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Organ Transplants and Cellular Memories Continued from page 32 research to examine the hypothesis + Gary E. Schwartz, PhD, is Professor of seriously co =Psveholinav Suraerv Medicine Gary E. Schwartz , PhD, is Professor of Psychology, Surgery, Medicine, Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Arizona. He is also Director of the Center for Frontier Medicine in Biofield Science and Director of the Human Energy Systems Laboratory, both at the University of Arizona. He is the co-author (with Linda Russek) of The Living Energy Universe (Hampton Roads Publishing, 1999, soon to be re-released; reviewed in NEXUS 7/04), and co-author (with William L. Simon) of The Afterlife Experiments (Pocket Books, 2002; reviewed in NEXUS 9/04) and The G.O.D. Experiments (Atria Books, 2006). research to examine the hypothesis seriously. oo Pearsall became open to the possibility of cellular memory in transplant recipients partly because of his own bone marrow transplant in 1987, and also because of his Hawaiian heritage that has always valued the heart as being a "thinking, feeling, com- municating, and spiritual organ".'° Schwartz and Russek became open to the possibility of cellular memory partly through Schwartz's discovery of the sys- temic memory logic in the early 1980s when he was a professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University,*’ and partly through the evolution of dynamical energy systems theory in the mid-1990s as applied to the heart by Russek and Schwartz.'* * However, systemic memory is only one possible cellular memory mechanism. Other mechanisms (e.g., microtubule mem- ory, which may also involve the systemic memory process) should be considered.'* If future research documents evidence for cellular memory in transplant patients, the theoretical, clinical and ethical implications are vast.'® The present findings are reported in the hope that they will stimulate future Authors’ Acknowledgements We wish to thank the families of the donors, the recipients and the families of the recipients who bravely shared their sto- ries and graciously agreed to have them reported. The 10 heart transplant cases reported here come from a total sample of 74 transplant recipients (23 were heart transplants), all of whom showed various degrees of changes that paralleled the personalities of their donors. We thank the anonymous review- ers of this manuscript for their constructive feedback. We dedicate this paper to the memories of donors and to the memories of Frank Pearsall, Howard Schwartz and Henry I. Russek, MD—our fathers. - Linda G. Russek, PhD, is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona and Director of The Heart Science Laboratory of The Heart Science Foundation in Tucson, Arizona. She has co-authored more than 40 papers as well as the book, The Living Energy Universe (with Dr Gary Schwartz; see above). About the Authors: - Paul Pearsall, PhD, is a Clinical Professor at the Department of Nursing, University of Hawaii. He is the author of over 200 professional articles and 15 international best-selling books includ- ing The Heart's Code (Broadway Books, 1998). 76 = NEXUS APRIL — MAY 2005 www.nexusmagazine.com