“Fictions can approach forms of Truth that are entirely unavailable to nonfiction. So, too, imagination can present metaphors and similies that are ‘more like’ the nature of reality and relation than our everyday perspectives… yet are entirely unapproachable to science, rationality, or logic.”

— infraheard (paraphrased from a J. Peterson statement)

Jordan Peterson expounds with great brilliance about the nature and origins of Biblical stories. I am particularly impressed with his recognition of what he refers to as improbable compression — a feature of many religious texts (and, particularly Genesis) that he finds both astonishing and largely inexplicable (though he proffers a rational explanation that he presently prefers, yet considers incomplete). This, I would argue, is the result not of ‘things being memorable’, but rather the nature of the actual experiences of human beings … and what they were in contact with … that inspires the view that they may well (I think they absolutely were) receiving ‘another form of intelligence’ in direct experience. This is to say that they were, in fact, in direct contact with an array of accessible nonhuman intelligences whose nature corresponds to our ideas about ‘divine beings’. Why do I think this? First, I have had such experience myself, and it sheds a profoundly unexpected light on mystical texts (and the Bible), and second, I recognize the result: extreme compression of content within what appears to be an ordinary text.