| The hypnotic eye or the third eye is something that | | | | posited to an effect similar to dimethyltryptamine, |
| evokes a lot of predominantly Asian images and | | | | which induces dreams, near-death experiences, |
| far-flung superstitions. Most people relate it to Extra | | | | meditation, or hallucinations. This is often used as a |
| Sensory Perception (ESP), clairvoyance, precognition | | | | scientific explanation for the third eye's almost mystical |
| visions and other esoteric or mystical concepts. All of | | | | connotations though it's at this point related to fringe |
| these are very far from the truth however; as the | | | | and pseudo sciences. |
| hypnotic eye is actually something that is both | | | | The third eye or hypnotic eye is also important in the |
| significant in eastern and western teachings. | | | | fields of hypnosis and hypnotherapy. In hypnotherapy, |
| In eastern teachings, the hypnotic eye or the third eye | | | | the hypnotic eye often refers to the susceptibility or |
| holds a very significant place in Hinduism and Buddhism. | | | | tolerance of a person to hypnotism and its applications. |
| It is considered as the "inner eye" which often refers to | | | | This is a concern for most hypnotherapist and those |
| a particular chakra or energy point located in the brow | | | | who would like to go into hypnotherapy as ones |
| and is considered as the gate that leads to inner | | | | hypnotic eye will play a huge role in the success or |
| consciousness. | | | | failure of the therapy. |
| To Hinduism and Buddhism, the third eye is considered | | | | Having an open or very receptive hypnotic eye means |
| as a symbol of enlightenment and wisdom. It's often | | | | that a person is more suggestible or easily influenced in |
| referred to as being the seat of the "inner teacher" | | | | terms of hypnotherapy, which is both a positive and a |
| and the eye of knowledge. How "open" one's third eye | | | | negative thing. On the down side, it means that the |
| is usually referenced in Buddhist and Hindu teaching as | | | | person is easily influence by others but on the positive |
| how full of wisdom the person is or how enlightened | | | | side it also means that it's easier for these types of |
| he or she is. Such honor is usually only regarded to | | | | people to achieve a hypnotic trance. |
| gurus or great teachers. | | | | All in all, the hypnotic eye or third eye is a little |
| In the west, the hypnotic eye is usually referred to in | | | | understood and often easily dismissed concept that |
| the physical sense as taught by specialists like Rick | | | | actually as a tremendous history and importance to |
| Strassman. It's been suggested that the third eye is | | | | almost the whole world. It's a concept that is both |
| nestled in the brain, right between the two hemispheres | | | | nestled in the cultures of man as well as in the books |
| and acts as a gland that secretes a type of cell similar | | | | of science and is definitely something that shouldn't be |
| to that found in the pineal gland. This cell has been | | | | summed up as simple superstition. |