Transcending hostility (ICA)

This is the experience of having no earthly foes, nothing to hate, of ending one's private war with being, of being eternally "in the other guy's shoes". Hatred becomes a luxury one can no longer afford. In the realization that God knows what is necessary, so as not to fall into passivity, there is memory that one alone is responsible for discerning and acting upon His will. This may be the experience of many, both Japanese and American, as they honour the anniversary of the atomic bomb blast in Hiroshima. It may be compared to eulogizing the deceased at a funeral.

A dimension of this experience is a sense of awe, that is fear and fascination. The fear is that hatred will return. The fascination is in the strange quality unlike anything previously experienced and that hate is simply no longer in one's being. There is a sense of having been cleansed. The decision is to trust in the awe which leads to detachment from relations and from hatred which comes from one's care. There is a new, near ruthless individuality to live one's own life.

This state is number 55 in the ICA Other World in the midst of this World.