Dangerous intrusion (ICA)

This is experienced as an event intruding into a person's life that appears as life threatening; when suddenly something totally unexpected and inexplicable is happening. An example is the main character in the book "Daniel Martin", when he receives a phone call in the middle of the night from a person he has not seen for years, who lives thousands of miles away, saying that he has cancer and asking Daniel to visit him.

In the ICA New Religious Mode in the arena of standing present to the mystery of being in life (life of contemplation) the first formal aspect is the experience of enigmatic not-me-ness or of externality. At the first phenomenological level this occurs when a person encounters an event in his life that is completely mysterious.