When the suspect was brought in, under questioning, he quickly broke down admitting that he had indeed killed the girl.Īnd here is the key. Shortly after, the authorities found a man that matched the description. The question is, whose memory was this little girl having night after night? A forensic artist was called and the little girl began recounting her dream, of how, alone, running through the woods, she was assaulted by a man who at the moment of killing her, whispered some words to her.īased on the girl’s details, the forensic artist drew a sketch that was circulated to the authorities. The psychiatrist recognized immediately that this wasn’t a typical dream and it had the characteristics of a memory. The transplant was successful, but almost immediately the little girl began having a reoccurring dream frequently enough that her doctor recognized it was out of his realm of expertise and recommended that she see a psychiatrist. The one story that I was most intrigued by was about an 8-year-old girl from a small town in the Midwest who received the heart of a 10-year-old girl. All you need to do is google them and you can read for yourself. The stories are endless and they are all amazing. This would imply that the heart is so much more than what science had previously alleged.
Bunzel from the University of Vienna have collected many accounts of transplant recipients and studied this phenomenon of ‘ cellular memory transfer’ in great detail and found that out of all organ recipients, it was the heart transplant ones who were more likely to report a transfer of memory and personality from their donors. At first, doctors dismissed the allegations as purely coincidental, but as organ transplant receivers from all over the world continue to claim that they seemed to have inherited the memory, experiences and emotions of their deceased donors, the scientific community began to reconsider.Ĭould it be that our indigenous and spiritual cultures were right about the heart being the container of our soul? Is it possible that the heart transplanted into someone else carries with it the memories of the donor? That’s the question that baffles the scientific community. Recipients reported changes in food preferences, tastes, smells, fears, emotions, allergies, handwriting, and even memories in their dreams of previous lives. I read stories of heart transplant recipients that reported complete personality changes after receiving a heart. It seemed creepy in a Frankenstein sort of way and yet wonderful at the same time. That night, I kept thinking about the organ donation and wondered what it would be like to have parts of one person transferred to someone else. I considered it for a moment, and thought, “I can give the gift of life through my death” I agreed to donate them and felt good about my decision.
Up to that point, I had never thought of donating my organs. When I was submitting the form, the clerk checked it over to make sure no information was missing and asked me if I wanted to donate my organs in the event I die.
Consequently, I’ve spent the latter part of my life unaware and indifferent to my heart.Īll this changed one morning when I renewed my driver’s license. Later in school, I was taught the science of the heart - the heart is a pumping machine and nothing else. My dad would always say, “Healthy heart, healthy life,” and that is pretty much where my physiological understanding of the heart ended. Has anyone ever told you, “Listen to your heart? It always knows!”Īll these years, I have used this phrase myself loosely and lightly, never realizing, how truly significant and real this phrase actually is.Īs a little girl, my dad, who was a cardiologist, used to tell me about the intricacies of the heart.
“Your true power comes from your ability to listen to your heart.”