Passing awayness (ICA)

This is the realization that not only is one contingent one's self; but that everything, including the universe itself, is passing out of existence. One sees death as ever present in one's life. Soren Kierkegaard referred to this when he wrote about the big fish eating the little fish, which in turn eat the smaller fish, and so on.

In the ICA New Religious Mode in the arena of articulating the word about life (the life of knowing) the second formal aspect is one's experience of the vanishing cosmos or of wonder at the world. At the first phenomenological level, this occurs when a person sees through the events of everyday life and his own subjectivity to discern existence clearly.