The
Compassion and Wisdom Tibetan Buddhist Art Exhibition held in Taipei, Formosa
recently
displayed many rare and mystic Tibetan Buddha statues having a third eye.
Sitatara had seven
eyes -- three on the forehead and one on each palm and sole. Does the third
eye truly exist?
Can there be "non-visual vision"?
In
1979, a person was found to have the paranormal ability of "identifying
words by the ear - without using the sense of hearing" in Dazu County in Sichuan Province of mainland China.
This discovery launched a study among Chinese scientific circles of the paranormal abilities of the human body. Other discoveries
followed -- the palm of the hand, sole of the foot, armpit, nostrils, mouth and other parts of the body were found
to have the ability to read and identify objects. The viewing ability was found to be acquired through direct contact (by bringing
the sensitive part of the body in direct contact with the objects), remote viewing (by seeing objects through the air
or a medium from a distance without coming in direct contact with the objects), or relay perception (by receiving the
visual signals from a blood relative or another psychic who actually sees the object). These are commonly known as "non-visual
vision".
Psychics
participating in a word-reading experiment reported the appearance of a "screen"
in their foreheads and of words on this screen. It is worth noting that this virtual screen appears
not only in word-recognition, but also in telepathy, telekinesis and the use of paranormal writing and other abilities.
Further
understanding of the virtual screen with regard to telepathy has been achieved.
It conveys shapes and colors of objects in addition to textual messages. Experiments have shown
that short textual messages can be transmitted over 1,000 kilometers while messages of up to 41 words can be communicated
over shorter distances. Although it is uncertain as to how far messages can travel and how long the messages can
be, researches have indicated that while visual messages can be transmitted by telepathy through the use of the virtual
screen, auditory and gustatory information cannot.
The
same virtual screen also appears when one attains a certain level in meditation
or Chi Gong practice. In my personal experience, the screen appears static initially but becomes dynamic
and, with progress, will be subject to voluntary control as opposed to one's lack of control in earlier stages.
Referred
to as the "celestial eye" in Chinese culture since ancient times,
the virtual screen in the forehead could ultimately lead to clairvoyance, or "celestial vision" in Buddhist
terminology. A specific energy point in Chi Gong practice, the celestial eye is located slightly above the glabella in the middle of
the forehead in a triangular formation with the physical eyes.
Archaeologists
have found in ancient human skull fossils an orbit-shaped cavity above the
two eye sockets, the three forming a triangle. Some assert that it was the third eye of ancient
human beings, which was gradually covered by the expanding cerebral cortex of the frontal lobe and so disappeared from
the surface of the skull as the human race evolved. Scientists at a British science institute have identified in
the anterior cerebrum the remnant of a shrunken eye, the location of which corresponds to that of the so-called "celestial
eye." (Excerpt)
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