Or, like a door, it opens up to what is beyond. If you see with the mind's eye the door opens into perception. It is a process not of sight, but insight. Poetry and prose, myth and history, magic and science, metaphor and fact. If truth is the coin of the realm of understanding, these pairs of opposites are stamped on either side.
Scientific models are metaphors for the physical universe.
Myths are metaphors for the metaphysical universe. Modern physicists and ancient mystics are kindred spirits. They simply are offering descriptions of one thing from different points of view. And we pare existence so thin we assume there is only this or that. Try as we might, every time we slice away we are uniting opposite sides.