anyone else interested in the so-called "third eye"

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25 Jun 2009, 12:38 am

aka, the pineal gland?

Really, truly fascinating stuff!

Apparently, the pineal gland is either vestigial or becoming into being and is thought by some to be a "third eye" of sorts to allow us to perceive the imperceivable.

There's a quip about someone's experience using a magnet to stimulate the gland:

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"Walter Rawls, who worked with the effects of monopolar magnetic fields on matter with the late Albert Roy Davis, told me in a telephone conversation of his experiments with a North pole magnet situated over the pineal gland.

A mask was made which held the North pole end of a long cylindrical magnet over the pineal gland. The purpose was to stimulate the gland and see if there was anything to this ‘third eye’ business. Exposure was in the range of 10-30 minutes per day over a period of about 4 weeks.

Within the first week, he was sitting at his desk reading documents when he noticed something move out of the corner of his eye. As he looked up, the ghostly figure of a man had walked through one wall, moved across the room and disappeared through another wall. The figure was totally unaware of Walter. Further exposures to this North pole field took place over a second and third week.

The second week, the same ghostly figure moved through the room and glanced toward Walter as he passed through. This time, the figure appeared to have slightly more detail, not quite so ghostly.

The third week, while busy working on documents, Walter noticed a change in the room. When he looked up, the wall had dissolved away and he was looking at a small hill where a man and woman sat beneath a tree. It was the same ghostly male figure who he had seen on the other occasions. He sat quit still, watching this pastoral scene for several minutes.

The man looked over toward Walter and appeared startled. It was as if he clearly SAW Walter this time and possibly recognized Walter as the ghost that he had seen the previous week! The image faded away and the wall restored to its normal condition. From that moment on, Walter never used the pineal stimulator again."

other tales involve ingesting goji berries (aka wolfberries) to stimulate the gland.

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25 Jun 2009, 1:07 am

I'm usually pretty dismissive of parapychology. I think the word that usually jumps to mind is "quackery."

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25 Jun 2009, 1:24 am

Orwell wrote:

I'm usually pretty dismissive of parapychology. I think the word that usually jumps to mind is "quackery."

Well, Orwell, if there were no quacks then ducks would be less awesome. Think about it.

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25 Jun 2009, 1:35 am

Awesomelyglorious wrote:

Orwell wrote:

I'm usually pretty dismissive of parapychology. I think the word that usually jumps to mind is "quackery."

Well, Orwell, if there were no quacks then ducks would be less awesome. Think about it.

Which makes me suspicious that Awesomeglorious is ducking the issue.

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25 Jun 2009, 8:16 am

Awesomelyglorious wrote:

Well, Orwell, if there were no quacks then ducks would be less awesome. Think about it.

Forgive Orwell. He's the personification of skepticism. :lol:

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25 Jun 2009, 10:35 am

I wouldn't take the visions literally - more likely, it involves a bubbling up of the unconscious into normal waking states. But it could point to something interesting. The pineal is involved in making melatonin and other tryptamines, possibly including DMT or other hallucinogens. We evolved to dream (ie, hallucinate) several times each night ... probably some value in that, although it is good to distinguish between dreams and 'reality'.

Transcranial magnetic stimulation can have some interesting effects - several research teams think it can help treat depression. Other magnetic labs can produce a "God Experience" fairly reliably by tickling certain parts of the brain, and it is also possible to turn off speech, or make colors more colorful.

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25 Jun 2009, 11:03 am

Awesomelyglorious wrote:

Well, Orwell, if there were no quacks then ducks would be less awesome. Think about it.

I wouldn't mind quiet ducks.

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25 Jun 2009, 11:18 am

Orwell wrote:

Awesomelyglorious wrote:

Well, Orwell, if there were no quacks then ducks would be less awesome. Think about it.

I wouldn't mind quiet ducks.

Ducks are cool. Always

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26 Jun 2009, 2:03 am

sell me a helmet and i wont need to speculate.(maybe i should make my own?)

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26 Jun 2009, 10:05 am

Orwell wrote:

Awesomelyglorious wrote:

Well, Orwell, if there were no quacks then ducks would be less awesome. Think about it.

I wouldn't mind quiet ducks.

Nothing more needs to be said. See a psychologist, sicko.

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26 Jun 2009, 12:05 pm

Yeah!! If it doesn't quack like a duck ...

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