Authority, definition #2:

a person or organization having power or control in a particular, typically political or administrative, sphere.

I'm sure you believe "spheres" are something physical, like walls or political borders, but it's been my experience that they are absolutely not. It's been my experience that spheres are something like states of being and gatherings of people participating in such states.

Your beliefs are your beliefs and your experience is your own - not everyone's. You don't have any say in the relationship others choose to engage in with reality. Reality isn't something that is elected, democratically. It doesn't matter how many believe what you believe - there are others who don't and who don't experience what you believe they must be experiencing.

You see what you believe. You disregard anything and everything that contradicts it and zero in on any and all things that validate it. By all appearances, within my own exploration of reality, it's a "self-fulfilling prophecy".

I'm an explorer. I have no use for beliefs or "knowledge" which is merely hardened belief. Such things are barriers for an explorer. Knowledge, to an explorer, is like planting a flag and pitching a tent, never to move forward with an exploration, ever again. No explorer wants that. If you do, that's fine, but you have no say, whatsoever, in what anyone else is choosing. Nor can you even really know what they're choosing. All you can know is what they tell you they're choosing. Maybe they believe what they tell you and maybe they don't - it doesn't matter because you can never know.

I'm not telling you what to believe. I'm not telling you what others have told me. I'm talking about things I've discovered in my own personal explorations. Checking it for yourself would be quite simple if you don't let belief hold you back but simply saying it's not real is...I don't even know what it is other than a guarantee that you will suffer that narrow perspective until you loosen your grip on some beliefs.