Heart's Code, The

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Summary: Kudos to Paul Pearsall, Gary Schwartz and Linda Russek
Review: "The Living Energy Universe" by Gary Schwartz and Linda Russek and "The Hearts Code" by Paul Pearsall must be read together as it offers the most understanding from each.

In this "New Age" it is interesting to reflect back to ancient wisdom from the Children of the Night Rainbow, who were the people of the Polynesian Islands and the Hawaiians, who lived in Paradise 2000 years ago and lived the essence of Universal Living Memory. They believed that everything was alive, feeling, evolving, and immortal.

At the beginning of "The Living Energy Universe" Paul says a lovely Hawaiian prayer for Gary and Linda, the book and all of the readers. Thank you what a nice thought!

In "The Hearts Code" we find that as Paul is facing his own challenges he receives an understanding to share with all of us that the heart conducts a beautiful cellular "symphony" that is the true essence of our being... and how else can it be when our hearts are where God lives?

These two rare books were brought to my awareness by synchrodestiny as my journey with my son Jason has continued from Heaven. As I laid my head on my sons heart as his life support was ended... we exchanged the love and information and energy that these books speak of...hearts are always connected by love no matter which realm of existence they belong to forever.

I hope each reader feels the hopeful message in each of these books in their hearts, remember an open heart is best!

Pauls message is a lovely message of how interconnected we really are and when our hearts speak everyone listens and understands.

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Summary: Cynical read
Review: Alothough Pearsall's book posesses much information about the new study of energy-cardiology, the author is very cynical towards the brain. The book talks of how wonderfully compassionate the heart is, and how selfishly greedy the brain is. And after reading the text on subjects like this, Pearsall sounds like the kind of person whom, if you didn't act completely contumelious towards the brain, he'd say you were denying the truth.

Besides his crude anecdotes about the brain, the information and stories about the different transplant patients he's studied in the past is a great and mind-opening read. Actually, everything besides his comments about our brains, is a marvelous source of new, interesting information about the L-energy/energy cardiology observations and studies.

Recommended, but not highly.

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Summary: Fascinating insight into the depths of the human system
Review: As a heart transplant recipient myself, I found this book to be fascinating reading. It opens the mind to ideas and concepts that remind us all how little we really do know about our human existence. While I haven't enjoyed any of the very special donor/recipient communications related in the many stories used to support the "heart's energy" concepts Dr. Pearsall offers, I do believe that others have them. This reading offers insights into the realm of our being that science has yet to really come to grips with, but in years to come I wouldn't be surprised to find acceptance of what seems very "wild ideas" today, just as he suggests to the reader. If you can't have your own heart transplant, this is the next most interesting way to share some of that unique miracle that so many today are living.

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Summary: Getting your head together, with your heart
Review: Dr. Pearsall has hit a home run in a ballpark unfamiliar to most ordinary people who still think that the brain in your head is the mastermind of thought and behavior. What Pearsall has contributed, especially in terms of learning, creativity and memory is to reshape our foundations of perception that "love, dignity, relationships and integrity" might, after all, be the driving forces of human progress. Even if one considers "The Heart's Code" as a mere metaphor for our consciousness, without the empirical evidence of the role of the heart in human thought, Dr. Pearsall moves us closer to an integration of body, mind and spirit in a pracitical way, empowered by the heart.

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Summary: Getting your head together, with your heart
Review: Dr. Pearsall has hit a home run in a ballpark unfamiliar to most ordinary people who still think that the brain in your head is the mastermind of thought and behavior. What Pearsall has contributed, especially in terms of learning, creativity and memory is to reshape our foundations of perception that "love, dignity, relationships and integrity" might, after all, be the driving forces of human progress. Even if one considers "The Heart's Code" as a mere metaphor for our consciousness, without the empirical evidence of the role of the heart in human thought, Dr. Pearsall moves us closer to an integration of body, mind and spirit in a pracitical way, empowered by the heart.

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Summary: Good Concept - Boring Book
Review: For my entire life i have felt what the heart's code is finnaly scientifically explaining to me. People believe that it is their conscious' telling them what is going on, but i belive that it is your heart and your brain conflicting between your two options. i have felt my heart telling me what i need and i have felt my brain telling me the same and i have always followed my heart. i believe that the knowledge your brain carries will never overpower the capability of your heart. thank you for finally explaining what i have been feeling my entire life.

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Summary: slippery quasi-science
Review: The subject of this book will resonate differently with a variety of readers. Some will reject the theories presented as preposterous. But, for those who have experienced this "heart" connection it will be the "aha!" or "yes!" that makes sense to their own experience. As unusual as it sounds to hear the language of the body used, as Pearsall does, to describe this heart to heart dialogue, the heart metaphor is a language that has been used to communicate love and human relations throughout the ages. Those who know the power of prayer and of letting go will have an easy time following Pearsall's logic. For those who have doubts, Pearsall adds the science of quantum physics and bell's theorem to validate his claims. His proposition is that the heart has a code and each cell is imprinted with memories. He goes further to say that the heart (not the brain) is the link between mind, body and spirit. He supports his L-energy theory (or fifth force) with research results, ancient wisdom, examples from his own practice and personal experience. This book will turn off some readers who take a scientific approach to medicine (and life), but to those who can get beyond the "white coat" approach to healing and human relations, this book offers a thought provoking alternative. I urge all to consider reading this book (and beginning to use its wisdom) with a "heart" open to the incredible possibilities that it suggests!

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Summary: Read with an open "heart"!
Review: The subject of this book will resonate differently with a variety of readers. Some will reject the theories presented as preposterous. But, for those who have experienced this "heart" connection it will be the "aha!" or "yes!" that makes sense to their own experience. As unusual as it sounds to hear the language of the body used, as Pearsall does, to describe this heart to heart dialogue, the heart metaphor is a language that has been used to communicate love and human relations throughout the ages. Those who know the power of prayer and of letting go will have an easy time following Pearsall's logic. For those who have doubts, Pearsall adds the science of quantum physics and bell's theorem to validate his claims. His proposition is that the heart has a code and each cell is imprinted with memories. He goes further to say that the heart (not the brain) is the link between mind, body and spirit. He supports his L-energy theory (or fifth force) with research results, ancient wisdom, examples from his own practice and personal experience. This book will turn off some readers who take a scientific approach to medicine (and life), but to those who can get beyond the "white coat" approach to healing and human relations, this book offers a thought provoking alternative. I urge all to consider reading this book (and beginning to use its wisdom) with a "heart" open to the incredible possibilities that it suggests!

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Summary: INTERESTING, BUT FALLS SHORT
Review: This book covers much material that is not new, but which is interpreted in a new way. Other authors have written about forms of intelligence and learning that don't seem to depend on the brain or intellect. Larry Dossey's concept of non-local consciousness, and Rupert Sheldrake's "morphic fields" arise from the same anecdotal evidence that Pearsall presents in this book. The difference is that Pearsall attributes this unexplained knowledge source to the heart, the most powerful organ in our bodies. Pearsall believes he has found evidence that the heart (as well as other cells in our bodies) retains memories about us and possibly about other people with whom we are close (and maybe holds ancestral memories as well).

Pearsall uses anecdotes from heart transplant patients, many of which seem to indicate that the recipient takes on some of the characteristics of the donor, and sometimes even knows things about the donor. These stories are compelling, but they do not add up to proof that the heart has memory. In my mind, they DO add up to evidence of the connectedness of life and the existence of psychic connections between people. What better way to create a connection than to transplant living tissue from one person into another? To anyone who believes there are forms of knowing that do not arise in the brain, Pearsall's stories are hardly unexpected. He cites many sources and quotes other authors in his quest to make his case, but other explanations make as much or more sense than Pearsall's.

Organ transplants themselves are controversial. I think it possible that organ transplants could impede the spirit of the donor from moving on to the next dimension, instead remaining earth-bound because part of his/her body still lives. Pearsall has raised the question of just what is transferred (besides the organ) from donor to recipient. The heart is obviously an important part of us and is a metaphor for love, so it stands to reason that whatever essence of the donor is in the heart would have some effect on the recipient, and the recipient may have some effect on the spirit of the donor.

The famous Dr. DeBakey says the heart is "just a pump" and perhaps he is mistaken. But does the heart possess "memory" or does its energy still contain part of the spirit of the donor, or does the donor reach out from "the other side" and communicate to the recipient? I have no answer, but I'm not inclined to accept Pearsall's arguments.

The book also becomes tedious with repetitious points. It seems like the major ideas could be stated in far fewer words. The author also uses his own experiences as a cancer patient in forming his theory. His own story is interesting in itself, but does not supply any evidence for a "heart's code." In the end, we have highly subjective ideas based on anecdotes that can be explained by a number of other theories (which the author is fair enough to summarize in this book).

Personally, I do not support organ transplants because of the grossly unfair so-called health care system in the US. Only people with a lot of money or fabulous health insurance go on lists to get a transplant. Once they get the new organ, they must take very expensive drugs every month for the rest of their lives. If they miss taking their drugs for even a month, their body will reject the transplant and they will die. I would not want to live with that pressure, knowing any month I was unable to come up with a large sum of money for drugs, I would die (and just try getting health insurance if you've had an organ transplant!!). People may see transplants as a life-saving technique, but they are also a big money-making industry driven by highly-paid specialists and unwarranted drug company profits. Only the rich and the lucky benefit, and there will never be enough donated hearts for all the potential recipients.

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Summary: A confusion of paradigms that comes out looking silly
Review: Yes, there are sometimes personality changes in heart transplant patients. The surgury can result in hypoxia or small strokes that damage the brain causing personality change. Multiple sources of information overwhelmingly demonstrate that the brain is the seat of emotion as well as reason. Claiming that memory and emotion reside in the heart obscures the useful message - the message that we would do well to slow down and pay better attention to our bodily feelings and our emotions.