There are indications that organ transplants are metaphysically anathema, both for the donor and recipient. At issue is whether the consciousness actually leaves the body at the moment brain wave activity and vital functions cease or whether it lingers for hours or even days. Many hospital doctors and nurses are convinced that the spirit leaves an apparently dead body slowly, often hovering above the deceased for some time. They therefore leave further disturbance of the body for at least an hour following death. Also, there are indications that premature removal of organs can result in the possession of the recipient by the donor, causing the donor to remain “earthbound” and the recipient to be negatively influenced.

In his 1998 book, Light & Death, Dr.Michael Sabom) an Atlanta cardiologist cites an article by Dr. Linda Emanuel, who comments that life and death are viewed as non-overlapping, dichotomous states, whereas in reality there is no threshold event that defines death. “Several scientific observations support Emanuel's argument that loss of biologic life, including death of the brain, is process and does not occur at a single, definite moment,” Sabom writes. He goes on to mention that 10 organ donors diagnosed as “brain dead” showed an average increase in blood pressure of 31 millimeters of mercury and in heart rate of 23 beats per minute in response to surgical removal of the organs. He also refers to a study at Loyola University Medical Center in which it was found that 20 percent of patients diagnosed as brain dead had persisting EEG activity up to seven days after the initial diagnosis.
William Sheridan's drawing skills were stuck at nursery level. His stick figures were the sort you would expect of a child. But as he convalesced after a heart transplant operation, he experienced an astonishing revelation. Suddenly he was blessed with an artistic talent he simply did not recognise, producing beautiful drawings of wildlife and landscapes.
He was even more amazed when he discovered what he now believes to be the explanation. The man who donated his new heart was a keen artist. Mr Sheridan, 63, was being hailed as the latest example of a phenomenon which sounds like science fiction but which is intriguing a growing number of medical experts - that it is possible during an organ transplant to inherit character traits from the donor.
A retired catering manager, he started drawing as therapy to relieve the boredom while waiting for a donor in New York's Mount Sinai Hospital. There was no way his efforts could be considered artistic, according to the hospital's consultant art therapist, Beth DeFuria. "But days after his transplant, he began creating this amazing, elaborate artwork," she said. "It was really quite amazing how his talent blossomed."
Mr Sheridan met the mother of the heart donor and handed her a sketch of a large hand holding a heart with the inscription: "You gave me more than a heart. Thank you." He had agreed to give up the traditional anonymity between donor and recipient as part of a campaign to publicise the need for more organs. In the process he discovered the heart had come from 24-year-old Wall Street stockbroker Keith Neville, who died in a car crash and one of the first things Mr Sheridan asked the dead man's mother, Donna Reed, was whether her son had been artistic. Mrs Reed told him her son loved to paint. She said: "He was very artistic. He showed an interest in art when he was just 18 months old.
Medical opinion is skeptical over whether organ recipients can gain more than just a lifeline from their transplants. But Gary Schwartz, a professor of medicine, neurology, psychiatry and surgery at the University of Arizona, says research by a team he leads has found definite links. He calls it 'cellular memory'. He has documented 70 cases where he believes transplant recipients have inherited the traits of their donors. Prof Schwartz said: "When the organ is placed in the recipient, the information and energy stored in the organ is passed on to the recipient. The theory applies to any organ that has cells that are interconnected. They could be kidneys, liver and even muscles.
All things (and beings) consist of something that previously existed. We are made of stardust. Since matter is indestructible, it is not a great leap to postulate that, when the chair and other things no longer exist, the matter will be transmuted into something else. What? Chemicals, energy and consciousness? I read an article in ‘New Scientist’, some years ago, suggesting that consciousness pervades everything, even a pebble on the beach to a remote degree.

About consciousness in everything: It was a long time ago that I read about it. Earlier, I had been with a group of friends and someone brought up the subject – which, at the time, I dismissed as nonsense (as one does). Then I read the article and saw the proposal that consciousness may be in everything, even a pebble. . The author was not torn to shreds by his peers, which was unusual, so he must have had something or been highly respected.

Another thing brought up in my discussion group regarded the benefits of sleeping with the body in parallel with the magnetic lines of force between N and S poles. Again, I later read an article in New Scientist giving reasons as to why this could be beneficial to the central nervous system. So that sort of example taught me to think “maybe” instead of "rubbish"
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I used to be sceptical about dowsers/diviners until I heard of their ability from someone I trust. My brother-in-law is a farmer on land that has been in the family for generations. They had "lost" a water supply pipe under about 100 acres of land and no plans could be found. The water authority could not trace it despite sinking test pits here and there, where they thought it may be. The cost of digging up fields, concrete yards and disturbing other amenities to trace it from outlet back to source would have been huge so a "diviner" or “dowser” was called in who successfully traced the route of the underground pipe. Naturally, I got me a hazel twig and had a go at dowsing over my own backyard and driveway I knew there were water pipes and drains under there but somehow I seem not to have the knack. Maybe practice is required.