WEBVTT - Pineal Optics: My Third Eye 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:06.720 Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:13.800 Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:16.840 My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas. Julie, 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:19.479 do you ever open your third eye? Do you have 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.639 access to your third eye? Yeah? I opened up sometimes. 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:25.319 I'm index it. Get it a little squeaky clean. What 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:29.040 about you? Um, I guess it's mostly dormant, you know, 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:32.199 but in yoga there's a lot of talk about it, 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:36.000 so you know, occasionally we're talking about chakras and third eye. 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:38.920 So I get into that a little bit. You know. 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:40.320 I don't want to freak you out or anything of 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:42.720 but it it's kind of winking at me right now. Yeah, 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.839 it's pull sating under there. Oh, that might be a boil. Okay, 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:50.400 all right, So obviously we're gonna talk about the pennel 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.760 gland and it's also called the third eye. Yes, yeah, 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:55.959 so the third eye for for those of you who 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.200 have not been exposed to it, where we're gonna start 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:02.440 out with just a brief discussion about the non scientific 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:07.200 idea of the third eye, that being that there is this, uh, 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:09.640 we have the two eyes with which we see the world, 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:14.320 but that buried inside us. There's this third eye that 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:16.400 if we are too, if we open it, we can 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.679 see something that isn't there, or something that is hidden 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.640 from our normal perceptions of the world that we we 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:25.800 will be able to see uh, the spiritual aspects of 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:27.760 the world around us, or see into the future, or 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:31.800 see into the now. Um. It really depends on who's 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:35.280 doing the talking as to what a third eye actually 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.720 consists of. You see, you see various takes on this 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:43.720 in Hinduism. Um. If you've ever looked at any Hindu iconography, 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.919 then you've you've no doubt seen like the flaming eye 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:50.880 of Um, of the of Shiva, that that burns and 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:54.680 shoots out flames. You. If you're familiar with with with 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.600 the yoga, for instance, you probably know of the ana chakra. 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.480 This is a position supposedly positioned in the main right 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:04.080 behind the eyebrows center and this involves you know, future site, 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.440 clear side presence, or even occult powers depending on who 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:11.000 again is doing the talking. You see, uh. You see 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:14.919 the third eye in Kabbalah, in Taoism, in various New 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:19.040 Age ideas and uh. And you know even in heavy 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.960 metal lyrics from time to time as well. Also Gwin Stefanie, 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.000 well you know she used to wear the Yeah, the 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:29.960 bindy is a reference to to the third eye, into 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.440 the into the chakra and all that. Um. So, yeah, 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:35.400 anytime someone's wearing a bindy, they may not know it. 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.400 They might just be wearing it for purely uh you know, 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.800 ornamental reasons. But but there is this idea of the 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.519 third eye in that. What I think is so fascinating 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:48.280 about this topic is that the third eye has been 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.280 something that has been sabol symbolic to us, right, this 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.520 idea of seeing and seeing all. But really it does 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.600 have roots envision and we will talk about that via 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:01.160 the pineal gland. Um. So it's cool about this is 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:05.280 that somehow humans had sort of an inkling that this 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:09.680 third eye um might have actually been something within their 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.320 own brains that was giving them some sort of insight 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:16.440 or sensorial experience. And we'll talk more about that a bit. Yeah, 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:20.000 so first let's uh, let's back up just a little 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.480 bit about about the pineal gland and its history and 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:27.200 its connotations and associations with the idea of a third 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.960 eye and spiritual insight and all this. If you go 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.440 back in time, to around two thousand a d. You 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.640 had this man by the name of Galen, uh Greek 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.800 medical doctor philosopher, spent most of his time in Rome, 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.280 and uh he wrote on a number of things, but 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.600 he his writings dominated medical thinking like on up until 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.680 the seventeenth century. And he did discuss the pineal gland 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.960 in his eighth book UH of his anatomical work on 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:55.240 the usefulness of the parts of the body. And he 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.320 was really more interested in the pineal gland than than 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.240 anyone um at that time, or for you know, for 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.720 years and years afterwards. Now, this was a time when 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.320 when there there was this idea that the ventricles in 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.760 the brain flowed with something called psychic numa. And numa 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.520 is supposedly the breath of life in Stoic philosophy. It's 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:19.320 this uh fine vaporous substance that Galen described as the 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:24.279 first instrument of the soul. Okay, So imagine these uh, 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:28.560 these these old thinkers and UH philosophers, and you know 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:30.520 they're they're trying to understand out how the world works, 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:35.200 how the human body works. Um. There working with limited tools, 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.520 though at their disposal, and and they have only the 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.440 knowledge that came before them with which to understand it. Right. 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:43.880 So there they have this idea of psychic numa in 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:48.360 their mind and they're poking around in um the brain 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.479 of of a corpse to see what they can find 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:52.920 and see what seems to do what. So when when 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.080 Galen looked at the pennel and uh, and he in 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.560 his book he describes the penel and talks about its 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.359 resemblance in shape and size to nuts found in the 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:03.320 cones of the stone pine. And that's will we made 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:07.160 the name peneal pine. Uh. Think about that next time 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.240 you have pine nuts. Yeah. So he's spoking around in 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.000 the brain, finds a pineal gland, but he doesn't see 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.800 it as really involving any of this numa, any of 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:19.640 this spiritual stuff, because he notices that it is outside. 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.120 It's something outside of the brain. And he thinks that 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:23.719 the part of the brain that's going to be involved 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.760 in regulating psychic numa is gonna be uh, something that 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.760 we call the vernis supier of Sarah Belli uh in 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.160 the Sarahbellum Uh. And then he figured that was much 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.800 more proper to play, to play that role. But okay, 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.560 so after his death again, his his work continues to 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:43.280 remain important. Uh. In medieval texts, it is misinterpreted a 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.119 few times, and it eventually the idea that the pineal 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.279 gland is involved with the human spirit um and in 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:53.320 our spiritual essence resurfaces. And and that's a long run, 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.080 by the way, right up to the seventeenth century. Yeah, indeed, 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.400 I mean, you know, and certainly these classical thinkers, I 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.360 mean many of them are still we still hold them 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.640 up high today. They were, they were groundbreakers. So the 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.160 seventeenth century rolls around and we have a guy named 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.560 reneed to Carts who most people are familiar with, right, 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:12.520 because what's his famous quote? I think therefore I am yes, yeah, 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:14.960 easy to remember for me because it was there was 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.440 a money python song about philosophers, the Australian Philosopher's Song. 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:21.320 There's a really bad joke too about how a waiter 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:24.200 asked him if if he would like dessert and he says, 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:30.000 I think not, and then he kills over. That's pretty good. Um. 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.279 So reneed to Carts is, you know, primarily known for 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.000 his contributions to mathematics and philosophy, but he was also 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:40.239 really interested in anatomy psycho and in psychology as well, 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.640 So he ends up doing a lot of thinking about 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.640 what it is to be human and then the biological 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.279 aspect of that. And in this book, The Treaties of Man, 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:53.479 he describes a conceptual model of a human which consists 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:57.000 of two part body and soul. So the Carts works 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.520 up this theory that the pineal gland is the seat 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.479 of the sin. This communists in other words, it's the input. 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:04.920 It's where the input of the senses are bound into 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:09.000 an understanding of the world. So we see it involved 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:13.000 according to the deck Heart's in sensation, imagination, memory, and 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:17.040 uh and bodily movement. Now Deckart's theory would would go 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:18.680 on to be very important. A lot of people would 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.120 really take this and run with it, because it's an 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.920 important man saying some really awesome things about this little 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:28.760 tiny pine nut in our in our heads. However, it's 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.320 important to note that he was not really he wasn't 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:35.600 even really working with the best anatomical and physiological assumptions 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.480 of the time, so he's he's really kind of going 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.960 off in his own direction on this, but it continues 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.120 to be important towards the end of the nineteenth century. 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:46.040 You see Madam Blavatsky, the founder of theosophy, and she 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.400 really gets into the idea of the third eye um 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.200 and and and the pennel and compares it to the 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:55.160 eye of Shiva, and she really argues that the pennel 0:07:55.440 --> 0:08:01.400 land is an atrophied organ of spiritual vision. Switch Again, 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:03.760 as we've discussed, there's this idea of this third eye 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.040 hidden inside as that allows us some sort of sight 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.800 that we have forgotten and that can on some level 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.640 be attained again. Okay, so again what I find really 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:14.880 interesting about that is that there are seeds of truth 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.800 to that in terms of the tissues of the pineal gland. 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.160 And again we'll talk about that more and more scientific terms. 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:24.920 But this inkling that this there's this uh sensory perception 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:28.840 center in the pineal gland is correct. Yeah, and you 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.680 can also get behind the idea that there is an 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.520 ancient form of sight involved in the pineal gland. Some 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.840 of the theories back that up as well, but it's 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:40.520 not attuned with the spirit per se. By the end 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:42.480 of the podcast, will come back around to an inkling 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.760 of some of those ideas, but but for the most part, 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.080 from here on in put the spiritual world behind you, 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.560 because it's all going to be about seeing an evolution. 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:56.480 So if we crack open the skull as uh as 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.319 Galen did uh and we take a look at the pineal, 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.040 what are we gonna see. We're gonna see a small 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.680 organ shap like a pine nut, and it's located on 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.600 the midline attached to the posterior end of the roof 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.439 of the third ventricle in the brain. Now, in a 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:14.120 human it's roughly a cinamater in length varies, and it 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.760 is composed of penniless sites and glial cells, and in 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:22.079 older animals, the apennial often contains brain sand, which are 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.560 just calcium deposits. But I do love the idea of 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:30.280 brain sand. Um. Yeah, it is essentially an endocrine organ, right, 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.600 But I did want to mention that when the human 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.600 embryo is in the earliest stage of development, the cells 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.199 that will form the penneil gland have the potential known 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:42.640 as the differential excuse me to Frenchian potential to become 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:48.640 I cells such as lens, epiphilial layer or retina neuron cells. 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.000 So in other words, it has all the ingredients to 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.320 make a brand new eye, but it forms into this 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:59.440 endocrine organ which produces the hormone melatonin. Yeah. Again, and 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.400 it is cell your level, it is astonishingly similar to 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.880 the eye um, particularly to the cellular structure of the retina. 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.080 So it's not just a thing where someone founded they're like, 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:10.800 it kind of looks like an eye, because it really 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.800 doesn't really look like an eye, but but at at 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.319 a cellular level. And again, uh, in early and it's 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:21.880 into development we see the connections to our actual eyes. Yeah, 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.439 and there's a great connection to as you say, evolution 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.200 when we look at the reason for this why this 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.800 peneon gland exists. But before we do that, let's talk 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.200 a little bit more about the melotonin um and its role, 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.480 because what we have found is that the human peneal 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.960 gland regulates the rhythm that beats out of the biological 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:43.319 clots of ourselves by secreting melotonin according to light stimulus 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.280 received through the eyes and from the skin as well 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.760 as other selves. So in the morning, the level of 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.200 melotonin secreted is low, in the evening it's high. And 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.480 then the benefit of exposure to natural light in the 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:58.880 morning is that the secretion of melotonin is curbed, enabling 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.360 the body to keep daily rhythm on track. Now, that 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.040 seems kind of straightforward and so what, but that's kind 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:07.480 of a big uh that's a big deal production going on. Yeah, 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:09.880 And we've talked before about the importance of melotonin and 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:13.480 serotonin in the human mind and the human body. I mean, 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.720 it's it has everything to do with our our biological patterns. 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:20.680 It had with our our our level of contentment with 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.319 the world and uh and certainly has come up in 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:27.760 our discussions of various uh um psychedelic properties as well. Yeah, 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.040 and if you think about the penneal gland too, it's 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.920 kind of like the control tower of the body, trying 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.080 to really sense to what degree it needs to secrete 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.520 the melotonin. Remember that it's getting these cues from skin cells, 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:43.000 other cells in the body um as well as the eye. Yeah, 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.240 you can think of it as a transducer, Okay. The 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:49.560 pennel transduces signals from the sympathetic nerve system into a 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:53.439 hormonal signal. So it's like, uh, you know, if you're 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:57.000 assembling the human body, you say, out of an Ikea kit, 0:11:57.800 --> 0:11:59.600 and you might see the pineal in its own little 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.080 little plastic bag there, and you might well leave it 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:07.079 out during the confusing assembly process, but you would definitely 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.880 notice that result. That is a that is an important 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:13.319 little nut to screw into the finished works. That's right, 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.640 even with that tiny, little, tiny little uh what is 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.920 that supposed to be? I guess like a screwdriver, Alan 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.120 the Alan rinch looking thin. That's the thing is crazy? 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.959 Um that that has got to be the most frustrating 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.480 tool in existence. Um. I wanted to mention that in 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:33.720 the animals, the pineal gland is really paramount to reproductive 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.920 functions since the detection of increased light, let's say in 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.280 the spring by the peneal gland and just the secretion 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.920 of melotonin and then that sends this whole symphony of 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.240 cues to the animal's body to begin preparing for the 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:47.959 breeding season. So if you look at horses and sheep, 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:53.400 this involves a hypothalamus secreating the anterior pituitary hormones which 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.480 then essentially said out, yeah, I'm gonna say it, go 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.560 now a tropin And this is a hormone aimed at 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:03.040 bolstering the animals going ads and getting them ready for breeding. Yeah, yeah, 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.240 I was. I read a bit which said that when 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:08.559 you're breeding sheep, um, sheep, that normally breed only once 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.720 a year can be induced to into two breeding seasons 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:15.599 if you dose them up with melotona. Yep, exactly. And 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:19.280 we've seen this in examples with other animals too as well. UM, 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.599 So I wanted to mention this because I think this 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:26.120 is really interesting. Um, this role of milotonin. Again, we 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.560 just think of it as well that helps us to sleep, 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:32.160 and um, you know, have this wakefulness and not have wakefulness. 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.920 But I read this really very interesting study about how 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:40.000 malfunctioning circadian rhythm genes could be the basis for bipolar 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:43.520 disorder in children, many of whom are plagued with the 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.760 onset of sleep disorders at an early age. UM. And 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.800 this is really a big detail that sets bipolar disorder 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.319 apart from a d h D and kids, Um, this 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:56.079 sort of messed up sleep cycle or sleep disorders. R 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.839 O r N genes are expressed in the eye, brain 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.800 and pineal gland in. In a study of one hundred 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.280 and fifty two bipolar children and one hundred forty children 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:09.280 as a control, these children, obviously we're not bipolar or 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:14.880 thought to be. Psychiatrist Alexander Nicolausku of Indiana University found 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:18.480 four alterations to the r O r B gene that 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:22.320 were positively associated with being bipolar. So r O r 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:24.720 B expression is known to change as a function of 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.880 the circadian rhythm in some tissues, and mice without the 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:32.040 gene exhibit circadian rhythm abnormalities. So what they began to 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:37.680 see is that this this correlation with melotonum and with 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:42.800 disorders like this are hand in hand. And Nicolaski says 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:47.000 that every time we investigate some abnormality of molecular machinery 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.000 linked to the clock genes, we find an association with 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.440 bipolar disorder. So obviously there needs to be more research, 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:55.880 but it shows promise in the treatment and that researchers 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.880 have been on the right path and strictly regulating a 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.680 bipolar patients leap schedule to improve extreme mood cycles that 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:07.080 you see in bipolar disorder. Again, here's this pineal gland, 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.240 the controlled tower, but you know, trying to give out 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.760 the signals to the body. And it shows that something 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.960 like this can really sort of go awry if if 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.120 it's not all regulated. So I know what you're wondering, 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.680 where does it come from the pineal gland? How do 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:22.520 how do we end up with this this thing that 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.880 is in many ways and in many interpretations, a kind 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:29.000 of primitive eye buried in the center of our skull 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.640 without any actual um chance to glimpse the light. It 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:36.480 ends up being this is mere transducer. Well, it's a 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.600 good question, and I'm glad you asked it because because 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.720 that's what we're going to talk about you. So this 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.360 really gets down to questions of the evolution of the 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:46.960 human high and the evolution of sight and um. And 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:51.000 when you start thinking about ocular evolution, we're talking about 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.400 really old business here, like really important, like when you're 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.360 starting a business, like what are some of the first 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.160 things you have to have, right, You've got to have 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.360 you gotta have the building you had had the bad room, 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.640 and the first people you hire maybe you know you 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.320 you've you've gotta have the key people on staff before 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:08.720 you staff up from there. So when we're talking about 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.240 the development of the eye, we're talking about some very 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.640 old business and a lot of stuff ends up built 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:15.400 up around it. So it it makes sense when we 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:19.280 start talking about the ramifications of of melotonin levels on 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.720 all these varying levels of of of animal activity, because 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.040 it's it's route down to the to some of the 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:30.800 earliest development. So the eye has been around for a while. 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:32.040 And if you look at the eye of a human 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.240 the eye of a fish, they're not all that different. 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.640 So it goes back a long ways in evolution. But 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.240 if you go back far enough in our development, you 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:45.000 find a cyclops, or more specifically, you find something called 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:48.080 a lanceolate, and these are primitive creatures. They're still around 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.640 today and they have just one eye. Now. A couple 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.160 of the main theories about the pennial evolution come down 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:58.280 to this idea of a developing two eyes from one 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:03.280 all right, so back in the day simple organisms, one eye, 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:07.280 and then his evolution progresses. This eye divides into left 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:11.119 and right. Now this is all predicated on the primordial brain. 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.320 Like this primitive brain that's just the solid mass, that's 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.639 a big ball. It hasn't divided yet into the right 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.680 and left half spheres. So the brain divides into two 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:23.439 and then from one eye we get two eyes now, 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.120 and then they're there. Even the various takes on which 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.600 came first, chicken or egg? Does the brain split because 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:30.840 the eye splits? Are does does the eye split because 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.680 the brain splits? Um You can sort of go either 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:38.200 ways on that too. Particularly interesting theories that stem from that. 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:42.120 First of all, there's one here from Professor Masosuki Iraki 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.879 of Nara Women's University, and Professor Araki believes that the 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:48.479 third eye comes into being during the transition from one 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.840 eye to two. The position that iraqis describing is that 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:54.760 this the single eye pulls to the left and right 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.800 and uh and divided. Uh. An eye remains in the 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.840 spot where the single eye had originally been. So the 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.160 third eye then is not the third to be created, 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.920 but the first, the original. Okay, so it's uh so 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:09.800 we what we think of is the third eye is 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.920 essentially the tissue, the prime big primordial tissue, primordial I 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.560 really very simple. I right, that had that was able 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:21.439 to then sort of secrete itself back into our brains 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.200 a bit. Yeah, because we discussed with the way the 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:27.960 human body works. It's something doesn't just become useless overnight 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.720 and fall off of us. You know, it's stuff gets 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:34.800 sometimes sometimes well sometimes but but but but for for 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.119 the most part, things get tucked away, Things get to 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.199 get to get hidden in case they're used later. Our 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.560 body can be sort of a hoarder in that example. 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:46.520 Another theory comes to us from David Klein, PhD. And 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.600 he and he works for the Nationalist Suit of help Um. 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.560 He has this theory that it all comes down to 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:57.040 UM to melatonin again in the in the head, in 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:59.919 the brain. And then the idea here is that rough 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.720 five million years ago, the ancestors of today's animals became 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.840 dependent on melotonin as a signal of darkness, and is 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.600 the need for more and more melotonin grows, the peneal 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:12.320 gland develops as a structure separate from the eyes to 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:16.119 keep the toxic substances UM needed to make melotonin away 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:19.320 from sensitive eye tissue. That's because this whole process of 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:23.359 red option and all other chemical sort of interacting with 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:26.000 one another, right, and the more distance you have, the 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:30.159 better UM in this making of melotonin. So if you 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:33.199 have that distance, then you are making sure that your 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:35.639 eyes are not going to be affected by the chemical. 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.680 That's sort of like the really very shallow dive on that. 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:40.719 But I kind of feel like booths of them are 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:44.960 correct because if you have this you know, primitive brain 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:48.560 that's just a ball that then uh evolved into this 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:51.120 right and left hemisphere and then you've got the tissue well, 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:54.159 as you say, the body is really good at saying okay, hey, 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:57.159 you're sitting around, why don't you do something dumping some 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:00.239 some toxic stuff in there and some meloton and we're 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:01.720 not using that room for anything. And so we see 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:03.760 the same thing with our office here. We only have 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:06.159 so much room to work with. And then of an 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:09.960 office goes empty for too long, the video department will 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:12.240 move some stuff in there and start filming some some 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:15.639 skits and segments. The void gets filled. Yeah, um, and 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:17.680 then they all that you know, of course, then someone 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:21.359 is the control tower of the light source in all 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:25.800 the offices, the gland, controlling to what degree we are 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:29.640 exposed to um. So yeah, I think that was our earth. 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:33.200 I think it's so fascinating to to see how the 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:35.879 human body can adapt like that. Um. And not just 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:38.080 the human body, but if you look at the lancelot, 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:42.440 this is really primitive creature. How the beginnings of that show, 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:47.000 how this this evolvement of our eye systems and our 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:49.520 penny all gland all sort of came together. Yeah. Now, 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:54.240 when I was describing Iraqi's theory and you're imagining this 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:56.400 one eye in the middle of a head, I ended 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:58.800 up imagining a human face. Uh, well, actually your face, 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:00.720 since it's the one I'm looking at. Imagine an eye 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:02.520 in the center of your head, and then the two 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.840 eyes coming out, and then this, uh, this primordial eye receding. 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:08.320 So you're you may be wondering, was there ever a 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:11.960 time when you have three eyes? Three or at least 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:17.359 three ocular units on the face. And yes, we're gonna 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:21.040 We're glad you asked, because we're going to discuss after 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:24.000 this quick break. There are plenty of animals around today 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:28.119 which which do have they're two highly evolved eyes, and 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:32.760 then also this remnant eye, this uh, parietal eye, which 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:42.879 is very closely connected to everything we're talking about. Okay, 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:47.280 we're back the parietal eye. Now, if we look to 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:50.639 some examples in nature, we can get a fine, fine 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:54.119