Info: Magick: People: Gurdjieff (G. I. Gurdjieff)

Gurdjieff has come to occupy a place in our researches partly because of his theories that amount to saying the most people are automatic people. In other words, that most people are automatons. Gurdjieff's theories do not stop there though; he and his students also suggested that it is possible for people to wake up from the state of being automatic people, somehow becoming in some way 'awakened' or 'aware'.

We have been considering this concept of automatic people alongside the research and theories of Evan Harris Walker because Walker too seems to offer a potential mechanism whereby a loophole might be found in the purely automatic nature of classical reality as set forth in classical mechanics. In essence the idea is that the brain might make use of quantum mechanical processes, thus escaping some of the limitations of classical processes such as their totally mechanistic (automatic) nature.