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When people talk about the third eye center, they're not talking about the pineal, they're talking about prefrontal cortex, and when you direct your own attention to the very area of your brain that directs attention, there's nothing to sense there. The only things that will become present to you are feelings, emotions, that is, thoughts and memories, and they will often arrive in what seems to be a very disorganized fashion.
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But by focusing our perception and our attention not on our bodily surface like a body scan, but to a point a couple centimeters or inches behind our forehead, we essentially are bringing that attentional, that perceptual spotlight to a location in which there is no sensation. There's nothing to feel there. And when we do that, by closing our eyes and focusing on that, quote, unquote, third eye center, which is the prefrontal cortex, to be quite honest, when we do that, something else happens. And what happens is when we are not thinking about and perceiving our sensations, because there are none there, our thoughts and our emotions and our memories sort of mushroom up.
The reason is that you actually have no sensation in your brain. It's the one place to focus your attention for which you abandon sensation.