Joe: Dear BJ, what concerns should we have about people like physiotherapists who are now moving into manipulation, treating organic disorders...basically beyond that of improving human movement, and toward what is more like your own life-long push to clear the human of psycho-physical barriers to health?

BJ: There is a saying "I have stood on the shoulders of giants" to gain wisdom, or however it goes. As long as you give credit where it is due, the universal laws will provide. Nobody owns chiropractic except the person who does it to his central calling, and can verbalise or initialise credit to those who went before.

Joe: Respect?

BJ: Yes, and more...but never worship. Then you create gods. If I was a god then so are you...and that, dare I say, would make God somewhat mediocre!

Joe: It is like the misuse of the word "miracle"?

BJ: Somewhat. The use of spinal adjustment does NOT do the miracle, but is involved in it, if such a thing is possible...and it is.

So what we are saying is; these other professions who profess to do what you perceive as your own are quite possibly your allies, so give them a chance. If they are not giving credit to the "giants shoulders" they've stood upon, then consider them lost in their own ego. Ego is not bad, only when you are lost in it, right? But it is one way to tell if someone acts out of selfish gratification: ask them where they got their craft. And if it is manipulation of the spine, they should not stop at DD Palmer but go all the way back to Hippocrates and the ancient Egyptians.

Joe: ha, yes.

BJ: in the future, you will find that nothing changes except the energy of delivery. At this point I not sure what that will end up being but remember what I have said in the past: knowledge is always limited - it is the momentary experience that is valid. More later...