Arent people really hypnotized and asleep and this is the reason for all the conflict?

Alternative thinkers like G.I. Gurdjieff, Stuart Wilde and David Icke agree that most people run on programmed behaviour that is not always challenged. In a sense we are 'asleep' to our true inner nature and deluded into seeing the world as a field of duality. We react unharmoniously from within this sleeper state and sense of separation. Awareness and connection can dissolve this warfare of the disconnected sleeping state.