A meta authority

As The Belief Doctor I'm often asked if I'm actually a doctor (presumably most ask in terms of my being a medical doctor). To which I answer a resounding NO, definitely not!

To have a doctorate (be it medical or philosophical) would give me a socially-acceptable authority that would be counter-productive to my message: that message is "Don't listen to others on the important stuff. Go you own way, forge your own path, be creative. We are each our own authority."

If I deserve any authority it is because of the power and congruency of my ideas, and their efficacy, not on some external credential. But even then I'd be cautious and reserved about accepting any such authority, even for the 'right' reasons.

Historically we've been in a child-like state, culturally speaking. We're not grown-ups, spiritually speaking, at least not yet.

When I suggest to people to "lead God" many are shocked by the audacity, by the sacrilege. But it's simple common sense ... in that God must be the All of all of us,1 and cannot be anything less, so when like children we are genuinely creative we lead our parents, our friends, family, community ... and God. That's what we call genuine creativity, when the whole of creation in effect looks on in wonderment (for where else is such wonderment to be sourced, if not within each of us).

The ultimate authority, one that could be described as an über, or meta-authority is the creativity to forge new paths, to break new ground, to illuminate the way with our light.

As Krishnamurti explained:

Harking back to some structured authority, no matter how stable, esteemed or wise, faces us backwards towards the past, causing us to back our way into the future, needlessly and dangerously leaving us to bump into unpleasant things not intuitively felt or foreseen. Given global circumstances, as a race we can no longer afford blindly navigating our way forward.

See also

• The Evolution of the Human Psyche
• Leading God: The wonderfully new!
• Making God small. Not good.
• The Belief Doctor's Approach

• 1. To be anything less would make God small, and as I've explained elsewhere, best we not do that. For in making God small, we make ourselves small.