Symbol maker (ICA)

This is the marking of one's experiences to ensure that one is aware of their meaning. It occurs when one grasps that unsymbolized reality is only rarely perceived; that one can only know what one has a means of naming or otherwise marking. It may be compared to marking one's self as a monk by refusing to touch money and by wearing a habit.

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 second phenomenological level this occurs when one's life is so consecrated to a cause that one's every action manifests one's intent.