| Groundbreaking scientific studies find that genes can | | | | was making the rods speckled and spotted. |
| be turned on and off by environmental signals - | | | | He then set the rods in all the watering troughs, so |
| including thoughts, feelings and emotions - from | | | | they would be directly in front of the flocks when |
| outside the cell. | | | | they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat |
| Dr. Lipton is a pioneer in applying the principles of | | | | and came to drink, they mated in front of the rods. |
| quantum physics to the field of cellular biology. While | | | | And the young that they bore were streaked, |
| traditional cell biology focuses on the physical | | | | speckled or spotted! |
| molecules that control biology, Dr. Lipton's work | | | | Jacob removed the streaked, speckled or spotted |
| focuses on the mechanisms through which energy in | | | | and made separate flocks for himself. He did not put |
| the form of our beliefs can affect our biology, | | | | them with Leban's animals (further reinforcing their |
| including our genetic code. | | | | own genes and not being influenced by others). |
| Dr. Lipton summarizes such leading edge science and | | | | Whenever the stronger females were in heat, he |
| explores its implications for our lives. Dr. Lipton shows | | | | would place the rods in the troughs in front of the |
| that human beings can control gene activity and even | | | | animals so they would mate near them, but if the |
| rewrite their genes through their beliefs. | | | | animals were weak, he would not place them there. |
| There is an incident in the Bible that proves this fact. | | | | So the weak animals went to Leban and the strong |
| There was a man called Jacob. He was conversing | | | | ones to Jacob. |
| with his father in law Leban, about giving him wages | | | | In this way, the man grew exceedingly prosperous |
| so that he can provide for his own house. Leban ask | | | | and came to own large flocks, and maidservants and |
| Jacob what should he give him, and Jacob replied that | | | | menservants, and camels and donkeys. |
| Leban does not need to give him anything and | | | | That incident is recorded in Genesis 30:30 until the |
| instead to do just one thing. | | | | end of the chapter. |
| The one thing Jacob suggest is for Leban to allow | | | | So you see, you can even alter the genetic |
| him to go through all his cattle including the sheep and | | | | characteristics of animals by controlling their |
| goats, and to remove the speckled, spotted and | | | | consciousness with environmental signals. But we're |
| dark colored from the rest. Such shall be the ones | | | | not animals, what makes us human is that we have |
| that belong to Jacob. Of course they only make up a | | | | the ability to control the content of our |
| small percentage of the entire flock of cattle. So | | | | consciousness. We have the power to decide how |
| Jacob appear to be asking for very little. | | | | environmental signals affect us and we have the |
| But what happen next was, he did something that | | | | power to use our imagination in any way we want. |
| was simply ingenious, and it's long before the term | | | | The mind is greater than body. If you experience the |
| genetic engineering had even been heard. He took | | | | body being greater than the mind, it is in your mind |
| with him rods (freshly cut-branches) of green poplar, | | | | that it is happening. All of reality is in your mind. If |
| and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and made white | | | | you understand how your body works, you can use |
| stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the | | | | that understanding to change the way it feels. But |
| white inner wood of the rods. What he was doing | | | | that understanding is in your mind. |