If we say that we are awake only in the moments of Presence, in which by watching our thoughts, we perceive our identifications, then we can also say that all the rest of the time we are absent, and therefore we sleep. When we are identified in the flow of associative thoughts, the automatic patterns of our psychophysical machine “think” and “act” in our place; we make decisions in sleep, we work in sleep, we study in sleep, we make love in sleep and our relationships with others and with the world are experienced as determining coincidences, associated with the flow of life. Only in the rare moments of watchfulness, we can grasp the difference that exists between the state of Consxiousness in which we are present and the hypnotic state in which, by being identified in some behavioral model, we are sleeping.
The Work is essential to understand the difference between these two states of Consxiousness that determine two essentially different realities; in one we are aware of being, in the other we imagine it.
excerpt from “Synthesis and Fragments of Living Thought, vol. II: Reality in Motion”
