You are the sorcerer and your life is this amazing, magical, powerful thing with no regard for itself.

Enhancing the sense of self is an act of housecleaning. With the clutter removed, what remains is who you really are. Much of the mental anguish we experience, the tension and anxiety, the lack of well being -- the difficulties we face while finding our place in life -- have their origins in this clutter. 

The clutter consists of small invocations, diatribes even, intended to get your attention. They pertain to four areas: yourself, others, the past and the future. It's interesting about the now that it can never be a thought. A thought about the now is not the now. So any time there is thinking in your head that is not needed, for some task or bit of recall, you are lost in clutter, you are elsewhere than in the now. 

Much of the time the clutter is painful. It may be a harsh memory or some fear about the road ahead. But it can also be a simple fantasy, a wish or hope that gains too much traction in your perspective. It's helpful to consider the perspective in terms of three parts: the memory, the intellect and the will. 

The memory consists of all the experiences you've ever had. It is the past, right up until one second ago. The intellect is the mechanism by which those experiences are gathered in. First you perceive it with the intellect, then it gets cached in the memory. The will is what you do about the information you take in through the intellect. 

Memory distorts the perspective by cluttering it with inaccuracies, and recalling those inaccuracies in the form of memories: about ourselves, about others, about the past, or about the future. Intellect distorts the perspective by twisting experiences as they happen. It is colored by distortions in the memory which contains confused versions of experience. The will is what you do about your situation at any given moment. With a distorted memory and intellect, the will is misdirected with faulty information, and we behave badly or in ways that do not serve us. 

Much of the time all this happens without our knowledge because we tend to live outside the now. While we're out, things get out of control. Think of the mops and buckets in the Sorcerers Apprentice. When the sorcerer steps out things go haywire. You are the sorcerer and your life is this amazing, magical, powerful thing with no regard for itself. It's up to you to manage it and you can't do that from outside the wizard's tower of the now. 

It all adds up to fallacy. Lies. About ourselves, about other people, about the past, about the future. These lies come to make up our perspective and we live cut off from reality, even while appearing to be reasonably functional. But the lies reduce our access to the now, the home of reality. The door closes on the only place where you can find the truth about yourself, cultivate it and allow it to show, in order to access the full range of your possibilities and experience your Utter Self. 

Imagine a world filled with Utter Selves. A world where everyone, or even just most of us, were living at full measure, using our talents, sharing our gifts, building our dreams, wielding God through acts of love and compassion, and holding these things as a priority. 

Ever forward.