There’s a band called Third Eye Blind, but this is not about them.
This is about us.
We supposedly have what many religious traditions call a Third
Eye. We can’t see it, but we’re supposed to
be able to see with it. I say we supposedly have a third eye
because with many of us you’d never know it, you’d never even get a clue that
it exists.
In the Hindu culture it is often depicted by women with a
red jewel placed on the forehead between the eyes.
The Third Eye belief
system is found in Hinduism, Taoism, Western Wisdom Teachings (Rossicrucian),
fringe Christian teachings, Gnostic, (Kundalini/Chakras), Buddhism/Shiva,
Kabbalah, in meditation schools such as Yoga, Gigong, Zen, and many Martial
Arts. All of these religions, or
practices, incorporate the idea of a third eye.
Some even believe it is the partially dormant pineal gland,
which resides between the two hemispheres of the brain.
But, unfortunately most of us only see life with two
eyes. Figuratively one eye sees in black, and
the other sees in white. Look with
both eyes together and we see gray.
What’s missing is the consciousness of dimension with which we were born
to see life. What’s missing is the
color, depth, imagination and stimulation with which we were intended to live
and experience life.
For many of us that third eye truly is blind.
Somehow, we’ve got to find a way to fix that.
