Acute inadequacy (ICA)

This is experiencing one's life as filled with weakness, meaninglessness, anger and suffering; when, having made a great effort at social change, one encounters a social situation that will not change. It may be compared to the line "such a worm as I", in the song "At the Cross"; or part of the experience of Paul the Apostle on the road to Damascus.

In the ICA New Religious Mode in the arena of knowing and doing intensified in one's life (life of being) the first formal aspect is the experience of transparent selfhood or the experience of noughtness. At the second phenomenological level this occurs when a person relates to the experience of nothingness.