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Summary: Food for thought
Review: After reading "The Heart's Code" by Paul Pearsall and now this book I am convinced we are just beginning to scratch the surface of the science of transplant information and details about the heart and how it controls personality.It is a proven fact that heart patients who are ill have a sudden change in temperment and also proven that transplant patients take on some characteristics of the donor. There was a case of a nun who received the heart of a prostitute (absolutely true story) and many more in Paul's book and this book seems to focus on one true story of one woman. You have to be careful though, if you've had open heart surgery or are waiting on a transplant it can get a bit emotionally heavy as you related to her having to face death. Watch the dark tones and you'll be fine as you read the info. The object is to come away having learned some secrets of what to expect and those are very very interesting. There was also a case of a transplant recipient who began using vocabulary words from the donor and then later when the patient met the donor's family and used those rare words randomly they were floored. Good read.
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Summary: Food for thought
Review: After reading "The Heart's Code" by Paul Pearsall and now this book I am convinced we are just beginning to scratch the surface of the science of transplant information and details about the heart and how it controls personality. It is a proven fact that heart patients who are ill have a sudden change in temperment and also proven that transplant patients take on some characteristics of the donor. There was a case of a nun who received the heart of a prostitute (absolutely true story) and many more in Paul's book and this book seems to focus on one true story of one woman. You have to be careful though, if you've had open heart surgery or are waiting on a transplant it can get a bit emotionally heavy as you related to her having to face death. Watch the dark tones and you'll be fine as you read the info. The object is to come away having learned some secrets of what to expect and those are very very interesting. There was also a case of a transplant recipient who began using vocabulary words from the donor and then later when the patient met the donor's family and used those rare words randomly they were floored. Good read.
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Summary: An Engrossing and Troubling Read
Review: At the very least, the book is an absorbing first person look at the way a major health crisis affects a person's life. In that regard, it's too bad that Norman Cousins is not around to add his own observations. But the book certainly raises some interesting questions for me. It would be easy to dismiss Claire Sylvia's post-transplant feelings as the quirks of an artistic person with new-age sensitivities, who had been raised in a family in which dreams and images were vitally important. However, the authors have been careful to demonstrate that Ms. Sylvia's eerie premonitions about her heart and lung donor are not uncommon. This book adds to the growing weight of evidence that Western medicine does not possess all the answers, and in fact may not know all the questions. I can't think of a recent book that has more profoundly affected my feelings about death and life.
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Summary: An Engrossing and Troubling Read
Review: At the very least, the book is an absorbing first person look at the way a major health crisis affects a person's life. In that regard, it's too bad that Norman Cousins is not around to add his own observations. But the book certainly raises some interesting questions for me. It would be easy to dismiss Claire Sylvia's post-transplant feelings as the quirks of an artistic person with new-age sensitivities, who had been raised in a family in which dreams and images were vitally important. However, the authors have been careful to demonstrate that Ms. Sylvia's eerie premonitions about her heart and lung donor are not uncommon. This book adds to the growing weight of evidence that Western medicine does not possess all the answers, and in fact may not know all the questions. I can't think of a recent book that has more profoundly affected my feelings about death and life.
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Summary: An Astounding Personal Story
Review: Claire Sylvia's book will cause you to reevaluate everything you know about your body, your personality, and life overall. Before reading her account I never would have believed that individual organs within the human body have their own awareness, intelligence, and memory. Slyvia's story is a testament to enduring and magical properties of living things and shows that modern science has yet to fully grasp the amazing nature of biological life. Highly recommended. (Dr. Simeon Hein is the author of Opening Minds: A Journey of Extraordinary Encounters, Crop Circles, and Resonance (Mount Baldy Press, Inc.))
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Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: Claire Sylvia's Change of Heart is a great book because it makes you think about things you never thought would possibly happen. It's like "The Others" (the Other Side) or "The X-files" but in real - but not in a way that you don't believe it. I really believe that she feel that he - the teenaged boy who died in a motorcycle accident -is apart of her. Read this special book if you want a new view of your life!
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Summary: Personal experience
Review: Claire Sylvia's Change of Heart is a great book because it makes you think about things you never thought would possibly happen. It's like "The Others" (the Other Side) or "The X-files" but in real - but not in a way that you don't believe it. I really believe that she feel that he - the teenaged boy who died in a motorcycle accident -is apart of her. Read this special book if you want a new view of your life!
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Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: Claire Sylvia's Change of Heart is a great book because it makes you think about things you never thought would possibly happen. It's like "The Others" (the Other Side) or "The X-files" but in real - but not in a way that you don't believe it. I really believe that she feel that he - the teenaged boy who died in a motorcycle accident -is apart of her. Read this special book if you want a new view of your life!
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Summary: Not so bad
Review: I bought this book because i ever believe in the soul. But i never imagine the kind of things that Claire Sylvia said's. In my opinion is a good book, with incredible moments, things that make you think about the death and the life. A good work by William Novak, who help people like Nancy Reagan, and Magic Johnson to make their biographies before. The history of woman, who needs a new heart. the history of a woman, who star a new life.
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Summary: Not so bad
Review: I bought this book because i ever believe in the soul. But i never imagine the kind of things that Claire Sylvia said's. In my opinion is a good book, with incredible moments, things that make you think about the death and the life. A good work by William Novak, who help people like Nancy Reagan, and Magic Johnson to make their biographies before. The history of woman, who needs a new heart. the history of a woman, who star a new life.
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