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The Third Eye

08:29 / 01.02.02

Right, this is partly for a friend and partly for me and perhaps just for general edification.

I have vaguely known about the concept of "The Third Eye" for a long time, even before I became Pagan and got into all the magik stuff. As far as I can understand it is located both esoterically and physically in the lower central part of your forehead, equidistant between your physical eyes.

It has something to do with connecting to spirituality and the universe and can be either opened or closed voluntarily or otherwise. Oh yeah, and was bandied about for a long time as part of the whole "New Age" thing.

And unfortunately that's about where the knowledge and understand I have ends.

Please Help!

Is it real? Was it just a construct formulated around the time of Madam Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society (ie is it a Victorian contstruct)? Is it old or new? And has anyone had any personal experience of it?

I would appreciate answers on all of the questions above and any others you happen to come up with.

Thanks in advance

Angel!
xx oo xx

08:29 / 01.02.02

There's an article about the activation and usage of the third eye here. Its got nifty pictures and everything.

11:09 / 01.02.02

Don't know if this helps, but the physical 'third eye' is the pineal gland, which controls melotonin levels.

It's also, of course, intimately related to all things discordian.

11:58 / 01.02.02

I've started to feel a gentle pulsing in my third eye area more and more lately (over the past few months)......it happens sometimes out of the blue, other times when I'm meditating or focusing on spiritual/magickal things. It feels pretty cool! :

13:12 / 01.02.02

when working with the 'Third Eye' its worth using 'Chakra' principles, involving the 'brow chakra' and its colour 'indigo'.

15:58 / 01.02.02

pulsing in the third eye area? So its not my brain trying to escape when the area between my eyes pulse? Does anyone know where I can find out more about actually opening and using the third eye? The article I mentioned above is good and all, but I don't know anyone that would let me sit and stare at them to see if their face changes.

17:58 / 01.02.02

There's a meditation/practice I've tried for opening/closing the third eye, with I think some success.
Hard to explain, but I sit in my basement with all the lights out. In an adjoining room, separated by a closed door, may be a lit candle or two, all other lights out.

I sit in the room without the candles with eyes closed, and try to open the third. It's almost like lifting a film or curtain away. If/when I start getting impressions of the candle in the other room, I feel I'm making progress. I've had people shift the candle on me to see if I could pick up on it's new location, with some success.

Anyone have any other methods?

18:50 / 01.02.02

Here's a really simple one. Close your eyes, and point your finger at your brow, a couple of inches away. Feel a tingle? A tightness? Move the finger away, it goes away. Point again, and its back. Now have someone else point. Neat, eh?

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18:57 / 01.02.02

A few months ago I was journeying and I drank something without ever asking what it was exactly, and I think it messed with my "Third Eye" thingy, among other things. My memory was better and I was seeing things funny. It's hard to explain. It's like I would know how much change a buddy would have in his pocket or something equally useless. That sort of thing. It was a bizzare couple of weeks (I was experiencing deja vu even more than usual! For me that's like once or twice a day) before I got used to it or it went away.

20:39 / 01.02.02

cusm - thats what I was going to say, I started mucking about with that at school with a pencil before I'd heard of "third eyes" - and yeah it is neat

13:05 / 04.02.02

Thanks people!

Time will tell if it helps, but you have all been most helpful.

Cheers

Angel

20:11 / 04.02.02

My third eye is currently having to contend with the spot that's developing in the middle of my forehead.

I Think The Spot Will Win. For now...