Integrating Mind, Heart, and Body: The Third State of Consciousness

Every conscious perception and every manifestation of an individual, everything taken in and given out, should be the result of the co-ordinated working of the three centers, each of which should furnish its own share of associations and knowledge and experiences. In place of this, the working of these different centers is almost entirely disconnected nowadays.

In consequence of this the intellectual, emotional and instinct-moving centers do not co-operate with one another and so correct and complement one another, but, as it were, travel along different roads which rarely meet. This extension or expansion of consciousness to include at the same time all the centers is not supernormal but is actually what a normal person should possess. This is the 3rd state of consciousness—the state of Self-Remembering or Self- Awareness.

Maurice Nicoll, “Note on Prayer" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 1, p. 157-158)