We have all had a gut feeling
which turned out to be correct,
an ominous sensation minutes before receiving bad news,
the feeling someone is watching
through a crowd, proven correct,
a decision you just have to make, but don't know why,
a friend or family member popping into thoughts
moments before they send a text message.
What if this is more than just a coincidence?
What if it is in fact, some sort of sixth sense?
Is it possible that since the earliest days,
human beings had a sense which goes
beyond sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch,
a sense which rather than lost over time
has merely been obscured?
This may sound like the trailer
for the latest superhero movie,
or at least something out of a New Age-y spiritual teaching,
far from it.
The concept of a sixth sense has existed
throughout the annals of human history,
and increasingly in modern times
is being discussed and studied seriously by science.
So what is this supposed sixth sense?
Does it exist?
And if so, just what can it do?
In 2019,
researchers from the California Institute of Technology,
known as Caltech,
led by the enigmatic scientist, Joseph Kirschvink,
published an article that shocked the scientific community.
Through vigorous study, Kirschvink and his team
had shown that human beings
are capable of magnetoreception.
That is, humans have the ability
to pick up the Earth's magnetic field,
a previously unrecorded sixth sense.
The Guardian reporting the story
called it "a power to be boasted of by the X-Men."
The study was complex.
Researchers built an isolation chamber
in which study participants were asked to sit for an hour
in utter darkness and silence.
During this time, a magnetic field
was passed around the chamber
and participants' brainwaves were measured and recorded
via electrodes positioned at 64 locations on their heads.
Researchers noticed that
when the magnetic field pointed North
and then swept upwards or downwards over the head
or rotated counterclockwise,
a significant drop was seen
in the subject's alpha brainwaves.
This indicated activity.
When the brain is resting, alpha brainwaves are high.
A drop signifies engagement.
Kirschvink described the response of participants
during these scenarios as "freaking out".
Perhaps freaking out is not an overly technical term.
What did Kirschvink mean?
What exactly was happening to the study's participants?
As one of the members of the research team said,
"The brain is responding to a magnetic field
in a particular way.
I just have no idea what mechanism that really represents."
What was this sixth sense participants were experiencing?
The mystery can begin to be unraveled
by momentarily directing attention
away from human beings and towards mole-rats.
Yes, mole-rats.
Studies have shown that these animals have
the ability of magnetoreception,
which they use as a sort
of a guidance system on long journeys.
In fact, this is not at all unique to mole-rats.
Migratory birds use magnetoreception to guide them,
as do bees, bats, salmon, and turtles.
Even snails and worms possess the ability.
Think of lobsters walking in a single file line
of 50 or more at the bottom of the ocean.
This is magnetoreception at work.
Further, studies have shown cattle and deer
align with the magnetic field when standing around,
while dogs will not defecate unless their spines
are aligned in a North-South compass direction.
One scientist even found that specific bacterium
have a pronounced magnetic sense.
The point is simple,
this magnetic sixth sense is something
that exists across the animal kingdom,
and as Connie Wong, Caltech graduate student
and one of the lead authors on Kirschvink's study asked,
"Many animals have magnetoreception, so why not us?"
Note that Kirschvink and his team were not the first
to consider the topic of magnetoreception in human beings.
They were simply the first to achieve
the groundbreaking step of producing measurable data.
In 1980, British scientist, Robin Baker,
conducted a series of experiments
around Manchester, England,
which he believed showed magnetoreception in humans.
He started by blindfolding participants
and taking them by mini bus
on a winding ride through the countryside.
Eventually, thoroughly lost,
he would ask the participants to orient themselves
towards the compass direction of home.
Incredibly, in almost all cases,
they were able to correctly pick the direction,
except for those who had a magnet
placed in their blindfolds.
This suggested that it was in fact magnetoreception,
which informed the ability to determine direction,
the magnet acting as an interruption
of the natural magnetic field.
Baker produced similar results
with walkabouts and spinning chairs,
even performing such experiments on television.
However, when Baker went to the United States
to recreate his experiments for skeptical scientists
at places like Princeton and Harvard universities,
they failed to yield the results he had promised.
Baker was labeled a charlatan and a fake,
until years later, it was discovered
that AM radio stations interfere with magnetic fields.
As Baker had first done the experiments in Manchester,
which did not have AM stations at the time
before coming to the Northeastern U.S.,
which was saturated with them.
This explained his failure to replicate
his experiments at the time.
Not surprisingly, the incredible inventor,
Nikola Tesla, who was way ahead of his time,
knew that already and has been quoted saying the following:
"Alpha waves in the human brain
are between six and eight hertz.
The way frequency of the human cavity
resonates between six and eight hertz.
All biological systems operate in the same frequency range.
The human brain's alpha waves function in this range
and the electrical resonance of the earth
is between six and eight hertz.
Thus, our entire biological system,
the brain and the earth itself,
work on the same frequencies.
If we can control that resonate system electronically,
we can directly control the entire
mental system of humankind."
Could this be the reason governments around the world
are mass constructing 5G towers in the most populated areas
and precisely in front of homes and schools?
These towers are emitting weaponized frequencies,
which alter our body's natural electromagnetic fields.
They can damage DNA and lead to cancer,
cause oxidative damage that can cause premature aging,
disrupt cell metabolism, cause brain cancer,
and potentially lead to other diseases
through the generation of stress proteins.
They basically create a global grid
that lowers our brain's frequencies
and dumbs down the population.
Meanwhile, half a world away,
Russian scientist, Oleg Shumilov,
was conducting his own research on the earth's
magnetic field and its impact on humans.
Over the course of decades,
Shumilov noted that there were three
geomagnetic peaks each year:
March to May, in July, and then finally in October.
Perhaps not coincidentally,
Shumilov found these peaks coincided
with peak times for recorded suicides.
In fact, since then, many studies have shown suicide
along with mental health problems, like depression,
to be associated with the appearance
of geomagnetic storms or solar flares.
What Baker, Shumilov and others had shown,
if without measurement,
was that human beings do possess
some sort of magnetoreception ability
and that changes in the Earth's geomagnetic field
have real impacts on this sixth sense.
However, this raised more questions than answers.
As Baylor College neurobiologist David Dickman explained,
"With the existence of a sixth sense being proven,
the issue became how the brain
actually uses this information."
The most interesting scientific insight
on this question thus far,
perhaps comes from author
and experimental scientist, Walter Rawls.
Rawls started with the work of Robin Baker,
who, years after he first conducted
his direction experiments in Manchester,
discovered magnetic deposits in the brain
surrounding the pineal gland.
"Perhaps," thought Rawls, "it was the pineal gland
which would provide the key to this mysterious six sense."
He began to conduct an experiment in which he would wear
a mask that held a magnet directly over his pineal gland
for 10 to 30 minutes at a time.
During the first week,
as he sat and worked quietly wearing the mask,
he suddenly noticed something out of the corner of his eye.
When he turned his head to see what it was,
he was shocked by a ghostly figure
entering the room through the wall,
then disappearing out the other side.
The next week, the same figure appeared,
less ghostly this time, more defined.
It looked at Rawls, then disappeared.
Finally, during the third week wearing the mask,
the room around Rawls
dissipated
entirely,
leaving him looking at a hillside
with two people sitting under a tree.
One of them was the figure he had seen twice previously.
They looked at him, startled, before the scene faded away
and a fearful Rawls took the mask off forever.
It may sound incredible,
unbelievable even,
but is it possible Rawls was onto something?
The pineal gland is located on the roof
of the third ventricle of the brain,
directly behind the root of the nose.
Think of the space between your eyes.
It is shaped like a pine cone,
which is where it gets its name,
pinea being Latin for pine cone.
It is known to produce melatonin and serotonin,
and in fact, making the pineal gland
a crucial regulator of the body's functions
of bio cycles, growth, sleep, metabolism,
hormones and sexual development.
More mysteriously,
the pineal gland produces chemicals called beta-carbolines,
neuromodulators which have the same effect
as pharmaceutical products like Prozac
and the chemical known as DMT,
a sister to ayahuasca, a psychedelic ceremonial drink
used by the tribes of the Amazon rainforest.
Was it possible Rawls had altered the production
of these chemicals with his magnet mask?
Regardless, it seems this tiny gland
possesses an unusual and outsized power,
a power which science does not yet have a grasp on.
As University of Michigan
professor of physiology and neurology, Jimo Borjigin put it,
"We still lack a complete understanding of the pineal gland.
Numerous molecules are found in the pineal,
many of which are uniquely found at night,
and we do not have a good idea of what their functions are."
With science baffled,
it must be outside of the realm of science
from which insights are gained.
Consider the ancient Egyptians for whom the pineal gland
was a representation of power, wisdom, and good health.
The Eye of Horus,
among the most well known Egyptian symbols,
is actually a depiction of the pineal gland
inside the brain.
Further, atop the staff of the god, Osiris
sits a pine cone, another pineal reference.
It should be no surprise then that Egyptians
preserved the pineal gland separately
in the process of mummification,
but they were not the only ones who used the pineal gland
and its pine cone representation
throughout their most important iconography.
It appeared in many other civilizations,
from Greeks and Romans, to Assyrians, Sumerians,
and even across the world,
to the ancient tribes of what is now Mexico.
The spires of the Cambodian marvel, Angkor Wat,
are pine cones reaching up to the sky,
while even the Vatican, at the heart of Catholicism,
has an enormous pine cone statue.
In fact, the Pope, like the Egyptian god, Osiris,
carries a staff with a pine cone,
while church lamps and candle holders
also contain the symbol
representing the pineal gland as illumination,
as showing the way out of darkness.
What is it that human beings used to know
about the pineal gland in order to make it
such an important part of their existence
across cultures and time periods
which modern science does not?
What is this way out of darkness?
Famed French philosopher, Rene Descartes,
describe the pineal gland
as "the principal seat of the soul".
He explained that humans have two ears,
two eyes and two sides of the brain,
but only one pineal gland,
the only part of the brain which is not doubled.
Descartes believed that this meant it must be
the place where information from all of these pairs
was consolidated for consideration by the soul,
a sort of meta-organ,
which both combines and transcends all other senses.
Here, the pineal gland described by Descartes,
bears a striking resemblance to what in Hindu tradition
is called the sixth chakra, the eye of intuition,
or more simply the third eye.
Interestingly, recent scientific discoveries have shown
that the pineal gland does, in reality,
have a strangely similar tissue makeup
to the retinas of the eyes.
Under a microscope, the cells appear almost identical.
Because of this, scientists have postulated
that the pineal gland may in fact
be the remnants of an actual eye
leftover evolutionarily from a prehistoric ancestor,
like the wings of an ostrich,
but perhaps this third eye is not
so much leftover as forgotten.
Perhaps the sixth sense discovered
by Kirschvink and his team was in fact rediscovered,
an ancient knowledge once celebrated
through art and spirituality,
an ability which human beings have not lost,
but rather merely lost awareness of.
But if the pineal gland is the source of a sixth sense
which humans have lost awareness of,
what could a return of this awareness mean?
In Hindu tradition,
the third eye is a source of intuitive wisdom,
knowledge of past, present and future.
It is a sort of cosmic consciousness
that goes beyond the typical limits of perception,
beyond the five senses
of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
It has been suggested that the development of this eye
can facilitate an enhanced spiritual connection,
lucid dreaming and telepathic empathy,
even psychic vision and astral projection.
As author Ilchi Lee proclaimed,
"The pineal gland shows spirituality
is a built-in feature of the human brain."
Think of Walter Rawls
manipulating his pineal gland with a magnet,
that ghostly figures he started to see
certainly beyond what you would typically
have been able to perceive with his five basic senses,
but Rawls has only scratched the surface of this phenomenon.
Human beings do have a sixth sense.
That much is now irrefutably known
thanks to Kirschvink and his team of Caltech scientists.
What remains to be seen is
just what type of power this sixth sense might hold,
what type of secrets,
once known by the ancients but since lost to humankind,
it might reveal?
Just what does this literal and spiritual third eye
might actually be able to do?
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