What is chiropractic?

Is it merely the mechanical correction of spinal structure?

Or is it a philosophy of life itself — a study of neurological organization, adaptation, function, and the expression of human potential through the nervous system?

TEXTBOOK OF CHIROPRACTIC PHILOSOPHY is the most ambitious publication in the BLACK BOOK SERIES, created to restore the original philosophical soul of chiropractic for the modern scientific era.

Written in the spirit of the Green Books and inspired by the timeless teachings of D.D. Palmer, B.J. Palmer, and R.W. Stephenson, this monumental volume reinterprets classical chiropractic philosophy through contemporary neuroscience, systems biology, neuroplasticity, adaptive regulation, embodied cognition, and sensorimotor integration — without abandoning the original language and intellectual atmosphere that built the profession.

This textbook challenges both extremes that threaten modern chiropractic:
blind dogmatism without scientific growth, and reductionistic mechanistic models that strip chiropractic of its philosophical identity.

Inside this volume, readers will explore:
• Universal Intelligence and Innate Intelligence
• The 33 Principles of Chiropractic
• Vertebral Subluxation Reinterpreted Through Neuroscience
• Neuroplasticity and Adaptive Regulation
• The Chiropractic Adjustment as a Neurological Event
• Stress Physiology and Human Resilience
• Movement, Proprioception, and Sensorimotor Integration
• The Brain-Body Connection
• Functional Organization versus Mechanical Models
• Chiropractic and the Future of Human Healthcare
• The Major Premise Revisited Through Systems Science

More than 42 comprehensive chapters guide the reader through one of the deepest philosophical explorations ever produced within modern chiropractic literature.

This is not a technique manual.

This is not a postural correction textbook.

This is a philosophical restoration of chiropractic itself.

Designed for chiropractic students, practitioners, educators, and professionals seeking a deeper understanding of human function, neurological regulation, adaptive physiology, and the meaning behind the adjustment, this volume stands as a bridge between the Palmer tradition and the modern neuroscientific era.

Functional.
Neurological.
Adaptive.
Human.

PALMS CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE PRESS
BLACK BOOK SERIES — VOLUME VI