Do Transplant Patients Absorb Personality of the Dead?
A psychology professor is claiming that many transplant patients “inherit” personality traits from tissue donors. Gary Schwartz of the University of Arizona, says that he has detailed evidence from 70 cases where this is said to have occurred.
His claim is that in more than ten percent of major transplant cases involving the heart, lung, kidney or liver, the patient will show marked signs of this phenomenon. Patients may adopt the donor’s taste in food, develop the same talents, and even take up identical pastimes and interests.
In one case a seven-year-old girl had dreams about being killed after receiving the heart of a girl who had been murdered.
In another, a calm, health-conscious woman began craving fast food and became aggressive, mimicking the tastes of a biker whose heart she had been given.
The many instances of this syndrome seem to reflect the notion that body tissue retains its own memories of events in the life of a person, especially the major organs.
Ancient beliefs hold that eating the organs of a dead warrior will confer the same qualities on the recipient. Once again, folk tales are shown to have a basis in reality, it seems.
This makes sense with regards to my beliefs. The body is created and supported by our souls/psychic bodies. Even if you remove part of the body, they still must be supported. When you put it into someone else then it is your energy that is still flowing into the organ. It is only logical that the person could then feel effects of your energy.
Terry
By Terry on March 13th, 2006 at 6:12 pm
I agree, Terry. It seems only natural .. as well as supernatural.
By John on March 13th, 2006 at 6:14 pm
This is reeeeally strange and creepy…
But if this has such a large effect on the mind, (when people start having
the same cravings/mannerisms of the donor… Will it then mean that this will arguably have an effect on the soul/psyche as well ? Which means that
these people will live on, even in the “spirit-state-after death” with character traits of the donor… ?
By Evangeline on March 26th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
I think this is another example of recorded memories, Evangeline, a bit like ghosts, which affect the minds of the receiver of the organ. The spirit is not affected because it’s separate from the local memory.
By John on March 26th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Interesting - Discovery Health did a special on this about a year or two ago. I taped it and have it around somewhere. It was called, “Transplant Memories.” It was fascinating. One woman was featured - it profoundly impacted her life. It does prove one thing - the body and mind are connected in ways we are only beginning to understand.
By Adelle Tilton on April 25th, 2006 at 4:59 am
That’s absolutely true, Adelle, and it’s one of the fields I’m particularly interested in.
By John on April 25th, 2006 at 9:55 am