Her case is not unusual. We have known about the placebo effect for years. But what is remarkable is that most of us think of it as something extraordinary when in fact, it is something quite ordinary once we place the biology of belief within dynamics that make us human. Because we have been conditioned by a materialist attitude towards events, we have been programmed culturally to think of such events as “miracles.” The “miraculous” is actually a fact in the quantum dynamics of our subatomic universe. And the subatomic world is every bit a part of the atomic world we live in. “ We can no longer afford to ignore this fact,” writes Bruce Lipton. We can no longer afford to ignore the “miraculous” nature of the body’s innate wisdom.

Since Descartes’ bias towards mind over matter in the 17th century, Western culture has been split between body and mind. The Romantics of the late 18th and 19th century have attempted to repair that split through poetry and art, but it was not until the 20th century that science caught up with the poets. In "The Biology of Belief", Bruce Lipton confirms what Shelley in 1840 wrote in “A Defense of Poetry,”-- “all things exist as they are perceived, at least in relation to the percipient.”