This view would be favoured by those whose views have been strongly formed by particular unsought personal experiences of altered states of awareness, largely unconditioned by external explanations and expectations. Human development from this perspective might then be viewed as progressive achievement of a more profound, enduring, and all-encompassing identification with such states through which identity itself is redefined. This view would tend to be favoured by those concerned with the objective reality of such states as joy, pleasure, and love. For them, any other kinds of awareness are unreal abstractions of no significance, other than as distractions from the concrete reality of human experience. Human development might then be viewed as a process of achieving more intense experiences more frequently, rather as an art connoisseur seeks greater exposure to better paintings, through which his taste is developed.
Significance is derived from the unexpressed presence or the potential of any moment.
Human development might then be viewed as the birth of such potential and the increasing recognition of the immensity that remains unexpressed. Inherently comprehensible phenomena Modes of awareness can be viewed as comprehensible in terms of existing paradigms or through their natural evolution. Human development is then a process of making what is known to the experts more widely accessible and of investigating what they do not yet comprehend. This view would tend to be favoured by many religious groups and in cultures sympathetic to belief in other levels of being or realms of existence. Human development is then essentially an evolving mystery whose nature is beyond the grasp of the human mind.