While I was having my alfresco cappuccino this morning two businessmen sat at a table nearby and discussed, with a strong sense of benevolence and, you might say, ‘noblesse oblige’, some of their employees and the organisation of their company in their strong, businessman’s voices.

I work for myself these days so it stood out to me what a game of giving and taking power this is. They would have been good bosses to have if that conversation was anything to go by. They would have been fair, polite, and concerned that the talents and skills of their employees were recognised and rewarded.

Lucky employees, I thought, since 40 hours a week of their well-being depended on these men.

Looking from outside this social institution – the business hierarchy – it all made me cringe a bit. Thank God I am not subject to their good opinion, thank God my ability to support myself is not tied into providing them with something they deem to be good. Thank God I get to judge the merit of my own work.

If I might just venture a prediction as we enter a New Energy global paradigm: arrangements of hierarchy, of giving away, and taking away, personal power are things of the past. They are not the way forward. And if I may espouse a theory: the global economic crises is in fact the undoing of such a system of concentration of power. It is not the end of everything, just a fairly dramatic metamorphosis from an old system to a new. Could be bumpy for a few years – about four I’m told – but systems of inequality are no longer appropriate for humanity so, as far as I’m concerned, it’s all good.

And if I may offer advice if this rings true to you: don’t try to hold onto anything but personal power. The next four years will be much smoother if you let it go.