Your phenomenal field is centred, which means no more than that the distinction of focus from periphery, or foreground from background, is a functional one. And the centre of that field is directed, that is just what your experience tells you at each moment; to be distracted is to be intent upon a distraction, you are inescapably intent. And the periphery is also directed but in quite a different way to the focus, the periphery being indefinitely plural, and also as periphery it is not subject to the same need to select and define its objects. The space of objects 'intended' by peripheral consciousness is larger, is of intrinsically higher dimension, than the object space of focal consciousness, which is already large enough! You are submerged in an ocean of intentionality. The focal space is incomplete, since it cannot anchor itself, its fundamental or metaphysical orientation is drawn from the larger space in which it is embedded. The question of anchoring or grounding does not arise for that larger space. In terms of your understanding, it anchors itself, but these terms are meaningless for it. If you were to trace the line of intent from your focus out towards the periphery you would see it bend until is seems entirely turned around and facing 'you'. The is what you experience as a sort of super-ego or Other, that which anticipates you and limits you at every moment, in every conscious resolve. You sense that this is a trick, but you don't know how to attain the escape velocity that would propel you past it. Indeed, if it seems to aim at your death this is only its playfulness, its childlike innocence.