Pituitary gland (hypophysis)
This little endocrinologic thing is quite puzzling me lately. (well, more than a year, possibly several years) I've been doing translation correcture of certain occult book on healing by Master Djwhal Khul and there were emphasized certain relationships between these glands in head and the rest of body. Lots of technical information, but most generally said, the principle is following:
We have etheric body with chakras and nadis (meridians), which supplies the physical body with vital forces and other stimuli.
The meridians loosely correspond to nerve system. The seven main chakras are directly related to seven main endocrine glands, in this order: pineal gland, pituitary gland, thyroid gland, thymus, pancreas, gonads, adrenals.
Chakras and nadis directly vitalize the glands and determine their ability to function properly or usually not, with most of people.
Energy follows thought. This basic occult statement can be applied also here. Let's say that the following might be happening:
Thought -> subtle energy -> etheric body -> energetic centre (chakra, etc) -> corresponding endocrine gland -> release of hormons, endorphines, who knows if science knows what -> change of mood, perception, metabolism, and mainly, mystical OR ecstatic states of consciousness (do not confuse)
Well, I used to get myself quite high, and given right music on top of that, wow, what a trip that was. Who needs drugs, we are the drugs. With (im)proper stimulation, my forehead chakra was gaping wide open about 10 cm across, and this being a vortex, it was feeling like having a solid whirpool stabbed and spinning into your head from the front, plus the extreme trippy feeling. Well, I stopped that years ago, because such practices may fuck you up or make you faint if you push the wrong spot. Or at least give you a bad headache plus an equally unpleasant but to muggle-borns hardly describable feeling of having over-energetized chakras.
So paying as little attention to these sensitive centres and glands as possible (which is about as easy as NOT thinking about a pink rhino, as Osho said) I alleviate some strain out of my sorely tried nerve system. But the etheric body has a life of it's own. As an individual progresses on spiritual journey, more functions of it are accessed and then something always gets fucked up, because the inhabitant can not use them properly yet. But through hard work the irregular progress is made and centers and glands learn to work together synchronously.
The most intense daily activity seems to be in my ajna chakra and corresponding hypophysis gland. I can feel the gland on its right place in my head, full of pressing, throbbing and squirming energies supplied by the chakra itself, which gives a similar feeling. Energy follows thought. With discovery and uprooting of vices and unconscious senseless behavior and support of meaningful, intentional behavior there comes a change of thinking and therefore a change in distribution of energy in the centers. (plus I helped it by certain special woo practices) Ajna chakra has a lot to be re-wired and re-distributed, no wonder it is strained and its corresponding endocrine gland too.
Now, I guess I should ask what is the science thinking. People can not feel their endocrine glands hidden in head, because there are no tactile nerves leading there? People can not control functions of their endocrine system by focused thought? Physically realistic hallucinations can come from nowhere and afflict anybody for no reason at all? People secretly desire to have strange feelings even if it's rather unpleasant, and so unconscious wishful thinking somehow causes the feelings to appear in exactly the appropriante places of endocrine glands and energetic centers?
So far, I asked one my friend who's a student of pharmacology and he never heard that anyone would be able to feel their hypophysis or affect it by thought.
I am quite inspired by DK's words in the end of the book:
[Disciples]...they first shall cooperate with doctors and advise them on relationships of centers and glands, and therefore with body as a whole. Through concentration and regular meditation performed in centers of head and directed towards it or other center, the disciples will demonstrate so definitive changes of endocrine glands, that they will convince doctors about a meaning and real existence of the centers, and their power, also they will convince about the possibility of controlling the physical body through a power of thought.
Sorry for the lots of text, but I must admit, it bores the hell out of me how you rationalists lately just beat a dead horse with Mak Thorpe and rehash the Bible all the time. Yeah, I know that religion is not a dead horse, it's an undead zombie horse that bites people and makes them zombies too, but you got the point.
Beings who deserve worship don't demand it. Beings who demand worship don't deserve it.