Variations of the 3rd Eye - Yogi Explains

[@BC-yg8mm]

Forrest, thank you for this beautiful explanation of the spiritual eye. I saw the spiritual eye soon after I started meditating 10 years ago. Because I am a hypochondriac, I feared this light, thinking it was a sign of problems with my retina. Funny how all my left-brain neuroses played out in my meditation. My dogged determination to stick it out with meditation, sans teacher, led me to you two years ago. The eye is now welcomed, and with your videos and books, I have entered into its cave and a deeper sense of letting go. Thank you, dear Forrest, for sharing your insights with us. Happy Thanksgiving!

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@BC-yg8mm beautiful 😍 🤩 🙏🪷Happy Thanksgiving 🥰 🙏

[@jenniferoursler4868]

Excellent explanation. Thank you, Forrest!

[@kimthomas8535]

Thank you so much Forrest 💓 Love the different ways the Spiritual Eye has appeared, it's wonderful!

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@kimthomas8535 I so agree Kim! Huge hugs to you! 🤗🙏🪷🌹

[@Srividhya1682]

I can relate to going thru the crown chakra. It's not always necessarily 3rd eye for me. Thanks for clarifying these. I listen to the spiritual eye related videos many times. I realize something new that relates to my experience Thank you Mr Knutson.

[@tracywilliamsliterature]

Been having some intriguing experiences of the spiritual eye lately.... Best wishes as always from Wales, dear Forrest ❤

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@tracywilliamsliterature how synchronous! 🪷✨️🙏🤩

[@tumareyoga9041]

Great video 🙏🙏🙏🤗

[@MilanTodorovic]

Interesting and useful. Thanks Forest. My opinion as an electronics engineer and yogi is that the optic chiasm is also involved in the phenomenon of the spiritual eye.

[@danielwetzel7777]

Thanks for the explanation. This is one of the more dependable aspects of my meditations

[@pavneetkaur4545]

Thank you for explaining it so beautifully, Forrest.💖💖

[@HMALDANA]

Awesome, Forrest. Oddly enough, yesterday I was reading about this in your book. I have been working on expansion through the crown along with jhana 1 lately and I have to say the experience is more stable and enjoyable. Blessings and blissings!

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@HMALDANA that's so perfect ✨️🪷I love it 🤩🙏

[@jannareindel6263]

Love this so much, thank you! 🙏 🙏 🙏

[@williamcranstoun9566]

A wonderful explanation. Very inspiring. Thank you.

[@Rationalpremytc]

नमस्ते, namastey from India, medulla and crown is lotus and expansion came to know from your well explaination.

[@jordancamilleri1080]

Hi Forrest, I noticed on another video you have an infinity symbol tattoo. Recently after adding Om Japa before my Kriya routine (initiated to Hariharanandajis lineage) I started to see the prana flow in an Infinity shape in my third eye. If i focus on it, it will flatten out and I may enter very interesting states. Can you perhaps make a video on the topic of Infinity and what it means to you? I sent an email to you a while back, i have a lot of questions that Id love to ask. Thanks :)

[@robinriches]

what a yogi! super. thanks Forrest. UK Robin.

[@RIGOGO1981]

Muchas gracias tu video es maravilloso, me da muchas respuestas, bendiciones, me siento maravillado se haber encontrado este camino.❤❤

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@RIGOGO1981 Perfecto y bienvenido🙏🥰🪷

[@JCImageInc.]

With breathwork before meditations, I see the eye every time. At first the eye was distant, not looking at me. I seen it from the POV of laying down and it looked like it was looking across form me. Now I see it very close, my entire field of view. It smiles at me. I see white and light green light in the iris, looks like still lightening in the iris.

[@JCImageInc.]

Also, I've had a vision of being consumed by the eye as if it was a predator. Once inside, the throat appeared as a descending hallway made of tiny mirrors that reflected different lives. I choose to continue to fall until the lives reflected were not recognizable. I seen a mirror showing a yellow slime material and I thought, Oh, that is interesting!" I touched it and became it.

[@VennThuria]

@@JCImageInc. Did you consume any substance by any means? I saw the mirror thing too one time, and I could focus on a mirror and felt as if I could come to live in that mirror if I wanted to.

[@jaktonge6632]

Mine is yellow and when it comes on it’s astounding every time , thank you for further explanations

[@foobarbazquaz5285]

I can tell you where the shape of the spiritual eye likely comes from, but do understand that this doesn't take away anything from the spiritual significance of the experience. At the center of our (physical) eyes there is a blind spot, where the nerve connect. As we withdraw our perception and if our blood pressure changes and raises or drops suddenly (e.g. due to deep relaxation), this blind spot (which is normally hidden to our conscious sense of seeing, as our visual cortex fill in the gaps hallucinating it) can be seen. An artificial way to have the same experience and see that blind spot, if you are willing to use a mild intoxicant, is to inhale amyl nitrite (commonly referred as poppers, sold in sexy shops around the world): the stronger versions (e.g. the Amsterdam brand) are prone to cause the appearance of a black blind spot at the center of vision. Inhale alternately from each nostril for 10 seconds at a time and hold for the same amount before exhaling, like doing pranayama, for a few times (carefully, if you never used it, your blood pressure will drop and it can be dangerous): the physiological effect will be a sudden increase of blood pressure and then a drop, [that effect impacts how the optical nerve functions], a temporary and very short high, and a drop of oxygen levels in the blood as the red blood cells will be able to absorb less oxygen (emoglobin turns into methemoglobin) which also impairs the brain [and prevent hallucinating content in the gap of the blind spot]. This is similar to some physiological effects of very deep meditation. (The other effect of this process is that you likely will be edgy and unable to meditate for a couple of days, and probably have an headache the next day...intoxicant are poison). So (I think), the shape of the third eye visions come from the last moment when we withdraw awareness from our sense of vision. If we become determined to chase it, we actually bring attention back outwards and go in the wrong direction. If we don't chase, the shape remains with us and imprints on our visions.

[@vimaladominic]

Atma namaste sir 🙏 heartfelt gratitud God bless 🙌 much love ❤

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@vimaladominic Atma namaste Vimala 🙏 blessings and blissings to you and your loved ones! 🤩🙏✨️🪷🌹🌹

[@soumyakantipaul8486]

​@@ForrestKnutsonTILL now full black. No eye seen sir. Waiting patiently

[@marybuckley6337]

Thank you Forrest. Your videos are so very helpful. My experience was being asleep in bed and awakening to the most intense white light imaginable flooding my eyes?I flung both forearms over my eyes to try to stop the vision. Would this be the spiritual eye being active?

[@nataliebutler]

This is really interesting and helpful as I have been experiencing both and wasn't sure what to do with them / thought they were separate things. The spiritual eye comes and goes during meditation (I'll try welcoming it with gratitude :). Sometimes I also feel like I'm going somewhere upwards and losing the body but I haven't managed to go with it yet as it's scary and my heart just starts pounding!

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@nataliebutler this happened to me many times that the experience would frighten me at first until it happened enough times that I got used to it. Then I could accept it add move deeper🤩✨️🙏

[@keepinspirationalive]

Thank you, Forrest. You have a great way of explaining all this that is simple to understand. I have a question: Lately, in meditation, both laying down and sitting, I get the sensation of my eyes rolling up and back behind. Then I go into complete relaxation. Is this the roll-up of consciousness you speak about? I also wear a mask to sleep now, and become aware when I wake up without moving. It feels like my eye location is at that same spot when I am lucid between wake and sleep states. What exactly is that when we can get to that state in meditation?

[@linamensappliance1399]

I see blue with a white ring that pulsates like a tunnel i cant tell if I’m going forward or backwards

[@isaiahjackson4010]

You made a video giving your opinion on the wim hoff method, im curious as to your perspective on sadhguru and his isha practices.

[@carpenterfamily6198]

I’m always interested in hearing what Forrest has to say . . .

[@anupammazumder10]

Hello Forrest, I have a question. After finishing kriya pranayama when I meditate(in paravastha) where should I concentrate. Should I concentrate on the third eye between the eye brows or should it be on the fontanel, on the crown chakra. Please share your thoughts.

[@DerrickDavis-gr8jj]

I'm a lucid dreamer, I've seen the purple blob in meditation. When I wake in the morning and go right back to sleep..I can see a white light moving around and then the next thing that happens is I find myself in a dreamscape. I wonder if that's the spiritual eye I go through when I enter the dreamscape

[@shivimishra1893]

Hi Forrest, I have been initiated and have been practicing for 10 months now. This lineage also emphasises on spritual eye. I haven't experienced any light at all. I have felt that my inner monologue has changed. I used to wonder about my purpose in life and what not. With regular kriya practice and regular free intense movement practice, I have reached a point where I don't care about my purpose, my goals. I am not lazy and still want to improve at my work (engineering) and have material comforts. Since the lineage places such importance on fireworks in the brain, I am not sure if I am doing something wrong or is it all alright?

[@Lizarus.un-sane]

After kind of getting used to it a rotation started around it and eventually forms a purple vortex and I go right in there and it takes me places or sometimes it’s like an actual eye.. But My question is sometimes it’s like the light is there bright but like it’s at angle ? Sometimes with geometric shadows off of it When it’s like that the vortex never comes what does that mean?

[@stellaschiavo]

The several times I saw it Iwas not even thinking about meditation. Normaly I was doing something like cleaning the house or walking the dogs. The first time I saw it I was cleaning my floor and listening to a book through Alexa (a Vivekananda one). Didn't know much about yoga etc. I was starting my journey, I was extremely afraid after I saw it. I thought it as a serious problem with my sight. Even went to a doctor. It was a scary experience to me because I knew nothing about it.

[@iconichologram]

Kinda unrelated to the video, but I thought I'd ask anyway. I remember watching one of your videos where you talk about a method where you "OM" into negative emotions to dissolve them, but I can't seem to find that video anymore. Did I completely misremember and make this up, or is this an actual technique you taught?

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@iconichologram I think this is the one you're thinking of kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpexaWiuiN51jKssi=gjcGB8uma74JNRBA

[@iconichologram]

@@ForrestKnutson Yes, that's the one, thanks so much 🙏

[@sedact]

Is the literal giant eye considered the spiritual eye too? or just a vision? i did see the purple little light but compared to the "real eye" there wasn't so much of "woah" feeling

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@sedact yes that's one of the ways it will appear to people. I forgot to mention this. There is a part of the brain that will see faces in just about everything. This is how we can see faces in the clouds and this is how we are able to see an actual eye in the spiritual eye✨️🙏🤩

[@sedact]

@@ForrestKnutson Thank you very much🙏

[@bigislandmonero2122]

Seems like hypnagogic imagery, vision, scenery. What is the difference?

[@dasi_is_dasi]

is it possible to enter the spiritual eye even when it is kinda blurry? this may be a better question to ask for the next satsang but thought i'd post it here

[@mattyiso5150]

Hi my name is Matt, and I have a quick question regarding one of your books. I have the first one and I’m trying to learn the hamsah meditation, I need help understanding letting the breath in passively, because whenever I try to do it it feels As tho I am still guiding the breath, or I am the one breathing still, how do you learn this conscious passivity of breath? I let the exhale out but I cannot let the inhale come in on its own accord I end up just breathing in and out again. Is there a secret? Is there some kind of trick?

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@mattyiso5150 hey Matt I thought I already sent you an answer about this on one of the other videos. Maybe it didn't go through. So my answer is to not try to do it that way but instead to practice HRV resonance and do the Mantra at the same time. You can download the resonance app and as you are doing it say the Mantra mentally🪷🙏

[@mdasgupta8703]

I can see the indigo and gold ... still waiting for the elusive white star

[@ericsonhazeltine5064]

What I see are moving blobs, like an old 1970’s lava lamp. Changing shape and rising/falling. Behind this is a deep darkness. Not sure what this is,

[@aloksahu7208]

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[@diegotowers33]

I am the holy couch potato 😂

[@tracywilliamsliterature]

Ah I'm first...

[@dakotahsimonson631]

Forrest knutson has helped me understand more and more to understand the ocean of all religions now I feel like life is a ocean ... I don't feel overwhelmed anymore I feel like a scuba diver in my life!🤩🥲 I remember when I was obsessed as a child with the octopus and fish tide pools of all sorts ocean biology now I am swimming on land and see all kinds of fascinating experiences here as well Can we go under the ocean in a O.B.E. Forrest ??😮

[@VennThuria]

Thank you! So this is basically the same vision we can have with Yoni Mudra? Without using the Mudra I can not experience this, only glimpses of it. But I can become the holy potato without seeing the spiritual eye.

[@samhez33]

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[@BrendaT_imagine]

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