Have you ever paused to look up the definition of “responsibility”? I did, and what I found terrified me.
It also made the state of the world and the attitude of people completely understandable within 15 seconds.
Do you want to finally understand the context of currently dominating culture (here called modern culture), If so, read the following definition from www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com:
Responsibility is: “a duty to deal with or take care of somebody/something, so that you may be blamed if something goes wrong.”
Let that sink in. Responsibility equals blame. Worse, it implies failure is expected. No wonder people avoid responsibility like the plague. Modern culture has turned responsibility into a loaded gun pointed directly at our sense of worth.
In this context, who would willingly step into responsibility? The fear of “being wrong” looms too large. The cultural "magic spells” surrounding this fear—“failing,” “fear of not being good enough,” “worthless,” “not lovable”—act as invisible chains, locking you out of the extraordinary and archetypal domains that responsibility offers.
Shifting responsibility into Creation
In modern culture, no one wants to be wrong, do they?
The whole concept of “being wrong” is the biggest block to creation. It is loaded with modern culture’s “magic spells” like: “failing,” “fear of not being good enough,” “not as good as…,” “worthless,” “not lovable,” “being right,” and more. You can probably add your own spells to this spell list.
Here is an invitation for an experiment: What would happen if you substituted the word “responsibility” with “creation”? Creation is not only understood as art-making, but as a life-creating force, a reality-shaping force. A possibility-making force. Each single person has unlimited access to it. Yes, you have it too.
I discovered that it changes everything. It makes a whole new game… a game I actually want to play, you might as well, right?
Responsibility is not an action.
Responsibility is not something you do; responsibility is something you are. High and Radical Responsibility is not a burden or a chore—it’s a gateway. It’s a doorway into next-culture adulthood, into living your Archetypal Lineage, into radical collaboration with others who have also stepped into their responsibility. It’s an energetic state, and a commitment to owning your power to respond to life.
Unmix your responsibility
Responsibility is like the four feelings: sadness, fear, anger, and joy. Each feeling is both information and energy—necessary to implement the information it brings into your life.
When your feelings are mixed, you can’t access or use either the information or the energy. Mostly, you’re stuck in a swamp. It’s hard to get anywhere from there. Yet, when you unmix your feelings, you suddenly gain clarity and access to the information and the fuel you need to move forward.
When you consciously feel your feelings, you gain an enormous amount of clarity and become more aware of the world—both inner and outer.
When you mix responsibility with blame, justification, avoidance or even praise, it becomes immobilising and overwhelming and in fact it stops being responsibility. The practice of unmixing feelings allows access to their pure information and energy. Similarly, unmixing your relationship to responsibility grants you clarity, power, ability to respond creatively to life’s challenges and ability- or- to be more precise: a superpower to create new circumstances.
Responsibility is Consciousness in action. There is no “we” in responsibility.
Responsibility is not a thing you can give to someone else or share. It’s not a group activity. Responsibility is personal power. It’s about owning your ability to respond. You cannot blame, justify, or defer responsibility to anyone else. The moment you do, you give your power away. True responsibility is radical. It’s the birthplace of your agency, your authority, and your possibility. Therefore, you are responsibility. You are your actions. You create your actions, and therefore your actions create you. You are responsibility.
Responsibility is consciousness in action. No two people can have the same consciousness because it originates neither in the culture they grew up in, nor in blood bonds, love, or books.
You are the source of your own consciousness. I am the source of my own consciousness. Therefore, I am responsibility. I am my actions. I create my actions, and therefore my actions create me. I am Responsibility.
There is no “we” in responsibility. Each of us is alone, and in this Great Loneliness, we are All One. Paradoxically, by standing in my own responsibility, I create a foundation for authentic connection and co-creation. Only then can I truly be on a team, be “together”, discover the ecstasy of being alone together.
As a team!