To My Radio Listeners And Patients Around The World....
Something got in the way of getting the second edition of our newsletter out on time . . . and I know what it was . . . a sperm and an egg!
Mary, my wife, just had her first grandchild! I know some of you feel I do the writing by
myself in these newsletters and I do write most of it, but Mary helps, and is the one who does
the layout in the form you see it. She was in Austin with her daughter and new grandchild for
three weeks and could not finish the job until the last two days.I have to brag about our daughter and her new son Roman, for a moment. (I call him “Empire”) You know we are fanatics about supplementation. Ambrosia, the new mom, had been using my protocols and whole-food supplements for years before conception, and then following the beginning of her new son’s growth inside her womb, has been using these same supplements in the order and amount I recommend to all my pregnant patients.
And guess what? The midwife at the birthing center in Austin, Texas, said the placenta was
the healthiest placenta she had ever seen! And little Roman was so covered in that wonderful
waxy coating babies are supposed to be smothered in, that her labor was only 4 hours with no
tearing and no stretch marks, and the baby, Roman, lifted his head from off his bedding on the
first day of life!!! She has a tremendous amount of milk and is keeping the supplementation
going through the next year to help create a wonderfully healthy Roman Empire!
An exception? No way! Any mother, even a “high risk” mother, will fare better when
proper supplementation takes place. Stay tuned to these newsletters for more information on
prenatal supplementation in the future.
- Jack
Consciousness of Separation
One thing I have come to realize since 1989, when I got into health and healing, is that more and more I am living in a consciousness of separation. I came from separation into healing...and when I
thought I would find the coming together of several desires, I only became more separated.
When I got to Palmer College of Chiropractic, I found a whole litany of techniques of healing. Practically all of them present in one big confusing mass. And each one being touted as the way to
go! Each one able to beat up the others, or at least, better than the others.Such arrogance! This is where separation stems from. Arrogance and the "certainty" that establishes arrogance. From arrogance we get separation, from separation flows judgement, from judgement we get bigotry
and bigotry begets anger.
And all this from family and friends! People we have been around for decades. Most of our classmates, even as early as grade school, had picked up the arrogance thing.
The old joke is that if you want to start an argument put two chiropractors in the same room. But what happens when the arguments are over and there is nothing left to fight about? Does one or the other call and offer reconciliation? No, usually they start avoiding each other, they stay away from their friends, they close their blinds, they don't smile, they don't wave spontaneously, they don't go out of the house anymore, they stop calling on the phone, they stop writing christmas cards, and
eventually stop sending them altogether...this is the generation of arrogance.
The Greeks were writing about their tragedies 2500 years ago...where are we now?
A little love here would bridge a lot of separation, religions, peoples, nations, etc. True healing is a reconnection of the mind and heart and the letting go of your anger, intolerance, and indifference towards your fellow man. Does this describe the uncorrected mind? If you cannot find a way to heal yourself says the American Indian, then go to the mountains.
That which dwelling upon brings you your deepest pain, your deepest illness, is the thing you are most separated from. Look inside yourself. Look at your own selfishness. What do you see? When you lie down to sleep at night what do you feel separated from? Can you embrace everyone? Can you embrace Republicans? Democrats? Libertarians? Gays? The Homeless? Mr. Obama? What is your motivation in life? Why do you work as you do? Why do you eat the foods you do? The friends you choose? Because you have it all figured out? Hardly...you are only seeking reconnection.
You take any group of us deep into the woods, away from all modern convenience, and instantly we would start reconnecting with each other. Instead of closing our doors against our neighbors and the world it would be..."you find water,” "you find wood,” "you locate shelter,” and "you stand guard.”
Almost instantly we would reconnect. I want you to consider this opposition...Certainty vs. The
Mystery...That which you are "sure" of, and that which you are still trying to figure out. I came into practice believing the Aristotelian model of Beginning..Middle..End
Everything has its place. And history has done all it could to reinforce that very limiting idea. First there was the Mayflower Compact, then the Northwest Ordinances, then the Declaration of
Independence, then the Articles of Confederation, and finally the Constitution. Have we lost something? Where are we now? Every time we try to codify discovery and qualify who gets it, we lose the fire of its genesis...
Like the Christian faith...there was Jesus Himself, then Peter, James, and John, then Paul, then John's Revelation, then Constantine, then Luther, Wesley, Tyndall, then the Second Vatican. Did we lose
something?
Aristotle tried to simplify the paradox. The great paradox of the imbalance of life...like the paradox of the male female relationship. In most situations the male is dominant as we experience in the ID. The ID feeds the ego, male and female, not with feelings of harmony, but with a dominating male who is opposed by a passive aggressive female. Her resistance to his domination only breeds more passive aggressiveness. Like a balance scale, ever out of balance...it cannot even out. This can be applied to economics, the military, the church...ever out of balance.
Certainty versus the paradox of mystery. The macro world of astrophysics which gives us ever increasing galaxies wherever we point a telescope, even into the dark space of sky. The quantum worlds where the LHC in Bern Switzerland just ripped open a photon. Four terra volts of power to rip it open and what did they find? Another mystery. They want to find the HIGGS Boson, the "God" particle, the particle that holds things together, the source of the "strong force,” in physics and
chemistry.
And herein lies the problem, we want to simplify this down to the least common denominator.
Newton and Descarte said the universe is like a watch, it is simple, the universe works like a watch, not that complex, really pretty simple.
It is hard to look at things outside your belief system. If it does not fit your paradigm you will usually let it go, truth or not. The hardest thing in life is letting go of something you thought was real.
In 1905 Einstein published his first paper to show the universe is curved and not on a straight linear scale. By 1925 Newtonian Physics took a back seat to quantum theory. And what does quantum theory teach us...we can't really be sure of anything!
We try to simplify the religion of Jesus who told his Apostles they would do greater things than he did, down to the 10 commandments! The 10 commandments for pete sake! You don't have to tell good people not to kill each other or not to commit adultery! They already know that. But that is not the point. Jesus said his followers would do greater things than he did.
This is how you control people, by reducing the mystery to certainty. So you have a clear set of moral codes rather than having people show up at a funeral and awakening the sleeping dead back to life as Jesus did to Lazarus. Now that is real religion and Jesus said it would happen, was he wrong, or did something fail to happen to us?
We take the complexity of universal mystery and simplify it down to a model where we can control people: “Hey buddy, that's not the certainty I know, you aren't standing correctly, your hands can't do
the job like that, and your feet...heavens look at your feet, don't you know anything???” And yet life works doesn't it? If life was based on giving the right answer at the right time, every time, mankind
would not have survived his origins.
If life required that we do it just right when we do it, whatever it is we do, from the most gross to the most specific expression, we never would have lasted at all...
That is why I absolutely do not believe we are doing what we think we are doing on this planet...
I take x-rays in my clinic because it is a means for me to connect with my patients. Some doctors do not. I don't really care. You do what you need to do to connect with other human beings, because I
don't believe anymore there is just one right way to do anything. That is getting into certainty and that is a hell I will not return to. Newton said the clock is fixed and so is the universe. Einstein said the clock is not actually where you think you see it because the photons are not traveling a completely straight path... Newton saw the layered effect of time and linearity, quantum sees simultaneity. The work I do in my clinic, the correction to the spine, could be just a simple vector designed to bring a misalignment back to proper juxtaposition. Or it could be much more than that. Don't simplify the correction to the spine, the adjustment, you feel the bone out of place, the universe feels you out of place, the universe feels the simultaneity of all things, everywhere and anywhere present at all times, we are connected to our dead and the unborn in ways we do not understand.
We talk about the ghost in the machine, the ghost is the machine! It is there all the time, all around us watching us, instructing us, waiting upon us, the ghost is the machine as the egg is the chicken
and the chicken is the egg. The egg contains the chicken, the chicken contains the egg. It doesn't matter which came first as they are each other, as we are each other in a most beautiful way
of ultimate connection. There is no division between us, only as
we will it so.
And so we create exclusion policies, "Oh that's not the correct way to make bread!" "You aren't doing what I think baking is, that's not baking.” “I do not know what you are doing, but it is
not baking." Chiropractic and nutritional approaches to health and healing has become, in the short two decades I have been involved with it, the science of exclusion, purity by exclusion. Off with their
heads!
Approaches to the science of alternative health care needs to become the science of inclusion. "That's not real chiropractic, that's not real health and healing." Who says?
Our perceptions in health care are based on our failure of imagination. Can you understand that? If you don't get anything else from this newsletter, understand this, OUR PERCEPTIONS ARE BASED ON OUR FAILURE OF IMAGINATION! The third eye is missing! You need to see through the third eye to see the truth!
But we cover over that third eye by simplifying things down to where we can control them, in order to control other people. Let "certainty" alone. Let the mystery live in your hearts. You don't have to know the why all the time. You don't have to know all the answers, because you never will. That is the one great paradox of this three dimensional world, you don't get all the answers. Do you want a test to know if you are on the right path, honestly speaking???
As the island of your knowledge grows, can you declare the shoreline of your unfathomable ignorance and the plentitude of your unanswered questions growing as well?
It is our calling in this world, and don't make any mistake here, this world called you to this order, not the other way around. Some people I know are really hung up on this.
It is our high calling as human beings to bring order to disorder, to bring balance to imbalance, to bring peace to the stressed, health to the dis-eased, and life to the dying. You may take that
metaphor as far as you want...
You cannot answer the paradoxes of life with certainty. You leave the options open and rest in the comfort that we are guided by some universal intelligence, that in spite of themselves, this intelligence still thinks kindly of those who think they have it all figured out. And out of this intelligence's love for us all, it will sometimes leave us to ourselves for a while, until we get over it, or at least, over ourselves.
Then you can really soar...
Case of the Week...
Kathleen, a woman who was born on a horse, and who has spent more time on a horse than off it, as she describes it, probably holds the world’s record for falls and tumbles off the back of her animal. The falls began around 3-4 years old and continued through fractures and dislocations until one fall in particular, fractured her pelvis and in that recovery left her with a terrible case of sciatica. This is where the sciatic nerve, the largest nerve in the body that goes from the low back down the buttocks and to the feet, becomes terribly inflamed and can leave you crippled.
This was the case with Kathleen, who told me she would have rather lost the leg and still ride, than to not ride at all. The sciatica caused such pain that the heaviest of drugs she could stand, were used to help with the pain. The drug use made her balance such that she could not ride her horse or drive a car for over three years until she found us.
This was not an easy case and took me, at least, seven or eight visits to get her back where she could ride. The surgeons told her the best she could hope for with surgery was 50% improvement, if lucky.
Though she will still need more care, she is riding again!
Q & A (Your Health Questions Answered!)
"How is your approach to the spine Dr. Stockwell, so different than what I have experienced before?
I hear that you only touch the neck - without any jerking or twisting. How does that help all my
aches and pains throughout my body?"
I see that structure underlies every function, good or bad. The performance of your car, the
utilities in your home, an airplane in flight, or your own body follow the basic dynamic dictated
by the structure. If the front end alignment of your car is off one degree in the toe or camber,
you will have a very short life in those front tires. When there is a wobble or vibration you go get
it checked.
My design in the approach to your spine is to have it in balance. When your spine is placed where it belongs so that the head is directly over the neck and the head and neck together are directly over your hips, then the pains you have had from your head to your feet will disappear, if that pain is related to the spinal misalignment. In my experience 95% of body pain stems from exactly that.
I take very specific x-rays on a very precisely aligned machine in order to determine the degree of misalignment the head, neck, and body have "fallen" into. On analysis of that set of films I can determine what is necessary to return the body to a state of structural balance. This is done very gently - painlessly - without any turning or twisting of the head on the neck. The head and neck are simply
placed in a position where a corrective force of a few ounces is directed against the resistance of the misalignment.
The spinal correction is often over before the patient is aware anything has occurred.
Using this method, referred to as the NUCCA technique, (nucca.org), I have built a practice of over ten thousand patients in less than sixteen years, 20% of which come from outside the state. I have three children who do this as well as many patients and students who come to us to learn, who have become or are becoming "NUCCA doctors."
-Dr. Jack Stockwell
For more information visit www.jackstockwell.com.
