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Dr. Lipton’s book “The Biology of Belief” has profound effects on the collective life of humanity. Courtesy photo

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The Biology of Belief

If you were one of those students who fell asleep during biology, while your professor droned on and on about the nucleus being a cell’s command center, it’s time to wake up to the intricate world of epigenetics, as presented by enthusiastic cell biologist, medical professor, researcher, author, and lecturer Dr. Bruce Lipton. Epigenetics, literally meaning “control above genetics,” is a field of biology that examines environmental effects on a cell’s behavior. Biology’s central dogma, genetic determinism, has been the belief that genes control life. Well, Lipton’s spiritual awakening while cloning human stem cells 40 years ago has proved that theory erroneous and has the potential to liberate us from the belief that we are the victims of our individual and collective heredity.

Now, there is a reason I’m a writer and not a scientist. Lipton is brilliant in both areas, so you have to go to him for precise scientific explanations of his studies. In his book, “The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles,” as well as in his lectures, Lipton explains how it is not our genetics but our environment, including our thoughts and emotions, that controls life from the microscopic to the universal level. He shares information about a hundred miles an hour, in a clear, accessible, and humorous manner with asides like, “A human, by definition, is a skin-covered Petri dish.”

Lipton’s spiritual awakening came while trying to figure out how the environment was talking to the cells. Over a period of 10 years, he had determined that the brain of the cell was not the genes and the nucleus, but the membrane, which acted exactly like a computer chip for processing information. While he was typing on his computer keyboard, he realized that a cell was like a computer, and that the programmer was the thing that was typing on the keyboard. His life stopped at that moment. His physiology changed as he had the epiphany. “I was not in my cells,” he says. “I was an identity out in the field, and I owned the nature of spirituality and of God and of the matrix, as a scientist, not as a believer.” He refers to that moment as a “heart orgasm,” describing joy coming out of his chest and tears flowing down his face. He realized then how he’d been living his life cerebrally, and that when the truth came through it passed by his head and went right into his heart. It changed his life.

Having that huge heart experience put him “in the Petri plate,” allowing him to experience oneness, the fullness of unity with humanity. It was also an educational experience for him, because once he understood that he could use his intelligence to live in harmony with the universe, and began to live from that place, his heart generated his experiences on the planet and he began to understand the nature of love.

Lipton is passionate about helping people to understand this new science of epigenetics, because, “once we do this as a group, then the unity of us becomes a wholeness that we’ve lost in the period of being fractured.” He’s referring to the fracture that occurred between science and Spirit with Copernicus’s declaration in 1543 that the sun was the center of the “heavenly spheres,” a heretical claim in the eyes of the church.  The split was widened with Darwin’s theory of evolution and the idea of survival of the fittest, a belief system that no longer serves humanity, this planet, or our place in the universe. With this new knowledge, and through letting go of old beliefs, we can begin to evolve consciously.

I’ve only touched on the tip of the iceberg in this article and I sincerely hope that you will take the time to learn more about Lipton’s work and its far-reaching significance. Lipton will be the guest speaker at the Insight Lecture Series, in Grass Valley, on Aug. 14. The one day workshop entitled, “The Biology of Belief: Mind Over Genes,” is sure to be a myth-blasting, mind-blowing experience for all who attend. Suzie Daggett, founder of the series, describes Lipton as, “dear, engaged, passionate, and funny. He never stops moving as he gives his Power Point presentation, and he’s drenched in sweat.” She finds the information he has to share about the power we have to heal our lives, “fresh, in a non-threatening way. He’s one of those gateway people who balances left and right brain thinking.”