The 'Science' of Differentiation - Being a Human Design 'Scientist' (Part 2)

This article is a continuation of an exploration into what it means to practice Human Design as a science. Part 1 can be found here:

https://www.humandesignlifecoaching.com/blog/2022/3/9/the-science-of-differentiation-being-a-human-design-scientist-part-1

Thanks for returning to this read, as we dive into the question of what it means to be scientific in our experiment of Human Design, and in practicing it professionally as ‘The Science of Differentiation’. In Part 1, I introduced the scientific method and connected it to our individual experiment with the Type, Strategy and Authority formula. I also mentioned the concept of  ‘pseudoscience’ which is the main critique the Human Design system inevitably receives with regards to required markers for it to be accepted as a science. In Part 2, we’ll be exploring each of these criteria, namely ‘verifiability’, ‘falsifiability’ and ‘bias’, to see where our limitations might be at. 

I could not locate the audios, but in one lecture Ra explained that he felt confident to move forward on his path because the system could withstand scrutiny and therefore he as a messenger could too. In another lecture, he also explained that Human Design could never be free from the pseudoscience label, because there are so many components (especially at the foundations) that could never be proved. 

We would never be able to find the evidence necessary to substantiate them. This is the paradox we find ourselves at as practitioners. We have a formula we can empirically test (this is explained below), but we can never prove its origins, the underlying basis that explains why it works the way it does. And for strict scientific critics this is enough to categorically dump the whole thing.

In the previous article, I put forward an essential question to reflect on, for anyone who remembers nothing else from this article series: ‘Is what I’m saying true and how do I know?’

For scientists, it is necessary to investigate what the evidence is that verifies their claims. Not only that, but to consider if others can run experiments independently to test and verify these claims too. This is what would create an intersubjective consistency that allows us to agree on what the 'objective world' supposedly 'is'. It is what allows us to create a framework for how things function and how we can best cooperate within that mutual understanding.

Now if you've been in Human Design for a while, you may already sense that there is a catch in this. Human Design more than anything else is about your uniqueness - a realm that only you have access to experiment with in any meaningful sense. Nobody else can run independent experiments with your inner world. Only you can.

And there is another dimension to this: the knowing of the mysteries of existence, as far the mechanics of Human Design go, is contained within the Individual Knowing circuit, which is not directly about proving oneself. The only Individual circuitry that runs through the Willpower of the Heart Center is the Centering Circuit through the Channel of Initiation (51/25). It's part of the Mystical Way: the leaping beyond the mythology of the Tribe. Separating oneself from the existing belief systems and support structures that bind the community together in its ritual practices, in order to make direct contact with the Higher Self alone. Being the first to go beyond the horizon of what the Tribe can embrace and include, hurtling oneself into the unknown. Then potentially returning to the Tribe with innovation that is sourced from one's own mutative individuality, after having successfully contacted the Spirit that lives in Matter, having survived and integrated the shock.

This Channel is the only Individual Ego that has the will to prove oneself. Which is not something that can be demanded from the Individual Knowing circuit. If you're a mutative creative artist, you know what happens whenever your creativity becomes subject to the pressure to prove your worth: the magic vanishes - and it's not you anymore. 

This is what I continue to observe in myself too writing these articles, and this series in particular. I rewrote and edited this article after posting it because it felt out of tune when I read over it again. I saw my own openness getting a bit too jacked up on 'Being an HD Scientist' to the point of distortion, though I didn't catch this when I published the article at first. I was coming at it from an angle that nobody had really asked for, and as I went through it, I didn't feel well held as a reader myself. The narrative didn't flow and it seemed I had blurted to soon.

Science is about proving the validity of patterns that explain reality. And to leverage those patterns in order to move safely into the future together. The Cross of Explanation is rooted in the (43/23) Channel of Structuring. This is the Life Force of rational explanation. It's my Cross too, and I suppose this article series is an attempt to get to know myself better more than anything else. To see more clearly this interplay between my Individual Knowing and Logical Collective Channels, the inner tension that is there between them, and to try to unpack it in a universalizing way. Key to this Channel is voicing yourself at the right time and not before...

And so let's move into the next concepts with that tension in mind: the scientists that confuses and conflates proving the pattern with proving themselves. This is another stepping stone in the discourse about individual vs collective truth.

"Science of Differentiation: Human Design is the study of our uniqueness, our differentiation; a science which is verified through our own personal experimentation with its tools for living; it is not a belief system." 

(The Definitive Book of Human Design (2018): 435) 

In light of this definition, we'll now cover verifiability, falsifiability and bias step by step.

Verifiability: for evidence to be verifiable, it is commonly understood as something that must eventually be measurable ‘empirically’. ‘Empirical’ evidence means that we can perceive it directly with our senses, confirming accurate predictions of noticeable change. 

The importance of this is that the evidence has a causal ground in the material world into which we are physically embedded, by which we are affected and which we seek to affect - where ‘reality’ is most persuasive. Our explanations should not rest on something ephemeral or purely spiritual in such a way that our only option is to believe it or not. Otherwise this could be a basis for superstition, lies and deception or plain falsehoods leading to all sorts of exaggerations rooted in ignorance like witch hunts, etc. One example of this would be the claim that Winter is cold and deadly compared to Spring because a particular Goddess descends into the underworld during that time of the year. Though poetic and perhaps of metaphorical / mystical / spiritual value, or ritual value within a communal mythos, it isn’t empirically testable. Another example would be sensational rumours or hearsay that becomes a wildfire. We can see plenty of that in the misinformation age that we're in right now. We no longer know what external sources to trust.

“Empiricism in the philosophy of science emphasizes evidence, especially as discovered in experiments. It is a fundamental part of the scientific method that all hypotheses and theories must be tested against observations of the natural world rather than resting solely on a priori reasoning, intuition, or revelation.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empiricism

Ra Uru Hu emphasized that Human Design was an empirical science that needed to be verified through one’s own direct sense perception of life as they experiment with the formulas, observing and predicting change. And true enough, through the Type signposts and the shifting patterns in our relationships we can do that. We can test the proposed formula to see if it works. Though what we may not be able to verify empirically are the underlying ‘mechanics’ that are suggested to be the cause for why it works the way that it does. They were a mystical revelation, after all.

We’d need to be able to physically locate and correlate a neutrino produced by the sun moving through a Gate activating specific biochemistry in a body that leads to change in thinking and behaviour… Has anyone got the budget or means for that (ethically)?

Having said this, there is a power in Human Design that enables it to overcome this particular limitation in an intriguing way to still make it compelling. This is the power of the mechanical logic that underpins the accuracy of its keynotes. What's so compelling about it as a practitioner is that once you get skilled at the art of its poetry, you can invoke the logic to analyse or reflect upon any phenomenon in a way that describes it holistically and within a context that has direct implications for you as a unique individual. It can be used to understand the world around in a way that was simply never so accessible before.

What's compelling for both practitioner and client is that the accuracy of it is a felt at a physical level. The body recognizes what is being said in a noticeable way. Sudden shivers, sudden profound relaxation, crying, and other sorts of physical responses that can come in sync with a mental breakthrough as the keynotes are spoken. Which is strange because the language is generally speaking complex and far out. Yet it is intimate and capable of touching one's subjective perceptions about the world in a way that not only explains things that have always been noticed but remained mysterious before, but also that it touches the physical experiences of the body as it moves through the world. It describes mechanically the experience of being either physically at odds with or seamlessly in the flow within one's context. Moreover, it describes in detail how this functions precisely for the individual. It explains why copy-pasting strategies from other people into one's own life has very very little qualitative effect. And it provides something tailor-made to suit you instead.

All of these things can be verified as an individual measurement of 'what works' and 'what doesn't work'. That's basically the code hidden in every line description (not just the third line). And this to me seems more enlivening than trying to first verify if the whole neutrino business is actually true to begin with. If I can read a line from the Rave I'Ching and hear it come out of my friend's mouth, without them even knowing anything about Human Design; and I can ask them questions about that based on the chart in a way that helps us connect and understand each other... especially if it's about a trait that really annoyed me and felt like I wanted to change about them - then, hey isn't that neat? Making that available to people, starting with myself, is probably a much quicker and practical step towards widespread peace than the endeavour of building a new enhanced particle accelerator.

Falsifiability:  Ra was a 26th Gate who loved to make bold claims rooted in what he individually ‘knew’ to be true in his bones. And this could alarm people into identifying his claims as persuasive and dangerous exaggerations. The falsifiability of claims means that they should be logically testable with available means. If we cannot verify aspects of the system directly, nor run an experiment that could contradict our predictions or hypothesis, then we have no scientifically meaningful way of knowing whether the claim is actually true or not. It’s fully untestable.

The main example used to illustrate this notion is Karl Popper’s statement “All swans are white.” This is a hypothesis that could be either logically ‘verified’ by observing all swans – which we do not have the means to do. But on the other hand, the claim could be ‘falsified’ by observing a single black swan.

A strong distinction is then made between what is considered to be ‘science’ and what is not on this basis. If claims made within Human Design cannot be technically falsified, if we cannot logically test their validity by finding contradictory evidence using available means, then it is not a scientific claim.

So if we think about that for a moment, we can see that many aspects of the Human Design system cannot be falsified. Ra knew this and therefore, as far as my interpretation of it goes, his focus was to prove at least the scientific validity of Type - out of which the Strategy follows, serving as the basis for the proposed decision-making formula. The next step then would be collecting empirical evidence for the Inner Authorities rooted in people’s personal experiments. These are things that could in a way be measured through sufficient statistical analysis, correlating and predicting patterns.

So ultimately, the scope is brought back to the individual, which is both the practical bottom line of the Human Design system as such, and also where the empirical evidence for any of it is going to come from. How we collect and evaluate that data could accumulate into a resource base for making scientific claims (or not).

For yourself, you can verify or falsify your proposed decision-making formula and evaluate its legitimacy by following it (or not) and checking the outcome against what it predicts. The limitation to this, however, is the all-pervasive ‘confirmation bias’ that each individual is hyper-prone to - and that scientific critics can hear almost instantly in the subtle shifts of intonation in your voice from many miles away with their acute sensitivity.

Bias: there are many kinds of biases, but one of the more prominent ones that we are concerned with when it comes to scientific experimentation is the so-called ‘confirmation bias’. This essentially means that we are prone to interpret our findings in a particular way that is most convenient to us and would serve to confirm pre-existing beliefs or what we’re already hoping to get out of it. There is an outcome we already have in mind, consciously or subconsciously, and we will warp information to conform to that outcome in order to bring it closer to fulfilment. 

This can lead to distortions of evidence, paying disproportionate attention to that which seems to confirm and verify, while ignoring or even eliminating contrary evidence or attempts at refutation and falsification. This can lead to major mistakes in many professions, such as medicine or urban planning for example.

If you're reading this and you've already taken the Living Your Design course, then you're probably familiar with the concept of the Not-Self and how it works. You can probably see how it lines up with long-held confirmation biases. These are the strategies and ways of thinking that keep us stuck in life following the same mistakes over and over again. It serves the purpose to keep our system stable, which is adaptive in terms of not falling apart under constant survival stress, but it also prevents us from actually growing and developing as ourselves. 

When this influences our interactions with others and impacts them, there's backlash eventually. And the tricky thing is that we're blind until suddenly we are not. We've all got our shadows and distractions out and about that help us cope with the uncomfortable intensity in the openness - and we don't get to sidestep their consequences.

One way of dealing with the problem of cognitive biases in science is that our experiments should be open to logical challenge - in particular by field ‘experts’. Investigation should be made in order to test how solid our explanations really are and whether the evidence is sufficient. We may say that we were frustrated because we didn’t trust and follow our perceived gut response, but does that explanation hold up when it is probed more deeply? And can it be probed at all? 

Are there any other expert authorities on you and your decision-making process? If there are, how empowering is that really and what is their agenda? And perhaps the more relevant question: would you like to be probed?

Again we're getting in contact with this strange relationship between the collective logical process and the integrity of individuality. In order for something to be collectively accepted as a scientific truth, you need a panel of experts who all agree on a pattern due to its predictability, which they need to investigate and measure in significant detail within the context of existing knowledge. (Imagine a group of scientists deciding amongst themselves that you're wrong about your life...) 

The individual in me is already sighing: 'Ain't nobody got time for that!' The Collective in me is saying: 'Yes, wouldn't it be interesting if we could reliably measure the gut responses of a whole batch of Generator's according to Channel variations?'

Nevertheless, biases and shadows are part of the game. I’m quoting one of my teachers in neurobiology here: ‘We’re biased to believe that we’re less biased than others!’ (Steve Hoskinson) And we have to come to practical terms with that. It is legitimate for a group of scientists to point out I'm wrong when my subjectivity has a significant sphere of influence.  

If you take on the Human Design decision-making formula during a desperate and stressful time in your life (in the same way that many people turn to medicine or any other kind of ‘solution’ to their life problems that is being sold on the market), wouldn’t there be a psychological incentive to maintain a sense of security and mental stability by perceiving that ‘it works’ when all else has failed? Wouldn’t there be a bias to believe that you’re doing the right thing?

This is the kind of thing critics are afraid of and for good reason. In the end, we're all concerned with the consequences of decision-making and having the ability to see what we're getting into. For example, if you’re following Human Design’s Primary Health System, you are moving into pioneering territory - not a well-tested and scientifically proven miracle cure-all. Your experiment may end up on the list of 'things that didn't work'. 

This modality is so counter to conventional dietary regimen advice and healthcare practices, that it can be a really radical step to take. If you’ve been experimenting with it for a long time and you aren’t really finding your health and wellbeing improving – but you persist anyway, then there may be a confirmation bias driving the process rather than careful attunement to your own body. 

Quoting the Definitive Book: "Primary Health System (PHS): Discipline within The Human Design System that studies the Form's cognition; a dietary regimen which best supports each person's complex and unique brain development."

If anyone knows to what extent we have got brains scans or EEG readings that track someone's PHS trajectory, I'd love to hear about it. 

Personally, I find PHS a component of the Human Design System where we need to get as scientifically sound professionally as we possibly can, collecting and evaluating data properly. And to my knowledge, this isn’t really happening currently. (If I’m wrong about this, someone please correct me.)

So having presented these three concepts, I’m bringing it back to the essential question of this inquiry:

 ‘Is what I’m saying true and how do I know?’ 

Knowing then that you and everyone else have certain biases at work might foster greater attention to what you and others express, or at least where it's coming from. 

At whatever level you’re practicing the Human Design System, the points outlined above emphasize at least one major thing: it’s probably in your own best interest to be as scientific about your experiment as you can be. 

And I'm breaking away here from what I had written in the previous version of this article because I was getting preachy. What I really meant to say with being 'as scientific as possible' is to pay very careful attention to your process, to consider the evidence you're really seeing versus what you think you're seeing, and how you actually come to know this mysterious thing called truth. To watch your mind distort things and bring that into the light. And perhaps, to document your observations following the scientific method if you feel inclined to make your experiment scientifically useful for others. 

(Or, your know, 'Ain't nobody got time for that!' and enjoy your life.)

This is a simple orientation of mind to the unfolding of your life as it is, tracking what happens all the way through the cycle while the known and the unknown dance with you and things are revealed. I'm not suggesting you get your lab coat, read René Descartes and start dissecting your partner in order to measure their gut response from the inside in order to prove it.

Just as much, it's about evaluating honestly how you really move through life and being clear for yourself about where your authority is. To be scientific in this sense is to assume a direct relationship to truth, not externalising it to a third party who gets to plaster their 'expertise' across your life. However, this also means recognizing that you don't know what you don't know, and that well-founded expertise can be valuable information. It's a measured pattern that you can put into context, and that you can take or leave and see what happens. It's also about understanding that if you want to make claims that are scientifically applicable to the Collective, it's going to have to undergo scrutiny before it can have legitimacy. 

So much of the work of understanding this term 'the Science of Differentiation' is disentangling the misguided personal proving from the logical collective process of establishing the patterns. What is a scientific pursuit in Human Design is to correlate scientific findings with what is described in the mechanics, given available means. Given the way in which the HD community is not very well organised around this, I don't see it as scientific by conventional standards. Right now, we've got individuals worldwide connecting the dots amongst each other in small groups and through online platforms as they share the patterns they notice in their lives. It's a myth-making in progress, which includes some really incredible stories that may point any one of us in a direction we could follow and check out for ourselves. And we'll live and die by that.

If at this point you're doubting about moving forward with it at all, I’d say that’s a good checkpoint to be at. It’s an opportunity to evaluate exactly what it is that has driven you and motivated you in this direction. This is an opportunity to get clearer with yourself that when you do make the decision to proceed, you are responsible for yourself, and that it’s time to really start paying attention to your decision-making process and its consequences. You won’t be the only one in the Human Design boat, but you’ll be the only one on your unique path.

For whatever it’s worth to you, my perspective is that each individual as a whole aligns with an underlying advantage that is deeper than their mental motivation. Even if it may be unsustainable and detrimental in the long-term or near future, whatever you’re getting involved with, however you’re getting involved in it - it serves you at some level of your being given your circumstances and conditioning; things you came by innocently and are not your fault. 

Everyone's innately doing the best they can given what they've got.

In the previous version of this article, I continued to elaborate on the importance of 'bias' as a concept to understand, and I went down a thread of trying to get at the distinction between the individual decision-making process vs the collective logical decisions-making process. I then introduced Rupert Sheldrake as a perspective to explore so as to see if we may have a ground for relating to the Human Design system not purely as a pseudoscience, however appropriate that label might still be. There's another side to the story of bias in terms of how it accumulates into dogmatic power structures, which includes scientific institutions that get to dictate what is acceptable and what is not. But we'll get to that. 

I think this is long enough now and will close Part 2 here. We can cover the other material in Part 3. 

There's an open invitation for you to share your perspectives with me here and have a discussion.

Would you like to leave a comment below? 


Thanks for reading,

Hagen

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The 'Science' of Differentiation - Being a Human Design 'Scientist' (Part 1)

In this article, we'll be exploring what it means to be scientific in our practical application of the Human Design system. 

The topic of Human Design as a science is something that I’ve been walking with for quite some time and found meaningful to think about, given our context here on this network as a school, and then my own context as a Human Design professional. It’s too vast for me to contain in a single article, and I’ll take it as far as I can in this first part.

To start off, I’ve been hearing that Human Design is quickly becoming more popular and fashionable, with a risk of decreased quality of service due to many unlicensed and untrained ‘professionals’. Along with that, some critiques of the Human Design system recently crossed my feed in which the authors took issue with people who falsely claim to be scientific in order to sell things to a desperate audience.

It's common to find attacks masquerading as 'critiques', 'myth-busting', 'debunking' and so on while the authors seem more interested in ridiculing their target and describing them as con-artists scamming their audiences for their money. And while these dangers do exist and we should be alerted to them, sometimes it just seems like the venting of frustration to me. But this is a side track.

Anyway, I quickly checked out some Google Trends statistics (2004 – Jan 2022):

The results above are for the United States. In this graph we can see the red results indicating a notable increase for the term ‘Human Design’, compared to ‘The Human Design System’ (blue) and ‘Ra Uru Hu’ (yellow).

This second graph shows results for Brazil. Here we have a comparison between ‘Desenho Humano’ (red), ‘Human Design’ (blue) and ‘Ra Uru Hu’ yellow.

This third graph shows results for the United Kingdom. ‘Human Design’ (blue) and ‘Gene Keys’ (red).

Here we have Germany. ‘Human Design’ (blue) and ‘Ra Uru Hu’ (red).

India. ‘Human Design’ (blue) and ‘Ra Uru Hu’ (red).

South Africa. ‘Human Design’ (blue) and ‘Ra Uru Hu’ (red).

Globally then, we find the following results (2004 – Jan 2022):

‘Human Design’ (red). ‘The Human Design System’ (blue). ‘Ra Uru Hu’ (yellow).

And so we can see a global upward trend (almost 3 times as popular on Google than 10 years ago) that is likely to be driven by the US and Western Europe mainly, and some swelling in Brazil and the UK since the initial hype almost two decades ago, compared to other regions of the world. We can notice the difference between these terms, suggesting perhaps that even though people may be interested in ‘Human Design’ because they heard or saw it somewhere, they may not necessarily be interested in the source material from Ra.

With this in mind, the Human Design system also being called ‘The Science of Differentiation’ is important to consider. Though this term isn’t as search engine friendly, Ra Uru Hu on several occasions emphasized that the scientific validation of Human Design was very important to him, in part to distinguish HD from other belief based systems that incorporate new age spirituality. Having said that, just because we call Human Design ‘the Science of Differentiation’ does not necessarily make it a science, and I hope to shed some more light on that in this article series (hopefully we get there).

Firstly, because it is something that I wanted to check my own understanding about for myself, secondly as a call to professional Human Design practitioners – in particular to those who may be doing the system and the vocation a disservice, and thirdly to encourage reflection and evaluation of what we are doing here in this particular community together (and maybe what we are not).

This is an article that I found very hard to write because as I did so, many layers of my own conditioning emerged to the surface that I had not yet faced. It was a confronting process in which I could see my Not-Self tendencies emerge while putting words onto the page, distorting the narrative and its message with an underlying purpose in mind. I had to rewrite and spend more time than I originally thought I would. It was necessary to dwell in the uncertainty and unknowing for longer while watching the mind propose all sorts ridiculous angles by which I could try to prove myself as a scientist, or as a professional, through this piece of writing. There was a strong Not-Self structure my system was invested in preserving as if my life depended on it. I wanted to write about this subject sincerely, and yet it continued to feel contrived for a while.

The guiding question for this article is: ‘If you are a practitioner of Human Design experimenting at any level, are you being truly scientific?’

Originally I was driving a second question related to HD professionals who use ‘The Science of Differentiation’ as a convincing marketing trick in order to sell themselves, without necessarily understanding the limitations of that claim. (And then I took a whole wrong turn by reducing the rest of the article digging deeper into that.) Instead, I’m now reorienting us back to the beauty of science and the interesting crossroads we might find ourselves standing at as practitioners.

Personal Sharing:

In my Design, aside from my Individual Channels of Awareness (61/24) and Structuring (43/23) I have Definition in the Collective Understanding circuit, which includes the Channel of Logic (63/4) and the Channel of Judgment (58/18). Much of that is unconscious and formatted by the Experiential Abstract Cycle and Mutative Individual Pulse. And so at first glance you might expect or say that I’m scientifically inclined. Though a sincere interest in science was not really catalysed in me until the year I was introduced to Human Design while in my final year of university. I’d actually given up on mathematics quite early on in secondary school due to conflicts with teachers and had grown a general dislike for abstracting life into formulas that my senses couldn’t connect to. Then much of the modern sciences became increasingly unavailable to me from that point onward.

By invitation, I was encouraged to continue studying economics and began to develop a taste for logical patterns and thinking about systems. But I was missing a lot of essential foundations to understand complex mathematics and found myself slower than others, which I also allowed to discourage me in the conditioned striving for high grades. Meanwhile, what my attention was really preoccupied with most of the time were challenges in personal relationships (the 2/5 Profile in close relationships). I was more interested in understanding social dynamics between human beings, and this was not something I could grasp through abstract mathematics, nor could I solve my relational issues with the kind of scientific thinking that reduced real living complexity to abstract patterns and cold calculation. There’s a significant difference between describing a relationship as an equation and actually living one.


Eventually I went on to study Regenerative Economics at Schumacher College in Devon, UK. As a school this place has a different scientific lineage than most esteemed universities. In fact, the whole ethos of the school follows holistic principles that structure the college into a living community where the student body grows its own food, takes care of the communal spaces and learns to live together in a way that encompasses as many dimensions of life as possible. We were encouraged to really experiment and bring all of that into the classroom to reflect upon relative to the subjects we were studying.

If you’re somebody without any Tribal Definition in your Design like me, this may not necessarily sound appealing to you. And while I’m glad I had the experience, close community life like that may not be my thing (though I’m not so sure I’ll be able to escape it either). Nevertheless, what was very meaningful and valuable to me was the embrace of the totality of life as part of our classroom conversations. The body of the individual had a voice in the classroom setting and could shape how we would go about our day. 

The intellect was not the only way of knowing that we appreciated. There was a deep scientific and philosophical inquiry into our relationship to nature, to the senses, to each other and to the complexities that emerge in the experience of living. Our focus, for most people, was much less on ‘getting the degree’ and much more on observing the mystery of what is actually meaningful in our lives and what connects us to each other. And especially, how we come to understand these things through scientific inquiry.

Scientists whose thinking I was exposed to, and some of whom I was taught by directly at this college include Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Alfred North Whitehead, Henri Bortoft, Brian Goodwin, Stephan Harding, Rupert and Merlin Sheldrake to name just a few that you might also be familiar with in one way or another. And though I’m not designed to be much mentally influenced by the thinking of others, by contrasting my own thinking with their essential concepts I found myself very enriched. I was given language for certain phenomena I did not have before, and I could question and evolve my own ways of thinking and knowing. All of this allowed me to expand what I could see and think about in my own way.

More importantly though, these scientists role modelled a different kind of relationship between the scientific observer and the observed than what you might traditionally find in academic institutions. Which is something I’d like to explore with you in this article series, as we think about practicing Human Design scientifically. But before we get there, let’s start with the basics. What is science anyway?

I think Wikipedia should at least be a good starting point for anyone beginning their inquiry into what science is conventionally understood to be. If we can’t trust at least that information to be accurate and reliable these days, then what can we trust right? 😉 …

The simple definition we find here is: “Science (from Latin ‘scientia’ ‘knowledge’) is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.”

And then you can also find a concise description of some of the scientific human endeavour throughout history, piecing together an image of how scientific inquiry evolved to where we are currently. At the core of this pursuit we find several vital aspects of science: the ‘Scientific Method’, ‘verifiability’, ‘falsifiability’ and ‘bias’. 

By understanding these concepts, we can get an understanding of how to approach Human Design scientifically ourselves, but also an understanding of where we are inevitably limited. By being able to hold both of these understandings side by side, we can practice from a place of humility and walk as closely to the truth as we can.

So before we briefly go into each of these concepts, I’d like to insert what I think is the quintessence of all of this. It is a question that reflects the scientific spirit, that I find helpful and necessary to bring myself back to continuously. And I invite you to remember this question if nothing else from this article:


“Is what I’m saying true and how do I know?”


There are many possible answers: 'yes', 'no', 'maybe', 'sometimes', 'I don't know', 'feels true enough but I'm not sure', ‘other people seem to think so’, ‘my gut makes an interesting sound’, etc. And all of those are fine - as long as we're aware of that and don't pretend it to be otherwise. There's nothing shameful about not knowing - that's where science begins. 

Then there is the process of moving from ‘not knowing’ to ‘knowing something scientifically’, which is not the same as moving from ‘not knowing’ to ‘thinking that we think we know’. How you ask yourself this quintessential question and move towards an answer from there, reflects the kind of scientist you are (or aren’t). And there are many different possible kinds scientists who are prone to disagreeing with each other. 

Ra Uru Hu in one of his lectures talked about Truth and Outer Authority, and that our process of getting there, sharing our awareness with each other, was not about agreeing with each other and seeing things the same way in the end. Rather, to be able to share peacefully how we see differently. I’ll elaborate on this more later on.

To answer this big question then, science proposes the ‘Scientific Method’ as a pathway to knowing:

1. You start with a curious observation.

2. You let your observation inspire or inform you with a question about its nature, 'what' it might be or 'how' it works.

3. You develop a hypothesis, a theoretical answer for what could be the case, projecting some anticipated results or predictions.

4. You find a way to test your hypothesis through experimentation, finding out how you would measure your results.

5. You analyse your findings about the observation to see if they meet your anticipations and substantiate your hypothesis or not, and what else they might indicate.

6. You draw your conclusions based on evidence and refine your process. 

This then is the guiding logical framework for training the mind to conceptualize and see scientifically. When we as Human Design practitioners claim to be practicing the ‘Science of Differentiation’, we have to understand how it follows this method. If we don’t, we’re better off just dropping the pretence. 

What connects the multiple threads I’ve opened up so far is the word ‘evidence’ in step number 6. All roads lead back to evidence. “Is what I’m saying true and how do I know?” – what’s my evidence? What do I consider to be the evidence for my conclusions and is it scientifically legitimate? 

In Human Design the practice is a proposed formula for you to experiment with and start validating the mechanics for yourself. This is your Type, Strategy and Authority applied as a way to make decisions and observe the outcome. ‘Decide for yourself to engage in this experiment and watch carefully what happens’. 

So let’s follow the scientific method in a hypothetical example for a Sacral Generator Type:

Observation: A feeling of dissatisfaction with one’s life, repeated struggle with decision-making dilemmas and feeling stuck.

Question: Can following my Type, Strategy and Authority make a measurable difference?

Hypothesis: If I follow my Type, Strategy and Authority formula, I don’t expect much will change or improve. If I simply wait for things to come to me without making anything happen, I expect nothing will happen. I’ll measure by observing changes in how I physically feel as a consequence of my decisions.

Experiment: At work, instead of going out of my office to initiate stuff to do with my colleagues which I usually do (I always think the quicker we get started the better - just do it.), I sat and waited for somebody to approach me with work. I felt nervous about what others were going to think of me but stuck with it. Eventually somebody actually showed up and asked me if I was okay and if I wanted to continue to work on yesterday’s reports. I felt something like a knot in my gut, and had the immediate urge to say no. But it was an important report and if I wasn’t going to do it, I don’t think it would get done properly and my supervisor would get upset with me. So I said ‘sure’ and started working on the report. I felt very bored doing it and really did not enjoy the feeling that ‘I had to do it’. I worked on it for two hours and noticed myself grinding my teeth until my jaw tightened up. My mind started thinking that I was stuck in a slave’s job and that I resented my boss. I was counting down the minutes on the clock so that I could quit it and go for lunch break. I felt very frustrated and could barely enjoy my meal because I was so uncomfortable in my gut.

Analysis: I can see that I ‘waited to respond’ according to the TSA formula, and that my expectations were incorrect because somebody did show up with work for me to do. When I felt in my body that I didn’t want to do it (the knots in the gut or stomach and the urge to say no) I continued anyway because I thought I had to and was afraid of consequences. When I went ahead with the reports, I felt very frustrated afterwards and this was physically noticeable. 

Conclusion: This particular case example does show a pattern between my decision-making, the feeling of frustration in my gut and overall dissatisfaction with my life and what I do for a living. It seems consistent with what is being suggested by the TSA formula. I have to experiment further to see if following my ‘gut response’ more liberally makes a positive difference and if making my decisions differently can connect me to something more ‘satisfying’ and how that would be. 


The evidence is mainly to be found in the signposts (Frustration and Satisfaction | Resistance and Ease) at first. If the formula says that you’re a Generator, can you observe that when you make your decisions one way it leads you to a physical feeling of frustration in the gut and dysfunction in communication with others? And when you make decisions the other way, can you observe a physical feeling of deep satisfaction in the gut and greater ease of communication with others?

This process may suffice for you, but scientifically what remains is weighing this ‘evidence’ in terms of ‘verifiability’, ‘falsifiability’ and ‘bias’, as mentioned earlier. And this is where we may run into the kinds of challenges that critics may then leverage as a way to dismiss the value of the system as a whole. 

On behalf of ‘real’ science, one of the main tools that aggressive critics use is the label 'pseudoscience', driving an assumption that when something is called a pseudoscience it doesn't merit attention and is invalid for exploration by definition.

Wikipedia defines a pseudoscience as follows:

"Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method. Pseudoscience is often characterized by contradictory, exaggerated or unfalsifiable claims; reliance on confirmation bias rather than rigorous attempts at refutation; lack of openness to evaluation by other experts; absence of systematic practices when developing hypotheses; and continued adherence long after the pseudoscientific hypotheses have been experimentally discredited." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience#Scientific_method

And so what do you reckon? Is Human Design a Science of Differentiation, or a Pseudoscience of Differentiation? Does this matter to you and why (not)?

And why is it worthy of exploration to you?

(Would you like to leave your perspective as a comment?)

I’ll close this first part on a cliff-hanger. The content so far may be good enough to start chewing on already as an introduction before we go deeper. In the next parts I hope to dive into what ‘verifiability’, ‘falsifiability’ and ‘bias’ are and how these things play into the scientific approach to practicing Human Design (or lack thereof).

I also intend to bring in some interesting perspectives from Rupert Sheldrake’s book ‘The Science Delusion’, also called ‘Science Set Free’, which turns things on its head by investigating whether the prevailing scientific worldview holds up to its own standards – or not. And this may open up an avenue for us to look at some of the alternative scientific role models I mentioned earlier, and how they might inspire the Human Design experiment.

Then finally we can get into the topic of individual truth vs collective or institutionalised scientific truth, which is what we’re gradually building up towards.

(To be continued when the energy shows up. 

If not, then at least you know where I was headed and have a trail you could follow.)

Hagen

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Tony Robbins' Human Design - Human Design Professionals in Training Study Group

Human Design Professionals in Training Study Group with Tony Robbins’ bodygraph

Anthony Jay Robbins (born Anthony J. Mahavoric, February 29, 1960) is an American author, coach, speaker, and philanthropist. He is known for his infomercials, seminars, and self-help books including the books Unlimited Power (published in 1986) and Awaken the Giant Within (published in 1993). via Wikipedia

Tori Amos Human Design Famous Rave Study Group

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Tori Amos chart thanks to Melanie Halpert

"Tori Amos is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five, the youngest person ever to have been admitted." Wikipedia

Birth name: Myra Ellen Amos
Born: August 22, 1963, Newton, North Carolina, U.S.
Genres: Alternative rock, chamber pop, art pop, electronic

How To Work Best As A Classic Builder (Pure Generator): Doing What You Love

There are two types of Career Builders: Classic Builders and Express Builders. This article focuses specifically on Classic Builders.

Here is the second installment in my Career Type series that can help you comprehend your unique career type. BG5 is the career and business application of the Human Design System. We offer this information to improve your "inner-standing" so that you can work more efficiently and achieve better results.

In this Career Type Article, we’re going to focus on the Classic Builder (Pure Generator Aura Type), one of the most vital and numerous of the career types.

Knowing your career type empowers you with a straightforward tool for decision-making. It’s a core component of how to make choices you trust to use your precious energy in the right way, a way aligned with your natural strengths, talents, and gifts.

It’s vital to your well-being and overall work-life balance to operate in alignment with your physical capabilities.


How to Avoid the Classic Builder (Pure Generator) Career Type Pitfalls

If you’re a Classic Builder: 


Do you feel stuck in a job where you can’t seem to get ahead despite working hard?

Are you frustrated with how you spend your time and energy?

Do you feel exhausted when you wake up in the morning at the thought of going to work? 

Do you feel unsatisfied with your energy levels?

The reason for this discomfort and dissatisfaction comes down to misusing your energy resources. Your BG5 career type gives you a decision-making strategy that tells you how to utilize your energy most healthfully.  

As a Classic Builder, you use your power most effectively when you provide the strength to move your passion projects along, to build and create in response to what your life asks you to do.

You can only “go, go, go!” healthfully if you’re doing something that feels meaningful and satisfying to you personally. What you do helps you discover who you are – for yourself, no one else. So if you do things for others that are not in response, for whatever reason, you are eventually going to end up with challenges.

Saying yes to everything a particular person asks for because of whatever role they play in your life and subjugating your own needs for the sake of external validation (their approval) is just one example of how you can be led off track.

Ignoring your body’s response and slaving away at something you don’t enjoy can quickly burn out your generative energy, and even if you do manifest something, it won’t feel deeply rewarding or satisfying. You could force yourself to “go, go, go” in unhealthy ways by doing things that you don’t enjoy.

Do you find that your career isn’t entirely satisfying?

If you’re doing things that you’re not designed to do...

If you're saying yes because of outside forces...

If you're having a hard time saying no...

If you’re preoccupied with doing a lot of “busy work” that is not personally rewarding...

Likely it’s because you’re not following your gut responses.

If you have the additional strategy of Waiting for Clarity, you need to feel out your responses over a period of time. The sounds your body makes (when things are just humming along) give clues to whether you are satisfied with what you're doing. When aligned, you are a master of using your energy in a way that pleases you.

Can you recognize that your satisfaction depends on doing the work you love and loving the work that you do?

Your life’s work is vitally important to your overall health and your overall well-being.

If you are not doing what you like to do and loving what you do, your health eventually will suffer.


How to Know the BG5 Classic Builder Career Type

Classic Builders can express pure, consistent power, a generative vitality in answer to what life asks of them. Often their response is a guttural sound or a sensation that emanates from the core of their being. Builders “come alive” through response, providing significant energy to move projects along to completion.

If you’re a Builder, you are designed to enjoy the process of getting things done that you enjoy doing in a step-by-step process.

Do only the things your body responds to with energy and vitality!

Builders are people who enjoy using their life force through a process of response that is aligned with their passions.

If you are a Classic Builder, you’re part of 35% of all Builders who are gifted with a natural built-in generative vitality that knows through response what they have the energy to do. Your career type allows you to go, go, go—and do, do, do IF you are aligned with work that "lights you up" inside.

Your outlet is your passion, your creative life-force in response, the work that you enjoy doing. It’s a source of powerful regenerative energy for you. Plugging into this outlet daily until you run out of juice at the end of the day helps you to sleep soundly and revitalizes you for another day of satisfyingly spending your energy in alignment with your purpose.

No matter what Career Type you are, there are grave consequences for not using your energy correctly. Not using your power successfully leads to health issues like chronic overwhelm, depression, stress-related ailments, exhaustion, burnout, and overall unhappiness.


How Classic Builders Best Use Energy for Maximum Results


Many people slave away at a job they hate – trapped in their own mind’s justifications for why they “have to” do the work they do and cannot choose to do what they love to do. BG5 helps solve today’s critical issue of Employee Engagement.


How can you as a Classic Builder use your power correctly?

The QUALITY of how you use your energy is essential. Your gut tells you, moment to moment, what it has the power to do.

As a Classic Builder, that natural source of generative energy is designed to be entirely used up with activities you enjoy, every day. You are intended to be able to go, go, go only in response to what life asks of you – not what your mind thinks you “have to do” “should do,” or are “supposed to do” no matter what reasons it gives you.

The energy with which you commit yourself to a project or endeavor flavors the entire experience. If you’re following your gut response to use your power in a practical, productive way, in a way that brings you an internal feeling of satisfaction, you can build a meaningful life.


How to Comprehend a Classic Builder’s “Response-ability”


Each Classic Builder has a unique purpose he or she is here to fulfill. Their strength can be tapped into for their personal satisfaction through following their gut response from moment to moment, no matter what fears or reasons their mind might use to persuade them not to follow their body’s innate intelligence.


What does the Builder’s response feel like?
Here, in their own words, are some answers from Classic Builders:

“I’m not saying that my experience is everyone’s experience, but this is my personal experience. I have this feeling that my gut response is almost literally pulling me forward if it’s a yes or pushing me away if it’s a no…. It’s physically something that I get excited about, something that I can feel. It’s that sort of excitement, that kind of gut feeling of like, ‘Ohh yes, yes I want to do it,’ or ‘Hmm, not really.’ Those are a couple of ways that I feel it physically.”
~Karen Sherwood, Classic Builder, Wait For Clarity Decision-Making Strategy


“My Gut response feels like a happy, excited feeling in my belly, and if it is a very strong response, as it was when finding BG5, it is really like butterflies in my stomach kind of excitement. That is if the response is YES! Now it I do not have a Gut response if it is a NO, it feels off in my stomach, kind of as a knot in my stomach. Usually, I get a lot of mind chatter with it as to why I should or shouldn’t do it. Whereas with a clear YES I just KNOW instantly I want to do it without having any clear good reasoning to it.”
~Nathalie Keijzer, Classic Builder, Wait to Respond Decision-Making Strategy

“When I first heard about having a ‘gut response’ I wasn’t sure what that felt like. It took some time to really ‘get’ it. Now I know when something is right for me or not, by paying attention to my energy. It has become a real body-experience. When it’s a ‘no,’ it feels like a brake is being put on internally; my energy goes down and I can physically feel my body moving away from whatever it is that is offered. However, if it’s a ‘yes,’ it feels like my body moves forward; there is an openness to want to engage with what I’m responding to.”
~ Marije Miller, Classic Builder, Wait for Clarity Decision-Making Strategy

“I feel like a magnet pulls me somewhere. I feel the energy to do something, what the asking is about.”
~ Ksenia Balitskaya, Wait to Respond Decision-Making Strategy


Two Helpful Classic Builder Keys for Maximum Satisfaction


All of us broadcast our energy in unique ways. Each one of us has a simple signpost that will immediately let us know if we are delivering static, or producing clear communication.

How do you know if you’re on track or off? When it comes to using your energy correctly, owning your uniqueness, communication, and what you’re broadcasting, an essential guidepost for each Career Type helps us know when we’re on track and when something’s off.


Classic Builder On-track: Satisfaction

How do you know if you’re transmitting static or clear communication? The simple answer is if it feels right, you’re on track. Each Career Type has a signpost of how that consistently shows up. For you as a Classic Builder, the signpost is Satisfaction.

From the Classic Builder’s perspective:

“If you’re a Builder, when you’re utilizing your energy properly, there is a deep sense of satisfaction. There is nothing more wonderful as a Builder than to lay down at the end of the day after doing what you love with a deep feeling of satisfaction, thinking, ‘Wow, look at all I accomplished today,’ I love that feeling. The more aware I have become of my unique design as a classic Builder, the more profound I can feel that satisfaction.”
~ Karen Sherwood, Classic Builder, Wait for Clarity Decision-Making Strategy

“Satisfaction is an awesome feeling. Recently I rearranged a class of the BG5 Foundation Course, and with my Strength of Concentration, I was focused on it over 12 hours straight. Well, I had lunch and dinner, but I was enjoying the process of perfecting and making the material logical and understandable for students so much that I forgot about time and didn’t have anything to eat in between. And then when I finally finished in the middle of the night, I had such a Satisfying feeling. I was very tired but went to bed with a big, big smile and anxious to teach the class and see if my students could take in and assimilate this rather profound information in a digestible way. It was really tiring but utterly satisfying to work on something I love doing! I feel it in my entire body like a buzz of energy.”
~ Nathalie Keijzer, Classic Builder, Wait to Respond Decision-Making Strategy

“Satisfaction feels like being in the flow, a sense of inner joy. It is a sense of being engaged with something that I enjoy. It doesn’t necessarily mean that everything is running smoothly.  But even the issues that may come up feel ‘interesting’ or worth my energy.”
~ Marije Miller, Wait to Respond and Wait for Clarity Decision-Making Strategy

“I’ve done something really great. I get tired, but I am happy. I don’t feel boredom anymore. Because I was good at my project!”
~ Ksenia Balitskaya, Wait to Respond Decision-Making Strategy

 

Classic Builder Off-track: Frustration

If it feels terrible (imagine the sensation of trying to move through hip-deep mud – and you hate being dirty!), you’re off-track. One of the gifts of knowing your Career Type is owning the signpost of being off-track. Frustration is like the bumps in the middle or on the sides of a road that warn you it’s time to correct your course or your career, or else your health may be in jeopardy!

From the Classic Builder’s perspective:

“There is frustration when I try to make or force things to happen when they’re not happening in the way that I want them to happen, and when I want them to happen now, but they’re not happening in my time frame. I push harder, and this pushing only leads to more frustration.”
~ Karen Sherwood, Classic Builder

Karen advises that in those times of frustration, we learn to relax and let go of any attachment – especially any expectations we have about the outcome.

“A funny thing happens when I do that. Somehow, one way or another, things seem to work out on their own. Either the situation goes away or changes because it was not correct in the first place, or I finally become open to new stimulus to respond to that points me in the right direction.”
~ Karen Sherwood, Classic Builder, Wait to Respond and Wait for Clarity Decision-Making Strategy

“Frustration is annoying. It gets in the way, or rather is a result of something not working out. I get frustrated if I cannot make something work if I cannot figure something out. Frustration feels different. It is higher up in my body than satisfaction which is more grounding. With frustration I can feel my breath be high up and sometimes my upper body contracts and it is tense. Sometimes also I get a headache when it is something I have been concentrating and focused on for too long and still could not figure it out.”
~ Nathalie Keijzer, Classic Builder, Wait to Respond Decision-Making Strategy

“Frustration to me is being on the wrong path. It feels like wading through molasses… We all have things that we don’t really want to do but have to, sometimes. When those come up for me, I have to push myself through an inner resistance. It’s very uncomfortable. It takes a lot of my energy, and I’m always glad to be done with them. There is no ‘savoring the process’ in those experiences.”
~ Marije Miller, Classic Builder, Wait for Clarity Decision-Making Strategy

“If I feel frustration it means something is wrong. I need to stop and look back to my activity. It’s a place I lost my energy. Why? And Where? I should understand deeper the process before I start doing something else.”
~ Ksenia Balitskaya, Wait to Respond Decision-Making Strategy


Questions to Contemplate: Classic Builder Career Satisfaction

Do you have a few minutes for a Self-Discovery exercise?

Get your phone on Airplane mode and put it on a 10-minute timer. If you have difficulty doing this alone, doing this exercise with a friend or co-worker who knows you may help. Ask them to ask you the questions below, and modify the questions to what they know of you. Have them ask you yes/no questions about your interests and your life.

If you have Wait for Clarity as a decision-making strategy, try doing this again but spaced out over a week or two to see how your responses change.

  • Are you passionate about your work?

  • Could you do it all day without feeling frustrated?

  • Does your work give you so much satisfaction that you would enjoy doing it even if you didn’t get paid?

    What about...

  • Can you imagine doing what you love and getting paid for it?


This article was written by request for the BG5 Business Institute in 2018 under the name Laveena Lovick and adjusted slightly for this platform. I am a Certified Career and Business Consultant and teacher of the Foundations, a Certified Profit Potential coach, and have trained excellent certified professionals available to guide you through the application of the Human Design System's Science of Leadership, Business & Team Dynamics: BG5.

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Bob Marley's Bodygraph Chart - Human Design Professionals Study Group

Today we discussed Bob Marley’s Human Design Chart

Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley OM (Born February 6th 1945 at 2:30am)

Bob Marley was a Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter of international fame worldwide acclaim. From 1963 as the lead and a guitarist of the Wailers, he expressed a deep and profound songwriting and vocal style that has only grown over the decades. The Wailers released some of the earliest reggae records. The Wailers disbanded in 1974. Bob Marley pursued a solo career which led to the release of “Exodus” an album from 1977 which established his reputation and secured his family’s wealth for generations to come. He was a highly spiritual Rastafari whose music brought comfort and hope to those who were open to hearing his unique message. As I grew up in Hawaii I heard it a lot on the radio personally and did love it.

Bob died from lung cancer in May of 1981

It [Strategy and Authority] isn't Going to Bring You the Complete Process

Excerpt from Professional Analyst Training Level 1

“The first thing that really is so essential to understand about what it is to be us is that there is a way in which we can simply surrender into a mechanism that is going to bring us to that fulfillment. And it's simply about being aware of what those mechanisms are and then watching it happen, because it isn't about making it happen. I don‘t think there is anything more important for me to share with you than to say to you, don't listen to what I'm telling you. Listen to your Strategy and Authority. That is, any of the stages of transformation that are there in Variable, whether it is dietary regimen or environment or beginning the process of experimenting with passenger consciousness, are things that you can only approach when truly you're ready to approach them. It‘s one of the most important things to understand. Everybody has their timing. But in order to get anywhere in this journey, it is not just a matter of Strategy and Authority because frankly it is not sufficient. It is sufficient to give you a better life than you had before and it will certainly take you through seven years of deconditioning that will get you to a different place. But it isn't going to bring you the complete process. This is for those that are really ready to journey all the way to that place of awareness. It isn‘t for anybody.”

Ra Uru Hu, The Story Lines p.25 https://www.jovianarchive.com/Product...

“Oh, outer authority is an extraordinary thing. It‘s what you get from me. And what you notice is that it's interesting, don't you? This is what outer authority is. It‘s not whether you agree or not, like it or not, whatever the case may be. I know that there are many, many expressions of outer authority that I will not necessarily agree with. But it doesn't mean that I will not respect it, and it doesn't mean that I won't be interested. It just means that somebody else‘s unique outer authority isn't necessarily something I can grasp. But it will still be interesting. And it doesn't mean that the person who grasps it is ruled by it, because we are beings who operate out of our inner authority, not based on somebody else's authority over us. This is a whole new kind of communication. It is a communication that is there to expand the consciousness field. We are in dire need of the expression of outer authority. We are in dire need of it. We really are. “

Ra Uru Hu p8/9 RP External Color Book

“It's this seeing that is the greatest reward, because it's not about being in a hurry or not. It‘s not about that you have to or not. It isn't about the way somebody else goes through this process. It isn't about any of those things because nothing is like you. Only you are the witness, only you. To be a witness of this kind of transformation is how you change your frequency. The deeper you enter into the realm of the passenger, the quieter everything becomes. The back seat of my limo is soundproof, frequency-proof in a way. It's very quiet in there; still. It‘s something that comes out of the signature of any being. And all of that is something you cannot chase. You cannot claim. It‘s what I like about this process. It‘s what makes it so clean. You live it yourself, you live it one breath at a time, and you get to see for yourself. It is in the seeing. And the more you are looking to see, then the less the homogenized world has to do with yo,u and the more you begin to see the way in which you were intended to see and it changes everything. Your perception changes the way you conceptualize. And because it is your perception, you‘re good at. This is what your conceptualizing mind is waiting for.”

Ra Uru Hu p144 RP External Color Book

Cheers to a 2022 Without Expectations - Human Design Rave New Year

In this article we'll be taking a brief look at the Human Experiential Way, the evolutionary process of our species and how our human experience on the planet is changing, including a big picture perspective from Ra and some personal experiences from me.

As every Rave New Year begins with the Sun in the 41st Gate, it kickstarts what is called 'the Human Experiential Way', an emotional stream of feeling running from the Root Center to the Throat Center via the Solar Plexus. It brings forth our burning desire to manifest new experiences and feel.

RA URU HU (Line Companion, 271-272):

"Transit: Uranus in 41.6

The Human Design System is a Uranian system, and wherever Uranus goes in the wheel is significant for humanity. Every 84 years, Uranus comes to the 41st gate. This time that Uranus is there, it is going to initiate an 84 year cycle that will culminate with the beginning of this transition. It will take well over a thousand years for humanity to get to this sixth line. It will not happen tomorrow or in the next century. Evolution on the human scale is a very slow process. This emotional spirit consciousness has already been with us for thousands of years and yet, we did not have any tools to really be able to look at it until very recently.

In the children that are born with Uranus in 41, particularly those who are born with Uranus in the 41.6, they will begin the pull-back in this experiential way. They will be the first generation of abstract children (it is depending on the design) who do not seem to function that way. These children, in our time, over the next 20 years [Uranus left the 41.6 in January 1998], will be clinically looked at as repressed. "No, my Johnny does not want to try to ride a bicycle. I do not understand it. I can't get him on the bicycle. I think that he is afraid of bicycles." It is simply because this is beginning to work and Uranus is initiating this new experience, especially in the sixth line. Uranus will bring that out in the children, so that there is already this genetic field that is beginning to operate and the children who are born with the 41.6 will be alive deep into the next century. They carry this energy with them and keep the aura of this energy alive in the world. They are setting the foundation for this transition.

You can see some of that now in what people call the AIDS epidemic. One of the things about the stream 41 to 35 is that it is the most sexual of all the streams. It is literally rooted in sexuality for the experience and that experience can be anything. In that sense, you can already see that this repression of those things is something that will come very strongly.

You will have a reaction to this in the environment until all of the experiences, the feelings and desires that we acquaint with being human will slowly be repressed, be restricted, so that we can become more and more organized without constantly being dragged out of the organization by the need of the abstract person to have a different kind of feeling. "You are designed to be an architect". "I know but I have this feeling that I want to be an astronaut." The planet has to eliminate this other side that automatically pulls you to say, "Yes, but wouldn't it be great if...?" 

For us, nothing that I am describing is particularly pleasant. For us, we are part of the aura of the fifth line where we give authority to experience. Without experience, you do not know. That is why we have virtual reality. Nobody gets the experience. We already have vast movements at work to take us out of needing to physically have the experience ourselves, and yet, we have come into the world in a time where it still has its authority. We will have its authority for hundreds of years. There will be a great reaction to that. In your work over the next years, it is important to recognize that, as these children are coming on a stream, particularly children that come with the 41.6, they cannot be pushed into the experiential way by their parents. They will become very ill because they are the first generation that is there not to get pulled into that. They have to be aloof from it.

The experiential drive is coming to an end. The whole experiential nature of being human is coming to an end. In other words, we are at the flourishing of that. We are getting so many experiences. We are collecting so much data. We will now go down the other side. Ever since Neptune left 61, we are going down the other side, the other slope. Everything is being reduced. We start to pull things back. We are not driven into new experiences anymore. We are locked into old experiences, trying to stay alive and survive and flourish. We will not look for something new, but we will go back to the basics.


The deepest event in the next century will be that the fertility capacity in humans will be devastated. We have to go back to basic things and be very well organized in order to keep the species alive. We will not be able to tolerate all kinds of drives for different experiences when the species itself is threatened. These are all mechanisms that will come into work in the next century.

From: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/11/richard-branson-virgin-galactic-space

It is like the project to Mars. They spend 256 million dollars to get there. They are spending about 1/2 million dollars a day tracking it. When somebody comes along in the next century and says, "Okay, now that we have gone to Mars, why don't we go to Pluto?" There will be people who say, "Wait a minute. Why? We could take all of this money and give it to starving children and poor people." We have to stay with the basics of what we need to have to be organized properly. It is not to say that we won't do things, but the pragmatism of what it is to keep humanity alive will restrict the way we use resources. That is what the 41 is all about. It is wonderful to look at the pictures they took of Mars, but we come to the point where people reject that. Resources have to go back into our hands to increase our fertility."

In a recent HumanDesign.Live post, I shared with you the animated video called 'Game B'.

If you haven't seen it yet, I invite you to check it out here and share your perspectives with me: https://www.humandesign.live/posts/20075916/comments/53671731

In this video, the creators are exploring a narrative of who we are as a collective in this moment in time, and what would be needed for us to navigate safely into the future. They offer their big picture overview and how an individual who has 'woken up' can find purpose and meaning in keeping the species alive during a time of ecological collapse.

There's plenty to be discussed about that, as I'm sure many of you are feeling the changes and are seeing a whole spectrum of conditioned propaganda about this fly by your information feed on a daily basis. 

What is an ongoing puzzle for me is the disentangling from moralising crusades, naïve idealism, and all sorts of homogenized spiritual ideas that still have a rooting in the mind, but have no grounding in my actual Design. I notice in me the urge to pull away from many 'movements' and networks I would have identified and associated myself with before in the fear for my survival. At the same time I still care about how we navigate into the future together and understand we need to get organized, I get splenic hits all the time when I see people engaging in regenerative initiatives and experimenting their way into bioregional organization and maintenance of ecosystem capacities. 

The dilemma for my mind is how to be connected to what I see unfolding correctly. The Not-Self wants to get deeply involved in order to 'lead the change' (my Colour Motivation Transference from Innocence to Blind Desire). I would love for my work to connect to the soils in a regenerative circle - and I'm not there now. My Not-Self mind judges this and does its best to compel me to do something about it, using all the pain points it can possibly find in my psyche, constructing a false image of myself as some kind of parasite. There's a blind desire in me to be part of something 'good', but it's a misguided mental distraction.

Letting go of morality is a heavy one. Lately, this is something I've been noticing in my students with an Undefined Solar Plexus as they mirror my own process. Being 'good' is part of having a social persona that won't be emotionally challenged or confronted. We get around by playing nice as people-pleasers. And it isn't just about getting everybody's seal of approval because you comply with their conditioned moral standards. It's also about not getting bullied by the Not-Self voice in the head for being a schmuck whenever you're facing a mirror. 

Underlying this behaviour can be various kinds of amplified emotional fears of conflict (like the fear of nature in the 49th Gate, for example). The source of all of them is being revealed for who and what you truly are. And the Not-Self does not want to be exposed, especially in its misidentification of being secretly a 'bad' and inauthentic person underneath all of the facades (which is just as false as being a 'good' person). It is ready to blame others but does not want to be blamed for the crash of the wave itself. The outcome is a mountainous weight of expectations about being or not being 'something' that can allow conditioned desires to be fulfilled. And this finally translates into carrying the burden of experiential guilt on one's shoulders and inside our shared emotional field. 

As long as there are expectations relative to the Human Experiential Way and in our relationships, as long as we are attached to getting something out of it, as long as we are trying to strategically manipulate our way from the desire through the crisis and into the manifestation of our fantasy of progress, as long as we're trying to lock in the next experiential orgasm or the feeling of finally being free - in other words, as long as we're trying to control what happens next based on whatever we think 'should' happen, then experiential guilt will be our fate.

I was contemplating these things yesterday, inspired in part by my interactions with my LYD students, and then finally had an epiphany about my own process in relation to this Not-Self strategy of running away from emotional confrontation. There were things that really needed to be seen and expressed, but that I had been too afraid of before. And I could see this was creating a duality in the psyche. On the one hand it left me trapped as a 2/5 to endlessly keep up with everyone's expectations, internalizing them as my own. And on the other it bound other people to my unreasonable expectations.

There was an additional curiosity here that I had been wearing old winter clothing from the brand Spyder. I was not actively pursuing that as something to identify with. I was not looking for a spirit animal or an expensive brand to show off with. But eventually it did capture my attention and I walked with it in awareness. Then when I finally sat outside to reflect on the transition into the Rave New Year, and whether or not I had any unfinished business left, I noticed a spider weaving its web not too far away from me. 

And I recognized the web of expectations I was caught in, and how deep that rabbit hole went. It was beautiful to be taught by nature directly through its archetypal symbolism and fractals. Layer after layer the whole complex disclosed itself to me. I could see the Not-Self spider trapping people in my network in the hope of getting something out of them. Keeping track of everything through disturbances in the field. And on the other hand, I could see myself as being the one who was trapped by all of that. I could see how all my other Undefined Centers played into it and how it was detracting from my health and truth in relationships, setting me up for abuse.

(I could have read this on a divination card somewhere, but it probably wouldn't have done the trick. I had to come to that conclusion through my own reflection.)

Eventually this underlying drive of putting myself under the pressure of expectation dissolved for a while and I felt the peace of simply allowing things to be no more and no less than what they are in the here and now. Then also felt an aching body that had been carrying the pain of that for a long time, grateful to finally just be held in its own nature. There was an enjoyment of being able to feel the pain as opposed to resist and futz with it.

And in this I found the empowerment to speak up according to what felt instinctively correct and necessary for me to address.

The Rave I'Ching suggests that freedom on the material plane is an illusion (No Choice, we're not in control, etc.). From my perspective then, this freedom that I yearned for was to be free from expectation and blame. And to just let the experience of life be what it is. It already is in perfect accordance with my Design - it can't be anything else. I don't need anything extra.

So to close this chapter, I encourage moving through this Solar week of fantasizing without expectations, without the mental shenanigans to try and 'make it so' - however beautiful or morally just it may all appear to be. 

If you're here to take care of the soils and steward the future, life will bring it your way and your body will resonate with it. 

Thanks for reading and I wish you well in this new year,

Hagen