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When we superimpose our expectations, projections and needs on reality, we are not too distant from the monkey which mistakes the pliers for his own hands. When we fit reality into our mental structures, we do not become one with reality in the way the ego is transcended and when we unite with the whole. We regress, instead, to a pre-conscious state, in which we don’t differentiate what our projections are from what the reality is.

It may seem we have become one again, but we lose awareness on the way. Instead of becoming a witness of ourself, we become merely a spectator – bringing our attention toward the external, while forgetting our inner world.

The poet and stage director Bertolt Brecht believed that uncritical immersion into the theater of his epoch by spectators expanded the attraction of the Nazi choreography. Brecht created a theatrical technique that drew audience’s attention back to themselves. It was a sort of self-remembering technique, as taught in the West by the mystic Gurdjieff. Since Brecht’s time, the fascination with media has grown exponentially, so that today many media are distancing us from ourself, leaving our psyche open to manipulation.