One of the most indecipherable things is the brain. It is an extremely complex organ, with hundreds of trilions of connections between thousands of millions of neurons.
According to the corpus calloso, in the middle of the brain, is a small pine-shaped gland that releases melatonin, which is called Pineal gland.
Due to its form, its main known function is to help Regular circadian rhythms From our body – when we sleep, when we wake up and how alert we are at various times.
Also seems to have some control over the pituitary gland – In particular, about the menstrual cycle – and can influence deposition of new bones.
It is known that the pineal gland is calcified as we get older, although it is not sure why or if this is very important (however, it was given a very unpleasant name: brain sand.
More information than that, however, is still a little hazy. “The pineal gland is the Less understood gland of the endocrine system And it was the last part of the endocrine system to be discovered, ”explains the Cleveland Clinic.
“Researchers and scientists are still do not fully understand the pineal glandmelatonin and its functions, ”he adds, and“ therefore there are no known ways of keeping the healthy pineal gland ”.
Therefore, the pineal gland It’s a kind of mysteryThis is the goal, but there are some things we know for sure about it.
The oldest written description of the gland comes from Galen, No Século II DCand the general idea at that time seems to have been that the pineal gland was full of “psychic pneum” – Basically, as the heart regulated the blood flow, also the Pineal gland regulated the flow of the soul.
The pineal gland maintained its spiritual reputation throughout the Middle Ages and, in the seventeenth century, until René Descartes declare that this small gland was “ Main Headquarters of the Soul and where all our thoughts are formed. ”
This idea was quickly discarded after the time of Descartes. In the nineteenth century, scientists were convinced that the pineal gland was useless – a garment relic of a hypothetical third eye.
For example, in some, such as frogs and lizards, there is really a spot on the head, between the two physical eyes, which You can “see” The light is linked to the pineal gland.
But others heard “third eye” and left. Helena Blavatsky – Founder of theosophy, stated that the pineal gland was the “Shiva’s eye“As it was in”Hindus mystics”And the followers of disagreement are taught that the pineal gland is the means by which the goddess Éris can be contacted.
As technology advanced, pseudo-science also advanced around the pineal gland.
Cranks as Carnegie Wilson Pullen, “An efficiency engineer employed as an investigator of manufacturing difficulties at the Western Electric Company in Kearny, NJ”, according to the 1930, presented the gland as a ExtraSensorial Analog of the Crystal at a radio receiver, stating that “it can help us get a pyramidal quadrangulation […] that can translate to us a Fourth Dimension Sensation”.
However, the writer HP Lovecraft associated the pineal gland with electromagnetic waves, writing in 1920 a story in which the stimulation of the gland produced “a kind of augmented vision”, Revealing the“extra-dimensional world which is invisible around us. ”
In this particular view, Lovecraft was ahead of his time. As the 21st century has come, theories on the pineal gland began to mix with technological and scientific “papons”. It is stated that allfrom fluoride in water, mobile phone radiation, wifi and 5G, to covid-19 treatments, can interfere with the pineal gland.
As time and technology advance, there is no doubt that we will see more theories of the “brain’s magic pineette is being attacked” – so who accepts bets on what Pineal’s next panic will be?
