Doors

If the doors of perception were cleansed

everything will appear to man as it is, infinite.

[William Blake]

Are there some questions you can't answer, some places you can't get to with logic and reasoning -
but only with metaphor and parable?

We only experience a tiny slice of reality because, as Bergson and C D Broad suggested (and later, Huxley agreed) the brain operates as a vast reducing valve "shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful." [see Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens].

But the pressure from the unconscious mind causes a leakage of this valve and "As Mind at Large seeps past the no longer watertight valve, all kinds of biologically useless things start to happen. In some cases there may be extra-sensory perceptions.  Other persons discover a world of visionary beauty. To others again is revealed the glory, the infinite value and meaningfulness of naked existence..." 

Perhaps a long ride on the motorbike is called for.