The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles Paperback – October 11, 2016

I was particularly careful in choosing the words for the title. Writing "it changed my life" might have been something people would have regarded as another review from a guy looking for a direction in life.While we all may be looking for the right direction, one way or the other, there are books that deliver way beyond the expectations you developed after reading the first few pages.After reading Dispenza's "Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself," which largely mentions this book, I felt almost an obligation to buy it. And when I started reading it I thought: "Oh geez, so slow, almost boring, things I have heard many times, here's another waste of time and money."Oh my, was I wrong.So totally wrong!Bruce Lipton has the absolute capacity to really intrigue you while telling a story or explaining a concept that makes total sense, is scientifically accurate and more. The moment we read about his epiphany, it's like being there, with this still young professor, half a world away, struck by the light!But you may be tricked by this review. You may read it like I am saying I like the way this man writes.Which is also true, I do.But the treasure of this book is what it says.It is the ultimate message that focusing your attention on details is absolutely horrifying if it makes you lose the big picture.Explaining we should stop blaming (and cursing) our genes for what we are. And don't even think about surrendering and give up to our laziness is the final message.A message you get after reading this book.Because you need to read it all.Because nowhere in this book you will read "stop blaming your genes and look at the big picture." The book is a journey into the big picture. A journey made out of solid science.A book that will teach you how clever our body is. And how stubborn and stupid it can be if we let it run on autopilot.It is an invitation to tapping into this vast potential, learn how to redirect our attention and our ultimate direction. An invitation to throw away the navigator in your mobile phone and look for the destination using an old style map.Why should we use a map in the gps area?Because whenever you set the destination, the gps will choose for you!It may be useful for a road trip.But not for your life.Read this book.Read it again, and again if you like.Dive into it.Absorb it.It may be the single and most important thing that will change your perception of the world.And, what's most important, of yourself. And the life you want.I will always be grateful to Bruce Lipton for this.

The central tenet of Dr. Lipton’s new theory of biology is that the character of our lives is determined by our responses to the environmental signals that propel life, not by our genetic code. This means that the brain of each cell is not the DNA, but the cell wall. When I first heard a friend of mine propose this idea, my immediate thought was that, yes, it’s the cell wall that must respond to the environment, just as it is our skin and other peripheral sensory organs that must respond to the environment, but it is the DNA that programs our sensory organs, as well as our brain that makes sense of them. Since single cells have no brain, but just the sensing mechanisms of the membrane, so in that sense it is the brain of the cell. On the other hand, even single cells are capable of learning. The DNA cannot react until triggered by something in the environment, and it is the membranes that determine what gets through to trigger gene activity. When a cell has once learned something, it is able to pass that knowledge on to its offspring, as a child that has once had measles is now immune to that disease. This does put Lamarck in a new light. Schrödinger -- in WHAT IS LIFE? -- points out that as the behavior of an organism changes in response to a change in its physical structure, that will in turn affect a change in behavior will affect the genetic code in a way that mimics Lamarckian evolution. So genes store memories, and it is now recognize that genes can even be passed on between different species. The genes of GMOs can therefore alter the character of bacteria in our intestines – upon which our physical and psychological well-being are now known to be dependent -- as well as the wild organisms that these artificially created genes will spread to. In a SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN article I read some time ago, it is because genes spread so easily between species that we need not worry about them spreading into the surrounding communities, as this happens naturally all the time. There is, however, a big difference between acquired and imposed characteristics. It was the failure to acknowledge this important distinction that lead to Lamarck’s theory of adaptive evolution being ridiculed and discredited.Traditional, Darwinian biology denies that consciousness exists intrinsically. Dawkins, in his various books, spends much time convincing us of how blind evolution can lead to such wonders as eyes and wings, but pretty much ignores the complexity of the information that must form in the DNA. Mathematically, it is easy to demonstrate that forming a specific protein, and specificity is critical is astronomically improbable within the lifetime of the universe. When I was in high school I was taught, as an analogy of how such complex molecules could be created by mere chance, that if a horde of monkeys pecked away on typewriters for millions of years they would eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. Any high school kid with a computer can prove easily prove that this is a fallacy. The following two stanzas of one of Shakespeare’s sonnets consists of 82 letters, spaces, and punctuation marks:When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,I all alone beweep my outcast state.Taking repeating characters into account -- there are 14 spaces, e appears 11 times, a appears 6 times, and so on -- the number of permutations can be calculated: 82!/(14!x11!x6!x6!x6!x5!x4!x3!x3!x2!x2!x2!x2!) = 2.2 x 1089The age of the universe is 13 billion years. Converted into seconds that is 4.1 x 1017. A trillion monkeys armed with special typewriters able to type one 82-character permutation per second would be able to type 1 x 1012 x 4.1 x 1017 = 4.1 x 1029 permutations since the moment of the Big Bang. So the probability that these trillion monkeys could have typed the correct permutation -- 2.2 x 1089 / 4.1 x 1029 = 5.4 x 1059 -- is one in 5.4 x 1059. In short, information does not come easily. Can we all agree that life, the sort of life capable of writing like Shakespeare, is infinitely more complex than two lines of one of his sonnets? I have had this idea childishly ridiculed a number of times; no one has ever yet responded to it with a mature, intelligent refutation.If conscience has only epiphenomenal existence, then it is not as important as matter. Since life arose haphazardly it can have no purpose. Inevitably, our notion of the nature of life, a perpetual violent struggle in which the riches go to the most violent, forms the basis of our ethical and economic systems. Humans are easily manipulated. Beliefs implanted into us while we are still children form our future concept of ourselves and determine much of our behavior. Our “free will” can only function within these parameters. Impressive evidence of the importance of our beliefs is provided by the placebo effect. Faith in the effectiveness of medicine can cure a disease without the medicine.Unfortunately, we do not know how to control or change unconscious beliefs. Dr. Lipton enthusiastically points to new developments in “energy psychology,” which I know nothing about so cannot comment upon them. But not implanting fallacious conceptions of ourselves in the first place is clearly the better idea.

Thank you so much Dr. Bruce Lipton for writing such an easy to understand book about the influence of belief on cells!!! It was a fascinating read!

good read