Re: Transplant Phenomena Suggests Cellular Memory


Julian wrote:
Julian wrote:
Ever since doctors in Boston successfully transplanted a living human
kidney in 1954, and Dr. Christian Bernard replaced a human heart in
South Africa in 1967, there has been a boom in the business of organ
transplants.

While it is not the perfect solution to solving worn out body parts,
the business of transplanting hearts, livers, kidneys, lungs, eyes and
even fingers has become big business, with over 500,000 successful
cases worldwide.

And as more and more patients recover from these surgical procedures, a
strange thing has been happening. Some report having foreign memories,
eerie new personal preferences and even unexplained emerging talents.

The Discovery Health Channel recently explored this occurrence in a
program titled "Transplanting Memories." In the show various experts
explained why they believe cellular memories are transplanted with
organs.

Dr. Candace Pert, a professor at Georgetown University, said she
believes the mind is not just in the brain, but also exists throughout
the body. This school of thought could explain such strange transplant
experiences.

"The mind and body communicate with each other through chemicals known
as peptides," she said. "These peptides are found in the brain as well
as in the stomach, muscles and all of our major organs. I believe that
memory can be accessed anywhere in the peptide/receptor network. For
instance, a memory associated with food may be linked to the pancreas
or liver, and such associations can be transplanted from one person to
another."

Indeed, a German neurologist, Leopold Auerbach, discovered over 100
years ago that a complex network of nerve cells, very like those of the
human brain, exists in the intestine.

Professor Wolfgang Prinz, of the Max Planck Institute for Psychological
Research, Munich, recently wrote about this "second brain" in Geo, a
German science magazine.

Prinz said the digestive track is made up of a knot of about 100
billion brain nerve cells, more than found in the spinal cord. The
article suggested the cells may save information on physical reactions
to mental processes and give out signals to influence later decisions.
It may also be involved in emotional reactions to events.

Prinz joked that the discovery gives a new twist to the old phrase "gut
reaction."

"People often follow their gut reactions without even knowing why, its
only later that they come up with the logical reason for acting the way
they did. But we now believe that there is a lot more to gut feelings
than was previously believed," Prinz wrote. He said he thinks the
stomach network may be the source for unconscious, or possibly even
subconscious decisions.

The television show, Transplanting Memories, recorded a variety of
stories in which cellular memory altered lives.

In one amazing story, an eight-year-old girl who received the heart of
a murdered 10-year-old, began having nightmares in which she relived
the crime. Her dreams helped police solve the murder.

In another story, a shy, reserved woman has vivid dreams about the
donor, even though she never met this person. She also develops a more
assertive personality. A third heart recipient strangely picks up his
donor's musical taste.

Research with the human cell has taken science on molecular adventures
and beyond into the DNA, which is, in effect, the Cabalistic Tree of
Life. The discovery is that each individual holds within every cell a
memory of ancestral history that reaches back to his or her origins.

From all indications, the cells communicate with one another, passing
new memories on throughout the body when foreign cells are adhered to
the body. This might explain why some humans have vivid memories of
past lives, especially when under hypnosis, that were never lived. They
are reacting to cellular memory, not reincarnation.

oops... source
http://farshores.org/jd083103.htm

If (just imagining here) the memory is shared then it only appears to
be a transfer from one form to another when transfer is not strictly
necessary. Maybe the concept of transfer is useful for understanding
something, what I don't know.

I think one day I would be able to go to the dentist and grow back a
tooth, or go to the doctor and grow back some inner organs.

.

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