The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles

This book has been fundamental in helping me understand difference between the subconscious and conscious brains and how to handle the fight between the two when overcoming bad habits. I feel like I can conquer anything by just having the knowledge of how our brains truly work. Yes we all know that we have a subconscious and a conscious but Bruce does a fantastic job defining the two and provides such clever analogies to how each works. I’m usually too lazy to leave reviews and this is actually the first book review I’ve written. That’s how empowering and inspiring this book was.

This is a good book. It reminds me a lot of Maltz's book "The New PsychoCybernetics ".In in one way this is a better book than Maltz's, Lipton provides updated resources that contribute to the text that are different from what were in his text from ten years earlier.Maltz's book was first published in 1960. The editors of the recent editions have added some updated resources, but the texts also continue to refer to articles from the 1950s from popular magazines. Maltz has been dead for some time and so it isn't his fault . I have thought all along that references to the old articles should be replaced with contemporary resources that confirm the claims of the earlier ones. It is an advantage for Lipton to be able to update his own book.With that said, in some ways I like the PsychoCybernetics books better than this one because they provide exercises for making the changes in programming that Maltz describes. Lipton does a great job of describing the mechanisms of our problems and assures us that physical healing and personal change is possible, but he doesn't go that far into how to change the programming. He does say that simply relying on will power and positive thinking won't usually work. But he doesn't provide well developed alternatives in his book. Instead, he provides a link to resources and to someone else's web page. At that point the book looks like a sales pitch."The Biology of Belief" is a worthwhile book for someone interested in ideas complimentary to the works of authors such as Wayne Dyer or Owen Barfield. It is good to have a reputable scientist to present ideas similar to Maltz's in his own words because it shows that the earlier works can still be considered seriously, even if Lipton is something of a lone voice or minority view in the medical establishment.

Must read for the self-developing individual - missing one important aspect of life. Couldn't agree more with other reviewers, this is a great book. Dr. Mercola praises on the back cover "it's easy to read" which is something I can't agree with. The Biology of Belief is not particularly light subject matter as Lipton dives head first into the real workings of the cells that our bodies are made up of. Absolutely fascinating that he's able to link cell operation and function to the spiritual side of life. Wish one aspect of cell nutrition would have gotten more attention: the food we eat and the vitamins and minerals we consume - or don't. For one thing, Vitamin D (a pre-hormone really) doesn't seem to get the credit it deserves as a fundamental building block in cell maintenance. Lipton discusses depression (a good brand of Vitamin D helped me overcome it, nothing else worked), and cholesterol (Prof. Peskin's Parent Essential Oils based on his protocol deserve a mention here because Amazon sells that as well as Peskin's books which outline the research that led to his discovery).Lipton's mention of the fallacy of statin drugs' effectiveness is by itself worth the price of this book and the time to read it. Completely in line with Prof. Peskin's findings. It's always great to hear that important research is validated from a completely different angle. Lipton does it time and again. I can't wait for him to sit down and write another edition incorporating in more detail findings on trauma by Pete Walker (Complex PTSD), Norman Doidge's research (The Brain That Changes Itself (also here on Amazon.com)) and Dr. Richard Brouse (Build a Better You), for instance.

Quite literally changed my life. My Parkinson's disease symptoms went from miserable to a mild annoyance. Tenth anniversary edition has valuable information that should not be missed.

This Book. This Book. Everyone needs to read this book. If there is one book you read this year that will help you grow - this is it.Sorry. You are totally responsible for how you feel, and how you feel determines is you grow or die. You can't do both, and no matter what, your doing one or the other.This book will help you snap into grow mode.I also recommend "You are the Placebo" by Dr. Joe Dispenza. Another great book driving the same point home. Both books compliment each other, but I'd recommend reading this one first.

Lots of Ah ha! moments in this book. Bruce Lipton is so dag on funny! I spend half the time rereading sentences to understand them and the other half laughing at this guys quirky personality which totally shows in his writing! I love it! He did such a great job explaining things, really breaking them down for our understanding. And although I was a science major and have had years of education in human/cell biology this was still difficult to read at times. There is definitely a lot of science in it. But to be fair I'm only on chapter 3. The chapters are long in this 10 anniversary edition due to some extended, updated material attached to the end of each chapter, but I love this because it really closes the gap between what was known 10 years ago as opposed to today, and a lot can be revealed in 10 years. I'd suggest that in the following 10 years Bruce just write a continuation book or an update book rather than adding to the already long chapters of this one. But it's an awesome book and i can't wait to use what I'm learning in my practice as well as on myself.

I can't put into words(because there are none) to describe how this book has changed and blessed not only my life but also my family's and those closest to me. It's too long of a story to put into a review...... but it came along just when medicine and science and and my external reality told me that certain blessings would not come into my life. This book came along at just the right time for me to move beyond my fear based emotions and my pre programming of life and allow myself and my family to bring into our lives what was once seen and said as impossible and unachievable.... can't thank bruce Lipton and his book enough. Trust me when I say that miracles do happen if you trust and believe that your body already has what it needs to heal itself. Can't recommend this book enough. Big WOW!

A brilliant book that changes the way I view disease and even the world in some respects. Lipton demonstrates that since even the most solid matter in the universe is actually made up of vortices of energy and that our experiences of our world are governed by the information that our brains receive from our senses, our mental state has an immense influence over our phyisical state. However I did struggle with some of the scientific concepts he presents, especially in the first half of the book, as I am not a trained cell biologist and there was a lot of complex material. I found it well worth persevering as Lipton presents some thought-provoking insights. I also enjoyed the way that he interweaves the story of his own personal journey and the life changes that set him on his new path. It clearly takes a lot of courage for a conventionally-trained scientist to dare to think differently in this day and age,

The Biology of Belief: Bruce Lipton 10th Anniversary Edition, 2015.I should say at the outset that my acquaintance with the book came about via a student who had recommended it to others, though not to me specifically!There is a good selection of reviews for this book without my having to go into much detail myself as to the book’s content. However, I would suggest that the essence of the message here could have been delivered in far fewer words than those that fill its 277 pages.Fortunately there is an index (not all large tomes have an index these days); and following the index a page of biographical detail for the author (no date of birth) and then a useful 12 blank pages for “notes”.At the very front of the book (before all else) there are 4 pages headed “Praise for the Biology of Belief” containing a paragraph or two from mostly “highly qualified” individuals.The book’s subtitle is: “Releasing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles”.I searched the index in vain for the word “miracle” but matter itself gets a good airing, as does “universe”, although the author does not give a definition for his understanding of the word itself. Similarly he appears to have it in for the pharmaceutical industry; thus from page 100: “The trillion-dollar pharmaceutical industry puts its research money into the search for magic bullets in the form of chemicals because pills mean money. If energy healing could be made into tablet form, drug manufacturers would get interested quickly.”Here we have an unfortunate juxtaposition between “pill” and “tablet” inclining one to hope Lipton understands the important distinction between the twoThere is a detailed confessional in the Prologue, pages xiii to xxvii. Apparently Lipton was not happy with the way his life was leading in his early career until “working in an offshore medical college in the Caribbean” he had moment of revelation that released him from “biology’s Central Dogma—the belief that life is controlled by genes—into the minds of medical students.”And so it would appear to this reviewer that Lipton simply swapped one dogma for another having now become fixated on “quantum theory” a study requiring some expertise in mathematics.We are told that the author’s expertise is eagerly sought after worldwide resulting in a rigorous travelling programme of lectures: it is to be hoped he avoids the use of the winged canister. (There are some 100,000 civil aircraft airborne across the planet at any given time, all contributing to atmospheric pollution on a grand scale. No, I do not fly myself: travelling through the mind is the art of staying put.)As an all-round academic I cannot say I am particularly swayed by this rendition of the Lipton philosophy of life.

Wow this makes so much sense to me. After feeling weighed down with family DNA and addition issues. Bruce has taught me I am in control I have a choice. My life is not determined by any of these issues. I am now free of the chains and weights I had before. Thank you Bruce ! I have since gone through mind matrix reimprinting to change those beliefs that were no good to me. A truly fantastic path.

This book changed my live.I feel as if this book gave me access to the secret of the universe. The book has the perfect balance between being very technical and philosophical and easy to understand.Dr Lipton is an amazing reader, his tonality and enthusiasm engages you from the start, you feel as if you are listening to a knowledgeable member of your own family e.g. uncle or grandparent.As a clinical hypnotherapist this books provides me with the framework for my practice. This books provides the link between biology and hypnosis principles. Dr Lipton description of how the mind taps into the field and determines epigenetics gives the medical foundation of the most important hypnotic foundamentals.I wonder why academic institution do not include this knowledge in their biology and/or clinical hypnosis lectures.Thank you Dr Lipton I salute you!

Loved this Book. Lots of great Info. I am an Energy Healer so great to confirm some things I knew. This man knows his stuff much respect to him. Read the whole book in 2 days couldn’t put it down

I ordered this book fromwordery and I just love this shop- the product is as specified, delivered promptly, never any issues and they even include a little cute page marker with each book! I just love Wordery, by far the best book shop on Amazon!Regarding the book itself- speechless. You just have to read it yourself, so enjoy the journey. I can’t even count count the moments in which this book has transformed me little by little with each page, paragraph and line... I hope the same thing happens to all others out there who read it. Thank you !!

After finishing this book I realised that my life and especially the lives of any children I may have, will be better thanks to what I've learned from this truly amazing book. If enough people find out about the biology of belief, we could completely change the world.

Finished reading “The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles” by Bruce H Lipton.A very interesting book whose readability is enhanced not only by clear explanations on biology which go deep enough but not too deep for a non biologist, but also for the personal experience story of the author which is threaded through the book’s chapters.The book really breaks down into two unequal parts: the first and much longer part deals with the progressive explanation of evolution by means of a novel way of understanding cellular mechanisms, which the author claims predominates over survival of the fitted DNA mutations. Having arrived at a new explanation of the evolution of cells and rudimentary clustering of single cells into more complex organisms which share common functions, the author builds on these ideas to present a new basis for understanding the link between thoughts or belief and biochemical mechanisms within the human body.Although I remain sceptical of some of the ideas, I found the book thought provoking and worth following its ideas further.I will do what you shouldn’t do and that is start in the book’s epilogue first to illustrate what the book is aiming at. This is the story of Anita Moorjani. “After four years of battling an agressive cancer, Anita’s body had reached a point of no return. ... While in her coma, Anita left her body and in the process her conscious awareness started to profoundly expand. ... Anita found herself in a non physical reality where she felt profound love, health, and peace, free of her body’s painful physical demise. ... She clearly perceived how her fears and worries about diverging from her cultural programming were responsible for her severe illness. ... When she did return to her body, Anita brought with her all the lessons she had learned in her otherworldly travels. The result was that Anita woke up and shocked the medical community with the immediate recovery of her failed vital bodily functions. Within two weeks of coming out of the coma, a bone marrow biopsy revealed no trace of the cancer that had almost killed her. ... Anita writes ‘I felt a level of victory. I’d so completely overcome my fear of everything - from dying to cancer to chemotherapy - that this proved to me that it had been the fear destroying me.’ “. I’ve abbreviated the story but have presented the main elements of Anita’s story, perhaps the most extreme example to be quoted in the book as other examples are more readily acceptable. But if true, and the sceptical mind can have reason to doubt but yet ascertain the facts whereas the cynical mind should go and do something else.So back to the start of the book which I originally bought for entirely different reasons as I thought it would enlighten me as to why some people readily belief while others do not, and whether this was a function of something in the mind with which we were born. Perhaps a better title would have been “The affect of belief on the biology of the human body”.From the prologue “ ... the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that propel life. ... I was exhilarated by the new realization that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs. ... we are powerful creators of our lives and the world in which we live.”The author starts his journey with the contrast between the inherently competitive “dog ate dog” mechanisms of Darwin’s evolutionary theory based on progressive mutations of DNA and a survival of the fittest strategy to weed out the weaker from the stronger, and essential cooperative nature within a community of 50 trillion single-celled citizens. Almost all of the cells that make up the human body are amoeba-like, individual organisms that have evolved a cooperative strategy for their mutual survival. The author pursued this dichotomy into the structure of the cell itself to propose that it is the cell membrane (which dictates the responses to external stimuli) and not the central nucleus with its DNA which controls the development of a cell.There is considerable detail about the evolution and mechanisms of cells and cellular life so I will just pick a few examples which I found intriguing:In describing how the body generates a measles antibody: “By randomly assembling and recombining these DNA segments, immune cells create a vast array of different genes, each one providing for a uniquely shaped antibody protein. ... By a process which I will call ‘trial and error’ “The cell selects the variant gene that makes the best-fitting antibody protein.” and creates multiple copies which progressively become a better fit and therefore better able to fight the measles virus. The point of the example is to show how reaction to the external environment and by ongoing trial and error of a more immediate type than mutation of DNA is at the heart of the development of cells.The author continues his ideas on cell development to multi cell organisms and specialisations of different cells to more efficiently serve the cell community to the eventual emergence of the human brain and the other major functions within the human body. He delves into the possible explanations provided by quantum entanglement - a way of explaining how individual “particles” can cross apparently impenetrable barriers e.g like cell walls through a quantum effect called quantum tunnelling. This is based on the fundamental wave nature of quantum mechanics which permits the wierd property of allowing a “particle” to be everywhere and nowhere simultaneously.The leap from multi celled organisms which specialise functions and share these functions with other members of the cellular community, to the emergence of the human brain and its possibility of controlling the mechanisms of other cells and in particular other major functions is a little hard to accept at face value just for now! Nevertheless these are powerful ideas which if the consequences embodied in the various cases and examples are anything to go by, compel serious consideration.These is a more than just interesting decision of the development of a human infants brain which basically says that a child’s outlook on life can be affected even in the mother’s womb and certainly within his/her early formative years by the positive or negative attitudes of parents.And so I return to Anita’s miraculous cure with the remark that if true (and I am inclined through no good reason to disbelieve) then the ideas presented in this book are indeed powerful.

Scientific explanation of cells and cellular structures for the layman and fascinating concept which links to the universe. I am more skeptical than most and yet really enjoyed the challenge of the concepts so well explained.

Bruce H. Lipton is an excellent writer and this book offers his passionate belief that is backed with heaps of science.

I really enjoyed reading this book, some bits were a little heavy going so I had to reread sections a few times. However, overall it was very enlightening and I would recommend.

This book was recommended during my NLP course.It explains so much of what is wrong with the way we view ourselves and the striving for answers to our spiritual, mental, emotional and physical health and how we relate to nature and our beautiful planet. It also shows how science and religion can be made one again.It is well worth a read.

Had some interesting information but was really written for other scientists and hard going a lot of the time. From title I expected the book to go into how you could apply his findings to use in practical ways on a daily basis but there was only his scientific findings of the working of the brain and nothing practical for the lay person.

I enjoy Bruce Lipton’s charismatic approach and easily understood and how absorbing his work is. It’s a matter of applying the fundamental principals of his scientific work and his way of blending his science with us ordinary folk who have the power to create anything that is both positive and good for oneself and our brothers and sisters throughout the world and beyond.