Transcendental Transplants

A recent Daily Mail article poses the question "Can we really transplant a human soul?" Dr. Gary Schwartz, contoversial author of The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life after Death, helped document over 70 cases in which "transplant patients have taken on some of the personality traits of the organ donors." For example a lesbian fast food junkie cut meat from her diet and married a man after receiving the heart of a straight vegetarian woman. In the most bizarre case, 69 year old Sonny Graham married the widow of his organ donor and subsequently killed himself the same way the donor had.

Do these strange cases mean that "consciousness is created by every living cell in the body" and that "the whole body is the seat of the soul"? The recent phenomenon of organ transplants may give studies a new angle in determining where cosciousness comes from in the body.

Creative Commons image: "Divine Kidney of the Lamp of Peace by Cliff Michaels on Flickr