Human Development
Transcendent immanence
Description:
This occurs when an individual is aware of what he has known all his life; that he has an indefinite longing that will never go away. That is the first clue that he loves the mystery. One Christian saint wrote about it as a hound wandering through the streets looking for its master. The indefinite longing has no object as its focus; one is a perpetual refugee seeking one's home and yet knowing one will never find it, that one will die with the homesickness, the isolation and the sense of deprivation.A dimension of this experience is a sense of awe, that is fear and fascination. The fear is of being without help, that it will be like this forever; and that this amazing consciousness will somehow go unrecorded, like a tree falling in a forest with no one to hear it. There is fear of being unable to function without a guide and that one's existence will make no difference to life. At the same time there is fascination with the possibility that it is forever and one is on one's own; there is a strange excitement in knowing that one is the guide of one's own life.
The decision is made in the midst of this state to continue the search. After this happening, loneliness becomes a friend and companion on the journey. There is also a sense of being driven to continue the search - it becomes a crucial aspect of life.
Context:
This state is number 15 in the ICA [Other World in the midst of this World].< Broader:
Infinite passion