Horror of sin (ICA)

This is the realization that everything one has done has been destructive of something; that there is nothing one can do to escape the profound separation that exists in all dimensions of one's life. St. Augustine experienced this when he was converted and was horrified at the realization of what his life had been up to that point, yet knew that even the new person he had become was finally disrelated from life at its most profound level.

In the ICA New Religious Mode in the arena of articulating the word about life (the life of knowing) the first formal aspect is one's experience of being a solitary individual or of being a self. At the second phenomenological level, this occurs when one is somehow stripped of one's illusions and must decide how to relate to one's new universe.