Pecking to death and the Common Rubbish Heap
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Another definition of hypnotism in Gurdjieff's thought; responsibility and non-responsibility; what is "pecking to death"?; the common "rubbish heap"; relevance to associations; the arising of something fine.
We finished in the last post with a descriptive name given to the hypnotic state as “loss of initiative” by Gurdjieff, who says that it was called this in an ancient branch of science.1 A related description or definition of this abnormal psychic property of falling into a hypnotic state can be seen with Gurdjieff saying that its study was called, again in ancient times, “the science of the ‘non-responsible-manifestations of personality’ ” in his first series.2 It seems important also to know what the opposite manifestations are all about, namely, the responsible manifestations of personality.