What keeps us Alive? Is it your Heart, Brain, Blood or something else altogether!!

Have you ever seen a heart transplant happening in real life or maybe in a video?
(Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYWmYJNg5Jw&t=115s )
In a heart transplant the receiver’s heart is stopped by putting in two electrodes to stop it beating, so that the doctors can remove it. Before this step the doctors bypass the hearts arteries to a machine where the pumping part is taken care by the machine itself. Moreover the lungs are also bypassed & the machine takes over for the pumping of air in human body.

Now just picture this: A patient is lying down on the operation theater with his heart & lungs bypassed where the beating & breathing are taken over by the machine. In this picture the patient is still alive. If it was because of heart he was alive or lungs for that matter he would have been dead by now since the beating process has been taken over by the machine (A non living thing). But he is still alive.

So you can say that heart is just a mechanical device. Because of just heart you are not alive .It is a part of whole system but not the whole system in itself. So something else is keeping you alive.

After this the doctors places the donor's heart into the receivers sew it up remove the machine & the pumping action for new heart is started by two electrodes again & after few hours the patient is talking & walking again. This I know as my parents are doctors.

Second Scenario: Lets say the Brain is the one that's keeping you alive.

Check out any person who has gone in coma. You will see that his most brain is neurologically dead. The logical mind, the rationalization the memory anything & everything. But his most basic functions are still there like heart beating etc. So if you were alive by the brain only when it was fully functioning you would have died when you were in coma

But your body is still alive just that only most basic functions which are not in the brain’s control, What you call them as reflexes or involuntary functions are functioning most of them by the spinal cord.

Third Scenario: Your Blood is keeping you alive

Let say person met an accident & lost a lot of blood & died. Doctor's declared  cause of death: Loss of Blood.

Now lets experiment this.
A person dying requires some blood so someone donates it & his life is saved. Now lets say somebody dies because one of his arteries got cut & he lost a lot of blood. Now since the person is dead lets seal the artery from where loss of blood occurred & pump in fresh blood through a vein.

Do you think the person will get alive?
No, we all know that

The same blood gives life to a person who already has life in it. but the same blood applied to a dead person will not make him alive. so what's missing?


Its the energy behind or in  the cells or the body which you call as consciousness/life - energy which is keeping you alive. When a person dies for whatever reason the energy cannot sustain itself to be in the body as it is no more more a conducive place for it. So it leaves the body. That’s why you hear about near death experiences. why,because the energy could not leave the body fully it was like half in half out so the person came back from the dead.

A doctor feeling the pulse or feeling the heart beat or monitoring the brain activity essentially is looking for whether the life-energy is still in the body or not. The human body is just like a machine which does not have intelligence without this energy. Its this energy that you call as Intelligence/Mind etc & not the brain which you think is intelligent!!


Its the same energy in a plant, animals, even in Vacuum which you term as Dark Energy & this energy is inherently positive in nature because its inherent nature is growth. The size of this energy is as big as the Universe because Dark Energy or what you call as Vacuum is everywhere in space.

You don’t have to hallucinate/imagine about life-energy as where is it or is going out or coming in. Energy is something you can feel. It’s the force behind everything.