Ra Uru Hu (Post 183) Never Forget the Frequencies in Awareness
The frequencies in awareness. I don't talk about it a lot because, of course, I don't do basic trainings or advanced trainings anymore so I don't get into that language. But never forget these frequencies. The splenic system operates in the now. It's existential, which means it's ultimately very weak. If you don't pay attention to it the first time, you don't get it. But when you get to the mind you have to see that the frequency, unlike the Solar Plex which is a wave, the frequency of the mind is all time. It's all time. Never forget that. It's all time.
You see, you can have a spontaneous "anxious moment" – a spontaneous fear. But it's gone then. It's over. You have it and it's gone. If you're emotional, you’ll go through the wave of your nervousness. That's the fear of the emotional side, but anxiety can stay with you all your life. So the moment that you cook the books, you have to live with the anxiety for the rest of your life and you can't escape it because it's your mind. And because we think that our minds run our lives, what we do is cook the books mentally, and then we try to live it out. And of course, the whole deep bitterness comes with that.
There are a lot of people, for example, who would like to cook the books who can't. Because every time they try, they just can't seem to do it, because they may not have the ability to motorize that. It may not be something recognized in them. It may not be something invited to come out. It will depend on their Type. It will depend on their authority.
So the thing to recognize about the collective fear of anxiety is that that anxiety is very powerful. If one cannot stimulate others with one's beliefs, the anxiety is very powerful. The more somebody tries to convince you of something,—that wonderful line in the 55 from Shakespeare, "Me think he doth protest too much." One has to be careful.
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(Post 184) Cracking the Surface
What’s so important for them is to tune them, to begin this process of transforming their frequency. The moment that the frequency begins to be correct, this is the moment that things begin to change. Their aura changes, the way in which they navigate on this plane changes because they’re no longer relying on their mind. No matter what you take in from any of these overviews that I'm doing in this program, it’s really important to remember that this information is to expand your understanding and your awareness about the nuances that are there in this knowledge. It’s not about what is transferable when you're meeting a client and you’re meeting somebody who is not-self. Please grasp that.
The most important thing for the not-self being when they encounter, on their fractal, somebody that can bring them this information is to crack the surface. Everybody is stuck there. Everybody is stuck on the surface and everybody is stuck in the homogenized world of the surface. They’re lost in their conditioning. They just are. And it’s exceedingly difficult for the vast majority of human beings even to feel like there's something that's not correct, let alone that they are ready to confront their conditioning and to experiment with something that in essence is really alien to them.
When you grow up in this life, the way in which most human beings are conditioned, is that they’re conditioned to use their mind for everything. “What are you thinking?” “Put your mind to work.” “Figure it out.” All of these cliches that are there in the homogenized world that constantly point our children and ultimately the children that become adults to using their mind to navigate on this plane, that it becomes the mind that makes all of these decisions.
“I’m going to do this, I’m going to do that,” and without them ever understanding that the moment that they’re making those mental decisions, it’s just based on their openness. “I’m going to do this thing because it will help me avoid confrontation.” “I’m going to do this thing because it’s going to prove to everybody I’m worthy.” “I’m going to do this thing because it allows me to hold onto that thing that I want to hold onto.”
It goes on and on. “I'm going to do the thing I think about that doesn't really matter.” In the homogenized world, human beings are not aware of that. They don't know that. They trust their minds. They trust their minds in the sense that they don't know what else to trust.
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(Post 185) Not-Self Drama
But when you’re looking at Type, you’re getting a deep insight into the overall drama that the not-self is going to live. The thing about the drama of aura and Type is that it is expressed through their dysfunction. Anger really is the thing that punctuates the Manifestor’s life. It is frustration that is the first thing that the Generator thinks of when it thinks about its life. It is bitterness that the Projector can’t stand because of what has happened to it in its life. And for the Reflector, there will be this disappointment. This is what is really the not-self.
This is what these beings are all about, because every single one of those aspects in one way or another depending on the design are going to become the themes of their false authority, their whole mental system. “I’m angry, so I will do this. I'm frustrated, so I will do that. I’m bitter, so I will change things. I’m disappointed, so I will look for something else.” It goes on and on and on. And all of those become the bedrock of the way in which the being is going to think, is going to make decisions.
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(Post 186) Hexagram 49 revolution
This hexagram is called Revolution, and we step into the emotional system. Remember that every single gate out of the emotional system resonates to the nature of that wave. The channel 19/49, the channel of Synthesis, is a design of sensitivity. This is a tribal, mystical channel. It is about the nature of resources in the tribe, and it is about touch. The 49th hexagram is the gate of principles. This gate establishes the principles of resources: who gets what and what do they get. This is the nature of the 49th gate. It establishes what has to be obeyed. The 49th gate is always looking for obedience. That is its nature. It is a gate of principles and its potential is the awareness of what is needed or not. Please understand that this is not an awareness. What is needed or not, as a principle, operates in the wave. When you are at the low end of the wave, you do not need it so much, or maybe you do. Or at the high end of the wave, you need something or you don't. This is conditioned by the nature of the wave.
All of our revolutions, all of our principles have been conditioned ignorantly by the nature of this wave. The awareness potential is food discrimination. This is all about dictating from the 49th position, and establishing the principles about what food should be available, and when the food should be available, and how to get the food. All of this is about organizing the resources for the tribe. So, the 49th gate is an emotional gate and, as such, in its wave, it determines what kind of resources do go where. The access to food is not guaranteed because it is a long way to the throat. Revolutions are promises. Principles are often nothing more than empty bags, usually with money inside that has been removed. This is the gate of the sacrificer and the sacrificed. This is the butcher's gate.
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(Post 187) The 40-37 Holds Water — Bladder Problems
The classic example is the 40-37. No one holds water better than them. They hold water. And, of course, the reality of their being able to hold water means that they can end up being overweight. They can end up being very bloated, and not just the 40-37, but the 40-37 as an archetype of that.
What you're looking at is energy that may not have a consistent way to get out, and one of the main problems that come to 40-37 is bladder problems. In other words, they can't get it out. Or they have to get it out all the time.
One of my jokes about being undefined emotionally is that the moment I step into an emotionalized aura, I have to pee. It's terrible. They make you pee, these people; it is what they do. They should all have shares in toilet manufacturing companies. Get their rightful profits.
If you don't have a way to get the energy out, then the moment you step into somebody's aura and they hook that up, you can pee and so can they. You need to get the energy out, and of course, what that means for the Projector as a Type is that they can be under a deep energy burden, and of course their bitterness gets empowered by the energy.
It's not like they're saying, “I have no energy, and I need you, and I understand energy, and therefore I can be of assistance to you,” which is the classic Projector pitch. But that's not true for the Projector that has energy elements. What they're looking for is, “Give me access.” Let me put my energy to work, putting your energy to work. And, of course, the moment you have a Projector who has an energy element and you recognize them, they're very powerful. They can become physically active.
Some Projectors, without access to energy within their own system, are at their best just sitting behind the control panel and guiding the energy from behind the control panel. But the moment you have an energy element in the Projector, it means that in order for them to be healthy they have to use their own energy, not simply guide the energy of others.
In other words, those things are combined. They become active workers on behalf of the energy of others in order to benefit themselves, because they need to get that energy, and they need to get that energy out. It's essential for them. It is much less a pressure of that kind of dynamic on the splenic side, adrenalinely, than it is on the other side.
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(Post 188) The Splenic System
And the thing about the immune system, we know that what makes the immune system unusual, in a sense when you think about symmetry, is that unlike the other side this is not a motor. It’s a cold environment. It's cool. This is the whole thing about being a splenic person. You meet splenic people who are not emotional; these can be the coolest people. By the way, if you’re not-self it would just be cold, which is a different thing, after all. But there is this coolness here.
And the thing to see is that on this side you have all this heat. It is this meeting here, this channel of the transmitter, the channel of surrender. It’s quite a name for a channel. And it is this heating up, but it's more. The heat brings mutation. And it is one of the things to understand how deeply mutated our immune system is and when I say mutated, mutated for what is necessary for us as humans in these forms.
On the other side, the 44, there is no deeper fear, because it never goes away, is the fear of the past. The 44 has a memory unlike anything you can imagine, because it has a memory that simply aligns it in our code, in the genetic code, as deep and as far back, as deep and far back can go. The immune system is based on learning from survival. It’s what it does. It learns from survival. It recognizes something, and then from then on it knows how to deal with it. It is deeply experiential.
This is one of the dilemmas for the difference between children with open Spleens and defined Spleens. For the defined Spleen child you need to give them every kind of protection you can. And everybody would think, why that. But, if you have an open Spleen, you let them get things. And then they become masters of them. If you look around at the people that you know, invariably you're going to see that undefined splenic people turn out to be a lot healthier than defined splenic people, because defined splenic people don't pay attention to their health, and undefined splenic people do.
The only way you can overcome the fear of the past is to know that you have the strength and the capacity to meet the future. The 44/26, the hot and the cold coming together, the turning on of the immune system, what we're dealing with is something we call instinct.
And if we go to the root of the instinct we get to the 50th gate. And of course, here in this configuration we see the entire defense circuit, and the significance of these two gates, the 50 and the 6.
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(Post 189) The Not-Self Responds to the Conditioning
I used to make the comment that the great disease of the world is self-hatred, that human beings are conditioned from the moment they come into the world to see that there is something wrong with them that can be improved. So, my real concern about doing cycle analysis is: Do you understand the not-self of the being? Because it's the not-self that responds to the conditioning, it's the not-self that takes it over.
The real dilemma with human beings is how difficult it is for us to be able to deal with the power of our minds, the power of self-reflected consciousness. This is something that is really very profound. It's so dense; it makes the maya so dense. It is so incredibly difficult for most human beings to disengage themselves from the power of their minds to run their life. Over and over again, what we all confront on a day-to-day basis in our lives is dealing with the fact that every single one of us has a mind that is very busy trying to tell us what to do, what not to do, constantly, moment- by-moment, breath-by-breath interpreting in one way or another precisely what is going on in the world around us.
Because it seems like the mind is the only thing about us that seems to be concerned about us and because the mind is always engaged in trying to figure out the “this and that” of our process, it seems rather logical that we turn over to mind the responsibility to make decisions in our lives. When you look at humanity as a whole, what you look at is the mental plane. When you're talking about the not-self, you're just talking about the reality that human beings make decisions with their minds.
I used to make jokes about the Eastern teachers and their 'no mind' pitch and how difficult that would be for somebody with a fixed mind. Because after all, if you have a fixed mind, it's not like you can get rid of it. But really so much of 'no mind' has been confused with what the real message is. That is, it is mind that creates the maya. It is not mind that understands how we are to operate in the maya successfully. It cannot.
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(Post 190) The 6 is Totally for Itself
I’m a 5. I stand underneath the 6. The 5 is all about conditioning. It is about fixing things, changing things. It’s at the 5 that you get all of the forces that have controlled you, that have controlled humanity. I know that. I’m an apostate. I turn my back always on my own kind. It seems to suit me. But I understand that this era is over. This is the end, period. Once you understand this, once you understand your way to be your authority, there is no need for conditioners, the forces that shape the way human beings think and act and move and all of this. It's about time.
And you can see the progression. The 4 was over there trying to make all the neighbors behavior in the same way. The 5 was over there trying to get a nation to coalesce. And the 6, the 6 says that was very nicely done, thank you very much, but I'm not interested. I’m just not interested. I'm only interested in myself and my own process and the correctness of myself in my own process, which means that I'm neither going to be a disadvantage or an advantage, that I'm going to be appropriate when it's appropriate or not, that I’m going to be useful when it's useful or not, that I’m going to be available when I’m available or not. But I’m going to be totally for myself, correct within myself. Only then can I be useful or not; only then.
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(Post 191) Gate 48 Collects Criticisms that Add Up to a Solution
By the way, that’s what the Spleen naturally does in the 48th gate. The 48th gate is a collection of criticisms, until finally all those criticisms add up to a solution. It’s just collecting different in-the-moment criticisms that come like drops of water from the tap of the 18 and they fill up the well. So being somebody who has a defined Splenic Center means that there is a reliable, fixed awareness that’s there to guide the vehicle.
It’s very difficult, mostly for men who have strong splenic systems, to honor their Spleen, to honor the instinct or intuition or taste that is coming out of the Spleen. The male tends to be conditioned to be a Manifestor. Women are conditioned to be Generators. That tends to be the kind of conditioning that we work. Everybody’s got to be busy and do things, but one’s got to be active and one’s got to be passive as a kind of generalized theme. Being conditioned to being a Manifestor, pushing things out and only meeting resistance–quite a problem.
In this movement here, those splenic forces, if they honor their Type and they pay attention to the awareness in the now, they’re of enormous value, because these are people that can be clear in the moment. I can never be clear about the past or the future, but I can be very clear in the moment. That’s the nature of being a splenic being.
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(Post 192) We Need Each Other
Every time that I look at the generalizations of a BodyGraph, I’m constantly put in a position of having to see that humanity is designed to come together. That people are designed to come together. That groups are designed to come together. There is no way without that, and when you see that there are all these channels that are projected channels, how much we need the other to be able to recognize it in order for us to be fulfilled in our processes.
We’re not designed to be alone. It’s not in our nature. We are here in an illusion only of separateness. In spending time looking at the program, you can see that not only are you never alone, you’re never your design. You’re only a theme that is your design, constantly in the ocean of programming, and then we are a specie biologically linked and biologically bound to each other. We have deeper imperatives than we can possibly imagine at the surface of our neo-cortex. All kinds of drives in us—speciel drives, animal drives—that we have very little connection to. We need each other.
We are of the same thing, and the progression of our civilization has brought us to a point where we’re as integrated as we have ever possibly even imagined we could be. The nature of our technologies, our capacity to be able to communicate and share information, but more than that, our growing depth of understanding the nature of what it is to be human at the biological level, at the chemical level, and the nature of the universe around us.
We are a whole. This business of looking at a design and seeing all these projected elements, is that when you’re dealing with a client and you’re bringing them to their Type, you’re also bringing them to their social entrance.
It’s the bizarre irony of my life that a creature like me is so loved. It’s a real irony for someone like me, and that could not have come any other way than living out my Type, because it would have been impossible for that to have been in my life. I never would have attracted it, and it never would have happened.
Something to be clear about the nature of what it is to really be comfortable in the world is that in living out your Type, you get the right social connections in your life. I know how much all of you struggle with that. I truly empathize with what it costs you at the personal level to be yourself. It’s clear that that is one of the main stumbling blocks of actually becoming your design.
You see, the public will be able to take advantage of design. That’s not the same as becoming your design. Don’t think for a moment that any popularization of Human Design is going to bring about everyone who is interested in that to this kind of level of recognition and understanding. They’ll take advantage of the techniques that are revealed through Type and design, but that’s something quite different than living it, seven years out of your life. And the only way in which we grow is that we have to be in communion with those who also are aware of their design.
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(Post 193) The 43/23 is a Natural Ally for the 20/34
And here comes in this interesting thing about 20/34 action and understanding the most dynamic and special relationship that exists in type and that is the relationship between the Generator and the Projector. You see, for the 20/34 there is only one natural ally, that’s the 43/23. Again, the other individual polarity in the wheel, this commonality in so many beings of having 43/23s either through sun/earth oppositions or through the nodal oppositions.
And of course, the 43/23 as it stands by itself, obviously, no gate of primary action there, that this is a projected element. It is as it stands by itself, the perfect Projector. And it is this Projector that guides the 20/34. The 20/34 has to be guided. It is the only way that they can fulfill their purpose on this plane. It is the only way in which their action is going to be correct. And it doesn’t matter whether they have the full integration, they still don’t know what to do. They don’t. They can simply be aware of what they are doing as they are doing it, when they are doing it. But they don’t know what the right thing to do is until they respond.
It doesn’t mean, by the way, that 20/34s have to find 43/23s to guide them in their life. It is simply one of those remarkable relationships that can be deeply, deeply valuable. But of course, the theme for the Manifesting Generator is the theme for all Generators, despite its complexity. It’s here to respond. And it’s here to respond to guidance. It’s why this charisma is such a joke and so wonderful at the same time. This is the only Generator who can really look like a Manifestor. And of course, that busy action doing is so impressive to Generators, it really is.
It’s one of the things that I’ve said many, many times that Generators are raised in the shadow of Manifestors and so are sadly conditioned to be Manifestors when they’re children. Quite frankly, Manifesting Generators are the ones who really make that easy. It’s so easy to condition them to be Manifestors, because, in fact, as 20/34s they do truly have access to a primary gate of action. And because they don’t know what to be busy about, they are just simply busy. “Can I help you?” “No I’m busy right now.” “Can I love you?” “No, I’m busy right now.” “I don’t have time. I’m late; I’m late for a very important date.” It’s the way they go.
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(Post 194) The 3rd Line: The Pessimist
If we go over to the right hand side, take the example of the Pessimist. Let’s say that you’ve got a 3rd line Personality and somebody comes over to talk to you and they’re telling you about how they just got an exciting new job and they’re all cranked up and they’re all excited. Your natural way of taking that in is to be pessimistic. It’s your natural way to take it in. Inside, whether you articulate it or not, that’s another story, as you take that in, there’s a basic pessimism about whether that person can actually fulfill the possibility of that and there is a doubtfulness that moves into it.
Think about the risk of the way you internalize becoming the way you externalize. In other words, it would not be very successful for this being to be externalizing their pessimism, because that’s not what it’s for, or at least within the context of fulfilling the potential of their being, the pessimism is an aspect for them in the way in which they take things in. They’re not supposed to take things in at face value. They’re just not. That’s the way they take in information. Ultimately in their life process, through the trial and error of their 3rd line process, they will verify in their own way the legitimacy of it. They may meet the person again a year later only to discover that the whole thing fell apart and they go, “Yeah, I knew it, I knew, I knew it.”
But this is the way they’re intended to take it in. We have these fascinating changes in our Personality in the way in which we relate to others. There has been endless study done on human personalities, multiple personalities, the different ways in which we physically, the way the face changes, a baby for example when it senses when its mother is coming, the way in which the muscles work in that face, the way in which all of that goes on. It’s very important to understand that we have these wonderful shifting masks. They’re beautiful.
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(Post 195) Mental Anxiety Creates So Much Distortion
One of those things to recognize about the nature of mental anxiety is that it creates so much distortion. In creating so much distortion, what it does is it focuses attention on things, the mountains that we make out of molehills. That’s what anxiety does. Anxiety creates exaggerations of fears that are hardly probable or possible. The fear that the comet that’s going to pass by in 2027 is actually going to make a left turn and smash the crap out of us. There are going to be all kinds of people on this planet who are going to be cheering for that. Ah, really, cheering for that. The New Age fringe, eh.
Not only that but beware of people who tell you that there’s a UFO behind it and they’ve got some Kool-Aid for you. Be careful that you don’t go shopping for Nikes. Then they all die with Nikes on. They’d all gone shopping for Nikes the day before. I thought about that, and shit, it must be a big spaceship. The human mind is so unreasonable. It’s so incredible. The whole thing about the nature of anxiety is that it can get so out of whack. Really, totally out of whack. There are people who really think when they wake up in the morning, they honestly believe that the world is going to come to an end that day.
Now, the immune system is gagged with laughter. Fortunately, it only works in the moment so that the gagging doesn’t kill you. It gasps with laughter at such a concept. Nonetheless, the mind is really able to live out that fear.
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(Post 196) Multi-Dimensional Roles/Shifting Masks
From my perspective as a passenger I already assume that I am in a movie. I already assume that I have been given a character and the character has a role. What’s interesting is that it’s not a one-dimensional role. It’s so interesting for all of us to get, that it’s not a one-dimensional role. It’s much more than that. It is a multi-dimensional role. We are highly specialized in the way in which we operate in different situations with different beings under different circumstances.
Think about how unpleasant it is, I don’t know if that’s a common experience, maybe that’s just my individuality, but those kinds of situations where a friend of yours and a family member, those forces are brought together with you at the same time. There is a real confusion of the way in which you speak, the way in which you look. If you could see the face, you would see that the face is under enormous pressure to the point that it can end up twitching because it’s very different. We go through these incredible role shifts and all of us are deeply familiar with it because all of us are semi-professional face readers. We do it all the time. We look at somebody’s face and we read it or we try to read it. Many people are very good at reading it; many people are very good at displaying it.
To really understand that it’s not about that there’s only one; this is the thing. Yes, you’re going to have those situations where somebody, for example, is a Sphinx, they’re going to have a Sun/Earth 7/13, you’re going to have people who are very, very focused in a certain aspect of their role. But for most of us that’s not the case. For most of us we have a balance, a mix inside of us of these six different roles that make up our being, and how important it is for us to exalt in their difference. It’s difficult to get there, because it demands that you are correct in your nature. Be-cause there is no other way really to control that because it’s so easy, there are so many tendencies within us—open centers, not-self strategies that will say, “Why don’t you stay with being the Authoritarian, it works.” Try that in bed. It doesn’t work.
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(Post 197) Bringing the Correct Other into Our Lives
So we have all of these very, very interesting profile themes that are there in terms of the way in which we take in the other for their support. Think about that as well. This is part of the design of being caught up in a binary world. We do need the other. Humanity is built on this premise. So, it’s an essential ingredient in our lives that not only do we have the other, but that we are capable of bringing the correct other into our lives.
From the very beginning when I first entered into this whole process, one of my deepest concerns was that I was introducing the knowledge to people who were not-self, that it was going to take at least seven years for some of them to be able to get out of that and begin to really see what is possible in this life in terms of relationships. How incredible relationships can be.
As an integrative individual I was born to be a loner. Yet, at the same time it’s so obvious to me that relationships are something that are so extraordinary and it takes a long time in one’s process to get to that point where one is able, out of correctness, simply to take in the other in a way that is mutually beneficial. It’s one of the most interesting things about the support mechanism that underlines this. Is that in taking somebody in we are triggering a mechanism that demands that they support us and we support them. It’s a mechanism.
If you’re not entering into relationships correctly, if you’re not bringing the right beings into your life, this whole bargain breaks down and somebody ends up suffering. Often the byproduct of it is that there is a new life that comes into the world, and comes into a world that can be in disarray. These themes are enormously important for us in our lives, being able to be correct in our relationship with the other. And being able to fulfill our potential by being correct in the way in which we enter into relationships with the other.
The most important relationships in your lives now are not all these people that you have known for all these years. Not friends, family, children, lovers, whatever the case may be. But the great adventure for all of you is every new relationship that emerges in your life are the ones that you can truly enter into according to your nature. And you can begin to discover the difference. It’s very difficult to see that and it’s very difficult to live out the purity of what you are when you’re dealing with forces around you who are not aware, when you’re dealing with forces around you that are not-self.
But those occasions when you can meet somebody new and in entering into your relationship the way you should be operating, and entering into that bond correctly you will see right away that it’s these themes that will emerge and they will be correct. And if the other being is there for you, they will be deeply attracted to what your role is, because they’ve been waiting for it. After all, everybody that you meet in your life is on your fractal, everybody. And it’s a matter in terms of who is going to be at the concretized level the intimate ones with you, this is a discernment selection process that is rooted in your operating correctly as yourself.
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(Post 198) Mental Bitterness is the By-product of Anxiety
We're going to look at the mind today. It is the great projection field. And when you understand that the fundamental theme of projection is bitterness, the bitterness of not being recognized, you can see that the true theme of mind is bitterness, and that bitterness is the by-product of anxiety. Remember that human intelligence, awareness, is driven by fear. It's one of the ironies of life. The Splenic Center, the fear, the very deep primal fears of the body in survival, and out of that comes our taste and our intuition and our instincts.
When we get to the mental plane, there is no physical survival that is a question. This is not a primal concern. The intelligent mind is something that came late in our process. In terms of the nature of the BodyGraph, the mind, though pressurized, is not pressurized by a motor. It has no outlet other than the Throat, other than the capacity to be able to articulate or communicate. It is truly a powerless awareness.
Remember that genetically we're always attracted and fascinated and ultimately obsessed with what we're not. The projected mind that can never be the doer is obsessed with being the doer. It yearns to act. It longs to be the driving force of the life. Human beings are very different than the rest of the evolved life on this planet. It's clear to see that when you look at the design of forms and you look at the relationship in terms of the matrix of what it is to be a Rave and the matrix of what it is to be a chicken or a dog, there is a deep complexity to us. Deep.
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(Post 199) The Mind and Maia
I love this word, maia. The Sanskrit root is ma. It means to measure. And everything about the beauty of the mind is that the mind is simply about measurement. It isn't about decision. This is what makes mind so extraordinary as a potential for outer authority. That is, its gift is being able to look at the maia and to be able to conceptually grasp certain aspects of the maia based on its particular unique potential. That measuring isn't something that allows mind to be able to discern what is correct or not.
It is one of my favorite jokes about mind. I think it was one of my students, Shelden Lebron, who has a great sense of humor. He told this great mind joke. You have this guy that suddenly gets a thought that he should quit his job and sell everything he has and take all his money and go to a casino and put all that money on 18 Black at the roulette table. And every day he has the same thought, his mind cranking away. “We should really do this. We should really sell everything, take all our money, go to the casino, put it on 18 Black,” and on and on and on. And of course he finally does it. He quits his job, he sells everything, he takes all this cash, he goes off to the casino, he goes up to the roulette table, he puts all the money down on 18 Black and it comes up Red 7. And his mind goes “shit.” This is mind.
It’s not like mind knows what to do. It doesn’t. Everybody knows that who has ever relied on their mind. Your mind makes a decision, and the moment that the decision turns out to be a disaster, your mind says, “Oh, we should have done this, we could've done that. So, what’s the next thing that we should do?” based on mind making a decision. It's not what mind’s job is all about.
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 200) The 12th Gate
All right, let’s move to the 12. Now, of course, the moment we move into the 12 we move into the individual. And in moving into individual action you can see that individual action, because it is deeply connected to the emotional system is about mood. Now, when you see it in the 12 stripped of the 22, it is simply about the impulse, whether the pulse is there or not. After all, we’re talking about individuality and the only way to understand individuality is to really understand that if it’s not there, it’s not there and that there is no way of predicting when it will be there.
So in that sense understanding “I am in the mood or not,” is pretty much Lao Tzu, it is going to happen or not. In other words, it’s just an easy way in that sense of being able to see it. And because it is the kind of thing that is so radically different when the shift comes, because we’re talking about mutation, that when you look at the quality of these actions, that is, cautious incautious, you’re really seeing a huge difference.
Most 12’s are deeply cautious. And that the only thing that can make them incautious is the moment there is mutation. And when the mutation comes, they can totally abandon the structure of their caution. In other words, let’s say you have a 12.4 in detriment, the voice in the wilderness, the prophet, and that 12.4 is enormously cautious, they’re not going to talk to anybody. And they’re certainly not going to talk to any strangers. As a matter of fact, talking to a stranger is something that will just frighten them and they will simply be quiet.
Then all of the sudden they meet just the right 22. The meet the 22 that brings the balance to the activation in the 12.4, brings out the exaltation on the other side, balances it out, and in that moment they go from the silent, cautious, withdrawn individual to being a social animal. All of a sudden they can’t shut up, and they have somebody who is listening. And the deeper they go into the ramble, the more different they become as a force and an energy because, in fact, they are expressing a transition, a mutation in their form.
So, caution to incaution is quite something. Most of the time what you’re dealing with in individuality is not in fact cautiousness, it’s just simply, nothing is happening. And as long as nothing happens, nothing is going to happen. So it’s interesting to think about the individual and the actions of the individual. That the individual, in fact, has nothing to offer until mutation takes place. It is that mutative action that is there to drive them, nothing else.
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 201) Projectors and Recognition
So, we have a very interesting movement in all of this. If this is where we’re at now, then it's important to be able to see our world in this context. In other words, what is there in the Projector that is an essential ingredient to establish the true identity? And of course, it's inherent in what we describe of Projectors. That is, they bring recognition. They bring forces of recognition into the matrix. This is their greatest gift, after all. And because they are not oriented within themselves, that is, they don't ride on their Sacral—Sacral beings have to by their very nature be pulled in on themselves—that they are looking outward. And it is this looking outward and this ability to recognize that brings a special quality.
The fact that Projector exists is inherent in the fact that there is a Human Design system. And what I mean by that is that here is recognition. This is the way it works. At the same time, we have this force come into the world to be able to recognize and to be able to guide others to recognition, we have this system that provides the mechanics in order to make that possible. And of course, this is the ultimate thing. It doesn't matter in our modern context. Any one of these variations, whatever you happen to be, the fact is that the only way in which this is going to be viable for you is that if you operate correctly according to the relative Strategy and Authority of that vehicle. That's what's going to make the difference. It is, after all, the individual lives that make a difference.
But what is fascinating for me is to see this movement of identity out of the program, out of the mind and then finally to establish one's true identity. And out of that true identity you get the clarity, the intelligence, the awareness, all the language, you get those things that you need in order to be able to operate in a way you were intended to operate. We've come a long way. This is a long process. And as you’re moving through this depth of a process, to realize that what was created in the time of the seven-centered being is the greatest burden that we carry now. And the Projector is saying to us that we need to see that.
After all, their inherent gift is to be able to grasp systems, to be able to see things for what they are, to be able to recognize. And all of this is about the potential that is there for us. It's much less connected, the Projector, in that sense, to their own process. They’re rave like, in a way. I don’t want to overstress that. But, Projectors are not interested in themselves. They're not interested in that identity of theirs. They’re interested in that identity of the other. That’s not a far step to go to the rave that says I'm not interested in identity because I’ve already given it up to the other; in that case the conscious penta.
It's a movement. The wheel is turning and the mechanism is moving. It's fascinating to see, at least for me; after all as I said, it's my speculation on the way in which all of this has emerged. It’s clear to me that in seeing it this way, I also understand that time is running out. That is, time is running out for unique identity. The Projector amongst us is already ringing the bell and letting us know that the era of unique identity is coming to an end. And they’re here both to be what helps move us forward and at the same time, help us to be able to recognize our identity. That’s what they’re good at, to be able to recognize that identity in the other and to be able to help that being. This is part and parcel of it.
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 202) Parenting the Melancholic Child
This is one of the most common things in the upbringing of melancholic children or emotional children, that their parents become very uncomfortable with their emotional child being down or their melancholic child being sad. Not only is the parent uncomfortable with it, but depending on the design, they may be deeply affected by it.
The melancholy, the sadness being lived out twice as strongly by the parent, or the emotional down being lived out by the parent, and then of course the parent is under pressure to eliminate that. And so they want to make the child happy in order not to be unhappy themselves because they’ve fallen in to the conditioning of their child. And then they get their child to make up reasons and when the reasons aren’t good enough, and when their reasons and answers aren’t good enough, and they hire a therapist to make up the reasons, and the psychologist to make up the reasons, it goes on and on and on—and there’s nothing wrong with the child.
By that time there is. No question about that. Welcome to the age of Prozac. The reality is that the moment you ask them is the moment you’re telling them something very basic. You’re saying to them you’re sick. You’ve got a problem because you’re unhappy and we’re going to fix it, whether you like it or not because there’s something wrong with you.
All individuals know the hypocrisy of a happy life. There is no such thing. There is life. Whether it’s happy or not, good or not, right or not is really not the point. That’s all Maia. It’s just life. So protect your children who are emotional and protect your children who are individual and protect them by not being so damn sensitive to their discomfort. Let them live out their discomfort and encourage them to see that you recognize there is nothing wrong with that. “Oh, you’re sad today. Yeah, so what? Why don’t you go do something creative. It’ll be good for you.” Don’t turn that into, “Oh, you’re sad today, let me make you happy.”
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 203) Life is Built on One Decision at a Time
Remember that human beings are complexities of these things. They begin to multiply. You can see the way the decision making gets distorted. They‘re trying to prove they can find the direction to love by holding on to what isn‘t good for them. It goes on and on. And you can basically just weed out most of the homogenized planet and the way they think. It‘s sad.
But yet, here we are. And all of this is to simply reaffirm the same thing that I have been reminding students for a very long time. It is simple, what we do. It is a simple truth that life is built one decision at a time. It is the only way your life is built. It is built on one decision at a time. And the secret is to make the decision as yourself, and not to make the decision because of what you think you think you think you should or could or might or would be. That‘s all.
And it‘s not like there isn't a guide. There is. Each being has a generic way in which they can approach decision making correctly. Every decision you make as yourself, each one you make as yourself, moves you further and further away from the horror of what it is to be homogenized sheep. And it opens up something very spectacular, something special. It‘s you.
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 204) The Projector
I think it’s one of the things I like the most about Projectors is how diverse their Designs are. I know Projectors that have eight centers defined; obviously, not the Sacral. I’ve seen every kind of Projector configuration—the purely Mental Projectors, the energy Projectors, the ones that have defined motors—there are all these different varieties of Projector. I charted them once. I think there are about four or five basic variations of Projector.
Of course, this is really the nonenergy dimension of the planet. Yes, there are Reflectors, but Reflectors are always something different. I think in my own work, and I mentioned this before, I think it did a real disservice to Projectors in the early years. I felt that if I could transform Generators that Human Design would just be like a steamroller. And I put so much attention to the instantaneous gratification that comes with being an energy Type, being a Generator or in fact a Manifestor, and truly being able to deal with Strategy and Authority on a moment by- moment basis, and being able to get the rewards on a moment-by-moment basis. And of course, this was deeply unfair to the Projector.
The Projector really has an extraordinary gift and the gift is something that can be seen in its aura because the Projector aura is a focused aura. It’s focused. And it focuses on the G Center of the other. Where the Generator is designed to be wholly absorbed with realizing its own nature, the Projector is wholly absorbed in witnessing that in the other.
This aura of theirs, in its deep penetration into the other, obviously is a double edged sword. It is necessary for the Projector because the Projector needs to gain access to generation or manifestation in some way. This is the way that they connect to the life force of the planet. Yet, we know that what we don’t have in our Design is always the potential of wisdom in us, that the great wisdom inherent in the Projector, deep wisdom in the Projector, is to know how to use energy, but not have access to it itself.
And the Projector, because it is focused on the other, has a unique capacity. That is, they are designed to master systems in order to be able to quantify, qualify, cubbyhole, whatever you want to call it, to be able to measure correctly the other. It’s why we talk about the gift of Projectors as being a gift of guidance. In fact, the great skill of the Projector is knowing how to ask a question. I guess the role model of all Projectors should be Socrates, the question asker, because this is the magic of the Projector. The correct aware Projector knows precisely what questions to ask, and it is a great gift.
But the Projector child, to begin the story, is deeply disadvantaged. They’re not an energy Type. So, the clean-up-your-room, be good, do this, do that, all of this is part of a deep conditioning malaise. And we know that in dealing with the Projector we’re dealing with the theme of bitterness, of not being seen. And not being seen because the Projector is here to recognize and be recognized; in other words, to recognize the other and to recognize the other clearly. And at the same time, to be recognized, to be recognized of being of value, as an example, to be recognized in terms of what they are.
The Projector child comes into the world; they’re not recognized from day one, not at all. You know parents who spend their time inviting their Projector children to do this or that, other than the Projector parents that we have in Human Design who might have a Projector child. You really have to see that Projectors are the most deeply conditioned children and oh, yeah, they have a right to be bitter.
And how difficult that is if you don’t have the support mechanism, because as a nonenergy Type, one of the most primary things for the Projector is its relationship with the other and the need for a valued relationship with the other; it’s essential for them. The fact is that Projectors are naturally opened to conditioning; while their aura is focused and absorbing, the other auras, and particularly in the sense of the Generator aura and Generator field, is totally enveloping the Projector and conditioning it at that same time.
All Projectors are here to be correctly conditioned. You cannot not be conditioned if you’re a Projector. However, it does not mean that you have to be taken away from what is your Authority and what is correct for you. But for the Projector, the discernment of the other is so important. These Projector children need to understand the importance of the invitation. How devastating it’s going to be for them. Projectors are constantly playing Manifestor, constantly playing Generator, they are exhausted beings. These are exhausted children.
I see it in the life around me. My son, who is a Generator, has a particular connection to Projectors. His best male friends, three of them, are Projectors, his girlfriend is a Projector, and he’s a Generator. It’s so obvious that he keeps them going late into the night, early into the morning. Then you see them the next day and the Generator is generating. He’s all right. He doesn’t lack for any energy. And I look at these Projector kids and I tell them, they’re exhausted, just riding on this wave. And they’re not designed for it at all. No other Type suffers from more sleep disorders and energy problems than Projectors, they just do. If you come into the world with an undefined Sacral you’re not here to work. So it already tells you something about your capacities, energy-wise. And if you’re a Projector you have to see that being able to rest and being able to have proper rest is something that is enormously important to the physical life. How important it is for Projectors not to be dragged to the point of exhaustion. How important it is for them. It’s like having a Projector child and a Generator child, and the Generator child you can’t give a bedtime to. But the Projector child you give them an early bedtime. You tell them that they don’t have to go to sleep, just get into bed, read a book, listen to music, watch something, and relax.
Ra Uru Hu
(Post 205) Electromagnetic
So here is what is called electromagnetic. Now, electromagnetic is when you have a gate at one end of the channel and the other person has the gate at the other end of the channel. In other words you both are missing that aspect. And because we are built on receptors – that’s something where this 59 is always interested in 6s and this 6 is always interested in 59s. There’s a hook. When the two of them meet and step into each others aura, what happens is that we get an electromagnetic definition, that is we get a wiring between these two centers.
Electromagnetic is ATTRACTION AND REPULSION. It’s BOTH. We live in a dualistic construct, in the yin and yang, the DNA and the RNA. The electromagnetic is the attraction that pulls you to somebody. You go `Oh, oh, oh.’ You step into that aura and you go `Ah, that’s what I want at the other end.’ The other one at the other end says `Oh, oh, oh I want that at the other end’. And then they come together and within an hour, a week, a month, at some point that thing that they have over there, that they thought was so great, - Jesus, it’s a pain. Attraction and repulsion, and it never stays one or the other. It fluctuates back and forth. That thing that you thought was so sexy or terrific, all of a sudden is NOT. You have to understand the joke that you’ve got hard wiring over here and there are 1,069 I think, possibilities that are at the other end. That’s a lot of variety. And even though this was `oh, oh, oh,’ at the beginning, there is also this variety that is out there that this example is not the definitive example of.
The electromagnetic connection is very strong and can be very powerful in a relationship – this attraction field – repulsion field. You love to hate them, you hate to love them. All that stuff is rooted in the electromagnetic.