Reincarnation Through Heart Transplant
Are they really gone?
Heart transplants have been associated with changes to a persons personality whether its changes in preference, alterations of emotion/temperament, modification of identity or memories from a donors life.
What exactly happens to these individuals?
Is the heart related to memory? Is the heart the only organ that does this?
Should we re-examine the current definition of death?
Here are a few interesting stories from heart transplant recipients:
CASE 1) A Spanish-speaking vegetarian receives the heart of an English speaker and begins using English words that were not part of his vocabulary but were words habitually used by the donor. The recipient also begins craving, and eventually eating, meat and greasy foods, which were mainstays of the donor’s diet.
CASE 2) An eight-year-old girl receives the heart of a ten-year-old girl who was murdered. The recipient begins having nightmares about the murder, remembering details that only the victim could know, such as when and how it happened and the identity of the murderer. Her entire testimony turns out to be true, and the murderer is caught.
CASE 3) A three-year-old Arab child receives the heart of a Jewish child, and upon waking, asks for a Jewish candy the child had never heard of before.
CASE 4) A man in his forties receives a heart from a teenaged boy and suddenly develops an intense love of classical music. The donor had been killed in a drive-by shooting, clutching his violin case as he died.
CASE 5) A five-year-old boy receives the heart of a three-year-old. He talks to him like an imaginary friend, calling him Timmy. After some investigation, the parents discovered the name of the donor was Thomas. But his family called him Timmy.
Multiple forms of Memory
Its common knowledge that memory is derived from the neurons residing in our brain but could there be another form such as "Cellular memory". There are 4 types including:
1) Epigenetic memory
2) DNA memory
3) RNA memory
4) Protein memory
Candace Pert is a scientist who has been studying how chains of amino acids, called neuropeptides, send messages back and forth between the brain and the body. It used to be thought that neuropeptides only existed in the brain, but now they’ve been found throughout the whole body, especially in the heart. And the heart has been found to have its own complex nervous system, which influences the communication between brain and heart. This may help explain why heart transplant patients have these experiences more often than those who have other organ transplants.
Question is why some recipient experience this while others don't.
Many doctors feel that these experiences are just side effects of the immunosuppressive drugs that patients take. In some online blogs I read, patients stated that they don’t tell their doctors about these feelings even when they do have them. I doubt there’s enough known about cellular memory to draw any conclusions at this time. But it does warrant more research and transplant patients do need validation of their feelings.
Do we need to re-examine the current definition of death?
We can see the projection of dead people through their heart holders. From their love of KFC imprinted into their heart holders to their actual memories being seen as they are, vivid and true. Are these people considered dead or do they live on in some spiritual way? I'll leave that to the philosophers.
Thank you for reading.
