has carried me into the application of Quantum Physics and Quantum Mechanical Bioneurological involvement.

It has been nearly mind boggling at times, seeing how even simple emotion effects the non-conscious Innate awareness, leading to muscle imbalance and how this resultant muscle imbalance can allow the vertebral subluxation and other inappropriate physiology to occur. Now, as I write and lecture, these facts are crystal clear and simpler than we could ever have imagined.

My journey into this realm has also led me to research the greatest minds in medicine, chiropractic and many other disciplines. This excursion has ranged through nearly 40 years of clinical experience discovering truth after truth, going far beyond the VSC -- the very cornerstone of chiropractic -- into the realization of there being much more to chiropractic than we generally accept. Man is more than the sum of his parts, and much of that which negatively affects him is not from trauma, but rather centers in the emotional component which some of the leaders in chiropractic have de-emphasized or even denied.

Contrary to most early teaching, and even more contrary to much of the contemporary technique approaches, I discovered there is not just one, but three causes of disease which I termed the Three T's: trauma, toxicity, and thoughts. Then, in further researching and developing the science of Innate, I found that D.D. Palmer had published virtually the same conclusion more than a hundred years ago.

In "The Chiropractor's Adjustor," p. 359, he states: "The determining cause of disease is traumatism, poison, and auto-suggestion." He goes on to say that, "Impingements, poisons, and intense thinking, auto-suggestion, unrelieved change of thought, insufficient rest and sleep, increase or decrease the momentum of impulses." Remarkable was his repeated reference to these factors of mind in much of his writing.

However, B.J. Palmer did -- for what were probably good, sound, timely reasons in the early part of his era -- downplay the notions that poisons and autosuggestion were causally involved, in favor of a scientific subluxation cause approach. So, for much of a century, chiropractic has generally failed to address the involvement of mind and emotion in subluxation and disease as well as nutritional involvement.

For many years, we were left with the dogmatic philosophy that the vertebral subluxation is the cause of disease. Yet, today's quantum biology and neuroscience clearly indicate that emotions create that change in physiology that allows the vertebral subluxation to exist or return -- even after proper correction.

In my Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique research, I termed this recurring subluxation syndrome as the SDS or Sensory Dominant Subluxation. The SDS is stress-induced, memory retained and motor-expressed. It is the SDS that has caused much confusion and consternation to the practicing chiropractor and patients.

My scientific and clinical research, extending to several colleges and numerous private studies, proved that the SDS is created by the patient's negative reactions to stresses of life. These stressors can be of two basic types: short-term, high intensity stressors and long-term, low-grade stressors. Either has the same capacity to cause the SDS. This concept totally agrees with D.D. Palmer's concept of mind involvement.

Also paralleling D.D.'s notions, I have found toxicity from faulty nutrition is another "cause" needing to be addressed. In this area, my research has yielded simple conclusions and plans for the chiropractic approach to a holistic wellness solution.

It appears to me that those in and for the World Chiropractic Alliance are ready to stop living in the past and look to the future. Just as B.J. Palmer said in "The Science of Chiropractic, Its Principle and Adjustments," p. 41: "No science bursts forth complete on its first formulation. It must make its slow advance from fact to theory and hypothesis, thence back to more facts to be explained by the same theory, or as amended or new theory. No science is ever a completed one because new facts, new relations, and new phenomena are forcing themselves upon consciousness, seeking for classification and explanation in conformity to the laws under which they exist. We need wide-awake, up-to-date Chiropractors. Art and Science have no enemies but those who are ignorant."

The science, art and philosophy of chiropractic must continue to grow and advance if our profession is going to reach its full healing potential. For the sake of the millions of sick people of this world we must assume our rightful place as the number one, natural, complete alternative health care profession.

We MUST include an approach to the mind in our art just as D.D. Palmer wrote in "The Chiropractor's Adjuster," p. 565 where he said, "...man can be diseased only when the mind failed to perform properly its functions. His ingenious and profoundly scientific theory is that the mind governs organic functions through the nerves connecting the mind with body. The brain impulse is generated by the brain under the command of the Innate mind, or the soul, and is carried along nerves to every individual cell in the living organism, regulating its functions."

We must regain this philosophy, science and art from D.D. Palmer. We must also regain the philosophy that the Universal Intelligence -- God -- is the only power that can heal the Innate body.

We must finally come to the realization that both D.D. and B.J (along with most of the other great scientists of our profession) must have known, as an absolute truth, there is only one cause and one cure for all disease. That cause is interference between the Creator and the expression of the Creative Intelligence. This interference is of one or all of these three types: 1) trauma, 2) poison or faulty nutrition, 3) mind or emotion. The only cure is the correction of this interference -- no matter where we find it.