Contentless word (ICA)

This is experiencing that the only truth one will ever know is in the meaninglessness or undisclosed mystery that sits in the centre of every situation. With every illusion and every wish dream exposed, one stands on another shore, able to be what one is. D. H. Lawrence's poem "We Are Transmitters" speaks of this in the lines: "Even if it is a woman making an apple dumpling, or a man a stool. If life goes into the pudding, good is the pudding, good is the stool, content is the woman, with fresh life rippling in to her. Content is the man".

A dimension of this experience is a sense of awe, that is fear and fascination. The fear is that it will be more than one can handle and will overwhelm one's life. But one also feels a new kind of power and realizes that there is more to everything than one had ever thought possible. The decision is to be prepared – one can taking nothing for granted. This leads to fulfilment in that there is never any situation or act without significance.

This state is number 51 in the ICA Other World in the midst of this World.