Authority program

This is how what I call the "authority program" works:
In a person's mind, some individual can have the "authority status". This simply means that everything this individual says is true.
When I use the word "authority" in this context I don't mean power or control. I only mean being seen as infallible. I mean not questioning what this person says.

This is a very common thing. Many individuals and institutions have this kind of authority status in religion, spirituality, science, media, etc. For example, when media report that "American scientists discovered that ..." many people will believe this information.
How and why a person gives another individual the authority status is a bit more complicated. It requires time and some compatibility. It's a process.

I don't like this program, but I used to have it. I used to believe some things to be true, just because someone said so. There are many people who love to preach their truth as if they were inspired by God or something, so it's easy to fall into this way of thinking.
But I realized it was causing some problems in my mind. Believing something to be true, just because someone with the authority status said it, didn't leave any room for changing my perspective. It led to cognitive dissonance and confusion. Sometimes it even led me to believe that something was wrong with me when it wasn't. That's why I decided to completely remove this program. It was after I learned how to reprogram my mind, so I had no problems with removing it. Now I never believe something to be true just because someone said it.

I don't want to have the authority status in anybody's mind. I don't want anybody to blindly believe in anything I say.

I think it's OK to rely to a certain degree on some information if you think the source is reliable. But it is better to use your own logic and common sense. It's even better to test this information if there's a way to do that.
trust < logic < test