Learning to recognize how the mechanics come alive in the human aura It may be hard for some to believe, but in 1993 I was the first Spanish person, and one of the first in the entire world, to be trained as a professional Human Design Analyst in only five days. If such a thing was ever even possible, it is only because of the structural nature of everything that is taught in the Rave ABC course. Obviously, those five days were just the beginning of what would become a life long journey in which I participated as Ra’s Spanish translator in dozens of different courses and professional trainings. But my point is that during the first four years of my professional career as an analyst, the knowledge base that I had included only very little more than what is nowadays in the curriculum of what in my eyes is the richest of all Human Design courses; the Rave ABC. For me, the potential to logically understand that perhaps, and only perhaps, (“Don’t believe me, don’t trust me.” Ra Uru Hu used to say) the mechanical structure that Human Design provides through the agency of the Rave Body Graph, is indeed something that represents an absolute about the nature and the existential condition of being human, can only be clearly recognized when you are introduced to the natural beauty of the way in which the form principle manifests in humans. The structure of the Rave Body Graph reveals the way in which the imprinted life force that we each filter as individuals becomes an uneven contribution to the development of collective human cognitive functions. Understanding the structure of the Rave Body Graph allows one to understand the way in which the evolutionary forces have been successfully driving humanity forward as a species, unfortunately at the expense of the individual potential for self-realization. It is because of this that suffering, physically and psychologically, is probably the most common of human patterns. One of the most liberating aspects of this knowledge is that it offers a perspective of the human world, and everything it contains, in which there is nobody that you could individually blame for this generalized suffering condition. It is out of this recognition that one can simultaneously recognize both the fundamental helplessness with which we are all born, and the fearful identification with homogenized logical answers through which we all develop our ability to think strategically of any possible ways to avoid vulnerability and cover it up (from oneself and/or others) in order to feel protected. Once your understanding has reached to this point, it follows easy that embracing ‘strategy & authority’ and surrendering to the demands of the form principle is the only healthy alternative that allows one to at least take responsibility for one’s own personal distortion, and start a process of deconditioning that can eventually lead to an inner alignment of the human spirit with the singularity of your individual form. Now, deconditioning oneself is not meant to be an abstract process, but rather one in which the person that is going through their deconditioning knows exactly what to pay attention to in the experience of meeting other people in the aura, because it all starts with the three fundamental natural forces that are constantly moving within all of us and meet in the psyche of each and every human individual. These three forces that create the fuel for the substance of every human experience have each their own name, and a functionality that can easily be mechanically described. They are the desire to share or not, the need to support and be supported or not, and the indecisiveness about individual empowerment or not, and there isn’t a single human characteristic that does not refer, one way or another, to one of these three forces that are constantly alive in the human psyche. Moreover, each of those three chemistries integrates different components that operate through a different mechanical structure that is called a ‘circuit’. You see, when we rely on our rational mind to integrate what we desire with what we need and what is potentially empowering for our individual self, the result is unavoidably a psychological mess. This is precisely what the deconditioning process is all about. It is a process that gives you a chance to objectively perceive and measure your own correctness (or lack of it) in the way YOU share your desire or not, in the way YOU honour your need to support and be supported or not, and in the way YOU empower or disempower yourself, every time you express and represent your own individual difference. Through the agency of ‘strategy & inner authority’ Human Design offers an alternative way to orchestrate these forces within oneself, without needing to mentally choose to sacrifice one for the other. The strategy and mental dilemma of your Type, combined with the application of your inner authority in decision making, offers you a very different frame to evaluate the correctness of your decisions, because they no longer are the expression of mentally predictable results, but much more the simple recognition of which desire is correct for you to share in your life as it is now based on your consistent life force, what needs are correct for you to support in your life as it is now based on your consistent life force, and what can empower your sense of uniqueness in your life as it is now based on your consistent life force. In other words, that correct decisions have nothing to do with mental speculation, but are rooted in the alignment with your Type’s signature, in the way YOU share a certain desire or not, in the way YOU support certain needs or not, and in the way YOU feel empowered in your circumstance or not. This is not something that anybody else can do for you. This is something that each human individual has to see for themselves, or else deconditioning can never fully take place. Participants in this course are invited to learn the way desire works structurally for all of us within the human matrix that we all share. However, the most important part of the learning is in seeing how this knowledge becomes alive in their own unique circumstances, because they will be able to recognize that based on our individual life force (defined channels and centres) we are all naturally predisposed to share the experiences of desire in many and very different ways. The same is true about the need to support and be supported, and the same is true about the potential for indecisiveness to fuel individual empowerment or not. Each of the letters in the Rave ABC course points at themes that will allow your rational mind to recognize its fundamental helplessness in the face of your individual nature, and they will all point at and underline the three fundamental premises of Human Design that everyone is presented with when meeting the system: “You are unique. You have no choice. Love Yourself.” The A: Red & Black The life force present in every individual design is always based on two calculations, one for the design and one for the personality. Learning to distinguish the aspects of our personal imprinting that operate consciously through the personality from those that are part of our unconscious brain system is really the foundation of grasping that we are all a lot more than ‘who we think we are’. The recognition of our unconscious gifts is surely one of the greatest surprises in meeting our individual design, and it becomes the fuel behind our determination to surrender to an intelligence that is not manipulated by our homogenized mental conditionings. The B: The 6 Circuits of the Rave Body Graph Being human is a lot of things, but easy isn’t one of them. However, we are a lot less complex than our rational minds tend to make us think. Looking at human nature through the mechanical structure of the Rave Body Graph allows everyone to clearly recognize the three fundamental forces that move both our spirit and our form forward into the evolutionary process that we all are a part of. Once this fundamental structure is grasped, you easily come to the understanding that the only evil in this world is human ignorance about our most fundamental nature and condition, Going through this journey and seeing each of the six circuits being deconstructed in front of your eyes is one of the most humbling and illuminating experiences that a human being can go through. It provides a chance to recognize the constant interplay between your inherent life force and the sources of conditioning as you experienced them individually from the very moment that you emerged in the world. The C: The Structure of the Hexagram After learning to recognize the mechanical structure of the way the 36 channels and the 64 gates are organized in 6 different circuits that regulate the continuity of the most important cognitive functions in humankind, we come to learn the 6 fundamental variations through which those mechanics determine the most essential qualities of both our unconscious nature and the human role through which we project our individual awareness in interaction with the world around us. Each of the 64 hexagrams that are reflected as ‘gates’ throughout the 9 centres is composed of six different lines. Each line represents an essential step in the development and potential expression of the hexagram’s potential. When we say that carry activation in a certain gate within our individual design, what we are really saying is that we carry activation in one out of six variations of that particular gate. Understanding the structure of the hexagram, which is the way in which the six lines build upon each other to develop the hexagram’s potential, opens the door to a much more nuanced understanding of one’s individual cognitive orientation within the general matrix that we all operate through. Alokanand Díaz