The Biology of Belief
(Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles )
by Bruce Lipton PhD
It is rare these days to read a book that offers clarity and understanding of any technology without completely mystifying and thus losing, huge swathes of its readers. Lipton’s amazing text holds us to the very end on a subject that could have us yawning over our teacups.
This book is technical, make no mistake, but a delight to read. How wonderful to explore the life of the simple cell – in reality, the absolutely complex and magical, simple cell – in language that neither alienates nor patronises.
What a joy it is to follow the easy steps laid down by Dr Lipton, who has taught the subject to students in top medical universities in the United States, like Stanford, for example. This is biology at its best and most exciting.
In the mid-eighties, Lipton was going through a messy and expensive divorce and fetched up teaching in a medical college in the Caribbean, so far off the radar of mainstream thinking, that it offered the open-minded Lipton the opportunity to begin his own off-stream explorations of cells and their behaviour.
Much of his insight, however, came from observing the behaviour of his students, who were largely underachievers from the US mainland, with negative self-belief – suggested by the subtitle of the book – Lipton, and this is the exciting part for all LoA followers, made a promise to his students that he would deliver them a training that would equal anything on the mainland. And they believed him, and he did and guess what? They all passed their exams with marks previously unheard of in the school’s history.
Lipton states in his introduction “I was exhilarated by the new realisation that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs. I was instantly energised because I realised that there was a science-based path that would take me from my job as a perennial ‘victim’ to my new job as ‘co-creator’ of my destiny.”
He began to understand that we are not at the mercy of our genes, but that it is our thoughts and beliefs that effect our behaviour and outcomes. So, he took this ‘science-based path’ which was his own discipline – cell technology – and took cells apart with passion, focus and precision. He found that all cells have their own intrinsic consciousness that resides not in the nucleus, as previously taught, but in the skin. The nucleus is actually the reproductive organ of the cell – which amused him greatly – but you’ll have to read the book to get the joke!
And it is this skin that responds to the environment in which it resides. The cells live in a sea awash with peptides* that are released by the brain in response to our attitudes and beliefs. In other words, our attitudes determine the health of our cells and the way they make relationships with other cells, and other cells, ad infinitum.
Following his insights, he recognised that our present medical profession, like the Emperor, isn’t wearing any clothes, despite the huge drug industries set up to “cure” us all of our ills. By going for a “cure” we drug the entire organism, i.e. the environment in which the cells swim, and thus create bigger problems.
I found it shocking to read that although we live in a world where all the modern technologies since the seventies, have embraced quantum thinking and techniques, all, that is except medicine, which still relies on a Newtonian philosophy of cause and effect.
Lipton suggests that energy healing techniques (for example **EFT, Kinesiology, etc) and our personal beliefs and attitudes can make us whole again.
*See Candace Pert’s equally amazing book “Molecules of Emotion”, which is THE seminal work on peptides.
** For more information on EFT go to Gary Craig’s website www.emofree.com and sign up for his newsletter.
NB This review is based on the 1st edition published by Cygnus – however, the 2nd edition is published on 30th October, 2008 is available for pre-order from Amazon here.
