The Pineal & Higher Perception

There is a small gland in the middle of your head, roughly the size of a grain of rice, shaped a little like a pinecone. For most of human history nobody knew what it did. For a stretch of that history, some of the sharpest minds alive were convinced it was the most important structure in the body — the literal junction between the physical and the spiritual, the place where the soul met the flesh. They were wrong about the details. But they were not stupid, and they were not entirely wrong to be fascinated. The pineal gland is a genuinely strange and beautiful piece of biology, and it sits at the exact crossroads where solid science, intrig…