Metaphysical Blog June Archive

We've already heard much about the third eyes, and how we are supposed to see things with it that cannot be seen by our other eyes once it is opened.

Many theories were made by mystics about it and one of them is telling us that our third eye may be the pineal gland which is directly in between our eyes. Even Descartes said that this is the seat of our soul. Gain more knowledge about the pineal gland and how it may be opened here in Mind Power News.

Link: Could the Mysterious Pineal Gland be the Third Eye?

Descartes and the Pineal Gland

Descartes, aside from being a well-known mathematician, is also famous in philosophical circles for many things like his view of the pineal gland as the seat of our soul.

This gland has been the center of attraction of a lot of psychics as they believed that the opening of the pineal gland means the opening of our third eye. In fact, up to this day this belief is still widely held.

But how did the view of the pineal gland go before and after Descartes time? Here's a timeline from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Link: Descartes and the Pineal Gland (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)