Historical vocation (ICA)

This is experienced as the realization that no one work is going to define one's calling, rather the whole of one's life is encompassed in one's vocation; when one has to decide what one's life is all about. It may be compared with President John Kennedy of the USA saying "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country".

In the ICA New Religious Mode in the arena of knowing one's disengagement (the life of poverty) the second formal aspect is being reliant on the larger society or being disengaged from one's own work. At the second phenomenological level, this occurs when one takes charge of desires which formerly controlled one's life.