The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors

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The Symbolism of Smoking Objects
(March 1977)
As a psychiatrist and behavior analyst, I take the position that all major
patterns of people behavior, within an evolved system ofbehavior, can be
decoded and understood once the ultimate goal objective of the evolved
system of behavior is decoded and understood. The failure to decode and
comprehend the ultimate goal objective only permits behavioral units to
be dealt with and described as isolated abstractions without in-depth
meaning and eertainly without function within the system/culture as a
whole. Furthermore, this failure makes it impossible to perceive the
logical coherence and interconnectedness between all of the major patterns
of behavior in the behavioral system.
To use an analogy in the physical sciences, the failure to decode and
comprehend the ultimate goal objective of an evolved behavioral system
is tantamount to present-day physicists attempting to analyze the physical
universe without Einstein's equation E = MC 2 , the Theory of Relativity.
Indeed, in the final analysis, an evolved behavioral system is also a
system of energy and specific energy pattern configurations, no less than
the "physical" universe is a system of energy and specific energy pattern
configurations.
Once the concept of a "unified field theory" of behavior (or evolved
system of behavior) is understood adequately, all major behavioral patterns
that develop within the total behavioral system context are seen as
having both meaning and function within the total behavioral system.
Thus, these behavioral patterns partially express and eventually achieve
the ultimate goal objective.
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