Some ideas from Ouspensky

Man is hypnotized to believe that he is awake but in reality man is sleeping even in the waking moments. As during the waking hours also man is dreaming about past or future.

There are two types of sleeps. First type of sleep is during the night and second type of sleep is our dream state in the waking hours when we continuously drift to past and future yet doing our day to day activity mechanically.

To fully awake means living in present moment all the time. One needs to be aware or present in all the action one does. Practically man is sleeping all the time.

Man needs a good shock to awake from this dream like state. But man is so fast asleep that one shock is not enough.

Man needs to be shocked continuously then only he can be awake. But who will provide this shock to man. As man is asleep he needs help from someone else to wake him.

But at the same time another sleeping person also needs help for himself. So one sleeping man can not provide shock to another sleeping man.

Man needs the help of some one who is awake and is ready to help sleeping people in their awakening.

But the man who is awake may not like to spend his time in waking up sleeping people as he may have much more important work to do.

More over those who can help, they wont prefer to spent energy on one single person as one who can help put a great value on their time and they would prefer to help when there are groups of people lets say twenty, or thirty people.

So one who is interested in awakening should look for other people who also want to awake and work together with them in an organized way. It may happen that one of them gets awake and then that person can help in awakening others.


This whole group work should be organized and it can be only done by one who knows the problems, aims of such a group and he himself has passed through the group work.

Every member of Group is chosen by the teacher with some specific aim and group should work according to the aim of the group as specified by the teacher. No group is possible with out a teacher.