of which pictures were shown and in which order as well as the participants’ physiological responses
during the session. What they discovered was completely unexpected.
The participants’ heart and other internal responses responded as expected – they were aroused by the
emotionally stimulating images and remained calm, at their baseline measures, for the neutral ones.
What was eye-opening was that the heart was the first part of the internal physiology to respond to the
stimulus, seconds before the brain did! The heart responded and then sent information to the brain
which goes against the belief of mainstream biology which says the brain is the command centre of the
body. What was stranger still was that the heart responded even before the picture displayed on the
screen – it seemed to have a pre-cognitive ability and be able to sense the future and then send
information to the brain to respond accordingly. So if one of the car crash images was going to be
displayed the heart seemed to sense it coming and sent a warning signal to the brain to prepare the
body. This pre-cognitive ability would register on the monitoring equipment up to 6 seconds before the
image was displayed to the participant. I think that you’ll agree that this is a pretty amazing finding. It
really drives home the fact that we respond subconsciously before we do consciously and our heart
plays a big role in our emotional lives.
It Gets Stranger...
Another incredible finding that I am excited to share with you shows us the innate intelligence of our
heart as a thinking organ in its own right complete with its own set of memories. This discovery has
been documented by Dr Paul Pearsall who has written about some fascinating stories concerning heart
transplant patients in his book The Heart’s Code. Dr Pearsall tells us of one such example concerning and
8 year old girl. This 8 year old girl received a heart transplant from a 10 year old girl who had been
murdered. After the transplant the 8 year old girl started to have nightmares of the man who had killed
her donor. Her mother became concerned and took her to see a psychiatrist who after a couple of
sessions thought that her nightmares may not be just a stress response to her life changing operation.
The psychiatrist could not deny what was being told by the child and her mother too started to suspect
that the information may be helpful to the police. It took a while before her mother felt comfortable
with involving the authorities, who eventually came and started to ask the girl questions. Miraculously
with the description of the man, the murder weapon and the circumstances of the crime, the police
were able to track down the murderer and he was eventually convicted for his crime!
There are many such stories which Dr Pearsall has recounted on heart transplant recipients. He came to
the conclusion that the heart somehow stores memories and when placed into another person’s body
they become available to the recipient. Other
researchers have had similar findings although not
necessarily associated with heart transplant patients,
their findings related more generally to donor
recipients. They have found that recipients suddenly
were taking on new behaviours, opinions, abilities and
habits such as liking new food, developing creative
abilities, using different phrases and generally shifting
deep aspects of their personality. When information of
the donor could be found, they discovered that these
new behaviours matched those of the donor!
Heart intuition and intelligence takes the understanding
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