When Gurdjieff, his cohort Ouspensky + students of their experiments in (say) increasing levels of consciousness, settled for a time in a manse in the outskirts of Paris: there was amongst the lot one person who seemed to irritate everyone. Whenever faced by one of the others over some action, accused of doing X, his response was, invariably: "but then I never do X!" IIRC one specific was an accusation that he interminably argued (and, he argued: the same.)

One scribe reported in later years that: Gurdjieff, consistent with his ideas on how to train people to become hyper-observant of their own foibles/mechanicalness (when no One was 'paying attention--from inside') had revealed to her that he had hired this man. (Perfectly reasonable, given the aims of the group and the unique lore of its teacher.)

But then, am unaware that we had elected a teacher or that full-consciousness was expected--or particularly to be striven for, officially. Neither had I heard that intentionally-reduced consciousness would be welcomed as.. some virtue. (But I could very well have missed that thread--while not paying Attention.)