WEBVTT - Pineal Optics: My Third Eye 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:05.960 Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from How Stuff 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:13.680 Weren't dot Com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your mind. 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:15.880 My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas, and 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:18.840 today we're rolling out an older episode we did Pennel 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.759 Optics My Third Eye. We think it's a really fascinating one. 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:25.360 We think you might enjoy it for the first time 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:26.960 or for the second time if you listened to it 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:30.680 during its initial errands. Yeah. And another reason why you 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:33.640 wanted to bring it out today is because Robert's third 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:38.199 eye has been winking all day at people, and so 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.400 we thought, yeah, this is it's time. This is what 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:44.519 the eye wants. Yeah, yeah, my my flash opened up. 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.880 It's it keeps making weird, awkward eye contact with people. 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:50.199 I don't know what I'm gonna do. I guess an 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:52.519 eye patches in order. We'll see how it goes. It 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:54.880 doesn't help that you put a smalllse eyelashes on it 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.360 as well. You know, I wanted to look pretty because 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.240 that's one of them. You know, you wanted to lend 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:01.480 in with the other eyes. You don't want it to 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:03.800 feel left out. That's true, all right. We hope that 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:13.319 you guys, enjoy this all right, So obviously we're gonna 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:18.600 talk about the pennel gland and also called the third eye. Yes, yeah, 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:20.720 so the third eye for for those of you who 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.039 have not been exposed to it. Where we're gonna start 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:27.280 out with just a brief discussion about the non scientific 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:31.720 idea of the third eye, that being that there is this, uh, 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.399 we have the two eyes with which we see the world, 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:39.120 but that buried inside us, there's this third eye that 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:41.200 if we are too if we open it, we can 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.479 see something that isn't there, or something that is hidden 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:47.680 from our normal perceptions of the world, that we will 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.640 be able to see, uh, the spiritual aspects of the 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:52.960 world around us. Sour see into the future or see 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:56.880 into the now. Um. It really depends on who's doing 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:00.200 the talking as to what a third eye actually only 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.600 consists of. You see, you see various takes on this 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:08.560 in Hinduism. Um, if you've ever looked at any Hindu iconography, 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.720 then you've you've no doubt seen like the flaming eye 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:16.040 of Um of of Shiva, that that burns and shoots 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:20.040 out flames. You if you're familiar with with with the dyoga, 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.600 for instance, you probably know of the ana chakra. This 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.560 is a positioned supposedly position in the brain right behind 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.880 the eyebrows center. And this involves you know, future site 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:32.240 clear sight, presence, or even occult powers depending on who 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.840 again is doing the talking. You see, uh, you see 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:39.720 the third eye in Kabbala, in Taoism, in various New 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:43.880 Age ideas and uh and you know even in heavy 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.760 metal lyrics from time to time as well. Also Gwen Stefani, 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.440 well you know she used to, Yeah, the bindy is 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.600 a reference to to the third eye, into the into 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.919 the chakra and all that. Um. So, yeah, anytime someone's 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:00.720 wearing a bindy, they may not know it. They might 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:04.880 just be wearing it for purely uh you know, ornamental reasons. 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.119 But but there is this idea of the third eye 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.600 buried in that. What I think is so fascinating about 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.520 this topic is that the third eye has been something 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.480 that has been subolic symbolic to us, right, this idea 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.560 of seeing and seeing all. But really it does have 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.600 roots envision and we will talk about that via the 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.959 pineal gland. Um. So, what is cool about this is 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:30.080 that somehow humans had sort of an inkling that this 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:34.480 third eye um might have actually been something within their 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.120 own brains that was giving them some sort of insight 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:41.240 or sensorial experience. And we'll talk more about that a bit. Yeah, 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.920 So first, let's let's back up just a little bit 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:48.520 about about the pineal gland and its history and its 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:52.320 connotations and associations with the idea of a third eye 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.760 and spiritual insight and all of this. If you go 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:57.640 back in time to around two thousand, you had this 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:01.960 man by the name of Galen Uh Greek medical doctor philosopher, 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.320 spent most of his time in Rome, and Uh he 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.960 wrote on a number of things, but he his writings 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.520 dominated medical thinking like on up until the seventeenth century. 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.280 And he did discuss the pineal gland in his eighth book, 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:17.760 uh of his anatomical work on the usefulness of the 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.839 parts of the body. And he was really more interested 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.720 in the pineal gland than than anyone at that time 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.960 or for you know, for years and years afterwards. Now, 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.880 this was a time when when there there was this 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:33.719 idea that the ventricles in the brain flowed with something 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:37.080 called psychic numa, and numa is supposedly the breath of 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:42.120 life in Stoic philosophy. It's this uh fine vaporous substance 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:46.960 that Galen described as the first instrument of the soul. Okay, 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:52.599 so imagine these these these old thinkers and philosophers, and 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.320 you know they're they're trying to understand how the world works, 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:59.520 how the human body works. Um there working with limited 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.359 tool though at their disposal, and they have only the 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.280 knowledge that came before them, with which you understand it. Right. 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.719 So there they have this idea of psychic numa in 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:13.159 their mind and they're poking around in um the brain 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.320 of of a corpse to see what they can find 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.720 and see what seems to do what. So when when 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.960 Galen looked at the pennel and uh, and he in 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.400 his book he describes the penel and talks about its 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.159 resemblance in shape and size to nuts found in the 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.200 cones of the stone pine. And that's where we get 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:32.159 the name peneal pine. Uh that next time you have 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.280 pine nuts about. Yeah. So he's poking around in the brain, 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.200 finds the pineal gland, but he doesn't see it as 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.880 really involving any of this numa, any of this spiritual stuff, 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.360 because he notices that it is outside that's something outside 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.520 of the brain, and he thinks that the part of 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:49.839 the brain that's gonna be involved in regulating psychic numa 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.400 is gonna be uh something that we call the vermis 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:56.200 Supper of Sarah Belli uh in the cerebellum. And he 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.599 figured that was much more proper to play, to play 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.880 that role. But uh okay, So after his death again, 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:06.080 his his work continues to remain important. Uh. In medieval texts, 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:10.120 it is misinterpreted a few times, and it eventually the 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.360 idea that the peneal gland is involved with the human 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:17.560 spirit um and in our spiritual essence resurfaces. And that's 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.080 a long run, by the way, right up to the 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.280 seventeenth century. Yeah, indeed, I mean, you know, incertainly, these 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.640 classical thinkers, I mean many of them are still we 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.800 still hold them up high today. They were, they were groundbreakers. 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.479 So the seventeenth century rolls around and we have a 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.360 guy named reneed to Carts, who most people are familiar with, right, 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:37.320 because what's his famous quote? I think therefore I am yes, yeah, 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:39.800 easy to remember for me, because it was there was 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.240 a money python song about philosophers. The Australian Philosopher's Song. 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.040 There's a really bad joke too about how a way 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.599 to ask him if if he would like dessert and 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.240 he says, I think not, and then he keels over. 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:57.200 That's pretty good. Um. So reneed to Carts is, you know, 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.320 primarily known for his contributions to mathematics and philosophy, but 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.520 he was also really interested in anatomy and psychic and 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:07.440 in psychology as well. So he ends up doing a 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.160 lot of thinking about what it is to be human 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.160 and then the biological aspect of that. And in this book, 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:16.960 The Treaties of Man, he describes a conceptual model of 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:20.160 a human which consists of two parts, body and soul. 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.520 So the Cards works up this theory that the pineal 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.640 gland is the seat of the census communists. In other words, 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:28.880 it's the input. It's where the input of the senses 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.920 are bound into an understanding of the world. So we 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:37.160 see it involved according to the Deck hearts and sensation, imagination, memory, 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:41.560 and uh and bodily movement. Now Deckart's theory would would 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:43.240 go on to be very important. A lot of people 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:44.840 would really take this and run with it, because he's 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.280 an important man, saying some really awesome things about this 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:53.080 little tiny pine nut in our in our heads. However, 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.760 it's important to note that he was not really he 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.760 wasn't even really working with the best anatomical and physiological 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.080 asumptions of the time. So he's he's really kind of 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.360 going off in his own direction on this, but it 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.920 continues to be important. Towards the end of the nineteenth century. 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:10.840 You see Madame Blavatsky, the founder of Theosophy, and she 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.200 really gets into the idea of the third eye um 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.200 and in the pennel and compares it to the eye 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:20.840 of Shiva, and she really argues that the penneal gland 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:26.480 is an atrophied organ of spiritual vision. Switch Again, as 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:28.920 we've discussed, there's this idea of this third eye hidden 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.640 inside as that allows us some sort of sight that 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.800 we have forgotten and that can on some level be 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.840 attained again. Okay, so again what I find really interesting 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:39.920 about that is that there are seeds of truth to 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.600 that in terms of the tissues of the pineal gland. 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:44.959 And again we'll talk about that more and more scientific terms, 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:49.720 but this inkling that this there's this uh sensory perception 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:53.640 center in the pineal gland is correct. Yeah, And you 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.480 can also get behind the idea that there is an 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.360 ancient form of sight involved in the pineal gland. Some 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.640 of the theories back that up as well, but it's 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:05.320 not attuned with the spirit per se. By the end 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.280 of the podcast, will come back around to an inkling 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.560 of some of those ideas. But but for the most part, 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.880 from here on in, put the spiritual world behind you, 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:16.359 because it's all going to be about seeing an evolution. 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:21.280 So if we crack open the skull as uh as 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:24.160 Galen did, uh and we take a look at the penial, 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:25.840 what are we gonna see? We're gonna see a small 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.360 organ to shave like a pine nut. And it's located 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.120 on the midline, attached to the posterior end of the 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.160 roof of the third ventricle in the brain. Now, in 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:38.520 a human it's roughly a centimeter in length, varies and 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:42.520 it is composed of penniless sites and glial cells, and 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:46.160 in older animals the o pennial often contains brain sand, 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.880 which are just calcium deposits. But I do love the 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:53.440 idea of brain sand. Um, yeah, it is essentially an 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:56.600 endocrine organ, right, But I did want to mention that 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.679 when the human embryo is in the earliest stage of development, 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.559 cells that will form the penel gland have the potential 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.920 known as the differential excuse me to Frenchian potential to 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:12.600 become I cells such as lens, epiphilial layer or retina 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:14.840 neuron cells. So in other words, it has all the 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.960 ingredients to make a brand new eye, but it forms 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:24.160 into this endocrine organ which produces the hormone melotonin. Yeah. Again, 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:27.200 and at a cellular level, it is astonishingly similar to 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.400 the eye um, particularly to the cellular structure of the retina. 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.839 So it's not just a thing where someone founded they're like, 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:35.600 it kind of looks like an eye, because it really 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.600 doesn't really look like an eye. But but at at 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:43.000 a cellular level, and again in early and it's in development, 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:46.880 we see the connections to our actual eyes. Yeah, and 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.560 there's a great connection to as you say, evolution when 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:51.360 we look at the reason for this why this penel 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.760 gland exists. But before we do that, let's talk a 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:57.000 little bit more about the melotonin um and its role, 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.280 because what we have found is that the human peneal 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.760 gland regulates the rhythm that beats out of the biological 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:08.160 clocks of ourselves by secreting melotonin according to light stimulus 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.120 received through the eyes and from the skin as well 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.600 as other cells. So in the morning, the level of 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:17.000 melotonin secreted is low, in the evening it's high. And 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.280 then the benefit of exposure to natural light in the 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:23.719 morning is that the secretion of melotonin is curbed, enabling 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.040 the body to keep its daily rhythm on track. Now, 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.680 that seems kind of straightforward and so what, but that's 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.360 kind of a big uh, that's a big deal production 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.880 going on. Yeah, And we've talked before about the importance 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.400 of melotonin and serotonin in the human mind and the 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.480 human body. I mean, it's it has everything to do 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:43.280 with our our biological patterns. It had with our our 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:47.360 our level of contentment with the world and uh, and 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.120 certainly has come up in our discussions of various um 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.320 psychedelic properties as well. Yeah, And if you think about 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.880 the peneal gland too, it's kind of like the control 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.320 tower of the body trying to really sense to what 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.319 degree it needs to secrete the melotona. Remember that it's 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.000 getting these cues from skin cells, other cells in the 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:08.120 body um as well as the eye. Yeah, you can 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.319 think of it as a transducer, Okay. The pinnel transduces 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:15.400 signals from the sympathetic nerve system into a hormonal signal. 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.400 So it's like, you know, if you're assembling the human body, 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:23.080 you say, out of an IKEA kit, and you might 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.120 see the pennel in its own little little plastic bag there, 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.360 and you might well leave it out during the confusing 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:33.520 assembly process, but you would definitely notice that result. That 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.040 is a that is an important little nut to screw 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.640 into the finished works. That's right, even with that tiny, little, 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.280 tiny little uh what is that supposed to be? I 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:46.640 guess like a screwdriver, Alan rinch, the Alan rich That's 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.800 the thing is crazy? Um that that has got to 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:53.679 be the most frustrating tool in existence. UM. I wanted 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:55.800 to mention that in the animals, the pineal gland is 0:12:55.840 --> 0:13:00.880 really paramount to reproductive functions since the detection of increased light, 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.520 let's say in this spring, by the peneal gland adjust 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.080 the secretion of melotonin and then that sends this whole 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.800 symphony of cues to the animal's body to begin preparing 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.280 for the breeding season. So if you look at horses 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:17.080 and sheep, This involves a hypothalamus secreting the anterior pituitary 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:20.920 hormones which then essentially said nowt yep, I'm gonna say it, 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.280 go now a tropin. And this is a hormone aimed 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.640 at bolstering the animals go now ads and getting them 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.960 ready for breeding. Yeah, yeah, I was. I read a 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.559 bit which said that and when you're breeding sheep, um, 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.360 sheep that normally breed only once a year can be 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.920 induced to into two breeding seasons if you dose them 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:41.360 up with melatonin. Yep, exactly. And we've seen this in 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.040 the examples with other animals too as well. Um. So 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:47.599 I wanted to mention this because I think this is 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:51.240 really interesting. Um this role of melotonin. Again, we just 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.400 think of it as well that helps us to sleep 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:57.400 and um, you know, have this wakefulness and not have wakefulness. 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.840 But I read this really very interesting study about how 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:04.880 malfunctioning circadian rhythm genes could be the basis for bipolar 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:08.360 disorder in children, many of whom are plagued with the 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.640 onset of sleep disorders at an early age. Um. And 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.679 this is really a big detail that sets bipolar disorder 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.120 apart from a d h D and kids um this 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.880 sort of messed up sleep cycle or sleep disorders. R 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.680 O r N genes are expressed in the eye, brain, 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.600 and peneal gland, and in a study of one hundred 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:30.120 and fifty two bipolar children and one hundred forty children 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:34.120 as a control these children, obviously we're not bipolar or 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:39.720 thought to be, Psychiatrist Alexander Nicolausku of Indiana University found 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:43.320 four alterations to the r O r B jene that 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:47.160 were positively associated with being bipolar. So r O r 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.560 B expression is known to change as a function of 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.760 the circadian rhythm in some tissues, and mice without the 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:56.880 gene exhibit circadian rhythm abnormalities. So what they began to 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:00.360 see is that this this correlation with mal a tone 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:05.720 in and with disorders like this are hand in hand, 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:10.440 and Nicolaski says that every time we investigate some abnormality 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:13.640 of molecular machinery linked to the clock genes, we find 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:17.640 an association with bipolar disorder. So obviously there needs to 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:19.960 be more research, but it shows promise in the treatment 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.240 and that researchers have been on the right path and 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:26.720 strictly regulating a bipolar patients sleep schedule to improve extreme 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:30.960 mood cycles that you see in bipolar disorder. Again, here's 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:34.680 this pineal gland, the controlled tower, but you know, trying 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.600 to give out the signals to the body. And it 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.320 shows that something like this can really sort of go 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.400 awry if if it's not all regulated. So, I know 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.160 what you're wondering, where does it come from the pineal gland? 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:46.920 How do how do we end up with this this 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:50.440 thing that is in many ways, in many interpretations, a 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.520 kind of primitive eye buried in the center of our 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:57.320 skull without any actual um chance to glimpse the light. 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:01.240 It ends up being this is mere transducer. Well, it's 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.800 a good question, and I'm glad you asked it because 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.400 because that's what we're going to talk about you. So 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.040 this really gets down to questions of the evolution of 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.720 the human high and the evolution of sight and um. 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:15.560 And when you start thinking about ocular evolution, we're talking 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:19.080 about really old business here, like really important like when 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:20.960 you're starting a business, like what are some of the 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:22.960 first things you have to have, right, You've got to 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.160 have you gotta have the building you had at the bathroom, 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.480 and the first people you hire, maybe you know, you 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.200 you've gotta have the key people on staff before you 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.600 staff up from there. So when we're talking about the 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:36.360 development of the eye, we're talking about some very old 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.600 business and a lot of stuff ends up built up 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.480 around it. So it it makes sense when we start 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:44.320 talking about the ramifications of of melotonin levels on all 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.720 these varying levels of of of animal activity, because it's 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:51.040 it's route down to the to some of the earliest development. 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:55.680 So the eye has been around for a while and 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:56.960 if you look at the eye of a human the 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.360 eye of a fish, they're not all that different. So 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.640 it goes back a long ways in evolution. But if 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.600 you go back far enough in our development, you find 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:10.560 a cyclops, or more specifically, you find something called a lanceolate, 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:13.200 and these are primitive creatures. They're still around to day, 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:16.520 and they have just one eye. Now, a couple of 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.080 the main theories about the pennial evolution come down to 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:23.800 this idea of developing two eyes from one. All right, 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:28.520 so back in the day simple organisms one eye, and 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:32.560 then his evolution progresses. This ide divides into left and right. 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:36.080 Now this is all predicated on the primordial brain. Like 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:39.200 this primitive brain that's just the solid mass, that's a 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.520 big ball. It hasn't divided yet into the right and 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:45.159 left heap sphere. So the brain divides into two and 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:48.600 then from one eye we get two eyes now and 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:50.960 then there there you can the various takes on which 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:53.400 came first, chicken or egg? Does the brain split because 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:55.680 the eye splits? Or does does the eye split because 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.480 the brain splits? Um? You can sort of go either 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:03.000 ways on that too. Particularly interesting theories that stem from that. 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:06.960 First of all, there's one here from Professor Masusuki Iraqi 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:10.720 of nar Women's University, and Professor Araki believes that the 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.320 third eye comes into being during the transition from one 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:16.560 eye to two. The position that Iraqi is describing is 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.119 that this the single eye pulls to the left and 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:23.520 right and uh and divided. Uh, an eye remains in 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.240 the spot where the single eye had originally been. So 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:28.960 the third eye then is not the third to be created, 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:32.920 but the first, the original. So it's uh so we 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:35.160 what we think of as the third eye is essentially 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:39.280 the tissue, the prime big primordial tissue, primordial eye, really 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.480 very simple I right, that had that was able to 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:47.000 then sort of secrete itself back into our brains a bit. Yeah, 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:49.800 because we've discussed with the way the human body works. 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:53.520 It's something doesn't just become useless overnight and fall off 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:57.160 of us, you know. It's that gets sometimes sometimes well 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:00.200 sometimes but but but but for for the most part, 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.320 things get tucked away, Things get to get to get 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:05.480 hidden in case they're used later. Our body can be 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.960 sort of a hoarder in that example. Another theory comes 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:12.320 to us from David Klein, PhD. And he and he 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:15.119 works for the National Suit of Help UM. He has 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:18.520 this theory that it all comes down to UM to 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:23.800 melatonin again and in the head, in the brain, and 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.080 then the idea here is that roughly five million years ago, 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.760 the ancestors of today's animals became dependent on melatonin as 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:32.439 a signal of darkness, and as the need for more 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:35.280 and more melatonin grows, the pineal gland develops as a 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.600 structure separate from the eyes to keep the toxic substances 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.199 UM needed to make melotonin away from sensitive eye tissue. 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:46.040 That's because this whole process of adoption and all other 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:49.720 chemicals sort of interacting with one another, right, and the 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:53.240 more distance you have, the better UM. In this making 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.800 of melatonin so if you have that distance, then you 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:59.280 are making sure that your eyes are not going to 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:01.960 be effective the chemical that's sort of like the really 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:04.600 very shallow dive on that. But I kind of feel 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:08.080 like both of them are correct because if you have this, 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:10.879 you know, primitive brain, that's just a ball, but then 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.840 uh evolved into this right and left hemisphere, and then 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:17.560 you've got the tissue. Well, as you say, the body 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:19.680 is really good at saying okay, hey, you're sitting around, 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.959 why don't you do something? You jumping some some toxic 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:25.080 stuff in there and end up some allotron and we're 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:26.520 not using that room for anything. And so we see 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:28.560 the same thing with our office here. We only have 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:31.280 so much room to work with, and in an office 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:35.000 goes empty for too long, the video department will move 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:37.440 some stuff in there and start filming some some skits 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:40.679 and segments. The void gets filled. Yeah, um, and then 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:42.879 they all that you know. Of course, then someone is 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:46.800 the control tower of the light source and all the offices, 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:50.399 much like the pineal gland, controlling the to what degree 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:53.719 we are exposed to them. Um. So yeah, I think 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:55.879 that is our earth. I think it's so fascinating to 0:20:56.160 --> 0:21:00.320 to see how the human body can adapt like that. Um, 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:02.320 and not just human body, but if you look at 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:06.040 the lancelet, this is really primitive creature. How the beginnings 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:11.040 of that show, how this this evolvement of our eye 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:14.360 systems and our penny all gland also it came together. Yeah. Now, 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:19.040 when I was describing Iraqi's theory and you're imagining this 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:21.200 one eye in the middle of a head, I ended 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:23.600 up imagining a human face. Um, well actually your face 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:25.520 since it's the one I'm looking at, imagining an eye 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:27.360 in the center of your head, and then the two 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:30.640 eyes coming out and then this uh, this primordial eye receding. 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:33.159 So you're you may be wondering, was there ever a 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:36.760 time when you have three eyes? Three or at least 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:42.040 three ocular units on the face. And yes, we're going 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:45.240 to discuss. We're glad you asked, because we're going to 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:48.240