What you ordinarily experience as experiencing takes place entirely in that region of being called soul, where there are only meanings and flows of intensity and where there is no fixed self but a succession of situational subjects loosely overlapping by way of memories and attachments (in the neutral sense of that word). So you could say that your world is made of thought, but then what is thought? There is language which consists of objective events through which you enact thoughts, but the thoughts themselves are much the same sort of thing as language, subjective events of a vague kind through which you enact meanings. You experience something directly, say drinking a glass of water, and then you can think about this by reference to its afterimage in memory, the reference and the meaning are the same here. Direct experience in this sense is far from direct, it is already structured by prior meaning, prior representations. Perhaps all of this hangs on certain truly original experiences that occurred in early childhood. The closer you get to original experience in this sense, the higher the associated energy of imagination, so that in the limit the maximum of otherness coincides with the maximum of imagination.