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Only under the assumption that there are none around me that would be able or willing to come with...

Let's approach this three ways:

As a Mystic: Third Eye is a concept experienced in every primitive culture or Initiatory path I have investigated. The extra sight focuses mainly on ancestors, hungry spirits, planar beings, and elements. My Third Eye is able to be "opened" and "shut" with a few moments of concentration. I tend to live with it mostly "peeking" through.

As a Analyst: While not a Scientist, I am an analyst. As an analyst, I can say the Pineal Glanglion is the Most likely bilogical corresponding tissue to the experience of the 3rd eye. Overclocking it with synaptic neural impulses forces it to widen and expand. This is an experience that has two effects, a tingling in the frontal lobes of the brain, and a surge into the Optic Nerves. This also in effect encodes silicates that form in the body, and it is these silicates that are the physical truth of the "pearl of wisdom". Formation of this peearl through internal alchemy is supposed to leave one attuned to the Esoteric underlyings of the bases senses.

As a participant: My whole life started in a state of having Eidetic brain activity. That is to say most of my Brain activity occurs in the passing of information from the left and the right, and thus describing me as "Center Brained." This leaves me in a state where most of the time the most activity in my mind is in the Pineal, Pituitary, and the cerebral cortex. These are the "Mind", "Body", and "Soul" cores in the brain. Of these, the first most paths awaken in the Pineal. This will allow the Vision of the Higher Self, and the awareness of the presence of the Other. Care must be taken to understand that this is an synchronizing of the internal with the external, and the consciousness that emanates through you will embody itself externally, often in intangible forms. some of these forms can actually exude a certain amount of force, and even perhaps influence over other living beings, who may nor be aware of them, or even openly claim to disbelieve in thie existence.

Slightly off topic, but somewhere I believe I've read that much of what involved making mummies in ancient Egypt somehow surrounded keeping a very specific gland active in order to achieve life after death...Maybe it was the Pineal gland, the pituitary gland, or both...

Either way, I'm sure that plenty of the things that I've experienced can be explained by this 'Third Eye' theory...I'm definitely in the mood to figure out more, that's for sure...I can't say that I've ever been creeped out by anything, except raum's driving, tee hee, but that was not for my own safety or well being...Having a little around me has pretty much changed everything about me and how I think, but then again, having him around when I go through these kinds of experiences would probably help me...

As I'm now spending most of my time in a bookstore, if anyone can make a good reference I'll pick up my copy the next day...

Sir Jig-A-Lot

Actually, no. My experience and approach is not modern. Rather, I studied it in a modern context and a formal and even academic light to be able to better communicate it to those who observed me,or approach it that way. That being said, i don't really talk with formality except when I am advising people in ways they may need to be able to define every word. Ask Ayhja how formal I am...

My approach is entirely hands-on, and rarely involves a single outside influence that I have not personally cultivated. My first experience was at the age of 9, I was unable to speak as a child, and would stare off into space where nothing else was seen. I was taken to a "papow" of the Quachita near my home parish in Lousiana, where I walked the bridge of bone. Ask a "daddy longlegs" down in that bayou water (that filled my bottle as a baby) what that does to a soul. When you walk the bridge of bone, you are given chew-root and you either wake to the world after meeting the Baron, or you don't wake up... I have never hada book address the subject of having your grandparents poison you for spiritual growth. :)

Since then, I have travelled the earth and had people come to seek my counsel in our common journey and exploration through consciousness. I have integrated other parts of the sum total of human experience through Life transferrence and integrating and migrating residual data streams into my own consciousness. Lots of stray thoughts looking for a good home, and some them are mighty valuable, especially in a college town. Most of the book-sense I have was picked up while hanging in coffee shops and speaking with Theology students, or learned through osmosis while working in a bookstore and living with a Graduate in Philosophy and Theological Studies who saw a bit of the tree bending I do.

I also have had exemplary mentors who spanned every living religion and spiritual path, known and unknown ~ Most of which I have direct experience of. However, my own approach is very much about calling directly on the Holy Ones ( Called Proto-Biblically The Eloah, Called the Qadashim Ha-Melek, the Angels, but not the Sappy Angels people imagine are concerned with every human sentiment) and dealing directly with them. Most elemental or tribal constructs used in other systems and "witchcrafts" or "shamanistic paths" can literally be ripped apart to their base nature after you achieve Unity with the Highest octaves of thought, and understand all of existence to be composed of appendages of that One Thing. It is for that reason, I have been sought after by those plagued by "spirits" and have helped a great deal of them. That experience has thus left me with a tendency to communicate a sense of competence that presumes I have less brickdust under my nails and more ink on my sleeves.

As for books, all the books I read are generally for entertainment value or other pursuits. I prefer direct experience, and unpublished documents or scientific journalism, if you must have outside validation. But in my 26 years at this, the best book has consistently proven to be a blank book.

Here is my advise. Go out alone in the darkened woods, take off your shirt, and walk. Walk until you get afraid, and then sit down. and listen. and learn.

Vertical,
raum

Vertical,
Raum

Hey, if you can fool yourself into believing that there really is a steak dinner, the Matrix is far more appealing. ;)

For me, I prefer to discover what there is instead of dwell in the illusion we call normalcy.

As for "shocks", when I was a youth and went to New Orleans for the first time, I saw bodies piled up around a certain crossroads with people screaming and moaning and crying and coughing - huge fires everywhere that not even the rain could dowse... and we stopped at that intersection and I saw a desperate woman look at ME and see I could see her, and came pawing at the window of the car with gore and muck covered hands and speaking a language I thought was Spanish... I screamed and went hysterical, so I get that. It honestly made me think I saw hell, and damn near scared me Fundamental. Then I found out that is where the plagued dead were piled at the burning of "old" Orleans. I rather think of it as "Immaterial Forensics". Forensics is an interesting field. It all about evidence, and rarely about "facts".

However, when I finally helped put her to rest more than a decade later, and gave some of her family all the way in Encina california a sense of closure... there are few more rewarding things a person can do than heal a troubled spirit.