Remember that the initial people that Gurdjieff dealt with were very competent people, with developed intellects who were very strong-willed. They were almost the cream of the cream of Russian intelligentsia. This was his first audience. They had no problems with life in the ordinary sense at all. And then Gurdjieff came to them and said, "You, you're nothing. You don't exist. You pretend to exist. What you decided to do this morning you've already forgotten. You're asleep. You're just like a wound-up clock-work mechanism."
Full essay: http://www.duversity.org/archives/solioonensius.html
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