Being and Being Together

On what authority do you speak?

There have been occasions when a fairly ignorant individual asks me in a manner of speaking who has granted me the authority to speak on a matter.

This results in them concluding that I am of a great ego, or must be mad.

It would be easy to talk here about a culture in which we esteem those who appear falsely perfect to rise onto a pedestal, but that is an external issue, whereas here we are dealing with a first-hand issue.

A false humility.

If I am speaking as a man, the authority I am speaking from during that time is as a man. My authority is of equal measure to others. If one lowers themselves below this, they are acting out of a false humility.

Humility is in a way related to authenticity, it’s about letting go of pride and acknowledging reality, the way things are, not the way we want them to be.
This often cuts us down to size, breaking many of our illusions.

Lowering oneself below their actual worth, this is not humility. This is false because it is fraudulent, it is an act that is not true. We seem to be conditioned to lower ourselves below that of those on pedestals, but this is not accurate to the way reality works.

In reality, we are a networked mind sharing data. It is true that people operate on higher and lower states of consciousness, but this does not necessarily elevate one’s position.

I am not saying that to speak to one on a pedestal, that means you should rise to a higher pedestal. No, there is no pedestal, this is delusional.

There should not be an imbalance in one’s mind between us and them, civilians and the elusive “them”, the “what will they think?”.

This false humility, this lowering, it is of a damaging nature. It is to decide consciously not to be strong, not to actualize one’s potential, in a way that is hiding out of a fear. It is not authentic to the person.

It is not always that those above need to be cut down, but that individuals need to rise up, perhaps not as they are being right now, but as they could be.

This is part of what we fight for, for our humanity, to be greater than that of a dog, to be operating in a way that believes in themselves and is helping us rise and learn how to grow together.