Life is Magic

I was just listening to an internet radio show called, “Spinal Column Radio.” The show is hosted by Dr. Thomas Lamar and can be heard at, http://spinalcolumnradio.com/2013/11/01/episode-169-bj-palmer-epigrams/
I was being interviewed on this show a couple of weeks ago and was trying to skip ahead today in order to hear the portion of the show where my section appears. Along the way I stopped to listen to Dr. Lamar speaking about a conversation with an Italian novelist. The writer was interviewing him and asking about what a chiropractor does. She indicated that she felt that the chiropractic adjustment was, “magical.” Dr. Lamar was quick to say that he wouldn’t characterize it as magic, but he said, “I knew what she meant.” While she was expressing the adjustment as a transcendent phenomenon, Dr. Lamar explained it more scientifically as a clinical event with identifiable measures and a predictable outcome. He said that the magic did not happen in the hands of the chiropractor, but in the body of the person receiving the adjustment. Dr. Lamar was so spot-on correct that the little voice within me was silently cheering him on.
I’ve often thought about how people report over and over again that after they get a precise adjustment it seems just like magic. Yes, they and I both know that there is no magic involved in performing an adjustment, but a live body does miraculous, even magical things when it is working right. In other words, ‘Life is Magic.’
If you might like to hear some of this interesting discussion then please click on this link http://spinalcolumnradio.com/2013/11/01/episode-169-bj-palmer-epigrams/ go down the page some and click on, “Listen Now.” Then fast forward to 48 minutes and 30 seconds into the show.