Greetings,

Dood posted a video link that showed a pine cone on the Pope's staff below the shepherd's crook and a huge sculpted one in the Vatican courtyard. The video link and some medical excerpts relate the shape of our pineal gland (third eye chakra) to a pinecone.

Elsewhere I've read that the current Pope has some interest in the mystical. However to the general public the Catholic Church doesn't seem very connected to mystical symbolism.

Do you have information or opinions on connections with the pineal gland that might be shown by this?

Just wonderring,
Bets

Hi again  :)

While continuing my pinecone quest, I came upon

http://www.transformspirit.com/nost/polarity.html

which uses geometry to build a pinecone-like shape on its 'octocube' page.

That site makes no mystic or spiritual connections. It seems like it's just having fun with the geometric structure.
But if you look at the three-dimensional models of the 'octocube', its geometric purity may be  theraputic for your third eye. ( It was for mine.)
In this way it's similiar to the sacred technology (the 'Diamond Alignmen') link that Alan gave us on another thread.

Regarding the title, I'm not Catholic, by the way.  I'm just intrigued by that church's use of the symbol since they've persecuted so many. I'm just wonderring.

Bets