How does cellular memory in transplants impact reincarnation?

[Nightrain]

After a heart and lung transplant operation, dancer Claire Sylvia discovered that new organs were not the only thing she inherited. Never having liked such foods as beer and chicken nuggets, she suddenly started craving them. After an extraordinary dream, she seeks out the family of her donor -- a teenaged boy who died in a motorcycle accident -- and learns that it is indeed possible for two souls to merge in one body.

In many cases involving organ transplants, patients report a variety of changes in characteristics that we once thought were either behavioral or inherited, but are now being thought of as evidence of cellular memory. The question then arises, What part of our personality is soul-centered, and what part is cell-centered? If some aspects of our personality and even our memory can be changed by an organ transplant, what part of us do we take with us into the next life? What part of our memories belong to us, and what part would belong to the donor?

 

[Totoro]

I don't think it's a soul but rather the memory or impression made by sympathetic resonance that was tuned to the original soul.

 

[pixarfan]

I asked a hypnotherapist about that. He said it wasn't so much cell memory as part of the donor's soul attaching itself to that body part (and other person). He told me of a case he had where a woman began talking like a old male smoker that had died in the hospital room she was staying at and "attached" himself to her lungs (or something). They didn't find out who her roommate was until they investigated later. Not quite the same, but similar.

 

[Delonada]

I actually read a book two months ago that discussed this, and it was a book about epigenetics for one and written by a Cellular Biologist(Bruce Lipton).


Basically what he describes in cells is that all cells are more or less like radio receivers, and that each cell has an antenna that makes it react from an outside signal. Now, he goes on a bit about how our cells have been adjusted to our specific "frequency" or rather, the frequency of the soul. Which means that when you have an organ transplant you are actually receiving partially the radio signals of the previous "soul". He actually discussed it a bit in some cases and admits that he(Bruce Lipton) started out as an agnostic skeptic but is now more of a mysticist after discovering somewhat how cells work.


It's an interesting read, his book. "Biology of Belief" by Bruce Lipton. Most of the book is about cellular biology and how cell works, but in the latter chapters he starts to come out of the shell and admitting his views on things such as the soul.

 

[Owl]

I actually always thought that this would be a good topic for a scientific research paper, a few weeks ago I decided it was a good moment to start one so I started with phase 1, that would be, gathering material to base my research on. However, science so far isn't too helpful, these are the papers I found


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1299456


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22320138


And not much more besides that. Needless to say I don't have the resources to start a whole new investigation by myself and interview patients so this project will have to wait. What I mean with this is that it's not really scientifically proved that after a transplant we experience a change in our personality because we have the cells of the donor. It's proven that the body has a type of cell memory, an immune memory (that's the why of the rejection of transplants) but no link has yet been found between the cells of the donor and the personality of the recipient. We also have to leave aside all the changes that might just be a product of the whole surgery experience by itself and receiving a transplant .


Now, do I believe we experience changes in our personality after a transplant? Yes, or at least I'd like to believe it although i recognize that I can't prove it. In case that happens, how would it affect my views on reincarnation? not too much, I think all of our organs have the influence of our soul, so if we put our organs in another person that influence might still be there for a while and then disappear since the same soul is no longer in that body and taking control of that organ.

 

[Mama2HRB]

I am an organ donor, so beware. If I die and someone new signs up with my memories it is just my eyes ... or lungs .. or whatever LOL


On a serious side, I have seen the stories mentioned and found them fascinating.