Transplanted Organs Impart Memories Onto Recipients… What!?

Being a donor is a great way to help out a person in the event of a death. But, can you imagine taking on memories of the donor?!

A study has shown that donor recipients can take on characteristics or personality traits from the donor, a phenomenon that researchers are having a difficult time explaining. Yeah, sounds like something out of a movie.

Paul Pearsall, a neuropsychologist, wrote about this interesting topic in his book, The Heart’s Code: Tapping the Wisdom and Power of Our Heart Energy. He writes that the physical heart contains within it memories belonging to its person. Part of Pearsall’s research included tracking real life cases of heart transplant recipients who mysteriously inherited some of their donors’ traits.

In one case, an 8-year-old girl who had received a heart transplant from a 10-year-old girl that had been murdered, began to have nightmares about the donor’s murderer. After several consultations with a psychiatrist, it was decided that the police should be notified. The 8-year-old recipient was able to identify key clues about the murder, including who the murderer was, when and how it happened, and even the words spoken by the murderer to the victim. Amazingly, the entire testimony turned out to be true and the murderer was convicted for his crime.

Pearsall’s 73 different case studies point to the fact that both the brain and the heart hold important information about a person. He states that cell communication that occurs throughout the body on a continual basis can continue to occur after an organ has been removed from one person and transplanted into another. Information from the donor seems to install into the recipient’s memory.

Critics argue that such a phenomenon isn’t possible, but the proof is in the pudding. In another case, a 3-year-old Arab girl received a heart transplant from an 8-year-old Jewish boy who died in a car accident. After her surgery, the girl asked for a type of Jewish candy that, prior to the surgery, she didn’t even know existed.

Truth can be stranger than fiction! Here’s the original article.

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