Descriptions for the mind can only express inner psychological truths by allegory.
"We all have the ability to communicate DIRECTLY with God, by reaching that small, still voice within us."
Can't do that when your attention is taken by your image of yourself expressed in one's fears, hopes, dreams, feelings, thoughts, blah, blah. In other words, your PROJECTIONs!
Must cultivate something from another level within, in order to answer the call from above. Something which can survive death.
Must die before you die, in order that you may live.