How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)

Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or place. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

The intellect is called intellect when it realizes limitation of itself and helps us to transcend itself, otherwise it is a hard disc or a memory card with more or less GB capacity.