Ok, let's follow the instructions and look beyond what's presented. What is there?

Well I suppose you can look at punctuation since we saw Flynn using it recently as morse code. ---..-. (not getting much from that)

You can also count things and convert letters to numbers to look for patterns.

• Sentence length: 35. 27. 35.
• Words per line in title: 6,5
• Word length - pineal gland: 6,5
• Word Length - image captions: 6,4 4,4

There might be something in there.

But the GAW post heading mentions symbolism. So lets try a little symbol substitution. What other organ resides between the temples? Your brain (or your mind). Substitute "mind" for "cone" in the image captions and for "pineal gland" in the rest. You can also substitute and "CIA spook" for "spiritual". I imagine there's a simple symbol substitution for "calcified", but the best I got is "hardened". At least that moves us away from the distracting mumbo-jumbo into a reading based in reality.