Review: "The Biology of Belief"

Review:	“The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Mind”
Author:	Bruce H. Lipton
The Short:	Looks at the power of intellectual energy and emotional energy from the context of the biology of the cells. Great Book ~ Read it !!!

Comments:

The author shares with the readers that as a child he began to follow his passion “In the innocence of my child mind [7 yrs. old], I saw this organism not as a cell but as a microscopic person, a thinking, sentient being. ... this microscopic, single-celled organism appeared to be on a mission...” (p.xvii)

Later in the book, as he becomes enmeshed in a ritualized, codified academic professional world, the author describes how he loses his purpose, his sense of meaning in life. His life as he understood it, fell apart, including his marriage. 

His journey takes him to a tropical isle to teach biology. In this setting he is guided in a way that awakens several challenges within him. His students aren’t mastering the knowledge that they need. He accepts the first challenge namely to inspire the students to truly learn about biology and how the cells of the body work as a complex network. His second challenge takes him deep within and without the life of cells. While grounded in the science of Biology, he discovers that the cells are not controlled by DNA. He discovers that cells are powered by, turned on or off by, energy fields and choices. He becomes fascinated by how thought energy and emotional energy interact with the cells of the body and control how the cells behave. The thought energy and the feeling energy are so powerful that they direct the body toward smooth functioning (health) or toward ragged functioning (illness).

The book is divided into seven chapters. Within the seven chapters, the author discusses cells, the “magical membrane,” the environment, biology and belief, growth and the role of parenting. At the end of the book, he integrates his thoughts on science and spirit not as a separate chapter but as an epilogue.

The author definitely focuses on life from a physical dimension but transcends just the physical easily observable data. His discoveries closely parallels or mirrors what  emotional energy theories and the law of attraction theories are saying about the connectedness of the universe through thought energy and emotional energy. His biological work mirrors the mentioned work that indicates thought energy and feeling energy actually create the dynamics behind the biology, and indeed create the script for how our life proceeds.

Bottom line: Great Book ~ Read it.

Rmf