6 A Moderate Guess about the Pineal Gland

The immune activity of our body starts from the point where sensor cells judge suspicious matter found in the capillary. However, if we are to judge an object outside our body, we must apprehend it before we get into direct materialistic touch with it.  In that case, the media must be in the form of wave, not in the form of matter. Matters can hardly overcome the distance between me and the object, but most of the waves can cover it instantaneously, and even get through the materialistic barriers.

If such can be regarded as essential function to our successful survival in this world, there should be an organ in our body in charge of such judgment on the outside object. If then, what can it be? Isn’t it that the pineal gland is doing what sensor cells do within our body, for the objects existing outside the body and influencing it? The location of pineal gland seems to support such assumption, being located deeply and centrally within the most fundamental part of our brain.

Then we can safely suppose that waves are transmitted from the mouth or from the 3^rd eye, the spot between our eyebrows, directly to the pineal gland who judges about their possible benefit or harm. It sounds very reasonable if we consider the fact that the moment food enters our mouth, or when a new environmental factor stimulates us, the pineal gland is shown activated.

If so, pineal gland will need one or more collaborator organs to implement its judgment, just as sensor cells need other immune cells to help them deal with the invaders. One of the most plausible candidates is the hypothalamus. As seen before, the hypothalamus is located a little farther front of the pineal gland, at the nexus of the brain and the other parts of nerve system. You know, commanders sit back, common soldiers run on the field.

That seems to be support the messages from the past, emphasizing the importance of the pineal gland capable of seeing the unseen. Of course, the function of the pineal gland becomes meaningful only when it has the collaboration with the hypothalamus and other related parts. Perhaps that is why the old teachings respected the part in which these two organs belong together.

The upper dantian(丹田), or the upper  energy center of the oriental medicine, the Eye of Horus symbolizing Power and Competence in the Egyptian wall painting, and many other ancient images deliver us such a message. The Eye of Horus looks very close to the real anatomical appearance, which implies the Egyptian expertise on the anatomy formed through their experiences of making mummies.

If you are the person with efficient collaboration between your pineal gland and your hypothalamus, you are very likely to make the right decision throughout your life, without falling into serious mistakes, thereby leading a fairly successful life. That can be the reason why the icon of the 3^rd eye, or pineal gland, or pineal gland and hypothalamus put together, has been used as a symbol to represent the power of the mundane as well as the spiritual.

I am not a mystic. I believe that things about humans and the world can be explained in reasonable terms. If only we have enough information on facts and an open mind to embrace a new paradigm.

I am not a professional scientist, either. I do not mean to assert that this is my new finding. But I have had at least the basic scientific training to think in scientific ways. That can help me put the known things together, to draw a conclusion that might or might not seem new.

And I find it very interesting to view the function of the pineal gland in this way, which seems to be compatible with much of the traditional knowledge.