Seminal illumination (ICA)

This is the dawning of sense, meaning and order to one's consciousness. Irrational at first, this dawning becomes a wild freedom to see all there is to see, know all there is to know. It is the radical "eureka" at the foundation of consciousness, when it suddenly all makes sense. It is like the child revealing the true nature of the make-believe clothes in the story of "The Emperor's New Clothes"; and Richard Leakey may have known this moment when he realized that what had been discovered in the soil of Kenya might be part of the missing history of early humanity.

A dimension of this experience is a sense of awe, that is fear and fascination. The fear is that one might forget and that it will all go away. One wonders how it can all make sense, how can this be. The fascination is that it does all fit together, it really does make sense; and the decision is to grasp the moment, to say "no" to any doubts one might have. Following such an experience, one sees everything from a new perspective and knows that, whatever appearances are, it does all fit together.

This state is number 49 in the ICA Other World in the midst of this World.