Belief in absolute truths is overrated. This study argues that inspiring tales imaginatively woven can serve as a playful and creative frame of orientation, inspiration, and action: a life path of meaning and magic not to believe, but to believe in. “Loreologizing” refers to how we can use compelling fiction (broadly defined) as lore for weaving stories, personal or collective, around an ideal, vision, or dream without recourse to massive systematizing, creedal absolutism, or hardened dog...
