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The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles Paperback – January 1, 2008

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With more than 100,000 copies sold of his self-published book, The Biology of Belief, Bruce Lipton teams up with Hay House to bring his message to an even wider audience. This book is a groundbreaking work in the field of new biology, and it will forever change how you think about thinking. Through the research of Dr. Lipton and other leading-edge scientists, stunning new discoveries have been made about the interaction between your mind and body and the processes by which cells receive information. It shows that genes and DNA do not control our biology, that instead DNA is controlled by signals from outside the cell, including the energetic messages emanating from our thoughts. Using simple language, illustrations, humor, and everyday examples, he demonstrates how the new science of Epigenetics is revolutionizing our understanding of the link between mind and matter and the profound effects it has on our personal lives and the collective life of our species.

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January 1, 2008
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Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized authority in bridging science and spirit and a leading voice in new biology. A cell biologist by training, he taught at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine, and later performed pioneering studies at Stanford University. Author of The Biology of Belief, he has been a guest speaker on hundreds of TV and radio shows, as well as keynote presenter for national and international conferences.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hay House; Revised edition (January 1, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1401923127
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1401923129
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches

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CalGal61

Fantastic Insights, but Falls Just Short of Ultimate Truth

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Lipton's journey is remarkable and I'm glad he finally figured out there's more to life than just genetics supported by Newtonian physics. However, I found the book only about 80% accurate. He needed to keep going in his discovery and learn the ultimate truth. As is, while he reports that it's quantum physics and the idea that more influences us than just genes, he still holds on to his Darwinistic view of life and that evolution is still the foundation for existence. He also states that he doesn't believe God is a real being but simply a force in the universe; which hardly supports the theory of evolution in terms of what plays on our development. He also buys into the popular holistic modality, "Emotion Code/Body Code" which purports that we must resolve stored and residual emotion in order to heal. The trouble with this is that we don't actually store emotion in the body or the cells. Emotions are generated by the limbic center of the brain and are new every time we experience them. They're a bio-generated response to thought, whether conscious, subconscious, or unconscious, not something we actually store in our body. I could explain further, but this isn't the venue for that. I used to believe the same thing and even wrote my own book on the topic, but then I learned the truth about it. Nevertheless, I highly recommend Dr. Lipton's book to all my friends and especially my clients, but with the caveat to take what he says about the two issues I just noted with a grain of salt and seek out their own witness about the truth in that regard.

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Frank Juszczyk

Betting a Bundle, But Hedging the Bet

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Dr. Lipton has some very interesting things to say in his book, The Biology of Belief. For me, the meat of what is in it is in his expose' and criticisms of Newtonion physics, neo-Darwinism, and the corrupt and duplicitous practices of the medical-pharmaceutical complex. Basically, he describes how these ideological systems and their institutions have misled us for hundreds of years and profited by our ignorance.

Being a cellular biologist, Dr. Lipton organizes his presentation around his professional knowledge of cell biology and extrapolates what he has learned to apply to personal psychology, cultural programming, ecology, and the cyclical lifetimes of civilizations. No small feat.

His personal insights and ultimately his spiritual revelation came to him out of his ever-deepening understanding of the nature of cellular life. These cast him pretty far from mainstream scientific practice, and it would seem that he had truly found a radically new perception of a very different reality from the one we had been taught to believe in.

Disappointingly for me, Lipton can't quite evade the ever-present scientific infrastructure and its categorical minutiae. The antidotes he formulates for the excesses of an arrogant and settled science are framed in the by now rather worn options of ecological responsibility, pacifism, and thinking globally. He conveys the idea that in the long evolution of life on this planet there were epochs of harmonious balance and cooperative, peaceful development--all before the appearance of humans, however, which means that none of us were actually present to verify the existence of those utopian periods.

At any rate, Lipton makes the case that his thinking, his BELIEFS, have progressed beyond quite a lot of outmoded scientific thinking while continuing to rely on many of the old suppositions about time, space, evolution, cause and effect, and an "out there" that is still out there. Lipton has dared to pull the piggy's tail, but not go the whole hog.

He admires the paranormal abilities of Australian aborigines, but doesn't suggest that he would abandon his scientific approach to implementing his alternative insights by joining them. He NEEDS the naming, labeling, and formulation of techniques that the scientific infrastructure supplies. He needs things to be in clinical settings so that they will be meaningful to him. He claims to have become more metaphysical in outlook, saying early in his book (p.79) that ". . . today's physicists have completely failed to inform the public of the purely mental nature of the Universe", but he stops far short of considering all of reality to be an illusion of consciousness. Instead, like most civilized Westerners, he wants to fix, change, or improve that persistent illusion, that mental nature of the Universe that he experiences around himself. Whether or not matter creates consciousness, or consciousness creates matter, Dr. Lipton tries to work both sides of the street. Perhaps he will go for the Full Monty in another book.

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Healing Energy modern medicine doesn't know about

Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2016

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A few years ago I was very sick, modern day medicine didn't know what was wrong and attributed it to just getting old and the break down of the body. I had other ideas and researched and found food was the way to eat my way back to health. Natural food food grown in my own garden or my local farmers garden. From this process I found self healing. Something in my history made me know about your bodies ability to heal itself and there is energy everywhere. Life is energy you are not plugged into a wall socket you generate your own energy just as the world around up. It is all connected. As I did further research I ran into Bruce Lipton's work and exigencies and Quantum physics. I agree completely and have read his books with great enthusiasm. It wasn't until modern scientific times that we suddenly forgot all about the power of self and the power of life's energy. I wonder what is wrong with our science?

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Lipton, in his book, sets about demolishing what he himself admits is a straw man: the notion that genes determine disease and its progression. In his view, genes only provide a blueprint for building proteins, and it is the cellular receptor proteins on the membrane which drive gene expression in response to their environment. Few genes are self-expressing. This hardly seems controversial. Nevertheless, the book is, even if it is not its main intent, a good and very readable laymen’s introduction to the molecular biology of the cell, and worth reading for that reason alone.

The “belief” in the title refers essentially to the ability of the brain to command, whether consciously or unconsciously, the production of neurotransmitters and other signalling proteins which then tell cells what to do. This view, as Lipton acknowledges, is based on the ideas of Candace Pert. Interestingly, Lipton reports that this signalling intelligence was first developed in unicellular amoeba communities, where the signalling compounds are released into the environment and operate between distinct individuals. Multicellular organisms came only later, and took over this system of signalling to regulate the behavior of the community of cells which had now come to be permanently associated in a single individual. Thus cellular intelligence underpins the intelligence of more complex organisms.

Despite its expositional merits, however, Lipton’s book does not get us much closer to an understanding of the actual mechanisms behind the control of cell behavior. For the most part, he relies on somewhat forced analogies from quantum physics, the pertinence of which is far from established. Whilst he seems authoritative in matters of cell biology, what he says about quantum physics is frequently wrong and sometimes breathtakingly so. Essentially his main argument, which may well be valid but is nevertheless lacking in detail, is that the body’s self-healing mechanisms are activated by relaxation and disactivated by stress, i.e. by the activation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis.

These self-healing mechanisms may be astonishing, and may depend to a significant degree on the variables he cites, but they remain quite mysterious in their details. One possibility one might have hoped Lipton would explore, but which he does not, is that there is a macro equivalent of the cellular apoptosis mechanism which leads entire organisms to self-destruct when signals in their environment communicate to them that they no longer play a role in the community. This may be a gross simplification but it would fit with Lipton’s overarching metaphor whereby the human body is, in many ways, merely the cell writ large.

Lipton also takes the medical community to task for overuse of prescription medicines without a proper understanding of their systemic functioning. However he does not, and cannot, establish any principles to determine whether or not the use of pharmaceuticals is appropriate in individual instances and whether the other healing resources of the body have been sufficiently activated and explored. As such, the criticism, even if one may have sympathy for it, seems superficial.

These criticisms aside, it is clear from this and other books that a major shift in social consciousness around health and healing is underway and increasingly forcing its way into the mainstream. For those who continue to place undue faith in the mechanistic and simplistic ideas which have hitherto underpinned Western allopathic medicine, the book will be a very helpful antidote. We may be still a long way off adequately describing how the body’s self-healing mechanisms work, but there seems no doubt at all that they make a key contribution to health outcomes and, if only for this reason, should be nurtured. In reality, of course, the quest for optimal health only dictates what the spiritual path anyway demands on other counts: a conscious uncovering of reality, and the courage to listen to what we already know.

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Penna Blu

Spirit and Science

Reviewed in Canada on February 23, 2016

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A well founded scientific dissertation which leads to thought-provoking conclusions. On a biological basis, Dr. Lipton breaks away from the fundamental Darwinian theory that evolution is based on the struggle for survival. On the contrary it's based on collaboration, and the sooner we'll understand this the better, because, as it is, we are heading towards selfdestruction. - - The new ideas that Dr. Lipton brings forward are so many that it is impossible to give a full account of them. To mention a few, while expanding on the new science of epigenetic, the writer shows how we are not condamned by our genetic inheritance. We can fight against it even in the realm of illnesses and acquire control of our physiological and psychological behaviour. - - We are much more influenced by the environment to which we adjust through a "cell's awareness" - - Most of our character and behaviour is determined by our subconscious already in the first years, or even months of our life - and even from the time we are in the womb.. We are passively impressed by what we perceive from our physical and social environment. It remains only 5% of conscious decisions with which freely intervene on our behaviour, changing the pre-existing tendencies.
Science, mainly quantum physics and biology, leads dr. Lipton to very interesting spiritual insights; and he comes to the conclusion that we are "one thing with a bigger Universe/God". "We all represent ... a small part of God."
It's impossible to make justice to this booki in a few words. Although deep, it is clearly written and very enjoyable.

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Tiny Thought Guy

An important and empowering book

Reviewed in Canada on July 31, 2013

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Having recently listened to Bruce Lipton speak at the annual IONS (Institute of Noetic Sciences) conference I was excited to read this book. Bruce has a knack for taking the information obtained from his scientific background in Biology and making it understandable to someone who has no education in the field of Biology.

The format Bruce uses, as well as his style, are very 'user friendly' and this made for an enjoyable read. As for the material itself, I found that I learned a great deal about the field of Epigenetics and it is refreshing to hear another voice disagreeing with, in my biased opinion, the deterministic views coming from the choir of the majority. Certainly I am no expert in the field of genetics; however, anytime I hear that scientists have found 'the answer" I shudder. The fact that DNA sequencing was supposed to be the holy grail of all things living is no different than when the world was flat and at the center of the universe. I do not dispute the fact that DNA research and the field of genetics is important, but when part of that conclusion says that Mother Nature decided to make 96% of that DNA useless (junk DNA) I tend to believe that there is more to the situation than what we are perceiving or what we have the ability to measure. Perhaps the beleifs of genetic determinism are incomplete, perhaps we need better tools, and perhaps the final word on DNA has yet to be written; however, one thing is certain, the fact is that we don't know everything there is to know and we will only expand our awareness by being open to new ideas.

Science is about discovery and a desire to get to truth, yet it seems that many "so-called" scientists are no different than the religious zealots that burned people at the stake 500 years ago. Anyone remember Giordano Bruno? So, what does this have to do with the 'Biology of Belief'? Well, in this book Bruce goes against the deterministic view and says that it is not only genetics that shape our inner world, it is the environment as well. This book is one of self-empowerment because it says that you aren't just a machine following orders that came from pond scum 700 million years ago. You have the ability to transform your outer world and INNER world. Certainly empowered people are healthier and harder to control then their unaware counterparts and they use less pharmaceutical interventions. Hmmm, so by being aware of our power we take money out of the pharma's pockets, who are the ones providing so much of the funding to the scientific quacks. No wonder the mainstream scientists resist work such as this, it's their pocket book stupid (you need to read the book to get the gist of that last statement). In the end, ironically perhaps, the quasi-scientists of today will go the way of their ancestors and go extinct because they refuse to look at the facts, to adapt to the environment and view new ideas with curiosity rather than dogma. Perhaps the title of Bruce's next book could be something like, 'Did dinosaurs wear lab coats?'

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