| Quantum physics continues to make believers out of | | | | Myrtle Fillmore, who was exposed to this principle |
| scientists and informs spirituality. | | | | during the final stages of tuberculosis. |
| Most of us grew up believing what scientists believed. | | | | When Fillmore heard the teaching that reshaped her |
| We "knew" that a cell's nucleus contained its DNA, that | | | | understanding of spirituality, she had lived with a |
| DNA contains genetic material, and that the nucleus of | | | | diagnosis of tuberculosis and other illnesses for many |
| a cell therefore functioned as its brain. We believed | | | | years. Now, she faced a very poor prognosis. With a |
| that the genetics coded into these cellular "brains" | | | | husband who was not much healthier than she, and |
| determined our physical characteristics, our health, and | | | | children to provide for, Fillmore was told she had just a |
| even our personalities. | | | | number of months to live. |
| Former medical school professor and Stanford biology | | | | When she heard a lecture by a spiritual teacher, |
| researcher Bruce Lipton used to believe that, too. | | | | Fillmore had an epiphany. She realized that she was a |
| Then, his study and research showed him that these | | | | child of God, and as a child of God, there was no |
| things just were not true. You can take the nucleus out | | | | reason to "inherit" tuberculosis or any other illness, as |
| of a cell, he found, and it will go on functioning for | | | | she'd been taught. From that evening on, she began to |
| months. So the nucleus cannot be the cell's brain. | | | | praise her body's essential health, wholeness, and |
| What is the cell's "brain," it turns out, is the | | | | power to heal. She spent time every day focusing on |
| microscopically thin membrane that surrounds and | | | | the realization that she was a child of health and |
| encloses the cell. And that membrane takes its | | | | wholeness, not illness. In other words, she re-trained her |
| instructions not from the DNA at the nucleus, but from | | | | cells to be healthy. |
| environmental factors surrounding the cell, including | | | | It took about two years before Myrtle Fillmore saw the |
| thoughts and perceptions. Our beliefs influence the | | | | physical evidence of a complete healing in her body, |
| functioning of our cells, Lipton learned, and actually alter | | | | but she did not let that trouble her. After all, she'd |
| genetic codes. As a result of his research, Lipton has | | | | already outlived her death sentence. She felt that, after |
| become a student of quantum physics and spirituality. | | | | so many years of being conditioned for illness, it was |
| Like other cellular biologists, he has found that quantum | | | | natural that the cells of her body took a while to learn |
| physics helps explain the mechanism of communication | | | | what she now taught them. Myrtle Fillmore outlived her |
| between mind and body. | | | | prognosis by more than 45 years, and she helped |
| In early 20th century America, no one had heard of | | | | countless others access their own power to heal by |
| quantum physics, but a spiritual movement based on | | | | teaching their bodies to be healthy. She never heard of |
| the principle that our thoughts create our lives was | | | | quantum physics, but like many in the field of spirituality, |
| already being revived from the midst of mainstream | | | | she knew how to put it to good use in her life. |
| Christianity. One of its pioneers was a woman named | | | | |