The Third Eye

I must've been mistaken because up until this point I always thought the 'third eye' was what some of us Chinese believers refer to as the 'yin yang' eye, which allows the beholder to descry spirits. (One of our ex-colleagues Iris How claimed she had it and mentioned seeing 'wet dead people' almost all the time.)

Wiki-ing further, I learn that the third eye (also known as the 'inner eye'), is actually "a mystical and esoteric concept referring in part to the ajna (brow) chakra in certain Eastern and Western spiritual traditions". (I don’t quite follow this?)

"It is also spoken of as the gate that leads within to inner realms and spaces of higher consciousness". (Looks like we're getting somewhere…)

"In New Age spirituality", it adds, "the third eye may alternately symbolize a state of enlightenment or the evocation of mental images having deeply personal, spiritual or psychological significance". (Ah, okay.)

And finally, "the third eye is often associated with visions, clairvoyance, precognition, and out-of-body experiences, and people who have allegedly developed the capacity to use their third eyes are sometimes known as 'seers'". (Thanks!)