Hat tip to Don Salmon for bringing this to my attention.
It is amazing to me what happens when you start looking for consciousness. The information comes cascading in. This time it’s cellular memory phenomenon. You may remember an article I did a while ago titled: Consciousness At the Cellular Level: The Experiments of Cleve Backster. Another relevant post I did was: Consciousness is Part of Reality, Not a Trick of Evolution
Backster demonstrated that consciousness occurs at the cellular level. And while it was fascinating and it demonstrates the far reach of consciousness, it wasn’t until I ran across cellular memory phenomenon that a picture developed of how much this affects us, which is apparently a lot.
Cellular Memory Phenomenon is a term doctors coined for the personality changes that people undergo after organ transplants. Here are some stories:
Cheryl Johnson received a kidney.
Cheryl Johnson, 37, says she has changed completely since receiving the organ in May. She believes that she must have picked up her new characteristics from the donor, a 59-year-old man who died from an aneurysm.
Now, not only has her personality changed, the single mother also claims that her tastes in literature have taken a dramatic turn. Whereas she only used to read low-brow novels, Dostoevsky has become her author of choice since the transplant.
Miss Johnson, from Penwortham, in Preston, Lancs, said: “You pick up your characteristics from your donor. My son said when I first had the transplant, I went stroppy and snappy – that wasn’t me.
“I have always loved books but I’ve started to read classics like Jane Austen and Dostoevsky. I found myself reading Persuasion.”
An annoymous post on a message board:
I had my transplant oct 2005… long story short it worked out, eventually. My problem is that I WAS an honor roll student in all my life until after this surgery. Then (9-11th grade) I dissappointed my family over and over again by failing in school, being mean… or lazy…. and its not me. I seem to be more controlling, and argumentative. but thats not the real problem at all.
I used to be the annoying (sometimes funny) kid from 1st grade -8th, but now I don’t even talk in school. The part that concerns me is that I dont care that im not talking, I dont want to talk to anyone because people make me sick. they are just overall useless, I could go on for days about it, but thats not the point. It worries me that Ive lost faith in humanity and myself.
I also cant enjoy all the things I used to do, for example I cant play Halo 3 because I shake and can never truly improve at the game.
Claire Sylvia from this article:
Claire Sylvia who received a heart and lung transplant in the 1970’s from an eighteen year old male donor who had been in a motorcycle accident. None of this information was known to Sylvia, who upon waking up claimed she had a new and intense craving for beer, chicken nuggets, and green peppers, all food she didn’t enjoy prior to the surgery. A change in food preferences is probably the most noted in heart transplant patients. Sylvia wrote a book about her experiences after learning the identity of her donor called A Change of Heart.
And one more from People magazine:
Bill Wohl was a hard-driving self-described type A executive until cardiac disease nearly killed him in 2000. A heart transplant at the University of Arizona medical center saved his life—and transformed it in ways he could never have imagined. Weeks after his operation, Wohl, now 58, heard a song on the radio by the British vocalist Sade. “I just started crying and rocking,” he recalls. Odd, since before the surgery, Wohl hadn’t heard of Sade and was not the type to mist up over a torch song. Later he contacted the family of organ donor Michael Brady, the 36-year-old Hollywood stuntman whose heart he had received, and made an intriguing discovery. Sade was one of Brady’s favorite singers. “It was,” says Wohl, “really, really freaky.”
I was watching ‘The Eye’ with Jessica Alba in it recently and I didn’t realize that it was a real topic. This just makes the film so much more scarier.
First let me explain how I stumbled on the Cellular Memory Phenomenon. I’m reading a book, “Haunted from Within”, by Ian C P Irvine, about a reporter who receives a double kidney transplant from a man who turns out to be a serial killer. The donor recipient gets flashbacks about the murders and burial of the bodies and starts investigating.
My question is: in the case of living donor transplants, kidney and liver and bone marrow usually, have there been any studies on whether this cellular memory phenomenon takes place. This might be an interesting topic for discussion, investigation.
Yes I agree that investigation on this subject is wanted.
Bob preston.
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can cellular memories be removed?
I don’t know. I don’t think anyone has ever tried.
Mabe. I read this book a decade ago; http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Code-Minutes-Success-Relationship/dp/1455502006/ref=sr_1_1/192-9053699-1964306?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406464644&sr=1-1&keywords=the+healing+codes+manual
Can You “Un-know” something?
According to Joan Hunter, they can be removed. She explains how in her videos and books.
How does this relate to ancestral cellular memory?
This is an article that interested me on the subject of cellular memory phenomena. It’s about a man who received a heart transplant from a suicide victim. He later married his donor’s widow and also committed suicide.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-557864/Man-given-heart-suicide-victim-marries-donors-widow-kills-exactly-way.html
I am pretty sure there is something to this. Before my second kidney transplant at age 35 I absolutely could not stand coffee. The first cup I ever drank (and I didn’t finish it) was my last…that is until I had my second kidney transplant and immediately started craving the stuff. Now I I am completely addicted to coffee.
That’s really interesting. Real life is so much more fascinating than the official version.
My husband received a beautiful heart last year. Prior to his transplant he despised coffee. If I gave him a kiss after drinking one he would always say “ You’ve had a coffee haven’t you?” and comment about it bring horrible.
Once he was at home after his transplant I asked if he wanted a cup of tea. Instead of saying yes to tea he asked for a coffee. I almost fell over and asked him again.
Ever since that day he hasn’t had a single cup of tea. He craves coffee like you.
I do not believe that one single organ transplant can override all the other organs, including skin. At least a personality cannot be affected to the degrees stated above. Thanks.
Thanks for your opinion. I think that you’re making a reasonable argument based on reasonable logic. It does indeed seem quite strange that one organ could have such a dramatic effect on a person. Personally, I have long since given up pursuing reasonable arguments when dealing with consciousness. It doesn’t seem to be helpful.
While the cellular memory phenomenon around transplants does seem to be a real phenomenon, it clearly does not occur in all cases of transplants. So- maybe these are situations where the rest of the recipients’ organs do dominate. Clearly this is a subject for open minded inquiry rather than a set belief. I wonder how well this has been investigated- as we now have significant “respectable medical research” around Near Death Experiences thanks to Dr Sam Parnia, and many others.
I meet sceptics like you all the time. Rain on everyone’s parade, Killjoy. Whatever, you unbelieving nobody!
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This makes perfect sense. ( To me anyway) The next step in understanding is that our cells, and our memories are just energetic vibrations that create fields of energy. (Our cells being the denser form of energy.) When viewed from this perspective its easier to understand how consciousness in the form of cells can become sick and diseased within the body. Which then also explains how some people are able to change cellular disease by focusing on new images (memories) which create new consciousness (energy) within the body so that it vibrates in a clearer state.
Hi Craig:
Those are great stories. If you or anyone want to see some more, search for “Paul Pearsall”; he has a book called “The Heart’s Code” which has a number of very interesting ones. I remember one about a man whose taste in music, if I remember correctly, was pretty much heavy metal, developing a passion for classical music after receiving a heart transplant; turned out he received a heart from a 10 year old black boy who was studying classical violin. lots of other interesting ones. As for the skeptics’ arguments, the problem is very similar to the way that Democrats try to respond to Republicans. I think that Jon Stewart has done some very funny bits on this, and George Lakoff has written some brilliant columns on this. The Democrats always argue within the Republican frame. Like with the health care bill – remember when it was being called the “job-killing bill” by the Republicans? Some Democrat objected to the word “killing” and accepted it when the word was changed to “job-destroying”!!!! (at least that’s how i remember it; it was something along those lines). Same problem with materialists. They come up with some impossible material explanation, and we try to counter it while accepting a basically material frame. Nothing in the psychic world is going to make sense (IMHO) unless you start with Consciousness (and I don’t mean idealist philosophy; look at Christian mysticism, Sufism, Vajrayana, Vedanta, etc – or Alan Wallace’s take on Buddhist theism and underlying commonalities with other spiritual traditions to get a good start). The beautiful thing about this is that all the things that science is stuck on – like what is matter, what is energy (Richard Feynmann humbly admitted that we have absolutely no idea what “energy” is), how life started, where mind came from, how and why the so called “laws of nature arose and how they persist, the relationship of mind and brain – all go from being mysterious to being the most obvious and natural way for things to be.
Anyway thanks for some great stories. Always enjoy reading your posts.
Thanks as always for your thoughtful reply. I know what you’re saying about having an argument with a basically material framework. I’ve been working on getting around that. I have some experience because of being a foreign exchange student years ago, dealing with values attitudes, ideas and beliefs.
So this is totally unrelated to your post, but do you have any tips on picking where to go for studying abroad?
Thanks for your question. It depends on what you want to achieve. I went to Germany and it was perfect for me, but everyone is different. I’m actually surprised at the question because most people seem to know where they want to go as an almost unconscious choice. Follow your heart. That’s all I can say.
…Uh, whaaa?
For that level of cellular consciousness, either the usual definition would have to be wrong, or the organ itself would have to be conscious.
An alternate theory is that everyone has low-level psi. So, when part of another person is put inside of them, they unconsciously link to that person and take on their traits.
The question can be solved pretty easily–has any psychic had an organ transplant, and if so, what happened? But it could easily be both. After all, focuses do exist–go to any surface deposit of quartz and find that one out for yourself! 🙂 (No, seriously, go, it rocks. :p)
Hi Monica,
I believe that the usual definition is wrong. Consciousness is a tricky bugger to figure out and we can’t go on the assumption that it can be divided into pieces, or that dividing it creates individual pieces.
I also think finding a psychic transplant recipient would be quite difficult. We tend to be very body aware and not likely to draw that level of sickness to ourselves.
And I do rocks, but not much quartz. I don’t seem to be drawn to it.