“In laboratory tests, many people respond physiologically to being watched through CCTV, even though they are unconscious of their response. In these experiments, the researchers put a subject in one room and a looker in another, where the subject could be watched through CCTV. The subjects’ galvanic skin response was recorded, as in lie-detector tests, enabling emotional changes to be detected through differences in sweating; wet skin conducts electricity better than dry skin. In a randomized series of trials, the starers either looked at the subject’s image on the TV monitor, or looked away and thought of something else. The subjects’ skin resistance changed significantly when they were being looked at.

“The fact that gaze detection works through CCTV shows that people can detect other people’s attention even when they are not being watched directly.

“The effects of attention at a distance show that minds are not confined to the insides of brains.”

“This so-called waking state of consciousness which Western psychology takes as full consciousness, the Work teaches, is the most dangerous consciousness of all. The level of consciousness below it, sleep in bed, is harmless in comparison. We do not, while we are in bed, go and kill one another in the name of liberty and justice and patriotism, but in the so-called waking state of consciousness, when a man’s Moving Centre is released from sleep, all the evil events of the world take place. Millions of sleeping people kill millions of other sleeping people feeling that they are fully conscious. That is why the Work says that humanity is not conscious yet but is under the illusion that it is. That is why the Work teaches that we must try to be more conscious, and this can only begin with self-observation and an insight into oneself.”