The Claim

We need a reorientation.

It’s a small thing and a massive thing at once.

It requires something invisible to be seen at the individual level and enough individuals to see it. Enough single waves to create a tidal shift that will wash over our world.

It’s not political. No letter writing or petition signing. Politicians are not required.

It’s not legal either; lawyers are not required. In fact, no pre-requisites of any kind are necessary.

It’s a claim.

But not any-old-claim.

It’s the claim. Between you and you. No one and nothing else is involved, not with this initial, essential piece.

“I am a Sovereign Being.”

For real, embodied. Breathing. Here.

No mediator.

This claim is not merely in your head. It’s not conceptual.

It says I’m really, really HERE. And not just here; here with a claim.

And that is the reorientation. It places you at the center of your life. We can not make this declaration of self-sovereignty for anyone else. No one can make it on our behalf.

There has to be an “I” that claims itself as its own authority.

It’s self-referencing.

Sovereign people do not require any external legitimacy to verify or endorse their claim to sovereignty.

The claim itself is the verification.

It’s a self-evident claim.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

We’re all familiar with the quote.

Here’s the rub:

Before someone can become self-evident, there must be a self. A self that is aware of itself and claims itself as its own authority.

Do you see how easy it is to miss this? The most obvious piece. The most important piece. How we keep it in some abstract, conceptual place, as if the “I” in “I am a sovereign being” is an amorphous thing; an idea floating around? As if the “I” isn’t you and me. As if it doesn’t include flesh and blood.

This claim is not waiting on anything out there.

Ask yourself, do I claim self-sovereignty? And if yes, then do I see freedom as an inherent part of the claim? Because it must include freedom - as a fact - or otherwise we make the claim meaningless.

I see it all the time - we acknowledge the truth of it and then look for someone or something else to verify it, fully undermining it. Or we acknowledge the truth of it and then behave like slaves, complying to irrational mandates.

The acknowledgement in one breath and then the giving it away in the next.

Ask yourself honestly:

Did I give that away? Do I continually give that away?

Do you need permission to be you from someone else?

If yes, then who is in charge of you? (Surely it’s not the WHO, or Bill Gates, or some maniacal power-seeking bureaucrats?)

Does your claim to sovereignty and freedom hinge on a law or some other mechanism of permission? Does it require that something be written somewhere to prove it?

(Yes I included the Declaration of Independence, but not as the basis for the self-evident claim; rather as the enlightened recognition of this self-evident fact. You’ll note the writers did not explain it, because this claim requires no explanation.)

Can your claim be taken away with a pen? Or via a government?

Only if you agree to that. Consent to that.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…

The government exists to secure these rights and receive their power from the consent of us - We The People. You and me, as self-sovereign beings.

What do free men and women do when their governments no longer secure their inherent rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness?

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

And this:

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

I know many of us are trying to do this, and in the process have discovered the depth and breath of the cancerous corruption that has decimated our country and our world. Is the current government even worth trying to save? (I don’t think so.)

Still whatever we many need to do, or decide to do, it must start by reorienting ourselves, back to ourselves, as free men and women. (Not as Democrats or Republicans. That’s a guaranteed recipe for continual division.)

We stop consenting to the criminals. We live our lives in freedom to the fullest ability we can. (Yes, I hear you Rick, “Start a garden!”)

We do not participate in the empty rituals of a democracy that no longer exists.

We withdraw our consent, our energy, our efforts and our money from it.

We do not comply. We do not support. We do not grant them our consent to authority.

We claim that authority for ourselves and let the facade fall apart.

I have no confidence or faith in our government. But I do have confidence and faith in individuals who claim their own authority.

Enough free, sovereign men and women will create a new world, one community at a time. It’s been done before.

Disruptions and difficulties are inevitable, but so what? The alternative - complicit slaves - is impossible for free human beings.

We are free.

But only when we say so and have the courage to live it.

Thanks for reading.

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