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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from How StuffWorks.com.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb.

And I'm Julie Douglas.

Julie, do you ever open your third eye? Do you have access to your third eye? Yeah, I open up sometimes. I index it. Windex it. Get it a little squeaky cling. What about you? I guess it's mostly dormant, you know? But in yoga, there's a lot of talk about it. So, you know, occasionally we're talking about chakras and third eyes. So I get into that a little bit. You know, I don't want to freak you out or anything, but it's kind of winking at me right now. Oh, yeah? Yeah. It's pulsating under there. Oh, that might be a boil. Ah, okay. All right. So obviously we're going to talk about the pineal gland, also called the third eye.

Yes, okay. All right. So obviously, we're going to talk about the pineal gland, also called the third eye.

Yes, yeah.

So the third eye, for those of you who have not been exposed to it,

we're going to start out with just a brief discussion about the non-scientific idea of the third

eye.

That being that there is this, we have the two eyes with which we see the world, but that

buried inside us, there is this third eye that if we are to, if we open it, we can see something

that isn't there or something that is hidden from our normal perceptions of the world,

that we will be able to see the spiritual aspects of the world around us, or see into the future, or see into the now.

It really depends on who's doing the talking as to what a third eye actually consists of.

You see various takes on this in Hinduism. If you've ever looked at any Hindu iconography,

then you've no doubt seen like the flaming eye of Shiva that burns and shoots out flames.

If you're familiar with yoga, for instance, you probably know of the ajana chakra.

This is supposedly positioned in the brain right behind the eyebrow center.

And this involves, you know, future site, clear sight, presence, or even occult powers, depending on who, again, is doing the talking.

You see, you see the third eye in Kabbalah Taoism in various new age ideas and and you know

even in heavy metal lyrics from time to time as well also Gwen Stefani well you know she used to

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