Everlasting inescapability (ICA)

This is the experience of encountering the mystery at every point in one's life; when one sees that the mystery is everywhere and that there is no where to flee to. It may be compared to the experience of people in the closed city in Camus' book "The Plague".

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 second phenomenological level this occurs when a person's being trapped reveals that he is forever bound to the mystery of life.