Authentically Authoring Our Lives Through Our Own Authority (Pt.II)
Living authentically as our own authority to author our own lives is limited when you have externally imposed authority that says you're not allowed to do things that harm no one else. The will of another or a group of others supersedes your will.
Smoke cannabis? Not allowed.
Grow cannabis? Now allowed.
Build your own house the way you want? Not allowed.
And the lists goes on.
Please see the previous post Authority, Authorship and Authenticity in Life for Part I that deals with the etymology of the word and the importance and authority of truth and morality as the guide and rule of law to follow.
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Masters of Other's Will
When you take authorship of other peoples lives -- to be master of their lives when they do no wrong -- you are exercising authority beyond yourself and without the corrective capacity of morality to justify your actions.
This makes you inauthentic, disingenuous, and unreal, because you are trying to be the generator of everyone's reality against the moral truth. You become the author of immoral actions as though they are "moral", wrongs as if they are "right". This confusion of behavior leads to more coercion and control, as people to try centralized corrective measures against your initiation of aggression and control.
This is the conventional "authority", where everyone is giving up their own authority to author their lives rightly. We are obeying the authorship of others to have authority over us.
We are not authoring and creating our own lives, but are living the word symbol spell narratives cast on consciousness by others, to live in the way other authors want us to live.
They create a worldview image to sell us that we buy into, and we buy their story that they authored. We then live their story, and they remain the author and authority over the version of reality we have bought into. We're buying into the story and narrative they created for us to perceive and navigate through their version of reality.
The tell us what to do, and we do it. Our authorship is being overridden by the authority of others who author our lives.
There is a legitimate authority of taking action in reality to stop wrongs, done through a moral capacity, where we live under our own authorship to create the world according to authentic, real, genuine, true (maa) moral living. Everyone is always accountable for their actions. Our authentic authority to be free from other people's moral authority to stop us depends on our adherence to moral authority. If we break with moral law, then others can correct us and stop us from breaking moral law by acting under the authority of moral law to do so.
Authenticity
Authenticity is the embodiment of legitimate self-authorship, self-authority and the influence of being genuine, real, authentic and moral that can rub off on others and have them live similarly. We can influence others to be more authentic in alignment with truth and morality.
This is to be Maa Kheru, True of Voice, and have the ability to influence others towards truth/maat, by being maa/true. This can only be verified through reality itself and objective understanding of morality, not by simply believing the person is true, speaking truth and being true of voice simply because you believe, buy into, and accept what they are telling you. Do your homework, investigate reality to see if your, and others, convictions are true.
Moral Authenticity
The authorship of morality does not come from an externalized power, be it a friend, stranger, ruler, the state, government, or even "God" itself as a belief. You, and only you, can understand what is moral or not by observing how actions affect others and create harm or not. You are the author of your own comprehension. You are unique. You are the subjectivity that is a part of and trying to align more with objectivity. Actions and their consequences are real and objective. No one can make you understand morality if you don't want to. Denial is powerful.
Morality comes from understanding ourselves and the reality of others: that we can't subjectively do what we want regardless of what is in objective reality. There are consequences to our actions. We must take into account the reality in which we exist. Other beings matter. We can identify and connect with them on emotional levels, to recognize how what we do affects them negatively. Don't steal their life, sexual preference, bodily integrity or personal property. That's the basics of moral law.
Morality, once understood objectively (in reality) as the optimal socio-relational model to live by, is an authority for how to author your life and be authentic, genuine and true towards others and not create harm. Morality can be written down for others to recognize, but it all comes from consciousness interaction with others and can be objectively determined all on our own without anyone telling us what it is. It's just easier to get the explanation from someone who has already figured it out and can explain it to us.
If we simply believe the ideas and beliefs that others tell us, then we are not determining truth for ourselves, not authoring our narrative to navigate life, and not being authentic in understanding reality, truth and morality.
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Government or a "God"/"gods", both are conceptual systems for living your life according to the "will" of some "higher force".
God, religion, government, corporations, military, etc., all share a common aspect of giving ourselves to something greater than ourselves. To believe we are a part of some "great plan", to subsume ourselves into a greater whole, and we like it; we "feel-good" about it. This is the group-identification and collectivist trap.
Externalizing and projecting our power to another force, is not real, genuine, authentic empowerment, despite the "feel-good" effect we have for subsuming ourselves to something we believe is greater than ourselves. True empowerment is with knowledge about the power of our consciousness, and finally seeing how we have been externalizing and projecting our power all this time, for millennia. The sleeper must awaken.
Know thyself and how we can be our own worst enemy. We fool ourselves by not knowing ourselves, how consciousness functions, psychological factors, emotional factors, biases, fallacies, attachments, the deceptive power of belief, and more.
The imagined and externalized forces of authority (rulers, states, God, etc.) do not have my trust, loyalty and faith to be bound and attached to them. The authority in my life is morality. Understanding the objective difference between right-moral and wrong-immoral actions is my authority to follow. If we all followed moral law, we wouldn't be harming each other.
Each of us can come to know it by understanding objective actions and their affect upon others. Do no harm is a good principle to follow. The principle of non-aggression applies far and wide, even beyond the human-to-human intraspecies boundary. Justifying the initiation of violence and violating the right to self-ownership, life and liberty of others can always be done, but it doesn't make it moral.
Thank you for your time and attention. Peace.
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Morality affects our daily decisions, and those decisions are dictated by our conscience. Again, we must decide for ourselves where consciousness comes from. Many people have the idea that conscience is a matter of our hearts, that concepts of good and evil, and of justice are "programmed" in each one of us.
We have an ability to recognize harm being done to ourselves, and to others, to which we categorize certain actions as evil or good, and hence just or not. It's not programmed persay, but the ability to recognize how our actions affects others is learned and becomes automatic/programmed to not do harm lest we be harmed.
I can assume that the concept you require in the Act of Authority, to which the Dictionary indicates that an act of authority is that "executed by the authorities acting in an individualized manner and that, based on legal or de facto provisions, intend to impose obligations, modify existing ones or limit the rights of others ".
In my younger years I lived a life subjected by what I perceived right, not by my anylization, but rather by my fallacious belief in authority outside myself. As I look back on my life I see that I was merely a pawn to the will and direction of others I respected and had faith in, never really having faith in myself. I was awoken to reality in August of 2002 when my 14 year daughter was in a car with her friends that was side struck by another speeding motorist. It was 5:04 in the afternoon when the hospital called my cell phone, my wife, son and I were walking out of the story as I answered the phone. The lady on the other end of the line seemed emotionless as she told me there had been a bad accident and my daughter was being life flighted to the nearest trauma center. The feeling that came over me with those words was indescribable and unlike anything I had previously experienced in my life. From that moment forward through the the next 10 days life seemed surreal, like I was in a nightmare that I couldn't awkwakem from. As I look back, I see that I was awake and aware of reality for the first time. I remember asking that question, "why is this happening to me?" as if I was previously exclusive from the extreme tragidies and pains that exist as potential within any given moment. The emotional ups and downs in the days that followed only empowered my personal awakening and forever changed me and my family. I had taken a break from setting by my daughters side in the hospital during that time and bought a book on comparative religion to help me find a path different then I was up to that point in life. I consumed its content and began to see the similarities of various perspectives depicted with the pages. I contemplated deeply on practices like mediation, and began to incorporate meditation into my daily life (a practice I've continued to this very day). After 10 days my daughter we sent home but was restricted from normal life for several months to follow. She suffered physical and mental trauma in the accident including the loss of one of her best friends who did not survive the collision. I am thankful she was not lost that day, and will never forget the girl that was, and the pain felt by her family and all who knew her. We are all subject to the Law of Cause and Effect, and must live accordingly with this knowledge as we navigate through the process of life.
To "Know Thyself" is perhaps the greatest advise given in life. Hence its inscription in the temple of Delphi and many other places throughout history. The realization that each of us are authors of our lives (weather we know it or not indavidually) clarifies our path through life to use our free will to express our thoughts, ideas and dreams outwardly. Each of us (again knowing or not) are responsible for our choices and actions. Our false beliefs of "Authority" as being something real, outside the self has brought us to our current collective perdictament. Unless we come to know the self, and take responsibility for our actions and choices I fear the destination which we will all surely arrive together. I would say the Prussian education system we endure today only worsen the situation. The "Truth" will set us free, and it must be spread to the youngest amongst us all the way to the oldest. What I have found most frustrating is that so few seem to hunger for it in today's world, as most people are entertained and preoccupied by the illusions created by the artificial Authorities.
Thank you for all the great work you do @krnel.