alanbwt on Nostr: “The vast majority of human beings have always had very concrete and childlike ...

“The vast majority of human beings have always had very concrete and childlike minds, and there are levels at which even the most highly intelligent people are still children.

To get an abstract, universal or spiritual truth into the understanding of a child one must make it concrete, and the best way to do so is to illustrate it with a story.

Because God intends the gift of union and its realization for all men, and not merely for an esoteric elite, he therefore embodies the gift in a story, a mythos, which is acted out in real life”

— Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit