The Third Eye - A Talk by Raja Choudhury

it's almost incredible how much buzz this event by a splendid speaker Rajat heated we thank you all for coming we would also like to thank a special guest doctor Karan Singh for gracing this occasion just a little bit about ourselves in April 2013 Seoul centric planned its first workshop not knowing what to do how to do we followed her heart the next two months were a rollercoaster right after running from pillar to post and overcoming several hurdles we managed to make a first workshop quite a success well it's been an adventurous journey ever since from working out of a cafe in 45 degrees Delhi heat to taking a very cool office in Greater Kailash well to us so centric has organised close to 800 programs over the last three years in Seoul centric we aim to create a space where the lines between outer and inner plum we offer a sublime experience for us celebrating the human spirit is a way of life we do believe that the journey is the destination the path is the goal we do know and we believe again there's a hidden light within each one of us and to reach it is the need of the other it is the only v love and peace can once again prevail on a beautiful planet Seoul centric is an attempt at offering unique programs for expanding the human consciousness and this we aim to continue forever before in writing doctor Karan Singh as a fellow traveler I would like to welcome you all once again on this inner journey of joy wisdom and celebration I hope you have a great time Thank You friends all the great civilizations of the world without exception going back many thousands of years have always known or at least a section of its monatti have known that within the human body itself there are hidden sources of energy and vision there is the outer world of course with which everyone is familiar but within the human body within the body itself within our consciousness there are possibilities of enhanced vision of inspiration of illumination and if you go back whether you go to the ancient Greeks or the Egyptian civilization you remember the eye the eye that is on the American banknote is the eye from from Isis the goddess of wisdom in in in ancient Egypt and in India particularly we always knew that the body contained the remarkable powers and remarkable features on an earlier talk Raja talked about the Kundalini you know about the Kundalini it is said that it is a force called three-and-a-half times around the base of the spine and under certain circumstances it can be aroused and once are all it travels up the spine thereby illuminating a series of chakras from the base of the spine all the way up to the saucer adhara the final chakra in the brain and as it goes up as is one of the chakras gets empowered gets gets illuminated our consciousness changes now among these chakras one of the most interesting is the sixth chakra the agnya chakra which is in the middle of the of the skull the third eye you've heard of the third eye for example the tillich that we all wear that is anyway a symbol of the of the inner eye and you all know about Lord Shiva and his third eye force that is used that is only used in exceptional circumstances but in the in the Bible also it says the light of the body is in the eye and if thine eye be single then thy body shall be full of light I think that's a clearer statement one can have with regard to the extraordinary possibilities of the inner eye now there it seems that scientific explorations are now proving the critical importance of what is known as a pioneer gland a small gland but which apparently plays a critical role in our consciousness and it is clear that the third eye is in fact the pineal gland and what Raja is going to do today in his inimitable way he's a very good speaker and he illuminates it with a lot of interesting slides and also he presents it in a very interesting manner he's going to present this whole concept of the third eye how it cuts across the civilizations how it is beginning now to be recognized as a major possibility because everybody wants to move towards illumination towards wisdom how do we get that third eye it's not only a metaphor some people think it's only a form of speech third eye is the eye of wisdom he's perhaps more than that perhaps there is a third eye and perhaps the pineal gland itself is the third eye so that's what Raja is going to tell tell of all of us today I have nothing very much to add - to what - to what you know already about this except to say that the borderline between consciousness and matter is gradually disappearing there used to be a dichotomy between the Cartesian dichotomy between matter and spirit matter and consciousness as if there were two implacable early different elements but now as science is developing the new science the quantum mechanics the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle the whole way that science is developing you find now that when you go into matter ultimately will you go deep into it it disappears into into energy so in a way they are transferable in a way you can say that matter is is energy consolidated and energy is is matter that has been liberated so the the convergence between science and spirituality I'm not using the word religion because religion means a lot of other things he ology and so on but if you go to spirituality and the crux of spirituality is to be able to see the reality as the as the Upanishad says Veda I'm a thumb Purusha of Muhammad it they were animals have a separate stock I have seen that great being shining like a thousand suns beyond the darkness I have seen it by which he obviously means it's not only a concept it is something he's actually experienced and that experience hopefully comes to us through the third eye so rather chose reader on tell us about the Saturday [Applause] [Music] [Music] good evening evening ah okay I want you to imagine something with me imagine that inside your head as dr. Singh said there's a little little pod a little eye a tiny little I just imagine it for a second this little I could potentially be the source of spiritual experience intuition creativity insight and it's also potentially the source and the origins of where most religious experiences come from so today I want to take you on a little adventure with me and I hope you'll come along for the ride and we're going to explore this idea of the third eye and the third eye is an amazing thing humankind has been obsessed with it much further in 2013 than we give it credit for the in fact there are actually paintings in the Sun and in Europe in the Stone Age of wiggly lines and shapes that look very similar to the hallucinogenic experiences of LSD and DMT takers so they found that people were having trance type experiences of converting their inner neurology into something greater far back into antiquity but what we find is that by the time we get to ancient Egypt and India and Sumeria we have this amazing culture of a third eye developing right everybody knows this I hear this is the Eye of Horus or the eye of rah it's called and in fact the first symbol of the IRA is the lion staring up at the Sun at about a 45 degree angle now that tells you a lot about where the third eye would be located we also see that there's the third eye in the Tutankhamen and other tools we see the third eye in Shiva in Lord Shiva in India we also see that the Shiva third eye is a very straight mythology because it is all about destruction and rebirth it is about cleansing away everything it is about clearing the pots and then later on we find as as you pointed out that the dollar bill also has the third eye on a pyramid at the top of it and I'm sure all of you have heard the conspiracy theories around the third eye and Illuminati and the Freemasons but basically this knowledge goes right back to about 3000 BC at least and we see it in if you look on the left side this is 1000 BC in Israel where they found pre King Solomon's Temple the symbol of the hectogram this is the what we call the yin and the yang the shiva and shakhty the Star of David now look here this is from 1,000 1,100 BC on the left and on the right is from Sri Lanka around 3 BC which is the agra sphere temple in Sri Lanka which happens to be at the exact same longitude as Kailash monks or ever so you have a direct line linking Shiva's months or ever with a temple in Sri Lanka that has an ancient symbol like that this symbol is going to be a major clue for us as we go forward so stay with me how did they describe it they all describe the experience of the third eye this painting is an ancient Indian painting showing what they call the view when you see the sahasrara when you get to the top third eye your third eye opens and thousand lotuses of light come alive it is quite something this was the painting and if you see in the middle you will see two footprints now that's a very interesting metaphor used in Hinduism that you never actually see God all that God leaves behind is his footprints that's all you will see right so the other thing you see over and over again you see this this is from Egypt this is 2000 BC this is called the Flower of Life that means that somehow geometry and sacred circles had already become known to people and you can see the patterns called the Flower of Life here we also see this is from the experience of Saint Francis of Assisi which is what they call the beatific vision and if you look at European art the prophets the the biblical prophets the Saints all saw heaven as a circular light opening in front of their heads angels flying all around and they would be pulled towards that light right so it was an amazing experience if we look here this is the usual picture of heaven in the Western world is sunlit meadows and you're moving toward light here we see this is an example a picture taken by someone who had a near-death experience when they were about to die and they had this out-of-body experience for about 30-40 minutes most people returning say they saw a tunnel of light and they went towards it they were surrounded by loved ones by angels and they then they came back and they wish they could just kept going towards the light so we see this again in death as well and we see this this is an explosion caught by Hubble telescope in the Sirius constellation of in the heavens and it just so happens that Sirius was the point at which the Egyptians believed their spiritual home was so all their architecture all their third eye pointing was toward serious and you throughout the galaxy you're gonna see explosions like this but they were obsessed with Sirius they wanted to bring serious into their own brains you know so what did the third I give you see this whether you go to Egypt or you go to shamans and ayahuasca or whether you go to DMT takers or whether you go to Yogi's in India you're seeing a pattern one a very fast I mean light like you cannot imagine you know a thousand suns exploding in your head this was the vision right now for anybody who's even tasted a little bit of that it is something spectacular so the Yogi's that go into blissful States and can't stop laughing and can't stop being in ecstasy these are seeing that thousand blasted thing in their head somewhere you know a lot of people experience this with DMT you with ayahuasca and things like that but those are temporary when you get it through this techniques that we are learning more and more about in explodes the other thing we also see is that huge inner strength in our vibration inner energy and then you are able to overcome disease overcome things like that creativity and beauty that's a huge one outcome of tapping into this third eye the fourth one is the idea of intuition of actually meeting intelligence of fine getting information from sources you would not have imagined before seeing things before they happen these are all claims of the third eye awakening and the fourth one which is the promise of the Upanishads and of Vedanta and of Tantra which is Ananda ultimate bliss I mean bliss that is only imaginable now all these are the promises of opening the third eye and the last one which is the one at the bottom there is the idea of the eternal life that means overcoming death so the biggest promise that a lot of these cultures and and the mostly hidden secret schools around the world was this idea of immortality that you physically may die but your consciousness continues in some dramatic way into the heavens and can return and can go further and further this was the big promise so if we look at it in a struck we look for patterns in all these cultures that we want to identify and throughout history we find couple of recurring themes happening from Egypt to Sumeria to Judaism to Hinduism to Vedic religion to Prive de Crillon we see it everywhere the idea first of this humble little thing called the pinecone this pinecone has been religious symbol all over the world look at the left one you see Egypt that is a pinecone in the middle of the Vatican and that is a pinecone held by a goddess in India right so we have the pinecone everywhere that means that something metaphorical was being represented here by the pinecone and we want to explore that a bit the second thing we find is the theme of the serpent especially the theme of two serpents almost like DNA intertwining with each other and coming together at some point and if you go back to that previous picture the Egyptians thought it was the pinecone you come the snakes would come and format the pinecone so what was this pinecone that they were looking at where were they going with this and we see that in India in particularly in Kundalini Yoga and Kundalini ideas is that this idea of a serpent rising up your spine coming to a singular unity at the top and opening sahasrara we see that over and over again and we also see the serpent as a symbol of awakened masters or people enlightened beings being surrounded by their serpent self by the serpent umbrella right so this these are not real they may have been real that some ancient archaeological point but these are metaphors for the experience of something and we're going to explore this what this something was this is a symbol of a Linga and a Linga in India most people today think of a Linga as appearance but a Linga is actually also shape that is very similar to the pinecone so we have the serpent wrapping around the Linga at the mooladhara three and a half times and then it rises up and so we have the serpent the pinecone and things like that so let's move forward of this there's a Shiva Linga wrapped with a serpent three and a half times with a seven coiled head over it now the Egyptians were serious about their study of this 2500 BC we see that the eye of rock actually appears to be today a cross-section of the human brain so if you look at the ir a-- carefully you will see that the eye actually looks like the Tala mas the pineal and and the whole area of the limbic brain there right there so this is where it is and so these people were not messing around these were spiritual scientists almost they were cutting into the brain to look at where this source of knowledge was where it was from and the god related to this was a god called hot in India we see the same thing on the the Shiva with the third eye is also represented in as a Linga coming out of a Yanni now the Yanni Linga comparison is one not just sexual but it's also consciousness and activation it is also the idea if you look at it carefully that's the karmic air one is the second one it looks like the third eye it looks like the Egyptian third eye in a lot of ways and if you look at the shimmer lingers in the design most of them actually look if you see from a particular angle as a different from just a penis coming out of something you know it does look different and here this idea was that in the middle of your eye in the membrane was an eye was a third eye the Egyptians really believed in this and I just wanted to quickly show you this that the reptilian being which doesn't have the neocortex or the limbic brain that we actually in a lot of surplus and a lot of visits has a third eye on its top it's called a pally ethic I but it's also it's the pineal gland so a lot of creatures if you look carefully you'll see that they have this third eye that actually looks upwards it looks upwards they found that it only happens in the young list of lizards because they needed it to protect themselves or some other idea they had when they were just born because they were not born within a proper they were out of an egg so they had to come out well-protected and they were awakened third eye until they got to maturity then it covered up the pineal gland is inside your brain it's a tiny little beam there and this is what it looks like right and now you can see that why they thought it looked like a pinecone and why got the name pineal gland because it comes from the pine hi Neil gland right it's actually the pineal gland it's not funny oh we say pineal but is pioneer so the ancients knew about this without any of our science without any of our understanding of biology they knew that this was somehow the source of wisdom right and if you look at the pinecone from above you'll see that it looks like sometimes like a Fibonacci which is a spiral and sometimes like a flower of life and I'll just show you that these are Flower of Life symbols that you see in Egypt in Turkey Mesopotamia they found and the right hand one is in the Gurudwara in India from 400 years ago that was part of the artifact of where the Guru Granth is at so this has been with us as a metaphor as a story somewhere lost knowledge of this flower of life this is called the flower of life by the way and I'm going to tell you a little story about the flower of life because the flower of life is actually generated by circle dividing into circle dividing into circle dividing into circles into circles right and if you look at this top line you'll see how one flower in the flower of life is raided the circles actually form the same shape as an embryo forming in the body so there must have been some serious medical research going on somewhere they were able to see that a cell splits into two especially two for splits into eight and keeps going keeps going and that's how life forms in the body so that is why it was known as the Flower of Life so this what you see here is what we call Metatron's cube Metatron's cube is the sacred geometry that arrives from the flower of life but if you look at it it also forms what we call the Star of David or we see it clearly that this was a sacred geometry that goes back to ancient Egypt that they knew that somehow the secret of life was contained within these two intersecting pyramids triangles and if we go further this is also what we call shiva and shakhty in India this is that duality of all life that in order for life to exist you have to have consciousness and energy hit each other and manifestation occurs and this the central spot the bindi also later becomes the Sri chakra becomes other things in India is actually the beginning of that flower of life from which life awaits and this is going to be connected to the third I'll come to that so if you look throughout the world again I showed you even the Pope has one on his head this knowledge was kept secret esoteric knowledge you know it was kept in mystery schools in Egypt you could only learn it if you were part of a mystery school you could only go further with it in India also if you had a guru or you went to a secret place and you learn these things you know it you had to become an astrologer you had to become a mathematician you had to do different things you know Isaac Newton the greatest scientist ever was an alchemist who studied these things he loved in esoteric wisdom he wanted to prove that as above so below the hermetic principal this as above so below that what is out there is also inside me right so there was this fantastic connection between the cosmos the planet me and my biological self little me and my brain and all of that was somehow connected to this pineal gland in my head and we see it in our architecture as well if you look carefully the pyramids are essentially the best theory today is these were firaon ik space-time travel engines to have a pineal gland explosion for a pharaoh to go off into another dimension you know this is one of the best explanations there is so you can you imagine a civilization that spend billions of equivalent dollars today on building structures so that people could go off into adventures of their mind we can't even imagine that today because we wouldn't spend that kind of money yeah we do build temples but we don't do this we don't create vehicles so most of the buildings of the ancient time were also tools for creating that vibration to get you out to get you connected so and you'll find that geometry sound shape these all determine the architecture of those ancient pyramids right an ancient temples in India as well including Madurai and all of them so let's go back to the triangle this is actually a three-dimensional device and in the middle of it is the human being so if you can imagine the human being is a center of this galaxy is a center of this cosmos around him is the Pyramid of shiva and shakhty he is that the cross occurs at the heart which is the middle point right the bottom is the mooladhara which is the outward going downwards and the top is the sahasrara which is the connection upwards right so now we have a sacred geometry about from that person right we go further we have it in meditation and you look at this right-hand picture of course that's Leonardo but you see that the third eye sits in that top pyramid just above the head which is where you get the third eye in the dollar bill as well at the top of the pyramid you know it is that eye the eye of rah it is that eye and that eye is actually inside your head and that eye if you look at that this is a representation of what they call the Merkabah field and Merkabah is you are the center of a huge energy field and if you are able to channel it and tune it whether you do it with yoga or breath or hallucinogens you become this field of energy around you this is energy now you can take on metaphysical things like that's an angel or that's a you know a light wave or whatever it is or but it is pure electromagnetic energy out of your own body going outwards and you can actually increase that resonance so that's what they were trying to do they were trying to get each person to have this experience to go higher and higher in two states of expanded consciousness so this is a great picture because this shows what yoga is all about also but this is Makabe also see the Star of David there and you also see that the person is a channel between Earth and heaven right this is a very important thing to remember in fact all our beliefs are three the tripartite we have the lower self whether you do boudoir swaha whether you do Brahma Vishnu Shiva right whether you do shutter swathi Lakshmi Kali whether you do any three you know you are dealing with the three parts of the body you're dealing with the base from which you connect to earth you're dealing with the heart which expands outwards and you're dealing with the head which is the connection to cosmos and this three became the foundation upon all religions in a way and we see that over and over again in our architecture so I'm going to come to the third eye and in India the system was that we have a spinal cord that seems to transmit energy upwards so an ancient yogic scientists believe that you could actually climb up this spinal cord and as you climb up the spinal cord you are opening these centers that's what they believed and as you open the centers you get to the sixth Center which is what we call the agnya chakra or alguna Agena and here is when the third eye opens and shiva and shakhty unite and you go back up the top so this is the picture of that rising so if you imagine that how many thousands of years of invested energy and intellect went into developing these theories let me just think about it we just wiped them away as mythology as you know this is just mumbo jumbo wooly stuff but these are techniques that people spent years lifetimes dedicated to study you had PhD programs you had Nalanda University was dedicated half of Nalanda was dedicated to to transcribing tantric knowledge down now guard junuh the great Nagarjuna was the greatest tantric of our time in fact when the Islamic invasions occurred now guy Jonah's information went up to Tibet and Bhutan and Ladakh and that's why we still have it otherwise it would not be around you know it would have gone you know and these were knowledge bases that all over the world Alexandria in Egypt Sumer in in Iraq Turkey you know these are lost centers of knowledge but there was another school that went with it which was the whole idea of hallucinogens I'll come to that in a second so this is the Indian system which says that as your energy goes up the spine to your third eye it goes through these chakras and then it opens and explodes and it gives you this asteroid a vision so little bit of science of this now the human brain is a very strange animal the human animal is made up of three brains actually and this is very strange we have what they call the reptilian complex right the reptilian complex is the one that goes from the base of your spine from your sex organs right up your spine and meet them brain the our neocortex the new brain at the pineal gland it meets there so the pineal gland is actually not part of the new brain it is part of the old brain what we call our dinosaur brain or a reptilian brain this brain and the reptilian brain of lizards snakes is identical identical in fact if you took us apart and you just took away our neocortex and our limbic we are a serpent in the spine we just have a spinal cord and that's what we have and so what we found is that this system meets here at the limbic region this is the home of all our emotions so what happens at the reptilian complex and reptilian complex we control things like consciousness sleep psyche daeun rhythms we control feeling good serotonin we control things like melatonin sleep depth of sleep patterns things like that we control that at our pineal and Palamon and pituitary glands that all happens here when you get to this part you're in what they call the limbic region and the limbic region is our emotional region that's where we deal with pain suffering attachment those things right and the top which is the new brain the human which chimpanzees also have but we have the biggest one is the new human dilemma which makes us think which organizes our minds which gets in the way tells us what to do whispering all the time in our ears this is why the Yogi's always say silence the brain you know because what you're trying to do is you're not trying to sell you the whole brain you're trying to silence the neocortex this frontal lobe this whole area of excessive activity and in fact they found that in most meditation this area goes slowly down in mindful in yoga and this is what is control but they also found that in certain systems like Kundalini the limbic and the reptilian get active beautifully active so what is the purpose of practices like we know the purpose of practice is that you're climbing up this center here to here so this is your the pineal you're coming up to there in the pineal which is what the reptilians all have right this idea of the reptilian brain and then we are going further and we're hitting the pineal gland which is actually they found with biology now it's actually an eye it has got rods and cones so if you do any search in any biological textbook or Wikipedia wherever you go you will find that the pineal gland has rods and cones so for some reason we have been given this eye this old eye that we don't use it points slightly limp but it can be activated and moved up a bit right the pineal gland is also responsible for melatonin which is the molecule required to sleep it shuts down the brain at night it gives you psychic ad rhythms it gives you relaxation it's a tool right melatonin and the other tool that comes out of it which is in the body is the serotonin which is serotonin is the feel-good molecule so if you want to be happy serotonin is up and serotonin by the way comes mostly from our stomach mostly for my stomach so we are what we eat we are only as happy as what we eat it's true but in certain circumstances when the pineal gland opens serotonin gets created and you feel really good in meditation or in blissful States is a picture of what they call a calcified pineal gland so they think that by the time a child gets to a certain age most of the pineal gland is covered with calcium is calcified right that means that it's not able to see carefully it's not able to see so that means you have to take extraordinary measures to open your third eye it is not easy to do it is not easy to do but it's possible our ancients were very you know research oriented obviously and they took a lot of plant medicines and drugs you know I mean there is no doubt about it you know if you go to got a pig technically if you go to in Turkey from 7,000 BC if we talked about it in a soma talk if you go to the soma farms of Kazakhstan if you go to ayahuasca and in the Amazon you see that people were taking plants to have these hallucinatory experiences to connect with plant God to connect with themselves to learn about how to heal the body in fact most of Western pharmacology comes from the discovery of shamans using psychedelic plants to understand how plants worked on the body you know in a way so we we tend to forget the shamanic knowledge of plants when we deal with consciousness so for thousands of years there was no difference between spiritual experience and shamanic hallucinogenic experience you know people would get together in the thousands and consume plants and have wonderful visions once a year or twice a year or as a tribe or as a group this was known throughout the ancient world so I'll just tell you about them this is called a psilocybin mushroom is everybody heard of this no this grows in India and Kodaikanal and and if you eat it you have a hallucinating experience right you bake it and then you eat it and it's actually taste very good and you get a whole experience that is almost like all those sacred geometries I showed you Metatron and lights and things like that will happen alright so this one is the blue lotus or the blue tulip of Egypt which was a major part of their ritual of seeing the third eye opening the third eye they take this they drink it they see wonderful visions and we also have the Blue Lotus in India oh by the way there's a wonderful soma myth that says that that if you take a Blue Lotus do drop of water on a full moon at a certain time in the morning you will experience soma you know I just imagine it's magical stuff right now then that's marijuana everybody knows that one this is the famous marijuana I'm sure growing in most people's backyard somewhere this is I mean a menotti muscaria this is one of the most famous mushrooms there is for known by Siberian shamans it's a poison but if done correctly just sends you on another trip all together very dangerous but very exciting and by the way you see the colors it's the toadstool you know and also you'll see that the Siberian shaman by the way they have a they showed a painting of a Siberian shaman and he had a red hat white beard red outfit he carried a sack of a manatee muscaria and he'd go down igloos and holes and people's walls and give them presents oh this is ephedra which is the source they say of soma a lot of soma theory is based on ephedra which is now a medicine by the way this is ayahuasca ayahuasca is an Amazonian vine that if you drink it it's horrible it's disgusting but it takes you an amazing trip apparently and this is air got which is found as a parasite in bread this was used in the witches of Salem trials and this is mescaline the cactus of the New Mexico desert where the local Native Americans would drink this and have visionary experiences in open so we have been doing this for thousands of years okay and we look at it now as a pharmacological issue but it's not because if you look at it carefully this is a recent study by Imperial College they did an LSD study for the last two years and they said LSD when taken this shows you a brain without LSD and this what happened to the brain when it has LSD so you know I think that in the next five years we're going to see the whole conversation about hallucinogenics changing in the world but I want to talk about that because there's only one that that the body human body produces right and it's called DMT dimethyltryptamine let me explain how the brain works the brain has a bunch of these receptors okay which are your neural receptors so every time a neuron is triggered a neural dendrite has to send a signal to the receptor and that gives a feeling or an emotion or an instruction it's a it's a synaptic instruction it tells you what to do so if you want to sleep melatonin kicks in the receptor changes and that becomes your sleep receptor then you say okay fall asleep serotonin I'm happy boom happiness occurs nicotine I smoke a cigarette I feel stimulated for a while that give me my receptor right so the brain works on the basis of these receptors okay everybody got that yes now what they found was that serotonin which is the feel-good molecule has a structure like this so it fits onto the brain somewhere with this structure of molecules forget the chemistry it just fits like this but they found that with mushrooms very similar structure just one added complex molecules yeah right they found with DMT which is what I'm going to talk about now that it is actually very similar and it just connects in a new way here and LSD is even more complex so the high you get from LSD is extreme it is like how many people have seen the movie Lucy so you know how Lucy's brain goes to 100% right so imagine that LSD would do that with Lucy right LSD is equivalent of that it is a temporary 8-hour Lucy right I would recommend it though but we naturally in our body we produce something called DMT dimethyltryptamine called God molecule and this is the baby that we've been looking for for all these years and I think we finally found it this is the molecule that the pineal gland creates right and the pineal gland when it is not it's a distortion of serotonin so under certain circumstances like excessive sunlight darkness fasting hallucinogens meditation rhythm dancing prancing you will get an awakening inside the pineal gland that release is not serotonin but dimethyltryptamine this there now I'm going to show you a little video by a man called dr. Rick Strassman right who is the scientist at the cutting edge of research into this so we'll just talk about that for a second I was interested in seeing if I could determine a biological basis of mystical states that was probably how things started in the first place and I was quite impressed with some of the commonalities that seem to occur between spontaneously occurring mystical states such as those that occurred with meditation and with spiritual practices and even those described from near-death experiences quite a few of those descriptions seem quite comparable to descriptions of people on large doses and psychedelic drugs and so I started to think about the of the possibility of some kind of compounding the brain with psychedelic properties that could be underlined on some of these spontaneous experience eyes began becoming interested in the pineal gland as a possible source of some kind of psychedelic chemical in the brain it's an extremely mysterious organ it's quite small there seem to be you know some kind of a kind of visual correspondence with light and with color and the pineal I mean also it has quite a long history in the context of the mystical literature it's been described as the third eye and as the crown chakra those kinds of things and it's spoken of as being activated when people obtain quite high mystical States and so one of the interesting aspects of pineal development also is that it appears in the human embryo at around 49 days of gestation and 49 days is also the time that the Tibetans believe is required for one soul to incarnate on to the next is that there was a pretty interesting in a coincidence at the time of the differentiation of the fetus into either male or female that also occurs at that 49 day period and so I was struck with this interesting kind of temporal you know correspondence and so as time went on I started you know look into some of the chemistry of the pineal gland and it seemed as if it was capable of making a compound called DMT the M T stands for dimethyltryptamine it's is like a chemical cousin of serotonin and it's quite a profound hallucinogenic type of chemical it seemed as if the pineal contained all of the precursors and and all the enzymes in all of the building blocks that would be required to make the empty so I started speculating about perhaps there was DMT released in the pineal gland and stimulating the brain under extraordinary states I'm either you know through spontaneous mystical States the time of death or at times close to death and also I started speculating that perhaps it was stimulated at the time of birth as well the pineal gland is extremely well protected from stress but you can stress the pineal gland if the stress is great enough mine Neil's protective mechanism can be overridden and you know so obviously the most stressful time in a person's life is at the time of death the stress hormones like adrenaline and endorphins are at extraordinarily high levels at the time of death and so that could you know possibly stimulate the formation and the release of DMT from the primal and at that time and so you can you know conceive an individual's consciousness after the time of death being exposed to this big flash of DMT and so the last thing one is conscious of in the body is the release of this huge amount of this incredible psychedelic compound so we are beginning to see the mystery unfolding here now little bits of it that means that through hallucinogenic substances or through natural means such as intense meditation intense breathing darkness sitting in caves you know things we've heard wonderful stories about something happens in the body that triggers the pineal gland to release this what they're calling now meta tonin which is DMT and it is the it goes back to that old source of light energy intuition all coming out of it right so we're understanding that in India for example over the last few thousand years we've seen an elaborate technology emerge to awaken this and you can call it yoga you can call it Kundalini Yoga you can call it Kriya you can call it Tantra there are different schools and names but the purpose is the same and you have it in in the West also with Kabbalah with hermeticism with other schools of thought like this which are that can one sitting in meditation awaken this consciousness inside oneself and open one third eye and before it was restricted to mystery school it was restricted to people doing it and the Guru's you know it is still you need guidance you need help but you can achieve it a lot of the young people today in their 20s are trying LSD and DMT all over the world you know it's and we have to understand that there is suddenly and hunger to get beyond religion towards a more mystical and spiritual experience of connection and that's what this is all about let me show you this the Indian system and in the Indian system the concept is that I need to come up to my brain somehow and create a unifying experience that opens my third eye this is my purpose of that third eye meditation and when I do that two things happen one is in the metaphors of in Hinduism Shiva and Shakti unite and I have a unifying experience and I explode and now I have no more duality I'm no more - I am one they found in the Kundalini system that they have two subtle systems that flow on either side of the body the Ada and the Pingala the either you have the goddess energy which is Shakti which is on the left side of the body and the right brain and you have the Shiva energy or the Sun which is the right side and the left brain and when these two marry Shiva Shakti we have that union and so the whole purpose of this meditation is to lift up those to clear them and then up the middle we go and we come to the audio chakra and we explode right now this is also known as that third eye activation we see this over and over again in our metaphors in language so we do know that there is a biology today that can explain the experience of spiritual enlightenment of mystical experiences and I would suggest you this is my argument that this is the root of all religions you know you know everything else is Scripture and metaphor after that and its core is this awakening but I would suggest to you something else that it's actually awakening of three different parts one is the lower part which connects us to earth one is the heart and one is the head now to get to the head we have to go through the heart this is the yoga this is the idea of yoga right you have to climb up it that's why we say essential that's why we say aspiration that's why we say lift your mind because you're going upwards that means we're trying to get to the pineal gland that's what it means the awakening process is what this all these systems are about and whether sri vidhyaa or shaivism or kundalini yoga or Kriya any of these schools teach you these things right but I think that once you understand the science once you understand the metaphysics and where you're coming from you become in a way a better guru for yourself and that's what I am suggesting to you is that you need teachers by all means you need teachers but learn to read the things as they are today and what they mean to you and what they can do for you so what we've learned today is that the lizard brain the reptilian brain if correctly managed can open an pineal gland a third eye in our heads that if managed correctly can take control of our cortex and stop our thinking process which is meditation and then with intention of Samana we can go forward and we can induce an intention I want to be awakened I want to be creative I want to be I want to have insight I want to understand I want to heal I want to have my balance in my life and in the Indian system what they say is that you go out there open that and then you come and live at the heart whether soul lives apparently this is the key that in your heart if you can live in your heart and meet cosmos with your brain this is the the Indian metaphor so you have to balance all three there are many ways to do it as I said Kundalini is definitely one Kriya many people have practice Kriya here I do know that and there are techniques to create awakening you can learn trance is also very powerful trance dance drumming hypnotism these kind of things they really awaken this stuff in you but you try it got to try to keep yourself at that level then you have Tantra and sound and mantra the whole Devi worship the whole using mantra to awaken each part of your body you know each and the whole body is a temple for that goddess when we think of goddess is outside actually your body you're meditating on your body you know this is what your body is Devi is your body you know Shiva is consciousness Shakti is your body the body is the vehicle to achieve Shiva consciousness you know correct thank you sir and Tantra is all about sound and geometry and practices like that when people say oh I'm scared of Tantra or stanza as this and that it's not Tantra just means the mechanism and engine for doing it you know it's a technique it's a technique and most of the techniques that people think of even Transcendental Meditation is Tantra you know Kriya Yoga is Tantra these are all tantric schools right so don't be scared of contra as an idea but understand what it is it is using subtle techniques to awaken different parts right the Sun gazing by the way I've been doing this for a while now and that first hour of the sunrise and that first hour before sunset is when the UV of the Sun is low and it has been shown to clear the pineal gland by Neil gland right and in fact this is now legitimate we're looking at the science of it also right now and if you look at the Sun for starting with 10 seconds then 20 seconds each day more and more you know I'm up to a few minutes now and you stay with that it actually begins to affect your pineal it actually begins do you have more vision you have more different things so these are all techniques what I'm suggesting to you is that you can treat meditation in one of two ways you could treat meditation as a way of just calming down and overcoming stress and worry and fear and anxiety right and mindfulness to be observant to be aware to be in this moment that's the beautiful school of meditation whether it's the personal whether it is you know whatever you want to call it mindfulness whatever you want to call it meditation like that is beautiful but then there's also meditation with intention which we call prayer also which is to turn upwards turn inwards and ask to be lifted up and that's quite something else and I can't tell you that this is religion because I don't have a religious bone in my body like that you know but I do have a mystical bone and that mr. goodwynn tells me that all of us should strive in some way to connect with this in some little way even in our lives and that's going to be a very good experience for all of us when I first started my practices I began to see huge images like this in my head right I don't normally share this but I'm sharing it to all of you because you're all here today to share with me and I wanted to share with you and huge bursts of wind traveling up my spine huge electrical charges all over my body and this is what I used to see then it became more like this right and slowly slowly a bindu started to appear let's split and now it's like this so I'm a practicing believer I can't share anything else but that and I wanted to thank you for that thank you [Applause]

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Keywords: Third Eye, Kundalini, Merkaba, Pineal Gland, Chakras, Agya Chakra, Sacred Geometry, Kriya Yoga, Consciousness

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Length: 59min 22sec (3562 seconds)

Published: Tue May 17 2016

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That was actually fascinating. Thank you for posting.