'Intentionality' in vernacular usage means having a will or an intention (to effect something), it is active and energised even if it is 'hanging fire', but its technical meaning refers to the essential property of consciousness of always being about something, or simply 'aboutness'. Like the case of 'disinterest' the concept is hard for secular understanding to hold on to because the latter is closer to the domain where every act of attention carries potential aggression. A contemplation that harbours no wish to affect or consume its object is alien to the living matrix out of which consciousness arises.