The Organic Light
This issue is dedicated to the mothers of the world who carry the biological intelligence of our species forward and who do so much more. To those who carry forward the seeds of Wisdom and enliven our hearts with the recognition of the divine source of life. This issue is about the importance of their voice, knowing that its deeper root is one with the power that fights for and sustains our living world.
My life is a gift, and I’ve had the pleasure of sharing it with a movement in chiropractic that was brought into my home by my mother, Jeanne, when I was 9 years old. A movement for family chiropractic envisioned by the founders of an organization called the ICPA: “Chiropractic today for a better world tomorrow.”
Several months before this occasion, I had a high childhood fever that lasted 3 days and nights. I was sleeping soundly in my bedroom, a bedroom that would soon be outgrown by me (and my sister) to become the first new ICPA “office.”
In the soft sleep of my fever, I was awakened by the most amazing light in the window, the curtains filled with streams of super-luminous moonlight. I was somehow “lifted” above the world I knew. I was calm and happy, and if I could put a single word to the feeling evoked by this night with that light in the air, I was “fearless.” Compelled by such delight and courage to do whatever I dreamed, I decided to walk from my bedroom to the steps and down into the front-room kitchen—with its vaulted ceiling and upper balconies on either side and wide arching windows where the moon shone.