Gurdjieff - the 3 States of Consciousness of Man

from read by Debbie Elliott @DJElliott142857/videos Question: What is a higher state of being? Answer: There are several states of consciousness: 1) sleep, in which our machine still functions but at very low pressure. 2) waking state, as we are at this moment. These two are all that the average man knows. 3) what is called self-consciousness. It is the moment when a man is aware both of himself and of his machine. We have it in flashes, but only in flashes. There are moments when you become aware not only of what you are doing but also of yourself doing it. You see both T and the ’here’ of ’I am here’— both the anger and the ’I’ that is angry. Call this self-remembering, if you like. Now when you are fully and always aware of the T and what it is doing and which ’I’ it is—you become conscious of yourself. Self-consciousness is the third state.