This shattering is the first step to a religious conversion. Then, one must come to gain acceptance of the shattering or rejection and instead of experiencing bitterness, experience love. One must realize God has empathy. .
The next step then is to join a community to support you. For Synesios, this step seemed to come later in his conversion process. He first began a slight transformation of his false self. After learning of Nouty's death, he battles with a divided self. A divided self is one that is unsure and can act in good and evil ways. The goal is to live a love-oriented life in a conversion and when impulses and experiences don't leave with the initial shattering, the lingering traits of one's false self persist. With Nouty's death, Synesios appears lost, struggling and lonely. He sleeps with other women, parties, then takes a turn and begins intense studying which leads him to help others. But, one's experience is ineffable and indescribable and there's a need to symbolize your experience, but how? Its precarious existence can be voiced in a community where one can connect with people who've had similar experiences. The need to symbolize is ceaseless. In a community, there's repetition of effervescence, and for Synesios, he found that community to be a religious order.
The final stage in a conversion according to James is to be at last in serenity and at peace with oneself and the world, being capable of giving complete love with no barriers "having your own empathic love God showed for you and a compassionate nature. By finding constellations of meaning "that which makes up one's mentality in meaning and energy i.e. desires or thoughts "you can develop a "habitual center of personal energy."" More or less a pattern one ultimately follows based on aforementioned constellations. Troubles arise when one battles with the false or rather a divided self.
