Searching for Meaning in Gailana

What if all the world around us unfolds in certain ways while we human beings constantly tell ourselves different stories about it? What if what we call human understanding is nothing else than stories we make up about some of the world's events stories that are for the most part either flawed or incomplete? And if that is the case to what extent do we do so and why do we even do it? What if we have always been living more in our stories than in the real world? These are some of the important questions John H.T. Francis addresses in his new trilogy The Story in Three Parts. Faithful to his multi-disciplinary approach intricate treatment of the subject and modular and open style the author looks at the existential role of the Story to human beings. Each part of this Trilogy highlights the central role of the Story to human meaning and understanding in a different way: simply through a story (Part I); in a theoretic-philosophical way (Part II); and in a practical way (Part III).