Primordial sociality (ICA)

This is the awareness that a person is part of a community of concern much larger than his own immediate family or society. It occurs when he discovers his indebtedness to people who came before him and to unknown people who are working around him, as when women in the "women's revolution" discover the women of the past who had committed themselves to women's advancement.

In the ICA New Religious Mode in the arena of acting out one's deed (the life of doing) the second formal aspect is extending one's engagement to history. At the first phenomenological level this occurs when one is confronted by the fact that to live is to be of service.