Is anyone familiar with Edgar Cayce, the "Sleeping Prophet"?

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118. These are not supernatural, though.

To claim there is a force causing a psychic shift towards totalitarianism absolves us of responsibility.

The world we live is can be understood by material means. The "war" you describe is psychological and sociological and is the result of our meat bodies inventing technology that fulfills our desires faster than we can process them.

We are like lab mice dosing themselves with cocaine until they die of starvation.

It is completely explicable at the level of the individual, group, society and does not require any appeal to mysticism.

As for sleep, sleep is interesting. For example, you can be aware in a dream, but not conscious. You can have attention, but not be awake.

Most neurobiologists I know think sleep (and dreams) are fascinating but they are still materialistic. It is a feature of our "wetware". We run a screensaver and our sensory systems put on a puppet show.