| 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, | | | | understanding of spirituality, she had lived with a |
| that DNA contains genetic material, and that the | | | | diagnosis of tuberculosis and other illnesses for many |
| nucleus of a cell therefore functioned as its brain. We | | | | years. Now, she faced a very poor prognosis. With a |
| believed that the genetics coded into these cellular | | | | husband who was not much healthier than she, and |
| "brains" determined our physical characteristics, our | | | | children to provide for, Fillmore was told she had just |
| health, and even our personalities. | | | | a 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 | | | | reason to "inherit" tuberculosis or any other illness, as |
| out of a cell, he found, and it will go on functioning | | | | she'd been taught. From that evening on, she began |
| for months. So the nucleus cannot be the cell's brain. | | | | to 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 |
| instructions not from the DNA at the nucleus, but | | | | her cells to be healthy. |
| from environmental factors surrounding the cell, | | | | It took about two years before Myrtle Fillmore saw |
| including thoughts and perceptions. Our beliefs | | | | the physical evidence of a complete healing in her |
| influence the functioning of our cells, Lipton learned, | | | | body, but she did not let that trouble her. After all, |
| and actually alter genetic codes. As a result of his | | | | she'd already outlived her death sentence. She felt |
| research, Lipton has become a student of quantum | | | | that, after so many years of being conditioned for |
| physics and spirituality. Like other cellular biologists, he | | | | illness, it was natural that the cells of her body took |
| has found that quantum physics helps explain the | | | | a while to learn what she now taught them. Myrtle |
| mechanism of communication between mind and | | | | Fillmore outlived her prognosis by more than 45 |
| body. | | | | years, and she helped countless others access their |
| In early 20th century America, no one had heard of | | | | own power to heal by teaching their bodies to be |
| quantum physics, but a spiritual movement based on | | | | healthy. She never heard of quantum physics, but like |
| the principle that our thoughts create our lives was | | | | many in the field of spirituality, she knew how to put |
| already being revived from the midst of mainstream | | | | it to good use in her life. |
| Christianity. One of its pioneers was a woman named | | | | |