All-that-ever-was (ICA)

This is the experience of standing on the shoulders of all of the past; when one realizes that every event - good or bad, creative or uncreative - makes up this moment. It may be compared to Marilyn Monroe's reported response at the time of her wedding to Arthur Miller, when asked if she would live the horrible life she had led again. She replied that if it took all of that to create this, the happiest moment of her life, she would relive every minute of it.

In the ICA New Religious Mode in the arena of standing present to the mystery of being in life (the life of contemplation) the second formal aspect is the experience of fearful never-again-ness or of archaism. At the fourth phenomenological level this occurs when a person experiences adoration as he participates in all of life.