Extracts from first chapter of the book “Biology of Belief”
San Francisco State University| HOLISTIC HEALTH [THE BIOLOGY OF BELIEF] Bruce Lipton| Fall 2009
First understanding of this though, is the concept of a mind-body duality, because Descartes came up and said there’s a mind and a body and they are two different things.
The body is physical, the mind is an energy, it’s an invisible thing. You can’t measure it, you can’t put it in a box, it’s invisible And yet they are connected together. However, Newtonian physics took over to say that the world is based on a physical reality. “That this vital force, this thing called a mind and energy of the body cannot, and in fact, did not affect the material body. The invisible stuff, should be left to religion. We can understand the body by just taking the chemistry part and understanding the mechanics reductionism and determinism.” So they threw the mind out.
They threw the mind out hundreds of years ago. Why? It’s an energy, it doesn’t affect the material realm. So that’s the concept of Newtonian physics based on matter only. So that’s why medicine doesn’t really like talking about the mind. But it does like talking about the body and looks at the body as a machine. And they say that it’s basically a machine. Because you can take it apart and understand how it works. Then you can take that knowledge and then repair anybody’s body using the mechanism once we understand how it works. So science starts taking the body apart. And here’s the first thing they find. The body is principally a structure made out of protein. The word protein means “first element”.
The first element of your body is protein. The protein molecules, maybe over a 150,000 of them, are like building blocks that build your body. If you want to build a kitchen, you go to Home Depot and they have all these different parts and faucets and sinks and pipes valves and all that. Well the proteins are the parts. Your body is made out of protein. So when you look in a mirror, you’re looking at a protein machine, but also here’s the catch. Proteins move. They’re the molecules that can change shape.
And if you say ‘No’, a protein doesn’t change shape and the body is made out of that protein. Then I say, If they do not move, that’s called a cadaver. A cadaver is a protein body, but it doesn’t move! There’s no life! Life comes from changing shape, why? Because movement comes from changing shape. Proteins move, and because they move, they create the functions called life. So you’re a physical protein in a functional protein mechanism. Where do proteins come from? Well, the blueprints come from the DNA. Your physical characteristics are your proteins! Your behavioral characteristics are also your proteins! They come from your proteins, but yeah, but who makes the proteins? It’s a very complex molecule.
The answer is: DNA is the blueprint for the protein. “Doesn’t it mean that my DNA is the code for my physical body and my behavior?” Yes it is, however we were brought into a belief, by Watson and Crick, into their Central Dogma, in science, that says “Information goes from DNA to RNA for protein to Remember.”
It was a hypothesis! “What does that mean?” I say “Yes, It was a suggestion!” when the suggestion came out everybody went “Well, that sounds right.” “And it comes from a book!” Then it was 1968, then 1978, then 1988 Then it was 2, 3 generations, 4 generations Year 2000! Still it is in the book. But over 40 years, we let go of the fact that it was only a hypothesis and never tested and made it into a truth. So we accepted something that wasn’t true. It has actually become a religious belief that you are programmed by your DNA.
We always heard the phrase, “A gene turned on.” Even heard of the phrase, “A gene turned off.” Well, let me tell you a simple truth. Genes neither have an ‘on’ or an ‘off’. Genes are blueprints, so that they could make proteins.
After you’ve been programmed and your family before you has also been programmed to believe that genes can turn on and off and regulate your life, you’re a victim of your gene. It is sure, it should be interesting, now for you to find out that genes don’t have an on or off and don’t regulate anything.
Genes do not control who you are. But the problem is that we bought into it. And we made a model that’s called a medical model of health. And what is it? “You are a biochemical machine, and you’re controlled by genes. a) there’s nothing spiritual about you, b) you’re a mechanism made out of chemistry and c) you’re controlled by your genes.”
That makes you a victim! Of heredity! It’s already running in your family Cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer’s…
Genes do not control biology. They have no action. There’s no ON, there’s no OFF, but there’s a blueprint. Well, if genes don’t control biology then where’s the control coming from? The contractor. The contractor who reads the blueprint. The contractor is the one who can read the blueprints and rewrite the damn blueprints! Well, but who’s the contractor?
Since ’1953, More than half the people will seek an alternative medical doctor over conventional allopathic medical doctors. Well, what do they do differently? They work with energy, they work with spirit, work with invisible, and guess what? It seems to work well enough that enough people will tell their families and community about it. And that’s why 50% of the people will still go and see an energy healer before they go see a conventional medical doctor Which means what? We’re moving back up into the invisible realm. As for the beliefs that this current civilization has programmed you, these beliefs may be inaccurate or outright wrong. When you correct these beliefs, You change the nature of civilization Because they impact the three primary questions.
First belief: Biological processes employ Newtonian physics – that’s what conventional medicine has to say. Newtonian physics is the mechanical, physical world physics. But the mind is not physical. In earlier days, only the Newtonian Physics was known. Hence even after Quantum Physics it is really not good to talk about only Newtonian Physics . Quantum Physics doesn’t replace Newtonian physics. Quantum physics is a bigger science that subsumes Newtonian physics; meaning, quantum physics is bigger, Newtonian physics is a subdivision.
What is quantum physics? Quantum physics says universe is made out of energy, it’s not made out of matter, except for a very very small part. So if you’re not understanding the energy and you’re focusing only on the matter then you are in the wrong universe to make that study.
Second belief – Genes control biology – that’s the fundamental belief and that’s what has everybody so concerned about Oh you know – make sure you get all your check-ups and manage your genes. Don’t even go there, don’t do it. Why? If ever genes do control biology, – that makes you a victim, and therefore everybody who believes in it has a victim mentality. they believe that they are taken over by forces that they can’t control – genes.
Number three: Survival of the fittest! That this process of evolution that we’ve have come through is called survival of the fittest. Survival is the driving force.” And this belief turns out, absolutely, totally, incorrect, wrong, destructive and primary cause of the problem that we face today. Evolution is based on community and cooperation. The biosphere is a tightly integrated, holistic harmonizing community except for the HUMANS
Theses beliefs have programmed you to be victims. You have been programmed to recognize that there are forces outside of you that control everything. And I’m going to show you; that it’s not true, that you are masters of your creation. But then there’s a problem because if I tell you that you’re creating this world, you would probably say to me “Bruce, if I was creating this world, I wouldn’t have created this one”. And the reality is “Yeah you probably wouldn’t have, but you’re still creating it”
First of all, I’m going to talk about cells.
You are not a single person. You never have been. You are actually made out of about 50 trillion living cells – it is these cells that are the living entity! So when you look at yourself, you’re looking at 50 trillion cells working in a community. You are not a one thing except a community, a community of these cells. All the functions that you have in your body are present in virtually every one of your cells. Every cell has got a respiratory, digestive, excretory system. Every cell has got an endocrine system, reproductive system, musculoskeletal system. Virtually every cell’s got an immune system! Cells are miniature people, they have a life – cells have jobs, some cells are bone cells, some cells are muscle cells, some cells are brain cells. They all start out the same, but they made a community that partitioned out the work! And here’s what’s relevant about this! Cells get paid! Yeah, so inside your body there’s a molecule called ATP (adenosine triphosphate : a compound consisting of an adenosine molecule bonded to three phosphate groups, present in all living tissue. The breakage of one phosphate linkage (to form adenosine diphosphate, ADP) provides energy for physiological processes such as muscular contraction.) . You get paid in ATP, that’s the equivalent of money. But guess what? Not all cells get equally paid. You get your pay commensurate with your work. A skin cell does not make as much money, as a neuron. As a matter of fact, a neuron has an entourage, that’s they have other cells helping it. Okay? So here the point is; every cell has a job. Every cell gets paid and every cell gets healthcare. Every cell gets protection. A true environment where no cell is left behind.
Cells are miniature people and that is an absolute truth. If you want to talk to your body and get it to heal, then talk to them as people, yes, talk to these cells. They understand what’s going on, and your brain is the government of 50 trillion cells.
So you’re having a continuous communication with your cells. Some people think stem cells are new kinds of things. I was cloning stem cells, way back in 1967 before your grandparents were born. And back then they were fundamentally the most important pieces of information. All of you have stem cells. If you didn’t, you’d be dead right now, because you are losing billions of cells each day. Billions of your cells are dying of old age and being replaced. Who is doing the replacing? The answer is stem cells
I started with one stem cell and put it in a petri dish by itself. It divides every ten hours So in ten hours 2 cells, in twenty hours 4 cells, it goes on and on. After 2 weeks or so I got thousands of cells in the petri dish. Yeah, but what’s important? All cells are genetically identical. That is a start. They all came from the same parent! (Hence the whole of us have come from the same parent cell.)
I changed some of the chemistry of the environment. Then, these cells become muscle cells. Under different environment, some became fat cells. Some of them became neurons under yet different environment. The genes were responding to the environment. That’s the nature of the secret. Genes respond to what’s going on in the environment.
Just drugs don’t help you in a bad environment. What you really want to do is get them into a harmonious and healthy environment. The cells will automatically and spontaneously heal themselves Well how does all this work?
This new science, and if you don’t know this, that completely changes the whole understanding of biology is called epigenetic control. Epi means above. I say epidermis What’s that mean? The layer above the dermis; the skin! So if epi means above, epigenetic control means control above the genes! Ah! After 50 years of telling you that genes control your life, the new sciences called epigenetic control says that the control is not at the genes but above the genes.
Well guess what? You, have 50 trillion cells inside of you and you are all skin covered petri dishes. This is absolutely true You’re skin covered petri dishes. And I say you have culture medium! it’s called blood (and Skin)
So as you feel and interact with the world, if you feel angry, you release different chemistry in your blood. If you feel happy, you release different chemistry in your blood. If you feel fear, you got yet different chemistry in your blood. The chemistry shifts the fate of the cell. So it’s up to you, your blood and it’s chemistry.
There’s the guy, Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company had a very famous phrase which summed all this up if you just want to hear the one phrase and go home, here’s the phrase: He said,
“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right.”
San Francisco State University |
HOLISTIC HEALTH 28 [THE BIOLOGY OF BELIEF]
Bruce Lipton | Fall 2009
Finally
MY COMMENT (i.e) L V Nagarajan.’s comment:
Holistic treatment is nothing but giving the cells of the body the right environment for healthy growth:
- By means of producing the right chemicals in the body, by drugs, by giving the right emotions of love, confidence and faith.
- By giving the right stimulus to the brain by Physiotherapy, Yoga and meditation.
- By giving relief through body massage with special oils and herbs, which will work through the skin and tries to obtain epigenetic control of the body cells.
- By giving the missing stimulus (external, if needed) through brain and nerve stimulators.
Wishing you all a good health to yourself and your 50 trillion cells and, the yet to be, Stem cells
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