The Pineal gland - the seat of the soul

The Pineal gland is one of our important glands, situated in the middle of our brain. This video shows exactly where it´s located - fascinating!

You can find many interesting videos explaining our body via Gil Hedley channel on Youtube.

The Pineal gland - a summary from ChatGPT:

The pineal gland is a real brain structure tied to sleep and biological rhythms — but in spiritual traditions, it holds symbolic power as a center of intuition, inner sight, and cosmic connection. Whether or not it actually produces DMT or connects us to higher realms, it serves as a powerful metaphor — a convergence point where science, consciousness, and spirituality meet.

The Pineal Gland:
A Bridge Between Science and Spirituality

What Is the Pineal Gland? (Science Recap):

A small endocrine gland deep in the center of the brain (between the two hemispheres).
Produces melatonin, a hormone that regulates sleep–wake cycles (circadian rhythm).
Known as the “third eye” in many spiritual traditions.

René Descartes, a 17th-century philosopher, called the pineal gland the “seat of the soul”

Though DMT production in the pineal remains unproven, this belief supports
 its status as a gateway to the spirit world

(When prompting ChatGPT for a poem)...
here’s a poem that intertwines the spiritual symbolism of the Third Eye, the philosophy of Descartes, and the Hindu view of the Ajna chakra, all while centering the pineal gland as the shared essence:

"The Eye That Sees Within"

In silence deep behind the brow,

A seed of starlight rests somehow—

No larger than a grain of sand,

Yet called the soul’s command: Pineal Gland.

The sages of the East once knew,

This eye could pierce the hidden view.

Not made to blink or gaze at form,

But see where stillness may be born.

They named it Ajna, sight of soul,

The Third Eye with a higher role—

To know without the need to see,

To feel what lies in mystery.

Then centuries rolled to Descartes' pen,

A man of reason, ink, and then—

He wrote: “This is the soul’s domain,

The meeting point of thought and brain.”

Not quite the heart, nor lungs, nor bone,

He chose the pineal, set alone.

Where mind and matter might embrace,

A portal to a subtler place.

Some say it sleeps in modern man,

Calcified by careless hand.

Yet still in dream, or sacred rite,

It opens wide and floods with light.

In breathless states, or chants of OM,

The Third Eye stirs and takes us home—

Where time dissolves, and selves grow thin,

And what we seek is found within.

So whether through the path of lore,

Or science knocking on its door—

This tiny gland, though oft unseen,

May be the bridge from flesh to dream.

An example of a Pituitary and Pineal anatomical meditation: