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Do Our Organs Have Memories?
Transplant patients sometimes take on part of their donors’ personalities.
Glenda lost her husband, David, in a car crash. She made his organs available for transplant. A few years later, as part of a study by neuropsychologist Paul Pearsall, she met the young Spanish-speaking man who had received her late husband’s heart. Filled with emotion, Glenda asked if she could lay her hand on his chest. “I love you, David,” she said. “Everything’s copa cetic.”
The young man’s mother, also present, was startled. “My son uses that word now,” she said. “He never said it before his heart transplant. I don’t know that word; it doesn’t exist in Spanish. But it was the first thing he said after the operation.”
Her son appeared to have changed in other ways too. Before, he had been a health-conscious vegetarian; now he craved meat and greasy food. He had loved heavy metal music; now he played nothing but fifties rock ’n’ roll. Glenda’s husband had been an ardent meat-lover and played in a rock ’n’ roll band. Does the heart have a memory? Is part of an organ donor’s personality also transferred to the recipient in a transplant? Yes, contends Pearsall in his book The Heart’s Code, which provides other remarkable examples of transplanted hearts with memories.
An 8-year-old girl received the heart of a 10-year-old girl who had been murdered. The recipient ended up at a psychiatrist’s office, plagued by nightmares about her donor’s murderer. She said she knew who the man was. After a few sessions, the psychiatrist decided to notify the police. Following the girl’s instructions, they tracked down the murderer. The man was convicted on evidence she had provided the first clues about: the time, the weapon, the place, the clothes he wore, what his victim told him. Everything the girl said turned out to be true.
Pearsall’s book is based on 73 heart-transplant cases in which parts of the donors’ personalities appear to have been transferred to the recipients. Pearsall argues that the brain is not the only centre of human intelligence. The heart, he says, carries equal importance. He posits that the body is made up of cells that transmit “information.” Cells communicate this information to each other electromagnetically. Thus a transplanted organ can continue to broadcast old information, something like amputees’ experience of pain in lost limbs. Phenomena like these suggest cells have memories.
Critics deny the existence of proof that memories can be transplanted along with organs, and fear such assertions will cause donor numbers to fall. Some non-believers attribute personality changes in transplant recipients to the heavy drugs they must take to prevent organ rejection.
But what should we make of the documented story of an 8-year-old Jewish boy who died in a car wreck? His death was the salvation of a 3-year-old Arab girl with a dangerous heart condition. As soon as the girl woke up from the anaesthesia after surgery, she asked by name for a type of Jewish candy she could not have known existed.
Pearsall’s book raises fascinating questions that shake the foundations of science.
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/do-our-organs-have-memories.html
This is really not very surprising to me. About 2 years ago I was in training to get an EMT-Basic rating, and learned about the heart’s electrical system. It has it’s own, completely seperate from the brain and the rest of the body, controlled in a pocket of the heart called the sinusoidal node. If the brain, another electrical system, can store information, why not this one?
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I teach and practice Quantum Touch and am
an intutive. With the Quantum Touch we can
release these and other memories that hold you in place. Many amazing sessions.
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Sherri Carlson Reply:
February 26th, 2010 at 11:27 pm
I have also experienced this many times during Reiki healing sessions. I’ve found that different parts of the body hold unique cellular memories from this and past lives. The emotions were not dealt with in the past, thus the energy became “stuck” and the body held them in the form of physical pain and ailments. The Reiki helps to gently lift the associated energy up and out.
When the emotions are acknowledged, honored and worked through instead of “stuffed,” the physical wounds begin to heal. Sometimes simply allowing the emotions to release is enough; one does not always need to relive all the past gory details.
Next time there is a pain or ailment in your body, quiet the mind, say “Hello” and ask what its message is for you.
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I have no problems whatsoever believing that organs such as the heart can retain and transmit memory. In fact I have for years thought transplants to be an odd phenomenon, especially such crucial organs as the heart. I was born with my heart and I am inclined to die with it.
Too many people believe their selves to be their brain. This is a false belief perpetuated by the ego. The reality is there is a temporal self made up of the material body and the ego which is associated with the mind and its bodily history.
The other part of ones self is an eternal self which is comprised of the soul which also can be associated with its karmic history. This is a part of the higher self and never dies.
Both parts are self, one temporal the other eternal. In short the heart with its memories is part of ones self. It’s good not to be overly attached to it as it is a part of the temporal self. But I would not readily let it die nor think allowing my own death to be that terrible of a thing as death is just a transition to something else.
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It’s been known for at least a decade that every cell in our bodies has receptors for “emotion” chemicals. It’s not realistic to think that transplanted organs don’t carry the same emotional information. Of course organs–not just hearts but all organs–carry information from the donor to the recipient.
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As a hynotherapist we have known for a long time that in addition to organs each cell in the body is a hologram of the persons complete memory system. This includes past lives as well as the current lives. Thanks to the advent of quantum physics we can now understand how and why this is possible.
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In the mid-90’s Vladimir Poponin quantitatively demonstrated that DNA propagates a non-local field effect that organizes physical matter at a distance of at least one meter. Brian Weiss has written extensively about the use of past life regression as a means for healing chronic, otherwise incurable physical ailments. Louise Hay has for 40 years written about the connections that operate between emotional states and their effects on various organs and tissues in the body. Candace Pert has provided experimentally verified evidence that our emotions and the functioning of our organs and tissues are inextricably linked with legacy memory in the body. How this works and why we haven’t caught on to it yet in the practice of allopathic medicine is the subject that needs to be addressed now. We’re still operating int he dark ages when it comes to our understanding of health and well being.
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Stephen Buhner has long written about the “heart as an organ of perception” and, as a health care provider for over thirty years I have had many amazing “heart centered” experiences. Sayings like, “she’s a good hearted person”, “he has the heart of a lion”, and she “almost died from a broken heart” all exist for good reason.
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I[m a believer, but also believe in cell memory as we carry the cell memories of our ancestors, as well. This has been proven to me both personally and spiritually.
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I believe that whether it is in the cells themselves of an organ transplanted into someone who is saved by it after another persons donation. Or also it might be within the energy field which can travel with a soul that is then born anew into a baby, an incarnation has memory.
I believe that we can train to bring health to failing organs through practices that enable us to restore health with our intention and what some call, “mind-eye” power. There are many ways this can be done. It is now known that dna has the source of language built into it and loves to “hear” us think healthy thoughts,and therefore improve it’s tissue. It is equally affected negatively by negative thoughts.
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Yes, there are energetic information fields surrounding everything – from cells, to molecules, from organs to organisms. These hold information and programming, memories and emotions. When practicing energy healing like Reiki and Quantum Touch I find people often have memories and emotions released. In doing past-life regression therapy I find that people have physical shifts in their body after reprocessing past experiences. Energy is the medium of everything, from consciousness to physical form. Physical form is just dense vibrational energy arising from the patterns in deeper layers of the energy system.
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The Holy Bible tells us that the heart can think. The heart contains cells that make and release a large number of neurotransmitters which researchers use to think were made only by the brain. The heart has its own system which communicates with the head through the nerves and with hormones. Read Everyday Miracles by God’s Design by Dr. David Jernigan.
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