@Justin,
Bruce Lipton is great, I think his discoveries will revolutionize science. Now there's scientific evidence for what the spiritual guide Seth claimed for over 30 years ago, through the medium Jane Roberts:
"Thoughts and beliefs do indeed bring about physical alterations. They can even - and often do - change genetic messages.
There are diseases that people believe are inherited, carried from one generation to another by faulty genetic communication. Obviously, many people with, for example, a genetic heritage of arthritis do not come down with the disease themselves, while others indeed are afflicted. The difference is one of belief.
The people who have accepted the suggestion uncritically that they will inherit such a malady do then seem to inherit it: they experience the symptoms. Actually, the belief itself may have changed a healthy genetic message into an unhealthy one. Ideally, a change of belief would remedy the situation.
People are not simply swung willy-nilly by one negative suggestion or another, however. Each person has an entire body of beliefs and suggestions - and these are quite literally reflected in the physical body itself."
- Jane Roberts "The Way Towards Health"
"The body is equipped to perform far better, in a variety of ways, than you give it credit for however - but the fact remains that the genetic structure focuses volition. The genetic apparatus and the chromosomal messages actually contain far more information than is ever used. That genetic information can, for example, be put together in an infinite number of ways. The species care for itself in the event of any possible circumstance, so that the genetic messages also carries an endless number of triggers that will change genetic combinations if necessary.
Beyond that however, genetic messages are coded in such a way that there is a constant give-and-take between those messages and the present experience of any given individual. That is, no genetic event is inevitable.
Now besides this physical genetic structure, there is an inner bank of psychic information that in your terms would contain the "past" history - the reincarnational history - of the individual. This provides an overall reservoir of psychic characteristics, leanings, abilities, knowledge, that is as much a part of the individual's heritage as the genetic structure is a part of the physical heritage.
A person of great intelligence may be born from a family of idiots, for example, because of that reincarnational structure. Musical ability may therefore appear complete with great technical facility, regardless of family background, genetically speaking, and again, the reincarnational bank of characteristics account for such events. That inner reincarnational psychic structure is also responsible for triggering certain genetic messages while ignoring others, or for triggering certain combinations of genetic messages."
- Jane Roberts "Dreams, 'Evolution', and Value Fulfillment - Vol.1"
"Your overreliance upon physical norms, and your distorted concepts concerning survival of the fittest, help exaggerate the existence of any genetic defects, of course. Many religious dogmas consider such conditions, again, the results of a god's punishment. The survival of the species is far more dependent upon your subjective activities than your physical ones - for it is your subjective behaviour that is responsible for your physical acts.
Science of course looks at it the other way around, as if your physical acts are the result of a robot's mechanical, formalized behaviour - a robot miraculously programmed by the blind elements of an accidental universe formed by chance. The robot is programmed only to survive at anyone's or anything's expense. It has no real consciousness of its own. It thoughts are merely mental mirages, so if one of its parts is defective then obviously it is in deep trouble.
But man is no robot, and each so-called genetic defect has an internal part to play in the entire picture of genetic reality. The principle of uncertainty must operate genetically, or you would have been locked into overspecializations as a species.
There are states of consciousness, one within the other, and yet each connected, of course, so that genetic systems are really systems of consciousness. They are intertwined with reincarnational systems of consciousness. These are further entwined with the consciousness that you recognize. The present is the point of power. Given the genetic makeup that you now have, your conscious intents and purposes act as the triggers that activate whatever genetic or reincarnational aspects that you need."
- Jane Roberts "Dreams, 'Evolution', and Value Fulfillment - Vol.2"
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