Persist an object and its methods

[eluser]Jim Higgins[/eluser]
I am wondering if it is possible to persist an object beyond the controller or model it's created in. I know, for instance, you can pass an object to a view, but I believe the object is simply turned into an array. Can you maintain the object and it's methods when passing an object to a view?

In other words, can I create an object in a controller, pass that object to the view, access it's methods, and then pass it on to another controller if I wanted?