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| On Saturday (June 12, 1999) I was listening to a program called "Mind-Body Matters" on National Public Radio. The guest was Paul Pearsall, PhD, a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in psychoimmunology (the study of the interactions between the brain, mind, body, immune and social systems. ) | ||
| According to Dr. Pearsall, the heart is NOT just a "pump." He spoke of the heart as having a "mind" of its own and performing functions similar to those of our brain. Without a transcript, I'll not try to quote him directly, but I will relay two stories he told. | ||
 A man was brought into the emergency
room suffering from a heart attack. His heart stopped,
and three attempts to restart it using electric shock
failed. The doctors asked the man's wife to come into the
room, place her hand on his heart, and talk to him. She
did so, whispering into his ear that she loved him. His
heart restarted immediately. |
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| A 10-year-old girl received a heart
transplant. Neither she nor her family were given any
information about the donor. Several months after the
transplant, the girl began having dreams about her donor,
and told her parents that it was another girl about her
age who had been murdered. Investigation revealed that
this was indeed true. There are other, similar and documentable stories of transplant recipients' developing personality characteristics, tastes in food, etc. traceable to their donors. |
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what does all this have to do with
religion/theology/theism? For me, it's just another
example of interconnectedness of all things, all beings,
all that is. All that is is God. |
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