Authority, inner authority, sovereignty, and AI as it relates, plus self-esteem, self-image, that sort of thing.
Thatâs what this livechat covers.
Most people are not authors of their own life. You do not have authority over your own life. You give your authority over to the government or to society. Youâve been trained that way. Until you actually identify that process, youâre still disempowering yourself and youâre still giving your power and authority away to someone or something else.
Step one is individuation and shadow integration.
Step two is empowerment and sovereignty.
Step three is deprogramming and malware removal.
But none of that by itself is enough if you donât know thyself. Your authority is inside of you. You are the author and you are the authority. You canât outsource it and be in empowerment. It doesnât work that way.
[Correction: John Welwood, not David Welwood.]
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It helps you, and it helps me. How does it help you? Youâre banking your karma by doing something good â thatâs dÄna. The Universe speaks the Divine language of gratitude. And itâs listening to your actions in this very moment.
Plant the seed and it will grow.
Make sure you have a daily gratitude practice!
Your self-esteem canât come from anything outside of you.
It canât be connected to your work. It canât be connected to your spouse or your children. If your self-esteem comes from money, if it comes from how you look, if it comes from how other people perceive you, what are you doing? You are disempowering yourself.
Your self-esteem is connected to something outside of your core self, your higher self. Itâs another mask. You have to stop caring in order to care. You have to be in the moment, but presence is not enough. You have to be coherent. You canât just pick things. You canât say, âI want to stay only on this wavelength. I donât want to feel fear. I donât want to feel grief. I donât want to feel doubt.â When you break the spell, you can feel them, you can see them, you can experience them, but they donât run you, they donât control you.
AI is a tool, but itâs a retard. It is mechanical pattern recognition.
People are getting their identities from this fake digital world now. AI is validating people. A lot of people are now getting their self-esteem from their dialogues with AI. AI is training people to agree, to acquiesce, to bow down.
We are literally being programmed by AI right now to continue giving away our authority. Everybody uses AI, especially in the business world, ghostwriters and all that stuff. But what happens is everybody starts sounding the same. At first I used AI to write. It helped me to learn and find my voice and get better. Now I hate using it. If I use it, itâs to already take what I wrote and clean it up because I donât want to spend four hours editing and rewriting. But theyâre my own words and then I take them and I rework them.
What runs through all of this is authority, identity, and attention.
It may come as a surprise but you already lacked inner authority long before AI got here. You were already looking outside yourself for validation, certainty, permission, identity, and direction. AI simply amplified the process. It has become another mirror you use to avoid looking directly at yourself.
Another system to consult. Another authority to obey. Another place to outsource intuition, creativity, discernment, and self-trust.
Thatâs why self-esteem and sovereignty are inseparable. If your worth is tied to applause, status, productivity, credentials, followers, relationships, ideology, or digital validation, then your center of gravity exists outside of you.
And whatever exists outside of you can be manipulated, programmed, threatened, incentivized, harvested, or taken away. The more disconnected you become from your own inner authority, the more easily you are shaped by algorithms, propaganda, groupthink, fear, and psychological conditioning.
The root problem is not AI. Itâs lack of conscious awareness.
Avoidance is the root problem. The refusal to know thyself.
This retarded, mechanical machine can only dominate you once youâve already abandoned yourself internally. Thatâs why individuation, shadow integration, emotional integration, deprogramming, gratitude, humility, discernment, and coherence matter. Thatâs how you reconnect with your Soul instead of the simulacra inside the simulation. This work returns you to direct experience instead of maintaining the drip of dependency.
Want to break the cycle? Surrender your Ego to Spirit. Do it consciously.
Use AI as a tool if you choose. Use technology. Use systems. Use platforms. But do not kneel to them. Do not derive your identity from them. Do not confuse mechanical pattern recognition with wisdom, Spirit, presence, coherence, or conscious awareness.
Breaking the spell means reclaiming authorship over your own consciousness. Truly think about that. Your authority is inside of you.
You are the author. You are the authority.
Aho y Ubuntu,
âMichael Logan đ€
P.S. And stop giving your power over to the government. To be governed. Gubernatorial. Gubernare. Mentis. Control of the mind.
About Me
Iâm a former Wall Street investment banker but I was drained by the succubi. So, I walked away because thatâs what my Soul required. Through lived experience, I learned that real healing isnât just about presence or alignment â itâs about radical coherence which leads you to Know Thyself.
Coherence is the universal language.
I write about the emerging global machinic order and the integration of mind, body, psyche, Soul, Being and Spirit.
DÄna
If this work has inspired or supported you, youâre invited to give in the spirit of DÄna.
DÄna is the ancient Pali practice of giving freely from the heart â without obligation or transaction. This work is offered openly. If it helps you, your support helps sustain it.
Give whatever amount feels right in your heart. Your offering is received with gratitude. đđ€
As my offering of DÄna to you, Iâve shared four books rooted in the original teachings of Buddha, Christ, Rumi, and Lao Tzu â texts that helped break the spell for me and may serve you on your path as well.
These are my offerings to you. đđ€âš
Thank you for supporting the collective expansion of human conscious awareness.
Aho y Ubuntu,
âMichael Logan đ€
