彼得布魯克（Peter Brook 1925～）：

Every phenomenon arises from a field of energies: every though, every feeling, every movement of the body is the manifestation of a specific energy, and in the lopsided human being one energy is constantly swelling up to swamp the other. This endless pitching and tossing between mind, feeling, and body produces a fluctuating series of impulses, each of which deceptively asserts itself as "me": as one desire replaces another, there can be no continuity of intention, no true wish, only the chaotic pattern of contradiction in which we all live, in which the ego has the illusion of will power and independence. Gurdjieff call this "the terror of situation."

每一個現象都是從一個能量場升起：每一個想法，每一個感覺，每一個身體行動都是一種特別能量的表現，而在不平衡的人類身體裡面，一種能量經常都會不斷膨脹而淹沒另一種。這種理智、情感、與身體之間的競逐產生了各式各樣連續起伏不定的衝動，而每一個衝動都聲稱它自己是「我」：一個慾望取代一個慾望，其中沒有連慣性的意圖，沒有真正的願望，只有矛盾的混亂失序的模式，我們全都生活在這混亂當中，在其中我們的「自我」幻想自己擁有意志力與獨立自主。葛吉夫稱這為「恐怖的處境」。