Embracing Life as an Emotional Being Everything human starts and ends with the emotional system. It is not for nothing that it represents the source of inner authority for half of humanity. The combination of nervous energy and potential neural intelligence turns the human Solar Plexus into the most unusual of all 9 centers in the Rave Body Graph. One that is not certainly easy to grasp, unless one has accumulated a certain level of personal experience as a background, but here is some relevant information about it, that can serve as a foundation to understand its transcendent importance in the way the human spirit manifests uniquely in daily life through each individual form. Ra used to explain how some 90.000 to 100.000 years ago a mutation occurred in the human Larynx, which enabled Homo Sapiens to articulate sound and give birth to the famous sentence: “In the beginning was the word.” This mutation took place through the agency of the polarity of gates 12 and 11. Now, gate 12 is located in the Throat center and is looking straight at gate 22 in the Solar Plexus, through the Channel of Openness – the design of a(n) (anti)social being - creating the most archetypal definition in the Manifestor type, which would become the initiator and creator of the spirit of all human civilizations as they have evolved until today. Its polarity – Gate 11 – is called ‘Peace’, and it is located in the Channel of Curiosity within the Ajna center – which carries the design of a Seeker – and together they form one of the two axes of the so-called Right Angle cross of Eden, whereas the second axis of the cross is composed by gates 6 and 36. These two emotional gates are responsible for processing and regulating the fertility and creative power of the human Solar Plexus. It is here that the search begun for ‘The Promised Land’, for ‘The Lost Paradise’, for ‘Utopia’ and for all other idealized human landscapes that have been driving forward the development of the strategic intelligence in Homo Sapiens. Always seeking for what is not there. Paradoxically, in always chasing after their lost innocence, the intelligence of ‘Homo Sapiens’ became more and more strategic in developing the aggressive and potentially destructive power of what Ra called the ‘Killer Monkey’. There’s no doubt that when it comes to killing, no other species could even think of comparing itself to us. During the time that I was travelling to Poona, India, when I was still digging in my own Shadow around my first Saturn return, I remember that the Solar Plexus was associated with what is known as the 3rd chakra, and the most fundamental keynote to describe it’s thematic was ‘Power’. However, this ‘Power’ did not refer to the source of pure energy that we can find in the Sacral center, but it referred to the social power of emotions to eventually manifest aggressively (active or passively) in all ‘Homo Sapiens’, and blind us to our own vulnerability, trying to neutralize, or even ignore, our fears through the cathartic manifestation of the determination to protect ourselves or even destroy whatever it is that we are afraid of. This is the power that drove the ‘Killer Monkey’ to the very top of the food chain. The year 1781, in parallel to Herschel’s discovery of the planet Uranus - which transformed our understanding of the existing cosmology, previously rooted in the understanding that the planet Saturn marked the limits of the sky that was known to us – marked also the beginning of a new era with the emergence of the industrial revolution that would bring about the sexual revolution, as a consequence of women getting access to the work market and to their own salary. The divorce rates have never stopped growing ever since. In essence, all revolutions that manifested after 1781 were less marked by the amount of spilled human blood, and instead they acted increasingly more and more as social agents that prepared the cognitive ground for the upcoming mutation of the human Solar Plexus and the emergence of what has become known as ‘emotional intelligence’. Like it always is in times of transition, we live in very confusing times, in which the human spirit is stuck between the inertia of the obsolete values that we've inherited from the old 7 centered world - that is literally crumbling down before everyone's eyes - and a whole new range of vital and social experiences that can have deep impact on our individual psychology. Those old values that were rooted in sexual taboo and superstitious beliefs simply fall too short when it comes to help us integrate those 'new' sexual and emotional experiences that openly challenge the old moral paradigms, and they are also unable to provide the necessary acceptance and support that we need in order to be able to integrate every new emotional experience into a contribution to the healthy development and maturation of our individual human spirit. We can see the most obvious impact of this mutation in the breakdown of the social structures if we look at what is happening to the most traditional of all moral institutions; the family bond. The relationships between family members have never stopped changing as we moved forward in evolution, but what we are witnessing today is not just a change in the way the members of the family play out their roles, but it is a real mutation that is leading towards the complete and utter disintegration of the sense of ‘holiness’ around its roles and rules. Now, considering that the family has always been recognized as the main source of conditioning and conflict in the lives of all human beings, from an individual perspective this mutation does not necessarily have to be bad news, but rather it can represent a wonderful opportunity to liberate oneself from the conditionings of the past, and expand the horizon of one's own individual awareness. In that expansion, we are all designed to discover nothing less than the 9 centered potential of looking at the value of personal experience from a completely different place inside of oneself. Perhaps the most obvious difference in the way in which 7 centered ‘Homo Sapiens’ experienced their emotions and the way we experience them as beings with a nine centered cognitive potential, is to be found in the fact that for ‘Homo Sapiens’ emotions were always an expression of the quality of their social life, whereas for a nine centered human being emotions are invariably a pathway of ‘Initiation’ into the value of their own individual existence. This program is designed to help everyone with emotional definition, or with strong activations in the Solar Plexus - such as Sun/Earth or Nodes of the Moon – to recognize this predisposition, and patiently learn to navigate their emotional waves in the way in which it fuels the empowerment of their signature. For this I have created a sequence of lectures in which I deconstruct the mechanical nature of the entire Solar Plexus center, and demonstrate through logic how this center embodies the way in which the evolutionary forces have driven the cognitive strategic development of our species since the beginning of time, and how now, in these times of mutation, it is taking us all back to where it all started; the place in which the true human spirit has always resided. Alokanand Díaz