 "The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles" | 2009-11-08 |
| - Reviewed By User: A14QL491AT1XH5 |
The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles
In Biology of Belief, Dr. Bruce Lipton shares his personal conclusion on conventional science and the systematic impact science has on human potential through belief.
Genetics, as a body of knowledge, serves as good example, and it stands to reason, that modern genetics is dogma, when taken strictly as matter of fact.
Through his book, Biology of Belief, Bruce chronicles breakthrough moments in science, including the cultural transformation that followed, which in some instances prevailed in spite of fundamental religious belief - a true force to reckon with.
Bruce strategically turns the tables on science by applying subjective humanistic scrutiny as the new control or protocol, while reassessing and challenging the validity of any scientific principle imposing limits on human potential.
Herein lies the benefit. When science aligns with universal truth, research becomes a facilitator for profound discovery in step with who we are as co-creators.
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 "Brain Cramp" | 2009-10-30 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3CPMRTQVAVT01 |
| It is kinda technical for the first half of the book then makes sense as you finish the book. |
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| "Enlightening" | 2009-10-28 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2UO4LTIB1PGDN |
I couldn't put this book down. I found it informative in an understandable way. It shares scientific knowledge that helps personal freedom which I find very exciting reading.
I would have liked a bit more information about the personal techniques the author used himself for his own freedom journey but then maybe that is copyright information belonging to someone else. |
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| "Quatum Physics meets Reality" | 2009-10-06 |
| - Reviewed By User: ALGK0RWD02I3G |
For a long time I have had feelings deep inside from a scientific view point that there is a lot more going on undernieth than we all thought possible. I have read several wite papers that are refered to in this book and the evidence is without standing by itself in their conclusions. Quatum Physics goes even farther in the understanding of said proven events and findings. Now there will be neigh sayers out there and they are the ones who FEAR change. For FEAR has a strong hold on our and many other Scocieties at large and it controls the thoughts and beliefs of their patrons. THis book and Dr Liptons findings are very conclusive and procise. It can get quite deep at times and a bit of early learnings is advised, for there will be a lot in here that you will, if you follow what he is tellings you, find the need to acquire and fast. New Biology, Quantum Physics and Metaphysics, together are starting a new trend that is taking off and fast. I call it the New Spirituality or as Neal Donald Walsch would say a remembering of what IS.
This book just takes a leap farther ahead with what teachers and masters have been saying for years. Believe it or not, it is up to you. It always has been and it always will be.
Rev. Lee |
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| "Good Start, Could've been better" | 2009-09-28 |
| - Reviewed By User: A23G2MI4SS6FNQ |
| A great book if you are truly dedicated to the material. I say that in the sense that if you are not it can get somewhat dry and too much resembling a lecture on how cells work. A must, however, for those interested in reading Spontaneous Evolution. |
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 "What is This Book All About, Really?" | 2009-09-27 |
| - Reviewed By sengsational |
First off, the title should be something like "How The Study of Cell Biology Taught Me Things About the Human Condition - A Series of Lectures by Bruce H. Lipton, PhD". Or maybe "How Biological Processes at the Cellular Level Map to Multi-Cellular Beings Like Us.
What we have here is a lot of true basic science, mixed with rants about research that ignores possible quantum effects, sprinkled with a few old, but interesting and somewhat surprising human study results, packaged with some of the author's personal biography surrounding how he arrived at his positions.
This is not a textbook, but a majority of the volume is spent covering material that is most assuredly in textbooks; basic science that's likely not to raise an eyebrow on scientists of any stripe. In fact, early in the book, the author says something akin to that the reaction to the book by most scientists is "so what?" I'm not a scientist, but I'm a science news junkie. I've listened to about every T.E.D. talk and never stop reading layman science books and magazines. And my opinion is the same as Lipton's scientist reviewers: "So What?" If this was your first introduction into material of this nature, you might get something out of it, but for me, nothing new here.
Beyond the textbook science, another area which gets significant treatment is criticism of various sorts. Lipton airs concerns about how research science is not paying enough attention to how quantum mechanics might help explain more about the biology. I agree that scientists have a hard time abandoning an idea that has been the basis of their career, and we would be better off if that wasn't the case, but ranting about it isn't going to help. The author obviously doesn't like big pharma and doctors who see that as the only way either. No argument here, but again, preaching to the choir.
The style of the book is like a professor giving a lecture. There's the presentation of the material, plus wishes, hopes, rants, and experiences the professor. Some of the topics well correlated with the material, and some not so well correlated. But the professor only has you for a few lectures, and he wants to get his position on the world across to you before you leave. And for someone who claims to be a scientist, I'm surprised at how many points are "proven" using a single anecdote as "evidence".
So what's left in this book after we remove the rants directed at researcher community, after we remove the textbook science, and after we remove the autobiographical segments? There are a few references to older studies about human biology that might be interesting and surprising to some readers. There is an advertisement for his buddy's classes, that I consider shameful. But not much else. I didn't get anything about "Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles", but that was probably just the publisher anyway. The book title is deceptive. I can't believe this book sold as well as (I guess) it did. They must have one heck of a marketing department!
Dr. Lipton's writing technique is to set-up a flimsy straw-man and knock it down. For instance, a lot of the book is about the old nature/nurture question. Lipton sets up by saying "you are not your DNA". Ok, I knew that. I mean, we have alligator eggs that will change sex if incubated at different temperatures. We have human grandchildren that are affected by a sustained food shortage of their grandparents. He's preaching to the choir, and let me tell you, it's a long sermon if you don't need to be convinced!
Besides "Biology", the other word in the title that might be considered somewhat accurate would be "Belief", because he does talk about the placebo effect and related material. Again, the straw-man is "what/how you think does not matter to your biology." Huh? Who believes that?!?
Lipton mentions that the media takes liberties with causation, but I think he might look a little closer to home for examples. For instance he says that certain unexplained things "defy Newtonian biology." It is possible that there's some kind of quantum process going on in some "amazing feats of physical endurance" or with "the ability to walk across hot coals without getting burned", but maybe not. After all, Bill Nye the Science Guy walked across hot coals, no hocus pocus, just was trained by a fire walker and did it. It seems like anything the author finds that is not well explained, somehow ties back to quantum mechanics.
Sometimes the best biologists have been able to do is map-out a simplified version of how a process might work. When Lipton finds a process that is not well-understood, he leaps to the conclusion that there must be quantum effects going on. There very well may be non-Newtonian processes, but there's nothing he is saying that's even marginally convincing me. He tries, in one case, to say that because a protein is used for both sex determination as well as RNA synthesis that indicates non-Newtonian action. Well, I can use a screwdriver to drive a screw or as a pry tool, does that mean there's quantum effects there too?
This book was an easy read, and with the biographical references and professor's lecture style, was not totally unenjoyable to read. But the material is unconvincing and much of it is stale. The title of the book is deceptive, and having an undisclosed advertisement in the book for a paid class by his friend is stooping pretty low. If you want to read a book by an author that believes the mind is separate from the brain, there are many other, more up to date and more convincing books out there. Keep looking.
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