Second Brain Found In Heart Neurons – Trust Your Gut Feelings

Second Brain Found in Heart Neurons - Trust your Gut Feelings




The idea of transplanted cellular memory emerged as early as 1920
in the film "Les Mains d'Orleac" written by science fiction writer
Maurice Renard.

A second brain in the heart is now much more than an idea.

Prominent medical experts have recently discovered that many recipients
of heart transplants are inheriting donors' memories
and consequently report huge changes in their tastes,
their personality, and, most extraordinarily,
in their emotional memories.

Today new science is testing the theory that the heart is involved in our feelings.

So what have they discovered so far?
Discovery of Case Studies

Amazing new discoveries show that the heart organ
is intelligent and that it sometimes can lead the brain
in our interpretation of the world around us,
and in the actions we chose to take.

A large number of case studies were enough to prompt some scientists
to look differently at the heart and test old theories that the heart
is involved in our feelings, emotions and premonitions.

Since cardiac surgeon Christian Barnard's first successful human heart
transplant in South Africa in 1967, heart transplant recipients
have had intriguing experiences, so strange and out of character
that they seek to meet the families of their donors
to find out what is going on.

Could they have inherited certain behavioral and character trait
s through cellular memories from the heart of their donors?
Meeting Donor's Family

Upon meeting their donors' families, the heart transplant patients' hunches
were confirmed: the new personality traits had indeed been passed on
from their donors.

Families of donors often tend to bond with a recipient of an organ
donated by their departed loved ones.

They, in many ways, recognize and like the recipient,
almost as if a part of their lost one was, somehow, still alive.

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The Little Brain In The Heart

Neurologist Dr. Andrew Amour from Montreal in Canada
discovered a sophisticated collection of neurons in the heart
organised into a small but complex nervous system.

The heart’s nervous system contains around 40,000 neurons
called sensory neurites that communicate with the brain.

Dr. Amour called it “the Little Brain in the Heart”.

It has been known for many years that memory is a distributive process.

You can’t localize memory to a neuron or a group of neurons in the brain.

The memory itself is distributed throughout the neural system.

So why do we draw a line at the brain?
FACTS

The following facts are only a few of the many cases reported
as evidence of something extraordinary happening to heart transplant
recipients: They seem to take on the likes and dislikes of their donors.

A gentle, soft-spoken woman who never drank alcohol
and hated football got a heart from a crashed biker donor
and turned into an aggressive beer drinking football fan.

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A lazy male couch potato received a heart from a stuntman.

He inexplicably started training fanatically for no apparent reason
until he became a true athlete.

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A 47-year-old Caucasian male received a heart from
a 17-year-old African-American male.

The recipient was surprised by his new-found love of classical music.

What he discovered later was that the donor, who loved classical music
and played the violin, had died in a drive-by shooting, clutching his violin case
to his chest.

A man who could barely write suddenly developed a talent for poetry.

turned poet
Most Amazingly...

An eight-year-old girl who received the heart of a ten-year-old murdered girl
had horrifying nightmares of a man murdering her donor.

The dreams were so traumatic that psychiatric help was sought.

The girl’s images were so specific that the psychiatrist
and the mother notified the police.

Using the most detailed and horrid descriptive memories
provided by the little girl, the police gathered enough evidence
to find the murderer, charge him, and get a conviction for rape
and first-degree murder.
Scientific Evidence
Possible Explanations

Doctors now attempt to explain why organ recipients are hosts
to donors’ memories and emotions, also known as "cellular memories".

While a handful of scientists are skeptical and dismissing this
strange phenomenon as post-surgery stress or reaction to anti-organ
rejection drugs, there are also a growing number of experts who believe
cellular memories are indeed transplanted from donor to recipient with organs.
Nothing Mystical, Pure Science

Other medical experts offer different explanations,
but all agree that it is not so much mystical as it is science,
and a science that needs further exploration.P

rofessor Pr Paul Pearsall and Pr Gary Schwarz got together.

Professor Gary Schwartz says that “Feedback mechanisms
are involved in learning.

When we talk, for example, about how the brain learns,
we talk about what we call neural networks in the brain.

It turns out that the way a neural network works is that the output
of the neurons feeds back into the input of the neurons.

And this process goes over and over again.

So long as the feedback is present the neurons will learn.

If you cut the feedback, there is no learning in the neurons."
The Mind is Not Just in the Brain

Dr. Candace Pert, a pharmacologist at Georgetown University
believes that 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. These peptides are found in the brain
as well as in the stomach, in muscles and in 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".
Feedback Memory

"The implication is that it's important for the neurons
to have the feedback for the learning to take place.

By extension, any system that has feedback is going to learn.

We learn to shoot a ball into a basketball net by getting feedback
about whether we are accurate or not.

We learn to speak by getting feedback about whether we're accurate or not.

And so consequently, any system, any set of cells that has feedback
mechanisms in a network is going to learn the same way that neurons learn.

That's what is called feedback memory."
Love and Emotion

A heart transplant is now a routine operation.

The heart has been seen for centuries as a symbolic organ
associated with love and emotion.

Scientific research today clearly shows that poets and great scholars
throughout history have been right all along.

The heart has intelligence and plays a particular role in our experience of emotions.

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