I’m delighted to hand over the authorship of Supernatural to Deborah Woehr who will start blogging here shortly.

Deborah has had a varied career in writing for a number of websites, including her own Writers’ Buzz. She is a co-founder of our writing community, Writers’ Blog Alliance, and has her own editing and design business.

I’m pleased to welcome Deborah into the Syntagma Media team.

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.

For anyone who likes their supernatural sprinkled with classical spirituality, there’s a treat over at Spiritual Nirvana.

It’s Ramana Maharshi week. To read the first three articles, click here:

* Ramana the Nirvanean
* Ramana and Arunachala Hill
* Ramana Maharshi on Mind

Also worth checking out:

* Was Socrates a Nirvanean?

Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki

Search on “supernatural” right now and you’ll come up with the American TV show of that name. In fact this site’s posts on the subject come high on the search page.

So, what’s this TV series all about? Here’s the blurb:

“Supernatural stars Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki as Dean and Sam Winchester, two brothers who travel the country looking for their missing father and battling evil spirits along the way.

“Sam Winchester is a college student bound for law school, determined to escape his family’s past — unlike his older brother, Dean. Ever since they were little their father has been consumed with an obsession to find the evil forces that murdered his beloved wife, and recruited his two young sons to help them. They have grown up as hunters of the supernatural. Sam escaped this way of life after high school, and now has a happy life with his girlfriend, Jessica, and a promising future career. Dean, however, stayed behind with his father to join him in his ‘hunting’.

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