Utter awareness (ICA)

This is an overwhelming awareness that one is obligated to all of creation and that one's every deed for better or worse affects all of life. It occurs when one understands that one's actions or inactions really do affect the lives and decisions of other people. To dare to act is to assume responsibility for history. It is like seeing famine victims from Africa on television and realizing they are part of one's world and that, if they are going to live, one has do something about it.

In the ICA New Religious Mode in the arena of acting out one's freedom (the life of prayer) the fourth formal aspect is one's experience of universal responsibility or intercession. At the first phenomenological level this occurs when one encounters the burden of one's own existence.