According to one of the ancient legends that have come down to us, once people and animals had the so-called "third eye". It was located either on the forehead, or somewhere on the back of the head, and supposedly helped our ancestors survey the world for many kilometers around, and also allowed us to read other people's thoughts. The most surprising thing is that today there is evidence of the presence of such an organ in the ancient representatives of the animal world, to which man fully belongs.
So vertebrates have a cranium with a small opening. The opening is connected to the pineal gland, which is located in the very center of the brain. The middle eye of some reptiles from the lizard family was also studied. It turns out that in such amphibians as the tuatara the eyes atrophy during life. Primitive fish, lampreys, have a unique body function that distinguishes them from other representatives of the animal world. This function consists in photosensitivity in the area of the middle eye.
Perhaps dinosaurs also had a "third eye". Traces of it are found on the turtles of long-extinct reptiles, early birds and proto-mammals. Perhaps this strange organ played a significant role in the adaptation of animals to the environment. Experiments on modern reptiles have yielded interesting results. It turns out that the "third eye" could have allowed the detection of a predator. It participates in the thermal regulation of the body, changes in the color of the skin, depending on environmental conditions. The organ even records the intensity of solar radiation and helps determine the time remaining before the mating season.
Perhaps, once the "third eye" happened to be a kind of repository containing the animal's knowledge of the environment. It may well be called the link preceding the emergence of reason.
Why not now suppose that ancient people could also use the "third eye" as a tool that allows them to obtain characteristics of unknown processes and phenomena. If five senses are not enough, why not apply the sixth? This is confirmed by the presence of a small depression on the human skull.
But what about people who can now manage their "sixth sense". Many are quite capable of serious paranormal abilities. This is quite consistent with the third eye hypothesis.
Researcher Steve Nichols back in 1980 put forward the idea of the so-called "phantom eye". This is a kind of analogy with a phantom limb. A person whose limb has been amputated continues to feel it by inertia. Nichols notes that some people who have lost their sight can suddenly see stable pictures, feel the presence of an object nearby, and even describe it in great detail. The blind people Nichols investigated could provide a perfect description of an object that was not even nearby. The sensations were as if they were really seeing something.
Nichols is convinced that the pineal gland somehow combines with the human soul, like a stump and a limb lost by a person. The human brain still continues to "feel" the signals of the "third eye", which is why we see strange hallucinations, moments that have never happened to us.
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Is it possible to make the "third eye" work using artificial methods? The works of a certain man named T. Lobsang Rampa, who called himself a Tibetan lama, were published in the middle of the 20th century in Britain. The lama's book was called The Third Eye. In it, Rampa describes the real events of his life. According to him, in the city of Lhasa, he was artificially opened that "third eye". The result of this insight was that Rampa was able to travel in the so-called subtle body. He visited Venus, where he managed to meet Buddha and Jesus. The Third Eye was not Lobsang Rampa's only book. Other creations of the lama soon came out. Readers simply swept these works off store shelves. But several years passed, and Rampa was exposed. It happened like this: a group of immigrants moved from Tibet to Britain. They read Rampa's books and pointed out that Rampa could not possibly have been a novice of the monastery in Lhasa, since his books do not even hint at the real rituals carried out there. We even managed to find out that Rampa is not Rampa at all, but a certain Cyril Hoskins, who is the son of a Devonshire plumber, and for obvious reasons, can hardly be a lama. Hoskins had never been to Tibet, and he wrote his books when his fantasy was violently played out.when his fantasy was violently played out.when his fantasy was violently played out.
Even today, nothing is known about the fact that Tibetan monks know the solution to the mystery of the "third eye". Whether there is a methodology to uncover it is a mystery. But the fact that people have fantastic abilities that allow them to see through walls, to determine the color of an object in another room is an indisputable fact.
Perhaps the third eye is our subconscious.