Good stewardship (ICA)

This is experienced when the things of this world become meaningless in themselves, but one decides to care for them on behalf of the rest of the world; when one operates from concern for the whole world and its future. This might have been the state experienced by John Muir, who gave years of his life to create a movement to protect the natural wonders of the Western United States.

In the ICA New Religious Mode in the arena of knowing one's disengagement (the life of poverty) the first formal aspect is the experience of being liberated from the claim of one's possessions. At the second phenomenological level, this occurs when a person takes charge of desires which formerly controlled his life.