Eternal void (ICA)

This is the moment when one knows that the centre of all of life is unknowable and that one imposes understanding on life one's self. It occurs when a person encounters new ways of seeing things and knows that there is no final answer or eternal way to understand life; as, when experiencing the death of a loved-one, anticipating one's own death in that event.

In the ICA New Religious Mode in the arena of articulating the word about life (the life of knowing) the fourth formal aspect is one's experience of the final nothing in life or the glorious mystery of life. At the first phenomenological level this occurs when one sees through the events of everyday life and one's own subjectivity, to discern existence clearly.