Necroghastia wrote:State of Turelisa wrote:I eat meat which has the blood drained from it, because Scripture teaches that blood contains the soul and to eat the blood of an animal is to risk tainting the soul of the eater with the remains of the eaten animal's soul.
Cellular memory theory attempts to explain why people who have received transplanted organs report having acquired the personal habits of the donor, which were previously alien to them, and the implications are that the spirit acquires the mental characteristics of the creature whose cells have been assimilated into the physical organism of the spirit.
Wouldn't that mean that animals that consume blood are themselves hodgepodges of souls? If the soul enters parts of the body other than the blood (per your thing about organ transplants), then wouldn't that mean they still would amalgamate with yours upon consumption?
Transplanted living tissue contains the donor's blood and plasma, and these are assimilated into the recipient's body. That's why the blood types of the donor and recipient must be compatible.