I have always been deeply impressed by the mechanical absolute established by the Human Design System, but it wasn’t until I met the WA when I completed the OC16 training with Ra himself, that I could totally let go of my personal resistances to accept that, like he had been presenting it from the very beginning, the Not-self is something inescapable. During that course, I had such an enlightening moment of conscious recognition of the way I would feel about myself every time I entered a human crowd, that I realized something so absolute about the mechanics of the human aura that it no longer made ANY difference what kind of design you were born with. From this socially preestablished and homogenizing perspective, it seemed pretty obvious to me that to have ‘no choice’ is the most logical thing, because it is a perspective that clearly reveals the helplessness of every human personality in regard to the nature of the material world into which we are all born. Most human beings think about ‘conditioning’ as something that starts in their childhood and is sourced mostly in their relationship to their parents, but this is only personal conditioning and it is somewhat skin deep compared to what WA does to our consciousness. There is a much more transpersonal form of conditioning that stems from thousands of years of a shared evolutionary trajectory as members of the same species, and it impacts directly on our very own idea of what being human is supposed to be all about. This form of conditioning has deep sociological roots and is therefore not sourced in the personal relationship that we had or have to anyone, but rather it determines our very own sense and perception of the preestablished hierarchies that exist in the material ‘reality’ of the world, which sadly seems to be the only thing that binds all members of the human species together. The life of the average human being is tied up with the very personal dynamics of the small group, in which everyone and everything seems to be rather ‘normal’ and predictable. However, the more one believes in the ‘specialness’ of certain individuals, the more one is prone to identify with the homogenized hierarchies of the more transpersonal and social group dynamics of the WA. We could say that Penta rules over the everyday events of what we would call a ‘normal’ day, whereas WA rules over those days in the year when there are ‘special events’ taking place. Call it a football match, or a demonstration, or a political meeting, or a musical concert, or a theatre, or simply an ordinary restaurant, the WA rules every time nine or more people gather together in the same aura, imposing its standardized social and legal hierarchies on everyone as a seemingly legitimate way to efficiently organize the social group life. In many ways, the impact of WA on our daily lives is a lot more dramatic than this, in the sense that it keeps ruling and conditioning us even when everyone is asleep. While the great majority is resting and getting ready for another day of frustrating work, the WA has its vigilant agents keeping control of the streets during the night. It has its doctors and nurses in hospitals ready for any emergence. It has school teachers ready to instill the same collective indoctrination in every child. The way the streets and the neighborhoods themselves are organized and the way the circulation is supposed to take place on them is hierarchically controlled, just like hospitals, schools and all other official buildings are hierarchically organized and controlled, because what WA represents at its deepest core are the dynamics of socially institutionalized power. Now, you know institutions, because they (supposedly) represent everybody they also do not represent anyone in particular. Even the person in charge of the institution is perfectly replaceable, as we all know that even kings come and go, and only the Throne prevails in the end… though even that is not always the case. Well, the point is that every form of institutionalized power rests on the same foundation; the (human) law. Unlike in the domestic application of the ‘Rules & Roles’ that coordinates the daily life of the Penta, there can be no exception to the laws of WA (at least theoretically). No matter how deep it conditions us and how negative the experience may be, Penta dynamics provide human beings with a sense of ‘home’ and familiarity with the other members, but WA makes us all feel like we are ‘alone in a world of strangers’, and that only within its preestablished legal and moral systems do we have the possibility to make something out of our lives that carries tangible value. The terrible ‘joke’ is that each of the six WA channels represents a very specific way to measure and establish what that tangible value is supposed to be for EVERYBODY, and the remaining thirty channels are simply ‘socially’ predisposed to live and act as ‘power base’ that is ready to identify and submit to the laws established by those six channels without much hesitation, especially when they operate through the shared aura of the large group (nine people or more) or when they have to take a position themselves in regard to the group’s general concerns and interests. First Penta domesticates (castrates) our individual spirit, and then WA takes advantage of the fact that, without preestablished social conditions, we do not know how to behave as ourselves. Please, read the previous sentence again, because it contains the whole essence of why human beings tend to suffer because of their identification with acquired homogenized ‘mental habits’. Alokanand Díaz