The Mysteries of the Pineal Gland and the True Nature of the Imagination

Posted On March 18, 2015 / Written by Dr. Linda Gadbois

The Pineal gland is a gland of the Endocrine system of the body, which is a series of ductless glands that produce a variety of hormones that are directly released in the bloodstream to produce emotional states that govern the regulatory aspects of maintaining all major systems of the body involved in homeostasis. Hormones work in a unified manner to produce, regulate and maintain the state of the mind-body system. The mind produces the electrical charges that stimulate and operate the endocrine system through the energetic matrix within the body often referred to as the chakra and meridian system. A chakra is located in the same region as an endocrine gland, as well as the major organ of the body and the central nervous system regulated by that endocrine gland. The chakra’s, Endocrine glands, and meridian system function as a dynamic network for energy as consciousness to stimulate chemical and biological processes that operate the body using the mind.

The Pineal gland, which is located in the center of the brain and forms a part of what we call the limbic brain (emotional and behavioral), does not originate in the brain during fetal development, but rather migrates there after first forming in the roof of the mouth of the fetus. Because of this, the Pineal is not made of brain cells, and is not protected by the blood-brain barrier, and is therefore affected by various toxins carried in the blood. The Pineal is a pea-sized hollow organ shaped like a pine cone that’s filled with a crystalline-like fluid that has piezoelectric crystals floating in it. These piezoelectric crystals carry an accumulated electrical charge that’s activated when experiencing changes in the internal pressure system of the fluid. These crystals are hexagonal (6 sided) and are similar to the crystals found in the inner ear, that expand and contract in the presence of electromagnetic fields. Piezoelectric crystals can be used to tune into radio stations without any electricity. The electromagnetic fields that surround us are constantly interacting with these crystals within our body, producing mental and emotional affects.

The pineal, which regulates light and governs various cycles and rhythms of the body, also effects our mood, mental and emotional state, and produces melatonin, the precursor to serotonin, which regulates sleep and dream cycles of the body. The pineal also produces a hormone called DMT, which releases light through piezoelectric luminescence that is thought to be a hallucinogenic and responsible for what we call the death experience. The pineal is thought to be where the soul both enters and leaves the body at birth and death. In the more practical sense, we can realize that it’s definitely the mechanism by which we dream, receive inner visions, daydream, imagine ideas as living concepts, and experience what we call phosphene flares, which appear as dancing lights that are commonly associated with various forms of meditation and trance states. It’s what forms any type of inner vision formed as imagery, along with ideas formed as knowledge that come to us through our imagination. The pineal is our connection to the ethereal world where images exist in etheric, holographic like images.

The pineal has been referred to by many names throughout history and in every spiritual culture around the world as a significance feature of our physical anatomy necessary for spiritual transformation. It’s also referred to as the 3rd-eye (pyramid), the 6th chakra (hexagram structure), the Eye-of Horus, The Philosophers Stone, The Light Eye, The Seat of the Soul, the Challis of the Holy Grail, the Cosmic Egg, the Star of David, the Eye of Wisdom, and the Lost Key of Free Masons. This gland is an actual tuning device that allows us to receive information as knowledge from the spiritual realm of pure intelligence. This information comes to us fluently through the study of the science of numbers which start a systematic unfolding of visual imagery that reveals knowledge to us, and all we have to do is observe it. Light images are reflected on the surface of the pineal as knowledge being transmitted through the frequency of the pineal, represented in the color spectrum of light as indigo, or more accurately ultramarine blue. When we electrically charge the pineal by drawing down the Life-Force energy of the cosmic mind, it serves to send electrical impulses throughout the nervous system of our body, altering our state, producing what’s called “bliss” or euphoria, which is a wonderful feeling that elicits deep feelings of reverence, beauty, and contentment. This mental state is necessary in order to tap into the higher mental frequency of divine realms.

The pineal is thought to secrete a form of resin (risen), similar to tree sap as the life-essence of the tree (of Knowledge) known as DMT, which has also been referred to as the Golden Nectar of immortality. DMT, is what allows us to see the imagery of the spiritual realm which comes into our mental sphere as a form of holographic imagery of pure and radiant colors that form lucid and surreal internal realities as single-composite images. The internal realm, being of the opposite nature of the external, doesn’t form landscape like imagery of multiple images put together to form a logical scene of some sort, but comes more as a single image that has a multitude of features that are very unlike what we see in the normal sense. The images formed within our mind are never stagnate or fixed, like the outer world, but appear as a form of iridescent luster that’s constantly morphing into variations of itself as a kind of evolutionary flow of radiant light.

A single image for example can have human-facial features combined with crystalline structures, plant and mineral features, and animal features all combined to form a single image that portrays an idea in its symbolic form. These images are in vibrant prismatic and pure colors as the frequencies that create the structured pattern of the image. These images can move through an evolutionary process of starting out pulsating-spiraling light-forms, which then start forming actual prismatic structures and recognizable forms, which then burst into an intense release of light or a form of vivid lucid dreaming. These images can also start as an impression that seems to emerge from a central point, expanding into a distinct form, which takes on a holographic appearance that stimulates us with a deep sense of meaning communicated as feelings. This is why DMT is referred to as a hallucinogen, and is what actually formed the basis for LSD. While we tend to associate DMT, which is the physical chemistry produced by a particular mental frequency, with producing our nightly dreams, it may also be what produces our normal experience of reality. On the inner planes ideas are formed as archetypes that are metaphorical in essence, and the outer plane of (the same) light, forms the greater reality that corresponds with the archetype and metaphor of the inner plane. The inner and outer are directly correlated with each other.

These internal images, which can be also thought of as the original universal language of symbolic imagery, are the result of the frequencies we absorb into our being, and are of the same frequency as we are. Because of this, internal images are of a very personal nature unlike external ones that are produced by deflected light. With these internal images, the color is very important as it gives direct knowledge of the frequency being transmitted. This same method of transmission and reception is how ideas come to us as inspired insights of various sorts, or creative ideas that pop into our mind out of nowhere. The imagination is the faculty of the mind used for transmission of information as ideas from the purely energetic and vibratory realm of spirit, into the astral realm of images formed out of light in the minds eye, that become the blueprint for creating an entire reality out of the same idea. This is how all great inventions came about. They were received in their whole form as an idea, that intuitively came to them as a realization, or what some call a direct experience.

The pineal shares many of the same properties as the retina of the eye, and both detect and regulate light. The retina of the eye works with external light, and the pineal works with internal light that’s received as more of a transmission of vibratory information. The image received by the pineal is reflected onto the outer membrane of the pineal, which is looked through and forms a kind of translucent image, similar to reflection on glass, which is often superimposed over the outer reality as imagining an idea, or replaying a memory, as in daydreaming. This same affect of looking through a translucent lens forms an analogy to our perceptual lens, which is how we reshape the outer light (imagery) to be of the same structure as the inner image, not as an exact replica, but more as an analogous theme that recomposes outer ideas through a selection process that only uses certain elements of a whole to form a new idea out of them. When we close our eyes, as in meditating or relaxing, and shut out the outer light, only the internal image exists, and often becomes much more vivid and clear.

The third (single) eye, which functions as the imagination, is stimulated and developed through extended periods of contemplation and concentrating on ideas in a single-minded fashion. This is most naturally engaged in through creative activities or studying. When we get involved in creativity of some sort, we submerge ourselves into the experience of creating as a deep form of concentration where we blend into and become one with whatever we’re creating. In this way, we loose all sense of ourselves as separate and independent of our creation and it activates a dynamic flow of information that we enter into and participate in. We start the process by engaging in the activity itself by contemplating an idea, which causes it to begin taking on a life of its own where it fluently evolves inside of us and we enter into a stream of associated thoughts, where one spontaneously leads to another and we receive knowledge through the internal experience of it unfolding inside of us as a kind of mental download. All we have to do is watch and observe the images as they unfold within us. When our concentration is broke, we lose our train of thought, and disconnect from the flow of ideas, often, not able to get it back.

The idea that God speaks to us in numbers (mathematics) comes from a very interesting feature that when we study numbers formed as geometric concepts and philosophical ideas, where certain shapes represent particular laws as natural forces that perform distinct operations, they stimulate us in a way that causes them to come alive and begin performing the operation associated with them, teaching us, so to speak, through a direct and intimate experience. All numbers, laws, and principles are interconnected through relationships, and when we concentrate on them, starting off with what we currently know about them, it sets a chain of association in motion that continues unfolding as a sequence, showing us aspects of it that we didn’t know before. We actually receive information as knowledge through experiencing it, which is why they call it intuitive wisdom. Higher knowledge comes to us through a direct internal experience integrates it into our paradigm as the structure of our mind, systematically upgrading it by incorporating the new information. Spiritual knowledge (as philosophy and the sciences) doesn’t have to be exclusively sought out and obtained from outside sources, but can be tuned into mentally through contemplation and received through purely internal means.

This mysterious and beautiful feature of the pineal gland and third-eye, which forms the creative imagination used as a tuning device for conceiving spiritual knowledge through contemplation, is what makes it the prime objective or key element of all the Mysteries and world-wide spiritual traditions. By learning how to activate and use this feature of our own mind-body system we have a direct connection to God as the Universal Mind of pure consciousness that exists within the material realm as vibratory frequencies that can be tuned into like a radio station. We can mentally tune into a direct source of primordial intelligence responsible for constructing all life throughout the cosmos as we know it. This is our direct link to our true identity as divine, immortal beings. Through meditative practices intended to penetrate and absorb knowledge through a practical understanding of it, we can utilize that knowledge in our everyday life to create ourselves in a more intentional and meaningful way. By obtaining higher knowledge through the direct experience of it, it becomes infused in our mind as a form of virtual memory that we can readily access and recall at will.

There is however, a fairly significant problem that we all face in regards to our pineal gland due to the fact that it’s not composed of brain cells, and therefore not protected by the blood-brain barrier, making it subject to whatever chemicals are in our blood stream. This is one of the reasons why purifying your body as the means of purifying your blood, is so important in all spiritual traditions. The pineal has more blood circulating through it than any other organ of the body, with the exception of the kidneys, so it’s affected in a pronounced manner by our blood chemistry. The main factor of blood chemistry normally addressed in spiritual traditions, doesn’t come from your diet, but from your emotional states, which directly alter your blood chemistry through hormonal saturation, and alters your state of mind as a direct correspondence to your emotional state, setting your frequency to that emotion. It’s easy to see that whatever emotion we’re experiencing determines what we dwell on and what type of thoughts or memories we run almost obsessively through our imagination as the equivalent (reality) of our emotional state. Our emotions are the most natural way we tune ourselves to frequencies in the atmosphere around us and use our mental power of concentration to dwell intensely in those states by imagining them as a reality.

Nowadays however, we have many chemicals we’re ingesting, usually without a direct awareness of how they’re affecting our endocrine system, brain, and especially our pineal gland. One of the biggest culprits is fluoride, intentionally put in our drinking water and toothpaste that is known to calcify the pineal. Calcification means it coats the outer membrane (that reflects images) and the internal crystals with a bony, enamel like structure that prevents it from being able to operate properly. This is also partially responsible for affecting our mood, which is the basis out of which our whole life is created and experienced. Our mood is our vibratory frequency, and determines what thoughts we tune into and what emotions we experience on a regular basis. Fluoride, along with numerous other neurotoxins (toxic to the brain and nervous system) are acting to literally alter our biological system causing it to malfunction. This is also notable in the substantial increase in problems with concentration like ADD, and ADHD, lower IQ, and depression, which is a moral epidemic. Because concentration is required to stimulate, open, and operate the pineal in a proficient manner, we’re being cut off from directly connecting to our spiritual source. It’s advisable to educate yourself on the chemicals in your food and your environment that are directly affecting your health in numerous ways, and altering your lifestyle to exclude them as much as possible. Our physical health, mind and emotions are all connected and function in a unified manner. By altering one, we simultaneously alter the others. They go hand-in-hand, and function as a single system.

Dr. Linda Gadbois

Transpersonal Psychologist, Personal Transformation Coach, and Spiritual Teacher