People of God (ICA)

This is experienced when a person perceives his life as one component among many which comprise a movement that will in some way transform history, when he realizes that he is not alone in his care but rather part of a long chain of people who have given their lives to building a human world. It is like what Hermann Hesse in his book "Journey to the East" calls the [League]

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In the ICA New Religious Mode in the arena of acting out one's deed (the life of doing) the third formal aspect is awareness of one's allegiance to those who act on behalf of life as a whole. At the second phenomenological level this occurs when a person recognizes his life as sheer venture.