Sekhem: Third-Eye Activation and Inner Seeing

Preparing for the Sekhem Third-Eye Activation

Sekhem teachings with Patrick Zeigler.

This third-eye activation uses a different arrangement from the earlier standing practice. The change concerns physical safety, not simply the strength of the experience.

Patrick’s earlier way of offering the activation involved having people stand. People could fall, and someone had been hurt. That experience left him feeling bad about what had happened and hesitant to repeat the standing arrangement because he did not want anyone else to be injured.

Question: Could we still do the strong version?

Response: The familiar activation could still be offered, but precautions were important. Begin seated, with a pad behind the chair. A pad in front was also accepted where that was already the arrangement.

Outer Sight and Inner Seeing

The technique came to Patrick through a teacher. Before introducing the activation itself, the teaching turns to an explanation of inner seeing, the pituitary gland and the pineal gland.

In Patrick’s physiological explanation of the practice, the third eye is commonly associated with the pituitary gland, while both the pituitary and pineal glands lie inside the head. He describes both as having a sensitivity similar to the retina. This is the explanatory framework offered for the activation.

Consider ordinary sight. Light enters the eyes and is received by the retina. The simple fact that the world can be seen through the eyes is remarkable. Yet during dreams there is also seeing, even though the eyes are not looking at the dream. Within this explanation, much of that inner vision is associated with sensitivity in the third eye and pineal gland.

Accounts of spiritual experiences often include seeing light. Accounts of near-death experiences may describe moving toward light or entering it. The explanation here connects the appearance of light with pressure on the pituitary or pineal gland.

A blow to the head is given as a blunt illustration of seeing a flash of light through a physical event. It is an example in the explanation, not an instruction for the practice.

Meditation offers another context for inner light. Bringing attention specifically to the third eye, or inwardly looking toward it, is described as beginning to activate that center immediately.

Attention, Sound and Visual Patterns

The next explanation uses a deliberately adult analogy. The pineal gland is compared both to a pine cone and to a small penis inside the head. The point of the comparison is responsiveness: give it attention, and, in this account of the practice, it begins to grow or expand.

Calcification and contraction are then brought into the explanation. As the gland receives attention and expands, any contraction is described as creating pressure. That pressure is associated with the appearance of light, colors, visions, sacred geometry and other patterns.

These visual experiences can be striking. Some spiritual practices deliberately seek to produce them. Patrick recalls reading a book that described even drilling inward for this purpose. The reference belongs to that account, not to the instructions for this activation.

Sound is presented as another way to activate these centers. Bring the sound inward. Om Shree and toning are examples of sound practices that can be used in this way. There are therefore several ways to explore activation for oneself.

The exercise learned from his teacher is one Patrick particularly enjoys. Before offering it, however, the intention is to make its proposed mechanism understandable rather than leave the experience unexplained.