| The 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. |