QUOTE(Acid09 @ Jun 18 2007, 06:45 PM)
Honestly I've always thought of the 3rd eye as a metaphorical concept for the power of the mind to percieve reality beyond the five senses of the body. I do not believe people litterally have a 3rd eye. And if they do then we really need to re-think the biology of "eyes". In my opinion the 3rd eye that yogis and mystics have tapped over the millenia is really the penal gland located conviently above and to the center of the eyes. Big whoop I know but the penal gland regulates hormones. So if one could tap their 3rd eye they could effectively control things like their mood, state of mind, even feelings of pleasure. Basically one who can manipulate their penal gland has the key to swing open their doors of perception and reality. Really powerful stuff actually. But, only in my opinion, I do not believe people litterally pairs of 3rd eyes. They could think they have eyes in the back of their head - but thats just how they percieve themselves in this world. To me, in my own little world, the reality is we only have two biological eyes and the ability to use our brains to see beyond the vail of reality as perpetuated by our five senses.
Well, if you think about it for just a bit, the idea of multiple 'eyes' from the third 'eye' up could all be metaphorical - different brainstates and neurological actions cause different effects. Combination of brainwave states and nerochemical processes produce different results. Could be that references to multiple 'centers' of the 'third eye' center reference various 'directions' of action within that center. There may be a particular pathway of development necessary, each step building on the last, resulting in a metaphor of 'one center becomes two, two becomes three' etc. Or for that matter, maybe there are differentiated only because some people will be able to take actions in one or a few directions and not others naturally, or rather, naturally inclined to certain aptitudes.
It's pure speculation of course. But I mean, I can trigger a fairly strong dopamine spike (nothing narcotic grade, but noticable and instant), however, I'm still at a loss as to how to trigger a serotonin drop. Being able to do something one thing with your brain doesn't imply you're fully developed, and so a need to further classify sublevels of development within that center might have been seen as beneficial when the scheme was thought out in the first place (which was when exactly? Where does this information come from? I've never seen it written down in the old books i've read... not that being new means it's invalid, of course.)
Application of a fully developed third eye may, therefore, require a combination of all of these various 'properties' of each of the "8 centers" of the third eye (or however many there are).
Like I said, speculation, but almost any (I said almost) schema regarding the division and categorization of energy systems and centers can yield something useful if you give it a bit of thought. Extra perspective rarely sets you back, as long as you keep a firm center towards practice and development in themselves.
peace