ONLINE Wed, Oct 8: "Sleeping Beauty and Mr Machine"

G.I. Gurdjieff observed that almost all people lead their entire lives entrapped in a walking sleep mode.
Richard Rose suggested people are mostly mechanically minded and with little or no free will.

However, both men suggested there is hope for the possibility of change through deliberate efforts, to not be sleep-walking and to become less mechanical.

What is your strategy to become awake, to stay awake?
What is your strategy to gain the possible use of free will, to not be mechanical?
How does either condition affect what you really really want in life?
If you do not believe in either being asleep or being mechanical, then what do you make of their observations?

Some Gurdjieff quotations:
"To awaken means to realize one's nothingness, that is to realize one's complete and absolute mechanicalness, and one's complete and absolute helplessness."
"If a man understands that he is asleep and if he wishes to awake, then everything that helps him to awake will be good and everything that hinders him, everything that prolongs his sleep, will be evil."
"Sleep is very comfortable but wakening is very bitter."
"Man’s possibilities are very great. You cannot conceive even a shadow of what man is capable of attaining. But nothing can be attained in sleep. In the consciousness of a sleeping man his illusions, his 'dreams' are mixed with reality. He lives in a subjective world and he can never escape from it."
"Better to die than to live in sleep."
image: “Four Mechanic Angels of Destruction” Wikimedia