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By PATRICIA JIMENEZ White-haired, bespectacled Earl Craton golfed his age the other day. It was something of which the 80-year old former Fort Worth resident was quite proud. "Last year I golfed my age too," he confided. Craton retired two years ago, after 57 years as a chiropractor, to Granbury and a house he started building for himself when he was 68. He finished the house, he said, when he was 72. Now he spends his days golfing - at least five times a week, he said - and fishing. He looks like he could be a walking advertisement for his skill. He looks years younger than he is. Although he was quite ready to talk about a chiropractic technique he discovered during his many years of practice, he insisted he wanted to make it clear that he accepts patients now only on a referral basis. "What I want now is for someone who is really committed to chiropractics and who wants to learn my technique to come and work with me so they can learn how to do it," he said. "It's not something you can learn from a lecture podium," he said. "It takes practice." Craton explained that he had noticed by looking at human skeletons (rather than plastic ones) that the first vertebrate upon which the head sits has facets. He said he discovered that, in some cases, by manipulating the head rather than the spine he was able to cure many patients who had not been cured by other methods. These patients, he said, had been going to see other chiropractors or medical doctors and often suffered multiple ailments from headaches to intestinal disorders. He had a number of letters, testimonials to his success, from some of those patients. Craton, who attended the Palmer School of Chiropractic in Oklahoma, said some things have changed - such as the fact that chiropractors now are allowed to practice. "It used to be they would be arrested for practicing medicine without a license," he said. Now chiropractors have their own board and regulations, and it's becoming more common for chiropractors and medical doctors to work together, he said. Some figures estimate about 24,000 chiropractors nationally but Craton said he doubted there are that many. He said Texas has about 800. Although Craton said he expects to be around a number of years longer, he was worried that his technique will die with him. "After all," he said, gesturing with a crooked-shaped pen, "you can't argue with success." |
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corrections to the article: Is NSIR chiropractic?Craton's methods as they needed to and the regulatory agencies refused to improve their paradigm and raise their standards. Dr. Craton's life's research is fortunately still alive and well, and was passed through his family line. Unfortunately, change comes about slowly and the chiropractic field is apparently threatened financially, (a populace that does not seek chiropractic "care" would NOT replenish chiropractic's hefty bankroll). They have chosen to actively fight this badly needed change, and have wrongly accused the only true practitioner in Craton's unique life's research in the world of practicing chiropractic medicine without a license [the ONLY claim they can make in order to continue (they've been successful for nearly 40 years already)] to suppress Dr. Craton's unique research. To date, we are still in this legal battle and are looking for any chiropractor who would be willing to blow the whistle on the chiropractic fraud in a court of law. What we are offering is a unique philosophy/method and higher standard for achieving health and well being for the suffering and defrauded public that STILL has a RIGHT to choose the TRUE form of Dr. Craton's life's work. We are still hoping to create a large following of practitioners and are no longer just offering to teach Dr. Craton's work to the chiropractors. The chiropractic profession truly had its chance to do the right thing and straighten up its morals and its practices, and now the PROFESSION has missed the proverbial "boat". I understand that the law does allow for me to legally work under another practitioners wing, at least that is what I was told by the Medical Staff Coordinator in a local hospital when she wanted to bring me on staff there, in my specialty. And, even with the temporary injunction in place, and that disclosure made known, still more chiropractors have requested that I work on them. Apparently my service to a doctor is legal (if, as discovered, I am allowed to legally work under their wing). Why isn't the public legally being allowed as much?! The State's claim is that this is a matter of "public safety". Well IF the State is really interested in public safety then they would advise the chiropractors to straighten up their morals and their ways and cause the chiropractors to make the responsible improvement that we have demanded of them for the last 25 years. Instead, the State has apparently thrown taxpayers' money into this job of quashing the truth and has worked together with the Chiropractic Board in order to construct a lie in the Court. When I spoke to the Assistant Attorney General who is behind this effort when I approached the Chiropractic Board head-on from 2000 on, his implied statement was that Dr. Craton's work was worthy of the Nobel Prize. What is wrong with this picture? From the beginning of time, whilst Mankind was still in the Garden, even God knew the absolute importance (necessity?) of allowing for the freedom of choice. Why has the State assumed and claimed more knowledge than the Creator Himself?! Is the State really so wise?! Hasn't the State forgotten about the Ninth and Tenth Articles of the Bill of Rights? My Declaration has been on the State's desk since November 2000. In fact, it was this Declaration that finally forced the State to respond to my demands for the chiropractic field's improvement. Apparently the Bill of Rights still held some weight back in 2000. But what about now? Hasn't the State forgotten about the First Amendment as well? Dr. Craton's unique life's research had to take the path of becoming a religion in order to secure it's place in the sun. It is obvious in our web site, as well as my original resolution and challenge to the chiropractic Board, that our ideals and philosophies are steeped in spirituality/religious experience. And, our final required push to cause the chiropractic profession to become honest took place on Millenium, when the Spirit moved so dramatically upon the Earth. In fact, my meeting with the Chiropactic Board in their chambers to tell them outright that their "vertebral subluxation" was nothing more than a "sacred cow" took place on January 19, 2001. Just ten days earlier, I had witnessed
a rainbow in what I had been told wasan extremely powerful full moon and was inspired to create one of the many rainbow graphics on the web site. Point of interest: the white lines in the graphic shown are representative of the Star of David. There are two stars depicted in a spiral embrace. I never claimed to be a chiropractor, and I don't, never have, and never will, practice chiropractic as it is today!! And quite frankly I believe that if they haven't straightened up their act by now, they never will. Chiropractic is a fraud that seeks undue financial gain. It is a "science" that was built on a pseudo-religion (a lie), and that "science" has been proven false, more than 20 years ago. When a theory is proven wrong then the scientific method clearly states that the theory must be abondoned. Chiropractic leaders have instead made the effort to redefine the basis ("vertebral subluxation") for their existence and have concocted a convoluted definition for what they treat (the "vertebral subluxation", which now, due to my efforts, they have made the move to even change the TERM to something else). They recently claimed in the Court that the updated term was "segmental dysfunction" and that they were making the effort to "fit more to the medical model". They have WILLFULLY failed to acknowledge publicly the truth of the matter, that a subluxation is only a partial dislocation, which IS the medical definition/model. This is no surprise since the chiropractic literature has repeatedly explained that the "chiropractic subluxation" meaning "vertebral subluxation" does NOT mean a partial dislocation. Obviously chiropractic's leaders are mostly corrupt, or, for whatever reason, (maybe they're embarrassed, or maybe they've got political pressure put on them, or maybe they're liable for the recall that they should have and didn't order for the chiropractic profession, etc.), they won't stand up against the blatant lies that have been propagated for more than a century now. They are doctors after all, and doctors know everything ... don't they? I wish the Court would be so wise. It is not hard to see through the chiropractic facade; their storefront is peeling by now and in major need of repair. Why should the Court believe that Chiropractic has the know how to clean up their act on their own? Obviously, they truly don't know where to start. If they did know, then they would have already done a proper job by now, and especially since they took a whole three years to let the press (01/19/2004) know that I was a force to be reckoned with after all. And I'm sorry, but the idea of changing the classic chiropractic term of "vertebral subluxation" to "segmental dysfunction" in order to "fit the medical model" is just laughable when all they have to do to "fit the medical model" is FINALLY admit that a subluxation is a partial dislocation, and no, vertebrae cannot partially dislocate. And then if they really wanted to do the right thing, they would admit to the Court that there is another cause (that we have repeatedly told them about) that the chiropractors either missed, or chose to ignore, as to why the spinal column does what it does (shifts to accomodate for stressors directly above, below, and around the spine). Time will only tell if the chiropractors will come clean on this subject, and until they do, they will continue to rip off and endanger the public as they've already done for how many decades now? One more time ... our efforts to cause the chiropractic profession to become honest, and raise their standards, have obviously been earnest for the last twenty five (25) years. And they've known that Dr. Craton had a knowledge of the human body that was superior to their own since (documented) 1954. And finally, I have been asked recently in deposition on one of my court cases about my understanding of Dr. Craton's work. I had to admit that I saw his life's research as the work of Jesus Christ, after all, Jesus too, understood how to effect healing with a wisdom in His touch. The opposing attorney didn't seem to think that my understanding was strange in the least. Maybe I do know myself after all. I wish the "authoritative" world would respect as much. It IS my right/responsibility to follow the path that I feel that God has called me to, and as I was told by an older lady who was well respected in the church: sanctification is a matter for the individual, and only the individual can decide on the sanctification ... that personal and inviolable walk with God (Truth). Why do you think that the First Amendment begins as it does? Even America's money still states: "In God We Trust". Now if only the Court would act accordingly, and realize that doctors ARE NOT GOD. In fact, in this case, they are in bed with a bunch of fabricated lies, and what really disturbs me, is that the Assistant Attorney General for Oklahoma that represents the chiropractors here, is in that same bed too. I guess I'm still doe-eyed hoping that the State (via Grant Moak, Assistant Attorney General) would do the right thing and get out of that bed of lies. Inevitably, his choice to stay in the lie (if that is what he chooses to do) will be a black mark on the State of Oklahoma. I'm not backing down. I know the truth, and I'm not crazy as so many have tried to say. Am I honest? Unfortunately, brutally so ... which is probably the problem in the end; the State has constructed for itself this illusion of authority (being right). Unfortunately, that illusory mindset brings on a corruption of the absolute power that they have claimed. They have made themselves responsible for the "safety of the public", to the exclusion of the public's free choice, and the only parties that I am legally allowed to "demonstrate" on are the doctors, who of course, have already blocked Dr. Craton's life's research from reaching the public. The only valid reason why they would have a responsibility to block Dr. Craton's unique research from reaching the public is if I had hurt one of them. Did I hurt one of them? No, I did not! In fact, I was able to help them when their chiropractic colleagues could NOT do as much. Again, what is wrong with this picture?! Corruption? Perhaps ... |
See also:
Mission Statement
Overview
My vision
Philosophy
Human atlas of the axial skeleton
Superior facets of the human atlas
Skull and occipital condyles of the human skeleton
Atlanto-occipital joints proof
Anatomy Textbook Errors
Human axis of the axial skeleton
TCC's Centennial Award
Published journal articles
Introducing new science
History
About the author
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