"I measure outer authority every day. It‘s one of the many, many reasons that I participate in Facebook.
I find Facebook to be an incredible laboratory.
Obviously, most of the beings in Facebook are not-self, are homogenized.
And they are all trying in one way or another because it's natural for us as beings with the Throat Center and a mind that we are going to do the best we can to articulate something.
Bob Dylan‘s old line about you‘ve got a lot of knives and forks, you‘ve got to eat something, you‘ve got to cut something, you‘ve got to do something with it.
So I watch it every day.
I watch the news feeds, what people put out as their outer authority. And I‘ve made comments about this before.
You get to see an enormous amount of conceptualizing that is derivative, that is, rooted in somebody else's or something else's perspective
That somehow because a perspective is associated with this person or that person or historically a perspective that was offered by some historical figure, that somehow that that historical perspective is valid at the expense of their own, that it is more significant than their own.
Any of you who are on Facebook, take a look at the newsfeed and see how many people actually say something about themselves, or that comes out of themselves.
Not the fact that they say, ―Oh, this is a great video, or ―Oh, this is a great piece of music, but actually say something, actually provide some outer authority rooted in their own experience on this plane, that they're actually offering up their perception and offering that up to others.
It‘s astonishing to watch all of that.
So one of the real exercises in all of this is really to begin to see how much of your intellectuality is derivative and how much of your intellectuality is rooted in correct perception.
In other words, what the framework through which you are designed to intellectually release your Outer Authority."
-Ra Uru Hu