Who is Bruce Lipton?

[Chris Haynes]

The other day I got an email from a "Renee Lopez" with the title "Re: The Biology of Belief - Bruce Lipton, cellular biologist".

The "Re" was obviously a way to make me thinking it was someone who I was having a conversation with. Out of morbid curiousity I clicked on it... and had a "read receipt request". No worry, I always click "no" (and I had turned off my wireless to save battery power). It turns out to be Spam, one that wants to verify my email address!

Anyway here is the body:

Many of you may remember me telling you about the intensive I attend last spring with Dr. Bruce Lipton. The following is a forward I received regarding his current work. Something you may want to look into yourself...
Blessings,
Renee


We are happy to announce the arrival of Bruce Lipton’s Book The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles.

Available at: Amazon.com; and within 6 weeks available at BarnesandNoble.com

Also available at brucelipton.com and any of his lectures.

A groundbreaking work in the field of New Biology. Author Dr. Bruce Lipton is a former medical school professor (University of Wisconsin) and research scientist (Stanford University School of Medicine).

His experiments, examining in great detail the molecular mechanisms by which cells process information, have revealed that genes do not in fact control our behavior, instead, genes are turned on and off by influences outside the cell. These influences include our perceptions and beliefs. He shows that our beliefs, true or false, positive or negative, affect genetic activity and actually alter our genetic code. Dr. Lipton's profoundly hopeful work, being hailed as one of the major breakthroughs in the New Sciences, shows how we can retrain our consciousness to create healthy beliefs, and by doing so create a profoundly positive effect on our bodies and our lives.

I am writing to you now because he needs all the support we can give him to bring national attention to his ground-breaking work in the New Sciences and the next 5 months are the most critical. This book will be for the long term, but this mainstream book selling game is short-term and I’d like for us to support him the best we can so he can get all the recognition he deeply deserves from media contacts.

I highly recommend you buy this book! Bruce Lipton is awesome; he has a gift for bringing knowledge and wisdom to our earth, what more can I say.

Bruce will be on coast-to-coast radio this evening from 11pm-2am pacific time.

For the Seattle area tune to 570am.

Bruce will be in Seattle for an ‘Intensive’ with Robert Williams June 9-12 and will have autographed copies there. Check out brucelipton.com for more info.

Mountain of Love Productions/Elite Books are co-publishers of The Biology of Belief.

Please feel free to copy and paste any of this email if you would like and share with others who you think may be interested in Bruce Lipton’s book. Thank you, thank you!

Many blessings to you all,

Dhebi

Dhebi DeWitz-Jensen

Empowered Transformations, Inc.

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Looks like loony tunes to me.

[Goshawk]

He's a biologist who had some kind of mystical revelation while contemplating cell membranes, and who now believes in God because "cells are like little computer chips".

http://www.theevidence.org/media/e110.pdf

I don't get it either. He's apparently some kind of biology mystic or guru.
http://www.lauralee.com/lipton.htm

Scientist, author, university professor and lecturer, Bruce Lipton, compares the evolution of the cell to that of humankind; clearly demonstrates that much of our technology is in direct imitation of Nature’s designs for cell structures. The myths of genes vs. the magic of membranes. Case made that it is not our genes, but our environment, and our perception of the environment, that ultimately regulates our health and behavior. Based upon his research at Stanford University, Dr. Lipton's most recent research publications on the regulation of cell behavior have yielded insight into the molecular basis of consciousness and the future of human evolution. What is most exciting is that there are patterns in evolution, and the development of community is part of one of these patterns. Bruce is on the cutting edge of the New Biology, which, like the New Physics, is changing the way we see things. In this we find that much of Neo-Darwinian biology is gravely in error and that the bleak picture it paints of our future is, at most, a self-fulfilling prophecy. The vision of the New Biology is far more hopeful.

Um...okayyyyy...

Googling "new biology" doesn't bring up anything obvious.

[shrug]

[SRW]

This guy sound like Dr Timothy Leary with out the acid. Or could it be that he did find some ancient "healing mushrooms" that gave him all this wonderful insight.

[Chris Haynes]

I did check his website... and from what I saw, it is truly something that is nullifying... In big font was the name "Gary Null".

He has either been consuming some mushrooms he should not have, or has decided that spouting nonsense preceeded by the word "New" is more profitable than academia.

[Greencow_555]

Actually, if anyone gets the chance to see 'the new biology' its a great watch (emule has it I believe). It is awfully mystical toward the end, but due to its strong scientific content it is a great watch for those of us who can filter the wheat from the chaff.

[flume]

Someone on a woo website recommended this book to me, and I checked it out from the library and read it last month.
And because my %$*#@ memory is going, I'll have to think for a bit about what he said.

let's see - he decided that the 'brain' of the cell was not really the nucleus but the cell membrane, which he called the mem-brane (brain, get it?)
And he had a great revelation while he was teaching at a Caribbean med school, which was....
can't remember yet. Whatever it was, I thought it was unconvincing.

[Chris Haynes]

Actually, if anyone gets the chance to see 'the new biology' its a great watch (emule has it I believe). It is awfully mystical toward the end, but due to its strong scientific content it is a great watch for those of us who can filter the wheat from the chaff.

So what mushrooms were you consuming to bring up this year and half old thread?

Do you have a book reference to this "new biology"? (I know you cannot post links, but you can list a title and author).

[fuelair]

Possibly he has just been around too many fermenting tea leaves.

[NobbyNobbs]

I stopped reading at "Blessings, Renee".

[Apathia]

Typical New Age Carpetbagging!

Your can be filthy rich and have everything you want. By the power of your mind, you can change your genetic structure and attract men and wealth!
Pay me big bucks for my program and I will show you how.

I hate this stuff!

[Dan Edmunds]

Actually, if anyone gets the chance to see 'the new biology' its a great watch (emule has it I believe). It is awfully mystical toward the end, but due to its strong scientific content it is a great watch for those of us who can filter the wheat from the chaff.

I don't know about whether this guy thinks he is a guru, or care particularily about his religious beliefs but I did watch his video presentation and found it intriguing.
Not being a cellular biologist, I would appreciate your help in understanding which bits of the science you thought were incorrect. I get that within a cell there is a membrane, cytoplasm and nucleus with DNA in it. From what I understood of the video, the main difference to the scientifically accepted view, is that the signals for which proteins, that are made within the cell, come from the membrane rather than the DNA. Is it the case that no proteins are triggered by signals external to the cell?
Correct me if I am wrong but it didn't seem like he was saying that you could change the colour of eyes, rather that the health of the cells in your eyes could be influenced by your belief system.
I have no idea how you go about proving this but then again I have no idea how you prove that someone will definately get cancer as a result of their genes.

[Chris Haynes]

Dan, Greencow_555 posted once about a year ago. And even then he dragged up a very old thread.

Do you honestly think he is going to answer you? Because he never came back to answer mine.

Welcome to the forum.

If you want a serious answer to your questions I would suggest you go to the Science/Medicine/Math section and post it there.

As far as your question about cancer and genes... One thing I learned by attending all but one of these lectures (http://www.gs.washington.edu/wednesdays/index.htm) is that no one has said that there is a definite chance of getting cancer from if you have certain genes. There are, however, certain genes that raise the risk of someone getting certain cancers. And even in the case of the two breast cancer genes, they only are implicated in about 2% of all breast cancers.

[Dan Edmunds]

Thanks for the response, I'll give that a try.

[Praktik]

Argh.

Bruce Lipton: These Four Beliefs Defy Modern Science

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Bruce Lipton - you defy my ability to keep my lunch down.