Biology on an evolutionary turning point

Recent advances in cellular science are heralding an important evolutionary turning point. For almost fifty years we have held the illusion that our health and fate were preprogrammed in our genes, a concept referred to as genetic determinacy. Though mass consciousness is currently imbued with the belief that the character of one’s life is genetically predetermined, a radically new understanding is unfolding at the leading edge of science. Cellular biologists now recognize that the environment, the external universe and our internal physiology, and more importantly, our perception of the environment, directly control the activity of our genes.

In 1982, Dr. Bruce Lipton, an internationally recognized authority in bridging science and spirit, began examining the principles of quantum physics and how they might be integrated into his understanding of the cell’s information processing systems. His research at Stanford University’s School of Medicine, between 1987 and 1992, revealed that the environment, operating though the membrane, controlled the behavior and physiology of the cell, turning genes on and off. His discoveries, which ran counter to the established scientific view that life is controlled by the genes, presaged one of today’s most important fields of study, the science of epigenetics. Unfortunately, this perspective on Biology is getting scant media coverage despite its potencial benefits.

On the other hand, completed in 2003, The Human Genome Project , spanning 13 years, consuming several billion dollars of public money is considered by many in the science community to be the largest of white elephants. Now transfered to the private industry, it still continues to get a disproportional amount of attention from the mass media, who insist on celebrating its accumulation of enormous amounts of data, hopefully with the promise that one day we will be able use this to treat diseases by rewriting the genetic code. Assuming that is, that the human body is like a computer or machine that responds to a mechanical program.

We have an obvious controversy here and only practical results in terms of general health improvement will prove who is right and who is wrong in this story. What is clear, according to the increasing overload of most countries public health systems, is that the western medicine is missing something.

Have a look to this awesome lecture and take your own conclusions. There´s a second part also available in google video. Enjoy!