People who have had heart transplants often get new memories that only the donor had before transplant. There are hundreds of recorded examples.
An eight-year-old girl remembers in detail the rape and murder of the ten-year old donor she never knew. Her nightmares are traumatic. Her parents seek psychiatric help.
The specificity of girl’s recall disturbs the psychiatrist.
The psychologist alerts the police. The eight-year-old’s memories give the police enough evidence to find, charge, and convict the murderer for rape and first-degree murder.
That’s a dramatic example.
Less dramatic, but more frequent, are accounts of personality shifts, strange new tastes, and talents that seem to accompany heart transplants. Vegans suddenly have a craving for red-meat and visa-versa. People with no interest in music start writing songs. Those previously bored by sports become sports-fans.
Mystified recipients seek-out the families of their donors for clues to what’s going on with them.
Doctors, scientists, and psychologists offer vague explications. None convincing.
Does the heart hold secrets the mind cannot fathom?
For most of human history that would have been
a silly question. “Yes, Grasshopper, you must learn to see what’s in front of you. Only the Mandarins are too foolish to see what’s in front of them”.
Specialized training sometimes creates a kind
of tunnel vision. What you’ve been trained to see inhibits you from seeing all that you could.
That may be changing. A few researchers have been looking into the possibility that the brain may not be doing all the thinking.
The heart has an independent nervous system.
So too has the gut. Both heart and gut are in ongoing communication with the brain.
Thinking may be going-on all over the body.
The human body talks to itself through neurons.
The neurons communicate through electrical or chemical neurotransmitters. There are about eighty-six billion neurons in the human nervous system. The brain has twelve-billion, the heart forty-thousand, the gut has five-hundred million. The remaining Four-hundred-twenty-six billion are spread throughout the body.
That’s a lot of cross-talk from head to toe.
The cross-talk is further complicated by the gut’s production of serotonin. Serotonin influences the digestive process.
More to the point - serotonin also influences mood swings.
All that biological connectivity suggests that, “My heart says yes, but my gut says no”, may be more literal than previously supposed.
Additional complication comes from experimental evidence that indicates cells can store memory and remain in touch with the body even after being disconnected from the body.
In 1993, the US Army Intelligence Command, INSCOM, conducted an odd research project with unexpected results. White blood cells scraped from the cheek cells of a volunteer were centrifuged and placed
in a test tube.
A probe connected to a polygraph was placed in the tube. (polygraphs don’t detect lies, they detect emotion).
The volunteer was seated one room away and shown excessively violent scenes on TV. The polygraph registered extreme agitation in the cells down the hall.
Two days later the experiment was repeated, with fifty miles separating donor from donated cells. The result was the same.
Cells that are energetically and nonlocally in touch with their remembered donor sounds like science-fiction, but it wasn’t.
US Army scientists aren’t much given
to science-fiction.
The unexpected connection clearly had nothing to do with neurons.
Scientists working with quantum physics wouldn’t think it unexpected.
In the quantum world everything is connected. Time/Space is irrelevant. Subatomic reality is seamless. Quarks, bosons, and gluons vibrate in constant communion with all other quarks, bosons, and gluons - whether next door or a universe apart. The scientific phrase for this ongoing communication is, Quantum Entanglement.
In Quantum-World, what we think of as paranormal is normal. Moreover, sensate reality is illusionary. Our everyday sense of normality is built upon the deeper reality of quantum entanglement; a cosmic tapestry woven with all things intersecting all other things.
Quantum entanglement gives reasonably to formerly unreasonable phenomena like telepathy, prophetic visions, hunches, women’s intuition, and the curious way your dog always knows when you’re coming home - even when
you don’t.
Mystics, dogs, and children have always known this. They just didn’t have the science of quantum physics
to explain it.
Everybody suspects it. That’s why we say things like, “I knew in my gut it was wrong”. “I felt it in my bones”, or, “My heart has a mind of its own”, and so on. Maybe we think too much and feel too little.
Maybe I have that all wrong, or maybe I have
it right.
Just a gut feeling.