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The Third Eye. The third eye is a chakra that is responsible for what we call "second sight". Intuitive perception. It is by the third eye that people see ghosts, auras and other usually non-visible phenomena. The perceptions of the third eye are not limited by time or space. The Third Eye sees energy patterns, and it is not limited by distance. It's also not limited by time and space. So focusing on the Third Eye, you can see things that are happening on the other side of the world. You can see things that happened in the past. And you can see potential events that happen in the future. I don't recommend spending a lot of time doing that, as the point of power is always in the here and now. It's actually much simpler just to use it to observe your own energy patterns, to look inside of yourself, and see how you are doing. When you close your eyes and roll them towards your forehead, in a dark room, do you see a light? If the third eye is well opened, you should see a golden glow that might appear donut-shaped. It may be an irregular glow, it may be so large that you can only see the bottom of the donut ring, or the donut may have a tiny light in the centre. At some point, you may get a blue light appearing. It's very tiny. Muktananda referred to this as the "blue pearl of wisdom". If this light shows up, ask it to stay and guide you, and be your guide for the rest of your life. And if you ask it, then it will. And you can ask it anything because it knows everything. Some reptiles have an "eye" on the top of their heads, that sees infrared and heat. Our third eye evolved from this, but instead of being on the surface of our skull it is deep inside, in the very centre of your head at the pineal gland. However, when most people think of the third eye, they think of it being in the centre of the forehead or between the brows. In fact the third eye is an area that goes from the tip of your nose to the top of your forehead and deep inside your brain. It has many components, including an area near the back of your sinuses that responds to emotional energy. I want to clear up a misconception that may people have, about how psychic vision works. Most people imagine that when a psychic "sees" something she does it with her regular eyes: not so, the "second sight" is most often seen in the mind's eye. As an imaginary or internal vision. Usually it is the inward vision that shows the insights. When you think of the inward sight, an easy way to imagine it, is that your forehead has a projector lens that projects holograms onto the back of your head. To look at your own energy, imagine you are standing behind yourself and look at yourself from the back. You may dismiss it as “only imagination.” Yet, imagination is power. Einstein said “imagination is more important than knowledge.” He ought to know, he imagined what it would be like, to be a photon and came up with E=MC2 Sometimes in a light trance or in dim light the physical and inner visions overlap, and you may see spirits or auras with your physical eyes. That is why ghosts are most often seen at twilight. The third eye is also more active in the peripheral vision, and that is why you sometimes may see things out of the corner of your eye, that vanish when you look straight at them. To see these things, keep your head and eyes still and turn your inner eye to focus on the anomaly. Kung Fu Masters and speed readers both make use of a type of "soft focus" that expands the abilities of the peripheral vision. To try it, focus on a single object very intently, then without moving your eyeballs, let your focus soften so you can see the other objects around the one you are focusing on with equal clarity. Keep your eyes forward and contemplate what you can see in your peripheral vision. Try it now, with your computer screen. Gradually soften your focus to take in your monitor, then the area around your computer, while still seeing these words clearly.
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| One may wonder whether the "Brow Chakra" of Theosophical and New Age thought is the same as the Tantric Ajna or Brow chakra. Well, the latter is what I have termed a primary or archetypal chakra. It may well be that the brow chakra has some correspondence or correlation with this; perhaps this archetypal chakra manifests in the brow locality (as intuited through yogic experience). Then again the whole thing may just be cultural conditioning. Here, as with all chakra studioes, one is reminded how tenuous the facts are. We do not have a certain body of knowledge as in objectivist science, rather, as in Kabbalah, a system of occult correspondences that have been interpreted and reinterpreted many times, and regarding which there is still no unifying paradigm. With that proviso we can continue ;-) The Tantric brow chakra (Ajna) has two petals, and is associated with Manas or Mind (as distinct from the Manas-Chakra). In Tibetan Buddhism it is associated with ordinary or Waking Consciousness. Following the theosophical interpretation of Leadbeater, it is common to have more than two petals here. When activated on a more subtle or causal level however, the Brow Centre constitutes the "Third Eye" proper, which is associated with Clairvoyance or psychic perception, including seeing shapes, colours and visions, and hearing the voice of one's higher self [Paulson, p.63]. How much the "Third Eye" corresponds to the Middle of the Forehead chakra as well, instead, sometimes, or always, is yet another unresolved question. 
Correspondences: Spokes/Petals: Hindu Tantra - 2; Leadbeater - 96; Paulson - 96 Element: Hindu Tantra - Mind Colours: Hindu Tantra - White; Leadbeater - Yellow and Purple; Hills - Indigo; Paulson - Rose Yellow and Blue-Purple.
Associated Psychological states: Open and Balanced: You have a healthy sense of an ego or seperate self, and may also have clairvoyant faculties [Paulson, p.74]. Excessive development of this chakra in relaton to the others: You are a very egotistical person [Paulson, p.74]. Malfunctioning: You may suffer from a distorted sense of self. You are unable to look at yourself clearly and objectively. Weak or Blocked: You have a weak or inadequate sense of ego-self [Paulson, p.74]. Chakra balancing
Finally, here is what Leadbeater has to say in his clairvoyant description of this chakra The sixth centre, the frontal, between the eyebrows, has the appearance of being divided into halves, one chiefly rose-coloured, though with a great deal of yellow about it, and the other predominantly a kind of purplish-blue, again closely agreeing with the colours of the special types of vitality that vivify it. Perhaps it is for this reason that this centre is mentioned in Indian books as having only two petals, though if we are to count undulations of the same character as those of the previous centres we shall find that each half is subdivided into forty-eight of these, making ninety-six in all, because its primary force has that number of radiations. 
major and minor Chakras | Notes on Psychological terms
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