Category: heart, soul, mind, gut?
From: Daily Mail
Virtually every doctor and scientist will tell you the heart is a mere pump. …
For a few brave scientists have started claiming that our memories and characters are encoded not just in our brain, but throughout our entire body.
Consciousness, they claim, is created by every living cell in the body acting in concert.
They argue, in effect, that our hearts, livers and every single organ in the body stores our memories, drives our emotions and imbues us with our own individual characters. Our whole body, they believe, is the seat of the soul; not just the brain.
And if any of these organs should be transplanted into another person, parts of these memories – perhaps even elements of the soul – might also be transferred.
There are now more than 70 documented cases similar to Sonny’s [Sonny Graham’s], where transplant patients have taken on some of the personality traits of the organ donors.
Professor Gary Schwartz and his co-workers at the University of Arizona have documented numerous seemingly inexplicable experiences similar to Sonny’s.
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Related: Man with suicide victim’s HEART takes own life—Even married the donor’s widow
The heart is more than a pump
From: MSNBC
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – A man who received a heart transplant 12 years ago and later married the donor’s widow died the same way the donor did, authorities said: of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
No foul play was suspected….
That heart was from Terry Cottle, 33, who had shot himself, Berkeley County Coroner Glenn Rhoad said.
Grateful for his new heart, Graham began writing letters to the donor’s family to thank them. In January 1997, Graham met his donor’s widow, Cheryl Cottle, then 28, in Charleston.
“I felt like I had known her for years,” Graham told The (Hilton Head) Island Packet for a story in 2006. “I couldn’t keep my eyes off her. I just stared.”
From: Jones Report
Bloggers like Michelle Malkin are downplaying a disturbing video of a Marine throwing a puppy off a cliff in Iraq– an incident that has stirred a lot of attention and shock.
It is not necessarily the notes you’re playing.
It’s not necessarily where you went to school,
how much you studied, who your teachers were.
It’s what you can take from your heart
and convey it to the other person.
– Gregg Allman
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from:
Tom Dowd and the Language of Music, video documentary
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from: Herbie Hancock: Possibilities, The Movie Channel, 2006
“This is the thing, man. We don’t have to worry about anybody else’s doing. All you need to do is that:
Everyday it’s a battlefield. But if you fight with anger, you’re the problem. If you fight with joy, you’re the solution.”
“Conviction is from your soul. You have to go out there with conviction and say, ‘you can’t stop me. You cannot break my spirit.’ Before I go [strongly exhales] and I’m done with this body there will be some hearts that will be touched by my spirit.”
– Carlos Santana