Experience, Imagination, and the Nature of Meaning

A TALK BY JON McALICE

The world we live in appears rich with meaning. We meet it in patterns of growth, rhythms of life, the wisdom expressed by animals in relation with their environments, the complexity of cellular physiology. Yet we often find it difficult to bring the meaning we find in the world around us to life within ourselves. Are there ways of knowing that allow us to experience ourselves as participants in the presence of meaning in the world?