truths of a different dimension

"Our culture has little understanding of the purpose of the myth or the role of mythmaker. Myths are not for believing or disbelieving. They are for using. If a myth or a metaphor works in revamping our deepest values, it is truer than the evening news or the textbook fact. Myth, poetry, art and music are truths of a different dimension - sustenance and regeneration for the tired spirit. The human brain learns best by story, by game, by a framework of meaning."

Marilyn Ferguson, Los Angeles, California, June 14, 1988.