Cosmic sanctions (ICA)

This state occurs whenever it dawns on a person that despite the ambiguity, the decisions he makes have already been approved by life itself, as though he has cosmic permission to do whatever he decides with his life. There is a strange, indefinable significance about everything he does. It may be an experience President Anwar Sadat of Egypt came to know as he pioneered the rapprochement between Egypt and Israel, or Pope John XXIII as he opened the windows of the Catholic Church through Vatican II.

A dimension of this experience is a sense of awe, that is fear and fascination. There is a feeling that "this is not something I deserved and perhaps it is really all a dreadful mistake or an illusion". One takes to one's self both the acceptance and the anger of others and realizes that this sense of belonging is a rare and precious thing, something each one of us would like to live with always. There is a decision to live with both the doubt and approval of society; and a knowledge that since life itself has indicated its approval, one can do no wrong.

This state is number 27 in the ICA Other World in the midst of this World.