understand string theory

Whenever I look into the things that mathematicians and physists know to be true – I am astounded that I can’t actually know them to be true in the same way – I’m left at their mercy. I have to take their word for it. If they wanted to band together and create a big hoax – they could and we couldn’t question it – because it has gone so far beyond our intuitive ability to understand. I wonder if in ancient times, this is what priests were to laymen – people who had discovered something through aptititude and deep study that other people couldn’t understand. Like shamans who shape shifted. String theory might end up supporting the idea that a person, tuning into the right subatomic frequencies, could become a panther. I’m awed and humbled by these ideas and my pea-brain attempts and making sense of them.