To begin to wake up requires a whole new shift of orientation from the seemingly so powerful but actually helpless ego-will to the undeveloped capacity to see ourselves objectively at last. This new step has to be the ability to focus our attention on our daily self-deception. With adroitness and subtlety Lord Pentland brings out that we can begin to become fitfully and unexpectedly aware of what we really look like. We can begin to catch tiny glimpses of just how total our fraudulence really is. When it is possible to keep some small amount of attention free from being totally immersed in whatever happens to come along to seize our energies, we will begin to get a taste of what “waking up” feels like, and this is the beginning of genuine development. Not illusory self-willing, but real self-seeing, which is the start of “remembering who we are.”