Social failure (ICA)

This is experienced as using one's own work in order to ensure the success of others in history; when one sees that one cannot focus on a particular situation but must move to encompass all that is going on. It may lead people to give up their professions or social status to take some social direction they consider important, like Dr. Albert Schweitzer.

In the ICA New Religious Mode in the arena of knowing one's disengagement (the life of poverty) the second formal aspect is being reliant upon the larger society or being disengaged from one's own work. At the third phenomenological level, this occurs when one is able to so value the gift of life that nothing else is needed for one's fulfilment.