Raw reality (ICA)

This is when existence reveals itself in some wholly unprecedented way which one seeks to remember; when a situation or an individual is experienced as the wholly "other", beyond the universe of meaning in which one is accustomed to live, whose presence demands that that universe change. Pablo Picasso's painting "Guernica" may be said to represent this experience among villagers upon whom a saturation bombing experiment was conducted.

In the ICA New Religious Mode in the arena of being the presence of transcendence (the life of chastity) the second formal aspect is having inclusive collegiality with symbols of profound living, in which one develops the ability to see through symbols to their depth significance. At the first phenomenological level this occurs when one has the experience of vision-seeing new possibilities for existence.