This book shows the proof that what we believe is what we get. It's a must have and must read for this era we are in. I bought it for me and my kids.

The biology of Belief: unleashing the power of consciousness, matter, and miracles By Bruce Lipton not really biology but more metaphysics and maybe odd ball spiritualism. It's an odd book, hard to classify, even harder to grasp the big picture for which the author argues passionately and rather well. The genre is akin to such books as: The Tao of Physics, Dancing Wu-Li Masters, except the science being rewritten is biology rather than physics.The author uses the words: "new biology" consciously to refer to a new paradigm, a system that is more holistic, much less reductionist, more consciousness, less matter in motion. The author is best described, i think, as a teacher that learns his first and most important lessons from looking at himself, much of the book is prompted by inner turmoil, cognitive dissonance and his attempts to reconcile his experience and his scientific education. As such it makes the book not really about biology, although there is lots of it, but rather about how this man looks out from inside his head and sees the reflection of his consciousness in the world. And from there tries to explain what he has found in terms of modern molecular biochemistry but finds that this is just the beginning and so much more is left unexplored because modern science is blinded by a materialist paradigm that depreciates consciousness. I think that the book is best read like a detective novel, from the 1st page to the last, with an occasional glance at the end of the chapter to see who-dun-it. The personal nature of the writing makes it difficult just to take a chapter out of context and read it for informational content, although one might be tempted to because of the extensiveness of the science. This would be a mistake because the science is not self contained but rather is being used by the author as an explantory way to unify what often appear to be spiritual issues and questions and finding their potential answer in biology. For example, chapter 3: the magical membrane. The first paragraph is: "Now that we've looked at the protein assembly machinery of the cell, debunked the notion that the necleus is the brain of the cellular operation, and recognized that crucial role the environment plays in the operation of the cell, we're on to the good stuff-the stuff that can make sense of your life and give your insight into ways of changing it." pg75 This is one of the major themes of the book, the cell is not controlled and run exclusively by the nucleus and it's DNA but rather is a complex interaction of the environment and the cell, mediated by receptors in the membrane. Which is a microcosm of the theme of the book, which appears in the last paragraph of this chapter: "which put the control of our lives not in the genetic roll of the dice at conception, but in our own hands" pg 94 This is consistent with the book's theme that the mind-body division is fundamentally wrong, reflected in the division of physics into Newtonian and Quantum, and biology as fixing machinery versus straightening out mental or even spiritual issues, this is where the idea that the quantum revolution in physics needs to be carried out in modern biology and seeing the importance of energy vs matter. I've stumbled trying to write this review for weeks. I finished the book the day after i checked it out of the library(it is a good read, the analogy to a mystery is true), but here it sits, the review unfinished weeks later. Why is it so hard to review? What makes it such an odd book? It is my difficulty in separating the garbage of the new age movement from it's treasure. My problem of differentiating what is good in the book, what is worth pursuing and learning more about, from the general spiritualist, god is in everything pantheism that the author is heading towards (apparently). I like the science he presents, i appreciate the goals of reducing the reductionism, dematerializing the gross materialism, and spiritualizing the sciences, but i am concerned that the content of his spirituality is very different and in competition with my orthodox conservative Christianity. It is this loggerheads that makes an analysis of the ideas in the book so hard. I am not a pan or a panentheist, God is not part of His creation but wholely other. And to deify creation, to find our consciousness, our imago dei in the physical universe is not the right way to go. But it is a useful thing to see how someone with this author's spiritual sensitivity walk us through his adventures and share with us his journey. This is a good thing and makes the book a high recommendation for me. I'm just afraid that anything i say about what the book is about will really be more about me and my reaction than that of the author, rats. Biology has missed the crucial contribution of the environment. This is chapter 2, "It's the environment, stupid". As no man is an island, no cell in an organism, no organism in it's lifetime, no community, is an island, separated from the

The biology of Belief: unleashing the power of consciousness, matter, and miracles By Bruce Lipton not really biology but more metaphysics and maybe odd ball spiritualism. It's an odd book, hard to classify, even harder to grasp the big picture for which the author argues passionately and rather well. The genre is akin to such books as: The Tao of Physics, Dancing Wu-Li Masters, except the science being rewritten is biology rather than physics.The author uses the words: "new biology" consciously to refer to a new paradigm, a system that is more holistic, much less reductionist, more consciousness, less matter in motion. The author is best described, i think, as a teacher that learns his first and most important lessons from looking at himself, much of the book is prompted by inner turmoil, cognitive dissonance and his attempts to reconcile his experience and his scientific education. As such it makes the book not really about biology, although there is lots of it, but rather about how this man looks out from inside his head and sees the reflection of his consciousness in the world. And from there tries to explain what he has found in terms of modern molecular biochemistry but finds that this is just the beginning and so much more is left unexplored because modern science is blinded by a materialist paradigm that depreciates consciousness. I think that the book is best read like a detective novel, from the 1st page to the last, with an occasional glance at the end of the chapter to see who-dun-it. The personal nature of the writing makes it difficult just to take a chapter out of context and read it for informational content, although one might be tempted to because of the extensiveness of the science. This would be a mistake because the science is not self contained but rather is being used by the author as an explantory way to unify what often appear to be spiritual issues and questions and finding their potential answer in biology. For example, chapter 3: the magical membrane. The first paragraph is: "Now that we've looked at the protein assembly machinery of the cell, debunked the notion that the necleus is the brain of the cellular operation, and recognized that crucial role the environment plays in the operation of the cell, we're on to the good stuff-the stuff that can make sense of your life and give your insight into ways of changing it." pg75 This is one of the major themes of the book, the cell is not controlled and run exclusively by the nucleus and it's DNA but rather is a complex interaction of the environment and the cell, mediated by receptors in the membrane. Which is a microcosm of the theme of the book, which appears in the last paragraph of this chapter: "which put the control of our lives not in the genetic roll of the dice at conception, but in our own hands" pg 94 This is consistent with the book's theme that the mind-body division is fundamentally wrong, reflected in the division of physics into Newtonian and Quantum, and biology as fixing machinery versus straightening out mental or even spiritual issues, this is where the idea that the quantum revolution in physics needs to be carried out in modern biology and seeing the importance of energy vs matter. I've stumbled trying to write this review for weeks. I finished the book the day after i checked it out of the library(it is a good read, the analogy to a mystery is true), but here it sits, the review unfinished weeks later. Why is it so hard to review? What makes it such an odd book? It is my difficulty in separating the garbage of the new age movement from it's treasure. My problem of differentiating what is good in the book, what is worth pursuing and learning more about, from the general spiritualist, god is in everything pantheism that the author is heading towards (apparently). I like the science he presents, i appreciate the goals of reducing the reductionism, dematerializing the gross materialism, and spiritualizing the sciences, but i am concerned that the content of his spirituality is very different and in competition with my orthodox conservative Christianity. It is this loggerheads that makes an analysis of the ideas in the book so hard. I am not a pan or a panentheist, God is not part of His creation but wholely other. And to deify creation, to find our consciousness, our imago dei in the physical universe is not the right way to go. But it is a useful thing to see how someone with this author's spiritual sensitivity walk us through his adventures and share with us his journey. This is a good thing and makes the book a high recommendation for me. I'm just afraid that anything i say about what the book is about will really be more about me and my reaction than that of the author, rats. Biology has missed the crucial contribution of the environment. This is chapter 2, "It's the environment, stupid". As no man is an island, no cell in an organism, no organism in it's lifetime, no community, is an island, separated from the

Lipton is a cell biologist whose "study of cells turned [him] into a spiritual person." This is a highly readable science book, defining how beliefs control behavior and gene activity, and consequently the unfolding of our lives. It's a fun learning tool that doesn't dig too deeply, with an uplifting message. Belief truly is biological. One interesting topic that Lipton addresses is the placebo effect. It "is quickly glossed over in medical schools so that students can get to the real tools of modern medicine like drugs and surgery. This is a giant mistake. The placebo affect should be a major topic of study in medical school." Of course, Lipton is a realist; he realizes placebo pills are a threat to the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the scalpel holders, and Lipton is not one to mince words. It should be pointed out that this is no dry textbook; it borders in places on metaphysical and holistic speculation. But the book is so darn fun. In this light, do not ignore the epilogue; it's the best part of the book, where Lipton deals with speculative conclusions regarding our "me-ness" and the power of the mind that transformed him into a bubbly, optimistic believer. His "aha" moment was the realization that every protein in our bodies is a physical/electromagnetic complement to something in the environment ... that environment being the universe, or to many, God. As we are inextricably intertwined with the divine, survival of the fittest turns out to mean survival of the most loving.

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Lipton is a cell biologist whose "study of cells turned [him] into a spiritual person." This is a highly readable science book, defining how beliefs control behavior and gene activity, and consequently the unfolding of our lives. It's a fun learning tool that doesn't dig too deeply, with an uplifting message. Belief truly is biological. One interesting topic that Lipton addresses is the placebo effect. It "is quickly glossed over in medical schools so that students can get to the real tools of modern medicine like drugs and surgery. This is a giant mistake. The placebo affect should be a major topic of study in medical school." Of course, Lipton is a realist; he realizes placebo pills are a threat to the pharmaceutical industry, as well as ...

Lipton concludes that genes and DNA do not control our biology. DNA is controlled by signals from outside the cell including the energy from our thoughts. Genes can be removed from a cell and it survives. But it cannot reproduce. The cell membrane is the brain of the cell. Chapter 5, Biology and Belief, tells of Dr. Albert Mason who cured a boy of warts by hypnosis. Later he found out that the boy was suffering from a lethal genetic disease. At the time, Mason believed in the treatment. Lipton states that the conscious and the subconscious are interdependent. The subconscious mind is habitual and millions of times more powerful than the conscious mind. He states that the limbic system chemical communication signals into signals the we experience as emotions. Our self-conscious ability to reflect can allow us to develop misperceptions. Beliefs control biology The placebo effect is very powerful. In one study those who got fake knee surgery improved just as much as those who had real surgery. Nocebos (negative beliefs) are also effective. When your conscious mind has a belief in conflict with a "truth" stored in the subconscious, the body's muscles weaken. Pushing an outstretched arm provides a test. In an Addendum, Lipton mentions PSYCH-K, Rob Williams, www,psych-k.com, as a program that can change long-standing limiting beliefs in a matter of minutes. It uses muscle testing.

Really got into this book. Made me wish I'd gone for a science degree of some sort. Made me want to read more about quantum physics.

Being a Hypnotherapist for the last 20 years, I have firmly come to the belief that the sub-conscious is capable of miraculous things. However, I never considered that the coscious mind would be as capable as the sub-conscious mind. I am blown away by this book and I highly recommend it for those that are interested in this area of research.Being a Hypnotherapist for the last 20 years, I have firmly come to the belief that the sub-conscious is capable of miraculous things. However, I never considered that the coscious mind would be as capable as the sub-conscious mind. I am blown away by this book and I highly recommend it for those that are interested in this area of research.

Well written book that explains current understanding of cell governance. Author argues that the cell is primarely dependant upon external electro-magnetic fields for moment to moment operation. The nucleus is primarely concerned with re-production. It is the receptor and effector proteins embedded in the membrain of a cell that receive and transmit external data to the internal mechanisms of the cell including the protein sleves that control how the DNA functions.

Really a great book. It grabbed me right away and I enjoyed it all. The subject matter is complex but was explained in simple language and is easy to understand. Really a great book. It grabbed me right away and I enjoyed it all. The subject matter is complex but was explained in simple language and is easy to understand.

Really a great book. It grabbed me right away and I enjoyed it all. The subject matter is complex but was explained in simple language and is easy to understand.

Fantastic book...the new biology... a must readFantastic book...the new biology... a must read

Fantastic book...the new biology... a must read

It is a wonderful book, especially for anyone who isn't yet familiar with the idea that our genes do not control our destinies. However, it was first published almost 20 years ago, and I would imagine that the author, or others, have written more on this subject with additional information from more recent research. I'd like to read some of those books next.It is a wonderful book, especially for anyone who isn't yet familiar with the idea that our genes do not control our destinies. However, it was first published almost 20 years ago, and I would imagine that the author, or others, have written more on this subject with additional information from more recent research. I'd like to read some of those books next.

This book covers the main tenet of the whole mind-body movement. It's easy to read and brilliant. If you're wondering why mainstream medicine is getting it wrong in so many areas, read it.This book covers the main tenet of the whole mind-body movement. It's easy to read and brilliant. If you're wondering why mainstream medicine is getting it wrong in so many areas, read it.

Good quality book

Dr. Bruce Lipton is a scientific genius with the insight of a Sage. His work has the reader engulfed from page one. This book is for anyone, professionals and laymen alike, who seeks to understand biology, the human psyche and how the two merge to either create or destroy our health and wellbeing. Well written, comprehensive and easy to read, this book is a valuable addition to any home library.Dr. Bruce Lipton is a scientific genius with the insight of a Sage. His work has the reader engulfed from page one. This book is for anyone, professionals and laymen alike, who seeks to understand biology, the human psyche and how the two merge to either create or destroy our health and wellbeing. Well written, comprehensive and easy to read, this book is a valuable addition to any home library.

Would recommend it to everyone.

This book has been in print for over 12 years but it's just as relevant today is it was when it was written, and perhaps even more so. Dr. Lipton delves into the science of how our thinking and belief controls our behavior and even affects our DNA and our cellular structure, and hence our growth on the planet. When we change our belief, we change our entire reality for worse or better, and we have control over which one that is. This book has been in print for over 12 years but it's just as relevant today is it was when it was written, and perhaps even more so. Dr. Lipton delves into the science of how our thinking and belief controls our behavior and even affects our DNA and our cellular structure, and hence our growth on the planet. When we change our belief, we change our entire reality for worse or better, and we have control over which one that is.

Great book. Very enlightening.

Great book to be read by everyone

Such great information which makes sense

This will change your life and way of thinking in science

very good book

Very happy with my purchase Very happy with my purchase

The book has highlights and dog-eared pages, which I honestly find charming. So far, the book is a great read and I'm glad to have it on my shelf. The book has highlights and dog-eared pages, which I honestly find charming. So far, the book is a great read and I'm glad to have it on my shelf.