Did you know about this? The Globe and Mail's article on children recalling past lives includes a reference to heart transplant recipients taking on characteristics of the transplanted heart donor.
Here's a scientific study that reports on this:
"Many different types of personality changes have been described following organ transplantation. These include changes in preferences for food, music, art, sex, recreation, and career, the experience of new memories], feelings of euphoria, enhanced social and sexual adaptation, improved cognitive abilities, and spiritual or religious episodes. These changes were generally described as neutral or positive. However, troubling changes have also been reported. As many as 30–50% percent of heart transplant recipients experience emotional or affective issues , while others experience delirium, depression, anxiety, psychosis, and sexual dysfunction."
"A report in the lay literature describes the case of Claire Sylvia who reported changes in her personality, preferences, and behaviors following a heart and lung transplant at Yale-New Haven hospital in 1988. Following surgery, Sylvia developed a new taste for green peppers and chicken nuggets, foods she previously disliked. As soon as she was released from the hospital, she promptly headed to a Kentucky Fried Chicken to order chicken nuggets. She later met her donor’s family and inquired about his affinity for green peppers. Their response was, “Are you kidding? He loved them… But what he really loved was chicken nuggets”. Sylvia later discovered that at the time of her donor’s death in a motorcycle accident, a container of chicken nuggets was found under his jacket."
Scientific explanations proposed include psychological, biochemical and electrical/energetic hypotheses. The second and third areas are the interesting ones to me. Do our organs store memories or other personality traits? Can the electromagnetic field of the recipient receive information from the donor's electromagnetic field?
This study goes on to survey transplant recipients. They were comparing heart and other organ transplant recipients. The finding: "The majority of participants (89.3%) who underwent organ transplant reported changes in their personality following transplantation."
It is all so fascinating - here isThe Study Link. We are at the month of February when things of the heart are celebrated. Who would guess we'd start with this story.
I have posted this picture already, but doesn't it seem to be amazing for the heart transplant theme. And below that a collage of the many hearts found.
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