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"The idea of consensus trance comes from Charles Tart, a transpersonal psychologist who explored altered states of consciousness. He suggested that most people live in a kind of hypnotic state induced by societal conditioning, where they unconsciously accept the beliefs, behaviors, and limitations imposed by their culture without questioning them. This trance keeps people from awakening to deeper levels of awareness.
G.I. Gurdjieff, a mystic and spiritual teacher, had a similar concept in his teachings, often referring to humanity as being in a state of waking sleep. He believed people go through life in a mechanical, automatic way, driven by conditioning and habitual patterns rather than true awareness or conscious will. His goal was to help people "wake up" through self-observation, inner struggle, and conscious effort.
Both Tart and Gurdjieff saw mainstream life as a kind of illusion or trance."
G.I. Gurdjieff, a mystic and spiritual teacher, had a similar concept in his teachings, often referring to humanity as being in a state of waking sleep. He believed people go through life in a mechanical, automatic way, driven by conditioning and habitual patterns rather than true awareness or conscious will. His goal was to help people "wake up" through self-observation, inner struggle, and conscious effort.
Both Tart and Gurdjieff saw mainstream life as a kind of illusion or trance."
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