Words are capable of making experience more vivid and also of organizing it. They can scare us and they can comfort us.
We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.
It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy...
I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.