The Heart’s Code (1999)

Ellie Collins’ new radio broadcast brought up this book and its suggested ‘cellular memory theory’.

You know that the heart loves and feels, but did you know that the heart also thinks, remembers, communicates with other hearts, helps regulate immunity, and contains stored information that continually pulses through your body? In The Heart’s Code, Dr. Paul Pearsall explains the theory and science behind energy cardiology, the emerging field that is uncovering one of the most significant medical, social, and spiritual discoveries of our time: The heart is more than just a pump; it conducts the cellular symphony that is the very essence of our being.

Amazon introduction

I guess someone is trying to explain how we can ‘know something in our heart’ (what most of us refer to as ‘intuition’) and that this information can be shared with someone else via organ transplants. Is it real?

To me, it reads like an urban legend:

An eight year-old girl who received the heart of a murdered ten year-old girl, began having recurring dreams of an actual murder. The girl was taken to a psychiatrist which concluded that the girl was recounting a real incident. After contacting the police they were able to provide clues (time, weapon, place, clothes worn by murderer and what the little girl said to him) that lead to the convinction of the murderer of the eight year old girl.

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The person posting that ‘excerpt’ may have mixed the eight-year-old with the ten-year-old girl (in the last line). But you get the drift of their concern. Urban legends are stories that help us sleep at night.

Which brings me to Edgar Allan Poe’s short story from 1843: The Tell-Tale Heart.

You see, there really is nothing new under the sun.