Reclaiming Your Agency

It’s safe to say we live in the most unique of times known to man where we’re are witnessing a sizeable shift in the paradigm which are akin to biblical proportions. As such, it becomes imperative to seek and stand in one’s truth in a period characterised by a relentless pace of change and seismic levels of uncertainty.

Furthermore, it’s becoming increasingly obvious that we no longer have universal barometers for measuring the truth and we have no idea who to truly rely on for a reliable narrative. Previously, journalists, political and religious leaders etc (to the degree which they were credible, ethical and skilled) used to be adjudicators of the truth, lending themselves as filters, helping us dispense with, information that aren’t worthy of our attention.

In current times however, where we’re buried under the weight of information disguised as knowledge, which is incessantly fed to us via a myriad of mediums at an overwhelming pace that we can barely consume let alone analyse or evaluate. Luckily, an intrinsic part of our creation is a spirit of discernment, like a musician that knows when an instrument is out of tune, we’re able to decipher to a reasonable extent when the truth is out of tune. This however requires a conscious effort of reclaiming one’s agency i.e taking responsibility for our own knowledge. It requires a conscious return to our own faculties of logic, ration and reason as opposed to externalising that responsibility to people or events outside our being.

Naturally, the human psyche tends to avoid responsibility, we prefer to blame outside events for our experiences. Our resistance to acknowledging that we have absolute agency over our lives is that part of us that’s afraid to take responsibility for our experiences. Unbeknownst to many, by externalising one’s authority or agency, we end up externalising our innate creator power and in turn give it up to others (e.g journalist, political and religious leaders).

As the old adage goes, “Knowledge is power”, and the only way to reclaim our authority or agency is to seek knowledge about things that are unknown to us. Since time immemorial, we’ve always had three ways of obtaining knowledge - (1) Through our Intuition, (2) Through what other people tell us to be true, and (3) Through our own research and critical thinking to discover answers and draw our own conclusions. It appears we’ve evolved to doing less of options (1 & 3) and doing more of option (2) which leaves us somewhat powerless.

The wonderful thing about knowledge is that it causes us to become conscious of things we were once unconscious of, and when we have a greater level of consciousness, we begin to see possibilities. Psychologically, we get energised by new knowledge, we get enlightened (filled with light). Enlightenment causes a change in energy, and a greater energy causes systems or patterns that were once stable to become unstable, to become chaotic. Chaos is just unpredictable order, an unravelling of old systems which eventually births novelty or newness.

Remember - That which doesn’t evolve dies. “People are destroyed for lack of knowledge” - Hosea 4:6

Peace, Love & Light,

B.J.O