I am convinced by now that the ultimate spiritual stumbling block is Authority. Worldly authority hipnotizes you and makes you blind. The way it operates is by offering you security, prestige, material success, attention, advice, money and other things to trap you into asking for more. The more you ask from a projected authority, the more enslaved you become. The way to free yourself is by stop asking things from authority. You are, as @Leo Gura has said, The Ultimate Authority. The shift in my consciousness is clear.