Money, Medicine and Chiropractic

My home state, New York, people speak plainer, more directly, than here in California. We have a saying, "Money talks. Nobody walks."

What does this mean? It means that money. what people pay, and are willing to pay, for things and services get to the heart of the matter. Maybe this sort of discussion is not particularly polite, but it is honest... and accurate.

The "Health Care" debate rages. Nonsense on two levels. First, Medicine is NOT health care. It deals with disease and injury, not health. (Contrary to popular belief, health is NOT merely the absence of disease. It is "A state of optimal physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity," according to Dorland's Medical Dictionary.)

Secondly, the only honest business, in my opinion, is shoulder-to-shoulder trade. Introduce a third party, like insurance companies, Medicare, Medical, etc., fees skyrocket because it's "nobody's money." Corruption abounds. Check out the image of the hospital bill, below, for just a snake bite. And the trend, now, is to consider "health care" a right, which means no one pays, which means anyone and everyone who works and pays taxes gets taxed to death. And the stinking level of "health care" gets even worse.

I stopped "taking insurance" over two decades ago. People pay me, gladly, because they know that no one will work harder for them, with more passion, with true, classioc chiropractic care, than I will. Many of my wellness practice members have been with me for 10, 20, 30 years. I tell them the truth, and I deliver the truth.

The chiropractors who are still "taking insurance?" They have such little self-esteem, such little esteem in Chiropractic, and such little understanding of what Chiropractic truly is, that they cannot conceive of someone actuslly paying them, with their own money. Almost always, this leads to scams. It always leads to low quality care.

People say "There's nothing more important than your health." OK. Do you have enough sense to ac tually believe this, and to act upon this? If so, come here. Get your nervous system liberated, so that you, too, can achieve Health, from Above-down, Inside-out.

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor

Fakery vs. Common Sense

Just stepping back from "what everyone knows" about this disease or that, about so-called health care, in general, will reveal the foolishness of it all. While Medicine is the thing for life-saving emergency care, it has nothing to do with health.

Check out this video, and then, sit down and think.

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

Dr Harte's Re-Learning of the Stress Cause of VSC

This past weekend, I was at truly outstanding chiropractic seminar, "The Wave." Well-adjusted the first day, hearing great speakers, surrounded by my brother and sister chiropractors, who are real chiropractors, not medical wannabees. I was feeling good!

Then, a speaker came on the stage, with whom I had had some problems with. He said something that, I knew, truly exposed his evil character. (It had to do with his anti-Semitism.) Steam was coming out of my ears. I could feel the vertebrae in my neck spinning, and I knew that I was extremely subluxated. I stormed out of the room, found a colleague, and got him to adjust me. Instantly, not only did I feel better physically, but the rage disappeared.

Over a hundred years ago, the founder of Chiropractic, Dr. D.D. Palmer, wrote (in his 19th Century languaging) that there are three cause of subluxation: "traumatism, intoxication and autosuggestion." In today's vernacular, physical trauma, bad chemicals and stress. He rated stress as the worst cause, chemicals as #2, and physical trauma, what everyone thinks of in relation to Chiropractic, as the least important cause.

Go over your own life, not just last week, but your whole life. What traumas... emotional, chemical and physical... have you been through? The subluxations they produced, whether painful or not, exist today to disallow you from expressing Life fully. Some may cause pain. Some may cause disease. All will cause dis-ease, a lack of normal function.

Get checked. Get adjusted. Get everyone you know in to get checked. You are in a position to radically change people's lives for the better! You might save a life!

Don Harte, D.C.
Corte Madera Authentic Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

From Marin: Dr Harte's Thoughts on Chiropractic's 116th Birthday

Here in my San Anselmo home, as the 116th birthday of Chiropractic concludes, I have some thoughts that I'd like to share with you.

I am from New York, the 3rd to last state to license/legalize Chiropractic, in 1967. Since I began my studies at new York Chiropractic College only 10 years later, most of my older professors were jailbirds... they had been arrested for "practicing Medicine without a license." I thought of this because I just saw some video of Dr. Reaver, THE most jailed chiropractor in history. Check it out on my facebook page.

So what did this mean, in real life? Well, graduating chiropractors in New York State could not get a business loan, since their profession was illegal. Most kept a "jail bag" in their office containing a toothbrush and an extra pair of underwear in case they were arrested.Sometimes the harassment got so bad that to get into a New York chiropractor's office in the 50's and the early 60's was sometimes like getting into a speakeasy in the 20's.

Often, the case would be that the bigger your mouth, the more often you would be arrested. Such was the case of one of my mentors, the man who developed and taught me my core chiropractic technique, Directional Non-Force Technique (DNFT), Dr. Richard Van Rumpt. Ask me about him. Besides a genius, besides full of love and a boundless passion to serve, he was a real character. Anyway, he got arrested many times. Once, he was walking down Lexington Avenue in NYC and someone said "Good morning, Doctor." He nodded his head in acknowledgement, and was handcuffed on the spot and taken away.

Before you Californians get all smug about these goings on in NYS, let me tell you the California story. Chiropractic was legalized here in California in 1922, not by the legislature, but by an initiative from the people. (Big surprise there, huh?) But, before that legalization, California jailed more chiropractors than anywhere else.

What is all this nonsense, chiropractors getting arrested for "practicing medicine without a license," when Chiropractic is, philosophically, the exact opposite of Medicine? Medicine is Outside-in thinking and practice. Chiropractic is Above-down, Inside-out thinking and practice.

When I hear someone say "I don't believe in Chiropractic," I think "What a fool!" Chiropractic is not something to "believe in" like a religion. It is based upon solid scientific principles that the brain and the nervous system runs the body, and that interferences... subluxations... alter that running, resulting in dis-ease. Correct the subluxation, and the body heals itself. On the other hand, it is Medicine that people "believe in" like a religion... no, more like a cult. Don't get mad. Take a breath, and think about this.

Chiropractic is for everyone with a spine and a nervous system. Whether you have a backache or not is immaterial. You want health? You need to be under lifetime wellness chiropractic care.

In future years, I sincerely hope that this obvious truth becomes obvious to the vast majority of people, especially parents, so that kids get started off right in life. I, and other chiropractors like me, look forward to a day when enough people get this Truth for themselves and their children that, as their genetic potentials unfold, so will that of the human species. We may very well end up with a better world. This is the Big Vision of Chiropractic.

What will YOU do to be part of this? You want change? Change yourself, and lead as many as you can to change, from Above-down, Inside-out.

Don Harte, D.C.
Corte Madera Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

A Fishy Story: Chiropractic vs. Medicine

I just took down from my bulletin board (if you're a Practice Member, and you don't check the boards...) a full page plus drug ad. The drug? Lovaza. The headline? "TOO MUCH FAT IN YOUR BLOOD?"

This drug, Lovaza, is made from a perfectly good, cheap, and commonly available nutritional supplement, (omega-3) fish oil. What's going on here? They, the drug company, are taking something simple, refining it so that they can patent it and charge a whole lot more for it by making it a prescriptiuon drug. By refining it, they may very likely be making it less effective, and probably dangerous as it leaves the "natural" realm.

This is a trial baloon in one of the dreams of the PMG (Pharmaceutical-Medical-Governmental) Complex, making all supplements available only by prescription. I am sure that they would just love to do that to Chiropractic as well. And you still think that government control is a plus? How about your own judgment?

The simple to complex thing seems to be common in the health arena. Medicine names thousands of diseases (often inaccurately), and follows that by treatments to counteract whatever they think the disease is doing. The complexity comes out in the massive injury and death toll of Medicine.

Chiropractic is simple. Your brain and your nervous system controls and coordinates your body. When  there is interference...  Vertebral Subluxation.... that control and coordination suffers, resulting in dysfunction, dis-ease and eventually disease. In Chiriopractic, we do not diagnose; we do not treat. We adjust to correct Vertebral Subluxation, and allow the body to do what it is supposed to do. Simple.

Don Harte, D.C.
Marin Straight Chiropractor
Liberator of Innate

State of the Union: Marin: You

It's "State of the Union" time in Washington. Here, too, in Marin.

What about the biological state of the union... yours?

Union? What does that really mean? It means parts, be they states, or organs or systems, working together.
A good union, biologically, means good health.

Health is defined by Dorland's Medical Dictionary as "a state of optimum physical, mental and social wellbeing, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." Webster's says that health is "a condition of wholeness, in which all of the organs are functioning at 100%, all of the time."

As far as "union," I propose that you consider health to be a situation in which all of the parts are working for the good of the whole, and vice versa. Think on that.

In this absurdly allopathic ("against disease"... medical) society, every part is considered separately. Diseases are considered isolated incidents against a particular part or system, attacking that part or system from the outside-in. This might seem all very scientific, but it is biologically absurd.

Chiropractic understands your biological state of the union. When there is a loss of union... control, coordination by the master system,. the nervous system.... there is a loss of health. This leads to dis-ease, and, eventually, to disease. The cause of this "loss of union" is vertebral subluxation. Chiropractic is the ONLY profession that addresses vertebral subluxation, allowing "a more perfect union."

What do you think?

Don Harte, D.C.
Corte Madera Straight Chiropractor
Slayer of Subluxation