What is the authority?

Direct experience, a person or group of persons outside of ones experience?

If your experience doesn't agree with the authority does one deny ones own experience and then surrender ones being to what one is told is real?

Are we taught to surrender our sensibility to the authority in or schools and in the world, or are we taught to use our senses and to refine them so that authority does not become our dependance and our lives conditional as the tenants of authority?

Who does not use authority to reference fact and reality? Who will not twist the words of authority to try and gain an advantage?

I was addicted to the Hokey Pokey, but then I turned myself around!!