The image or concept of the self in the deep recesses of the brain-computer, as programmed through the total environment interacting with the genetic and constitutional base, determines all patterns of symbols, logic, thought, speech, action, emotional response and perception in all areas of people activity. As such, the self-image is the core from which all else evolves in the brain-computer. Thus, the deep self-image is the key concern of the psychiatrist.

Why should one focus on deep symbols? What do we achieve through symbol analysis and understanding? Truth  cannot be concealed. Truth is “that which is.” It is specific energy in the universe. It literally begs to be revealed, especially when hypocrisy and deceit — distorted statements of “that which is” — move towards domination. Truth then reveals itself, speaks and surfaces through the symbol. The symbol is the form through which a highly dynamic idea or concept can “tunnel” underground through the unconscious to be expressed. The symbol is the product of environmental energy condensation.

R. Schwaller de Lubicz in his book, Symbol and the Symbolic, explains: “…that true progress in human though can be made only if we call upon the ‘symbolizing’ faculty of human intelligence, the faculty developed and refined in the Temple Culture of ancient Egypt and reflected in the hieroglyphics that have come down to us undisturbed. The mentality of ancient Egypt helps to free us from our present intellectual impasse, while ‘symbolism’ must be recognized for what it is: the intuitive means of overcoming the limitations of reason and achieving a higher human.”

Schwaller de Lubicz also indicates… “Egypt and other cultures grounded in the symbolic method, were indeed, through symbols, educating the neurological structures of the brain to maintain an active, conscious connection not only between the bilateral lobes of the cerebral cortex, but also with the impulses and subliminal information received from the ancient and deeper limbic and reptilian centers, so that these aspects of our nature could be integrated into the activity of our reasoning mind.”

Symbols and the decoding of symbols has yet to become a major area of interest and study in Western civilization. This is regrettable at one level, yet very understandable at a deeper level. Decoding the symbol is an activity not unlike that of the physical scientist who places matter or living substance under the lens of a light microscope or an electromiscroscope for the purpose of gaining deeper insight into and understanding of the structure and function of that matter. In both instances (decoding the symbol and examining matter under the microscope), the process of investigation serves to refine our knowledge and influence our behavior in the universe. Decoding the symbol also leads to a deeper understanding of the self, and so frees the self. There are few who would argue that in-depth knowledge is not superior to knowledge of the surface alone.

The process of decoding and visualizing the symbol does not require the aid of a device beyond the human body, such as the microscope. Such a process requires first and foremost the activity of the right cerebral hemisphere and those sensory, neuro-chemical channels that feed primarily into this area of the human brain computer. As a theoretical extension , I am convinced that the neuropigment melanin plays a crucial role in this right cerebral hemisphere sensory, neurochemical system. 

Melanin acts as an energy-data absorbing biological pigment in the nervous system leading specifically to the right cerebral hemisphere. Melanin as a neuropigment has the capacity to absorb levels of energy activity the spectrum of energy frequencies processed by the five traditional senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell) recognized in Western civilization, the civilization evolved by the white skinned collective who lacks any substantial quality of melanin skin and nervous system pigmentation and likewise, who has a lesser energy-data gathering capacity.

Source: Dr. Frances Cress-Welsing, The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors, pp. 193-195. 1991.