“Wake up! Snap out of it! Something's going on... and you need to wake up! You've fallen into a trance or something, and you need to rouse yourself. You think you're awake but you're not—and as you've been sleeping, all kinds of hideous things have been happening.

“I know that you think you're awake; your eyes are open, and you've been performing various motor functions and skills—after all, you are reading this. But you're still not really awake! You've been going through these actions as if you're in a trance, or under a spell or something, and you're not really awake; you're not really aware. It's very hard to explain the state you're in, but if you'd just snap out of it, you'd see what I'm talking about.”  –Arise and Awaken