It is impossible to communicate an experience to someone who has not had the experience.
Try to communicate the experience of skiing down a wonderful mountain slope to someone who has never been on skis. Try to communicate the experience of being in love when it happens to people who have never known this experience. It cannot be done.
You can speak only by analogy. For a system of mythological symbols to work it must be operating in the field of a community of people who have essentially analogous experiences; otherwise, nothing is happening there."
Joseph Campbell, Collected Audio Lecture 11.2.5, "Creative Mythology"
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