These are essays in intuitive awareness offered as creative musings. Science uses intuition to establish new paths of inquiry and advance possible theories. My wife and partner and I favor a philosophical exploration through our own intuition and emotional intelligence rather than fit-all reasoning.
We see ourselves as traveling mystics and emotional spirits filtering universal consciousness in the now. We are witnesses of a great cosmic joke playing within our being inside the even greater mystery of life.
I was raised in France until I was eighteen years of age and then moved to the United States. Since that time, I have returned frequently and sometimes months at a time.
Intuition would have it that I have been able to observe a fundamental difference between France and the U.S. I saw that through the very powerful mythology of France that everyone subconsciously wants to be a “king”, while everyone in the US just wants to be rich or do well.
This vast generalization is much more subtle that one might think at first glance. Hierarchical verticality is the way of life in France. “The boss, the chief or the head” are what most everyone respects and aspires to be. Of course, there are similarities in the US most notably in the corporate world.
Since the French revolution, France has never come out of the political splits that have diminished its spirit and power in the world. Year by year and without fail, political parties have collapsed. Macron was elected for that very reason in 2017.
Politics is everything in France and, in my view it blinds everyone. The integrity of its national identity and its survival is melded with it. You can also measure it by the number of political books, biographies of political men and women, as well as historical and philosophical fiction and non-fiction about politics, that are published every single year.
Ideology was the pride of its people. Identification with societal values, politics and religion are slowly but surely becoming old relics of the past and institutions are slowly but surely crumbling down.
Individual authority is the “new authority”, who would have thought? In our new global climate, there can be no other and it is the only sane way out. In the very near future, I see self-knowledge and the behavior of the self as the new motors for survival and well-being. Having your own authority is the only mechanism that can promote freedom from fear of survival and freedom from bondage to institutions that can no longer deliver on their promises.
We have arrived at the age of the individual and few actually realize it. Regardless of morals, beliefs and ideologies that are still tirelessly propagandized, the time has come to establish the authority of one individual at a time. The struggles will be fought within, and when I say struggle I mean a new kind of struggle, which is a search for an inner resonance to oneself and the whole, leading to a deeper understanding of the cycles of life.
Relinquishing authority to institutions, a mother or a father, etc., is no longer sustainable let alone practical, but more important it isn’t healthy. One must understand that the age of the good shepherds are long past. Who, better than yourself knows best when it comes to your life?
Individual authority must become the “new absolute”. There has never been an opportunity like this in the history of man since recorded history. In order to say no to being controlled, one must realize that control has its roots inside our DNA hence, how it must be seen within.
To release oneself from the shackles of fear, one must undertake a deep transformation of the way one thinks about oneself and the world. There has never been a time where man is given to opportunity to come first—alone. We have evolved through tribal laws, movements, revolutions and civil wars. At every turn the authority of state, religion, the father or morals have dominated us and kept us oppressed. We did it willingly and it worked to give us a semblance of civility and to build the world we live in today. But now things are changing again.
One must think in terms of oneself now. It may sound harsh but it isn’t. It has been called “enlightened selfishness” not at all egocentric (the old definition of selfishness), but rather self-centered with a new and transformed awareness. The emancipated permission to be oneself. From 2019 on, the new revolution is fought within, no longer without or collectively.
It is an awareness of one that challenges, recognizes and let’s go of any form of control, authority, and oppression from within and from without. The new rights are individual rights—the right to claim individual authority. Without it, countless human beings will not only feel utterly lost but may not survive.
“My Spirit has Ways of Seeing that my Eyes cannot Comprehend.”
Copyright © 2008-2019 Philippe Benichou
