These experiences of temporarily stepping out of the individuality game can be perceived as highly desirable or as highly threatening, and large portions of human activity have been directed towards either achieving or preventing these experiences:

The artistic (creative) individuals seek their creative moments, but others fill their lives with repetitious routines in order to avoid having their attention caught up in this way.

Other individuals seek moments of threat, and this leads to violence and wars, but still others do their best to create peace and avoid having their attention caught up in this way.

Other individual seek moments of concentration on the sensations and emotions of sex or on an object of love, but still others avoid both eroticism and emotional intimacy.

We see then, that stepping out of the game is now part of the game, and so is avoiding stepping out of the game.

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