[The following excerpt from Samuel Sagan’s book, Awakening the Third Eye, can be found at http://www.clairvision.org/books/ate/awakening-the-third-eye-excerpts.html.]
Section 3.6 The Tunnel of the Third Eye
A useful hint that can be given is not to consider the eye as a patch or a fifty cent coin on the forehead. In reality, the third eye is more like a pipe or a tunnel, going from the area in the middle of the eyebrows to the occipital bone at the back of the head.”
Figure 3.6 The tunnel of the third eye
All along the tunnel are a number of centers of energy, through which one can connect with different worlds and areas of consciousness.This explains why different systems may ‘locate’ the third eye in different places – each of them chooses a different center along the pipe as a reference point, or even a structure of energy adjacent to the tunnel.
Another important point to keep in mind is that the third eye is not physical. The grossest part of the third eye is a structure of energy belonging to the etheric body, or layer of life force.The etheric body has many connections with the physical body and therefore the third eye, being the ‘main switch’ of the etheric body, is also closely connected to certain structures of the physical body, for instance the pituitary and the pineal glands.
However, it would be over-simplified to say that the third eye is the pineal gland or the pituitary gland, as stated by certain books. For, as explained before, the tunnel of the third eye isn’t physical. It impacts its energy on a number of structures of the physical body, including the frontal sinus, the optic nerves and their chiasma, the nerves of the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone, the pituitary and the pineal glands, some of the nuclei at the center of the brain, the ventricles of the brain and others. It would be far too simplistic and limited to pick one of these physical structures and label it ‘third eye’. For the third eye is not physical: it is an organ of energy. It may have some privileged connections with certain physical structures, but it can’t be limited to any of them.
