Nine Centers Human Design

THE HEAD CENTRE
INTRODUCTION
Did you ever notice that the Head Centre is not all inside the body? You know the Personality
Crystal that we are endowed with sometimes is within our body and sometimes isn't. They have
a lot of people that have 'death-bed' experiences where they look down on themselves, and this
is part of that process. The Head Centre has a crack in it. It's one of my jokes about loving
cracks - it has a crack in it. That's how the Personality Crystal gets in.
So it's one of those odd things about the nature of our design, is that we have one of our
centres that is literally outside of our body. Now when I say it's outside of our body, it's outside
of the flesh. It's not outside of the aura - it's within the nature of the aura.
So the first thing to notice here about the Head Centre, the Head Centre with its keynote of
Inspiration. Think about the nature of how things work for us. As a mechanism we are absolutely
in the 'now' - just as a mechanism, however we perceive it. And as a mechanism in the now,
regardless of our capacity to perceive the now, our entire form is experiencing the now. And it's
experiencing the now at many, many, many different levels - it's taking everything in. Not just
the obvious, what we see and smell and hear, what we touch, the taste of the air we breathe, all
of these things - we're taking in all of this information. See the way the brain is structured, the
physical plant of the brain, is that its capacity for storage is infinite. I mean, that's one of the
miracles of this machine, is that this machine can keep on storing. It doesn't mean you have
access; it just means it keeps on storing because it stores everything in space - literally. So it's
endless, it's infinite. Information is stored well, nowhere in that sense, physically - it's just stored.
So you take all this stuff in every moment of every day - every second - you're taking it all in.
This is in-spiration - you are in-spiring. You are taking in the whole cosmos each second, and
you're storing it infinitely in the space within your brain. This is inspiration. It's not something
that's coming in from up there or down here, or whatever. It is a by-product of your existence - to
take all of that in, to inspire it.
And look, the way this box is structured up here is that there's a little bit of this box in the front
that goes, "Hi, it's me." And the rest of it is all buried in the back doing all the crunching. And you
never, never get to meet anybody who works in that department. You know, they are all in the
big grey corridors of crunching. So all of this stuff that you're taking in, every second, every
moment that you're breathing in, it's literally the prana of consciousness - you're breathing it in.
You store it all in these deep grey areas. And it builds up a pressure because you're taking all of
this stuff in, but you're not designed just to take it in. You're designed to take it in and do
something with it. That is, you're designed to either vibrate, or shake, or rattle or roll with it
because we're here to process the consciousness field.
So you've got all this stuff that's in here, and it's in the grey areas of the brain - about 90% of the
mass of the brain - and we have no conscious access to that. You know, we have this neo-
cortex. The neo-cortex is not really such a big deal physically - it's just very important to us. It is
the place of our reflective consciousness. It is where we can identify ourselves in the Maya. It's
where we can actively process what we imagine happens to us. Now between the deep grey
areas and the neo-cortex there's a bridge. And this bridge is a border; it's a threshold. And
there's a guard at the threshold. And the guard at the threshold we call the pineal gland. This is
the association of the pineal gland to the Head Centre.
See, the pineal gland does some very interesting things in our lives. First of all, it's like a
sponge. That is, if you have a sponge and it has no liquid in it, it's open. But if you fill it with
liquid it will literally close up. If you tighten that sponge nothing can get through - it's not porous
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anymore. So the pineal gland is like a sponge - it can open up and be porous and allow things
to go through, or it can tighten up and nothing gets through. Now when your pineal gland closes
you go to sleep. I mean, you just go to sleep. You know, when you go into the hospital for an
operation and they pump you full of anaesthetic it's going straight to the pineal gland, which
closes immediately, and you go to sleep, and you lose consciousness.
Now what the pineal gland does is that it allows information to move from the grey areas and
come into the neo-cortex - that's its work. So the inspiration is your own experience in the world.
It's your own experience in the world - it builds up as a pressure - and we'll see why that is the
nature of those pressures - it builds up as a pressure, but then must be released. And the only
way that it can be released is through the pineal. As a fuel, as a pressure, that feeds the Ajna
Centre. That feeds our conceptualising process.
The Head Centre and the Root Centre are both pressure centres, so that they have a profound
commonality in that they both are fuels for central processes in what it is to be human. But at
the same time they're vastly different, and vastly different for a very simple reason. The Root
Centre is a motor. It's a motor, and as a motor its fuel is something very, very different than the
Head Centre. The Head Centre is not a motor; it's just a pressure, nothing more. And, of course,
that gives us a deep insight into the nature of mind. The mind is also caught up in a little
sandwich, and it's a non-motor sandwich. The Head Centre above, and the Throat below.
And that says something that's central for us about the nature of the mind - is that the mind itself
is not designed to do anything. It's not designed to do anything. That is, it's not designed to
manifest activity. It's designed to manifest language, communication. But it is not being fuelled
by a motor. It tells us so much about the dilemma we have, in trusting the nature of mind to
guide us in our own lives. Your mind is something you cannot trust to be of value for you; it
cannot be your authority in your life. But your mind is a great value to the other - this is the irony
of being human. We're here to communicate to each other, this part of the process of
developing the consciousness field. But the mind is not there to guide us into activity. You know,
authority is some place else in your design.
So in dealing with the nature of this pressure, this mental pressure, what we're dealing with is a
pressure that literally generates mental anxiety. This is one of the three fears: the primal fear,
primal fears of the Splenic system, the anxiety of the mind and the Ajna, and the nervousness of
the Solarplex system, and the nervous system itself. So what we're dealing with is a pressure
that if unresolved is going to result in anxiety. We have an enormous amount of mental anxiety
on the planet. It is a deeply misunderstood fear. And, of course, the moment that you are
allowing your mind to dictate and be the authority for you in your life, you are really going to run
into difficulties - deep difficulties. And it's going to generate an anxiety field that is very, very
hard to escape. Because, of course, the whole thing about mental anxiety is that the fear can be
reconstructed and reconstrued in so many ways, endlessly. You know, it's not like a basic primal
fear where you hear footsteps. You know, something's going to happen or not. You're going to
deal with it or not - it is a spontaneous thing. You're going to have to deal with your fear. In the
wave of the emotional system, nervousness is going to peak and go into a valley where there is
no nervousness.
But when you're dealing with anxiety, you're dealing with something that has a life span. A life
span - your whole life. So when you're afraid of something mentally, you cannot get rid of it,
because you can never confront it. You know, it's just a mental thing. And it's a mental thing that
you can change into any shape and colour. And you go on and on with it. So mental anxiety is
something that is a deep concern for us here. We are, after all, the great mental beings. And we
are living in the age of the mind. And we're at the stage where we're here to complete our

mental work. The completion of the mental work is the elimination of anxiety, after all. To really
understand or be able to make sense or to know what it is to be in the world, and that's it's OK.
GATE 64: BEFORE COMPLETION - THE GATE OF CONFUSION
So in looking at the Head Centre, we're going to begin with the abstract side. You've got all this
experience that you're taking in as a prana in your life. And two of the ways in which that prana
is going to come back as, in other words, breathing it in and how it can come back, two of these
ways are going to be collective. That is, we are dealing with the basic pressures for the
collective mental processes. We have an abstract experiential mind, and we have a logical
experimental mind. Now the logic and the abstract, the experiment and the experience, they're
different in the way that they are visual. Because the collective mind is a visual mind - it's a
seeing mind: it's the eyes. By the time you get down into the Ajna, you get the gates of the eyes:
the 17, the gate of the right eye, and the 11, the gate of the left eye. So the abstract process
that begins in the 64, ends up as the vision taken in by the left eye, and the way the left eye
looks at the world. And the left eye does not see properly. The right eye sees in the now. But the
left eye doesn't see everything in the now - it sees what it sees in the now. It's the eye that's
moving, while the other eye is staring.
The way in which these eyes work is the way in which the mental energy works. The way in
which the stream is fed back to us from our storage system. And the whole thing is about the
quality of access. You know, we have this infinite memory, but it means that to be able to tap
into that is another story. You have to have a key that opens that up. We do not remember
whole things - we remember keys: an aroma, a turn of a head, whatever the thing is, a flash.
There's a memory, there's a feed, there's a connection - it opens up the access and all the other
stuff comes through, the abstract process, everything about the Sensing Circuit.
The Sensing Circuit is the only circuit that is dominated by the emotional system. And because
it's dominated by the emotional system, and because it's very format is to by cyclical, that it's
related to the way in which the wave operates. In other words, the left eye takes everything in, in
the now, but later it will remember what it didn't see in the moment it was seeing. "Did I actually
see that? Was that there?" The abstract at work. And what happens with the abstract access is
that when we go into the memory bank to try to get the information, what we're going to get is
snippets of film. You know, it's like if you buy a ticket for a motion picture, and you walk in and
instead what you get is eight or nine thousand video clips, all mixed up. In other words, the way
abstract processing is stored is that it's stored in sequences - like film. And the whole thing
about the sequence is that they are not edited. And the way that they have been cut appears to
be random.
So the pressure that comes to the 64th gate is the pressure of the mind, the neo-cortex,
receiving this impression of this sequence of memory. But it may not have a context. You know,
the 64 is one of the great gates of dreaming. And,of course, it gives you the archetype of the
dream, that is, non-sequitur, scenes, one after the other in different ways, and this whole
mystery about trying to dig in and understand what that really means.
The Fuel of Confusion, the 64th gate. Confusion is one of those words that people have slanted
to the negative. And, of course, confusion is nothing more than the lack of order before order is
established, after all. You know, it's not like you're supposed to be clear at the beginning. You
know, the reality is that there is an enormous amount of pressure in the 64th gate. It's not so
much that the pressure is greater than the other gates, but remember something about the
Sensing Circuit: the Sensing Circuit is not connected to the Splenic system. So the experiential
way by it's very nature lacks immune protection. That isn't to necessarily say that the
experiential way is unhealthy, but it is not protected, and therefore at great risk. So the pressure

that's there in the 64th gate - this pressure to resolve experience, and the anxiety if you can't.
You see the abstract mind is there to serve humanity as humanity's historians. These are the
commentators on the nature of being. They are the speculators on the possibility of what
experience teaches. And out of that they become seekers who seek new experience.
You know, the abstract stream is the human evolutionary process. And when we stop being
human there will be no abstract stream - it will disappear. Many others will remain, but that will
disappear - the experiential way. So here in the 64th gate, what we have is the pressure to
realise what was that sequence all about? What was it all about? And it's always about
yesterday - always. The whole thing about the pressure of the 64 is that it's always about the
past - it's about the past itself. It's not about the present; it's not about the future; it's about the
past itself. And it's one of those things to recognise about the nature of how we are actually
designed as to see that the experiential stream, that the experiential process is driven without
the mind, ends with the witness Prodigal in the 33-13, and then feeds the mind to look at the
sequence, and try to make sense out of that, and turn it into new ideas. In other words, the mind
is coming after the experience. It's not the mind that's guiding the experience. And the moment
that that sequence comes through does not mean that there's any kind of instantaneous
realisation of "Oh! I know what that is!" Like a scene from a dream. The scene may be familiar,
or the characters may be familiar, but their context may not be. Or it may be as simple as "Why
did he or she say that to me yesterday?"
So you have this pressure to realise, so think about what that's like for somebody who's carrying
this energy. You've got somebody who's got an undefined Head Centre, and they have the 64th
gate. So think about what that means. What that means is, it means that you don't always have
access to your memory bank - that's what it means. So what that means is that a pressure is
going to be built up, because you don't get consistent access to release, or begin the process of
releasing, that pressure.
And then a transit comes along, or somebody else comes along, and activates the Head Centre.
And all of a sudden there's this enormous flood of inspiration - inspiration, as pressure, that
leads to anxiety. I mean after all, think about the nature of what we are designed to be like. It's
that we're designed to be sensory filters. We take in the experience of the world, and then we're
being pressured to conceptualise it - to make it up again. And that's what we're designed to do:
to recreate it again, conceptually, to be able to communicate it. So there's this instantaneous
pressure that's there, and it must be resolved.
Now, of course, the whole thing about the abstract process is that you don't need any facts. You
know, there is a difference here. We're talking about a thing that ends up as an idea. You know,
it's not like you have to die from that pressure! The real anxiety is that you can't make sense out
of it in some way. You know, "Why didn't he or she talk to me yesterday?" And all of a sudden
there's this pressure here and it creates an anxiety. "Do they like me? Are they trying to tell me
to fuck off? What is going on? Am I going to loose my job?" Instantaneous anxiety, and, of
course, the anxiety because it's the mind, it's such a wonderful toy box. You can make up eight
thousand zillion reasons, and each one of them can torment you for the rest of your life. Isn't it
fun to be human?
The moment you recognise that that is simply a pressure that is there, because it can't be
anything else. And that that pressure works best when you're not trying to make sense out of
your life, but when you're trying to inspire somebody else to make sense out of theirs! When you
look at a chart and you see anybody that has any gates in the Head Centre, these are inspiring
people. They open up your inspiration system. You know, I have had many occasions in which
music that comes out of me has come out exactly at the moment of a transit to my mental

system. You know, the muse operates and the Moon will come along once a month, doing it's
rounds, and will activate the 64th gate, and will release all of this information from the deep grey
areas, to give us something to work with, to keep feeding our mind.
You know, that's what the Head Centre does. You know, feed the beast - it serves no function. I
mean, in terms of the biological necessity of life. You know, there's one of the jokes about the
mind, you know, when you see these funny science fiction movies with heads in jars talking to
each other. I mean, that's really what it's like. The rest of the bodies are just running around
doing everything, you know, eating, fucking, sleeping, doing everything, and these jarheads are
talking to each other saying, "What should we do tomorrow?" Well, it's true!
You know, it's funny to be a human being. And if you take all this toy box stuff seriously, you
really suffer in this life. Because it's not about evaluating our own existence. In other words, it's
not about evaluating ourselves. It's not about generating fear for ourselves. Because, of course,
the mind has helped us. It really does not direct our physical life - it can't. So then it's really
helpless. Then you really have suffered. So the whole thing to recognise about the 64 is that the
moment that you see that, you know right away that there is a tremendous amount of pressure
to come to grips with the experience of being human.
Some of the greatest teachers that have ever been on this planet have had the 114. You know,
there is a capacity for ideas that is transcendental. It doesn't mean that they don't end up in
crisis - they do. But however, there are ideas that give us a leap in our consciousness, and the
capacity to be able to reflect. This is the whole thing about the abstract mind. You see, the thing
that allows us to expand as a global consciousness is that what we've done is that we've
created literally a physical memory bank that is planetary-wide in nature. Whether we call it
computers or libraries or the Web, or whatever, we're externalising what's on the inside. You
know, we're creating this enormous mental field where we can all have contact on this mental
field. And the great work that's done in linking us up that way is that we have those that can
clearly relate to us the nature of our experience here. We need that.
You know, when an abstract person says, "I think in the future," you know right away that they're
really lost. Because they are not here for us to tell us about the future - they are here to tell us
about the past. They are here to make sure that we all grasp what experience is. Not all of us
get the opportunity in this lifetime to experience what it's like to be a bullfighter, or to kill another
human being, or to jump out of an aeroplane, or to ride the back of a dolphin, whatever these
things are. You know, there's incredible experiences that take place on this planet all the time.
We are experiential beings. And every life is full of treasures of experience. Yet we are a totality.
So the more we get to share each other's experience, the more we get the experience of the
totality, the more we recognise our sameness, our oneness in terms of what we are here to be.
So this whole abstract process that begins with this pressure that most people find so damn
uncomfortable, for them to stop whining. You know, I'm tired of people who have gates that they
whine about. You know, because this is what they take into their life and they use it as the place
where they do this whining business.
That pressure to make sense out of things, to realise that's a gift! It's a gift. It doesn't mean that
it's a comfortable gift. What gift is comfortable particularly? - it's just a gift. And it's not something
to be taken seriously. After all, this is a Maya. I mean, no matter how good it feels or bad it feels
it's still relative.
One of the things that I've learned about humans in working with humans is to see that people
who can take authority away from their mind are instantly much healthier beings. If you just
don't allow your mind to make decisions for you, it can make decisions for everybody else.

That's OK. You can tell people to come and to go and everything else. You can do all of that
stuff - it's great. You can tell them what they want to hear. But don't tell yourself. Your mind is
not here to be your authority in your life. It's here for entertainment. It's here for education; it's
communication. But it's not here to be the authority in your life. It's here to link us up to each
other. After all, language is very crude. I mean, this is real brute force, you know. I'm pushing
this stuff out at hundreds of miles per hour, you know. I'm smashing into your ears. Literally,
literally, the sound wave, just bursting in on the ear. I mean, we don't have that perspective of
what it's like to be there. If you could be the size of an atom in your eardrum right now, you'd
understand what the hell is going on. Because this is very crude. It's the best we can so far.
You know, when we get to spirit consciousness we'll have another way of communicating, but
this language is still very crude! And that's what the mind is for. This attempt at being able to
create a communication matrix so that we become one evolving consciousness.
GATE 63: AFTER COMPLETION - THE GATE OF DOUBT
When you get to the other side, to the 63, you change over to the other side of the collective.
And by the way, think about the nature of the collective mind. The one thing you learn about the
collective mind is that the collective mind, like collective circuitry, is not personal. You know, if
you meet somebody and you make love to them and you happen to have the abstract collective,
it's for the experience - it's not for them. You know, if you're logically collective, and you care
about the world, or something about the world, it's not personal. You know, let's clean up the
gene pool; let's kill all the retards. It's not personal - it's collective. So a collective mind isn't
intended for you to say, "I've got a problem." It's intended to be, "You have a problem," because
it's collective. As a matter of fact it's, "We all have a problem!" It's about sharing. That's the
keynote of being collective. Sharing - it's not personal.
You know, there's nothing more painful than watching a collective mind torture itself and
everybody else around, but particularly itself. Because the great gift of a collective mind is to be
able to respond to the needs of the collective. So when you come to the logical side, you come
to a different kind of process because of the nature of what logic is to us. Of course, when I'm
speaking of logic, I'm not simply talking about the logical mind, the logical circuitry, the
Understanding Circuit.
The uniform appearance of the 15-5 in all forms of life, down to the cellular level. The indication
of the importance and the uniformity of logic as a basis of all life. Life is logical. The binary code
that runs us, that we call our genetic code, is very logical. It gets mutated, and then the
mutations become the part of the logic. But it remains logical. The whole nature of logic is that it
is also visual. It's visual, like the abstract process, but it's very different. It's not like going and
seeing sequences of film - it's like going to a photograph, a single photograph, and staring at it.
It's the fixing of the image. It is a pattern. It's a formula. It's something that is fixed so that we
can see whether it is correct or not.
This 63rd gate is called the Fuel of Doubt. Isn't that nice to know. It's one of our great pressures
in life. When somebody has a 63rd gate and they sit down with me and I tell them, "You know,
you have this gate of doubt and suspicion." And I said, "And it's really good for you. And make
sure you keep up your doubts and suspicions until somebody proves something to you." And
they go, "Yeah, yeah," because that's what it's for. But if you turn, for one moment, that doubt
and suspicion in on yourself then you're really in trouble because that's not what it's there for.
You know, it's not there for you to examine your pattern. Because all that's going to do is, you
coming to a decision about it. "My pattern is wrong - I'm going to fix it." Oh yeah? Where's the

motor in that? How are you going to fix it? And then if you can't fix it, you've got all this anxiety.
There's something wrong with me and I can't fix it.
You know, the mind sits up here like a lighthouse on top, and just because it has a good view
doesn't mean it runs the show - it really doesn't. You know, the moment that you liberate
yourself from making decisions with the mind, and it's not about stopping its process. If you
have either the 64th or the 63rd gate, you're going to spend time looking at yourself, obviously.
You know the most interesting thing to us is ourselves. So you are going to look in, but the
moment that you realise that that looking is not to make a decision - it's not about making a
decision - that looking in is to do your research. That's all. You can look in - yes you will - but if
you're looking at your pattern, all you're doing is looking at that pattern in that moment. And
there's nothing you can do about changing that. You can look at it, you can see the this and that
of it, you can see whether you like it or not, but it's not about making a decision. The moment
you take that authority away from the mind you're going to be healthy, that is, mentally healthy -
you will eliminate anxiety. See, the anxiety comes from the fact that if you give authority to your
mind it's naturally going to be anxious because it knows damn well it's got no motors. It knows
that. It's saying, "Yes, I'm gonna get up and go," and it can't move. So, sure it's going to be
anxious: "Am I going to be able to move? Am I going to be able to do it? Maybe I'll get lucky."
And all that anxiety keeps on building up because, of course, we don't just make major
decisions with the mind - we make endless minor decisions with the mind. And you've got to live
with all of them for the rest of your life. You know, could have, should have, might have, would
have.
So this pressure of doubt - it's starting a very, very important process. Remember again that
what we're dealing with here in this circuitry is that we're dealing with something that is universal
to life itself. And therefore, mental logic is intrinsic to our mental lives. In other words, to build up
our array of facts. Because facts lay the foundation to stability amongst humans. Because what
is essential and factual is something that can be transferred, because it will not change - it will
stay a fact. One and one is two, and everybody can learn to count. So the whole business about
having a pressure of doubt is that it's there as a warning signal about anything that has
happened in the past where the pattern isn't correct.
Now think about the collective and how the collective is working. You're dealing with a process
in which you're taking everything in, in the now, that's the prana in. You're taking all of that in -
you inspire that in. It's going to come out in two different ways collectively. It's going to come out
as the sequences on one side from the past - you get a sequence and you're trying to make
sense out of it. From the logic side there's a sequence that's happened in the past, but there's a
pattern in the sequence that's wrong, because there's something in that 63 mind that says, "I'm
suspicious." And they're not suspicious about the sequence - they're suspicious about one thing
that happened. You know what that's like. You meet somebody and afterwards somebody says
to you, "How do you feel about this person?" And you say, "Mmm, I'm not comfortable with
them." If you ask that person why it'll always end up being one thing - one thing only: the
sudden change in the expression on their face, a certain movement in their body, whatever the
case may be.
But the moment that there's something wrong with the pattern, not the sequence, the moment
there's something wrong in the pattern this immediately generates doubt and suspicion. And for
a different purpose: not to be able to comment on the nature of the past, but to be able to
correct the pattern in order to establish a direction in the future. See, logic is here to take in the
experience of the now and to project forwards into the future by checking to see if anything in
the now isn't operating correctly. Because it's all about correcting and fixing. That's what logic is
all about - endlessly checking and correcting and fixing. You know my favourite story about the

whole business of empirical science was being trained in mathematics and algebra and
geometry when I was young, and they would give us these formulas that were hundred of years
old, you know, that students of mathematics had been asked to perform and check over and
over again, you know, for hundreds of years. And, of course, that is the nature of the logic
system. It doesn't matter that everybody has known for two hundred years that that formula
works. I mean, you know it's been checked by millions of students. We know it works - "Why
bother, man?" - other than the learning business.
The reality is that any time we have a pattern, the fact that the pattern exists does not allow the
pattern to stand on its merits. It constantly has to be reaffirmed. It constantly has to be checked
endlessly. Human Design as a logical form of knowledge is something that has to be constantly
checked and verified - it can never be accepted at face value. There will be a day when
mutation will come, at the end of this round of civilisation, in which all of this, all of this breaks
down, because there will be a different matrix. Mutation changes the law - the formula then will
not work. There will be a different formula - this is our formula now.
So when you're dealing with a 63 mind, and you're dealing with a mind that always has doubts
and suspicions - these are words we give a negative value to. We don't like people who are
suspicious. We can be deeply frustrated with people that are full of doubt. We don't necessarily
like it. We think that if someone is doubtful that it means that they can never really be decisive.
That if they're suspicious they can never truly be trusted. We have all these negative
terminologies associated with this language, these words. It is inspiration to doubt and be
suspicious. It's inspiration - it's essential. Everything you see in the Understanding Circuit could
be subtitled the Circuit of Bitching. And it doesn't matter where you go in that circuit, you're
going to find the bitch somewhere in there. Because they're going to point out, with a finger
wagging, they will point out where things don't work., whether it's the 17 with their opinion or the
18 with their challenge to authority. Doesn't matter where it is, you're going to have this capacity
to say, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. This can't be true. Prove it to me."
So recognise that the values we bring out of our duality to the language of these gates distort
what we're trying to share with others. You know, it's just about the this and that. See it for what
it is. Every time that somebody who carries the 63rd gate is suspicious or doubtful there is
something to be suspicious and doubtful of. It doesn't mean, by the way, that they're right. But it
means that for them there is always something that does not fit or work in that. And, of course,
it's that something that they have to trust. But the moment that they turn that in on themselves,
then they're in big trouble, because the moment that you're suspicious and doubtful about your
own possibilities in life - you know one of the most important things for somebody with the 63rd
gate is to really recognise that that gift is a gift for the value and the maintenance of the
collective. And it's not intended to be a place in which one crucifies oneself.
The 63rd gate is the pressure to formulise. You see, the anxiety of having doubt and suspicion
is that, that is not something that is anything more than a pressure. It's not like you really know
why you're doubtful and suspicious. You don't - anymore than the abstract person doesn't know
why suddenly there's that sequence there. "Why am I remembering that now?" There 's this
pressure to come up with the formula that says, "This is what's the matter. I know now why I'm
suspicious. I'm suspicious because of this..." Think about the joke of the mind. The joke of the
mind is that the moment that you get from the pressure to the Ajna, you get to a very, very
simple "Because..." It's always "'Because..." And 'because' can also be 'be-chaos', you know.
What are you going to do with that? It's just "'Because". You know, "This makes sense to me
because... This is what's wrong with the pattern because..." This is the nature of our awareness.
Mental awareness is the question "'Why?" and the answer "Because..." If you don't come up
with an answer you're full of anxiety. We manufacture 'becauses'. You know, that's the biggest

thing in our life. We run around manufacturing 'becauses'because we're trying to get rid of our
anxiety. And with every 'because' you manufacture you just end up with another 'why?' There's
a vast difference between the collective mind and the individual mind - a vast difference.
Individuality is the only continuity as a circuit that operates through the entire vehicle. And
because of that, that individuality has a different sort of function - it holds it all together. And its
process is never visual - its process is always acoustic. The acoustic mind operates at a very
different level because it does not operate visually.
So what is stored in the prana of the life are sounds. The individual inspiration is acoustic. The
value, for example, of music as a way of inspiring. Everything having to do with individuality has
to do with acoustics and therefore has to do with sound and music - frequencies. So in the
course of the prana of life we're not simply taking in this dominant human visual perspective, but
we're taking in this deep acoustic prana - he sounds of everything. The sounds of, that are far
beyond the concentrated perspective that we have with sound - listening for the obvious. This is
about an acoustic phenomenon that takes place beyond the obvious - that is, it's taking in all the
sound of an experience, the frequencies of an experience. And this gets stored in the brain, and
they come back as impulses of sound.
GATE 61: INNER TRUTH - THE GATE OF MYSTERY
The 61st gate is called Inner Truth. It's the Yin between sets of Yang - it's another sandwich -
the Fuel of Mystery. You know, it's one of those nice jokes: there's history-historian, there's
mysterymystorian - here's the mystery. The mystery is that it is a pulse of sound - frequency.
These are noisy minds. They're not remembering minds, that is, they're not visuals, so they're
not fixed on certain things. These are just noisy minds. And they're noisy in the sense that the
noise doesn't have to be audible. In other words, the pressure is that there is frequency and
sound, but there's no orchestration, that is, there's no way of bringing those pulses of frequency
and turn them into something.
You know, there's a misnomer with this channel because it's called the Channel of the Thinker,
but knowers don't actually think. They're waiting for the sound to make some kind of expression.
They're pondering, they're staring, they're actually - there's actually very little going on. You
know, it's like they're looking at pictures. There is this pressure that there is something there that
can be resolved, but what is it? That's its mystery. You know, what that's like in the dark when
you hear something and you try to figure out what it is. "What is that sound?" And, of course,
every sound has an incredible value. The way in which the brain stores language is in tiny, tiny,
tiny, little bits that are manufactured as sound. And these little bits are all there, and the thinker,
you know this pose - the joke is, of course, that they're nothing that they're thinking about.
They're just waiting for somebody to play the music - that's all. You know, how all these notes
become something. This is the pressure to know. And the pressure to know is the pressure to
find absolute silence. You can see what that means for the nature of mutation itself. That the
goal of mutation is to end the mutation. It's to get to the place of silence and completion, and, of
course, that doesn't happen. You know. What we get is these moments of silence.
And then there's always a new melody. You know, the world is a melody. For me, life itself can
be seen so clearly - it's just this vast orchestra. You know you've got your part to play the
piccolo for 82 years, so you play the piccolo for 82 years. And then they don't need piccolo
players anymore - not your piccolo anyway! And if you're lucky you come back and play the
bassoon, or the trumpet, or whatever. You know, we reincarnate into the orchestra - we just
might get different sections and instruments to play. Anxiety - no deeper anxiety than individual
anxiety: to know that something is there and yet to not be able to resolve it - not to know what it
is. Because knowing is so deeply, deeply personal. And at this level it is the possibility of what is
always new. The 61st gate can always bring something new: a mutative inspiration, the

pressure to rationalise, the pressure to transform the pulse into a possibility, into a potential
actually, to try to come to grips with what the mystery is.
Think about the way the individual mind works. It's like you take a string of melody into your
mind, and you turn it over and over and over and over. And what you're really doing is that
you're getting to know that melody - this is the knowing. You keep returning to it - that's the
other side of the 61 - you keep returning to it, to make it rational, to give it a fixed form so that it
can survive. Knowing is only of value if it adds to survival. When you take all of these pressures
that are running across the surface for us, the first thing to recognise is that, of course, there is
no tribal circuitry in the mind. The things that run our civilisation, the nature of how we operate
sexually, the nature of our communities, our basic laws, the way in which we make money, the
way in which we distribute the resources of the community - none of this has anything to do with
the mental processes. You know, the mind is basically collective, because the individual
process is there to disturb the collective, to create mutation. And, of course, mutation is always
disturbing to the collector. "It wasn't like that in the old days," says the abstract. "That means my
pattern isn't going to work in the future," says the logic. "We're gonna have to start all over
again." So the mutative mind is always going to be disturbing to the collective mind.
You know the collective mind has its set stuff, and all of a sudden there's this new pressure
placed on them. The moment that you give up the authority of your mind making decisions for
you, you eliminate that pressure as an anxiety that gets established within you. It will not
eliminate the
anxiety. The anxiety, the fear, will be necessary for you in order to make sure that you really
care about the way you communicate. Because the ultimate anxiety that comes out of the Ajna
is whether or not you can finally translate that metamorphically through the throat into communi-
cation. "Can I make myself understood?" is a logical anxiety. "Can I stimulate other people with
my idea?" is an abstract anxiety. "Am I able to explain my knowing to someone else?" is an
individual anxiety. It will not eliminate the fear. It will take away the destructive aspect of the fear
and you'll be left with the motivating fear. It's important that you're concerned about how you
communicate. It's essential that it's of value to us to communicate properly, and so the anxiety
in that sense is legitimate.
But the moment you give your mind authority for your own decision making then you turn all that
pressure in on yourself, and that's the moment that you really have to deal with that anxiety.
And it's not comfortable, as you all know, because it cannot be resolved through action. I mean
think about that, be clear about that. You know, the moment you're dwelling on your own
personal anxieties it's not like you can resolve them in the world.
What you do is what happens to you. It's not what you want or think you need to do in order to
resolve whatever it is you think you've got an anxiety about. What you'll discover is that you'll
hold onto your anxiety while your life goes on anyway. And you'll dig into the pocket of that
anxiety all of the time. And you'll get even more anxious because your life keeps on going the
way it goes, and you can't seem to do anything about the anxiety going away.
You know, the mind's not driven by a motor and therefore it's useless for you to sit on your mind
and say, "You make the decisions for my life." You know, then you end up with a pressure that
is productive in your process, and productive for others, and the value you have in giving that to
others.

THE AJNA CENTRE
INTRODUCTION
Nothing more joyful than a mind, nothing more painful than a mind, nothing more useless than a
mind - what to do? The Ajna Centre - when we're talking about our evolutionary development,
the thing to recognise is that there was a major transition that took place in humans, very
different from other creatures, other mammals. That mutation was the development of the
human neo-cortex and its capacity for self-reflective consciousness. But more than that, the
mutation that would take place in the larynx would allow humans to communicate at a very
sophisticated level - the more sophisticated the sounds, the more memory necessary, the more
conceptualising taking place.
At the moment that we move away from the Splenic system - and let's take out individuality for a
moment, which is a unifying force because of its mutative quality, so it's acoustic level - if you're
looking at the Splenic system through its collective and tribal associations, what you're dealing
with is very primary things. Taste and smell - by the way, they are deeply related to each other,
as we well know - is a primary level for survival. You see that in every child - they have to taste
everything. Every baby that has ever lived has to taste everything. They have to put everything
in their mouth - taste it. Get some kind of concept of what the pattern of the world is through
taste. But these are primary awareness mechanisms. Obviously, when one takes a look at
various kinds of mammals - if you look at cats or dogs or whatever you're looking at - we are
clearly aware of, for example, they have olfactory skills that far exceed our own. Dogs are
probably the best example of the design of a nose, because they are all nose. They have this
extraordinary capacity to three-dimensionalise what they smell. Historical perspective through
smell - all kinds of things.
Most of that in us has either been lost completely, in the sense that it is dormant because so
many energy fields of the physical brain plant were necessary to develop our Ajna-related
sense. Our Ajna-related sense is the eyes. The mind is visual - hence lies the trap. Ah, the
illusion of light. How everybody loves the light. The mind is built on light - it is the whole thing
about the mind. It's built on light because the mind is here to establish the visual Maya. The
visual Maya cannot exist in darkness. So we are afraid of the dark. We are afraid of the dark
because in the dark the world disappears - the universe disappears. And we're left with nothing
but the beating of our heart and our own breath. Human beings are afraid of the dark and all of
its manifestations because we are mental creatures. This is the place where we are rightfully in
our evolution. We have succeeded at the splenic level. We are better survivors than any other
creature. We are the top of the food chain. As such, our splenic business is long done. But we
are not finished our mental business, and until we're finished our mental business there's no
way to get to the third stage, which is emotional spirit consciousness.
The eyes - the 17th gate, the right eye, the 11th gate, the left eye - the eyes. The way in which
we perceive the world and the way in which we give the world its name and its attributes is what
we take in through these eyes. But what do eyes actually do? Your eye operates within a
restrictive wavelength. We have a spectrum that is available to us visually - no more, no less.
We do not see radio waves; we do not see electromagnetic waves. Most of the wavelength
information that exists in the universe we don't see. We see what we are restricted to see - it is
a limitation of being human. We cannot see what our immune system is doing. So it has
difficulty in having any kind of authority in our mental life because we're limited in our vision. The
moment that you recognise that your capacity to be able to see is physically limited, it means
that the conceptualisation that we have of the Maya is limited. Because of that, the mind alone
has no way to be able to guide us in our physical life. No way - it's too limited. The thing about
seeing - seeing is funny. You look out into the world and you see and then you take it in. When
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you take it in it gets stored, like everything. But then when, you know, you're going back to that
place to remember your seeing, you don't get to remember the whole thing. You don't get to see
the whole thing again because you're not storing that whole picture inside in one piece. It's
buried underneath the memory key that you need to open that up.
So I spend some time in the Basque mountains that I love so much in northern Spain. It's
gorgeous there - magnificent hills and valleys and ancient stone buildings and ox carts and
sheep. I look out from my perspective of memory of what I have seen and if I try to reconstruct
the memory of what I've seen there are going to be an enormous number of elements that are
going to be missing. Some of the major forgetting: that there was a little creek that was running
down one side of the hill, not quite remembering what direction the road went in - whatever the
case is.
It's the whole thing to recognise that whenever we are taking in the visual world and we're trying
to bring the visual world back out it's not the same thing anymore. What we think about what
we've seen is different from what we've actually seen because the information is deteriorating
as you bring it in. You're limited to seeing in your way.
THE SENSING STREAM
The abstract process in the 11th gate and in the 47th gate - we have this movement of the
abstract as it cuts across the Ajna. We saw the other day that when you start with the 64th
hexagram and you start with the pressure you're starting with the pressure that says we have to
make sense out of the past - have to. In making sense out of the past, when you come to the
47th gate you're coming to a Gate of Realisation. That doesn't really mean very much. It means
that in that moment the pressure is off - that's all. Think about how the 64 works. You have the
sequence image like video clips and you're trying to make sense out of them. In trying to make
sense out of them you come to a realisation. Let me give you an example. You have a photog-
rapher and he is shooting video. He is down on the street and there's a parade going by. He
simply has his video on and the video is capturing the parade. Now, this is the eye taking in the
information. It's going into the deep grey areas of the brain. Now, the way the 64 is going to
work is that suddenly he is going to get the inspiration of a sequence of this film, just a
sequence. So, let's say, for example, that while the parade's going by, all of a sudden there is a
space between the marching band and the float that's coming. The camera is filming a space
where there is no parade because it's in between. All of a sudden, this 64 gets this inspiration,
this confusion, that says, "What's this picture? What are these buildings? What is this?" There's
no parade, after all. There's no point of identification. So there's a pressure build up. "What is
this? Why is this here? What am I looking at?"
GATE 47: OPPRESSION - THE GATE OF REALISING
Then the 47 - Oppression - what a nice name! Atlas carrying the world - it's heavy work, trying to
make sense out of things. It's true, it's true, it's true. Everything about the abstract process is
difficult, inherently - it is not inherently healthy. It is experiential and crisis-bound. Yet, at the
same time, the 47 has the gift of being able to go, "Ah, I got it. I know what that is. That's the
space in between the marching band... the parade that I was filming. Now I know what that
image is." That's the 47. That's the moment of realisation - of making sense out of the past.
GATE 11: PEACE - THE GATE OF IDEAS
It is not enough for the abstract mind to make sense out of something, because the moment it
makes sense out of something, it's looking for an idea - instantly. It's like the moment that logic
comes up with a formula, it's immediately looking for an opinion. So the 47 in that moment of
going, "Ah, that makes sense," in its very next step when you go to that 11th gate, the Gate of

Ideas, Peace, that gate is there to take the realisation and transform it into a concept. So the
first thing that happens to that person is that they think, "I've got this great idea. I'm going to do
a coffee table book of all the famous parades in the world but I will only take pictures between
the vehicles. I'll go to Rio and I'll shoot between the vehicles. I'll go to New Orleans and I'll shoot
between the vehicles. I'll have this incredible coffee table book of phantom parades. All you're
going to see is garbage on the ground and buildings..."
This is the idea that emerged out of the realisation - that's how the 11 works. By the way, those
ideas will keep coming. You can bring different ideas from the very same realisation - hundreds
of them or just have another idea for every realisation, but that's its process. It's not enough to
realise - the realisation must become something. It has to lead to something. It becomes an
idea. So of course, you take that idea and you go and see your prospective publisher: "I have
this great idea." This is the 56 trying to stimulate the publisher. "I have this great idea. You give
me enough money to go to all these famous parades around the world and I'm going to take
pictures of the space in between. Right? It's going to be a great coffee table book." The
publisher looks at him and says, "This is a terrible idea, terrible idea. Terrible! It fills me with
despair." That's how the whole process works.
People take their ideas seriously - seriously! They are the most exchangeable, interchangeable
things that you can imagine - a dime a dozen. So recognise this relationship at the mental plane
of what's going on in the abstract. The whole process of the abstract mind is not simply to come
to grips with what makes sense out of the past but out of that experience out of the past to
transform that into an idea that may be stimulating to others. He may find a publisher that says,
"Crazy, but interesting." Then it's possible. This is the idea process and how it works. The whole
thing to see in that is ideas are wonderful, they're delicious, they're fun, but it doesn't mean that
they are reliable. It doesn't mean that they are going to work.
The key to the 11th gate is the line of the Philanthropist. It says, "Here, you want an idea? Go
ahead here - have an idea. You can have an idea. You can have an idea. You can have an
idea. You want some ideas? Here, you can have some of these." Give them away - that's what
ideas are for. They are stimulating to our thought processes - ideas are wonderful for that. Give
them away. In other words, the mind, the Ajna Centre, the one thing you can always know is
that the Splenic Centre, when it's defined, always has an authoritative potential in Design, but
the mind never does. The mind can never be a place of authority. Never, never, never, never,
never, never, never in your life.
It can be a place of authority for other people, which is often what happens. That is, the ability to
communicate to others what they need to know in their process. An idea that you give to others
may be a wonderful idea that is of value to them. But your own ideas - this is always going to be
a very difficult process. And you can't trust that mind. After all, it's really cut off from your life. It's
just hanging up there looking at the movie. We look at the movie differently - some of us have
brown eyes, some of us have blue eyes. I've often wondered what it's like to look out of brown
eyes - I don't know. It's different. We see differently. We don't see the same things. We don't
see the same colours. We don't see each other in the same way. Eyes are tricky business. We
like them. It's fun to live in this colourful world, but it's tricky business - it's very limiting. When
you come to the other side, to the logical process, you have this logical mirror. The whole thing
about it is that the logic is here for us, as we know, to be able to establish proper patterns for the
future.
UNDERSTANDING STREAM
GATE 4: YOUTHFUL FOLLY - THE GATE OF FORMULISATION

GATE 17: FOLLOWING - THE GATE OF OPINIONS
We've seen that the inspiration of the 63rd gate, that this is inspiration of doubt, of suspicion, is
there to challenge patterns, challenge patterns that are faulty. To become suspicious because
the fixed pattern doesn't work. The 4th gate, rather than realising or making sense, which is the
abstract process, that 4th gate is coming up with a formula - Formulisation. It's coming up with
an answer, a logical answer. The logical answer of the 4th gate is a formula. Now remember,
formula is theory, like making sense out of something. It's not about practice now - it's about
theory. The 17th gate only sees fixed patterns - that's your right eye. It sees the fixed patterns in
things. It recognises the patterns of people in a room or things. It sees the patterns. It's not the
left eye that's looking at the whole movie and sees very little because it's looking at the whole
movie and its wave. The right eye is penetrating and staring at the patterns. What we have in
the 17th gate is the fixing of the pattern into a construct - what we call an opinion. So let's look
at the story another way.
You have two friends. They play tennis with each other once every two weeks. (It could be any
game, it doesn't really matter, but let's call it tennis.) They're going to meet each other for lunch.
It's a couple of days before they're next scheduled tennis game. When they meet each other for
lunch the two of them are sitting in a cafe. The 63rd gate notices something very strange in the
pattern of its friend. What it notices is that its friend is doing everything with its left hand. It's
grabbing its sandwich with the left hand. It's drinking its coffee with the left hand and the right
hand is not visible. Now that awareness doesn't necessarily take place in the moment. In the
moment they're having lunch and they're talking and things are going on and it's a quick lunch -
fast food - they just talk to each other and then the person with the 63 goes out the door.
They're walking along the street and this doubt and suspicion of their 63 clicks in. It says,
"There's something wrong with the pattern. What's wrong with the pattern?" There's this
pressure: "What's wrong with the pattern?" Finally comes this light bulb. Ah, finally comes the
answer. The answer is: "He must have hurt his right hand because he's right handed. That's
what was wrong. He was doing everything with his left hand. There must be something wrong
with him. Oh, if there's something wrong with him, that means we're not going to be able to play
in two days, which means I can schedule those appointments that I need to schedule then.
Now, I'll probably be able to put off the tennis match until next week." All of this stuff coming out
of the answer.
Think about what an answer is: it's like making sense out of something - it's just an answer. It
doesn't mean it's right. The whole about that is that that answer leads to the opinion that says, "I
better call him up because if I don't call him up it's probably going to be cancelled and I won't
have a chance to reschedule these appointments. It's my opinion that there's something really
wrong with him. So I better check this out." Out of the answer comes an opinion: "I better call
him up because the game is going to be ruined. But if it's going to be ruined, I can take
advantage of that because I could do, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this." 17th
gate - being very organised.
So he calls him up and he says to him, "Are you OK?"
The other guys says, "What are you talking about? Of course I'm OK. You just saw me." "Are
we still going to be playing tennis?"
"Of course we're going to be playing tennis. I'm going to beat you real good."
"I don't understand. Why were you using your left hand?"
"Oh, I've got one of these muscle grip things, and I was just building up my strength so I could
beat you."

Suddenly, that answer, with its opinion, crumbles under the details of communication.
You see, the mind's a toy box - it's just a toy box. It's looking at things and making things up,
dreaming about things. But it isn't going to do anything for you in your life. It isn't going to be
able to tell what's right or wrong, good or bad for you. It's never going to be able to make a
decision for you in your life. Never. Never. It's not what it's there for. It's so fallible. Please
understand - these two little illustrations, just to give you a sense of how fallible the process can
be, how unspecific it really is. What is taken most seriously of all is our ideas and our opinions.
Jesus! Rub your back against somebody's idea and opinions - you really start seeing the sparks
fly! Nobody likes that. Very, very serious people.
The collective process - our eyes are collective. They do not see the truth of the individual way -
they cannot. They do not know the tribe - they cannot. They are not eyes that express the vision
of the tribe. The tribe knows by smell and touch. Smell and touch is what makes it all real. The
collective eyes of the mind of the world - now here's where the great distortion is. Everything
about our world is about its visual dominance on us - our television and film. This incredible
amount of visual information to feed our mind systems. But this is collective. The collective
cannot see for the tribe; they cannot see for the individual. They can only see the collective. So
the opinions and ideas of the collective serve the collective, first and foremost. It's why the tribe
is in such deep rebellion against the encroaching power of the collective world.
When we were still splenic-oriented, the tribe ruled. The individual always has its place because
it's the mutative force. But in terms of the balance of power, the tribe ruled. The tribe no longer
rules. The greatest nation in terms of its economic power and military might in the world is this
polyglot, whatever you want to call the North American experience. But it sure is not tribal! - it's
a collective hotchpotch. It's cosmopolitan. These cosmopolitan forces are dominating in the
world. The collective is beginning to dominate in the world. The United Nations, these organi-
sations, they collectivise the planet. They're beginning to dominate in the world. The tribe
doesn't like it - the tribe does not have the collective vision. The collective has this fantastic
vision: it looks into the science fiction of the future. It says, "This is where we're going." The tribe
says, "Hey. Let me go milk my cows, OK? Don't tell me about your vision. I don't see all that. I
just see what I have to deal with day-to-day in my life."
Where there is an opportunity for union, if you will, between the tribe and the mind is that the
only way that it can go through is through the individual process. In other words, it is the
individual mind that can stimulate and turn on the tribe. It is what the individual mind's basic
work is - to be able to act as a middle ground between the tribe and the collective. Of course,
they'll play either side. It's not like they are inherently honourable - they are not. It's just
individuals, in order to survive, the 282 - Shaking Hands with the Devil - unsavoury alliances.
The individual is always ready to make an unsavoury alliance, whether it's with the tribe or the
collective, to serve the purpose of their individuality, of course, which is to create mutation. This
visual collective Ajna, this is Solomon's world - nothing new under the sun.
KNOWING STREAM
When you come to the individual mental process you come to a purely acoustic field. It is this
acoustic nature that runs through the whole body. That is the music of life. That is the pulse of
mutation. It's the only thing that links every single centre. It's the magic of what the individual
process is. It is its capacity to connect to all the other processes and to mutate them. It brings us
back to the importance of sound. Sound and the importance of language. The simpler the
language, the cleaner the resonance with the tribe. The language has to be pure and the sound
of that language. This is another level of consciousness - to move from the visual to the
acoustic. The acoustic operates in a different way. By the way, please understand again the

nature of living in the world - we all have all of these things mentally all of the time. We are
always dealing with them.
GATE 43: BREAKTHROUGH - THE GATE OF INSIGHT (see also below)
Let's say you have somebody in your house who is like me: they're 43-23. Let's say they have
an open mental system and they have no activation whatsoever from the 61 right down to the
23 - nothing in that individual mind. As long as they're in my aura they're mind is going to be
much noisier than mine - much busier, much louder, more acoustic. More frightening to them
because it comes and it goes. You hear things in your head one day and the next day they are
gone. Again, remember the nature of what it is to take in the aura of somebody else or for you to
put your aura into somebody else. I awaken the acoustic phenomena in somebody's brain. I turn
on the music in their head - I turn on the noise. Everything about the way in which the mental
acoustic mind works is that it goes from - you can call it distortion or you can call it noise to
distortion to clarity, but it's a way of taking the chaos of tonal inspiration and converting it into an
acoustic reality. Rather than seeing in the mind's eye you're hearing within the mind itself. In
other words, the insight of the 43 is spoken verbally in the mind, in the inner language of the
mind which has no sound.
It's like playing a piano keyboard which has no switch on. You can still hear all the music if you
know what you're playing. Inside that 43 is a voice, and the voice will speak, and yet there is no
sound. The voice will be heard and yet there is nothing to hear. It is just the assembly work at
the acoustic level within the brain.
We saw that when we were looking at the collective process that by the time you get to the
Throat you have to have a very special gift. These metamorphic gates, the 56 and the 62, and
their capacity to be able to transform, literally to be able to metamorphose inner vision into
language. The moment that you got that idea as the photographer, your capacity as a 56 is that
you've got to be able to get the publisher to say, "I see what you mean. I can see it. Yes, great!
Yes, I can see it. Show me the next one. Yes, I can see it." Somebody who is really stimulating
is somebody who gets you to see what they are saying, visually. You see it. Somebody with the
62 is doing the same thing in a different way - they want you to see the pattern. They want you
to see the details, so they give you the details so you can see the picture. "Do you get the
picture?" We have all these expressions in our language about expressing to somebody in order
to see whether they get it "Did you see? Do you see? Do you see what I mean?" I say "see" all
the time. Do you see? - that's my 62. Do you get it? Do you see the pattern? Because it's this
change in which the visual, which isn't visual at all - after all, it's not like there's a motion picture
inside of your head and you're looking at the movie. It's all illusionary. It's the assumption built
into us genetically that we're actually remembering a complete picture. It's just an assumption.
When it gets to the Throat there's this capacity to be able to turn that assumption of the visual
into a sound pattern that brings the message of that picture. It's an incredible thing that goes on
in the Throat, incredible thing! But so different when you come to the individuality. If my memory
is clean, perhaps I can share with you all the details of something and you will be able to see.
But no matter how pure my knowing, I will never be able to explain that to you cleanly because
what I know inside and how I explain my knowing on the outside are never the same.
You can take a great piece of poetry and you can take all the themes of that poetry and you can
write a new poem that has all of those themes in it. The essential information is the same but it's
not the same. The knowing inside has a perfection because the speech is not real. It's just this "I
know." Its not real - it's just in a toy box. Then you have to bring it down and have to be able to
translate that - how I turned that into words. The key to all individuality we saw in the Throat
yesterday when we looked at the 12th gate. The key to individuality is articulation. I may not be

able to share with you the inner knowing as I know it, but through language and through my
capability with language I can explain the essence of it to you. In that, I save myself the fate of
all freaks, which is alienation and rejection. This is the whole thing about the individual process
is that communication, articulation is the most important thing in their nature, to be able to
explain their knowing. Because it's acoustic it's a verbal explanation - you really have to be able
to say it.
GATE 24: RETURNING - THE GATE OF RATIONALISING
We're going to finish up with these two gates of the individual process. We'll start with the 24th
gate. The 24th gate is called The Return. The Return is one of the four ways: the 19, the 33, the
44 and the 24. The 24 is opposite the 44, just as the 19 is opposite the 33. These are the two
Crosses of the Four (Different) Ways.
So the 24th gate has a specific function in that it is the only one of the ways that is in the mind.
It's the only one of the ways that belongs to the mind. As such, it is very significant for us. In
other words, we know from the four ways that there are four basic pathways: the pathway of
need, the 19th, the path of reflection that's in the 33, the path of transmission that's in the 44,
and the path of thinking, and this is the 24. The 24 is the Gate of the Thinker. That's why it's
called The Return. It's called The Return because you keep going back again, over and over
and over. You keep returning to the same place to ponder.
Now, thinking is not necessarily something that is concretised or even deeply conceptualised
because thinking is acoustic. A great deal of the 24 and its thinking process is made up of what
psychologists used to call a brown study (maybe they still do). A brown study is when you're still
with unfocused eyes. That is, you're seeing but not seeing. There's nothing going on inside of
your head. You're just kind of lost in a pondering plane. You're not necessarily thinking about
anything. You catch any 24 in a moment like that and you say to them, "Penny for your
thoughts," and they look at you as if to say, "What are you talking about? What do you think I
was doing here? I was just buzzing." They are not really present in that pondering because that
pondering, that thinking isn't the way we try to describe it to the collective.
The collective would like to consider itself thinkers - they are not. Thinking is something that
requires no thought - pardon the joke. This is just the tonal pressure that's underneath. So this
24th gate, The Return, is called the Gate of Rationalisation. This is the beginning of the process
of explanation. You're dealing with something that is unique. Therefore, the first step is to try to
find some way to make it rational. In the same way that the abstract needs to make sense out of
that pressure and the logic needs to formulise that pressure, the individual has to rationalise. It's
one of the common plagues of the mind that we have these formulisers, realisers, and
rationalisers. They're the field upon which the whole mental world is being examined.
Knowing, knowing. Knowing has three rules, only three rules. The first one is that you have to
know what you need to know. My story - the mystery. Who am I? Why am I the way I am? It is a
basic question. It is the only question. The 24th gate is Delphi. The 24th gate is "Know thyself."
Know thyself - nothing else. Know thyself - nothing else. My story, my story, my story. So the
first rule is to know yourself. Most people get stuck.
The second rule of the knower is to know what is knowable and unnecessary to know. I don't
care how they get this spaceship up into the air - it doesn't make any different to me. It's
something I could know if I wanted to study engineering and all of that stuff, blah blah blah. But I
don't need to know that. Most knowers are lost in just knowing for the sake of knowing. It
relieves the pressure. But there is so much knowing not worth knowing because the only thing
worth knowing is who you are - nothing else. The thinker is alone - they always look like they're

shitting, that statue. It always looks like somebody in a bathroom. It's true. Most people are
deeply contemplative when they are letting out waste. You're opening up for a new experience -
it's true. What to do? You're getting all that junk out of you. That's what the knower wants to do.
The knower wants to keep shitting until the head is silent. You can't do that unless you know
what you need to know, which is "Who am I?" The nature of knowing is that the moment that
knowing is legitimate, mutation is possible to be what you know. Very difficult. The third rule of
the knower is to recognise what is unknowable and leave it alone. I do not know what created all
this - I do not care. It is beyond my ken as a knower to know what is unknowable. It is beyond
my ken. Everything is limited. Everything is limited. We are a limited species. We can only know
what we can know. This is the great pain of the 24 is when they are caught in trying to know the
unknowable - they go mad. The 24-61 is loaded with madness, loaded with it in the pursuit of
the unknowable: "I have to know." The moment that you can know what you need to know, the
unknowable isn't important anymore. The unknowable is you. We are aspects of creation. The
moment that you know what you need to know, that mind is liberated. Silence. Silence.
Otherwise, it keeps coming back, returning over and over and over and over and over again.
The Great Gate of Migraine Headaches - over and over and over and over again. The acoustic
part of the brain does not like light. I don't like bright light. The acoustic mind is not interested in
the seduction of light. It's in a sound world, after all.
GATE 43
The movement between the beginning of or the potential of conceptualising this 24th gate, The
Return, when you get to the 43rd gate, what you're getting to is the place of the structuring of
the sound. It gives its name to the channel: the Channel of Structuring, 43-23 - a design of
individuality, subtitled from Genius to Freak. Of course, that qualification dependent upon the
level of ability in explanation. The better you can explain your knowing, the more you move to
the genius side of the scale. The less equipped you are to explain your knowing, the more you
move towards the freak side of the scale. The 43rd gate - Breakthrough - is called the Gate of
Insight. It's a kind of joke, actually - no vision in that. The definition of insight is spontaneous
awareness. That's what the 43rd gate is. It's the spontaneous awareness because it is in that
moment that the tone has a structure and it can be heard as a voice in the mind - the inner
voice. The voice that's no voice at all. The voice that's not heard but the voice that's there. It's
the knowing that's there. The sound has a structure. The moment that the sound, the tones
have a structure, that's the moment that knowing is present. This is the spontaneous
awareness. In many people this arrives as melody. You've got this pressure in your head and
you don't know what it is, and all of a sudden you start singing a song. Suddenly all that
pressure takes on a structure and music comes out.
Music is the most natural thing to individuality. All individuality resonates to music, wherever it is
in the body - it's just another quality of frequency. It's harmonic frequencies, which is very, very
soothing to the individual mind. The individual mind thinks best with music. How many
individuals will sit down with their problems, turn the lights down low, put on their favourite piece
of music, and drift off? They are not really thinking - they're just lost in the frequency. In that
frequency is a whole process of structuring that's taking place. There are those who need to
listen to the music and those who make the music - same thing. When I play, there's no mind.
There's no nothing. At the same time, there's a deep, deep process going on in that 43rd gate.
The 43rd gate is also deaf. Everybody's surprised that Beethoven could write a symphony deaf.
I'm not. The 43rd gate is deaf. What you're hearing on the inside is not real. That's the movie.
You are experiencing it in a way in which you think is actually a voice, your voice, your thinking
voice inside speaking. All of this is a joke. There's nothing to be heard there. You can't put a
microphone up to my ear and hear my inner voice - that's just illusion. It's the tone that's the

knowing. It's the structure of the tones that's the knowing. The 43rd gate is deaf - it listens to
nothing. I can have people shouting in my face and I stare at them with this serenity of the deaf.
I hear nothing - nothing. I've been called everything. The serenity of the deaf - I hear nothing.
Do you ever want to try to get into a 43's head? This is tough business. They are not designed
to be influenced mentally, like any individuality. The whole thing with the 43 is you learn how to
communicate to them if you really understand how they work. When a 43 is a real jerk, and you
need to tell them that they're a real jerk, scream it in their face at least once. But don't expect
them to pay any attention to you. However, if what you've said actually has value for them, three
or four days later in their own head with their own inner voice, they will tell themselves the same
thing. In that way, they say, "This person didn't tell me that. I knew that."
So this deafness is very important. Because, you see, 17s and 11s are very good students,
generally. In other words, the collective capacity to be able to bring information together is much
more efficient at the collective level, but the individual mind - these are not good students.
They're not good students because if you do not get their attention day one, moment one, if they
do not start at the very beginning with something, they never learn anything. It's the whole thing
about individuality at the mental level. They must start things at the very beginning at the most
simple level and be interested in it at the most simple level. By the time other people have been
dealing with the same subject five years, the individual has already left it behind after two years
because they're off on their own with all that basic knowledge, being individual with it.
The whole thing to recognise about the deafness of the 43 is that when you're dealing with
children, particularly, to really understand them you need to find out from them what they really
like. It's very important in their early education. What they do not like, they will not listen to. What
for? They are not here to be influenced. To influence an individual, you really have to have
something legitimate to contribute to their consciousness. Even then, they will stubbornly refuse
to recognise that you've done that for them. And it will eventually be their own, anyway, because
that's what individuals are like.
In this deafness, all of this knowing. Because it's deaf it really doesn't know how to speak. Listen
to deaf people try to speak. That's why individuals have to master communication - they have to
master it. They have to master articulation. They have to know their languages well to know the
value of words, to know how to describe things. You see, they're translators of insight.
Spontaneous awareness - all it's saying to you is it's there and it's gone. It's spontaneous. But to
bring that down to the concrete level, to put those words in your mouth, to get that movie
across: "I know, I know, I know, I know, I know." "Yeah, OK." "What do you know?" "Ahhh...." It's
one of the real tragedies of the individual mind. Of course, what happens in the nature of
conditioning is that if you're a child and you say, "I know, I know," and you don't know - you get
put down for it. This becomes the thing about 'you don't know. That becomes the mantra in your
life. Very difficult process for the individual to be able to translate this imaginary language and to
concretise it in the 23rd gate, to bring it into its form.
SUMMARY
The whole process of the Ajna Centre, everything about what our minds are about, is how
beautiful it can be when we can share with others communication that is honest. What we do
together in our work together - you must know this in just your social experience together
outside of what we do as teacher and students, what that's like to live in a conversation that is
rooted in something that is so clear and absolute and direct. This is what our minds are for: to
be able to share with each other with clarity the nature of what it is to be here, to be able to
recognise each other and respect each other without question because it is obvious that we are
what we are. This is what the mind is for. To communicate that to each other.

Without this wonderful mind we would have no way to share the beauty of what this logic tells
us. How beautiful the mind is, how delicious this realisation, this rational..., whatever you want to
call it, that comes in the moment that it's clear to us how something works. This is our body. We
must know how it works. The mind is there to make sure that at the global level that we are
sharing all possible perceptions of the totality. All of them together, obviously, make up what is
greater than us. Everybody's mind is a gift for everybody else - that is a truth. No one's mind is
an authority for their own life - that's the other side of that truth. As long as we can live that out,
as you can experience or experiment with that possibility, to see what that is like, not to give
authority to your mind, you'll realise what a difference your life is. Your mind's the part of you
that wants to be able to tell you everything's up to us because we love to live out all this stuff
that goes on in our heads. Because we can dream, doesn't mean we deserve. Life gives us
what it's going to give us.
The moment that the mind doesn't become the authority in the life, the mind becomes a great
joy. Only when it stops being an authority are you open to Spirit. We got out of the splenic stage
because we're the best damn killers on the planet. Once we got to that stage we were finished
with it. Finished with it in the sense that it was no longer necessary as the only awareness: stay
alive, stay alive, stay alive. Then it was possible for mind. After millions of year, millions of years
and mind is young - it's not old - under 100,000 years. This box and the way it works - in order
for us in this whole rapid movement to complete our consciousness evolution, we've got to deal
with this mind now. This cycle that we're in that ends in 2027, this is a completing cycle of the
mental process. We're here to get all the details. We need all the facts. We need to be able to
communicate to each other all the details and the facts. We have to see how it all works so that
we can be finished with mind.
When you know yourself truly and then when you live yourself truly, mind isn't important
anymore - it isn't. It's lost its authority. It becomes just where and what it belongs - another
aspect of our being, functioning the way it should, allowing us the interchange that's necessary
in our lives but not dictating our fate. When we get to that point where we know what we need to
know and we can let go of mind being the authority, then we set the stage for the emotional
spirit. Nobody who's still asking, "Who am I? Why am I?" - no one who is still there at that level
of mind can get to the spirit. You can't. You can't. It's not about no mind - it's just about fulfilment
of mind. Fulfilment of mind is very simple. The fulfilment of mind is to be at ease with the world
because you know yourself and you know how it works - that's all. Mind is fulfilled and it gets out
of your life. Well, like all things, easier said than done.
The beauty of knowledge is that knowledge can be so simple. Truth can be so simple. But living
things out is something else. The whole business about the mind is that I see clearly the double-
edged sword. With the mind, we have to give up the mind's authority. Within the mind itself we
have to deny its very authority. We are the mind - this is our time. We're in a mind world. So it's
a great challenge to deny our mind these authorities. As teachers, as people who are going out
into the world with knowledge that's deeply important to other human beings, one of the most
important messages for those people is do not give authority to your mind. But in saying that
you also have to tell them where they do have authority so that they can realise their nature in
the world.
I love the mind - it's a beautiful thing. It is what it is to be human, and I love being human. It's an
extraordinary mechanism. But I don't trust my mind. My mind does not tell me what to do in this
life - it has no authority over me. At any given moment my mind is telling me to say and do
things that have nothing to do with what actually comes out of my mouth or what I do. It's been
like that all my life. I have an unconscious mind - it doesn't know anything about my life. It
doesn't know what I'm supposed to do or not do. It doesn't know what I care about and don't

care about. It's just a mind. My intuition knows - it keeps me here in the world. In the now. Clear.
Correct. But my mind? But when you tap into my mind you get its beauty. You get the value that
is there and this mind being able to contribute to you and share with you what it is to be in the
world. That's of no value to me. This very same mind can't tell me whether I should get up and
go to the toilet or not. It can't - it doesn't know. It can just make things up for me. It will never be
my authority. It will never be my truth.
The moment you come to grips with that, the moment you come to grips with how beautiful it is
to allow the mind to be what it is instead of trying to turn it into the ruler of your life, it's delicious
because then it's a mind that truly serves others. That's what it's there for, rather than being a
mind that is totally warped and focused on maintaining your own being. Remember, you can
never stop the mind thinking about you - it's not about changing anything. Remember that. It's
not about changing the way the mind works. It's not about changing the way it processes
information. It's not any of that. It's just about not giving it authority to make any decision - that's
all. It can do all its other things that it does, like it's always done, but it cannot be the authority in
your life. Then you're going to have a healthy mind and you're not going to suffer from anxiety.
You'll discover that there will be then those in your life who come to you and ask you for your
mind. You can offer it to them - give it to them. In that way we share our world together. Without
it, it's just a very silent greedy place.
What we represent in the nature of the work that we do is that we represent the beginning of a
process of allowing humanity to see a way to complete their mental work. That's one of the old
jokes I had in the early years with Design, particularly with my sanyasin friends. They kept on
saying to me, "It's damn mental." I kept on saying, "Yes, it is." That's what it's about - it's about
finishing our mind business. Once the mind understands how all these different things work,
once its experienced it, experimented with it, knows it, whatever language we use, then it's all
OK. Then it's really all OK. Don't give your mind authority.

THE THROAT CENTRE
INTRODUCTION
Everything about the nature of the Throat Centre is about what it is to be alive. To be alive is to
manifest in the world. The Throat Centre is the key to manifestation in this life. The nature of the
Throat, because it is the most complex of all of the centres - most complex in the obvious sense
that it has the most gates. There are 11 different gates that are working, and because the
Throat Centre is the hub, it is the place where everything is looking for. Everything is trying to
get to the Throat. Any opportunity that it has to connect to the Throat is what it's looking for. In
order to have that opportunity to have access to the metamorphic qualities of the Throat Centre,
the Throat Centre is very complex.
(Ra shows a chart.)
If you look, you'll see in this illustration there's a peculiarity about the nature of the Throat
Centre. That peculiarity is where all of these gates are. You have an arc here that goes from the
middle, approximately, of Taurus to approximately the middle of Leo, with a space in between
that's not involved. You can see that all of these gates of manifestation are at the lower half of
the zodiac. One of the things for you to recognise about the nature of genetic structure is that
whenever you are looking at positions that are between two G Centre gates, in order words, the
G Centre gates, the eight G gates are going to divide the wheel into eight equal parts. What that
means is that after every G Centre gate is going to be seven gates following that are part of the
same I Ching house. That same I Ching house, every single one of those gates is going to have
the same bottom trigram. It's going to be exactly the same. The only thing that is going to be
different is the upper trigram. What that means in terms of our genetics is that when you have
gates that are next to each other, they not only have a commonality in that they have the same
trigram in terms of the way in which they're structured in the I Ching, but they have a similar
information base at the genetic level, at the codon level. The hexagram has a relationship to the
codon structure. What that means is that these gates being beside each other have a distinct
and obvious connection to each other at the genetic level. They are the foundation of
communication. The two trigrams that are involved - the trigram that operates out of the 15th
gate and the trigram that operates out of the 2nd gate - these two base trigrams are all about
communication.
This position here says that where communication comes from - communication is something
that our capacity to be able to communicate and our capacity to be able to manifest are
thematic and there is a place for them to be seen in this arc. The other thing is, take a look at
the illustration of the bodygraph. What that bodygraph is showing you is the reach of the Throat.
In other words, the Throat's direct access to any other centre and the first thing to recognise
about that is that it has no access to pressure. Yesterday, we started off by seeing that we're
living in this sandwich, that we've got this pressure sandwich - the pressure above, the pressure
below - the pressure bringing anxiety in order to conceptualise and the stress that moves us and
fuels our life. The Throat Centre has no direct access to any of that. In other words, think about
what manifestation is. Manifestation is oblivious to pressure. It doesn't matter to manifestation
that there's pressure
- it makes no difference. That's why we're human and we stay alive in the world. Otherwise, we
would all commit suicide and say, "Fuck this."
This Throat Centre that doesn't connect to the pressure is just pushing us along saying,
"Manifest, manifest, manifest." That's what we do. We are a metamorphic species. When you
look at the nature of the biological associations to the Throat Centre, you come up with the
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thyroid complex which is the thyroid and the parathyroid. In other words, at the Throat Centre, at
its biological level is a duality. That's a very, very important thing to understand about the nature
of the Throat because it is dualistic in nature. Not only is it dualistic in nature, but you can
subdivide that duality into four parts. For the purposes of starting our process of looking at the
Throat, we're going to start with the basic binary. The basic binary is (a) communication [and (b)
manifestation]. This is the essential value of the Throat to humans. The Throat has an obvious
value to us in our capacity to be able to communicate because it is what makes our species so
successful. In other words, we did not have to hunt simply by instinct. We could generate very
complex strategies that projected into the future, and as a result of that, using complex
communication, we became very successful. It's all about the capacity within us to be able to
communicate and the primary nature of the Throat Centre is to speak. We have 11 tongues.
There's a biblical description of the curse of the tongues. There are all kinds of people who say
there must be only one root language and out of that root language came all the other
languages. There's no such thing. There was the beginning of articulation - we will look at that
later - that began in the 12th gate. The ten other gates represent the primary tongues of
humanity. They are primaries. If you take a linguist and you take a great deal of research and try
to orient it, you will find that all the languages that ever existed will fit into any one of those ten
tongues. That's what the Throat is all about. The Throat offers us an opportunity to be able to
communicate with each other in what we call language, that is, the ordering of frequency.
There are two aspects to the nature of the thyroid. By the way, it's interesting that in the
Theosophical tradition, the Theosophical astrology of the 18th and 19th centuries, that they
gave attribute of Mercury as the ruler of the thyroid and Venus as the ruler of the parathyroid.
One aspect is the communicative aspect and the other aspect is about taking this capacity to
manifest and turning it into a capacity physically in the world which we call activity or doing. The
whole thing about that is that it offers the opportunity for us to be able to burn energy, to be able
to change things. Your Throat is all about how much you need to eat or not, how fast you
metabolise or not, the colour of your eyes, the shape of your body, the way that you move.
Many of these things are being conditioned by the nature of the thyroid system. If you take a
sample of everybody's thyroid gland that's here, you'll discover they're all different. Thyroids are
unique. They have a basic, obvious commonality.
So we have these two aspects of the Throat. These two aspects of the Throat are very tricky.
The vast majority of the capacity of the Throat is oriented towards communication only. There
are very few gates that are Gates of Primary Action. We're going to look at gates that are Gates
of Primary Communication. We're going to look at gates that are Gates of Primary Action. We're
going to look at gates that are Gates of Secondary Action. There are very few gates that are
leading out of the Throat that have anything to do with turning the Throat into an activityoriented
metamorphosis. This is so important to understand. The whole key for human beings is that all
of this pressure on the Throat is so that we will be able to communicate with each other, not
about what we do. Very little of it is about what we do. You'll see that these Primary Gates of
Action are deeply risky, anyway. One of the most dangerous things is to be a Manifestor. To be
able to manifest, to be able to have the Throat connected to a motor means that you have an
uncontrollable agent in the world. The world does not like uncontrollable agents. So the Throat
Centre is designed to have a limitation. That limitation is that it's primarily for communication.
One of the real joys of my life is language and the nature of communication. When you come to
the Throat Centre, you come to an extraordinary mechanism. This capacity to be able to
communicate, but not only that, the ability for us with the knowledge that we have to be able to
see clearly where the voice is. So many people don't understand how significant that is for you
in your life. If you have a gate in the Throat, and it doesn't matter if the Throat is defined or
undefined - that's just about consistency - that gate is going to be your voice. It's going to be the

only voice that you're ever going to be able to rely on. It doesn't mean that that voice isn't going
to be conditioned if it's an active gate in an undefined Throat. Obviously, somebody else is
going to have to hook up that Throat or some planet. Still, that gate that you have that is active
will become functioned means that every time that Throat is connected, that theme of your voice
emerges. Everything about the nature of looking at a Rave chart is about seeing the Self and
the Not-Self. Everything about looking at the Throat is seeing your voice and the not-voices.
One of the easiest ways that we are conditioned away from our nature is through language. This
great comment of Ulysses S. Grant in a letter that he wrote in which he said, "I am just a verb."
We follow the dictates of our language. Our language and the way we use grammar and the
way we use our tongues condition us if it's not our voices.
If you don't have the 45th gate, every time you say, "I have," someone is setting you up. It's not
your voice. You're not here to talk in terms of what you have and what you don't have. That
belongs to somebody who has that voice. If you don't have the 56th gate and you're saying, "I
believe," you're being conditioned by somebody. This happens to me two or three times a year
when I'm in a course and all of a sudden I hear myself saying, "You can believe me," or "You
can believe this," and I stop dead in my tracks. Obviously it's not my voice - it's just not me. I'm
not going to carry on using that conditioned voice because it does not belong to me and it does
not give a vibration off that's mine.
The whole thing about being healthy in this life is about the nature of the Self. If you're living a
conditioned life, you get the problems of that conditioned being. The same thing is true that if
you live out a conditioned voice, you have to deal with all the consequences of that voice and
you may not be equipped to do so. That's going to lead to problems. If you're constantly
speaking in a voice that doesn't belong to you, it ultimately is going to do damage to your
Throat. Ultimately! You cannot keep on expressing yourself in a conditioned voice and not pay
the consequences. The only people who are free of that are those who have absolutely no
activation whatsoever in the Throat - a true rarity, by the way. You don't see that very often but
it's there, a totally open Throat Centre. In that case, you're dealing with something that's entirely
different. Obviously, for those human beings, it is not possible for them to have any voice of
their own and they live under a different condition. The moment that you have any aspect
activated in the Throat you have your thematic voice. The voice not only is going to show you
the way in which you express yourself, but the quality of the duality in that voice. One of the
things to pay attention to this morning as we go through these various voices is pay attention to
the quality aspect. Most of you already know the voice keynotes. The quality aspect is
something that is very important.
GATES OF MENTAL CONCEPTUALISATION
We're going to start off with the three gates that are clearly Gates of Communication. These are
the three Throat Centre gates that are pointed upwards to the Ajna Centre. Obviously they are
not about doing anything. They're on the other side of the Throat from the motors, so they're
not pointed at any kind of energy. They're simply there to communicate; these are pure
communicative gates. When you think about these gates: the 62, the Preponderance of the
Small, the 23, the Splitting Apart, and the 56, The Wanderer, these three gates are miracle
gates, magic gates, if you will. They're truly magical because they're truly metamorphic. You
see, they do something rather extraordinary. Whatever kind of conceptualisation is developed in
the Ajna Centre, whether it's the visual conceptualisations of the collective or it's the individual
acoustic recognition of the insight, all of that still has to be translated into language in those
Throat gates. They are the gates of language. They are the purest gates of communication and
they are truly metamorphic.

GATE 56: THE WANDERER - THE GATE OF STIMULATION
Let's begin with the collective and we'll begin with the 56th gate. We know with the 56th gate,
the Wanderer, that this is a Gate of Stimulation. It is a gate that's there to be able to get people
to see an idea. It's only stimulating when you can get them to see it - they have to see it. You
can always here the 56 saying, "Do you see what I mean?" not "Do you understand what I
mean?" "Do you see what I mean? Do you get the picture?" - this is all about delivering the
image but delivering the image as language. Think about the metamorphic process. You have a
visual sequence that you have turned into an idea. That idea is not anything other than the
flashing of electricity up here. That idea has to be concretised. It has to be cruder in its quality. It
has to go down through this level of basic frequencies that we can generate out of this Throat
system - it has to be turned into language. The 56th gate is the Gate of the Storyteller.
The 56th gate is very important because all of the gates that are Gates of Communication all
begin with the 12th gate, and the whole business of how everything works, this metamorphic
quality of being able to change concepts into language requires something very, very important
- proper breathing. It's all about breathing. If we don't know how to breathe, we can't speak. If
we're limited in the way we breathe, we cannot express ourselves. The breath is incredibly
important. One of the major jobs that your Throat Centre does is that it regulates your breathing.
It regulates your breathing through a mutative process. I talked about the fact that after 2027,
with the first transit of Saturn to the 55.6, we will have a single female that is born with a
mutation that will open up the Spirit consciousness. We will have a wave of such females that
will come into the world that will be able to pass on genetic mutation to their children.
We have a well-documented and famous example of this from the past, and very important for
humanity. There is a biological mutation that took place in humanity about 90,000 years ago.
That biological mutation took place in East Africa. They have named the single female Eve. I
guess they will continue to do so in those cases. They were able to find it by doing a DNA
sampling of world population in order to be able to reduce the information back to its source.
What they were looking for was a very specific mutation. This mutation took place in the larynx.
Up until that time, approximately 90,000 years ago, we had the same capacity to breathe and
drink as our primate relatives. In other words, a chimpanzee or a gorilla can drink and they can
breathe at the same time, just like a human baby when it's born can drink and breathe at the
same time. Then a change starts to take place. That's when the baby starts spitting up. The
change starts to take place because the mutation starts to kick in. When the mutation is
finished, when it's finally taken hold in the infant child, no longer is breathing and drinking
possible at the same time. What's taking place in those early moments, in those early periods of
development in the child, is that the larynx is dropping. This is the mutation that came to us
90,000 years ago. This
dropped larynx allowed us a much more open vocal chamber. It allowed our tongue to move
differently to be able to control the airflow in the chamber, what I'm doing with you now,
controlling airflow with my tongue in this dropped larynx with its open chamber. And out of that
came the possibility for deeply sophisticated communication. In other words, the way the tones
are adjusted, all kinds of sounds could then emerge. All of this took place in the 12th hexagram
in the 4th line. That's a long time ago.
(Ra shows a chart.)
We are actually living now in the 5th line, evolutionarily speaking. We are going towards the 6th
line, evolutionarily speaking. In other words, the mutation sequence follows the structure of the
hexagram. There was a 12.1 mutation and a 12.2 and a 12.3 and a 12.4 and a 12.5. The 12.6
will be the Manifestation of Spirit Consciousness. The 12.4 was the opening up of the larynx.

More than that, this illustration is one of my favourite illustrations because it shows you that the
nature of our mental system is locked into very clear and obvious oppositions. If you look at the
various gates that make up the mental system, you will see all of these oppositions are present.
It is a very powerful dynamic. If you look at the nature of the 12th gate where the mutation took
place, you'll see that exactly opposite the 12th gate is the 11th gate. The 12th gate, 4th line -
this is the Prophet, the voice in the wilderness or the arousing of the stagnant. The 11.4 is the
great line of the Teacher, Einstein's line - one of the few lines that's a triplicity. It's both the
Teacher, the Sage and the Guru. In other words, exactly opposite in the polarity to the opening
up of the Throat chakra to its ability to be able to articulate is the opening up of the Mental
system. They come together. Before that time, our contacts were with God direct, and I mean
that in quotations. That is, the collecting of consciousness, the collecting of memory began with
the opening up of this Throat Centre. The ability to codify and store and pass on came at this
moment. The beginning of what we call our oral history began at this moment. Oral history is the
beginning of intellectual life. To store the past is to be prepared in many ways for the future. To
store the past is to enhance the capabilities of each future generation. All of that began at the
same time. The other side, what joins the 11 to the 12, what brings them together in the
bodygraph, is the 56, this Gate of Stimulation. The whole business of opening up our capacity to
be able to communicate with each other results in us being deeply stimulated to the experiential
way. Once you can describe something, it gets pretty boring unless you have new things to
describe all the time.
Let's go back to our 56. It says, "I believe" or "I don't believe." That's its voice. It's always a
dualistic voice. Look at the nature of its quality - the quality of this voice is hope or despair. It's
one of those things to recognise is that here you have the storyteller of comedy and the
storyteller of drama. These basic qualities in storytelling - the story that's there to bring us hope
and the story that's there to bring us despair. This is the quality of this voice. The quality of its
stimulation is that it can stimulate you to be hopeful and it can stimulate you to be full of despair
- that's the power of the storyteller. It is the quality of the storyteller's voice. One of the things
that is clear that the 56 is a risky voice, because the moment that you identify with believing,
you're going to have to identify with the crisis that's going to come with it. Believing is transitory,
like history - past, gone. It goes quickly - it's transitory. Ideas are transitory. One of the things to
recognise about the metamorphic quality of the 56th gate is that the best way to translate your
information, the best way to bring your information across, is through a story. That's the way in
which the communication will work most successfully. You can see that from the very beginning
of the opening up of our possibility to be able to articulate, from the very beginning what was
initiated was the memory and the storytelling. This is how our whole civilisation began, with
storytelling as our history way. The story, after story, after story, and the parables and the
generation, after generation, after generation, until we got to a point where we could codify it in
frozen language - write it down, whatever we want to call that form of communication.
By the way, there is no difference between the written word and the spoken word. There is no
difference - the word is the word - there is no difference. It's about getting it out. It's about
communicating it. Think about the nature of the storyteller. The storyteller is there to educate
society. We love our storytellers. We've turned them into industries - the filmmakers and
documentary makers and the book writers and all of these other things. We need the story. The
story is always either going to be comedy or tragedy - that's the 56. This is the great Gate of
Comedy or Tragedy. I always loved that illustration of somebody walking down the street and
slipping on a banana peel. When you're looking at that it's a very funny thing, but if you're partic-
ipating in that it's not. This joy is of the perversity of duality. In the 56 you have this gift of being
able to communicate that as history. As we know, when you look backwards, all comedy could
be tragedy and all tragedy could be comedy. Not only that, that tragedy is funny. Bad comedy is

tragic. Ever see a comedian die on stage (not physically). I was in a club years ago in New
York, one of the early comedy clubs. I love stand-up comedy. I think it's brilliant. There was a
young guy who came out there. He just wasn't funny. What to do? He just wasn't funny. It was
an incredible tragedy. I mean, it was an incredible tragedy. You could see the tension of all that.
By the way, remember something. Storytelling is not about anything personal. Remember the
nature of the collective - the collective is not personal. So the storytelling is for the benefit of the
community. The storytelling is for the benefit of the collective. These are collective stories. It's
not about telling your story unless your story is a parable. If your story is a parable, then you can
tell your story. In other words, if you are telling a story about yourself to tell another story to
somebody else, but it's not personal.
GATE 62: PREPONDERANCE OF THE SMALL - THE GATE OF DETAIL
When you come to the other side and come to the 62nd gate, the Preponderance of the Small,
the Gate of Detail, the logical process is the essences of what keeps us healthy in the world,
and stable. Without the patterns for us to be able to rely on, this would all be chaos. The nature
of the 62nd gate is to organise the linguistic pattern - that's its nature. It is out of the 62nd gate
that words are coined. It is the Gate of Naming things. It is the gate of the Maya. So, I have my
Earth in the 62nd gate so I give you names like Personality Crystal and Design Crystal. I put
terminology into the world. Some of you had Osho as a master. He had the 62nd gate - he was
giving everybody names. This is a naming gate - you give names to things. It's the gate of the
Maya. It is here that we establish the authenticity of our world. What I mean by that is that only
when you give something a name does it exist in the Maya. If you say the "whatsit," it doesn't
work. When something has a name it exists in the Maya. The moment it has a name it has a
formula. The moment it has a formula it's universal. This naming of things is very important to
us. This is the real detail.
When you're looking here at the 62nd gate - "I think" or "I don't think," which is very different
from "I believe" or "I don't believe" - this is obviously not a storytelling gate. It's there...
remember they had a show here in the'S0s called Dragnet. They had this very ugly cop with a
hat who would knock on people's doors with his partner and say, "Just the facts, Ma'am." That's
the 62nd gate. "Just the facts, Ma'am. Just the facts. Forget the story. Don't tell me about your
husband's bad weekend. I just want to know the facts." That's the nature of what the 62nd gate
is about - to deliver the facts. The thing is, though, look at the quality. The quality is reasonable
or unreasonable. You know these people. "I think..." The moment you are dealing with facts
you're dealing with people who are going to be unreasonable with their facts. They are going to
say, "You have a problem. I understand. You don't understand. That's not my fault that you don't
understand. I'm right. You're wrong." Or the reasonable, "I think." The reasonable, "I think" is if
you don't think it works, why don't you do some kind of an experiment and check it out.
The whole nature of being a logical voice is that that logical voice is there to encourage experi-
mentation. After all, all that the logical mind is really doing is trying to check out on the mental
plane whether a pattern is correct or not. If it's incorrect, what adjustment has to be made and
how? When the logical thinker is reasonable - "I think it's this way, but we're going to have to
check it" - then everybody is comfortable with that. When they say, "Not only do I think it's
correct, but I know it's correct," then you know they're in the wrong stream because they're not
knowers. This is the whole thing about the logical voice. The logical voice is a voice that can fool
us so much because the logical voice has the facts. They bring the facts out in detail and we all
know how statistics lie. We all know how detail can be missing. We all know all of these things.
Give me a 17.3, 62.3 and I'll give you somebody who has opinions and facts that are going to
be wrong a lot of the time because it's their learning process.

The whole thing is to recognise quality. When you hear somebody saying, "I think" and what
they're really saying to you is "I know," then you can recognise that they are full of anxiety over
whether or not they really do understand something. They feel threatened by that anxiety. When
we're dealing with Ajna Centre, we're dealing with the centre of mental fear - what we call
anxiety. The only way in which that anxiety is going to be relieved is through the release of the
pressure that takes place in the Throat when it gets to metamorphose. This 62nd gate of being
able to say, "I think" - all that is saying is, "Here is what I think are the details but that's all I can
say because I don't really know until we check it out. It has to be verified." It's like the storyteller
trying to tell you what to do - it's very dangerous. It's very dangerous because the storyteller can
only tell you a story about what happened. But the logical voice, the thinking voice, is trying to
tell you what to do and they're backing it up with all of these facts. The moment that you're
dealing with a reasonable, logical person who is open to investigation of the facts, then you are
dealing with somebody who is healthy at the logical level. That anxiety is, "Will I be
understood?" The abstract anxiety is "Will I be able to stimulate them? Will they like my story?"
You're going to get a lot better results when a 56 tells a joke than when a 62 tells a joke. The 62
remembers the punch line; the 56 tells the story. It doesn't matter if they have the punch line -
you're already laughing because they're telling you the story.
These gates are magical because they're translating. They are really doing something very
special. The logical process... all you have is a conceptualised formula in the 17 - you have an
opinion, but it's visual. It's a visual pattern that has to be turned into language. Rather than a
sequence that becomes a story, it's a fixed pattern that becomes the word. The other thing is
that you'll find that the unreasonable logical voice gets very little support. They always justify
their unreasonableness by saying, "I know." And they're not individual and that cannot protect
them in that. There is no knowing in the logic process. There is only proof through
experimentation or disproof through experimentation.
GATE 23: SPLITTING APART THE GATE OF ASSIMILATION
In the middle, you have the individual process - this third of the metamorphic gates, linguistic
gates, Primary Gates of Communication. The 23rd gate has to do a very, very different job than
the 62 orthe 56. It's not taking a visual aspect and translating it into language. It's taking an
inner voice and trying to make it an outer voice. I've known that so often in my life as a teacher.
When I was teaching young people and there would be some kind of question I would ask.
There would be this hand that would shoot up in the air. "I know. I know. I know. I know." I would
go, "OK, you," and they'd lost it. You could hear the answer in your head but that does not mean
that you can translate it out of your mouth. Knowing is tricky business.
What you know through your inner voice inside, that's in its own linguistic field - it's a foreign
language. It's always a foreign language from the language that you speak, even though you
hear it in your own language. The moment that you try to turn that into a physical voice, this is
quite a thing. Translation doesn't work. You can describe a picture exactly, always. The
storyteller can describe the story exactly. The detail person can give you the details of the
formula, but you never get, ever get, a clean translation from the 43 to the 23.1 lived that in my
life. I'm translated a lot, both verbally and in books. When I get the feedback from the books
translated back into my language, I have to laugh sometimes at what comes out. You can't -
there's no such thing as translation. All you can do is try to do the same thing in another tongue.
It's not the same - it never will be. This inner acoustic quality of the 43 is very different when it
comes out of the 23, which is why this is the great Channel of Freaks.
To try to structure that inner tonal quality and to turn that into language, this is freaky business.
It is the nature of individuality. This whole business of Genius to Freak is that if you are a good

translator, you can explain yourself. If you are a bad translator, you can't. If you're a knower and
you know in here and you can't explain it out there, everybody pushes you aside. You cannot
make yourself explainable to others. When you look at the 23, it says, "I know" or "I don't know,"
but the quality insists or desists. If you cannot make that translation, you desist. Nobody knows
your knowing. You're sitting with somebody and you know they're a complete jerk and you can't
explain it to them, so you don't tell them. You desist. You suffer the loss of your individuality. Or,
you insist and you keep on trying to explain it to them, over and over and over again. There's no
guarantee, by the way, when you're being insistent that what you know is correct, after all. This
is not about right or wrong. It's just mechanical. You have these people who keep on saying, "I
know. I know. I know." You ask me a question, I would say, "I know." It's true, whether I do or
not. It's not my fault. It's a mechanism. "You know this move?" "I know." It comes out. "You ever
tried this?" "I know." "Do you like that?" "I know." It's terrible when you're a kid because
everybody says to you, "You don't know." It's just a mechanism, like somebody saying, "I think. I
think. I think." The thing to recognise about that is knowers are insistent or dsistent. They will
desist. They will really not give you their knowing because of the inability to be able to express
it. It's very, very important for individuals to master their own language. In other words, to learn
to be able to communicate. Without the gift of communication, the individual is lost. They need
to find a way in their process to be able to explain themselves. Nothing more infuriating, by the
way, than a knower who insists.
These three gates represent the basic way in which mental conceptualisation has a voice. It's
saying a lot - it's saying the tribe has no voice, not from the mental plane - the mental plane
gives no consideration to the requirements or the needs of the tribe. After all, these are Primary
Gates of Communication and these Primary Gates of Communication don't include the tribe.
The tribe is about touching and smelling - that's their business. The intellectual life of humanity
is non-tribal.
These three gates have partners in the Throat process. There are three gates of the logical
process in the Throat that will speak out of the Throat. There are three gates of the abstract
process in the Throat that will speak out of the Throat. There are four gates of the individual
process in the Throat that will speak out of the Throat. So you have ten gates and those ten
gates are direct associations to the individual and collective process. Only one gate in the
Throat is for the tribe. So you can see that the vast majority of our communication is at the
expense of the tribe, in that sense. It's very much about the collective and individual process. I
keep illustrating the split here for you to recognise the basic tension in our planet. We have a
basic tension in our planet between the collective/individual process and the tribal process.
They are very different. They have very different concerns.
GATES OF THE LOGICAL PROCESS
We're going to begin with looking at these voices that are directly related to the logical process.
Remember something about the nature of logic - how difficult it is to find energy. There is no
logical gate that is a Primary Gate of Action - none. You will see that each of the others have
Primary Gates of Action. There is no Primary Gate of Action for the logical process. In other
words, by design, logical process is limited to communication out of the Throat without any
possibility of action. That's incredible when you think about what that means for us as a being.
Life is conditioned by the logical process. Without the ability to energise our logic system, we
are not going to have any kind of secure movement into the future. The 58-52, these two gates
that are operating out of the Root Centre are the two fuelling gates of logic. These gates in the
Throat, these three gates of logic are limited only to discussion. That's why people ask why we
have so much bureaucracy, why do we have so many committees, why is it that we can't get
anything done? That's why. It is very difficult to turn logic into action.

The other thing is that it demands that the logical process, more than any other process, the
logical process demands co-operation. It's not easy to do that alone. It demands co-operation.
After all, it's about organising humanity. Only after the organising and politicising of humanity is
logic going to be able to succeed in order to make sure that the energy is present. What you
have is a lot of logical voices. You have an enormous amount of logical blah, blah - enormous.
I've been reading newspapers all my life - I love them. This is my soap opera of the world. As I
read the soap opera, what I find is I can step out of the soap opera for a month at a time and
come back into the same story. The government is still trying to get the committee to pass this
bill about this thing to get this thing done. When that committee has finally succeeded, then the
next committee will have a chance to get to the point where perhaps, maybe, then... It's an
incredible dilemma to watch all that.
One of the things that happens about that is that you end up with a lot of theoretical logic. Take
all of the economic PhDs in the world. Start loading up all of these folks who are spending all of
their time writing about what could be, should be, might be done, if only. All of these people who
are publishing all of these papers are telling you logically what needs to be done in order to do
this, this, this and this. This is the trap of the logical process - it traps us into a non-energy
mode. We get stuck in bureaucracies and committees. It's one of the reasons why the tribe can
have a lot of power politically at different times in our development. The tribe has always been
ruled by the Head Man, the Chief Honcho. The Head Man can always make decisions. The
tribe, the 45 is the Gate of Primary Action - it goes directly to the Ego. There are always times
when people are tired of committees and dictators arise. "Let's just cut through all of this shit
and just do this, this
and this now." It's one of the dangers of logic is it gets subverted The longer we go through the
committee process, the more we breed revolutionaries who can't wait. The more we say that we
have what may be the answer, the longer we have to wait for the answer to become
concretised, the angrier we get. We get a reaction to this lack of energy available to the logic
system. It's very important to remember that.
GATE 31: INFLUENCE - THE GATE OF LEADING
The 31st gate is part of the Channel of the Alpha and a design of leadership. It is the logical
voice that expresses the whole logical process and the Understanding Circuit. It says, "I lead" or
"I don't lead." This is what logic is about - logic is there to lead us. How does it feel to have a
system, a circuitry that's there to lead us, but it can't just lead us, it needs an enormous amount
of backing. That 31 - "I lead" - isn't connected to a motor, it's just connected to the Identity. It's
not like this is a general who is going to lead you into battle, that's going to pick up the gun and
start marching. It's just a voice. What that voice says is, "I can have influence if you give me the
power." That's why the 31-7 is what we see as representative democracy in the world. That is,
the transtribal collective voting system. "I have the influence if you give me the power. I have the
pattern that will be secure for the future if you give me the power. Here are all my proposals, my
facts." But they can't just do it. They have to have the power of the people behind them. This
31st Gate of Influence is the voice of authority or powerlessness.
It was fun living in Europe during the fall of the Wall. I got to see some incredible pictures. One
of my favourite was Nicolae Ceaucescu trying to calm down the Romanian crowd the day before
they would kill him. You could see how the authority was stripped from him by the power of the
people below because they started to hiss and scream and he literally had to run away from the
balcony that he was standing on. Suddenly the influence was gone - there was no power. The
31 can have a totally powerless voice. It's a powerless voice the moment they are nothing more
than theoretical leadership without access to power, the energy necessary. This is why in our

relative democracies that we do have control at some level over our leaders. They survive on
our power. They cannot do that themselves.
GATE 16: ENTHUSIASM - THE GATE OF SKILLS
The 3rd of the voices of logic is the voice that expresses talent. We were looking at this before.
We were looking at the nature of the 16th gate, the Gate of Skills/Enthusiasm. This is the voice
that says, "I experiment" or "I don't experiment." Because the Throat is the potential for manifes-
tation, the 16th gate that says, "I experiment" or "I don't experiment," still isn't talking about
actually doing it. "I could experiment if..." "I have the skills to do the experiment if you give me
access to the energy." When the 16 hooks up to its harmonic gate, it's not hooking up to energy.
It's just hooking up to the Splenic system. There's no manifestation there. That's one of those
things about talent. There's verbal talent, automatically in that definition, but that doesn't mean
that there is any other kind of talent. In order for any other kind of talent to flourish, there is
going to have to be a motor connection. The 16th gate - Enthusiasm, "I experiment or not" - is
the voice of approval/disapproval. Everybody in the logic process, particularly, is looking for the
16th gate. The 16th gate is the conditioning gate that says, "Yes, let's do this experiment," the
voice of approval or "No, let's not do this experiment," the voice of disapproval.
The 16th gate is the Gate of Identification. It's one of the most important things about the logic
process, and what keeps us healthy, is that we need to be identified with the experiment. We
need to be identified with the pattern. There was a local election in New Mexico in the city of
Albuquerque for mayor. I don't know how many people there are in Albuquerque but I assume
there was quite a few, but only 40,000 people voted. That actually going out there is not... there
are those who are identified with the process and those who are not. There are those who are
identified with the process that makes it possible.
Look at the present scandal in Washington about soft money. This is a classic example of what
this is like, when you have a logic system that is starved for energy. "I can't run the campaign, I
can't even go out and tell the people that I've got the pattern that's exactly for them unless I
have the money to go out. How can I do this experiment? How can I run this experiment of
influence if I'm not greased? Where else is the money going to come from?" It's just energy.
Look at the number of scientific institutions in the United States of America that spend millions
and millions of dollars a year just having people go out and lobby for money. You've got
students that the moment they go into a technical university like M.I.T. are immediately brought
into some kind of business-oriented programme to start developing goods - immediately - to
generate money. Without money, logic can't be done. These experiments that are taking place
all over the world are all logical experiments. They all need to be financed by money. This is the
whole thing about logic. What that means is that in the logic system there is always somebody
over here who has the experiment and the concept and there's always somebody over here
who has the juice and the resources and there's always going to be a compromise in that.
There's always going to be a bargain that has to be struck in that. There is no more pure
research - it doesn't exist anymore. We have this business-oriented research system because it
is so difficult to raise money.
I love neutrinos. I love the neutrino. In Canada, in a town called Subrey, they have an ancient
old nickel mine, and the nickel mine was bought by both the Canadian and American
governments in order to create the world's first-class neutrino measuring bank, a place where
they can actually capture neutrinos and weigh them, which is very important for all of us. Of
course, something like this costs billions and billions and billions of dollars to build this funny
little thing at the bottom of a mine to be able to collect neutrino information. After spending $2
billion - both governments - they're now in a hiatus because they can't come up with any more

money from their representative governments to keep on financing the international neutrino
project. Right now, the international neutrino project is on hold. It's in committee. They're trying
to figure out: "Is there a way we can find the money necessary blah blah blah?"
That's the whole thing about logic. You have all of these people who are identified with their
experiment and they're all competing with each other. They are all competing for the same
dollars - all of them. They are all running around looking for the same people and nobody really
knows what's essential. So nobody really knows what to finance. We have this enormous array
of problems on our planet that are all about the logical process and all about its intrinsic
limitation. By the way, that isn't to say that what I'm describing is bad. It's not about the morality
of all that. It's just so you understand why we have this kind of a planet.
What the design says is, "Until these beings get along with each other, work co-operatively
together in an organised fashion, until that time, everything is going to be difficult." The logic
process is running around. The logic process needs something very important. It needs the
power of that 16th gate to be so identified with its experiment that it will finally find the energy
necessary to get it done. We will not accept an experiment, we will not accept a concept, the
totality, the collective will not accept a formula that has not been verified. This is the whole
dilemma. You can have some guy say, "Look, I found this drug that will do this, this, this and
this." You'll see it in the newspapers and everybody gets excited but you won't see it in the
marketplace for a couple of years because it's going to have to be tested and it's going to have
to be tested independently because that's the logic way. Depending on the circumstances and
the finances available, that testing can take... however long it takes. It could be in committee
forever, or not.
I remember in the 1970s in Canada they were about to, they started a programme to legalise
marijuana. They had a commission called the LeDane Commission - very famous in Canada. As
a matter of fact, the American government now with the whole business about referendums-that
were passed for the legalisation for medical marijuana, they are still using the information from
the Canadian LeDane Commission. The LeDane Commission spent ten years investigating the
effects of marijuana on human beings in all kinds of situations, in all kinds of ways. They did
everything - they did all the tests. It went to committee. The committee recommended the
legalisation of marijuana in Canada. That went to committee, went to a government committee,
went to another government committee, went to another government committee. They had a
committee that checked the committees that checked the committees, and on and on and on for
20 years and then it was forgotten - it was just forgotten. It was just a lot of people took home
their paycheques for 20 years.
I love to watch this in Washington. We've got all these professional lobbyists and all of their
lawyers and all of their... and all of this business, and the kind of money that's spent just in
trying to find somebody who might... I love all these videos at the coffee stops - this is great. We
may not like it, because it's a moralistic country, but this is really the way logic works. Logic
says, "Hey, I got this pattern that's great for the country. You got any money? I can't do this
without your money. Do me a favour - give me your money. You need something?" So the
nature of logic is the deep frustration for us as beings. It just is. It's very hard for us to get
access to that energy. It's one of those things to recognise that the moment that you're involved
in experimentation, the moment you have a good theory, the moment that you have a
programme that you is of value, you have to recognise something - that is going to be a full-time
identified process. If you're not identified with it, it's never going to attract the energy necessary -
never. Never.
GATES OF THE ABSTRACT PROCESS

Now we're going to take a look at the abstract side. We're going to take a look at the abstract
voices. You will see that the moment we get into the abstract configuration, we have a different
kind of configuration. The moment we step into the abstract we're not limited like we are in logic.
The abstract is going to have three different gates that are in the Throat - the 56th gate, which
we've looked at, the 33rd gate, the Gate of Retreat, but there's also going to be the 35th gate
and the 35th gate is very different because the 35th gate connects directly to the Emotional
system and this is a Primary Gate of Action. There are not many of these. There are only four
gates out of the eleven that are Primary Gates of Action, that are a direct connection to a motor.
GATE 33: RETREAT - THE GATE OF PRIVACY
First of all, we're going to take a look at the 33. The moment that we take a look at the 33,
again, these particular gates that are gates that are in the Throat, that are connected or pointed
towards the G Centre. These gates are Primary Gates of Identity. These three gates express
the Sphinx gates. What we have at the G Centre pointed up towards the Throat is the three
variations of
direction. We have logical direction as leadership, which is out of the 7. We have abstract
guidance which is wisdom, its witness being the witness, the witness of experience from the
past in the 13. In the 1st gate we have the unique individual expression, the unique direction,
the individual
direction.
What we have in these three gates in the Throat that point downwards is that they are
expressions of identity. Because the G Centre is not a motor, we're dealing with Primary Gates
of Communication - there's a mirror of the three gates above. The 62 and the 23 and the 56 -
they're their mirror. Primary Gates of Communication - one is Primary Gates of Mental
Communication and the other is Primary Gates of Identity Communication. The 33 is a Primary
Gate of Communication of Identity. The 33 is going to bring out this abstract identity, because
the 33 - Retreat - part of this Channel of the Prodigal, the design of a witness - it is the only
expression in the Throat that codifies memory. This is a Gate of Remembering, of
Remembrance. Of course, at its mystical level, this can be revelation. The 33rd gate - I
remember or not - the quality of this gate is experience or inexperience - this is very important.
When somebody remembers something, the quality of their voice, if they're remembering their
own experience, there is a different quality than to remembering something that they did not
experience. Of course, the quality of remembrance is that we remember in both ways. We
remember out of our own experience but we also remember the generalised experience, the
experience of others. When you quote somebody or when you talk about somebody else's
experience that you know about or heard about or read about. The voice always carries this
quality of experience or inexperience. This is the whole nature of the importance of the 33rd
gate being seen as one of the three Gates of Aloneness. Two of the Gates of Aloneness are in
the Throat - they're in the Throat.
Part of this basic design of the communicative process in the Throat, to avoid taking action, built
into the Throat is this "OK, stay away from trouble now." The 33rd Gate of Retreat, the Gate of
Privacy and Secrecy, this Gate of Privacy is all about turning inexperience, the inexperienced
voice, into the experienced voice. It's very important to understand this movement. If you're an
experiential being and you go from one experience to the next without reflection in between,
what you have is an inexperienced voice when it comes to trying to express what you've been
through. The moment that you go through an experiential process and you go into retreat so you
take your time to reflect, because that's what the abstract demands, then the voice that comes
out is a voice that's an experienced voice. It's a cleaner memory. It's a reflected memory. In

these two gates of the abstract, the 56 - the Gate of Stimulation, the Storyteller, and the
Rememberer - they're part of the same process and they can get confused with one another
very easily. In other words, the story is actually a remembrance or the remembrance is actually
just a story.
There's this wonderful joke about this family that's sitting at home, mother, father and their child.
The father is telling a story and at some point the child interrupts and says, "Is this true?" His
mother smacks him and says, "Don't interrupt your father, it's a story." Here we have a fine line
that exists in the abstract in which experience loses its objectivity. In the establishment of a
story, there is embellishment and there is editing - the nature of remembrance and reflection -
think about it. I'm a classic example of this because I have the 33. I turn memories into stories. I
remember certain things that happened to me and then I can express them as a story rather
than as a memory. This is a technique that is part of the abstract process - it's there. It's one of
those things for you to be always very careful about believing anybody's story. Don't be in a
hurry to believe somebody's story. Don't be in a hurry to believe somebody's remembrance
because the remembrance can be just a story. It's why I have no faith or belief in my life
because it's a story for
me. It's clear that it's just a story. Where is it going to be substantiated? This is the whole thing
about the abstract process.
GATE 35: PROGRESS - THE GATE OF CHANGE
In the logical process, when you establish theoretically the relationship between the 62 and the
31 is that "I lead through detail." Because all of the possibility in the Throat is dependent on
experimentation, and the experimentation has no direct access to a motor. It says, "I lead
through detail but first let me prove it to you. Let's do this experiment so that you can really see
how it works." The whole thing about the 35 is that the 35 is not the 16. It's a mirror to it, but the
35 goes direct to the Solarplex system. It is a Primary Gate of Manifestation. It is a Primary Gate
of Emotional Manifestation. This is not simply a matter of not being controllable, but it's
emotionally uncontrollable, riding up and down in the wave. By the way, to say emotionally
uncontrollable is neither to say good nor bad. It's simply a mechanical aspect of connecting to
the Solarplex wave. We know the impact of the 35-36 because this is a Channel of
Transitoriness and Change and we know it's about our experiential path in life, both physically
and sexually. The vast diet that we have as human is a result of this channel, experiencing
different things. You could always tell the nature of tribes because there was always a high
mortality rate for the 35s. They look at something on the ground. They pick it up and put it in
their mouth. Either they find God or they drop dead. If they drop dead, nobody else ate that stuff
If they lived, everybody else said, "Hey, that's OK. Let's try that." That's the 35-36 - that's its
nature. It's not waiting for the details. It's not experimenting with anything that it's trying to
perfect. It's saying, "Let's go." That's all - nothing else. "I feel..." says this voice, "and usually like
a change." It's this 'usually' that's very important.
There are two real voices for the 35. Until they're 40 years old, they say, "I feel... and usually
like a change." After their mid-life point, they usually say, "No thanks. Been there, done that.
Save me the grief." Now, if they're still saying, "I feel... usually like a change," when they're over
50, say goodbye to Hollywood because they're never going to come back - it's over. You can't
keep riding that wave forever. It will kill you and it's pointless. The whole thing about the
experiential way is that it is so obviously pranic. That is, if we take the Uranian mid-life point as
our line, and it's only a generalised line, what you have for the experiential person is a prana
that says, "Let me take in all the experiences I can in the breathing in and let me share the
wisdom of having breathed that in when I start breathing out in the second half of my life." So
you're breathing in, saying, "I feel like a change," and you're breathing out, "Been there, done

that. Let me tell you about it." That's the prana that is correct for the abstract way. What that
means is that the tensions and pressures on abstract circuitry are going to be profound in the
first half of the life. Of course, they generate a chaotic field. They're operating unaware, out of
the Emotional motor's wave, out of its chemistry.
The 35th gate, in its mirroring of the 16th gate, is also identified but identified, in a very different
way. It's not identified with the process. An experiment is never a one-time thing. The moment
that you can experiment, the experiment is ongoing forever - forever. E=mc2. You keep on
working with the material forever. You have to be identified with that goal of maintaining it.
Human Design has to keep on being tested forever. The moment it stops being tested, it loses
its validity, because it's a logical system. You have to be identified with it in the long term. When
you're an abstract person you're identified with the experience only - only. That experience can
be momentary. The identification shifts because it's rooted in the experience itself. When you
look at the 35th gate - I feel - it says, "To encourage or discourage." You see, the abstract has a
chance to jump at any moment into experience. Compare that to the handicap of the logic
process that can't do that. The logic process runs through the Splenic system and it's healthy for
it. It's tantra is necessary for life on Earth. Yet we can't get access to the energy easily. The
abstract process that runs us through the gauntlet of experience you can get at any moment.
It's one of my favourite cliches is that rumours fly and the truth walks. The logic process crawls
along trying to get this and that to prove this and it really works, it really works, it really works.
Everybody is saying, "Well..." And some idiot comes along with a stupid idea and the energy is
instantaneously available and everybody goes down the toilet together and they all say, "Wow,
that was great." The logic guy is back there in his room crying because he can't get enough
money to go across town to present his paper to whoever it is. All these people are running
around on the experiential wave. Well, well, well. Life ain't fair - tough. It's great if you're an
experiential person. Imagine if you had to wait and have a committee to find out if it's OK to
make love in a canoe. Could you imagine an abstract person waiting for such a committee to
make such a decision? "Well, what is the speed going to be? What kind of water conditions are
we talking about? Are we talking lake? Are we talking river? We're going to have to do a test of
the..." Logic people do that. That's what they're doing. "Let's try this experiment over here. Let
me write you a manual."
The business of encourage and discourage and its relationship to the hope and despair of the
storyteller - the experiential way is heavy business. I have great empathy in my life because I
have learned to recognise it. I have both the beginning and the end of the abstract process. I
have the 41 and the 33.1 have this capacity to connect to all kinds of abstract people and their
experiences in life. I have great empathy for the turmoil that that generates. There's this ongoing
process of transitoriness that's part of it. The thing to recognise about that is because there is
this need within us genetically to go through this experiential wave and because we are a duality
we're going to be both encouraged by the experience or discouraged by the experience. It's so
important to understand that that's what we're looking for in the abstract way is the encouraging
experience because it becomes the kind of history that motivates us. That's why we love our
heroes and our heroines. Our mythological figures - they are encouraging for us in our
experience of being in the world. The person dying of cancer who heals themselves is
encouraging energy, is an encouraging experience. In the end, the 35 is not the 36. The 36 is a
Gate of Crisis and Inexperience and says, "Let's just do it." The 35 is at the other end and it's
saying, "Wait a second, wait a second. You're pulling on me. You're pulling on me. Is this
experience of any value? Does it lead to progress? Will it change my feelings about it?" None of
that is possible until somebody who carries that energy has lived half their life. This is a Primary
Gate of Action and it carries with it all that volatility. The thing to be clear about when you're

looking at the collective nature is that it's obvious. Through the Throat, what we're seeing in the
Throat is the key to understanding manifestation on the planet.
One of the four ways that we actually get to manifest directly is the 35-36. You've got all this
other stuff and this is one of the keys to what manifestation is: being human, transitoriness,
change, transitoriness, change, inexperience to experience, crisis to progress, on and on and
on and on and on. This is the wheel moving us. Without this we don't collect what's necessary -
the expansion of population, the expansion of communication, the expansion of the sharing of
experience, the expansion of the types of experience that are possible. We're in this huge
movement outwards in this wave to collect all this stuff. The moment that you look at the
relationship between logic - what is healthy and of value to us in the future, that's starved of
energy - and you look at the other side of the collective, the abstract that says, "Let's have the
experience. The hell with whether it's good for us or not. We'll find out later. If it turns out to be
good, we'll tell great stories. By the way, if it turns out to be terrible, we'll still tell great stories.
Bad experiences are as necessary as good experiences." We love to read about Holocaust
survivors. What it was like... da, da da, da da. The bad experience is fascinating and stimulating
to us. We're not even that interested in the good experiences, quite frankly. We learn a lot more
from the bad ones. Newspapers are masters of that. Give them the bad experiences and keep
them stimulated. After all, what the newspaper represents is a sample of moment-by-moment
history. It's just history. It's just being recorded. When you look at that history, what you're
looking at is that 90% of that newspaper is going to be experience and 10% of that newspaper
is going to be experimentation. Very little of it is logical. Most of it is about the bang bang and
whatever goes on on the planet experientially that is of fascination to people.
We're ruled by experiential chaos. The collective is ruled by that. If you take all of the gates of
the collective - you've got six gates of the collective in the Throat, that's more than half of the
Throat, and only one has a direct connection to energy and that's Transitoriness - it tells you
what it is to manifest in the collective. "Go out there and do your thing, have your experience,
and please, keep a diary. Tell us about it later, OK? Make it a good story and remember as
much you can because we want to hear all about it because we're going to miss it and you're
going to get it."
GATES OF THE INDIVIDUAL PROCESS
The most complex process for any of these types in the Throat is the individual, simply because
it carries with it four different gates. So you have four different individual gates in the Throat.
Almost 40% of the nature of the Throat is built on individual expression. Of course, that says
something for us that's obvious. We all require a certain uniqueness in the way in which we
express ourselves because we're stuck here in the illusion of our separateness anyway. That
helps to confirm the illusion that we have our own voice. The other thing is that we're here as
aspects to make a contribution to the totality by being unique filters of the totality. It's our crystal
structure. In that unique filtering, we make our contribution to the whole. So the individual
process we started with, the mental Gate of Primary Communication, the 23, and we saw in the
23 the difficulty in being able to translate accurately the inner voice of the mind to the outer
voice of the 23. Some people are good translators, like me, and some people are not. It's just a
matter of how well you can translate that inner voice to be able to explain yourself. If I could not
explain myself, I would just be the freak that I am without all the accoutrements that goes with
being Ra Uru Hu. This 23, the gift of being able to explain oneself, is a gift of translation. You
can't offer your own direct knowing - never. That's why when you come to individuality, you don't
have this sharing keynote of the collective. You don't have this support keynote of the tribe. You
have this empowerment. You will never have access to my knowing. You have access to my
translation of my knowing - it can't be anything else. That's why I'm so suspicious of people who

try to offer their mysticism. After all, it's a translation at best - at best. There is no way to
accurately translate that inner knowing to an outer expression of knowing. It's simply about
developing linguistic tools, language skills. When we're dealing here with the individual process
we are dealing with the capacity to be able to articulate. Individuals, by their very nature, are
offered the best opportunity for articulation, to be clear in their language.
GATE 8: HOLDING TOGETHER - THE GATE OF CONTRIBUTION
Opposite the 23 in the Throat you have the 8. The 8 is a Gate of Inaction. It is a Primary Gate of
Communication of Identity. It's going to communicate the identity of the individual direction,
that is, the expression of the example being an example. Remember this whole business:
individuality is not about being best - that's collective. It's about being different - that is
individual. The 8th gate is there to express difference. It's to express its difference but at the
same time be able to assimilate that difference, to allow others to be able to get access to that.
These are people who lead by example. They don't lead through influence. They lead by
example - they just do the thing if they can. The 8th gate is called Holding Together. It's the
Gate of Contribution. It says, "I can" or "I can't," because its quality is to be certain or uncertain.
Think about the 'insist' and 'desist' of the 23. It's the same thing. The whole thing about the
knower is you know and you don't know. You don't know if you can translate it so that other
people can get it. The same thing that operates at the mental level - to be able to translate the
inner voice to an explanatory voice - the same difficulty lies in taking the individual identity, the
creative, and to try to express it in language. Remember something - the whole thing about the
nature of the 8th gate is that because it is not a Primary Gate of Action, it's not a primary gate
that says, "I can make a contribution by doing." That's where it gets into so much trouble.
"I know I can make a contribution verbally. I can be a verbal example. My example, my
direction, comes out in what I have to say. I know the direction or not. I'm certain that we go this
way. I am uncertain about which way to go" - the two different aspects of the voice of direction,
the unique voice of direction. By the way, it's about direction in the present. Of course, because
it's about direction in the present, and because it's individual, and because it's in the pulse, and
because it's not connected to a motor, yes, there is all kinds of certainty and uncertainty. You're
certain when you know and you're uncertain when you don't know. But if you're only an 8-1, you
never know if you have access to the energy because it's not a Gate of Action. Every time
you're looking at the Throat and you see a gate that is not directly connected to a motor, you
have to see clearly that that voice has no right to speak in motor terms. You can say, "I think
about something," but you can't say, "I think I am going to do this." Well, we know how hard it is
for logic to get access to energy. Only a Primary Gate of Action can threaten action. The 35 can
say, "I feel like doing it." And he can do it, this direct access to a motor. The 8th gate can say,
"I'm going this way," and never move. It's very easy for those who know to be seen as
hypocritical and confused. It's very dangerous to speak out of a gate that has no direct action
possibility - to use that language to speak about doing. It only leads to-problems.
GATE 12: STANDSTILL - THE GATE OF CAUTION
When you get to the 12th gate, you get to the heart of the individual process - the heart of the
individual process in being able to communicate mutation. The 12th gate is a stop codon, like
the 33rd gate, like the 56th gate. Standstill - caution and meditation in the face of temptation.
Temptation has the Solarplex system in its wave. Here we have a Primary Gate of Action. We
will see that out of four individual gates, two of them are Gates of Action. Think about what the
12 is all about. The 12 is all about this Channel of the Social Being. It's the only social outlet for
the individual. It's the Design way for an individual to reach out to the world around them. This
social being - this design of being opened or closed, or anti-social, because the 12th gate is also

a Gate of Aloneness. It's also saying, "Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a
minute. I know I can try if I'm in the mood" - the great mantra of the 12. Think about these two
gates - the 12 and the 35. They're both conditional gates. They both have
the conditional quality in their voice. The 35 says, "I feel... but usually like a change." That
means that it doesn't have to. It means it can grow up to be able to say, "Been there, done that.
Let me
tell you about it." The 12th gate is also conditioned. It says, "I know I can try if I'm in the mood."
When they grow up they learn that when they're in the mood it's great. When they're not in the
mood, nothing happens." Very, very difficult for the individual to go out into the world unless the
spirit is right. When the spirit is right the mutation can be passed on. The 12th gate is there to
manifest mutation. It is the gate that manifests mutation. The great line of the 12th gate is the
6th line - Metamorphosis - in which there is a mutation that generates an entirely new social
form. This is the next mutation that awaits us.
It says here, "I act. I act or I don't act. I know I can try or I know I can act if I'm in the mood." If
you look at the quality of that voice, though, what you have is a voice of caution and abandon.
To say "I know" in public is always a risk. There has to be suitable caution, to wait for the right
mood, to wait for the right spirit, to be able to deliver the mutative information. There is this
abandon the moment that the 22 is there and the emotional energy is there, and the opportunity
to manifest is there. Again, think about the nature of what it is to be human. In terms of what we
manifest directly into the world as a generalised design is that we have this 35-36 that brings us
this collective experiential way - transitoriness, change. We have this individual manifestation
that brings social contact and transference of mutation. The world is run on experience and the
experiencer is constantly being mutated.
GATE 20: CONTEMPLATION - THE GATE OF THE NOW
The 20th gate is obviously very complex simply because it's going to be the manifesting outlet
for three different gates in the Integration Channels. Obviously, one aspect of the 20 is the 20-
34. We have a gate that is a Gate of Primary Action. It's more complex than that, obviously.
What you're dealing with in the 20th gate is that you're dealing with the expression of "I am."
Because this is a Gate of Primary Action, the moment that you have that capacity within the 20,
that "I am" hooked up to the 34, becomes "I am doing now." And we have the third human
attribute. Go through experiences, bring mutation, and stay busy and keep on saying, "I am. I
am. I am." More important, "I am busy. I am very busy. I'm working." That's why I love this joke
about the monkeys. You know why monkeys don't speak? They don't speak because they don't
want to work. The Throat Centre puts us to work - it really puts us to work. The moment you can
speak you're in trouble. If you can't speak, you don't have to work - that's true. You can if you
want to, but you don't have to. It keeps us busy. It's very important for us to be busy, so we're
busy. That's one of the keys to manifestation in life. One of the primary ways of action is to be
able to say, "I am now doing. I am now doing." It's not about what they're doing or whether they
know what the hell they're doing or whether they're doing anything for themselves whatsoever,
it's just about "I'm busy."
The 20th gate brings that 'busy-ness' into the now. We're dealing with the only existential gate. It
says, "I am now." Remember, this is the only gate that speaks in a unique language. It's not
talking about, "I know" or "I think" or "I believe" or "I lead" or blah blah blah - all of this different
stuff. It says, "I am." One of the Primary Gates of Action is to activate the "I am" in the world. If
you read the teachings of any good Master, they will start off with, "There is only I am." This is
the manifestation of integration. This is the manifestation of the key to our development as a
species. Obviously it is primary in us - this "I am now." This is the capacity to recognise

existence, after all. If there's no "I am" there is no real sense of existence. That's why that "I am"
when connected to the 10th gate is called Awakening. The "I am" awakes, and it awakes to its
true self. In awakening to its true self, it's liberated by all the shit that gets crowded around the "I
am." It's an essential voice in life.
When you bring together these four different individual voices, what is there as a manifesting
key is to see very clearly that at the action level it's all about doing - it's just about doing. The 20
says, "I am doing now." The 12 says, "I know I can try doing if I'm in the mood." The 23 and the
8 are saying, "Don't get upset. We're just doing this to make a contribution. Don't get annoyed."
Look - you have 11 gates in the Throat and you have only four gates in the Throat that are
about Primary Gates of Action, being able to connect directly from the Throat to a motor. Two of
those four are individual. What that tells you is that there are a lot of individual Manifestors in the
world. They're not necessarily appreciated. Logic is running around screaming, "Hey, hey! What
about me? What am I supposed to do - wait? How come, you freak?" All the freaks are running
around uncontrollable. The abstract people are just going around in circles on their experiential
wheel. The logic people are in the corner crying, "This is a crazy world." The only other
connection from the Throat to a motor is the tribe saying, "I don't care about them. I know what I
have. I know what I have to do." It's a very strange thing - that's the nature of manifestation in
the world. There's very little organisation to all of that. That's why the logic is struggling all the
time. Listen, if I just came to America as a storyteller guru, after all, it would have been much
easier for me and much quicker to get many, many, many more people, because logic is tough.
You have to learn it - you can't just believe it. You have to use it - you can't just dump it. It's
different.
Logic is difficult, and yet it's the most important thing for our societies to have a common ground
of logic so that we can share common principles, common concepts, that we could be secure in
the way in which we communicate with each other, that we have a way that we can see in a
stable pattern our possibility for evolution and health in the future. And you've got all these
freaks running around. You've got all these abstract people swirling around. You've got the tribe
digging for gold. What's so good for it? It's dying for energy, screaming for energy - keep that in
mind. That's why it's so important. That's what talent is all about. That's why we don't have so
much talent in the world. That's why we honour talented people. We know how damned hard it
was for them to get the juice just to be able to bring that talent out and manifest it - how difficult
that is. We honour that. Every culture honours that talent - we love it. It feels good because it's
essential.
As an Aquarian feature, it is so important for me that human beings understand that if you're
stuck in belief system, you're out there in the place of manifestation that allows nothing but the
continued distortion of our understanding. We need to find things that we can put our energy to
and identify with that are logical so that we can be certain. The first thing you see in the Throat
is why humanity has such difficulties in their process. By the way, in describing it that way, you
can also say, "Oh, gee! That's terrible. Let's change the Throat Centre. Let's do a little wiring
over here and give the logic direct access." The time will come when that experiential part of our
design will be eradicated, annihilated, eliminated. It will be useless and pointless and will have
no value to us in our evolutionary process. The Voice was very clear about the fact that the
moment that we change these vehicles, that is something that will no longer exist.
We have to put up with it a little longer. We're not finished with the experiential way. We're not
finished with this need for constant mutative presence in the population as a manifesting field.
We're a deeply mutative species - deeply mutative. The development of Homo sapiens is
incredibly fast. We're very young in biological terms. We are a deeply mutative group. Mutation
and experience rule the human way. This is primary action in the world - that's what it's all

about. For us, that says something important about the nature of our work in the world. If you
look and you open up all kinds of non-scientific but pseudo-scientific, esoteric, all of these other
things, you will see that all of the logical energy is being given to the sciences. All the belief
system energy
is going over into the esoterics. And, of course, this is not what it's about. It's only when we have
a logical understanding that supports our spiritual base are we going to be healthy. It's very
important to see that in the work that you do without the identification in its value, its intrinsic
value as an educative tool. That's what I know most about Human Design because of the
limitation of logical energy is that I can only be a messenger/teacher. I can only be an educator.
There is no guarantee that you'll take this and turn it into your life's action. I know it doesn't work
that way - it doesn't. The thing to recognise is how important it is that we are involved in
something that is logical. We have managed to bring the energy together to be able to bring it to
the point of experimentation - that's my joy in this process. You are all living experimenters of
Human Design. This is the moment that you know that logic has made that step from being
locked out of the energy program, that it's made that step into the energy program. The whole
thing about logic is that when logic works, and it stands the test of time, nothing but mutation
can knock it from its throne. This is why so many people try to prove things. They know once
you prove it, it's there and it's going to stay there - it's their immortality. It's their contribution to
the ongoing genetic process. Recognise the importance of what it takes to bring real
understanding into the world and how much energy is necessary for that.
GATE OF THE TRIBAL PROCESS
This brings us to the final of the 11 gates of the Throat. We have seen that up until now all ten
gates that we have looked at have either been collective (six of them) or the four of them that
are individual expressions in the Throat. Out of those ten gates, three of them are about action.
One is experiential action in the abstract way - that of the 35. Then we have these two individual
actions out of the 12 and the 20. There's one gate left. It's a gate that carries an enormous
amount of pressure because it's the only gate that expresses the tribe and tribal circuitry, the
45th gate.
Think about that. Everything about the nature of what we are - how we make love, the rules of
our societies, how we nurture our children, how we build our communities, the work that we do,
the way we order each other in the hierarchy of our communities and of our jobs - all of that stuff
has nothing to do with the ten gates we've just been talking about - nothing. Nothing. It's about
experiential freaks running the world, doing things, trying things, being things. But the nature of
how we keep everything together, how we support all this experiential and individual process is
by the strength of community that's established and can only be expressed through the 45th
gate. Unlike logic, which has absolutely no Primary Gates of Action, the tribe has no Primary
Gates of Communication. They have just their Primary Gate of Action.
GATE 45: GATHERING TOGETHER - THE GATE OF THE GATHERER
The 45, connecting to the Ego and no other Primary Gates of Action, has access to the Ego.
This is the gate that purely expresses the Ego. The Ego is our life. We're talking about the Heart
Centre. We're talking about the heart muscle itself. We're talking about our stomach that has to
be fed. We're talking about our thymus gland that designs our immune system. The Heart
Centre, this Ego, this is the only connection. The Ego is about possession - my heart, after all,
my stomach. It is the voice of "l," not the voice of "I am now." It is the possessive "I". "This is my
life. You are mine. I own you." The 45, the 31 and the 20 - these are the three ways that
humanity is guided in life. Through the 45 you have your tribal ruler - the King, the Queen,

whatever you want to call it. The tribal ruler is a blood ruler. They smell just like the people they
rule - they're one of the same kind.
But they're at the top of the food chain. When you get to the 31, you get to the collective elected
leader. The leader is given influence by being given energy by the people. It is the collective
leadership that does not require blood rule. It's about who's best to lead, because the collective
is always about who's best. Who will be the best leader? Who was the worst leader? Then
there's the 20 - the 20 is spiritual leadership. The 20 is the expression of the mystical self as a
potential and to lead by example. We have a collective gate of leadership and we have an
individual gate of leadership and we have a tribal gate of leadership.
The tribal gate of leadership is the most powerful. It does not speak; it acts. It is there to act and
it is there to act on behalf of the tribe. It is there to act on behalf of the tribe out of the power of
the Ego. It is the voice that says, "I will," because it has will power. The 45 says, "I have" or "I
don't have" - the true voice of possession. You can think about whatever you like, I know what I
have. You can believe in whatever you like, I know what I have. I know what I have. I know what
I don't have. That voice has a quality that's called dominion or subservience. There's nothing
more pathetic than a 45 that doesn't have, because they have to be subservient to the forces
around them, and that's not the way they're designed to be. The moment that the 45 has, they
get this kind of royal dominion in their voice - the thronish quality. They lord it over at times.
They can get quite high on their horse or fall right off. The nature of how that's working is that
here you have a Primary Gate of Action directly connected to the Ego and what that voice says
when its connected to the Ego is, "I have to do and I will do it." This Primary Gate of Action, this
"I have" and "I don't have," this is the dominant theme of our world. All that collective stuff is
very interesting. The individual mutations is, "Yes, yes, yes," - what to do? Everybody likes a
freak show. But to keep us alive, to be healthy in the world, to be able to look after our children
and blah blah blah and all of this stuff, it is the 45 that dominates and it is the Ego that
dominates in the world in terms of our material life, in terms of Primary Action.
That voice of "I have" or "I don't have," that's the one voice that you hear everywhere. It speaks
out of every single basic necessity of humanity - the need to have. The tribe isn't interested in
concepts. We're already seen that. There is no tribal circuitry in the mind. It isn't to say that the
tribe can't be intelligent or intellectual, but it is of no importance to them. Whatever intelligence
they have is pointed towards their material well-being.
I had the misfortune of having a father-in-law way back who was an incredibly wealthy man but
as stupid as anyone I had ever met in my life. Truly stupid - I never met anybody who was really
that dumb. But he was so successful. It drove me nuts, you know. I'd look at this guy: he was Al
Bozo - truly, bar none. He's the only human being that I really would have just eaten alive. Out
of that dumbness he had all this wealth - he did it all himself. He was one of these Horatio Alger
stories where everybody says, "Wow!" You would go into his house and he would have
incredible furniture but they didn't belong together - this kind of thing that you're so stupid that
even what you buy that's worth a fortune, you put it in your house and it still looks like it came
out of a junkyard. This guy was very funny but he was a multi-multi-millionaire - he made a
fortune. He didn't give a shit about any concept - he didn't care. I remember asking him once
whether he was going to vote - there was an election. He said to me, "I have what I need. They
don't bother me, OK?"
This is the whole thing about the nature of the tribe. We end up with the fundamental
intelligence of the tribe being rooted in their material security, and in that sense they're not open
to so many things that the collective assumes that they must be able to be open to. They're
wrong. They're not because they have their priorities correct, after all. Be clear about that. Their

priority is correct. "We have to have the material. Thank you very much. If I get rich and fat on
my farm, I will send my kids to college. But first, I get fat and rich. If I don't get fat and rich, my
kid stays here and helps me. We have to have what we have to have. We have to maintain this
land. We have to maintain our family. We have to maintain our tradition. We have to maintain
this." This is the essence of what the tribe is built on. Its stability lies in the capacity of the 45 to
truly have dominion. The moment that the tribe loses its natural leader, its power begins to fall
apart. It's ruled exclusively from the top down - it's a hierarchy. It collapses unless there's real
clarity.
It's one of the things that's so important to understand about the nature of having is that it is the
ability to distribute effectively. One of the things about the 45 is that because it is a Primary Gate
of Action it can always act. Therefore, it can always bring about activity. It's so important for it to
delegate those responsibilities, because this is the only gate that speaks for the community. It
isn't speaking for itself only. When that voice says, "I have," it's a royal voice. It's actually, "Oh.
We have." There is a sensory system within humans that operates at a mystical level that
involves certain gates in Design. One of those key gates is the 45. It's a key gate because what
it represents is the way in which the tribe ultimately gets to mutate into. It's a mutation that has
to take place in that voice of the 45. At some point, the voice of the 45 is a voice of "We have,"
not "I have." This, of course, can only happen when the Ego itself is transformed. The process,
by the way, will take place through the 37.6 and the 40.6, that is, the 6th lines of both of those.
In the mutative process that will open up the Emotional system, it will operate first through the
individuality where mutation exists. Once it's moved through the whole individual process it will
then move into the tribal process. In terms of emotional awareness, the 30 and the 36 will never
be aware. Never - not possible. They are never anything other than motor. They can never be -
there is no spiritual possibility underneath the 30 or the 36. It doesn't exist - there is just the
motor.
Underneath the 55 and the 22, and within the 49 and the 37, and within the 6, these five gates
in the Emotional system will mutate in order. It will begin with the 55.6, which will lead to the
39.6, and then it will go to the 22.6 and finally be expressed through the 12.6. That will be the
emergence of the Emotional Spirit. Once that has emerged, once those mutations are in the
world, then it will begin to live out that mutation. It will begin to spread into the tribe. After all, this
is what the tribe does. If you've got a tribe that's closed off and if you've got a stranger coming
through, you want to make sure that one of your children makes love to them, just so that you
get that little additional genetic information into the pool so you keep things from getting too
incestuous. The individual is always welcome into the tribe because they bring new genetic
material. The moment that it's established genetically, then its next movement is into the tribe
itself. It will go into the 49.6 and that will go down to the 19.6 and then it will go to the 37.6 and
finally then be expressed in the Ego through the 40.6 line. That's the movement that the Ego is
going to be transformed. That's going to be a major transformation. It will have to do something
with our immune system because it will affect the thymus gland itself directly. It will effect the
way T -cells operate in our body, and I assume there would be a mutation of T -cells. Anyway,
that's another story.
The very last gate - and it will come within a couple of hundred years of the change - the very
last gate to become emotionally aware will be the 6th gate. That will be the final stage because
that will affect all of the various waves that operate through the Emotional system. So this 45th
gate has a special function because once that mutation has gone to the Ego it will then go
through the 21.6 and go to the 45.6. This will be the mutation in the Throat. The mutation there
in the Throat will change this "I have" to "We have." It will end, in that sense, the hierarchical
leadership within the tribe. Something else will emerge. After all, one of the things we know

about the mutation that will take place in the 6th line of the individual process is that it's
keynoted to the manifestation through the 12.6, which is metamorphosis and the change in
social form. We know that there are going to be vast changes in the way the social form is
structured. Because the spiritual consciousness is something that exists outside of our body, it
means that the way of giving up yourself to it will require a change in the Ego. The Ego, at this
point, is not able to do that. The Ego is not yet ready to surrender its will. This will be a major
mutation in this process. It will ultimately express itself through this 45.
The 45th gate, at another time and in another vehicle, will actually be a Gate of Awareness and
will actually be a gate that expresses awareness. It's a gate that's very, very important to our
development as a totality. We live in the time now where there's this intense competition
between the collective/individual processes and the tribal process. All of this is going to change
when the individual leaves the collective side and joins the tribal side. Understand how this
works. Once the tribe changes, the individual will have a place in the tribe. It is the individual
that's going to bring the mutation that's going to change the tribe. The individual and the tribe
are going to form a bond. It will be different from the way it is now where the individual's bond
tends to be out of the structure of the collective. It will be a different process. This is all about
bringing change to the tribe, because when we change the tribe we change everything -
everything.
THE SECONDARY GATES OF ACTION
GATE 16
The whole thing about Secondary Gates of Action, as we saw when we were going through the
various gates in the Throat Centre that we had gates that were Primary Gates of
Communication. Now some of these Primary Gates of Communication can become Secondary
Gates of Action. In other words, the example of the 16th gate. When we were looking at the
16th gate in terms of voices in the Throat, what we saw was that this is a Gate of Primary of
Communication, actually Primary Identification. It was not a Gate of Action. Action is secondary
for this gate, not primary. Primary is communication. Primary is communication of identification.
In other words, that primary communication is saying, "I identify with this. Therefore, please give
me your energy." What we're looking at here is streams of energy that are operating through
circuits. The moment that we're looking at the 16th gate - Enthusiasm - and we know that
enthusiasm is approved or disapproved action. Remember its voice, the voice of approval or
disapproval. Now we have approved or disapproved action. Though the 16th gate has the
limitation of not having direct access to energy, in order for logic to manifest, it has to have the
16th gate. The 16th gate, in the end, decides what gets experimented with and what doesn't.
That's its gift in manifestation. "I approve of this. I disapprove of that. I approve of this action. I
disapprove of that action."
(Ra shows a chart.)
You can see in this graph that you have the manifesting gates listed and the power gate. By
manifesting gate, what that means is the stream of them together leads to manifestation. You
begin with the 16. The 16's first possible connection is going to be with the 48. What you're
going to have is a Channel of Talent and you're going to have the primary communication and
identification with this talent. Even when you get the next activation in the stream, when you
come to the 18th gate, this is still not a power gate. If you have somebody who has the 18, who
has these three in a row, the 18, 48, 16, what they have is a talent to correct and challenge
authority but it's still verbal. It's still verbal till the moment that there is the energy there, that the
power is there.

Then you come to the 58th gate. When you come to the 58th gate - The Joyous - you come to
the resource of corrective energy. That resource of corrective energy is the necessary energy
for the fulfilment of the experimental process. However, you can have the 58 and you can have
the 18, you can have the 48, but it's still the 16 that's going to decide whether the experiment
takes place or not. "You want to give me money to experiment with that, but I want to
experiment with this. No thanks." In other words, the manifesting gate, the final step in the
Throat, the Secondary Gate of Action, is going to determine whether the action takes place or
not or whether it remains in committee. "Let's wait for further study." This is the secondary
aspect of why it's difficult for logic to come into activity. It's not simply that it's difficult to get
direct access to energy, but when you do, because this is all about being best at being
organised, because it ends up being rooted in a deeply identified gate, that gate's only going to
identify with the experiment that it's ready to do. It becomes a controlling factor.
GATE 31
The next of these Secondary Gates of Action is the Gate of Influence, also logical. Of course,
you can see again in this movement is that the 31 has a direct line to energy, but that's in the 5
and that's three steps away. That leadership, that influence, is a verbal manifestation, is a
Primary Gate of Communication, a primary gate of communicating identity but not of turning that
identity and its identification and direction into activity. The 31 - Influence - it says authoritative
or powerless action. Remember the nature of the 31 voice, the voice of influence, the voice of "I
lead." That's a voice that has a quality that's going to be authoritative or powerless. So the
question for the 31 is, "Is this going to be authoritative leadership or powerless leadership?" The
powerless leader has no voters. You've got to get the energy from the people.
The 31 - the next step is to go to the 7. All the 7 is going to do is determine the nature of the role
that can be played verbally as a leader: the authoritative voice of authority, or the democratic
voice of authority, the anarchistic voice of authority, and so on. But there's still no action. "If I
could be a real leader and if I could do anything about it, this is what I would do if. .." Because
there's no way of simply being able to actualise the leadership. The whole nature of leadership
is that logical leadership is built on the Gate of Love of Humanity because that's the third step in
its process of getting to the core energy. When you have somebody who has the 15,731, what
you have is this love of humanity and out of this love of humanity the direction that's possible to
influence humanity but still no power to do so other than verbally. The moment that you get the
5, just like the moment you get the 58, the Throat gate, instead of being..., these Primary Gates
of Communication instead of being hungry for doing, suddenly become keys in whether doing
takes place or not. Just because the energy becomes available doesn't mean that action takes
place. These gates are not really designed to do - action is secondary for them. So there is
always a question involved.
The moment that the 5 is there, that the power gate is there, that's the moment that the 31 takes
on a different role. Instead of looking for who can help them have influence, they already have it.
Once they have it, then their interests change. "Is it going to serve the influence to have this
pattern? Is it going to serve the totality?" If the 31 doesn't think it's going to help their influence,
"Why should I pass legislation against the trucking industry when I need their vote?" Suddenly
everything changes. Think about what happens in these Gates of Secondary Action is that they
become manipulating gates. I have to be very careful with that word because people find that
word uncomfortable. Manipulation in the sense that they are going to be where the
buck stops. The 16 is going to say, "Look, this is either going to be an experiment that I can
identify with or not." The 31 is going to say, "This is either going to be an advantage in my
leadership or not." So when there's no energy there, they're begging for votes. When the energy
is there, they're trying to control the voters. That's the way that it works. That's our game. All

Secondary Gates of Action have this quality to them because they're not designed to just jump
into the energy. Therefore, there is this quality of decision making.
GATE 8
You come to the individual pattern. When you come to the individual pattern, you come to
Holding Together. This is the only individual gate that's a Secondary Gate of Action. We already
saw that we have two individual gates that are Primary Gates of Action. This is more restrained.
What to contribute? The nature of this is it's going to be certain or uncertain action. Walking
across a little plank, you have the same process. The identity gates are going to have to move
from the G to the Sacral. They're going to have to get the energy, the tantra energy, that's there
in the Sacral empowering the Self. The 8 will look for the 1. That's the beginning of the process,
to be able to activate the quality. The moment the 8 goes to the 1, what you have is the capacity
for creative individual expression. "I know and my knowing is a contribution or not. But I'm not
really certain about that. After all, I'm a freak. You think it's OK?" It's still not enough. It's not
going to produce any action. There isn't going to be any individual activity out of that.
The moment that you come to the 2nd gate, even more so, because the 2nd gate is the driver in
us. It is, after all, the 2nd gate in which the whole direction that we move as a totality is
configured. This 2nd gate, this driver, is sitting there, and it turns the key in the ignition and
there's no gas. What you have is, "I know I can make a contribution but I have no gas. I know
exactly where to go, and by knowing where to go, I can help anybody but I got no gas." Of
course, the joke is as long as you have the 8-1-2, they're hunting for the 14. They will make any
kind of commitment to get to the 14. The moment that the 14 is there, the moment that there's
fuel in the tank, doesn't mean that any driving is going to take place. Then the 8 gets involved
and says, "Wait a minute now. Now that the tank is full... It's a little different in here now. The
tank's full and I'm not waiting to get the tank full. I'm not begging to get the tank full. The tank's
full. Now that the tank's full, I know that I'm going to decide on what the contribution is going to
be and where and when, or not."
These Secondary Gates of Action have a different way of operating. That means they go from
being very passive because they have no action capacity, to being very, very active the moment
that they do. In other words, they have a kind of Jekyll and Hyde quality to them. It's the meek
little being, the 31, very quiet. Everybody thinks this is the real sweet one and then you fill up
their tank and they turn into bloody dictators. It's a very different game, depending on which
direction you're looking. If you're carrying the fuel, you're looking at it in a different way at these
gates in the Throat. If you're these gates in the Throat, you're looking at the fuel in a different
way: I want to get them to fill up my tank. This is part of the whole game. The thing about these
four gates is that they have a different quality than other gates because of that. They impact
very strongly because of that.
GATE 33
The 33rd gate - Retreat - again identity expression of the collective abstract process - to be a
witness, to remember or not. You can see here that the action quality is experienced or inexpe-
rienced action. This is the whole nature of the abstract process is to gain experience. They have
professional witnesses - a term I love from the American judicial system. They have
professional witnesses. I love that. Of course, it's true. Experience helps. That's the abstract
message always: experience helps. Again, you're dealing with the same kind of situation and
the same kind of dynamic. The 33 is looking for the 13 - find its identity to meet its identity's
voice. When you have the 33-13, you have the Prodigal, you have the Witness. You have this
capacity to be able to reflect on the past and to share it as remembrance but there's no doing

associated with that. It's not, "Let me show you what happened." It's, "Let me tell you what
happened." It's very different. The moment that you have the 46th gate, again, what you have is
this Love of the Body, the Love of the Flesh, the serendipity of being in the right place at the
right time but not the ability to do anything about it, to be able to say the right thing at the right
time, and it's looking for the 29, pleasing it. The 29 is always there to say, "Yeah, yeah, yeah."
The moment that the 29 says, "Yeah, tank's full." The moment the tank's full the switch comes
on and the 33 says, "I will remember that or not. And I will show you what I learned or not,
because it has to be something that I want to remember and share." The two are very different.
The 33 without its natural energy would rather stay away from everything because there's
nothing to do. The moment that its tank gets full, everything is different. These four gates have
this quality to them. It's very different to meet somebody who is a 31 and what their relationship
is with somebody who's a 5. They're coming from very different perspectives. The 5s say, "This
one wants me to fill their tank." The 5 is very clear about that. "This one wants my vote." And the
31 is saying, "How do I get their vote so I can screw them, or not?" Of course, that's the way it
works because these Secondary Gates of Action are not equipped to be Gates of Action. That's
why they create a lot of difficulty. Primary Gates of Action may be quite something. They hook
up to the Emotions or the Ego or whatever. After all, they're designed to manifest activity.
They're designed for it, they're equipped for it. A 35-36 is equipped for their experiential life -
genetically equipped for it. Correct. Whatever the consequences of their activity that manifesting
quality is correct because they know how to manifest out of that Gate of Manifestation. But
these Secondary Gates don't. They don't because their first business is communicating. Then
all of a sudden, somebody fills up their tank. It's like, "Oh, this is different."
The Secondary Gates of Action - there are these keynotes for them. When we're dealing with
the 16 to the 58, "I have experiment for satisfaction." That's very important to see that that is the
whole business of what will make the 16 turn one way or another. Is it going to be satisfied? If I
go to all of the trouble to get all of this energy together to do this experiment, is it going to be
satisfying? That's what I want. I want the satisfaction of the experiment being fulfilled and what
that will lead to. So it is "I experiment for satisfaction." What that means is that the moment that
the Secondary Gate of Action has this access to its fuel tank being filled up, then it creates
conditions within, and the creative conditions, the talent condition, is if it is going to be satisfying.
"I don't want to be identified with something that's not going to be satisfying. I don't care what
the hell it is," says the 16. "I have to be identified with it, otherwise there's no pleasure in it.
There's no satisfaction, there's no joy."
When you move from the 31 to the 5 and the logical leadership, it says, "I lead to ensure the
flow." So the condition becomes, "I will lead only with the flow. I am not going to lead against the
flow. It will not work. You can give me all the energy that you want but I'm not going to do what
goes against the general interest because I will lose my power." That's why we live in an age of
poll-taking, which, by the way, always existed at one level or another, to get the feel of the flow,
the pattern and rhythm of the society. It is that flow that is going to condition whether or not
action is going to take place. Remember, it doesn't mean that these gates in the Throat that are
Secondary Gates know anything. They don't - they're not aware. These are mechanisms. It's not
about awareness. It's just about mechanics. These are mechanical attributes and responses.
The individual process - we have: "I contribute to direct. I will give you my example but I must
direct. If I can't direct it, I don't care how much fuel is in the tank. That's not a direction I'm going
to take." In other words, the moment that you get to the place of energy you have the
conditioning element that's going to affect which way these Secondary Gates of Action are
going to respond. The response is built into all of them being dependent on Sacral Generator
energy. When you come, finally, to the abstract collective process - the Witness - and what you

get here is, "I retreat to discover." There is no experience worth having unless there is the
opportunity to retreat to discover. The only experience worth having is an experience that
comes to an end and what kind of experience it is. The whole thing about the abstract being is
that [if] they can't get out of an experience, they're in deep trouble. They need to get out of
experiences as much as they need to get in. Everything about the nature of what it is to really
discover what we are as beings comes from this "I retreat to discover."
The Throat being as complex as it is, you see clearly that these different gates because of their
different qualities, they operate differently. They are not... they don't have consistent function.
These Secondary Gates of Action do not operate in the same way as Primary Gates of Action,
which are direct. Here, there is always the indirect. Through the indirect, there is all of this
change that takes place in the way they operate. Suddenly there is the potential for them to
actually be able to act. They're not naturally equipped for that. What that means is that there
should be, in that sense, clear awareness of the limitation of action through these gates. It's not
like they're there for us to jump to and not to be fooled by Secondary Gates of Action that are
one way when they have no access to energy and are totally different when they do. Remember
something - I'm teaching you this, as always, out of context, that is, outside of the bodygraph
itself. You can have people who have these various gates that are looking for energy and they
get it and they don't necessarily get it from the Sacral. The 31 getting its energy from an Ego
connection, or whatever the case may be, they still end up wanting to turn that or not into action.
I'm just giving you the purist connection. The reality is that those Secondary Gates of Action
don't want to be Primary Gates of Communication. They want to be Primary Gates of Action. "I
lead. Follow me." And they stand up and walk and everybody follows. It doesn't work. So there
is a different quality in these four gates and it's different from the others.
PRIMARY GATES OF ACTION
In this graph you have all of the various possibilities of bringing manifestation into the world.
That is, Primary Gates of Action at work. It's the nature of Primary Gates of Action that the first
three that we're going to look at, because we're going to look at the 20 last because it's very
complex. The 20 is the only Gate of Primary Action that has access to awareness. Please
consider that. The other three Gates of Primary Action, the 35, the 12, the 45, these are
connected to the Ego and to the Emotional system, neither of which is aware. They are
connected to very powerful engines in that sense. So the primary action of the planet, that is,
what is designed to be primary action, is designed to be unaware. It's not surprising that
awareness is hard to find. It's just not
surprising. It is the way we're designed, after all.
Most about the world is about all of these physical jobs that we call ourselves and all these other
objects just moving around and interacting - busy, busy, busy. In the Primary Gates of Action,
we begin with Progress, with the 35, and it says, "Encouraging or discouraging action." Again,
its voice, its feeling voice to encourage or discourage. "Is the experience encouraging or has the
experience been discouraging?" The manifesting gates here - you can see the structure until
you get to the 20 and that's different. You can see the structure in the first three of these gates.
You don't have any of these steps in between. It's not like you have to wait for this and this and
this. When you think that a Throat gate is pointed at a non-motor that its primary function is only
connected to that. After all, anything else is secondary. It's not designed to do - those
Secondary Gates of Action are not designed to do. These gates are. They're built for it. They're
designed to hook into a motor directly. So they're very different. In all of these cases, you have
manifestation. In other words, every single one of these four aspects, when you connect them to
your motor you have manifestation taking place. You have uncontrolled manifestation. No

choice. You've got a world designed to have uncontrolled manifestation. Isn't that nice? There's
nothing you can do about that.
GATE 35
The 35 is looking for the 36. When the 36 is there you have this primary voice that says, "I feel
like doing." That's all. "I just feel like doing it. I don't care who you are. Let's just do it. I feel like
doing." Primary Gate of Action - no messing around. "I just feel like doing it" When the
delinquent is standing up in front of the judge and they're asking him why he threw bricks
through 85 windows, he says, "I just felt like doing it." What are you going to do? It's true. "I just
felt like doing it. I wondered what it would feel like." Primary Gate of Action - it's a good thing
there is some kind of conditioning element in there. "I feel usually like doing... but I've been
there and I've done that and I didn't like it. It was discouraging."
The other thing is there is a great voice of wisdom that's possible in the 35. It's what we call the
voice of experience. That voice of experience can make a deep artistic contribution. In the 35th
gate, in the lines, the artist is mentioned. Clearly, it is a very, very important gate for us. It allows
us the opportunity to encourage or discourage others in experiences that we've been through.
"Don't do that. It's terrible. It will kill you. Do this. This is incredible. It will make you feel
wonderful." The result of experience leading to an encouraging or discouraging voice. "You
have to believe in me. It's great." That doing is a wave doing. It's a chemistry doing, Emotional
system going up and down, and why you feel like doing gets conditioned by the authority of the
Emotional system. Anytime you have a defined Solarplex Centre, you have the authority in
anybody's design. That emotion controls everything.
The authority of transitoriness moves from the 35 to the 36 the moment they're hooked up. The
36 creates the emotional environment in which the experience will take place. You can have a
technically great experience and have it in a bad mood and it's not going to come out
encouraging. It always has to be taken into consideration that two of these Primary Gates of
Action are emotionally manifesting gates. Of course, what that means is that both of those gates
need to understand deeply what patience is, to be able to wait out the emotional wave in order
to find clarity before activity can take place. When people come to me with the 35-36, and
they're concerned about their 35-36, one of the things I remind them of is that when they are
emotionally clear, it doesn't matter what experience they're going to engage in, it's correct for
them. It's not about not seeking experience, not being driven in the experiential way. If it's there,
it's your genetic material. But to be able to enter into experiences that are meant for you, that's
going to require emotional clarity.
GATE 12
The second of these manifesting gates is the individual manifestation in the 12. This is cautious
or incautious action, risky business or not, very conservative or very risky, cautious or incautious
action. Of course, all of that is dependent on the emotional way that is conditioned by the 22nd
gate. The moment that you have the 12-22, the 22 dominates. It dominates because it
determines the emotional environment in which the social interaction will take place. It's
determining the spirit of the interaction. No matter how articulate the 12, if the 22 is bummed
out, it isn't going to make for a mutative environment - it just won't work. Again, it's the evident
authority of the Emotional system. The thing that is ironic, and I hope that you can appreciate
the irony, is that these gates in the Throat that are connected to the Self, they're always looking
for energy. Once they have their tank full they're in control. The exact opposite is true for these
Primary Gates. The moment their tank is full, the tank runs their life because of the power and
the authority that lies in the Solarplex system. It doesn't matter what the 35 or the 12 can do as

Manifestors. How they experience and how they know what has happened to them is going to
be conditioned by the wave that it happens in. So these are gates that lose their power to the
Emotional system instead of gates that gain their power from the Sacral system.
GATE 45
The next step is that you come to the 45. We've seen how unique this gate is in that it is the
only voice, "I have, I don't have," of the tribe and tribal circuitry, that it has a deep mystical
potential within it, that it is the voice of tribal leadership. The moment that it steps across its
boundary it gets to the 21 and we have something different from the first two Primary Gates that
are rooted in the Emotional system. Here we have the Primary Gate rooted in the Ego system.
The rule for Primary Gates of Action, these three - it's different in the 20, everything's different in
the 20 - the rule here is the moment that the 45 gets across to the 21, the 21 controls the 45.
Again, the opposite of Secondary Gates of Action. Primary Gates of Action are conditioned and
controlled by their energy source. Secondary Gates of Action end up controlling the energy
sources. It's the other way around. Everything within us is built on mirrors and duality. What
happens is that in the tradition of the 45-21, the King gives authority to the Knight and the Knight
runs the land and collects the taxes that he pays to the King. In other words, the energy does
take control. The Ego is more powerful than the Throat.
So these Primary Gates of Action give up their authority, in that sense, to the energy they
connect to. That's why the tribe is so possessive. It is an Ego tribe - purely. The Throat acts as
its vehicle or symbol of expression - a unifying point. See these funny things that go on and the
mechanics of our system. There are all these differences that are there. They're very important
to pay attention to because they tell you a lot about those gates when you see them in
somebody's design. Somebody who has Primary Gates of Action activated in the Throat that
does not have definition, thematically they're theme in life is going to be to do things. It's very
different from somebody who has Primary Gates of Communication in their undefined Throat.
The manifestation for them is always going to be a verbalised theme. The doing aspect is going
to be frustrating. You can see who is going to end up controlling what.
The 31, once it gets access to energy, is much more powerful than the 45 that gives up its
energy to the Ego. Not everybody will die for an elected leader. In the tribe they always die for
their leader. That heart is also dedicated to the 45. There are other equations in these things in
terms of the way the relationship works between these gates and their access to energy. That's
why I'm always cautioning people about the nature of trying to manifest, trying to give authority
in your life to manifestation - you can't. You have to be so careful because there are so many
tricks in all of that. We're designed to fall on our face. That's part of having a hexagram structure
that has a third line. It's built into humanity to fall on your face. We're meant to fall on our face
and pick ourselves up. Think of it the other way around. When you have the 12th gate in the
Throat and it doesn't have a connection to the 22, it's very powerful. It's much more powerful
than the 12th gate than when it's connected to the 22. It tells you a lot about the nature of what
happens in the defining process to the Throat.
THE GATES OF THE INTEGRATION CHANNELS
We come, as the illustration indicates, to basically Integration. The moment we come to
Integration we have a complex system, because we have these four different gates that are
operating together. The whole thing to recognise is that the 20th gate has many, many voices.
The 20th gate is both a Primary Gate of Communication, a Primary Gate of Action, a Secondary
Gate of Action, a Primary Gate of Identity. It has all of these things because that's the
complexity of the "I am" in us. When we are looking at the seven primary ways to manifest, four
of them are out of the 20th gate. This individual manifestation, this "I am" manifestation, as

such, they're the voices of Integration and these voices of integration are very, very helpful.
They set up what is the basic structure of the way we communicate our identity in the world. It's
not about leading others or witnessing events, but the nature of what it is to be us in the world
and to survive in the world, to follow our convictions, to perfect our form, to have our awareness
penetrate in the now, to be an archetype, to be charismatic. All of that, to be awake, is in the
voice potential of the 20. Here in this graph, what's given to you is all the possible voices and
the way they're structured. Remember that these are just chemical combinations and that's the
way the frequency comes up. You have the 20th gate and it stands by itself and it says, "I am
now," and you'll see that there are the voices of individuation and you'll also see that they are a
column called Type. What the type is, it should be obvious to you, is that there are mechanical
voices and there are voices that are aware. Of course, those voices are going to be the ones
that are Splenic voices and get connected to the Splenic system.
When the 20th gate is standing there by itself it says, "I am now," but when the 20 is there with
the 10, this is a mystical voice and it's the only mystical voice. It's the only one that exists. It's
the only outlet for the mystical process in the Throat and this is its voice, the 20-10. It says, "I
am myself now." By the way, there is a joke in that. That's a Primary Gate of Communication of
Identity, not of doing or of being. It says, "I am myself now," but it does not know what it's going
to do, or about to do, is going to be itself now because it can't. It can say it is itself but is its
activity itself as well? That's why the 20-10 goes into the 25-51, to get the Ego power, to leap
into the void of being oneself in the now, to try true innocence and Universal Love in the now.
This voice, "I am myself now," can be a mystical voice - can be.
When you have the 20-10-57, when you have the Gate of the Now, and you have the Gate of
the Self - remember, the 10th gate is the only gate about living in the world. It's about being in
the world, it's about our nature and our behaviour in the world. It's about survival in the world,
in life, in being. The 57 is not mechanical anymore - the 57 is Splenic. Through the 57, the Gate
of Clarity, the Gate of the Right Ear, the Gate of Intuition, we have this intuitive voice that says,
"I know I am myself now, but I still can't do anything." That's me [i.e. Ra Uru Hu's own design] -
20-10-57. I know I am myself now. What to do? Because I don't have the 34, that's one of my
favourite expressions. What to do? There's no doing in my design. There's my Ego, but that's
part of something else. In that whole structure of Integration, I'm always saying, "I know I am
myself now, but what to do?" - primary communication.
The moment that you add in the completing element, the 20-10-57-34, you have the whole
Integration structure. Then you have "I know I am myself doing now." In other words, in the
doing itself one remains oneself. That's why the 34th gate is such a magical gate because the
34th gate is the initiator of the individuated life. It's the gate of true empowerment of life. The
moment that empowerment is there it is "I am myself now in this doing. It's my doing. I'm not
doing this for you." This is the most selfish configuration in the chart. It doesn't even belong to a
circuit. It does not integrate with anything else - it's just purely individual. The moment, of
course, that you have the 34th gate, you no longer have a Primary Gate of Communication. You
have a pure Primary Gate of Action. The 20 becomes a Gate of Action. It's connected to a
motor directly. The "I am doing" comes out into the world.
The next configuration is what happens when you pull away the 57: the combination of 20-10-
34. In that combination what you have is, "I am myself doing now but I don't know what the hell
I'm doing," when there's no 57. I'm busy being myself but I don't know what I'm doing. These
voices can be quite chaotic. The moment that you have the 20-34 anyway, this is the Great
Loose Cannon Channel. Everybody loves its name - Charisma - where thoughts must become
deeds, where awareness must become deeds. In other words, don't move a muscle until you
know. This configuration - the 20-10-34 - look out. They don't know what they're doing - they're

just doing. Then you have the 20-57-34 - you take the behaviour out. You say, "I know I am
doing now, but I'm not doing any of this for myself. I'm just doing now." These are the great
servants in society. These are the people who are always doing everything for everybody else -
always. They spend their whole life doing everything for everybody else - always. Always. They
never do anything for themselves - that's the design. "I know I am doing now," but there's no
myself in there. "I'm not doing it for myself. I'm just doing."
When you get to the 20-57, you pull away the behaviour, you pull away the power, and all
you've
got is, "I know I am now," penetrating awareness. This is the first and most important
philosophical statement in the development of humanity. That's why it's called penetrating
awareness. That's the first thing that is inherent in our reflective consciousness is this "I am and
I know I am now. I know I am now. I know I am alive." It's essential, and yet in that you only
have a Primary Gate of Communication. It's telling you something very special about the nature
of what it is to be. The only response that you can give to somebody else is, "I am and I know I
am now." That's about all you can be certain about. It's the beginning. I love this story of
Nietzsche - his spending 30 years of his life trying to figure out what was the most essential
statement he could make. What do you distil down to? What do you actually get to? When he
finally got to the bottom of the barrel, he got to "I know I am." There is nothing other than that.
This is the basis of being here in the world.
When you have the 20 and the 34, when you have the Channel of Charisma and it's not
connected to awareness, you've got this great loose cannon in the world. "I am doing now. I'm
not doing it for myself and I don't know what I'm doing. But I'm doing now." We find that
attractive. Isn't that amusing? It tells you a lot about human beings, doesn't it? Charisma - "I
don't know what I'm doing and I'm not doing it for me. Don't you think I'm great?" It's one of
those things about the nature of guidance. 20-34s need to be guided. Truly charismatic people
always have somebody in the shadows who gives them proper guidance because somebody
has to know what to do. It's not easy because they're individuals. It's not like they want to have
anybody have any authority over them. They are, after all, Manifestors. "I'm doing now. Don't
bother me." "But do you know what you're doing?" "Leave me alone."
When you look here at this 20th gate, what you're looking at is you've got all of these varieties
here. Think about the complexity of this voice that speaks out of the 20 and how different that
voice is, depending on transits. I've been a full integration now for three years because of Pluto.
Pluto's been giving me the 34 for quite a while. It will go away in December [1997]. It will be
interesting for me to see what that is like in my life. I've had Pluto defining my Sacral Centre for
seven years. It will be interesting to see what it's like not to go "Hmmm" anymore and lose my
Sacral voice. The 20th gate, in its complexity, gets very confused because it can be so many
things. It can be just for communication. It can be just there to communicate identity. It can be
there to communicate intuitive awareness. Then it can be all kinds of doers at different levels of
awareness and capability. All of that is linked into the 20th gate. This is our individuated nature.
When you really want to go deeply into what it is to be in this world, if you look at each and
every one of those keynotes, you're going to see the different ways of being in this world - that's
what it represents. It represents how we as the "I am" operate in the world. That "I am" is not
limited like the tribe or the collective. That "I am" has incredible potential. It can be all of the
different things that come out of the Throat - all of them. That is its quality and its uniqueness.
It's not limited to this or that. It can communicate, it can do, it can be aware, it can be all of those
things.

This chart that we were looking at before, the Primary Gates of Action, those primary gates, the
35, the 12 and the 45, then you have these four different variations of the 20 because you have
the four different variations of access from the 20 to the power gate in the 34. Think about that.
What that's really saying to us, if you look at all of these Primary Gates of Action, and if you look
at the seven varieties that are here in this graph, five of them are individual. Five of them are
individual, one collective, abstract, one tribal. We are a mutative species and mutative action
governs the genetic movement of the planet. It's very important to see that. The backbone of
what it is to be Homo sapiens is still rooted in the "I am." The "I am" will change but it will never
go away. The "I am" firmly is what we are as humans in this form, as raves. The dimension of
this "I am" is that it is the majority of primary action as possibility. We saw these keynotes where
the doing comes in and all of a sudden with the 20 you have these different possibilities: "I know
I am myself doing now." "I am myself doing now." "I know I am doing now." "I am doing now." All
these different doings come out of the 'I' voice - there are various combinations. What you have
in Integration is that you have the archetype for survival. The Integration Channels represent the
only way in which humanity can survive. That is where individual aspects of humanity, us, is
going to survive. This is what the archetype is. The archetype is there to create the Perfected
Form. Out of the perfected form comes the ability to act with awareness in the now. The
perfected form is the capacity to survive - no more, no less - to be able to survive in the now.
So much of what we are in terms of our action is about survival and should be obvious. We
must have survival. What we have is that the majority of action for us, out of its individual
nature, is geared to us being able to stay alive in the world, to survive. Survival means that you
can't be still. It's an interesting thing about survival. It means you have to be busy - we're
designed to be busy. We're designed to do. We're designed to run around and hunt for water
and firewood. There's
nothing that we can do about that because one of the primary actions of our life is to stay alive.
"I am now here and I'm staying. Now go get the food." That's what it's about. Much of what is
really essential for us comes out of the 20 and comes out of the 45 - it's essential. What these
Primary Gates of Action do is that they ensure that we're going to stay alive and stay together.
This is where we have our strengths: it is our gift of being able to stay alive. We're very good at
staying alive - I mean, as a species. We've gotten to the point where we're barely threatened by
anything other than ourselves. That's just a pruning process. Our capacity to stay alive and feed
ourselves and to house ourselves, these are primary actions.
This whole business about the nature of what action is out of the Throat, what real manifestation
is out of the Throat, is that valued manifestation is always going to be rooted in our capacity to
stay alive. It's the most important activity that we have. Mobility keeps us alive. One of the things
to see very clearly about the modern way of life is how this modern way of life is taking away the
physical doing and replacing it with intellectual doing. It has a different kind of impact on the
biology and on the body. We're designed to be doers to stay alive. Yet, we're experimenting with
being non-doers to stay alive. We've been doing this for quite a while. The moment that we built
a city, we said, "OK, Mary can go be a scribe and Harry, you go make sure that the fields are
ploughed. Joe, you don't have to do anything. You just sit around and stare because we can
afford to have people who just sit around and stare." It's one of the growths in society - we have
this balance - I hope you can see this now. We have a deep balance in the way in which we're
structured. We have all of this manifesting that says to us, "Please, please don't do anything.
Talk to each other. Don't do anything. Communicate to each other. Don't do anything Just share
what you have. The power others let you have, support them." The moment that it comes to
action, you have to be aware that that action has to serve your survival first. That's what primary
action is about.

Only one Gate of Primary Action is not about our survival: the 12 brings the mutation. Without
mutation, there's no evolutionary movement. The 45 brings the authority to control the
resources for the tribe so that the tribe is protected. The 20 is there to maintain all of the
individual aspects, the individuals themselves, and keep them alive. Only the 35 is different in
that way. The 35 is not about physical survival, it's about making life interesting. It's about not
getting stuck. It's about rolling along, uncontrollable experiential necessity for humanity. But
everything else... the six of these gates are all about, "Stay alive. Keep the refrigerator full. Let's
bring the freak in. Something new is happening. I don't know why you want to go over there and
do that because that has nothing to do with feeding us over here." The vast majority of what real
action is about is there to benefit us. It's there to benefit us. This question in Human Design
about the nature of what authority is - everything about what it is to be a human being and be
able to live out with quality the nature of your own life is recognising where you make decisions.
That's what authority is about. It's about where you make those decisions. None of these config-
urations are about what is good or what is bad, but the reality is if you're somebody with the
20th gate and you know where your authority is within your life, the actions that you will take will
be beneficial to your survival. If you're not listening to the authority in your life, the actions that
you take may be totally detrimental to your survival. Just by saying that we have gates that do
this and gates that do that, doesn't mean that they do them well or right. It just means that's their
mechanical operation. The moment that you have any kind of design, the moment you're in the
world, everything about how it's going to operate is based on how you make decisions in your
life - there is no other way. Then each and every one of these attributes are correct within their
limitation.
You're somebody who has the 20-34. The 20-34 is not a place of authority. But let's say that's
the only thing that you have. If it's the only thing that you have, the only thing that you can rely
on is exactly what you're doing, if you're doing. There are all kinds of places of authority within a
chart. To find that place of authority, to find that place of decision making, then it becomes so
easy for you to be able to live out these aspects as they were intended. If you follow the
decisionmaking process and authority in your life, you're not going to turn gates that are meant
to be doing one thing into something else. You're not going to be conditioned away from your
natural nature. The Throat Centre is an incredible thing. If you add it all up, it's still saying, "Hey,
wait a second. Wait. Wait before you act." That waiting is always about wait for your clarity of
decision making before you act. Then be busy. After all, go forth and multiply. Do all that stuff
because that's what we're here to do, but we're here to do it clearly.
Always remember that two of these Primary Gates of Action are directly connected to the
Emotional system. So what we have is, underneath we have this very cool, calculating survival
mode that comes out of the 20, but we have all this hot stuff that comes out of the Emotional
system. We know that when we look at a chart that has an undefined Solarplex Centre and
when we look at a chart that has a defined Solarplex Centre, the Solarplex Centre still
dominates. The world is not dominated by survival - that's one of the jokes. It's dominated by the
emotional environment. People will walk... I remember during the Iran/Iraq war which went on, I
think, for almost ten years, there was a time in which the Iranians sent young men with keys to
Heaven around their necks and Korans in their hand and had them walk out into the desert over
the minefield, with the guarantee, of course, that they could go to Heaven. Good luck. They
couldn't afford to waste the tanks, after all.
Gates of Action - the Emotional system will distort survival. The moment that you have revolu-
tionary fervour in the 49 and you're way out there on the top of that, that's your wave and
everybody's riding that wave. "Survival? What is survival? I'm going to go to Heaven." It's one of
those things to understand about having Primary Gates of Action that are connected to the
Emotional system is that they are the ones that dominate in the end. You have all these layers

at work and Integration knows nothing about the Emotional system - nothing. Nothing. This
wave that controls activity... in teaching Human Design one of the things I always stress is how
important it is to share with others the nature of the emotional environment: what that means to
be an emotional person and what it takes to find clarity in the emotional wave, what it means to
be undefined emotionally and what it takes to resist identification with what is not you.
Only when we come to a point of emotional clarity, only then are we going to be able to have
primary action that's clear, the clarity for the correct experiences for the collective - clear - the
clarity of spirit to release the mutation at the right time. The moment that this clarity is there in
the Emotional system then we have a different kind of totality at work. We have a different kind
of manifestation at work. Primary action becomes healthier. Our activities become healthier
through them. That's an education process. That's a process of getting two people so that they
really understand the nature of what the Emotional system is. Integration and the power of the
20th gate looks very impressive - it's not really. It's surprising that it does as well as it does. We
know the weakness of the immune system is that it is not a motor in and of itself anyway. The
immune system can always be overwhelmed by the mind and the mind can be overwhelmed by
the Emotional system. The Emotional system overwhelms the immune system.
When you're emotional you don't care if you live or die - it doesn't really matter. You're in
another plane, in another field of energy. You're not concerned about what the consequences
are of your
activity. Our work with people at the emotional level is something that is very, very important.
Every time you plant that seed in somebody who is emotional and somebody who is open
emotionally you slowly begin to change the vibration of manifestation on this planet. The only
aware primary action is constantly being overwhelmed by emotional energy. Remember that. It's
difficult for the totality to maintain an aware process, aware action, because of the power of the
Emotional system. It's primary, very important work that has to be done, something that will
evolve over the years to be able to deal with this in a much larger level, to be able to really
impact on the emotional environment itself. That's something that will come. That will create a
great difference in the way in which we do things in the world. We're still being conditioned in
our manifesting in the world by this enormous emotional wave - it's huge. That emotional wave
rises and falls on all kinds of issues. You can see it in everything. It is something that is part of
what we have to put up with in a process. It's not about... this is the whole thing about time. If
you're in a hurry to see everything in your own lifetime, you're really going to see nothing. You
really don't get to see much in your own lifetime - it's relative. You get your own process. You
get the process that is closest to you in your life. It's your ongoing contribution to the totality that
matters, not your relative life. It really is quite a small thing. It goes by quickly. One of those
things for us to see is that the contribution that you can make in your time becomes so valuable,
not for you. That's what real service is. Real service is the contribution that you make that you
yourself do not benefit from. That's real service and it's the kind of thing that's naturally built into
our generational flow. Each generation unknowingly serves the next and serves the next by
creating environments that it itself will never be able to fully appreciate or work with. Human
Design is like that.
Take a simple thought. Imagine you have ten million people. They're from all over the world and
they fill in a statistical form. On that statistical form they give all their basic information: their
height and their weight, the colour of their eyes, and blah blah blah, and their education and
their this and that, and their medical history. You take all that information and you take their
designs and put it into a computer. You tell the computer to crunch all that stuff - it's going to be
a big one. You crunch all of that stuff and you say to the computer, "Do me a favour. Please
take out all the blue eyes. I want to see all the blue-eyed charts out of these ten million. I want

you to tell me what's in common amongst all these blue-eyed people." We're going to get a
statistical piece of information. We're working with Human Design the other way around. We
don't have that statistical template yet. When we do, the amount of information that's available
for any gate or any line is going to be extraordinary. We're going to be able to match up all kinds
of things. We're going to be able to have detailed profiles the likes of which none of us can
imagine now because we don't have the statistical base now.
Most of us will not get to see what that looks like. I, for one, will not see what that looks like. I
can imagine it. This is the whole thing about logic is that logic is something that, unlike the
abstract experiential process which is intended to take a lifetime, logic is not. Logic is eternal
until there is a mutation. Logic is forever. It is the basis of life itself. Where it goes and what it
becomes is something that one can only imagine. How pretty logic is and how funny that there's
no logic up here in these Primary Gates of Action. The gods are tricky - they play a tough game.
The dice is always loaded. Even when you figure out the game, it doesn't stop.

THE G CENTRE
INTRODUCTION
The G Centre is the nature of our identity. The G Centre is connected to the Magnetic Monopole. It's this
Magnetic Monopole that holds us together in the illusion of our separateness and guides us along the line
of our geometry in life. It is both movement and it is love, for in its capacity to hold us together it's trying
to hold everything together. In pulling everything together, it is the essence of what love is: to bring us
together as one.
When you think about the biological affiliations, the G Centre is connected to what we call the liver. It's
one of those things to be clear about alcohol. Alcohol is destructive to the identity because it is so
destructive to the liver. Anything that so adversely affects the liver is adversely affecting the identity.
The G Centre - a lot of people feel uncomfortable with the fact that if they have an undefined G Centre
that there may be some stigma attached to that because they don't have a 'Self'. Please remember the
nature of what it is to live in the world. No centre remains undefined - ever. It's always getting hooked up.
The difference in the chart between what is defined and what is undefined is always quite simple: what is
defined is fixed and what is undefined is inconsistent. I was having a conversation about awareness last
night. If you have somebody who has an undefined Splenic system, an undefined Ajna, they have no fixed
awareness, but because those centres are open they are here to be aware of awareness. Somebody with an
undefined Self is here to be aware of Self, to be able to identify Self, because it gets to experience Self in
all of its possibilities, because it is open and it takes it in. It is not a handicap and a centre does not make
the totality. Who we are is the totality and the synthesis of all of these centres at work. Who we are
includes people who have undefined Selves. All that means in their life is that direction for them and love
for them is inconsistent - that's what it means. The defined Self has very little recognition of the nature of
Self at all. What you are, you live. It is the undefined Self that has this capacity to recognise the nature of
Self. What is the right direction? What is the healthiest identity?
There is this mantra that I give to the undefined Self which is, if you're in the wrong place, you're with the
wrong people. One of the ways for the undefined Self to recognise the nature of its life is to see clearly
that everything for it must be initiated by others - must be, must be. Because something is initiated by
others does not mean that you owe them or that you are bound to them. It simply means that they are
initiating a direction of love. The story I tell about going to a restaurant with somebody - if you don't like
the restaurant, you're with the wrong people because they will take you to the wrong restaurant and the
wrong this and the wrong that. If you do like the people, it doesn't mean that you have to owe them
anything. You don't owe them because they take you to a good place to eat. You don't have to bond with
them and hold onto them for dear life because you hope that they will take you to other places that are
good. You can always go back to that place yourself the second time - always, yourself, the second time.
It is in understanding mechanics that you liberate people from their burdens. The burden of the undefined
Self is the burden that I do not know where I am going and I do not know if I can hold onto love. Yet,
everybody in the world is here to offer them all those things - everybody. Everybody is here to offer the
undefined Self a direction, a form of love, and because of that they have a real gift. They've got all the
flavours. They're a unifying force. All undefined centres, when wisdom emerges out of them, they
become unifying forces. They help the other to understand. I do not understand the nature of my Self. I
can be theoretical about it through Human Design, but in terms of my experience, Self in me is something
that just happens. Yet, somebody with an undefined Self who takes in my Self into their aura, they know
much more about it than I do - they're the ones taking it in. They're the ones taking it in so they can
compare it. We live in the Maya, the measurement of things. They're the ones that can compare and
measure the nature of my Self.
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People who are defined emotionally know very little about emotions. They only experience their
emotions and its type. Somebody who has a defined Sacral Centre knows very little about the nature of
sexuality. They are the sexuality - it is different and fixed to their type. Always remember the nature of
what a channel is: it's an incredibly narrow line. It's so narrow that it's almost spooky. It's not just a matter
of going from gate to gate and from line to line. There are deeper levels underneath all of those lines.
When you get right down to where the real line is, it's a thin, narrow little line, one of thousands of
variations of a possibility. Definition is very fixed and narrow. I was tormented in my life by my
undefined centres. They are now the real joy in my life. They are rich with information, knowledge. I can
see their beauty whereas before, I could not. I could be objective in terms of its nature. Out of that comes
wisdom. This is the pathway for all of us. These undefined centres are where we go to school. The
undefined Self is not a handicap. It is just a matter of coming to grips with the nature of what the
mechanics is - nothing more, nothing less.
The G Centre is magical. It is magical because it is the way in which the entire wheel gets pulled into a
core. The eight gates of the G Centre are the leading gates of the eight houses of the I Ching. These lead
gates provide the basic foundation, the lower trigram that the following seven gates are going to share in
common. These eight gates of the G Centre also touch all 12 zodiacal signs. In doing so, not here in the
Sphinx but in the Vessel of Love, all of the gates are cusp hexagrams that cross zodiacal lines. Within the
G Centre you have all 12 signs of the zodiac, you have all eight houses of the I Ching. You have the
whole totality of the outside brought into its core. Whatever G means - and I have no idea - Gravity is
OK, it holds us together and God's OK, and all these other Gs we can come up with. Nonetheless, that G
Centre is bringing everything in.
Think about what the Magnetic Monopole is doing and think about something so extraordinary about the
G Centre - love does not live here on Earth and direction does not live here on Earth. These are things that
are passing through. They come from outside and they move through us. We participate in the energy of
love. We are the filters of that. It isn't like it lives here. It's moving through. In the G Centre, these gates
are equal in distance to each other and there are eight of them. What happens is that we have two aspects
of the G Centre. They are made up of two crosses: the Cross of the Sphinx and, as we will see, the Cross
of the Vessel of Love.
THE CROSS OF THE SPHINX
The Cross of the Sphinx is about direction. Literally what that means is that if you take all the G Centres
on Earth and you add them all up with all of their Monopoles, what we're doing is we're holding ourselves
in line to love and we are following the direction of love. That direction of love is to return to the whole.
If you are looking for the place within every single human being that is there to touch God as a totality, it
is there within the G Centre and it does not matter whether that's defined or not - that's not the point.
Everyone has a Monopole - we are all part of the direction of love. When we're looking here at the
Sphinx, we're talking about the physical direction of the totality as it moves through space. This is the
direction of mutation.
You can see in the illustration in the centre of the bodygraph this image of Shiva's staff, this Neptunian
symbol, the pitchfork of these gates that go up and the [Gate] 2 coming down. In this Cross of the Sphinx,
the first thing to recognise about this is that the Cross of the Sphinx is something that people are born
with. There are all kinds of Sphinx people, whether that's Marx or Freud, all kinds of Sphinx people,
because these are oppositions in the wheel and they are ninety-degree oppositions, which means that some
of the Sun/Earth aspects are always going to be in these gates and you're going to have people being born
four times a year every year who are Sphinxes and they maintain our direction in the world - that's their
job. Without them we'd be lost. Every 165 years we get a very special generation. This time it was in [late
1967 until mid1970] when the planet Neptune was in the 14th gate. The planet Neptune rules, planetarily-
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wise, the Sphinx. Neptune rules our direction. Four times during the year and a half, or nearly two and a
half, that Neptune was in the 14th gate, we had all kinds of very important Sphinxes come into the world
who are empowered by Neptune out of the Sacral to generate mutative direction. We have a very special
generation of beings who are alive today. They come once every 165 years. They are keepers of the
world. This Cross of the Sphinx is made up of these four aspects.
GATE 2: THE RECEPTIVE - THE GATE OF HIGHER KNOWING
The 2nd gate, The Receptive, this is Taurus, this is the Bull; Leo, the 7th gate, The Army, the Lion; The
Fellowship of Man, the 13th gate in Aquarius, the Human; and in Scorpio, the 1st hexagram, in the
ancient Scorpionic symbol, the Eagle. Here you have the four aspects of the Sphinx. Everything about the
Sphinx is rooted in the 2nd hexagram, according to many, many mystics, old ones, long ago. There's a
story that I assume is correct. The Sun is always in Taurus because we are always in Taurus because we
are in Taurus, the constellation. I assume that that's probably true, but there's no way of knowing that
because all of that is just relative because we give a name to a configuration. However, in the spiritual
sense, it is definitely true, that this is the Earth itself and it is the depth of the form itself. After all, this is
the first earth principle in Taurus.
You come to the 2nd gate which is the yinest of all hexagrams, The Receptive. This is pure form. In this
pure form, out of this pure form, all direction is derived. Without form there is no direction. It is rooted in
the form and it is rooted in the 2nd gate and the 2nd gate is where the driver sits. This is the aspect, the
Monopole, that knows precisely what your direction is and the only thing that happens when you move
through from the 2nd gate, which is the handle, in that sense, when you move through and when you
move through the forks, all the forks are doing is just breaking off that one uniform direction, because
there is only one, but giving you three different perspectives out of that one direction. We call those roles:
what the direction looks like when it is seen logically, what the direction looks like when it's observed
abstractly, what the direction looks like when it's moved individually, but it's all the same direction. It is
just nuances. The absoluteness of the pulse of life is in the 2 - the Channel of the Beat. This is the pulse of
the direction in space, always waiting in that pulse for the potential for mutation. So the direction is
uniform, and this is why it is called here in this chart The Director. When we were doing global cycles
and we were looking at the mystical name of this gate, we saw that it was the Gate of the Plan. This is the
direction. This is the plan. The plan is in form, absolute Yin-Yin form. It's about being in a body moving
in space.
When you go across in the opposition from the 2nd hexagram, you get to The Creative and you get to its
purest polarity. This is the extreme Yin-Yang of the I Ching. You have the six Yin lines of The Receptive
and the six Yang lines of The Creative. The great creative direction is rooted in difference - always. What
is creative about the 1st gate is its need to be able to show the direction. Not to tell you about it, but
literally to be able to live the direction so you can see that example - the need to express one's unique
direction. Now, of course, that's illusionary. The direction of the 1 isn't any different from the 7 or the 13.
It's just nuances, because the direction is uniform for all of us. Because we are living in a relative
Universe and because we are dualistic, we do not share the same perspective on direction. Yet, we are all
in the same direction. What The Creative seeks is its opportunity to make its contribution - it's the 8th
gate at the other end - to make its contribution by being different, and by being different, of course, means
just by being itself, following its natural direction.
GATE 1: THE CREATIVE - THE GATE OF SELF-EXPRESSION
This 1st hexagram is smack in the middle of Scorpio. The nature of creative expression also involves a
great deal of depth and pain because the individual in its expression is not being collective - it is
remaining purely individual. These nuances that will come out through the 7 and will come out through
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the 13 collectivise the direction. In other words, they allow collective access to the general direction and
give them access in a way that they assume that direction is their own. The abstract is saying, "I know
where we come from," and the logic is saying, "I know where we're going to." That makes the collective
comfortable with direction. The 1 is saying, "I'm going this way." It's just living out its thing, not
interested in where the collective seems to be going, even though they are all going in the same direction.
After all, we study Human Design in separate ways. We can also build up a sense that there is a genuine
barrier between what is collective, what is tribal and what is individual. Now I have to accentuate each of
those in their own way for you in order, as a teacher for you, for you to grasp what they are about. After
all, it's all within each of us. It's not like they do not have their common ground - they always do. Their
common ground is there in the 2 to be seen. The common ground is that we are traveling in the same
direction. It may not appear to be so because our perspectives are different. But the truth remains in the 2
that the direction is universal for all of us. Same track - we're all going down the same line.
GATE 7: THE ARMY - THE GATE OF THE ROLE OF THE SELF
When you come to the 2nd polarity in this cross and you come to the 13-7, this is the collective's way and
it's the collective's way of dealing with direction. After all, the thing that human beings are dealing with
the most is that we are in this illusion of separateness and are whizzing through space. Part of us says,
"Well, the best thing for me to do is to remember where I came from, because that gives me scale and
measurement." The other part is saying, "I better pay attention to where we're going," and the other part is
saying, "Hey, where am I now?" This is our process. When you come to the other side, you come to the
collective's way of dealing with all of that. The larger collective is saying, "We better pay attention to the
future because we're moving fast and I don't want to hit anything." That's what you get when you come to
the 7th gate. The 7th gate is responding to this direction and is saying, "I am going to have to assume a
role in order to lead people into the future because we have this direction in space." They have to be
prepared and organised. We're going to have to have a lot of committees to make sure we are in the right
direction, even though the direction is always right. But that's another story.
The 7th gate - the Role of the Self in Interaction - a role gate. Remember that in the Sphinx, three of the
gates are role gates - they're very important. There are only six role gates and three of them come out of
the Sphinx. The 2nd gate is not a role gate at all. It is literally directing all those other gates. It provides
the general direction in space. In order to accommodate the collective and the individuals, this fork comes
out and provides the necessary patterns and structures for them - the role of the leader - Alpha. Alpha -
design of leadership for good or bad. The logical way is to take authority over what's already happening,
which is one of the better jokes in life. You're already moving in space, so you take authority over the
movement in space. It's like Clinton saying that because of him the economy is great. This is just the way
these things work. The 7th gate, that role of a leader, what that role is trying to establish is a way to
convince the collective that the future is going to be safe and that the direction that they're going in is the
correct direction. Any direction that is not correct is going to be challenged. The 18, the 48, all this
business, be suspicious in your 63, check out the formula, formulate your opinions, come up with the
detail, check out all the patterns and say, "Look, we're going in this direction and this is the way it's going
to be." The thing about role gates is that they are archetypes. Role gates are very powerful things.
Depending upon the nature of your design, how those role gates function is going to vary. If you've got
leadership in an undefined Self, if you've got the 7th gate in the undefined Self, it means that to be able to
live out the role of a leader is something that is going to be inconsistent. You can't be something that is
consistent - it is not defined. It's very different from somebody who has a role that's defined and activated.
GATE 13: THE FELLOWSHIP OF MAN - THE GATE OF THE LISTENER
The 13th gate is what establishes out of the Identity of the power of reflection. It's a role of The Witness
in which others and experience are collected - the stories of others, the experiences of others. One's own
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experiences can be reflected upon. The 13th gate is looking backward and trying to hold onto the
direction that we've moved in, to see the continuity in the line, looking back, the mirror to the logic - all
about finding continuity in direction. To witness where we've come from tells us a lot - we know that.
This is part of our history education. To know where we're going is a real advantage - it saves us a lot of
difficulties and problems. This collective process of trying to make sense out of direction is a collective
process that is caught up in time. In Einstein's Universe, time and direction are basically the same thing.
Everything having to do with the collective is caught up in time. It is caught up in trying to figure out the
nature of time and movement - "Next year the economy is going to dip" - just trying to figure out the
timing of the patterns. It's collective, after all - it's not personal. It's a way to express to the collective what
the direction is. This is not about love, after all. It is about assuring all of us that we're flying along in the
right direction in space. This is our way to pretend that everything is OK. This whole mechanism that's
hurtling us around at 445,000 km an hour in space is OK and somebody is driving it. Let's hope. It's our
way of saying, "OK, 7,000 years ago, we've been coming along since then and, you know, it's kind of like
OK. Hold your fingers and wait."
The other thing about the collective is that the 13 doesn't necessarily tell you the secrets. It doesn't
necessarily share with you where we've come from, any more than the 7 actually guides you. There's
always this inherent duality that is there. 7s and 13s have that in common in that they don't necessarily
fulfil their roles - they hold back their leadership, they hold back their secrets. When I say hold back, by
the way, that's usually because they don't have any access to get it out. I have an associate of mine that
has a 13th gate. When the telephone rings and I know it's for me and I know it's something, that it's
something that has to do with me, they will answer the phone, they'll have a conversation, they'll put the
phone down, they'll walk right past me, they won't say a word, and if I say to them, "Was that for me?"
they'll suddenly turn around and say, "Oh, yeah, it was. Blah blah blahs" That's 13s - they hold stuff
inside. That's part of what they're like. That's why the 33 is so different - it's the Gate of Remembering.
It's remembrance itself. It's a Gate of Privacy but because it is in the Throat, it has the capacity to release
the secrets.
Everything about the presence of the Sphinx in the world is to assure us of continuity in our movement.
When you can get to the point where you can imagine for yourselves all these Monopoles, and there are a
lot of them, and to imagine that all of them, because all of this is relative and small, they're all basically
one Monopole all working together to hold everything else together. The whole business about direction
is that the moment that you just surrender to the fact that you have all these 2nd gates in the world, and
that the direction is guaranteed, we are always in the right direction - always. We have no control over
that - none whatsoever. The direction is simply there. The moment that somebody has the 2nd gate, the
information of direction moves through that. What to do? It snaps you up onto that line and along that line
you go.
This business of no choice - Einstein. Einstein's Theory of Relativity. This Theory of Relativity basically
postulates is that everything from the beginning has been unidirectional - that's what it's saying.
Everything from the beginning has been unidirectional and eventually the light itself, which has been
travelling unidirectional, that created and illuminated the Universe, would be bent by gravity. Ultimately
we would have this illusion of a contained Universe. Now, everything in the Universe is expanding
uniformly - we already know that. We proved that last year. Hubbell - bless Hubbell - proved for us the
veracity of Einstein's theory: it is true. From the Big Bang we have been moving unidirectionally in space.
Think about what that means. It means that everything is a straight line. Oh, yeah, the line curves in time,
but those timescales are much vaster than anything that is pertinent to our timescales are. In travelling in
this unidirectional Universe in this quick little ellipse of 80 odd years, if you look back, you only have the
straight line - you do not have anything else. Go back in your memory. Take out of your memory the
'could have's and the 'should have's. Just see the line of memory, because that's the straight line of being.
All lives are straight lines moving in spaces - all lives. There is no choice in that. It is too fast for choice.
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We are not able to defy that law of the Universe. We are flying in a straight line. Everything that we leave
in our wake is a straight line. There is nothing else - nothing. It's just physics. It's not like you have to be a
genius to figure it out. There's nothing that you can do about that. You are just...
This is the whole business about understanding the nature of direction. The nature of direction is fixed -
it's been fixed from the beginning. We, the crystals of consciousness, having been moving through space
for billions and billions and billions of years. We haven't always been here in this solar system. We have
travelled through. That's why we have these fantasies about movement through space. We've been
travelling through space forever - a straight line. No ifs, no ands, no buts, no maybes, no this orthat. It's
just a straight line. We're not designed to live the straight line easily. Our program is to go from chaos to
order - that's our program. Human beings - that's what we're involved in. This is our enterprise: chaos to
order. The fact that direction is rooted in these three roles - it becomes very important to see that these
roles are deeply significant. They are the reassuring roles. They're the roles that say everything's OK, it's
all OK.
While I was traveling, the second year I was coming out here to the States, there was a woman on the
plane beside me who seemed very interested in trying to crank up a conversation with me and I was not in
the mood. She said, at some point, "What do you do?" and I said, "I tell people it's OK." This is the nature
of those roles of the Sphinx - to say, "Hey, it's OK. Yesterday, it's OK. Tomorrow, it's OK. Right now, it's
OK." That's what they're here for. This is the beauty of what the Sphinx is and what its roles are there for,
to be able to calm everybody down. "Yes, we're going fast. Yes, there is a pilot. Everything's going to be
OK. Really, we will get there. It's all right. Hold on." The individuals are there, "Let me show you the
way. It's all right." And the leader is saying, "Look, look, look. I have the pattern. Let me show you.
We're just going that way and we'll make a left and then we'll make a right. Everything's OK."
The thing is that the roles of the Self through the Sphinx are there to reassure. By the way, the people that
have the 7, the 1 and the 13 are assured themselves they're not. Of course, [here] lies the crux of all this,
because they're uncertain. As long as they're uncertain, their ability to calm everybody else down when
the leader is saying, "Things are not OK," everybody's in panic. "We're in the wrong direction!"
Immediately everybody is nervous. We here to reassure each other. That's the main thing in being here
and directing. You see, this is the joke of the Sphinx. The Sphinx has always perplexed people. The real
Sphinx, at least the Human Design Sphinx, that's just there to assure everybody - it's the other side. It's not
the side that makes them wonder and uncomfortable - what does it mean? It's the other side that says,
"Aw, it's OK. I don't know what it means but it's OK. Yesterday we were over there, and tomorrow we're
going to be over there. It's OK. So far, so good." The old Sphinx was "Beware of danger. This is all
about... Everybody calm down. Everybody relax. It's all alright. We'll get there." So when you are looking
at this, don't disassociate it from what love is.
As you will see, the Gates of Love are just as much gates of direction, in a different way - the direction of
what love is, here in the Sphinx what love's direction is. It's to assure everybody that it's all OK, and for
good reason. That 2nd gate that's feeding all of that, that thing mutates. Everybody is saying,
"Everything's OK. What happened to yesterday?" It mutates and the whole game changes. When all those
roles are going, "I don't know what's happening but we'll figure it out. Let me get a committee," it's very
important to see what that's all about there. It really is about our ability to be able to share with each other
comfort in the direction we are going in, to understand the nature of our movement. We are a species. To
understand the story of our species, to understand our movement through space, what this evolution really
looks like, where we're going with this - this is the expansion of our knowledge, and at the same time it's
reassuring. We are reassured to know the night before, that there's a storm coming. It's of value to us to
know that. We can prepare for that, both psychically and physically - it's reassuring as a role. These roles
are there to be reassuring. That's why the 13th gate can suffer so much from people always telling them
their problems. The 13th gate has to listen to everybody's story. Of course, it's there because that 13th gate
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is at its deepest level is there to be reassuring. "Yes, you have problems. It's OK." We all have problems -
that's our direction in life. It's OK. That's the whole thing - the reassuring quality of that - what the Sphinx
roles are all about, to let us know that it's OK. "The direction we're going in is OK. Everything's all right.
Nobody needs a refund, right? OK."
THE CROSS OF THE VESSEL OF LOVE
This Cross of the Vessel of Love is about the four different aspects, or ways, of love of the Self, within
the Self, from the Self. Not to be confused with other forms of love that we find in Human Design, that is,
sexual love, sexual love that exists through the human sexuality, through electro-magnetic connections,
love as attraction that can exist anywhere within the bodygraph through electromagnetism, that is, where
one person has one gate in a channel and another person has another. Let's be clear that what we're talking
about here is the love that has to do with our direction, and it is the higher love that guides our place
within the totality. These four kinds of love: first of all, to understand the nature of the Vessel. The Vessel
is a symbol for these four aspects in the same way that the Sphinx is a symbol of the four aspects. Each of
the gates is a component of the nature of the Sphinx. Here, each of the gates being a component of this
Vessel. For example, you have here at the bottom you have the 15th gate and 15th gate is the outside of
the urn or the Vessel. It is the outer surface - it's what you have contact with. If you go to the 46th gate,
Pushing Upwards, you have the Gate of the Flesh, you have the inside of the Vessel that is the walls, the
internal walls of the Vessel. If you go across to the 25th gate, you have the Gate of Blood and you have
what fills the Vessel up. It is filled up with Blood. The 10th gate, the Gate of the Behaviour of the Self,
the Gate of Nature, this is the lip of the Vessel out of which the life is poured. This is the Vessel of Love.
These are the aspects of the Vessel.
You can see in the bodygraph that you have a very different kind of configuration. The Sphinx cross
connects three centres. Here, of course, you can see that the Vessel involves five different centres and
brings in awareness and the Ego. So it has a very different impact. That is, love has a much more
extensive network within us than direction does. The real difference is being generated by the 10th gate
because it opens up in several different ways, opening up into Integration.
GATE 15: MODESTY - THE GATE OF EXTREMES
We begin with the aura, the 15th gate. The 15th gate, the Channel of Being in the Flow, the Channel of
Rhythm, the 15th gate is Modesty. Interesting about Modesty - in the original I Ching, Modesty was the
only hexagram where all six lines were positive or superior lines. There were no negative lines in the
original. Of course, this has to do with the nature of loving diversity - this Gate of the Love of Humanity.
The love of humanity is the extremes of its rhythm. One cannot love humanity unless one can accept the
extremes of human rhythm. Of course, humanity is made up of all kinds of extremes. All of those
extremes fit together in the order of things because that's the 15th gate.
You can see that life forms themselves must have this 15th gate in order to generate diversity - plants,
animals, whatever, so you don't have just one type of human, one look, like the same ear of corn, one
cloned species. What we have is this extreme rhythm in life - this creates the diversity. The other thing
about that is that the 15th gate has a particular quality in that it is very magnetic. It's very magnetic in the
sense that through the 15th gate you get much more of this Monopole pull. It basically increases the
Monopole frequency or at least allows it to come out at a stronger frequency. Years ago I worked with
aura sticks, which are very interesting. I only have one motor, so my three open motors makes me very
sensitive to water under the ground and all these kinds of things. I've worked with aura sticks measuring
auras. The thing that was so fascinating to me was that whenever I was measuring a 15 or a 5 I was
always dealing with a much bigger aura - they just are. There is a quality of that in that out of that 15th
gate is established the world's aura. It is this aura that is the first real collective way of finding love. You
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step into somebody's aura - the aura contact level - in that moment of stepping into somebody's aura is the
recognition that you are part of something else. This is the love of humanity - that we are interconnective.
This is the shell. This is the outside of the Vessel.
GATE 46: PUSHING UPWARD - THE GATE OF THE DETERMINATION OF THE SELF
What is really giving the Vessel its structure is the Flesh. It is the Flesh in the 46th gate, Pushing
Upwards, the Gate of Serendipity, Gate of Good Fortune, to be in the right place at the right time. This is
the deepest form of personal, physical love. It is the love of being in your body. It is the love of being
Flesh. This love of being in the body becomes translated as being in the experience so that it can be
reflected on later. By accepting that one is always in the right place within one's body, one can let go in
experience in order to be able to reflect later on what has been discovered or to discover through the
reflection process - Pushing Upwards into the Kingdom of Heaven. The body is the Temple and the Flesh
is weak, so the nature of commitment is the thing that conditions this aspect of love. If you make the right
commitments, and you're in the right experience, what is correct for you, then you will feel that quality of
love, that quality that says, "I'm really in the right place. This feels really good."
GATE 25: INNOCENCE - THE GATE OF THE SPIRIT OF THE SELF
Opposite the 46 is the 25. The 25, of course, is unique in the wheel because it is the Alpha and the
Omega. It is part Pisces and part Aries. It is the worm Ouroborus. It is innocence. The 25 is the gateway
into the spiral because it never really comes back and bites its own tail. By the time it has come back it
has moved in space - it's just a spiral. Depending on your perspective, it looks like it's biting its own tail -
it's not. The whole thing about the nature of innocence is that this represents the Blood.
Inanimate objects do not have a defined channel. They only have one centre - the G Centre. The moment
you have a defined channel, like with a single cell, you have life. Without a defined channel there can be
no life. So it is inanimate. All inanimate objects have a potential of activation of the 25th gate. All
inanimate objects have the Gate of Innocence. If you think about the Universe and you think about all the
inanimate material of the Universe, you are experiencing, witnessing the Blood of the Universe. It is all
part of the life of the totality. It is only when you can see that all inanimate objects, regardless of how we
perceive them, are the Blood of the Universe, then universal love is something easy to grasp. All things
are part of the body of the totality. All things are one within the whole body and there can be no
differentiation between one or another. Universal Love is not simply about Universal Love at the human
level. It is about loving dust, it's about loving the emptiness, it's about love for everything, without there
being any measurable difference between the quality or level of love, whether it is animate or inanimate.
"Don't make me choose between my guitar and you."
I have the 25th gate, I have the 51st gate, I have a deep connection to the inanimate. It's always been clear
to me in my life that I can love a view as much as I love a person. What to do? Universal Love is like that.
It has nothing to do with people and has everything to do with the love of the whole living process. It is
that love that drives it because it's the Blood - it's what we feed off of. It's what we live off of. The Jews
and the Muslims take the blood out of slaughtered food and they take the blood out because they do not
want to take in the spirit of the animal. Here at the 25th gate, this Gate of Blood, this is where the spirit is.
It's true - it flows in our blood. And like the Bible says, the Blood is life and it is true. So every inanimate
object in the Universe is the Blood of the Universe and each speck of dust and every meteor and every
rock is part of that living force.
When I was a teenager I had my first LSD experience. I was sitting on the side of the hill, leaning up
against a big rock. As I got to the peak of my experience, that rock began to vibrate and breathe. It was an
extraordinary thing for me. I could not get over the fact that this rock was alive.
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I know now that they are endowed with the Crystal. They don't have a Personality Crystal but all
inanimate objects have a Design Crystal. That thermos has a Design Crystal. They all have their place in
the Universe - they're all moving along. How we perceive them is unimportant. Our eyes are a limitation.
Only when you recognise that everything, everything, everything is the life, everything is the life, that's
Universal Love. That is real innocence.
GATE 10: TREADING - THE GATE OF THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE SELF

Finally, you come to the lip, to where the life pours out, where it gets lived out in the world. The Vessel is
drained until the cup is empty and the life is over. It all pours out through that 10th gate - this is our
nature. That's the written or unwritten code of behaviour that's genetically imprinted into all of us.
Because that genetic imprinting of behaviour is subject to mutation, it's an ongoing process of our nature
changing and our nature mutating and our form mutating. We are a deeply mutative species and have
gone through radical changes in a very short period of time. The 10th gate - Treading on the Tail of the
Tiger - beware. Always like that.
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THE HEART (EGO) CENTRE
INTRODUCTION
The Heart Centre is not something that appears to be particularly complex if you compare it to
the Throat, or you compare it to the Sacral, or you compare it to any of the awareness centres.
It doesn't have all this gate possibility - it's the second least gate-oriented centre. The Head
Centre has only three outlets - the Ego has four. But, biologically, there is nothing more complex
than the Heart Centre. Biologically, the centre is enormously important for us because it is the
work of the Ego to be able to establish the vitality of communities in the world. It's the Ego that
creates the possessive societies that we have, where ownership is the main law - "This land is
mine. This nation is mine." The possessiveness that is inherent in this Ego, when you look at its
biology, you can see that we have the root of how we can establish ourselves in the world
viably. It's all done through the Ego. The Ego has four different biological affiliations. I'm going to
give them to you according to gate.
GATE 21: BITING THROUGH - THE GATE OF THE HUNTER/HUNTRESS
So the 21st gate, which is Biting Through, is the gate of the heart muscle itself. That's why the
mantra: the 21s are here to be in control. Otherwise, they have broken hearts. Because they are
in control of what they eat and what they wear and where they live, this is how they keep their
heart healthy. You can see right away that when you're dealing with the biological affiliation that
is the heart, you can see that this is a core in our human process. It's an essential piece of
plumbing, this muscle. The muscle in the 21, the Heart, you know this old cliche, sexist cliche,
but a cliche nonetheless, the fastest way to a man's heart is through his stomach. When you get
to the 40th gate, Deliverance, you get to the gate of the stomach. The ego, what we call the
ego, the'I', the I comes out of the pounding of the heart. The I comes out of the contraction and
the process of releasing the acids in the stomach because there's food there. The more food in
the belly, the bigger the ego. That's why you have so many abused egos - they're overweight.
GATE 26: THE TAMING POWER OF THE GREAT - THE GATE OF THE EGOIST
(see also below)
The 26th gate is the Gate of the Thymus Gland. The thymus gland is an endocrine gland, and
it's very, very important in our development. This is a direct connection between the Ego and
the Splenic system. It's one of the most essential health channels. It is the thymus gland that
designs the immune system in a human. There is an Ego in a foetus before there is ever a
Spleen. The thymus designs the immune system and keeps on working on that immune system
until you're three years old. Then it takes up the responsibility of defending the immune system.
From the 44th gate we have the release of B-cells. From the 26th gate we have the release of
T-cells. These are killer cells - their job is to kill things that invade the system to keep them alive.
GATE 51: THE AROUSING - THE GATE OF SHOCK
Then you have the 51st gate - The Arousing. The Arousing is affiliated with the gall bladder and
gall - the gall of a fool to leap into the void or the bile. You know the expression: heart of stone -
those are gall bladder stones - no joke. The 51 is the way in which the Ego empowers Universal
Love - the only love that is empowered by the Ego. Without Universal Love, the heart turns to
stone. So we have in the Heart Centre something very complex. It doesn't look complex but it is.
It's also saying something else. Unlike the other centres that have a general biological
application to all of their gates, the pineal gland is serving all three of those gates in that centre.
What you have is a very, very specific biological association with each of the four gates: heart,
stomach, thymus, gall bladder. It's out of these four different varieties biologically that the sum
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total of that is the Ego possessiveness of 'I' - it is not the self. There is the self and there is the
'I'. The 'I' is a tribal identity - it's the Ego identity: "I am the hunter. I am the fool. I am the Egoist."
They have these Ego identities. Think about the function of the Ego. We know that the Throat
Centre has only one access that is open to the tribe and the community to be able to express
itself in the possessive "I have" or "I don't have."
We know that the 45 is a Primary Gate of Action. We know that there is a direct connection
between it and the Heart Centre. It is the manifestation of the heart in the world. To have heart
is something very different from love - it is a sense of communal concern. The needs of the tribe
are dictated by the needs of these biological elements to keep the heart beating. Doctors don't
come from the collective - they were nurtured by the tribe. That's why every tribe had a shaman
who had to play doctor - healing was expected in the tribe. The collective just wants to organise
things better so that nobody has to be healed in the future. The tribe screams, "My child is sick.
Don't tell me about your health programmes for the future." Real caring and healing is nurtured
in the tribe. This is the nature of its heart - to be concerned about the well-being of the tribe, and
the well-being of the tribe is a possessive well-being. Health is very important to the tribe - a
sound heart. What is essential to the tribe is that the belly gets filled. That's why you have all
tribal religious events associated with the consumption of food: "Feed the tribal ego. We have
enough to eat - we are a great tribe."
We have difficulty in the world with the ego. We have difficulty in the world with the ego because
our mental plane doesn't like the ego - it's not comfortable with it. The collective world is not
comfortable with the ego. Manifestation is not used to the ego. You have 11 gates of
manifesting - only one is an Ego gate, only one is possessive, only one voice is controlling, and
it controls out of the power of that Ego.
One of the most bizarre things that happened to me in my experience with the Voice is I had a
day which was the only day that I felt totally mad. During that day - I don't know for how many
hours - I had a different voice in each of my centres and they were talking to me - sometimes all
at once. It was very confusing. My Sacral Centre was very sexy - she had quite a voice. I had all
kinds of weird communication with these voices coming out of my centres. Perhaps the most
curious to me was the Heart Centre because it was the only young voice. It was the only-I don't
want to say childish because childish carries another quality. It was just an immature voice - it
was a young voice. I've carried within me this impression of the Heart Centre ever since, in the
same way that I carry this impression of the planet Mars and its juvenile quality.
There is no awareness in the Ego and never will be. The Ego is there to make sure that we put
our societies together - our tribes - that we hold them together. We hold them together because
of our ability to feed each other and support each other. Because that Ego gate is going to stand
alone in manifestation, the tribe stands alone against the world trying to hold off the tide of
civilisation and its collectivising principles. The more deeply collective our planet becomes,
which
is what's happening to us, you're going to have two kinds of tribal reactions. You're going to
have tribal reactions that slowly just assimilate with the collective.
You can see this best in Europe with the European Union - how all of these ancient tribal
entities are slowly integrating into one collective society while still maintaining their differences.
The other is tribal reactionary-ism, that is, the refusal to step into the collective world because
the collective world is polluting. We label most of those things fundamentalists, going back to
something. Many of our religions are like that. We have sects in every religion of the world that
are rooted in past ritual and lifestyle - they deeply resist the collective influence.

The Ego is under enormous pressure - it stands alone in all of that stuff. Because it stands
alone, because it's not collective, because it's not particularly individual - and we'll see why even
though it has an individual gate - it's isolated. It's just isolated. There's no Ego in the
Understanding Circuit. There's no Ego in the Sensing Circuit. There's no Ego in the Individuality
Circuit, the Knowing Circuit. The Ego only shows up in individuality through Centring, but it's not
part of the main Knowing Circuit - there's no Ego in all of that stuff. Only the tribe is rooted in this
Ego. You can see very clearly how the collective has labeled ego - they detest it. It's the
greatest criticism of the collective. It's the criticism of ego - they don't like it.
When somebody logical says to you, "One and one is two," and you have a big ego and you
don't want to hear that, you're not going to hear it. Just because it's logical doesn't mean you
have to take it. The collective doesn't like that. What it says to the tribe, "Look, this is really good
for you. This will really be to your benefit. Don't you understand?" The tribe has no access in the
mind. It's a moot point. The ego of the tribe says, "I know what I have. I have this and this
works. And even when it doesn't work, we know what to do. You go away. Don't want you
interfering with our way. You're not one of us." Of course, the collective gets really annoyed.
"They're stupid people," the collective says. "They're ignorant people. How can they hold onto
such garbage? How dangerous they are!"
So the ego has its own kind of pressure in the world. You look at any Eastern teacher, any
Eastern master, read Freud or Jung, and see what they tell you about the ego - the ego has a
generally bad rap. The ego's had bad press for a long time. Being a great egoist myself, let's
see if we can correct this propaganda. The moment that you identify with the motor is the
moment that you're turning an inanimate thing, in a sense, into an anthropomorphised reality. It
is one thing to be lost in the ego plane and it's another thing to ride the Ego motor. It's just a
motor. It's a deeply essential motor, not for all this other stuff that we've been looking at, but it's
the only motor that we have to make sure that our communities stay alive, that our bonds stay
alive, that our products are sold, that there are taxes, that there is service and that there is
education, and there is protection, and there are all of these things - it is all ego.
Logic doesn't build communities and the abstract is always running away from them. The
individual only cares about itself. The Ego is here to care about humanity. It is here to be the
power for humanity to feed itself, to procreate, to manifest tribe in the world. After all, when the
Ego fails, the heart fails. One of the most dangerous things in the world in this life is to be
somebody with an undefined Ego Centre that keeps on saying, "I will." Sooner or later they are
going to die of a heart attack. They're just going to drop dead. They're going to tear that heart
muscle of theirs apart, because they are not here to say, "I will." If you have a defined Ego, you
can say, "I will." It's not about free will. Recognise that will is an expression of this power. It's an
expression of this motor. It is the will to feed ourselves and the will to hunt. It is the will to bond
in the community. It is the will to serve the interests of the tribe. It is the will to protect the weak.
So the Ego is not just about people running around saying, "I, I, I, I." It is the voice of the
expression of the tribe itself. You can see in illustration how much of the nature of the tribe is
just simply rooted in the Ego. You only have two tribal streams that are at work: the stream of
instinct and the stream of sensitivity both go from the Spleen and Solarplex, respectively, into
the Ego, and from the Ego the only outlet for the tribe to the Throat. Everything about the tribe is
about Ego. It's one of those things that I've learned in my process of Human Design is to
recognise that there is no peace in any sense of the word until the tribe has what it has as its
requirements - that it has enough food to eat, appropriate shelter, the right to its own costume
and role, the right to its own tongue, own language.
Until we get to that point that every tribe on the planet has that fundamental right, there will
never be any peace. The Ego will never let go until it's got its belly full. Until it has that, it will

keep on wilfully hunting for what it needs. I watch in my experience in this lifetime in the world all
kinds of revolutionary movements, and they all speak of the same things that the tribe speaks
of. They're just basic things: the right to be healthy, through the 26, the right to be fed, through
the 40, the right for the capacity to be able to manifest and stay alive as a community. Because
all of the tribe goes out through one gate, survival of the tribe becomes this business of all for
one and one for all: "If you kill my cousin, you are my enemy." This is the tribe.
GATE 26: THE TAMING POWER OF THE GREAT - THE GATE OF THE EGOIST
(see also above)
We start with the 26th gate. The tribe is rooted in instinct and is rooted in sensitivity. It's rooted
in smell and it's rooted in touch - it's all about smell. The 26th gate is called The Taming Power
of the Great. We've already seen a taming gate when we looked at the 9th hexagram. We saw
that this word 'taming' has a special value to it. It is the ability to be able to change its form, to
manipulate what's there. The 26th gate is the Gate of Memory. It is the completion of the
instinctive memory process and its completion within the Ego. In other words, this is Ego
memory. Ego memory can be manipulated: "The fish was this big!" - that's the manipulation of
Ego memory. There may, indeed, have been a fish, but it's size, given the nature of the 26th
gate [is open to over-exaggeration].
This Taming Power of the Great is a great power. This is the Ego's capacity to reach out and
make contact with the community. As such, this is the Gate of the Egoist. In business terms, this
is the Gate of the Marketing Person - the ability to be able to go out there and say, "This is the
best damned refrigerator you have ever encountered, and I'm going to give you the best
damned price you've ever had and the longest guarantee. I swear my own mother uses this
refrigerator and it is incredibly good. Now, will that be cash or ...?" This is a Gate of Ego
Strength, the power of the Ego to be able to transmit. This is about being tricky - this is the Gate
of the Trickster. Exaggeration can become lies. But its essential gift is to have the Ego stand up
and say that this horrible piece of garbage is the best refrigerator because that's the power
that's there in the Egoist.
Think about something - this is the thymus gland and the thymus gland designs our immune
system. The T-cell is our greatest warrior within ourselves, protecting us from diseases and
whatever. It is healthy for society, it is healthy for tribal society, to have tricksters sell them
refrigerators. They wouldn't have it any other way. You see, they are also ego people. You think
anybody wants to buy garbage when they can buy the best refrigerator? They willingly
recognise that they are being exaggerated to. But that's what you expect. "My son's the best
lawyer. My daughter's the best doctor." This is the tribe. They don't tell you about the lawsuits.
They don't tell you about the bankruptcies. They don't tell you about the repair bills. They just
tell you, "Here you go. We've got the best tribe. This is the best neighbourhood. I've got the best
refrigerator. Broken right now, but I've got the best repairman." The tribe loves that. "My
cancer's worse than yours, and I've got better doctors. And I'm paying a hell of a lot more than
you are. How much did it cost you...?" This wonderful aspect of the ego tribe is that they love
this - it makes them feel good. If you don't exaggerate to the tribe, they don't feel good. "I'm
selling you this piece of garbage. Please take it home. This refrigerator isn't very good and, you
know, it's going to break in a couple of weeks." They don't want that. Go to any used-car lot in a
small town where your Uncle Harry or your friend's Uncle Harry is running the lot and they've
got this $250 time bomb that they're saying, "Oh, it's great." This is the nature of the tribe - it's
healthy.
Of course, the collective can't stand it. "Consumer Reports says that this refrigerator XYZ is a
terrible thing - it doesn't operate properly. It isn't properly wired. It's manufactured..." The mother

of the person who is running that refrigerator depot is writing to that report saying, "What are
you talking about? My son sells great refrigerators and mine's wonderful." The collective is
grating: "We have to educate these bumpkins - they don't know anything." This underestimates
the nature of the tribe. The tribe knows the joke. The tribe knows it's not the best refrigerator. As
a matter of fact, if it doesn't break, they're really surprised because they had to buy it from the
son of their Uncle Harry or whatever. It's like, "Bob, it works!!!"They all know all that. It's part of
being in the tribe. It's part of this wonderful ego that says, "Everything is just great because
we've got it. You have to have this doo-hickey. You have to have it because Joe just bought one
and everybody's gonna have one."
I was driving through the streets in Las Vegas and I hit one street in a neighbourhood. On the
streets were these stands where you could have a basketball hoop, but the same model. They
have a special kind of stand, and it's obviously something that you can move around on your
front driveway. Four houses on the block have this one thing - no other block has that thing. In
this whole neighbourhood, no other place you look do you have this thing. But on this block,
somebody went out there and they got one, and the one next door said, "I have to have one too.
Their kid isn't going to be best at basketball. My boy Harry is going to be best at basketball, and
I'm going to get one just like it." Suddenly they're all over the street! This is the ego of the tribe -
that's the way that it works. It's not this thing to be horrified by, but that's the collective stance.
The collective stance is, "I don't understand why they're always lying to each other." It's true,
and the collective just wants to be able to correct all that - they don't understand the rules. They
can't understand why people who are absolutely and totally corrupt keep on running tribes - they
don't understand that. That's how they run the tribe. "He's the best leader because he gives me
money. I love him. He brought me this refrigerator and it's not bad." The collective says, "But
they're all corrupt."
GATE 40: DELIVERANCE - THE GATE OF ALONENESS
The 40th gate is a different movie. When you get to the 40th gate, you're getting to another side
- you're getting to the sensitivity. You're getting to the touch. You're getting into a stream of
sensitivity that roots us in our relationships in the tribe because it brings us into bonded
relationship. It brings us into the fundamental marriage bond which is the core of the tribe.
Without the marriage bond, the tribe could not exist. The tribe is, by its very nature, a contract.
The contract is that the politician is greased and you all know it. The game is fixed and you all
know it - that's part of being in the tribe. You have a bargain that's built into the 40-37. The 37 is
offering its emotional sensitivity - it's offering the possibility to be bonded. That's the sound of
the tribe at work - it's true. This is a tribal piece of business. So we have this bond that is being
structured in the tribe and it's being structured through contract.
Where the 26th gate is this very, very powerful Ego gate - it's built on a killing machine, these T
- cells. It's a very powerful, self-assured gate. When you get to its parallel on the other side, the
40th gate, you have the opposite - you have the weak ego. You have the small ego. The 26th
gate will say to you, "I am the best." It can just do that. It can really do that - no questions asked.
Whether it's true or not doesn't matter. "I am the best." (loud voice) But the 40th gate says, "I am
the best." (very soft voice) The 37 is saying, "What did you say, dear?" and the 40th gate says,
"I am the best." (very soft voice) The 37 is saying, "Of course, you're the best. Yeah." Then the
40 feels so good. "She says I'm the best." After that comes the question: "How much does that
cost? What price has to be paid for that massage?" "Yes, dear. You are the best." This is the
stomach. This is the stomach and it's hungry - it needs the massage. Yet the gate itself is the
gate of aloneness that says, "I don't need you. I may not be the best but I don't need you."
That's the other side of the atonement. It says, "If you don't massage me and make me feel like
the best, I'm not going to have anything to do with you. Then you don't get access to my will

power." This is an ego juicing that's going on up there. This is what the tribe does - the ego
juiced.
You take a football team. You can see them as the 40s because that's what they are. Then you
have the tribal fans - they're the 37s. As long as that Ego performs well, that tribe is there
saying, "You're the best. You're the best. You're the best." The moment that Ego starts having
trouble, starts fumbling the ball, starts losing its capacity to win, all of a sudden they're bums
and the stadium is quiet. The tribe's ready to tear it apart. Because they're representing the Ego
of the tribe, "How dare you crush our ego by failing? When you come home tonight, I'm going to
beat you up. You did not win."
You may think that's a joke. Here's an incredible story. The father of a friend of mine was a
German soldier in World War II. He was an air force bomber pilot in the Luftwaffe. He bombed
London, he bombed Moscow. Interesting guy. He got shot down over the Ukraine, broke his hip
when he hit the ground, walked - dragged himself - across 1,700 miles of enemy territory to get
himself back to his village. When he arrived at his village, they stoned him because he didn't
win. "How dare you come back. You did not win." This is the tribe. You're talking tribal ego.
Have you ever seen the tribe tear a human being apart? The tribe's really something. Don't
mess with that ego. That's why the collective is terrified of the tribe - because of that ego and its
power. That will that says no matter what you do, we will not stop until we get what's rightfully
ours.

THE SACRAL CENTRE
INTRODUCTION
We come to the Sacral Centre. The Sacral Centre is very profound, the way in which it works,
what it actually does for us in terms of generating life itself. The Sacral Centre is the second
most complex of all the centres. It has nine gates. It has a very, very unusual quality to it in that
the Sacral Centre has within it many, many aspects of all the other centres. It is a kind of mini-
bodygraph all in itself because it is out of this mini-bodygraph that we produce all these mini-
bodygraphs that we call children, coming out of the Sacral.
In its biological associations, the Sacral is associated with the ovaries and the testes, and
because of that what we have is the only centre that operates in a gender-specific way. In other
words, it is the only one of the nine centres that operates differently in males and in females.
When I say that it operates differently, I do not mean that its inherent functions or the
descriptions of these gates or anything else is where the differentiation is - it is not. The
differentiation lies in the arc of generation, that is, imagine, if you will, that the Sacral Centre is
simply a Generator motor. As a Generator motor the way in which it is going to operate is that
it's going to start generating, it's going to get turned on, and as it starts generating, it's going to
build up its power to a certain point. When it gets to that certain point, its peak of power, then it's
going to start a long slide downwards in degeneration until the motor stops - what we call death.
Everything about the Sacral Centre is about life and death. It is both.
The nature of how the Sacral Centre works in a man is that the peak of generation, the peak
capacity for reproduction in the fertile sense, is at 18 years of age. So, for the males in terms of
how the Sacral is operating, the generating capacity for the Sacral is going to be at its peak
level around the 18th year. In females it comes much, much later - almost twice as long. It
comes in the early 30s - between 30 and 33, 30 and 34. In other words, the generation pattern
in a female is a much longer arc building up to the peak of generation in their early 30s, and
then this movement downwards. It's one of the reasons why, for example, women, in general,
live longer than men. They generally live longer than men because they start their degeneration
process much later than males do.
Because the Sacral Centre and its biological relationship is related directly to our instruments of
fertility and reproductive capacity, it is important to understand that inherent within the Sacral
Centre is a kind of power that doesn't exist anywhere else within us - it is literally the power to
make things fertile. That doesn't have to be specifically about the fertilisation that will result in
human life - it can be many other things. Literally, what exists within the Sacral is this creative
principle of reproduction. As such, it is very powerful. Because we have this capacity within the
Sacral Centre, the Sacral Centre has a quality that it shares only with the G Centre, with the
Self. We have in the bodygraph six different gates that are role gates. It's very important for you
in your studies in Human Design to really recognise the significance of these six different types
of roles that are built into our nature. Out of these six roles, and their various combinations, are
the roles that we play in this movie.
When we're dealing with the role of the Self, we're dealing with four gates in the G Centre.
We're dealing with the three Sphinx gates that bring out roles of direction. So we have the 7th
gate, which is the logical role of Leadership. We have the 13th gate, which is the abstract role of
being a Witness. We have the 1st gate, which is the individual role of being an Example. Three
different roles - the Witness, the Example, and the Leader. The fourth role in the G Centre is out
of the 10th gate, the role of the Self in the World, Behaviour in the World. But we have two role
gates that are in the Sacral Centre. These are not roles of the Self - these are different. These
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are genetic roles. Genetic roles are played out at a level that is primary in our existence. In other
words, our genetic roles are there to establish who we bond with, who we mate with, and how
we take care in that bonding.
So the Sacral Centre in its complexity is not simply a motor, but it is a place in which basic roles
are played out which are the foundation of our communities. It is these role gates out of the
Sacral Centre that are going to determine the quality of our sexual relationships - the nature of
why and how we bond with others.
(Ra shows a chart.)
This illustration is interesting because it shows you, first of all in the bodygraph, that everything
under the Throat is connected to the Sacral except the Ego. It's one of those mysteries that the
Voice told me about that if there were a direct connection between the Heart Centre and the
Sacral Centre, and as such the Centring Circuit would be complete, and the moment that such a
thing would exist we would not die. Of course, you can't go in there and invent a channel. But
there is a Elasis for that because part of what that represents will exist when we step into
another vehicle. That is, we are now in a vehicle that is dominated by cycles. So our whole
perception of everything is that everything begins and ends because we, after all, begin and
end. We begin and end because there is no direct connection between the Ego and the Sacral
Centre. We are intended, in that sense, to begin and end.
The other thing is in looking at this wheel, one of the things to see is how well placed, in that
sense, are the various gates that are a part of this Sacral Centre. You can see that they form,
relatively speaking, a triangle within the wheel itself. This is an energy vortex. This energy
vortex, if you could really see the nature of the Sacral Centre, what you would see is a vortex
field of energy in a spiral. If we could take a camera and look into the Sacral, what you're going
to see is this incredible vortex of energy. Think about what's going on there. You have the
crossing of energy in the Sacral Centre that is going from the circuits across to each other. So
you have the connection between the 9 and the 5, and you have the connection between the 29
and the 42, and the direct connection between the 14 and the 3. There's also this movement
across between the 27 and the 59, and the 34 comes in too. It's like they're all going into some
cosmic washing machine and you have all this spin going on in the centre. It's a very, very
powerful place.
Out of that energy that is swirling inside of the Sacral, what you have is this frequency that is
being generated - Life, Life itself - this sense that we have when we see living things. This is the
Sacral energy and this is the Sacral generation force that we feel. This is the life force. It's also
the shadow. Of course, Death rides with the Sacral as well. It carries all of these very, very
profound fundamental elements within it. We know that in Human Design that the Sacral Centre
plays a very important role because one of the main energy types is rooted out of the Sacral -
what we call the Generator type. What we know about the nature of the Sacral is that the Sacral
is most profound when it responds - that's its capacity. Otherwise it is stuck because it is stuck
in the generating frequency. The moment that the Sacral responds is the moment that it can
alter its
level and alter its frequency. It cannot do that on its own. That is, it may be the centre of life and
it may be the centre of death, in that sense, but as such, it needs to manifest in order for those
things to be completed anyway. It is an instrument of power within us.
THE GATES OF THE INTEGRATION CHANNELS
GATE 34: THE POWER OF THE GREAT - THE GATE OF POWER

We're going to go through these different gates of power. When you think about the Sacral
Centre, don't think about it as a motor centre. It's much more important that you think about it as
a power centre - this is the centre of empowerment. When we look at the history of what it is to
be a human being, if we want to go back into our history books for that moment when the gods
say, "0K, it's time to put them into their own little vehicles." In that moment when the gods say,
"OK, it's time to put them into their own little vehicles," this is the structure of the vehicle. That's
what Integration is all about. Integration shows us the fundamental beginning of our process.
After all, please remember, integration Channels do not belong to any circuit - they don't. They
are outside of the circuitry. Circuitry is how we interact with each other. It has no equipment for
that. All it's doing in that kind of a situation is that it is maintaining the life itself.
We saw yesterday when we were looking at the Throat Centre, we were looking at the
complexity of the 20th gate and at Integration, we saw the language that was built into this
structure. We know that without the 34, when you have the 10, 20, 57, what you have is
somebody who can say, "I know I am myself now," but there's no doing. It is not enough for
consciousness to exist. It's not enough for consciousness to exist - it must have a form. It must
have a form. So the moment that form is possible is the moment that that Integration becomes
empowered. The 10-57 says, the Channel of Survival, the Design of Perfected Form. Perfected
Form, Survival. Yet, what is Perfected Form and Survival if it has no power? - it means nothing.
When it's empowered, the form is perfected - it comes into existence. The most extraordinary
gate in the Sacral system is this 34th gate, called The Power of the Great - where Pluto is and
where Pluto has been for years now [part of 1995, 1996-97 and part of 1998]. Of course, the
first time that Pluto has been there in our conscious memory and the first time it's been there in
256 years. When you think about the inflow of genetic material into the planet, these years of
Pluto bringing the 34 brings us a whole power generation. Hundreds of millions of children that
are power children are going to mature in the next millennium. What they are going to empower
is individuation is - that's what the 34 is.
In the collected esoteric mythologies there is all of this material that has been written about this
moment in which we individuated and came into these separate forms. The mechanism for this -
I don't know about the mythologies - but the mechanism is the 34th gate. Think about what it is
actually doing. When the 34th gate is connected to the 57 you have the Channel of the
Archetype. What that archetype is, is that the archetype is the capacity to empower survival.
That's what it is, but it's more than that. It is a secret to understanding what it is to be human.
Think about the language of integration. If you take away the 20 and you take away the 10, and
you only have the archetype, if it could speak, all it's going to say is, "I know doing." This is what
it is to be human and individuated. "I know doing." Not you - "I". The individuation is the individ-
uation into a separate form that does its own doing. Not only that, but that 57th gate, the Gate of
Clarity, the Gate of Intuition, this is the gate whose deepest fear is the fear of tomorrow, the fear
of survival. The first thing that the 34 does is it empowers our capacity to be able to hear. To
hear is to be here. It empowers our capacity to be able to hear. It empowers our intuition and it
empowers our potential to survive. But it's not finished because it has to go through the whole
integrative process.
When you bring the 34 to the 10, you bring together power and a role of the Self. It is the role of
the Self in the World. Remember that about the 10th gate. The 10th gate is the only gate that
knows anything about being in the world. It's a very important gate, this gate of behaviour.
That's my old joke about walking through the jungle dressed in bright colours and carrying a
ghetto blaster at full blast. Something's going to eat you. How you behave is what your survival
is all about. So the moment that the 34 is connected to the 10 you have something else going
on. This Channel of Exploration, to explore all the kinds of doing, this Channel of Explanation,

this Channel of Following One's Convictions, not their conviction, one's own conviction - the
empowerment of a singular behaviour. Not a conditioned behaviour, not a tribal behaviour, not a
collective behaviour, but the empowerment of individual behaviour in the world. The moment
that you empower individual behaviour in the world you get the 10 to the 57 and you have
Perfected Form - you have the survivor. The 34 is not simply empowering the basic archetype of
what it is to be human - survive - but it also leads to the empowerment of all the possibilities of
all of those different roles that can be played in order to survive in the world.
When you get to the 20th gate you get to the opportunity to express that. When the 34 goes to
the 20th gate the doing gets out into the world, loose cannon or not. This is incredibly selfish, by
design. Please understand that. There is no recognition of the other, naturally, through this
design. It does not mean that the other does not exist. But the other has its own trip. This is the
real cool - you could even call it cold - energy of the Sacral. Every single gate out of the Sacral
has a different kind of a temperature. There are varying degrees but the coldest of the gates is
the 34. If you want to feel the cool wind blowing, and the power of what that cold can be, you will
find it in the 34, in this Power of the Great. Empowerment is cold-blooded business. It's just
coldblooded. It's like the design of insects with their archetype - it's just cold-blooded. Now that's
neither good nor bad. It is the essential ingredient of what individuation is - to be cool and
separate, to perfect one's own form to survive in the world naturally as oneself in the now
existentially. So this 34th gate, the fuel of individuation, is the power to empower. That's why the
moment that you see the Centring Circuit as a minor circuit which is deeply individual, the
moment you bring that Centring Circuit into somebody's life, the moment you bring the 34th gate
into somebody's life, you pump up this individuation process. You provide the power for
empowerment.
The 34th gate is asexual. It does not carry with it any sexual quality whatsoever. It's cool, after
all. The sexuality that's going to drive and hook integration is going to have to come from
someplace else but it's not going to come from the 34. Anything that empowers individuation
does not empower coming together with others. That's not what Integration is all about. So
when I speak of the 34th gate as asexual it isn't even a question. In other words, it is simply a
power release mechanism. It's older, in that sense, than any of the gates that are there in that
Sacral. It's the beginning of that Sacral process - to initiate the individual life and out of initiating
the individual life, the possibilities that can then come.
First, we have to be in our own forms. The first thing to recognise about the nature of this Sacral
Generator is that it provides the energy that's turned into matter. It's a great mechanism inside
of us. Provides the energy that creates the matter that we will call 'living child'. It provides
energy for concretisation. It's there to empower the building of things. So the first thing we see
out of
the Sacral Centre is its capacity to be able to initiate individual life and individual form. Once that
individual life and individual form have been established, then there is also going to be the
requirement to be able to maintain the species. Because the Sacral Centre is the centre that
empowers life itself, that is where life is generated biologically, then it carries with it the
strongest genetic identification. In other words, what we're looking at here are the genetics of
the Sacral Centre. We're looking at genetic roles.
Now think about what a role really means. In using that terminology, not everybody really grasps
that. All roles simply represent forms of strategy. If you're a 71 and it is your role to be an
Authoritarian, that is a strategy. That's how you get authority is by being authoritarian - it's your
strategy. You may not be authoritarian at all. But you live out an authoritarian role because it's a
strategy of your identity in order to be able to influence others. Roles are strategies. They're not

your own strategies - it's not like you've got the motive. These are strategies that are built into
you in your program. So we have genetic roles and these genetic roles are just, just, and when I
say just, well what to do? Strategies. When you think of them that way, you're going to
understand them a lot better.
GATE 59: DISPERSION - THE GATE OF SEXUALITY
Let's take the example here of the 59th gate. The 59th gate is called Dispersion. Dispersion is
the Gate of our Sexuality. In this keynote here it's called the binder because that's its strategy.
The strategy is to bind you to it. How do I get the mate from the other side? How do I do that?
The genetics are going to provide the strategy. So the first line, the Pre-emptive Strike, you are
just going to, as a strategy in order for you to have the right mate, you are going to have to go
and get them: the caveman line - you see them, you hit them over the head, you bring them
home.
Or the second line, which is Shyness. Everybody thinks, "Ahhh." It's just a strategy. What the
genetics are saying is you're not allowed to move a muscle. You're going to have to sit against
this wall. Don't you dare move, because the only way we're ever going to know if we have the
right mate is if somebody comes and pulls you off this wall, because that's your strategy. By the
way, if you pull these people off their wall they're not shy. The strategy is there to get the mate -
it doesn't stay there afterwards as a strategy. It's just a strategy.
In the third line which operates in a wave of Bonds Made and Broken, it's a genetic strategy.
How many people on this planet have had children from more than one partner? It's just a
genetic strategy. Break this bond, make these genes, do that. Go on a holiday, make love to
somebody, impregnate them, spread the gene pool.
The fourth line of Brotherhood/Sisterhood is the same kind of thing. Everybody thinks, "Ah, isn't
that nice?" It's just a strategy. It means that before you're going to make love to them, you have
to be their friend. So you end up in relationships in which your strategy is first I'm a friend. You
go through all this pain and angst because you want to make love to them and you can't - you're
their friend. Until you finally cross that barrier at some point and it becomes possible. It's just a
strategy. It means that you can't have a lover unless their your friend first.
This is the whole thing about role gates. What this role gate is doing is that it's establishing a
genetic role, a genetic strategy, in order to snare, literally, a mate on the other side. The whole
thing about that is that your Sacral is not your mind. While your Sacral is playing wallflower, your
mind is going, "Are you nuts? Get out there on the dance floor. You crazy? What are you doing
sitting here? Something wrong with you? We have a problem." All your friends are coming over
saying, "Come on, come on. Get up. Get up." And the mind is going nuts, you know. "I can't. My
legs are paralysed. I stumble when I dance." So inside you're going crazy because you can't
understand why your genes are doing this terrible thing to you by forcing you to play out this
strategy, and you've got no control over that - none. Your mind is going, "This is nuts." This is
one of the great jokes about our sexuality - it's not aware. It's just a mechanism and the genes
run the show, after all. Basically, we're just a by-product of the genetic life, if you know what I
mean. They're doing all their thing and we're a result of all that. We're just a by-product of that.
It's like we're looking back down and saying, "Oh." When the genes come along and they
establish who you are going to make love to, who you are going to have children with, if you
don't understand what's going on, this is very disturbing. They have their own role. They have
their own strategy. More than that, the G Centre may be very interesting but it has no direct
power of its own. It's just a hook machine. When you're talking about the Sacral Centre, you're
talking about a really powerful thing. The moment that you define the Sacral Centre and you've

got the 59th gate, that genetic role is out there pulsing each moment of each day putting out its
vibration. Of course, that's bringing all of the things that that strategy is intended to bring. The
U high school boy with the Brotherhood/Sisterhood who has 25 girlfriends and can't make
love to any of them - they all want to be his friend.
It can drive you crazy if you don't understand how your mechanism works. We cannot control or
interfere with our genetic strategies in life. But you also have to see that the moment you step
into somebody's aura you step into their genetic strategies and the conditioning of those genetic
strategies. In my pleasure of having a totally undefined Sacral Centre, I find genetic roles
hilarious. I take Self roles more importantly because I have them myself. When I look at genetic
roles, Sacral roles are really hilarious because you can see that what's happening to the person
is disconnected from their whole processing of how things are supposed to be working in these
situations - they really don't understand. So their energy is doing one thing, playing out their
genetic role, and their brains are doing something totally different. The Sacral Centre is very
powerful - these genetic roles condition us. The thing to see is that they are strategies. Honour
the strategy. Don't interfere with it but see it for what it is.
It's like my advice to people who have the 4th line, Brotherhood/Sisterhood. It operates in an
emotional wave of Kindness and Meanness. So you make friends with somebody - it's very kind.
You're kind about their past problems - you're friends, after all. They tell you about their ex-
lovers, what went wrong. You're very kind. You have all kinds of supportive things to say. You
each tell each other all of this stuff. Then one day during a snowstorm when you're really bored,
you make love. The wave changes. The moment you become lovers, all that friendship stuff that
you shared with each other becomes very dangerous material: "You're doing exactly to me what
you said you did to your last girlfriend." So if you know that the strategy is if you've got the 4th
line, every time you make friends with somebody, what you're really saying is, "I want to make
love to you." The moment they're hooked on that friendship line, there is always that possibility
that you're going to end up as lovers. So, shhh - don't talk so much. The moment that you
realise that it's still about sex and it's still about mating and it's still about having a love affair, it
just has a different strategy to it. Remember, that everyone you're going to be friends with is a
potential lover, and then you'll keep things to yourself that you don't want to be used against you
later. That's the lovely thing about mechanics - the moment that you recognise the nature of the
mechanic there's something there for you clearly that you can do about it, in the sense of how
awareness can operate in that.
GATE 27: NOURISHMENT - THE GATE OF CARING
We have another role gate here on the other side. On the other side we have the 27th gate -
Nourishment. This is the Gate of Caring, of looking after, of nourishing. It is very humanistic as
such. It's also the gate most susceptible to disease, particularly sexual diseases. The 27th gate,
the Gate of Caring - here we're not dealing with the power of fertility, the power to be able to
hook somebody in with your strategy in order to be able to reproduce. That's all the genes are
doing - please understand that. That's their strategy. Strategy is out of the 59. We have to find
some genetic material that is different from us, the more different the better. Let's trap it with this
strategy because then we know they're exactly the right ones for us, even though they are
different. Then we have children, OK?
They don't care, the genes, about how much money you make, where you live, whether you can
handle all that stuff or not, whether you like the person or not. It doesn't care about any of those
things. Nothing. Just where is it and let's do it. And it's the Sacral that's running your life. Here's
this frequency that's going all the time and it's running your life - they're just roles. The same

thing is true for this 27 and it's genetic role. Its strategy is: let's find a way in which we're
protected in the caring of our children. Let's find a way in which we're protected in the caring of
our children because our children must survive. This is not about connecting to the Emotional
system and the diaphragm of the 6 and the opening up to the possibility of fertility and
reproduction. This is about moving towards the Splenic awareness, the immune system and
health. In other words, the genes aren't just interested in doing it. They want to find a way to
keep the new material alive long enough so it can do it too. It's the only thing the Sacral is
concerned about. At its deepest level, it's only concern is to maintain life. So you have this
whole reproductive strategy and then on the 27 side you have this nourishing strategy. The fact
that you have a Gate of Caring doesn't mean you care. It simply means that that's a role - it is a
strategy. It is a strategy that's there in order to make sure that the tribe is properly nourished.
What we have out of this 27th gate is something that we admire in humanity because here we
have the power of compassion. But it's a strategy - it's not aware, after all. It's just a gate in the
Sacral Centre. It's a mechanism to ensure the nourishment of those who are just arrived.
What the 27 is always looking for itself is that it's looking for the proper values that will
guarantee the survival of the tribe. Those values that it seeks out are the values that it seeks in
the 50th gate. There lies the awareness. To have a strategy of nourishment that is not guided by
awareness is just a waste of resources and it leads to decadence and illness. Any gate that is a
gate of nourishment is a gate of lack of nourishment. Any gate that is a gate of sexual strategy
has no sexuality or no strategy at all. There's always the other side that's there. This caring can
become lack of caring. As friendship can become no friendship at all. One of the things to
recognise about the nature of both of these role gates is that those role gates are there to be
fulfilled by their harmonic gate, and out of that you form the whole Defence Circuitry. In other
words, out of that you form the basis of what life is on earth, because that's what the Defence
Circuitry is all about - the life as we live it on earth as humans, reproducing, nourishing the
young. This is the genetic business.
So when you're looking at the Defence Circuit what you're looking at is the purest genetic
process that we have. We've already seen by understanding the nature of type that the Sacral
has a life of its own anyway. The Sacral Generator is moving somebody along the street and
they don't know why they're going down the street anyway. We already know the power of the
Sacral. What this Generator is putting out at a consistent level is the establishment of our
genetic roles. Whenever
you see role gates in somebody's design it's very significant because role gates are always
going to have a dominance in your design. They indicate a fixed genetic pattern for behaviour.
The moment that you see the nature of these roles and how they are structured, if you keep in
mind the quality of the Sacral Centre that you live out these roles. It's not a question of good or
bad. It is a question, in terms of the Sacral Centre as a Generator, those roles are played out
out of response and are not initiated. This is the whole thing - these are response roles. These
are response strategies, responding to whatever the aura is, responding to the situation. As we
know about the Generator, the Generator has to be asked in order to know its truth, in order to
respond with power. So these sexual roles, even though they are there and they dominate in
our culture, at the same time they only function properly when they are called upon.
It is, or can be, obvious to you how much influence the Sacral Centre actually has in our lives.
We looked at the 34th gate and we saw that it's responsible for the individuation into these
separate forms. Through the 59th gate and the 27th gate it establishes our procreative and our
nourishing structures within the tribe to maintain our genetic pool and to maintain the ability to
be able to nurture the genetic pool so it continues to expand.
GATES OF THE FORMAT CHANNELS

Now we have three Sacral gates that are pointed downward towards the Root. What we looked
at on the first day together when we were looking at the Root Centre, this illustration that I put
up at that time, what we see here is that the Sacral Centre in these three gates is part of this
format energy. These format energies, as we've seen, dominate within a chart. What they do
within a chart is that they provide you with the overall energy pattern that that design is going to
operate through. So in these first six gates of the Sacral, every single one of them is intrinsic to
our life process. In other words, the Sacral Centre carries, justifiably so, a great deal of
importance in Human Design. When you focus on the Throat and you focus on the Sacral, and
you always recognise the potency of the Solar Plexus, you really can understand what it is to be
us. These three elements really dictate it. None of those elements are aware. We have a hang-
up with this terminology about awareness. For example, there are so many people in their
design where their authority has nothing to do with where their awareness is. Awareness is not
something that guarantees you anything - it's just an aspect of the totality. If you don't have any
defined awareness, awareness is not something that's trustworthy in your process. It is just
something that you can be wise about. Don't take out the parts and try to turn them into
something greater than the whole, because you can't. The whole is always greater than the sum
of the parts. The whole is the totality of the bodygraph. That total being has a different way of
operating. That is the uniqueness of all of us.
These three centres that are so essential to our life, they are the mechanism of our life. They
are not aware. Awareness rides the camel but the camel is the life. They're not aware. They are
just the mechanisms and we are the humble servants of the mechanisms.
GATE 42: INCREASE - THE GATE OF GROWTH
The format energies - we look at the abstract process first. This whole business of the cyclical
experience - the 42nd gate and the 29th gate are two gates that are involved with life and death.
They are gates at the most mystical level. If you really want to know anything about what dying
is, you will find it in these two gates. The human process is the cyclical process and the cyclical
process conditions our beginning, middle and end life. The 42 and the 29 are all about saying
yes or no to life. The 42 is already ready, always ready to complete its process. The 42 is
always ready to bring things to an end. Not in and of itself - remember that. When we talk about
the 42nd gate it's the Gate of Completion and needing to bring things to an end. It does not
mean that because it's there it has to bring something to an end right away. That's not what it's
about. These are closers. Remember how I described the 53 to you - the beginners. They are
not here to close anything. The closers are the 42s. Whether that takes 5 minutes or 20 years
they don't like the loose ends. They go through this process of trying to just simply end all that,
fix that end. End that, end that, end that, so they can do something else. It also means that the
42nd gate, somewhere within its nature, is ready to say, "The loose ends of my life now must be
completed. It's time to die." That's the other side, as well.
When I was doing the partnership course, we were doing Lennon and McCartney, and, of
course, John Lennon was a 53 and McCartney was a 42. His killer was a 42 - bringing closure.
That doesn't mean, by the way, that 42s are good assassins, but they probably are. One never
knows about such things, nonetheless. The Gate of Ends. So think about the nature of what this
is when you're looking at the abstract process, the experiential process.
The thing to recognise about it is that the 42 is essential, otherwise you don't have a way to
bring cycles to an end so you can start new cycles. That's its gift. Of course, this is one of the
great gates of torment and depression for Generators. If somebody says to you, "Do you want to
take on this particular load? We have to clean up all this stuff and it needs to be done and can
you do this?" And they answer yes with their mouth or whatever, and they haven't gone

"Ahunh," then that closure becomes hell because it's not their thing to finish. So they are not
equipped to finish it, so they're bound for crisis. This is true of any aspect of the Sacral Centre
as long as it's not connected to the Throat. As long as the Sacral is operating as a pure
Generator, none of these functions I described operate properly unless they're coming out of
response. The gift of closure is there, but what to close is something else. Here we have the
power to complete. The power to complete is the human way, this cyclical process. By the way,
we share this with all the mammals on the planet. This cyclical format - it is the deepest
connection to the animal past. It's why, by the way, it will leave us in our next evolutionary step.
It's holding us, in that sense, to the very ancient mammalian cycle, the life cycle. So inherent in
the Sacral Centre in this gate is that you have a capacity in this to not simply fulfil the human
process, which means that you go through experiences but you must finish them in order to
reflect, in order to be able to provide us with a memory that can be shared so that we have our
history. At the same time the 42nd gate is going to regulate how long you live. At some point
that 42nd gate is going to click into, "It's time to die."
By the way, we have three different ways of death. So what I am referring to here is a natural
process. I'm not talking about disease. I'm not talking about accident or serendipity or whatever
you want to call it, murder or whatever name you give to these things. Just the natural process
of life and death. That's built into this cycle. By the way, it doesn't matter whether you have it in
your chart or not. If it's time for you to die, there'll be a 42 step into your life and kill you. I don't
mean that in the concrete sense that they're going to put a bullet to your head. It's just going to
open up that aspect in your genetic pool that recognises, "Oh, yes, it is time." and away you go.
Part of the process. Sacral centre is an incredible place.
GATE 9: THE TAMING POWER OF THE SMALL - THE GATE OF FOCUS
When you come to the other side, to the logic side, to the logic format, and remember the nature
of the logic format. Here we don't have the power to complete anymore, we have the power to
concentrate. Take that word concentrate at any level you like - not simply mental concentration
but think about what a concentrate is - how everything is getting compressed, in that sense,
concentrated. The whole thing about the Sacral Centre is it's providing energy and it's providing
energy to establish form, movement. In other words, it's a power system. It's there to be
converted.
With the 9th gate, The Taming Power of the Small, it's a funny gate because it's a gate that
has... there are only two gates that are called The Small and there are only two gates that are
called The Taming. This gate is called The Taming Power of the Small, so it's got those two little
funny variations in it. Small is about detail; taming is about the capacity to manipulate. Again this
term manipulation is not to be seen as a negative. It's simply what it means. Manipulation - the
hand ([Latin] manus) - to be able to work with it, mould it, shape it, focus it, concentrate it,
instead of allowing it to flutter around. What you have in this power to concentrate is that you
have the
~-' capacity then to be able to, with the focused energy, establish a proper pattern. It's all about
establishing a proper pattern. That's why we're focused and concentrated. When you first go to
high school, they teach you about how you have to have a study schedule. Very few kids ever
pay attention to that. I've always told students of mine when I was teaching formally in schools I
was very generous - I said, "Give yourself 15 minutes a day that you set aside every single day.
You know, those 15 minutes you're going to think about what you're going to deal with when you
come back into my room so that it's there." Patterns for us are essential. If you don't have a
pattern, then you don't have a ritual through which you can focus. As you'll see, the 5th gate is
the great Gate of Ritualisation - that's what patterns are. We ritualise what is already a pattern.

In order for our focus and our power to concentrate and our logical process to work we must
have patterns.
This 9th gate, the Gate of Detail Energy, is what we're going to do is we're going to concentrate
all of this energy so that we can find a pattern in which the detail can emerge. If you're a logical
person with logical work, and you don't do it every day and you don't do it at the same time
every day, it's never going to work. This is never going to work. Logic is all about patterns. The
perfection of logic is all about patterns. It's about focusing your energy. What you do in that kind
of situation is you say, "I don't have to think about my studies all day. I need to find a pattern, so
I can think of my studies for this hour of each day in this place at that time and then I have 23
hours where I can do other things. But I have this place to do this work." It is not a coincidence
that we live in a pattern-structured world where we have jobs where you have to be there at a
certain time and schools and all of these things, because this is the way that focus and concen-
tration is developed, by fixing the pattern. Otherwise you end up with the abstract process that
says, "No pattern, OK. Let's do something else." If I don't have to do anything now, I can do that
and that and that and whatever, and blah blah blah. The pattern is essential for logic to develop.
That's why organisation is one of the major themes - you can't be organised unless you have
the proper pattern.
The abstract 42 that has the power to be able to complete, what it's looking towards is the 29
that's ready to say yes to a new commitment. It's very different. The 29 is there to say, "Let's
start a new experience." The 5 is there to say, "Let's have a fixed pattern for our concentration."
That's the difference between the two of them. The whole thing is that the part of us that
generates this
process of being in the world and living our lives and going through our cycles has no access to
the Splenic system and doesn't necessarily add up to something that's healthy. That's why we
die. The experiential path, by its very nature, leads us to death. It is a beginning, a middle and
an end. It isn't inherently healthy. It's not healthy to be a human being. We die. Well, it's true,
isn't it! These machines do deteriorate, break down, fall apart, and it's over. There's no money-
back guarantee. There's nothing you can do about it, even if you do buy new parts these days.
It doesn't help much. It's the whole thing about being a human being. We're in disposable
packages. The more we realise that these disposable packages don't belong to us, the less
concerned we are about what happens to these disposable packages, the more we're going to
enjoy being in them. There's nothing more frustrating than a Sacral person. After all, they are
the rulers of frustration on this planet. Being in these packages is OK. It's just a matter of
understanding how they work: to recognise the nature of the mechanic and to be able to deal
with it because you do understand why it works the way it does.
So in looking at these collective gates within the Sacral the first thing you can see is what the
Sacral is doing is that it's going to provide very fundamental format energies that condition both
the way we live out our lives and also whether or not we can be successful at our logical
processes. This is the power for us to live out the human way and the power for us to try to stay
stable in that way. Again, this deep power within the Sacral system is there to drive all these
different kinds of forces in our lives. So many people have come to me for readings who are
Sacral people, and I tell them the story of how easy it is for a Generator to be awake - all they
have to do is respond. That's simple, seems simple. But the reality is that the moment that you
take what this Sacral Centre is and you realise that the vast majority of humanity is not
responding out of their Sacral, then you can see that these processes and these principles that
are at work are not working properly. They are working as they work. It is what it is.
But we're living in a conditioned Sacral world, and what's being generated out there is a Sacral
aura that is not well. What's being generated out there is a frustrated Sacral aura. We may have

an emotional environment that is being generated by the Solar Plexus but we have a frustration
environment that's generated by the Sacral system. You can understand their frustration. There
you are sitting on top of the great power centre of the vehicle. It's like having the finest, most
powerful automobile in the world sitting in your garage and you have to wait for somebody to
come up to you and say, "Would you like to go for a drive?" before you can get into your own
car and drive or not. You can understand why there's all this frustration. You've got all these
Mercedes Benzes sitting in all these driveways and everybody is waiting for somebody to come
by and say, "Hey, want to go for a drive?" Of course, the vast majority of those people are
running around in their houses looking for the keys. "I want to drive. I want to drive today. I want
to drive today. I don't want to wait for anybody." Thirty per cent of those cars have accidents that
day. They've got all these false Manifestors trying to drive these vehicles because they think
they have some place to go. The Sacral Centre is magical but Sacral people are basically
dumb. The nature of humanity, by the way - it's true for every type. It's just the way it is.
In coming to grips with how profound the Sacral Centre really is - it's really profound - is the
moment that the Generator can really grasp within themselves that they have within them this
opportunity to clean up the living energy of life. To be clear and clean about what it is to be in a
cyclical life the human way. It's not about stopping the experiential pattern but it's about being
clear. The Sacral Centre controls all the cycles of the abstract way. It controls all the
commitments to the abstract life. If the Sacral is not responding, all of that experience is
detrimental to the totality - it just doesn't do any good. It adds to degeneration.
GATE 3: DIFFICULTY AT THE BEGINNING - THE GATE OF ORDERING
We come to the 3rd gate and the individual format. The 3rd gate is one of my favourite gates.
By favourite, I simply mean I am always attracted to complexities. The 3rd gate is responsible
for all biological and genetic mutation. I could probably teach the 3rd gate for weeks - it's an
incredible thing. It carries in it all of the way in which the genetic patterns in us are conditioned,
basically how the genetic structure is set up. It controls when recidivist genes come into
existence in our lives. The 3rd gate is very profound in the mystical sensory process of being
human. Both the 60 and the 3 are part of that process. By the way, so are the 27 and the 59.
The 60 represents all the possibilities of genetic material - that's its gift. It holds within it all the
possibilities of what is old. In other words, all the ancient genetic material lies in the 60.
The mystical name for the 3rd gate is the Gate of the New. The 3rd gate at a mystical level - out
of the old emerges a new genetic form, a new genetic possibility. When I say form, by the way, I
don't really mean that it's been concretised. The 3rd gate is a confused gate - Difficulty at the
Beginning because it needs to bring order to the pulse. Remember how the pulse works: that's
the whole thing about being in the individual pulse is that you know and you don't know, you're
there and you're not. Every time you come back you're checking to see. That's why it's
existential. Every time you come back from the pulse you're checking to see if anything's
changed. If anything's changed, mutations have taken place. So the pulse goes out from the 60,
that is old, and in that pulse arriving at the 3, there's always the possibility of mutation. If it
comes to the 3 and it's suddenly different, that's the job of the 3 in order to give it its form, give it
its order as an energy instrument for genetic change.
Think about these three Sacral format gates and how profound they are. The 42nd gate is
literally empowering the life cycle. The 9th gate is literally empowering our possibility of being
able to be focused and concentrated on a healthy, logical process. Here, when you're dealing
with the 3rd gate, you're dealing with the gate through which mutation enters into the world, that
is, biological mutation. This is the energy for any mutative force. When we're talking about this
business of the coming millennium and the change that's going to come and the genetic
mutation that's going to take place in the 55th gate and the 6th line and the spirits are going to

merge, and blah blah blah and all that stuff. That never happens in isolation - mutation takes
place in the whole Knowing Circuit. As a matter of fact, mutation takes place in the whole
individuality group. It only takes place when it's in the whole process, integrated. Mutation is not
something that operates in and of itself. The actual generation of mutation is always taking
place in a field of energy where different components are present.
In my design, I'm deeply individual. All my definition is individual. When I had my experience
with the Voice, when I met the Voice, the program of the day provided me with individuality in all
the places I didn't have it, so I could have a complete knowing process, thanks to the program.
Otherwise, my knowing would be incomplete - there would have been something missing. That
something missing could have come from contact with other forces that had that aspect of the
knowing circuit that wasn't there. This is the way in which mutation operates. It's necessary to
go through the whole system.
When we talk about the eventual mutation of the Spirit, remember that it's going to take place in
a single female first, and what she's going to carry within her is the possibility of bring that
mutation to her children. She will carry it in the 3rd gate. She will carry that mutative capacity in
the 3rd gate and she will bring it to her children. It will be initiated in the 55-6 but it will have to
go through the whole individual process. The real physical mutation of putting that into the
world generation after generation after generation - it's going to have to be there in the 3rd gate,
constantly part of the reproductive cycle. The 3rd gate brings our physical mutations into life. By
the way, the primary mutation that the 3rd gate brings is the obvious one - some of us are male
and some of us are female. It is the mutation of the clitoris into a penis that turns the male into a
pseudo-female. It's just a mutation. That's the primary mutation of the Sacral. Male over here,
female over here. That mutation has been with us in the 3rd gate from the beginning. This 3rd
gate difficulty of being the Gate of ordering, it is the power to mutate, the power to complete, the
power to concentrate, the power to mutate.
The 3rd gate is always subject to the mutation of depression into clinical depression. The 60th
gate can be depressive. We know that about all of the gates, the format gates coming out of the
Root. The depression in the logical process may lead to a sense of not being able to
concentrate or not knowing what to concentrate on. There are many things that are not worked
with on the physical plane. The depression that's there in the abstract process is not being able
to bring things to completion - the depression that the cycle cannot be brought to an end. So
you get stuck in a cycle - you can't get out. When it comes to the 3rd gate, that depression
becomes biological. In other words, what is depressive in the 60 can become a biological
mutation in the 3 and it can affect the whole being. Understand why it works that way. I've
mentioned this on a number of occasions. I do this on all readings where individuality appears.
Individuality brings with it a condition that we call melancholy. Individuality brings a condition of
the fluctuation in the world between a world that is happy and a world that is sad. So the 60th
gate being the Root energy of the individual process, its form of depression that it carries is
what we call melancholy.
The melancholy can be limited to just being happy or unhappy about one's limitations. However,
the moment that it's connected to the 3, there's always a possibility that a mutation takes place.
By the way, the mutation can lead to one being clinically happy, which is what we often call
madness or craziness or clinically depressed, which is the other side of the spectrum. In other
words, you get real freaky bananas out of this channel because we're dealing with freaks. It's
that whole thing to recognise about the nature of individuality that it is different. So it's different
in the way in which it operates in terms of what happens to depression. In the abstract process,
you just stay depressed as long as you're in the cycle you can't seem to get out of. You're going
to be depressed in the logical process because you can't find something to concentrate on, but

you will eventually. The abstract cycle will eventually come to an end. Once you establish a
physical mutation in your body it doesn't go away - it stays there. Very important for everyone to
see in their individual elements the key to where they find happiness and sadness in their lives.
It's through these individual gates that you experience this quotient.
The moment that you don't give reasons to that is the moment that it no longer produces any
kind of chronic melancholic biological depression - it can't. The moment you give reasons to it,
like giving reasons to emotions, you get caught in it: "I am happy because..." The moment you
say you are happy because, you are trapped. You're trapped because the 'because' points at
something else, and that means you're dependent on the something else to maintain your
happiness, and you're lost. When you say, "I'm sad because..." you do the same thing - you
attach your sadness to something or someone. Then you're lost. Then it's them, it's not you. As
long as they are alive, you can hold that. Giving reasons to things is deeply dangerous for your
psyche, for your life, for your well-being. The thing to recognise about this potential to bring
mutation is that that mutation can also bring deep mutation in terms of the way in which we feel
about our lives. Remember, after all, that in the individuality process, as we'll see tomorrow in
the 28th gate, built into individuality is this sense that if life is not of value, the hell with it. At the
same time, built into the individual process is this potential for chronic melancholic conditions -
mutated. It's one of those things to be very clear about in the individuality process: do not make
up reasons for why one is happy or one is sad.
Here in these three gates in the Sacral Centre, we have an enormous amount of power. What's
being empowered here are these three formats. It's being released into the world because
you're dealing with a Generator. The moment you hit the Sacral button it starts. It generates that
power into the world. It is that thing that generates the formats. Now think about that. What that
means is that the energy field that controls us is not a manifested field at all. When you think
about what format energies do, format energies dictate the energy pattern that we're going to
operate in. We're either going to be cyclical or focused or we're going to be caught in this pulse -
there's nothing we can do about that. This is strictly mechanical, unaware and dominant. It's
coming out of the Sacral's pulse and the Sacral's variation has nothing to do with manifestation.
This is why the Sacral Centre has greater power than the Throat Centre. It actually controls the
way in which the Throat Centre manifests. Think about the Throat Centre and its gates that we
looked at yesterday. If you look at those gates, ten of those gates are controlled in the way they
operate in the world by these three format powers. After all, they're just collective gates and
individual gates. There is only one tribal one and that's not connected to a format. We've
already seen how deep the Sacral impact is on our tribal sexuality anyway, on our whole tribal
life. It's at the root of our tribal life - it doesn't require manifestation.
So these format energies that are just naturally generating out of the Sacral system are
independent of the manifesting process. They are keeping us alive - they are keeping the
patterns of our life alive. When you are going to look at healing any disease, you are going to
have to come to these three gates. You're going to have to come into the formats. Think about
what a format energy really means for you. Let's say that you have a cyclical format. What that
means is that whatever you're going to have to go through in your life is guided by that cyclical
pattern and is the only thing that is healthy for you. So what that means is you're going to get
certain kinds of illnesses that come into your life that are going to operate through a pattern -
they're going to operate through a cyclical pattern. If you are somebody who has a logical
format, and you're living in a logical energy field which is focused and concentrated, the
illnesses, the problems that are going to come into your life are going to be very, very focused.
They are going to be specific and they're going to go to specific places. It's like the medicine you

use in the abstract is time released and the medicine you use in the logic is a direct bullet to go
right at it - the laser burn or the radiation or whatever it is - you go right at it.
We are controlled in our lives by these formats. We are living in a Sacral world because it's the
life
Generator. So these functions of the Sacral that impact on all these different qualities within our
lives, it operates independently of the Throat. Yet the irony is that all Sacral Centres want to be
Throat Centres. After all, the Throat is relatively impotent. There is nothing much the Throat can
do unless there's a lot of stuff that's connected to it and has severe limitations with these
limitations. Sometimes it can only speak, sometimes it may be able to act. Every time you turn
on the Generator, it runs. It runs all of this stuff. Pay attention to format energies.
It is easy to use it through the keynotes and it will help you. If you have an abstract format, it
doesn't matter if you have the whole channel - please understand that - if you have an abstract
format and let's say you have whatever, the 53 or the 42, just translate that easily over to
anything else that is in your definition. For example, let's say you have the Gate of Details [Gate
62]. It has nothing to do with the abstract process, but it's going to be conditioned by the
abstract format. So what that means is you're going to go through cycles of doing detail work.
They will have a beginning, a middle, and an end. It will just be controlled cyclically. If you are
going to be a leader and you're going to be an authoritarian, it's going to be cyclical. There will
be a beginning, a middle, and an end to your rule. Your authority will only last in cycles. You
know if you're the 45 and you've got an abstract format, you're going to have cycles of taking
material into your life. It's what we have in modern taxable societies: you go through the cycle,
at the end of the cycle you pay your taxes. You go through the cycle, at the end of the cycle you
pay your taxes. You go through the cycle, at the end of the cycle you pay your taxes. If you
have the logical format, and you have the 11th gate which has nothing to do with that - it's a
pure idea gate - it means you're going to be focused and concentrated on ideas. They are not
going to be cyclical anymore - they are not going to come and go. You're going to get focused
on an idea. You can spend years and years and years trying to elaborate and stimulate others
with that idea because you can't get to the next one. Even though the 11 wants to be able to go
from one idea to the next, it is being held within the structure of the energy field coming out of
the format. If you have the individual format and you're in this pulse - it's there and it's not - it
brings all this uncertainty with it. It brings the individual knowing process with it. So you take
somebody who is very tribal, you take somebody with the 37th gate, for example, and you bring
them this pulse energy and they become very uncertain about friendship. It's there and it's not -
it's different. It no longer has the tribal stability - it has this pulse to it. The nature of friendship is
subject to mutative change all the time - there's no sense of instability. Yet, at the same time, it
will bring to the 37 a unique quality that individuality brings - the unique quality of being different
as a friend.
The presence of format energies, particularly in relationships... it's one of those things to look at
when you're looking at your connection to somebody else is to see very clearly what format
energy is at work in that relationship. It's going to tell you a lot about it. Is it a focused and
concentrated relationship? Is it a cyclical relationship? Is it a relationship rooted in the
uncertainty of being there and not? What kind of relationship is it? Format energies tell you so
much. They're very, very powerful conditioning elements in our lives and they're independent of
manifestation. They're a by-product of life itself. They are part of what it is to generate this life
field in the world. Again, it points out the depth that's there within the Sacral Centre. The irony
about the Generator - none of this operates properly unless the Generator is waiting to be
asked.

TANTRA
One of the longest running questions that I get in Human Design is "What the hell is tantra?
How come tantra isn't part of the sexuality courses?" In this configuration, we have something
very unusual, if you think about it. We saw yesterday when we were dealing with the Throat that
the Throat had primary Gates of Identification. We saw that the Throat had primary Gates of
Identity - the identification in the 16 - the identity being in the role gates of the G Centre. We saw
that when the Throat was connected to these role gates in the G Centre, then we got the
expression of the identity, whether that's going to be leader, or example, or witness.
(Ra shows a chart.)
Look at this illustration. When the G Centre is connected to the Sacral, the moment that you
have definition between the G Centre and the Sacral, you have the identity generated into the
world. When the Throat Centre is connected to the G Centre, you have the identity expressed in
language - they're very different. This is your physical identity. This is your physical identity. This
is what tantra is.
Tantra is your physical identity, and it's very different from your verbal identity. Your physical
identity is what moves you in this world. This identity is generated. This is a design of a
Generator. This is an identity Generator. What does it generate? It generates two Gates of Love
and it generates the Gate of Direction. That's what it's there to generate. Again, think of the
depth, the profundity of the power that lies in the Sacral Centre. The Throat cannot empower the
identity. It can express the role of the identity but the physical identity generates. Period. No
awareness necessary to generate love and to generate direction.
The question of individual awareness doesn't matter - the totality is aware. The human totality is
aware. Life requires no awareness. Life breeds the potential to filter consciousness. What you
have here between the connection of the Self and the Sacral is something very special because
you have the generation of the identity into the world. By the way, that generation of the identity
into the world includes the integration that we looked out - the connection between the 10 and
34. The whole thing about the 10-34 is this is the tantra of integration - we could call it that. The
physical identity is the Self following its conviction. Then we have three Gates of Love being
empowered by the Sacral.
GATE 29: THE ABYSMAL - THE GATE OF SAYING YES
We begin here with the 29 - The Abysmal. I love this relationship between the 29 and the 46
because the 46, in the original language of the I Ching, the 46 is pushing upward into the
kingdom of heaven. The Abysmal is the deep within the deep. So you really have quite a
movement here from down deep in the belly of the world to this climb into the heavens of the
gods. The 46th gate is the Gate of the Flesh. It's the Gate of Body. It's the Gate of the Temple.
The 46-29 represents something very specific. The 46-29, Discovery - a design of succeeding
where other people fail or failing where other people succeed. This channel in the abstract
process is the only place where the abstract process can find well-being, health. It is about
being able to suspend oneself in the experience. The 46-29 is the Channel of Discovery but
nothing is discovered in the channel. The discovery can come because of but not through. Think
about how that works.
The whole business about experience is, the moment you are committed to an experience the
29 makes commitments. The moment you are committed to an experience what you're
committing to is the experience itself completely. The 42 is power to complete completely. What
that means is, there is no way for you to be able to look around in the midst of that experience
to try to figure out what is happening to you. The moment you step out of that experience there's

nothing to be discovered - it's over. The moment you are ready to engage in an experience,
whatever your authority is for engaging in that experience, when you are in the experience, be
there. Remember the role of the abstract: the role of the abstract is that once the experience is
complete through reflection the secrets emerge. Through reflection the truth is revealed. Then
one can be clear about what one has experienced and then have the capacity to be able to
share that with others. "Been there, done that. This is how it worked." But if you're in the
experience and you try to figure out what's going wrong, because something's going wrong, it's
over. It's over. You just keep ploughing there. This is the secret of discovery - just be there -
exemplified by the cliche'Art for art's sake'- whoever Art is. Just to simply be in it for itself.
Remember, the experiential nature is: don't be in any experience other than for the experience.
If you've never made love to a redhead, don't make it personal. It's still going to be experiential.
Stay with what it is. Be in the experience and look at it later. Then you'll know what you've been
through. All of that is keyed by the capacity to be able to make a commitment or not.
The 29th gate is a very, very, very important gate. It messes up more people than just about any
other gate. It's an automatic reflex that says yes - yes. "Can I mess you up?" "Yes." "Can I take
all your money?" "Yes." "Can I screw your wife?" "Yes." "Can I steal your car?" "Yes. "'Can I
keep you unhappy?" "Yes." This gate will say yes to just about anything and does so as long as
one is unaware. In most cases, people who carry the 29, they get to a certain point where they
realise that saying yes has gotten them into a lot of stuff that wasn't really good for them.
They're still dealing with their plate being full and stacked because they have just been running
around going yes, yes, yes.
The 29th gate - The Abysmal - the Gate of Perseverance, the power to commit. This is an
incredible gate. What this gates says, actually, if it could speak is, "I am saying yes to life."
When you die, the 29 doesn't say that. All death is triggered through the 29th gate. It doesn't
matter how you're going to go. There's a door, the reasons don't make any difference. At a
certain point, for the first time, that automatic commitment will not be there. No - no more cycles.
Over. So this 29th gate carries with it something essential for us to recognise. This is the gate
that commits to experience. It is the gate, in that sense, that is actually deciding. Think about
that. The power of the Sacral now. This is the gate that is actually deciding what experience to
experience. No awareness, just a mechanism. The mechanism is saying, "I have the power to
go into this experience, to take my energy into this experience." Again, remember the condition
of the Generator. Most people who carry the 29th gate say yes with their mouth. It has nothing
to do with what they're here to be committed to in this life. You see, what we need is clarity and
experience, clarity and experience, not the limitation of experience, not the denigration of
experience but the real respect for experience that comes out of clarity that is the proper
response. For a Generator who has a 29th to be asked, "Do you want to do something?" and
they respond, "Uh, uh" or "Ah, hah." Then you know you have clarity and experience, the yes or
the no. Only then does that Sacral operate properly.
Think about this in the language of empowering the identity. The 46th Gate is the Love of the
Body. It is the love of the flesh. It is the glory of being human. It is unrelenting joy in being able
to move from one thing to the next, to smell all the flowers, to taste all the fruit. What you
commit to, what experience, because when you commit yourself to the wrong experience you
pollute the temple. You destroy the flesh and the flesh is weak. It's all about recognising again
the nature of what Sacral response really means. It means there's no power, there's no clicking
of the gear mechanism unless you are directly asked. We have all of this abstract pattern
operating in the world where we live in an experiential life.

But the vast majority of the experiences that human beings are moving through are unessential,
are detrimental to their psychic well-being. The vast majority of Generators on this planet do not
wait to respond - they don't. They torment themselves with trying to be what they are not, which
is normal, after all. Humans are constantly caught up in living what they're not. People with
undefined minds who really think they can trust their mind, and people with undefined Splenic
systems who thought they were intuitive all their life, and people with undefined Egos who think
they're the best. It's just one of the jokes of life that ignorance permeates at such a deep level,
because human beings don't have the right education to understand their own nature and to
eliminate all of that conditioned body that they take on and the conditioned illnesses and
problems that come with it.
This 29th gate is a gate that says something very, very essential. Its relationship to the 42 is
very important. Here, what you have is the empowerment of the life cycle itself. Quality of life,
something that so many people are concerned about, the value of being in the world - if you're
an abstract person, quality of life is determined by the value of the experiences you go through.
This is not about whether they're right or wrong for you, good or bad for you. It's about that they
are your experiences. Because you're equipped to have your experiences, that experiential
knowledge is of value to the totality. When you are making commitments to things that do not
belong to you, that are not for you, you do not make a contribution - it is not possible. You are
not designed for those experiences. You yourself suffer in that process. There's an enormous
amount of suffering surrounding the 29th gate. It's keynoted by the 29.5.
Think about the nature of the 5th line - the 5th line is always telling you how the outside sees the
nature of the hexagram. First line tells you what a hexagram is - that's it's foundation - but the
5th line is always going to tell you how the outside sees the hexagram. That's why the 5th line is
keynoted the line of projection. Think about what is projected on every single 29. The 5th line is
failed ambition, 'Biting off more than you can chew'. Overload. Overreach. That's what
everybody projects on the 29th gate that it will say yes until it fails. Then you find somebody else
to say yes for you. There are all kinds of carriers. There are fine Arabian horses, grand
elephants and there are burros - 29s end up being burros. Everybody loads them up, sticks all
these things on their back and says to them, "You ready?" "Yes." "Be my burro. Let me use all
this power energy to carry my bags." Because the Generator is unaware and doesn't recognise
its own nature, it cannot possibly have any idea of what is correct for it to commit to in this life. It
can't - it just can't. That is a pure mechanism. Out of that pure Sacral response: "Do you want to
do this?" "Uh, uh." "OK." Otherwise it just leads to disarray and then nothing gets discovered.
This empowerment of the identity - the moment that you bring this whole channel together you
have a definition here in this discovery. What you have is the empowerment of the body at
peace in what it's doing. It is body that is rising up into the heavens. In that moment when you
say, "Do you want to make love?" and the Generator goes, "Ah, hah," you go through this 46-
29, you go from the depths to the heavens. Of course, you don't know how wonderful it is until
later when you reflect upon it. In fact, the moment that you bond in that way, you are lost in
timelessness. This is the mystery of the 46-29. This is its tantra: no time. You know what that's
like. You get deeply into an experience and then suddenly you realise: "Jesus, is it really that
late?" No time - you're in there. So this tantra isn't just about being in there and lost in your
sexuality, because it is not directly sexual - it's tantric. You can have the same sensation
blowing your nose - you can just be there. This is the beauty of it. Of course, to be there the
response has to be pure. Then let go and be there. This is the tantra of the flesh, to be in the
experience: lost, timeless, perfect. That's why only later can you figure it out. When you're in it, if
you're really in it, you're gone - you're gone. Your partner in front of their whatever, computer
screen, books, blah blah blah, and you can see that they've made a commitment to something

and they're lost in there. You're going, "The house is on fire. The dog just died. I'm taking your
car." Gone. Gone. That's its beauty. That's its real beauty. That's what it's all about.
The logic side - different. You're really dealing with this polarity between this movement of the
cycle and what logic brings, which is the focused direction, this straight line. This is the beauty
of logic - logic is a straight line. Now I know that that may sound silly or simple but it is not. Logic
is a straight line - it is not a spiral. It's a straight line around which the spiral moves. The abstract
process is forever going around the straight line of logic that leads us into the pattern of the
future. Logic is very fixed in that way. It's a very different thing. It's not about beginnings,
middles and ends. It's about staying power. It's different. It's about taking energy away from
many, many, many, many things and concentrating that energy, bringing all of that energy
together so that it
can be focused on something. It is a tight beam of light. It's not like stoplights at a street corner
that are going to go through endlessly their cycle. This is just one fixed beam of light.
GATE 5: WAITING - THE GATE OF FIXED RHYTHMS
The 5th gate. There are only two gates in which the word enlightenment is used. One is in the
54th gate in the 4th line - Enlightenment/Endarkenment - and here in the 5th hexagram, the 5th
line is about waiting as an aspect of enlightenment. The 15-5 is universal. The 15-5 is in all
forms of life with the one exception of plants. The plants have the 15 because they're designed
to be manipulated in their patterns and by other things, insects, humans, animals. All forms of
life have this channel of being in the flow in common - this is the straight line of life. That straight
line of life is operating through fixed patterns. It can look chaotic when you're running around on
the spiral. But when you're staring at the straight line of pattern it is not chaotic at all. The
beauty of being focused and concentrated is the more you concentrate, you eventually get to
the point of simplicity. You get to the point of the concentrated simple formula. Everything about
the universe can be reduced to a binary, everything. That is very, very simple. One and one is
three - it's as simple as pie.
This is the gate of fixed patterns. One of the things to be clear about the nature of the 5th gate is
that the 5th gate, like the 29th gate, is also making a commitment. But it's making a commitment
in a different way. What it's saying is we have to establish a pattern. It's only after that pattern is
established that anything can happen. It's only when the 29 can make its proper response that
commitment can lead to discovery. It's only when the pattern is properly established is it
possible to find the flow. You can never have a consistent flow if the pattern is always changing
- you can't. You have to have a consistent pattern through which the focused and concentrated
energy will flow. So we are pattern creatures. Patterns are essential to us in our life.
Of course, there is another way that you can look at this word pattern and you can see that this
word is about ritual. Whenever I'm dealing with people who have the 5th gate, I'm always talking
to them about ritualising their patterns. What that means is, for example, you notice that you like
to eat in the morning at 8 o'clock. That's when you feel good. That's when you like to take food
into your stomach. The moment you notice that as a 5, you turn that into a ritual: "I always have
breakfast at 8 o'clock and nobody is going to disturb me or change that because that's my
pattern. I know if I disturb my pattern, I'll no longer be in the flow, which means I may or may not
enjoy my breakfast, which is not good for me because everything about being logical is about
focused and concentrated and consistent." This is not power that says, "Hey, let's try something
new and different." This is power that says, "We are going to fix the way we use our energy.
We're going to be efficient. We're going to focus it. We're going to concentrate on it." What have
we learned about the logic process? We have seen that the logic process is starved for energy.

It's gasping for energy. One of the things that's built into focus and concentration is to structure
patterns so that energy is used properly when it's available so things can properly be in the flow.
I love the 1st line of the 5. It says, "If the captain must, he or she goes down with the ship." It's
called Duty. The 1st line is always going to tell you what the basis of a hexagram is. Think about
that 1st line. You're a 5 - you have the 5-1. You're living in a big apartment complex. Every day
at 4 o'clock it's your ritual to lie down on the sofa and just vegetate - one hour, pure vegetation.
You just lie there, you love it, it's quiet. Everybody knows not to bother you because that's the
time you have fixed your ritual of rest at the low end of the biological wave of the day. All of a
sudden, you hear the fire alarms. Instead of it just being a prank, you can hear people shouting
and fire engines coming and smoke coming out of the building. Now look - if you move one
muscle, everything you possess will be lost in that fire and you may die. While everybody else in
that building is running out of that building, carrying their bits and pieces, falling on the stairs,
crowding in the elevators, going through adrenal shock, all of these things, you lie on that sofa
and just vegetate. If the captain must, he or she goes down with the ship. The odds are, if you
don't move and you just lie there, they'll put out the fire. You won't have any smoke damage.
You'll have all these people running around who left their houses and the fire went roaring in
and all of these things.
Because you're honouring your pattern, if you honour your pattern it is a pathway to enlight-
enment. That's why we try to ritualise enlighten-entertainment, this terrible joke. The reality is
that the moment that you see that you have a pattern, if you honour that pattern, what you're
really honouring is yourself, the perfection of what it is to be you. One of the things to see is the
moment you see the 5th gate in somebody's design, what that's really saying is that they need
to pay attention to their life. We do not make up rituals. This is not a mental decision to say, "I'm
going to have my ritual blah blah blah at this time every day." It's about looking at your life and
about seeing what pattern works for you. Some people like to make love in the morning. Some
people like to make love at night. You love to make love in the morning - that's your pattern.
Find somebody who fits into your pattern. Your pattern is you. It's about the patterns. It's about
ritualising those patterns. You like to have your dinner at a certain time - that's your ritual. If
you've got people around you who don't want to eat at that time, tough. So what? You eat at
your time. You work at your time.
Whenever you see the 15-5 you've got people who are always going to have trouble working for
anybody else, ever. They are not going to accept the imposition of patterns nor the imposition of
rhythm. They will not - it will not work - they can't. The 15th gate is the Love of Humanity. We're
not dealing with the flesh anymore - we're dealing with the aura. In dealing with this aura, in
dealing with this Gate of Love, one of the things to recognise is that unless we are clear in our
patterns we will fail in our love of humanity. After all, the one thing that humanity requires is that
it requires organisation. That has been our whole process - getting organised. All creatures
rooted in the 15-5 seek out organisation as the way. The more organised we are, the deeper our
expression of love. The more organised we are, the deeper our expression of the love of
humanity. The thing about the 5th gate is that it's there to establish what the pattern is. Not its
various rhythms, not the extremes that can exist in any pattern, in any way. That's the 15 - that's
another story. But the 5 is there to fix the pattern. That's why plant life in the world, which does
not have the 5th gate, its patterns are constantly being controlled by other forces. Bringing this
5th gate, bringing this ability to fix their pattern. Here it is called the power to repeat. It's the
secret. The tantra of the 15-5 is that you just stay there and keep doing it. The perfection of
repetition, the ongoing process of perfection - it's all part of the logical process. The moment
that you see that this is the power to repeat, then you get to see something so intrinsic in what is
logical - you must stay with things. You are not making a commitment to a cycle, you're making

a commitment to fixing a pattern that you'll stay with. That repetition is essential - it is the
repetition that breeds love. Think about what that's like.
You take somebody like me who learned to play an instrument when they were very young. You
start that process and, of course, there's no real love. There's an infatuation with the possibility
of what you think may arrive out of learning how to play an instrument. But there is just this
attraction. Through repetition, and through a repetition through a fixed pattern over years and
years and years and years and years and years and years and years, it turns into real love - this
is life tantra. This is the love of repeating. It's built into me as a teacher. Chaitanyo, as he's
editing these tapes, he's telling me I'm repeating myself all the time. It's a teacher's technique.
You keep on repeating because eventually it gets in. You keep on repeating in different ways
and different contexts so that eventually it clicks in. This is how we share knowledge with each
other. And the love of knowledge comes through the repetition. Without the repetition, you don't
get this constant, "Ah, yeah." It's the repetition, and the repetition is the great spirit of human
love. It's such a funny thing - real human love, the deepest love that we can have for each other
is expressed through repetition and perfection of patterns. Then we really do care about the
other. It's an ongoing process to see whether the pattern is correct for everyone.
It means that repetition is something that is absolutely essential because this is where masters
come from. The master gets your love through repetition. You keep on repeating the mantra.
You keep on repeating the steps. You keep on repeating the process. You keep on going
through it. We love to master things. All human beings love to master things. Just to put the
jigsaw puzzle together, just to be able to learn how to operate the computer - this is love. If you
get it the first time, you're not really going to love it. Think about what that means. This is not
abstract tantra. Abstract tantra is that in that moment you are lost and it is timeless - that's
abstract tantra. Logical tantra says, "We must do this for eternity to perfect our love." That's very
different. The abstract has the eternity in a moment and then it's gone. The logical tantra is to
build towards the eternity continuously through repetition - very different. One masters love, one
experiences love - two different things.
This 5th gate carries with it a very important element in our lives. Zeno asked me a very good
question yesterday about the nature of the hunger that the logical process has because I
mentioned to you the importance of the 58th gate and the 52nd gate because they are out of the
Root system. Obviously, the 5th gate is another power gate, another energy gate that's
available to the logical process - there's no question about that. The reality is that its energy is
there for something else. It is there to empower an identity of love, and that identity of love is
rooted in repetition, in being focused in something. When you look at human society as a whole,
you'll see very clearly that so much lack of love in life is due to the fact that people don't have
something they can be focused on, don't have something where they can dedicate their
resources and master it and have that sense of accomplishment at the end of their life. "Yes, I
started there and I got to here. I could go much further but so what? My time's up but it's been
great." Now, of course, not everybody is designed to have that as their process. But it is
essential to the human way. So this is a different kind of love. It's not about the human
experiential process. It's about how deep love can be in the human life itself, by being focused,
by working on the perfecting process. This is the love of humanity - don't stop perfecting.
GATE 14: POSSESSION IN GREAT MEASURE - THE GATE OF POWER SKILLS
Finally, we come to the 14th gate. Whenever I think of the 14th gate, I'm always reminded of the
original I Ching and I can always see this big wagon. The 14th gate is about a wagon. You can
see that wagon loaded up with al I kinds of goods. You can see it when the wheels break. You
can see it go through its whole process like one of these old western movies where you've got

these stagecoaches or chuck wagons trying to get across America, or covered wagon. It's a
wagon, big wagon full of fuel. It's a strange gate, the 14th gate, because the 14th gate is where
money comes from. Isn't that funny? Anyway, the 14th gate is where money comes from.
Money was a
mutation, a way in which we can move energy between us. The mutation that brought money
into the world happened in the 14th gate. The 14th gate makes money - Possession in Great
Measure. It's a funny name. First of all, it's possession. It already has, and it's in great measure.
Measure is a funny word - the Maya. Don't misconstrue wealth and equate it directly with just
money. After all, the 1st line says money isn't everything. It also says that at the very foundation
of the 14th gate is available, distributable energy. That's what money is - that's all it is. People
give money a bad reputation but there's nothing wrong with money - it's just energy. So the 14th
gate literally creates this energy field of distributable energy. The money's in the wagon. You
can pull it from here to there. You can use that money to get other things. This is the only tantra
that is not about love - this is direction.
The 2-14 has a unique purpose in that the 2-14 together form a union that directs all of humanity
and the entire planet in its proper direction. So Possession in Great Measure - the Gate of
Power Skills - I like to use the illustration that the 14th gate is gas pedal. The moment that you
see that the 14th gate is a gas pedal, you can see that that gas pedal is conditioning when and
how the energy is released. It doesn't matter whether the ignition is on or not. It doesn't matter
whether the driver is behind the wheel or not. What matters is: is there going to be that energy
release? If you can't pay for the ticket, you're not going anywhere. This keynote - The
Empowerer - is that what this is here to empower is our direction in life. It's called the Beat, this
channel. It's all about the transition of the mutative pulse energy. But 'beat' has an interesting
connotation in English. There's also the cop's beat - they're the rounds that we walk. Those
rounds, because it has that connotation, was because they used to beat it out on a drum, and
you would take your rounds to the drumbeat. Then it became your beat. And it is our beat. It is
our direction and our pulsing movement through space.
The whole thing about the 14th gate and why it starts off with 'money isn't everything' because
it's individual, which means it's there and it's not. Because it's melancholic, you're happy when
it's there and you're sad when it's not or you're sad when it's there and happy when it's not. It's
always operating in the pulse - always.
The 5 dictates the pattern to ensure the flow. The 29 dictates the commitment in order to
discover. The 14 releases energy in order to move in the right direction. Think about the 14 -
this is Generator quality. They cannot just throw their money around at everything. They can
only know, and this is all about knowing, where to put their energy when they respond. When
you get to the 2nd gate at the other end you get to the driver. All of those Sphinx role Gates of
identity are all subservient to the 2nd gate. They're just nuances forking off from the 2nd gate
because the 2nd gate is where the driver sits. That's where the Magnetic Monopole sits and
hangs out its line and hooks us into our trip. Never think of the Sphinx without the 14th gate.
You will see Shiva's trident and you will recognise how it points us through the world. It is that
power that is inherent. In other words, the energy of direction, the Sphinx energy comes directly
from the 14th gate.
A Sphinx motor - we are never going to be in the right direction until all 14th gates are
responding. When I say never be in the right direction, don't misunderstand me - you're always
in the right direction. What is correct for us as a direction rather than about right or wrong comes
from the natural response out of the Generator - to know where to place that energy, to know
where to place that money. That's a deeply privileged gate. Yet, most people who have the 14th

gate in a defined Sacral Centre have enormous problems with money in their life. If you don't
know how to distribute or where to distribute your energy, you are only going to suffer the
consequences of that. If the Sacral Centre, the Generator, is not responding, it's just like making
bad investments - that's basically what it becomes. You make an investment in this direction
and it turns out to be an investment. You make an investment in that direction and it turns out to
be an investment.
The nature of the tantra is that individual tantra has nothing to do with anything other than the
joy of being in the right direction. To move in the right direction provides a sense of psychic
security - that's the whole thing about the 14. The 14 is there to make sure that humanity is
secure in its direction. It's there to be an example for humanity, to take them in the right
direction, to guide them to the right direction, to show them how energy is invested. That's why
we call this channel the keeper of the keys, after all, to properly invest energy in the right
direction - this is so important to us. The moment that we invest our energy in going in the right
direction or the correct direction we really feel good. It's not this physical tantra of the collective,
because the collective is rooted in sharing. It's the empowerment, and out of that empowerment
you get the sense that your love, if you're experiencing that channel with a partner, that your
love is taking you in the right direction or you're in the right direction in your love. It doesn't
matter whether it's on or off - that's the nature of the pulse. It is simply part of the right direction -
that feels good. We feel good knowing that we are in the right direction.
SUMMARY
These nine gates of the Sacral - there isn't one that you can point to and say, "Well, this one
isn't so important." You're really talking about a centre that operates on its own. This Generator -
it doesn't take anything to turn this Generator on. All you have to do is have a definition to the
Sacral. All of that stuff and its potency is released. Generators are one of the most common
types of people that we have on earth - we live in a Sacral world. Our job in our educating
process is to make sure that Generators understand their nature, that they understand their
beauty and the contribution that they're here to make in society and that they recognise their
deep limitation, like all types, the deep limitation in having such possibilities in their nature. The
reality is that the Sacral Centre makes an enormous contribution to the totality. The moment that
we can educate Sacral Generators for them to recognise that their power is always going to
come out of response, only out of response, eternally out of response, and every Generator that
starts working with response starts changing the tantra of the world. This world frequency, this
global frequency, this need that we all have for the expression of love that the global tantra is
dependent on the Generator responding. Tantra is not initiated. This is something that comes
out of a response. The moment that we see that the Sacral field, the moment it is truly
responding, then we have this flood of love and this flood of energy coming into the world. This
is what the Christian Theosophical people would call the Christ consciousness or you could call
it Buddha or whatever you want to call it - it doesn't really make any difference. These are just
mythological terms, dogmatic terms for what is just basically us. Us. It's within us to release love
into the world - without that being hokey, without that being syrupy, spiritual stuff. It's just about
recognising how our mechanics operate and honouring them.
Instead of all these books being written about the nature of tantra, it's actually quite easy to
experience. All you need is Sacral people who are ready to respond. Then we have it in the
world. Give great respect to the Sacral Centre when you see it in somebody's chart. Like the
Throat Centre, these are two places that we look automatically to see the nature of a being.
Each has its beauty; each, obviously, has its limitation. These two centres are a key to
understanding Human

Design. The Throat has wonderful capacities to manifest, but the Generator is necessary for the
life itself. Otherwise, there's nothing to manifest. The Generator comes first. Out of the
Generator and the Manifestor, we have the energy structure of our whole planet.
What remains is to see the conditioning element of the Solarplex Centre because that
generating, manifesting capability lives in an emotional environment. Our work yesterday and
our work this morning on these two centres, this is essential information for you to work with - it
teaches you so much about people. It gives you a deep key to their nature. Recognise that
within the Sacral Centre lie all of these mysteries for us about the nature of what life is. In order
for our biological life to operate properly we need to educate as many Generators as we can in
this life. In order to begin this process of bringing real love into the world, and love into the world
without having to gather together in Washington and pray. Love that comes naturally into the
world as a byproduct of our existence - that's real love. It's not something that you have to make
up. It's not something that you have to believe in. It's not something that you have to create.
Love is a natural by-product of our lives. It's only the confusion of conditioning that keeps us
away from love being the currency of life - a by-product of what it is to breathe is love. The
moment that one is clear about one's nature - as long as you're not interfering - love is always
possible. The moment that you try to interfere, the moment you try to establish love, the moment
you try to hold love, all of that is just a joke. Love is here - it's just a matter of letting go of your
stuff. Then it becomes magnified.
This tantra is not about sexuality. Yes, it's very nice when it's connected to whatever is your
sexual connection to someone - please understand that. So if you have a sexual relationship
with somebody and you have the 46-29 as part of your design, you're going to experience these
moments of transcendent experience. But don't confuse the 46-29 with sexuality because you
diminish its beauty. It's much more than that. It's to have that transcendental experience in
anything. Don't associate these things with our sexuality simply because it's rooted in our Sacral
process. It's about bringing the generation of love into life itself as a constant and to guarantee
us that we're going in the right direction in this love. All of that is simply about allowing the
Generator to be what it is - a perfect response mechanism. Perfect.

THE ROOT CENTRE
INTRODUCTION
Being a human being is both the Tao of being between the Sun and the Earth, but it's also the
meat in the middle of the sandwich. We are in a pressure sandwich, and that's what keeps us
moving along. And that pressure sandwich is a stress-anxiety sandwich, and it keeps us moving
along. We are designed to be between these two centres of pressure. We are never free, in that
sense, of being in the field or the line of pressure. You know, at the mystical level, always keep
certain things in mind. Everything other than the Ajna, because that is where we are and that's
where we belong in the cosmic structure, everything else is somewhere out there in the
Universe. Pressure, pressure is not something that lives here. It is not something that is a part
of us - it is something that is passing through. Now it's always passing through - what to do? But
nonetheless you don't have to hold onto it - it's just passing through. It's passing through from
above and it 's passing through from below. And stress is not something that belongs to us
technically - it's just passing through.
Now if you don't interfere with it, it isn't going to disturb you. If you do interfere with it, it will. So
here we are as human beings in this lovely sandwich. You know, we have the pressure above
and the pressure below, and everybody wonders why the world is filled with nothing but
pressure. You know my favourite statistic - 70% of a woman's time world-wide is spent
collecting firewood and water. Talk about being under pressure! Incredible pressure - the stress
of being in the world. And of course everybody thinks that those are bad words. I mean they're
not. We're talking about the essential fuels for our whole living process. The things we don't like
the most - fear, stress, pain - this is what makes us human. It's what drives our consciousness.
After all, awareness is nothing but the result of fear - nothing else. Now the moment you stop
seeing those words - this is the whole thing about being a duality - the moment you're in a
dualistic universe and you're a dualistic being, you're automatically going to put a 'this' and 'that'
on anything. We've got all these words that base our time and history and our culture and civili-
sation, that we lean over to one side as being good and the other side being bad. Fear is not
bad nor is it good, it's both - always. It's just another this and that, but it's a fuel for awareness.
So stress and anxiety, these pressures on us, they are fuels for human life. It's really what
drives us, you know. And we don't get out of the pressure. And if we don't, you know, these
bodies, sucked to Mother Earth by gravity, you know, and all of us trying to jump up and fly, you
know, we're caught in there.
The Root Centre - the full-fledged, major league motor. The actual quality of this motor is stress.
I mean that's what this motor produces: stress. That's what the Root is all about, stress. The
adrenaline gland produces stress hormones. You know, it sounds nice as Kundalini - it's very
sweet. Yeah. It's Kundalini if you've been doing yoga for 35 years; it's stress for everybody else.
It's just stress - Boom! OK?
So you've got something else at work here. The other thing about the Root Centre is that the
Root Centre, it has no direct access to the Throat but it has direct access to the Sacral, and that
direct access to the Sacral is deeply significant because these are the format energies. And you
can
see that the power of this stress mechanism, you know, it's surrounded. The Spleen on one
side, the Solarplex on the other, the Sacral above, and basically it is a pressure system for
those three centres because out of those three centres come everything. The Splenic Centre
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through the 50th gate is the Root of all of our awareness. And the Splenic itself being our
fundamental existential awareness, our immune system, so it fuels our immune system. It
interacts with the Solarplex system, and it adrenalises the Emotional system. And it creates the
basis for all our sexuality. Add stress and emotions together and you've got sex and food.
And when the Root Centre is connected to the Sacral Centre connected to the centre that
generates life itself, that the basic pressures of life are created through these format energies.
So the Root Centre has an extraordinary impact as a fuelling station for these processes. And
they're all fuelled with this stress energy.
As a pressure, the pressure is to start from the point of stress as a motivating instrument. You
know, in the same way that you start with the pressure of the mental system and this anxiety,
you know, this a motivating factor in our nature - it gets us going. You know, this is where the
juice is - it's all in the Root.
Every single gate out of the Root Centre can generate depression. Every gate out of the Root
Centre can generate depression. One of the major side effects of stress is depression. And
when you're dealing with the format energies you're dealing with three different archetypes of
potential depression. We're talking about something that is not mental now when I talk about
depression. I'm talking about a physical phenomena, to be physically depressed.
The format energies themselves, whenever you see a defined format energy in a chart it's
saying to you that the way in which the energy operates in that being is dominated by that
format - always. Whenever you see a gate activated in the format structure, you know that that
aspect is going to dominate and affect the energy of the whole being, because that's what
format energies can do. They are very powerful. And they are the only aspect within our
physical vehicle that links us directly to our mind. After all, both pressure centres work the same
way. They have two collective gates and they have one individual gate. And they are linked to
each other through the column, through the centre of the body. These three different energy
formats, what they really represent is the three different ways in which we operate in the world
as energy systems. And the three different ways in which stress operates and in which
depression operates.
GATE 53: DEVELOPMENT - THE GATE OF BEGINNINGS
Now we begin with the abstract process, the 53 - Development - the Gate of Beginnings. You
know, I have this lovely analogy of the 53rd gate, because this is the gate that appears and this
is the format of mammals, and the 53rd gate is the Gate of Freedom. You know, don't chain this
animal because this is all about beginnings. And of course, if you chain an animal that has the
53rd gate, it's going to cry, it's going to get depressed. It's going to be physically depressed at
being chained. It's going to be physically depressed from being limited.
So the same thing is true for human beings. If you have the 53rd gate and you can't start a new
one, you're going to be very depressed. You know,if you have the 53rd gate and you got a job
and you can't stand it and you can't get to a new one, you're going to get very depressed
because the depression is built in as a mechanism of the stress. The 53rd gate, Development,
is the pressure to complete.
And, of course, the corollary is not fear but depression. That is, if you're under pressure to
complete and you can't complete, you can get very depressed. If you don't know what to
complete you get very depressed. This is the Channel of Maturation. This is the cyclical format
of the experiential way. This is the Abstract Process. And the perfection of the abstraction
process lies in beginnings, middles, and ends, the nature of the experience. To be clear in one's

commitment to let go in the experience, to reflect upon it, to store it, and to have a historical
perspective of its value for others - it's the whole abstract process.
And the physical abstract life begins with the 53rd gate. Everything having to do with the
abstract process begins with this gate. The 64th gate above doesn't get to do anything until the
53rd gate below starts the game rolling. It is the life that provides the experience for contem-
plation, for reflection. So there's this enormous pressure to complete, and the moment that you
can't complete you jump out and start something new - this is the 53. And so what that means is
that here are people that in the moment that they are oversensitive in any kind of situation they
can simply jump out because it depresses them to have difficulty because they can't complete
anything. And then they jump out and they try something new. And they go from this to this to
this endlessly.
The thing about the power of a format energy is that you can be totally individual and have this
abstract format, and it means that your knowing will run on a cycle. Everything about your life
will be controlled by this beginning, middle, and end cycle of the abstract process. In other
words, a format energy is going to dictate the nature of the way energy functions in the vehicle.
So they're very important. Not simply a fuel, but a fundamental fuel. It says here: the fuel to
begin. Now think about the beauty of what that is. That is, that is the fuel to begin any human
experience. I mean this is the basic fuel - "Let's do it. I'm ready," whatever it is - basic. If you
don't know what to start it's depressing. If you can't finish things, it's depressing. One of the
most consistent things that I tell 53s is that they have to have something new to do every day
otherwise they're going to have a new job every month. In other words, unless they have a job
in which they can do something new every day, for example it's better to meet a new face every
day than to service the same face over and over again. Because it demands new a beginning
doesn't mean that it has to be unstable. The other thing is that I always tell 53s something that
is very straightforward from the language of marketing. You know, I look at them in the eye and I
say to them, "You are not a closer, understand? You're not a closer. You know, you open doors,
you're not a closer. Start things. Let everybody else pick up what's left, but don't try to be the
closer."
And, of course, 53s always want to be the closer and they get depressed. And the moment
they're in something where they are unable to see the ability for it to be completed they're like a
dog on a chain wrenching on that chain to get out because they desperately need to complete
things, otherwise they're under stress. And it's an uncomfortable stress. The value of mechanics
because they're non-dogmatic is that you can always come up with some way of dealing with
them. You know, like the 53rd person that deals with new customers every day instead of being
in customer service. You know, they're not going to need to change their job because they lack
stimulation and new beginnings. Or somebody who's very good at starting things off, getting
people involved in something, but not able to stay with it, but able to get the energy going
because this is format energy.
GATE 52: KEEPING STILL (MOUNTAIN) - THE GATE OF INACTION
When you come to the logical side, you come to Keeping Still - Keeping Still (Mountain), actually
- that sense of the stillness of the mountain itself. How different a process that is, because, of
course, here we have the logical format. The whole thing about how logic works is that logic
requires a fixed and focused and concentrated energy. This is the energy to repeat. The
abstract energy is the energy not to repeat and the logic process is about repeating.
Think about somebody who has the 35/36, the Channel of Transitoriness and Crisis, and they
have this logical format. They are going to be focused and concentrated in their crisis and

change. They're not just going to be able to go through because that would be abstract. But
they're being dictated by an energy format that's logical that demands that they be focused and
concentrated. So, every other aspect of their nature in the genetic continuity of what it is to be,
is going to respond to the dominance of that format energy. So, Keeping Still (Mountain) - my
nickname for this is the Buddha gate, not because it's particularly spiritual, you know, just
because of this image of this guy just sitting under a tree, you know, no place to go, nothing to
do, just stare. You see this is not about the active energy, the driving energy that's in the 53 -
"Let's get going, let's start something new, let's get out there." This is the passive energy that
says, "What can I focus on? Where can I put my energy?" Passively, not burning around and
running through an experience, but being involved in some kind of repetitive, corrective
experiment.
This is why this is the format of masters. And it is the format of mastery. Because mastery is
simply the perfection of the pattern, to repeat the pattern over and over and over and over and
over and over and over again. Mastery, endless repetition, focus and concentration until it has
its own life out of that mastery. This is the root of that. And the nature of the pressure here is
that it is the pressure to concentrate, but on what? So many people with the 52 are deeply
depressed and they just sit there and look very dark in their corner. They can't really move
because this is passive, but they have nothing to concentrate on, so there's a sense of
hopelessness and darkness. After all, this is a tunnelling energy, and not to have anything to
concentrate on, not to have something to be focused on, is the deepest depression for a logical
being. It leads to deep uncertainty.
This fuel to focus, how important it is for the whole nature of what it is to live in the world as a
human being, this kind of living form. And because of the nature of the Understanding Circuit as
being something that is instrumental for maintaining life itself, you only have two gates of energy
in the logic system, both of them in the Root, the 58 and the 52. This is the only energy that
logic has, and that means the most important aspect for us in terms of being able to secure our
future, our capacity to be able to find through our doubts and suspicions those patterns that
need to be challenged and corrected. But to have the power to fix something you have to have
access to these energies.
These gates have enormous significance in the world. I mean, think about the level of
bureaucracy in the world. Think about how difficult it is to take a logical proposal and turn that
logical proposal into a financed energy experiment - it costs fortunes. You know, the American
political peculiarities demonstrate that so well, where you have people spending billions of
dollars in competition to see whose pattern is going to be experimented with. And you have this
crisis going on in Washington where it's all about where everybody's getting this soft money -
this is all the logic people looking for the 52s and the 58s. "Give me your energy otherwise I
can't do this experiment."
So the 52nd gate and the 58th gate, they carry enormous significance because they fuel the
logical process and they turn bureaucracies into efficient enterprises because experimentation
gets done, not committee after committee after committee after committee. So to be able to
focus, this is an incredible gift. We need that. Without that we would not have millions and
millions of people sitting still in scientific factories all over the planet figuring out things. We have
to have it. But it tells you something else that the moment it disappears in somebody's chart, it's
telling you that somewhere in their life they're going to have to find their true focus, in order to
be able to fulfil themselves. You see if you are a logical person and you go from this to that, you
are never going to be fulfilled because you master nothing. That's OK if you're abstract. The
abstract gift is not to master things, it's to collect everything. It's different. So, as a logical being,
unless you can find that place of focus there's this enormous pressure. And that pressure to

concentrate leads to depression. You know, "I'm ready but what, what am I going to be able to
give my whole life to?" 'cause that's what logic is all about. It's about giving your life to
something - the abstract isn't. The abstract says, "Well, this is going to come to an end. We may
get another cycle, but it's still going to come to an end." And the logic says, "No, no, no. I'm
going to keep on being a master until I die."
I mean, you can't get Mick Dagger to retire. You know, he's been mastering his profession all of
his life. I mean, I'm looking forward to seeing what he'll be like at 75 on stage, you know. Are
they going to wheel him out? That's the oldest band on earth. It's wonderful to watch that. You
know, what are you going to do? That's their trip. They're going to keep on being masters.
That's what mastery is all about. Repetition, repetition is a magnificent thing.
GATE 60: LIMITATION - THE GATE OF ACCEPTANCE
When you come into the middle, you come into the individual process and again you're dealing
with something very different. Because this is the pressure mirror of the Head Centre above,
you have these two collective aspects, and then in the centre you have the individual aspect. It
is one of the many lovely little twists, in the Human Design wheel, in the synthesis, that the 61
and 60 that are exactly opposite each other in the bodygraph from Head to Root are beside
each other in the wheel. I mean right beside each other. And it's an interesting programming
time if you're looking at the ephemeris because what it's saying to you is that the top and bottom
pressures, individually, you know, they're activated one right after the other all the time. Beside
each other, but opposite each other in the bodygraph from top to bottom.
The 60th hexagram. The 60th hexagram - Limitation - and it says Limitation is the Fuel of
Restraint. It's the pressure to mutate. Now, when you're dealing with the 3-60. I could teach you
about the 3-60 for four or five days and still have room to talk about a lot more things because
this is an incredible channel. Because out of this channel, of course comes the whole mutative
process. In mystical language, the 60 is the Gate of the Old and the 3 is the Gate of the New.
That is, every single genetic possibility exists within the 60 - all of them, every single one of
them - in the same way that all of the possible feelings exist in the 41. And all of the possible
energies needed for correction are in the 58. These gates carry a huge spectrum of fuel. And
literally what lies within the 60 is the capacity to fuel any kind of genetic combination. To fuel it,
anything that is there within the genetic pool. But you can see that what lies there is a pressure,
you know, to concentrate. It's one of the most interesting things about the nature of what the 60
has to do when it gets into the 3 is that when the 60 goes through there, to be able to mutate, it
has to go through because it has to be restrained. There's only a certain aspect that can go
through. And it's an aspect that comes through on a pulse because this is pulse energy - it's not
cyclical, it's not abstract, it's not this beginning, middle and end of the experiential way. And it's
not this focus and concentration that you need for the logical process. It's a pulse.
All knowing is knowing/not knowing. You know, this is the pulse of individuality: "I am/I am not."
Always. "I am, I am not. I am, I am not. I am, I am not." This is the mantra of that pulse. And
every time you go "I am, I am not," in the "I am not," you're in the space between the pulse, and
you have to reconfirm your "I am" when you come back because it may be different. Think about
what that's like. You have a pulse and you can just imagine the pulse like my hand going back
and forth. You have this pulse - the 'on' and the 'off' of the pulse. But there's something missing
in this analogy. Because what's missing in this analogy is that we're moving in space. In other
words, when I go out in the pulse, because I'm moving, I'm not going to come back to the same
place. I'm going to come back to a different place because of the movement. And wherever you
are, compared to wherever you were, adds up to difference.

So this is the magic of mutation. The magic of mutation is that you go out into that pulse and in
the moment that there is that space, change can take place, mutation can take place. And when
you come back in and say, "I am," you go, "Oh yeah? I am different. How did that happen?" This
is the magic of mutation. It's there but it's in the space. It's not in the pulse, it's in the space
between the pulses. So there's this pulse that's there in the 60. And in those spaces lie all the
possibilities to fuel genetic material. And this is the pulse energy that is going to guide our
direction through the totality because it will lead directly to the second gate and the driver of our
movement through life.
So there is a relationship between the 61 and the 60 that has to do with the way in which
frequency works. The mental pulse becomes an acoustic hearing. And inner sound, as we'll see
as we move through the various centres, that inner sound can become noise within the mind,
the inner voice of the mind, the different kinds of hearing. And when you're at the 60 level, what
you're at is a frequency that is sound, but we don't hear it. It's that pulsing frequency that's
moving through our being. Now, Limitation, given its very name, is the most profoundly
depressing of all gates. As a matter of fact it is out of this 60th gate that the melancholic
chemistry of the individual is initiated - all aspects. One of the things to recognise about the
nature of humanity is that humanity is by its very nature a melancholic species. Mutation rules
us. And individual circuitry covers more territory than any other circuitry. There are more
individual gates than any other. I doubt very much that there is anyone in the room that doesn't
have a single, at least one, individual gate. And every single gate of individuality is consistent
with the chemistry of melancholy. It will be happy and sad. This is not emotional, but you will
always be able to look at a chart, at any gate of individuality and see where the
happy/sad/melancholy is in that being. You know, it's such a joke to me that human beings
chase 'happy'. It's just one side of an equation, which means that you're going to spend half of
your time being miserable because you're not happy, and spend most of your time being
miserable while you're happy because you know it's going to end. Seems like a lot of work, the
Fuel of Restraint.
One of the keys in Human Design in readings is that when you see the 60th gate it's always an
indication that it is an extreme variety of people who must accept the limitation of their vehicle.
In other words, to really accept the limitation of who you are, you know, and the indication is that
because it's there it's going to be difficult to do so. You know, I have the 60th gate and
undefined Root Centre. You know, it took me a very long time before I would accept the
limitation of what it is to be me. You know, the reality is that the moment you have that gate it's
already indicating to you that one of the tests in your life is going to be dealing with limitation.
You know, it's one of those things about learning about where you go to school. You know,
always remember that undefined centres and active gates in undefined centres always
represent your course themes in life. They're telling you what you have to study. You know,
they're telling you what you're going to have to deal with, what is there for you to deal with in
your process.
But restraint is a key. So it pulses and then it's restrained. Understand it's just the basic nature
of the pulse, it's not just streaming it out. There's always this restraint -it's there and it's gone.
And of course this is the mystery of existence for us - that it is here and it is not. This is all part
of being a mutative species. Whenever you're working with format energies you have to begin to
see how much impact that they have on our process. And that you can see in the general
programming of the planet, in the way in which the transits operate, that you've got six gates in
the format structure and that those six gates are going to be activated a lot on a monthly basis,
by the Moon for example, and it's going to be impacted by the planets. You're going to have the
Sun/Earth combination in those six gates for approximately 36 or actually more days, double
that. You know you're going to have about over 70-72 different activations in terms of days of

the formats just from the Sun/Earth combinations. So the thing to see very clearly is that we're
being impacted at a very large scale in a way in which we use energy in a day-to-day basis in
our lives. You have a long-term transit to the 53 and everybody starts some kind of process.
You know, when there's a shift to the 52 there's all of the sudden this deep need to be focused
on something. In other words, we have a larger program at work on us.
Pay particular attention to your own design and the appearance of format activation in your
design. One of the things that it tells you is it tells you what is the dominant way in which you
need to process energy in your life because it's going to tell you how your energy is going to
operate.
Now the thing is that, of course, that these things are rarely simple, that is, that there are all
kinds of complexities in the nature of these structures. Martin Grassinger, who many of you
know from the newsletter, who is a doctor, a homeopath in Europe - all three of these formats
are deeply related to the basic homeopathic division of how our whole system operates - he has
all kinds of information about how each of these relates to different paths of healing and disease
function and all of the others. But all of that comes back to the format energies. That is, the
whole basis of the format energies is that these systems themselves literally control the way in
which disease comes into our lives and the way in which we work to heal a disease. You know,
you're going to have a very different kind of medicine if you are an abstract format, in which you
have a cyclical process. It's going to be very different from having a focused process, you know,
where you're really going to have a concentration and you're really going to have a focus on
what's being dealt with - a much more direct impact in terms of the healing. Or you're going to
have the individual healing, the mutative healing. They're very different processes.
So one of the things to recognise about the nature of formats is that formats have a great deal
of impact on our lives. This is really the essence of what Kundalini was all about. You know, the
way in which this stress energy is used to create these three different ways in which we move
through the world. And we're locked into them because, of course, wherever you go you're
going to meet the format.
You know, think about what that's like. If you're an individual and you meet somebody who has
an abstract format, well you're going to ride their abstract format. They're going to condition you
to a cyclical process. And yet your process is to be in the pulse and the pulse won't be there
anymore. You'll be dominated by that cyclical process. And that will change the nature of your
life process. I mean, for example, if you are a logical being. And as a logical being you are here
to repeat in order to master. And then you have an abstract format. What that says is that you're
never really going to have a lifetime of being able to master anything. You're going to have
cycles of mastery. You'll go through periods, beginning, middle, and end, where you'll be
focused on
something, repeating it over and over, but that cycle will come to an end because it's being
dictated by the format.
And it can be very confusing for collective beings to have an individual format because it makes
them nervous. It makes them nervous because they're used to everything being relatively stable
because the collective is based on what is and what has been, but it's not about mutation and
what could be, suddenly out of nowhere. And so the pulse energy when you bring that format to
the collective, it suddenly makes the collective nervous. It's like they can't really be so
comfortable with their focus or their cycle 'cause there's this sense that at any moment it's going
to fall apart because there's this pulse. And, you see, the format energy of the individual is
saying, if it could speak, "I'm not here to be best. I'm not here to be best. I'm here to be different.
I'm here to be different." And the collective formats are saying, "I'm here to be best. I'm here to

be best. I'm here to be best. I don't want to be different. I'm here to be best. I want to be the best
of all the same. That's what I want most of all. I want to be the best of all the same. You know,
you line us all up - I'm the best." And the individual's saying, "I don't want to be best. I want to be
different." So imagine what happens to a collective person that has an individual format. And
they want to be able to say, "I want to be the best" and underneath they're saying, "I want to be
different, I want to be different. You can't be the best. You be the best at being different, OK? Is
that a deal? But that's all you get."
Formats control us. They change the way in which our energy operates because they can find
us. That's why they can be so damn depressing because they're all about confining us to a
limitation, the limitation of how our energy can operate in the world. So when you're looking at
that, particularly relationship charts, be very clear about what you're seeing. And by the way,
you know again, I'm not a moralist, I don't have any difficulty with seeing that any given aspect
is just another given aspect. After all, it may be absolutely essential. If it happens to you it is.
You know, if you're a collective person and you're stuck with an individual format, go for it - I
mean, what to do? It's not like you can lament and say, "I wish I didn't have that. Can I erase it?"
Because what's going to happen in your life is you're going to find that you're going to meet
people that will have the format that you really belong to. And at the same time, that format in
you is going to change the way in which you can make your contribution.
So much of Human Design is about seeing that when we study it in isolation like this, it has such
an unrealistic nature because, of course, in studying in isolation we don't see the complexity
where you have people that have two formats or three gates in the formats or, you know, all
kinds of different things that are at work. So the thing is not to get caught up in saying, "Oh, my
gosh. I should have this and I don't." You know, because this is the old game. This is the people
saying, "I'd really like that channel." Yeah, well, OK. How nice for you. What are you going to
do?
The nature of stress in our lives. All of this is rooted in stress. It is stressful, that pain inside of
somebody that is stuck and wants to start something new and they can't. You know, that's a
painful process. It's a painful process to be sitting in a room, ready, and not know what to think
about, what to focus on, what to do, just to be sitting there locked in there in your Keeping Still
(Mountain). And everything gets darker and darker and darker... the stress of the limitation, the
pure limitation, that you can't trust your own breath, you know, because that's what limitation is
all about. You know, if you are born with an energy that says you are and you're not, half of the
time you're not. Half of your life doesn't even exist. And you're aware of that at some level, that
you can go out and just not come back. You know, the negative mutation we call death. So
there is a deep, deep fear of this power, this stress in the 60 that says, "Ooh".
To accept the limitation of what we are, you know, no choice is not no chance. The acceptance
of what you are is the opening of the greatest opportunities for you in your life, and, of course,
there's no choice in that. If you're lucky that happens and if you're not lucky it doesn't. But the
moment that you come to grips with what these fuels are all about, they're telling you something
very essential about the real pressure of being in the world. That the real pressure of being in
the world, the way it's expressed through these three format energies is telling you that we are
energy beings locked into every types. We're just locked into them. And that the moment that
you see that one of the larger aspects of why am I the way I am gets expressed. The other thing
is that the moment you accept that, that is your energy process. It's also the moment that you
can let go of the stress as being something that is fuelling depression. The stress will either fuel
depression or it will fuel its proper process. If you cannot accept what that process is, if you
cannot find a way into that process, that energy has to go somewhere: we call it depression.

These three gates and their relationship to the Head Centre, is that because we have these
three formats that are mirrors of the mental formats, if you will, that they dominate our process.
And they dominate our process at the expense of the tribe. There is a great conflict in the world.
And the conflict in the world is the collective and the individual opposed to the tribe. The
individual doesn't want to belong to the tribe because the individual is a freak and an outsider.
They would like to know that every once and a while that they can come in and see what the
tribe does, 'cause it's fun, but they'd like to get the hell out without getting hurt. And they don't
mind knowing people who belong to a community, but they're going to live on the outside of it.
And the collective person says, "I don't want to be tribal. What am I supposed to do, build a
sweat lodge in my backyard? You know, I'm a global person, I'm collective. What am I gonna
do, drag this flag around with me every day? Do I have to wear my national costume?"
In other words, the collective and the individual from different perspectives are very much
opposed, and when I say opposed I don't mean against. Just as in a polarity, that the other side
of that is the tribe, and the tribe gets no access to this mental trip - it doesn't. You explain to
some tribal person, somewhere on this planet, about collective responsibility of nations. What
the hell do they care? It doesn't mean anything to them. You know, these collective structures,
when you get down to the tribal level, the tribe says, "Whoa! I won't have anything to do with
that. Why should the United Nations tell me what to do in my backyard in the Congo? Who the
hell are they, and what do they know about life? They just got general rules."
You know, the collective and tribe do not get together at the mental plane - they don't. And
these format energies that are running our processes have nothing to do with the tribe. Keep in
mind that everything about being human, everything about living in the Universe is always going
to come back to its dualistic nature. There is a basic duality and that basic duality is, that there
is energy to fulfil the mental life through the formats. Because they match, they finally,
ultimately, through the body, will eventually bring the correct energy for what is above. In other
words, these dominating formats are there to overwhelm the tribe, slowly but surely, because
even if you're a tribal person, you're going to be locked into the format structure anyway,
because the formats dominate no matter what the design is.
And there's this long time process taking place to bring us from the tribal to the collective. The
vast change in that is going to start in 2027 when the tribal theme which has been dominating
us for the last 400 years is going to come to an end. This 40/37 definition that has been dictating
to us how important community is in our development so that we can expand our information
pool and our genetic pool. But when that comes to an end, it's also going to increase the impact
of the format energies and the mental processes in impacting on the tribe. The tribe itself, it
operates out of what one could call an ego format. So the tribe speaks a different language. It
speaks the language of the ego. It says, "I don't care what you're talking about. I know what I
have, and what I have is what I'm going to keep. And you can talk all you like but what I have is
what I'm gonna keep. And I'm gonna protect it, and I'm gonna make sure that I keep on having
it, because it's mine. It belongs to my people. And my people are not going to give up their
rights to something over there, somewhere, because when it comes to my people we have to be
able to smell you and touch you, otherwise you can't tell us anything."
You can see the way that works in the modern political spectrum. You know, you have the
collective political process, which is basically television, or mass media, or large organised
rallies, in which you see your political candidate on some kind of video screen set-up, and
distant up there on some platform. But when you go down at the street level, when you get
down to the councilman level, when you get down to the ground floor in the political process you
get to the tribal equivalent. You've got to go out there and you have to shake hands and you

have to eat hot dogs with them and, you know, you've got to drink with them and you've got to
be one of them. And then the tribe can say, "We have our politician 'cause we pay him, 'cause
we're the ones that have the thing we have." I mean, it's a very different process, and the thing
to see is that there is an enormous challenge in the collective/individual process trying to
educate the tribe from its tribalism. And, of course, this is still very difficult to do because what
we have done because we're still in them, is that we've given up traditional tribes for neo-tribes.
You know, I live in a neo-tribe myself. This is a neo-tribe. You know, it's just other ways in which
we decide to create our community process, who we will be in communion with. So we extend
the concept of family but we're still playing the same game.
So what's happening to us is that through these format energies, there's an enormous amount
of energy in the world at work to get everybody to conform to these three processes. And it's
always creating a tension, a dynamic tension, with the ego of the tribe.
GATE 58: THE JOYOUS - THE GATE OF ALIVENESS
The 58th gate. We have a different process the moment that we move away from the format
structure. You can see that the nine gates of the Root Centre, they're divided into their basic
triplicity: the three that go to the Spleen and the three that go to the Solarplex and the three that
form the formats. There are some very interesting connections between the format energy gates
and the, for example, here with the 58. The 58 and the 52 as I explained to you, these are the
only two gates that provide energy for the logic process, the only two. And they're in opposition
in the zodiac. So it's a very important opposition. There are all kinds of people that are born with
the 58/52 combination. You know, these people are very, very important to fuel the corrective
process, to fuel the organising process. And,, of course they're born with both gates. I mean, it's
very special. They're born with both of these energy gates, to be able to provide the energy for
the collective process, the collective logical process. And remember the magic of what you're
looking at when you're looking at the wheel because the 52 and the 58, being opposite to each
other, are mirrors of each other. They're mirrors.
The 58th gate - what a nice name - the Joyous. It says, the pressure to perfect. Now think about
the ingrained responsibility of the 58th gate. You know, there lies the fuel to perfect, and
because there lies the fuel to perfect within the 58th gate, like in the 60, like in the 41, these are
vast and broad spectrum gates. Lying within the 58th gate are all the possible fuels necessary
for the
corrective process. You know, the right kind of fuel for the right perfecting process. It's one thing
to see that a Root gate hooks up with another motor like the Sacral, and you have this format
structure so that you see that there's this very powerful energy structure that's created, but here
we're moving to the Splenic system. And because we 're moving towards the Splenic system,
what we have here is the energies that keep us alive. These are the purest health energies, the
purest health fuels we have. They're fuelling our immune system. They're the direct connection
between the Root and the Spleen, and they're laying the foundation for our existential
awareness. They're fuelling awareness, and in fuelling awareness, it means they're creating
fear. It's one of those jokes - to fuel the Splenic awareness means to generate a fear: the fear
that it'll never be perfect - what to do? In the case of the 58, of course, the other side is the fear
of authority - basic fear.
In order for logic to be able to dominate, no authority, no authority is beyond scrutiny, no
authority. We live in a time and in a phase in our development where it's a time to eliminate
secrets. And authority is protected by secrets. False authority, particularly, is protected by
secrets, its weaknesses, its vulnerabilities kept hidden, the records shredded, the witnesses
killed. It's the nature of how authority tries to avoid being challenged. And the challenge of

authority is the challenge of all patterns, to ensure that they are correct. This is a collective
energy.
That Joyous is not about being personally joyful - can be, when the energy is being applied to
correction. It is the joy of being able to challenge the pattern and to fuel the experiment. And it's
an ongoing process to maintain truth, that is, factual truth, verifiable truth. Because you have a
direct connection between the stress system and the immune system, one of the things to
recognise about this is that though this is a very strong connection, as long as there's no
connection to the Sacral or to the Throat, that this is an energised immune system without any
way of being generated or manifesting outwards, and that you can have the fuelling of
awareness without the possibility of being able to act on it. And one of the most important things
about the connection between the Root and the Splenic system is that these connections
through, in terms of definition, demand that work be done with the body, and this is very
important to work with the body. In other words, the whole immune system is related to the
physical maintenance of the body.
If you look at all the seven gates of the Spleen they're all part of the same house or the 46 gate,
which is the Gate of the Love of the Body. This is all about the body. And direct connections
between the Root and the Splenic system demand working with the body, whatever that means
for somebody. Whether that is sport or just certain kinds of activity, whatever the case may be.
But of course, as long as there's no generation or manifestation, that means that these people
are dependent on others recognising their need for exercise. You know, a friend that calls them
up and says, "It's time for you to go out today." Because it's a reflecting-projecting, pardon me, a
projecting element, without the access to being able to generate or manifest. But it's very
important to know that because this is always a case where the stress must be vaporised
through activity, otherwise it overloads the immune system and builds up its pressure.
See, wherever a pressure centre is pointed, you know, it's pointed at a resolving mechanism
that it's automatically under pressure to do something about it. You know, that 58th gate that's
there, that says, "I'm under pressure to perfect" - this is why people who have this channel really
put themselves under the deepest discomfort in life and are a pain in the ass to everybody else.
You know, you congratulate them and they say, "Yes, but I could have done this. They could
have done that. We could have done that. It could have been better. I could have been better. I
was terrible. I have to get better." Insatiability - it fuels insatiability.
There's a clue, a hint, a trick for logical people, collective logical people. And the trick for them is
that the only things worth correcting are things worth correcting for the entire collective,
otherwise shut up because it will not work. Think about what that means. You did it with a
collective process. So if you're dealing with a collective process, it means that anything that
you're going to want to correct, it's automatically geared towards the collective as a whole and
it's not personal in its nature.
You know, somebody says to me, "You should not smoke so much." And my response to them
is, "You mean nobody on earth should smoke," because that's a collective correction. They're
not concerned particularly about my health. They don't think anybody should smoke. But they're
not taking into consideration either my personal idiosyncrasies or my chemistry or anything else.
They don't care about whether I like it or not, whether it's good for me or not. They simply have
their collective correction.
So think about how it works. You've got somebody in your life - most of us do - and you realise
you can't stand the way they wear their clothes. You know what I mean? It doesn't matter the
way they wear their pants or whatever it is. To put energy to try and correct that - what you're
really saying is, "I'm going to set a standard for the way in which the whole world is going to

wear their pants. And they're only going to be able to wear their pants this way." Because the
moment you try to turn that into a personal thing - "I don't like the way you wear your pants" - it
becomes classified as bitching. "You don't care about me. You're just telling me what to do. I
happen to like these pants. I know they're 25 years old and full of holes. To hell with you!" Now
the whole thing about this energy - remember depression now - this after all is the Joyous.
There can be enormous depression when the fuel that's so essential to the logic process is
used in vain, for nothing. Because most of the time the collective being is trying to correct
personal idiosyncrasies, personal things that they don't like, that don't deserve universal energy.
After all, we are dependent as a totality on the gift of the collective logical person to solve our
dilemmas for us, to focus on our collective problems, to share with us the solutions that are
necessary, to guide us in the experiments that will give us the secure future. They're not there to
bitch about what is not of value to the collective. So this joyous energy, this pressure to perfect,
if you put it into all the little things in life that you don't like, you're going to suffer from enormous
stress because you can't correct them all. And this isn't just awareness, this is just a fuel pump.
And what should be joyous, because every 58 and 52 is sought after in the world for their
energy - it's of such great value - and instead of that all being wasted on trivia, the moment it's
focused on what is necessary to be corrected, what authority to be challenged, and to be clear
why that authority is being challenged, because it is incorrect and it deserves to be challenged.
The 58th gate says the Fuel of Vitality. I mean, this is the fuel for life itself, the thing that gives
us strength, the vitality to challenge authority, the vitality to keep on keeping on, to keep on
perfecting our process, to keep on perfecting our patterns. Every pattern that we perfect, we
secure humanity in its process. We give them a sense of relief. We know that there are
hospitals available and fire departments, and all of these things. Every pattern that we establish
that we have as a reliable pattern gives us security in our process. You know that when you go
to your bank that they're not going to say, "Excuse me, we burnt all the money yesterday." You
know there are patterns that we establish for society that allow us to feel comfortable and
secure in our world. That's a collective process, that's a collective logical process. Make sure
that the patterns work. Make sure they're of benefit to the totality and that this is really what joy
is. Joy is not personal, it's just not personal. Joy is collective security. Peace, it's what we call
peace. You know, to be able to find a pattern that is secure for everyone, that would be a result
after all. So this
Joyous is very, very important energy and don't ever separate it from the 52. In other words, see
clearly that what you're dealing with here is an opposition that meets each other in this Circuit of
Understanding. This Keeping Still to be focused, and the joyous that's there for the energy and
the power to be able to complete, to be focused on perfection. I mean, that's the essence of
what it is to be logical, to be focused on perfection. That's a beautiful thing. That's the energy of
the logical process. And by the way it's also being focused on imperfection because it's the
recognition of the imperfection that leads to the perfecting process. But it's an ongoing process
where there is never satisfaction. And if you can give that up, you never get the depression.
You're never going to be satisfied because that's not what it's about.
There is no place in the logical system for there to be a moment where one is not ready to
challenge its authority, until one is dead. It's an ongoing process. I will play the guitar until I die. I
know on the last day of my life there will still be a place of dissatisfaction with my mastery
process because it does not stop. You know, this is the great joke about enlightenment: stupid
before and stupid after - it doesn't stop. You can know what it's all about. You can keep
perfecting and perfecting and perfecting and perfecting; you don't get to the point where you
say, "Aha! This is it!" We're moving in space. None of this stuff is every going to stop. You just
keep going and going and going and going. And the moment that you can recognise that, you
will save yourself all of the depression, that it has to be perfect today. You know, this is how

these people punish themselves. I was not perfect today. Of course they were after all,
surrendered that they are, not knowing it that they are, that they were exactly what they were
supposed to be today. And the whole thing is: give up on perfection because the perfecting path
is what's perfect. It's the path, it's the way to keep perfecting, but any given moment is exactly
what it's supposed to be. Take the stress out of joy. Take the stress out of challenging authority.
It's easy to do the moment you realise it does not have to satisfy you, but don't punish yourself
because you're not satisfied.
GATE 38: OPPOSITION - THE GATE OF THE FIGHTER
There's a different kind of process the moment that you're moving from the Root Centre to the
Splenic system, and there's a different kind of process because when you're looking at the three
different fuels that are being initiated: one of them is logical, the 58, one-of them is individual,
the 38, but one of them is tribal. In other words, this is a fuelling gate of the tribe in the 54, and
it's the first time that we get to see a pressure that is going to be tribal. In other words, we have
a different configuration when we're moving to the side than when we're moving with the
pressure up and down. The pressure from above and the pressure from below are aligned to
each other and are aligned to each other through the collective streams and the individual
process. But when you move to either side you have a different combination at work. Before
lunch we were looking at the 58, at the joyous, at this pressure to perfect, at this logical process.
As a continuity of what we've seen in the other logical pressure we have two logical pressures,
the pressure to concentrate and the pressure to perfect, to be focused on perfection. So now
when we move to the next step we come to the 38th. We don't have another collective
possibility, so we don't have the abstract on this side - we come to the individuality. And what
we know about the individuality is that we are dealing with an acoustic phenomena. And then
we're dealing with the 38th
gate. The 58th gate is the fuel of what we call taste. And taste is about what we like and what
we don't like. That's why this is the Channel of judgement in the 58/18. It's about taste - what
you like and what you don't like.
But when you come to the individual process what you're dealing with is the root of intuition, the
root of, or the fuel of, individual primal awareness - intuition. Through the Integration
Channels we see that humanity began its individuation process through this specifically
individual circuitry. Survival is what individuality is all about, and it links survival to the mental
plane through the individual Mental Stream. The 38th gate fuels the deepest of all fears: it fuels
the Fear of Death. Now, that's stress. It fuels the Fear of Death, but more importantly what it is
truly fuelling is to struggle so that life is of value. To see whether or not to be in the world is truly
of value so that death when it comes is a relief rather than frustration.
The 38th Gate of Opposition is called the Pressure to Struggle. I love strugglers. What would
the world be without strugglers? I mean, you can't deal with life unless you struggle with it. This
is what knowing is rooted in. And you're struggling for what's of value. The most common image
of somebody who has the Channel of Struggle is they come out of the house, they go to the car,
they get in, they get back out, they go into the house, they get their keys. That's struggle! And
they don't take the keys with them in the first place because the keys aren't of any value. I
mean, it's not like they are the Keys to the Kingdom. They're just the keys to the car, and having
a car doesn't make life of value, so you don't remember the keys. If you get upset that that
happens to you three times a week, all your life, you miss the point. Every channel, every gate,
every aspect of Human Design is a duality. And that means that every aspect and every gate
and every channel has a name that's exactly a mirror of it. You can call this the Channel of
Struggle and you can call this the Channel of No Struggle. And you can call this the Gate of the

Fighter and you can call this the Gate of No Fighting. If life is of value, there's no need to
struggle.
So this 38th gate, this pressure to struggle, is an essential pressure in the knowing process. In
order for the format energy of individuality to be accommodated, this mutative pressure, this
pulse, there must be the readiness to struggle for its implementation in the world. Mutation is not
something that the collective and the tribe accept easily - it has to be fought for. This pressure to
struggle is the fuel to fight. Remember that every gate that's out of the Root has the potential for
depression. If the 38 doesn't have its fight, it's going to get depressed. And if you don't let it
fight, it's going to get depressed. You know, it must struggle. And everything about the nature of
individuality is to be free of influence. That's why the 38th gate is not only a gate that fuels
fighting, but it fuels deafness. The 38th gate, the 39th gate and the 43rd gate - they don't hear
very well. They don't listen very well. They don't want to be influenced. They have genetic
barriers against listening. "Don't tell me that life is of value, jerk. I have to know that. I'm not
going to listen to you. I don't care about you. I care about whether life is of value to me. Don't
get in my way." And the nature of this fuel, this fuel to fight, is to activate the awareness that
becomes our intuition. It activates the aspect in us that knows precisely what risk to take and
when. It begins the whole process of intuitive, deep intuitive, awareness. Everything having to
with individuality has to do with hearing.
So within the individual process you have gates that have acute hearing and you have gates
that don't want to hear anything at all because it's part of the individual process, not to be
influenced. Remember that the key note of individuality is empowerment. Not sharing, not
support. The individual needs to come to grips with the world at their own terms, or on their own
terms, and not on collective terms or tribal rules. Life is of value because... Coming from any
other perspective it means nothing to the 38. They don't hear all that.
GATE 54: THE MARRYING MAIDEN - THE GATE OF AMBITION
The tribe is something very different. You know, the collective has its on-going process: experi-
encing life, evaluating the human condition, sharing that, trying to standardise the patterns for
the totality. And the tribe is busy keeping us all alive. The tribe is busy keeping us all fed. The
tribe is busy giving us all jobs. The tribe is busy building our houses and communities,
populating them, holding them together, keeping our civilising process alive. You know, this is
the bread and butter place. This is where the resources necessary to maintain the species exist.
So we have very different kinds of pressures here because we have mundane pressures, and
these mundane pressures are rooted in the power of the ego to be possessive. "We must have,
and we must support each other in our having. And I don't care about opinion and ideas and
insights. They don't put bread on my table." The tribe is not connected to the mind and to
concepts - it is rooted in smell and touch. It is different - it is instinct - it is different.
The 54th gate. When Uranus was discovered, not only did we become a nine-centred system,
but the fourth line of the 54th hexagram became something particularly mystical. Those of you
who are familiar with it know that the fourth line is called Enlightenment/Endarkenment - it has
no value whatsoever. There is no specific meaning and there is no plan that's involved. It's like
an open window. And the whole thing is to recognise that built into this evolutionary process of
ours is an opportunity for the tribe to wake up in the way in which transformation takes place.
See, the tribe has to be transformed. When I say has to be, it's simply in the program for it to be
transformed. Not that the tribe becomes collective - the joke will be the collective will become
the tribe, but that's another story. It's so that the tribe itself can be transformed within, not from
outside. The collective can never transform the tribe - individuals do. They bring mutation. But
for the tribe to transform itself, this is what's taking place as a potential now. So this 54th gate

represents a different kind of pressure. What we're dealing with here is the pressure to
transform. That's quite a pressure. And it's a stress because the stress fuels the Fear of Failure.
We have to transform, and the pressure that we have to or we'll fail.
The tribe's about money. I mean in the broadest sense of what energy is. And this side of the
tribe, the 54, is fuelling our material hierarchy. That is the material tribe, the corporate culture,
the business ethic, the rules of engagement on the material plane, who works where, who
controls what, who gets how much, who runs it. Because this is the side of the tribe that is all
about the material well-being for the communal requirements of the tribe. It's very nice to have a
community, but if the community has no work, the community dies. If the community doesn't
have resources, the community dies.
So the 54th gate is a fuel for the most material of human processes. The transformation is the
ambition of the tribe, to be the richest tribe, the fattest tribe, to have all of those material
possessions, to be able to say, "We have. They don't." You can see that it didn't do any harm to
add a little mysticism to this gate. This is the fuel for drive - the Marrying Maiden - the concubine
that becomes empress, the rising up, the climbing of the ladder. This is the ground flour, and
what that says to you is that when you see the 54 in somebody's design, you know that no
matter what position they will have in their material life, the need to have learned the operation
from the ground floor. They can be president but they have to know what it's like to work on the
factory floor. They have to know the basic work ethic to create whatever is involved. You know,
my joke about the 54 and the 45, there at either ends of this stream, the Marrying Maiden to the
Chairman of the Board, to the Emperor, to the Empress. And, of course, this is just a number
reversal: the 54 and the 45. This is pathway upwards. The thing about the 54 is the 54 is always
trying to attract attention to itself. After all, ambition is about being recognised. No sense being
ambitious if nobody's looking. You know, you show your best ambition when you're being
watched. It is about attracting attention on the other side. And what you're trying to attract in the
54th gate is that you're trying to attract a recognition of value.
Let's say you're a factory worker on the floor of the factory. What you really want is your
supervisor to recognise you. "There goes a good worker. This one's worth every penny we pay
them." That's recognition for the 54 because then they can say, "Hi there. It's time for me to
move up the ladder." And they're ready, but they have to be recognised first. And this tells you
something about the magic of the 54.4 because it's looking for a different kind of recognition.
You know, "Dear God, see that I am here serving Thee. Do you notice me down here on the
factor floor? I'm doing my job. Will you give me a raise? Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes
Benz." That's a 54.4 if I ever heard one. "Don't you recognise me? I'm looking after the people."
Well, that's part of its magic. That is, it is a different kind of drive. It's a deeper spiritual drive for
recognition far beyond the financial manger in the 32. It's looking for something else. But in that
is also the possibility of transforming the way in which the material efforts of the tribe operate.
After all, there's nothing more rapacious than the tribe. It's all about having. It's all about
possession. You know, busy, busy, busy, money, money, money, build, build, build. I mean,
that's the whole thing about that side of the tribe.
So, if you're going to change it, changing its basic fuel and pressure is going to make quite a
difference because it's going to change the nature of how the rest of that Stream of instinct will
ultimately operate. The other thing about instinct is that instinct is part of our memory process.
This Stream of Instinct that starts in the 54 and ends in the 26 is all about the storage of
memory in the water of our cells. It is the earliest form of memory collection. It is a body memory
collection system. And what that means is that there is an aspect of memory in the 54 that is
unique: it only remembers victory. Isn't that nice? This is the foolishness of the 54. It only
remembers victory. By the way, the 32 at the other end, it only remembers failure. That's why

it's cautious and conservative. Its instinct in any situation will recognise a past failure in that
situation, or something close. The 54 says, "I can do it. I remember the last time I had to do
something like this. I can do it." So in the 54.4 lies a memory of a larger management operation,
a memory of something far more profound than exists on the mundane plane.
The gates of the Root and their stress as they move to the immune system - these gates are
producing the deepest fears in us. Not necessarily in the gates that they go to, but in how those
gates become possibilities. The 58 - we've seen that the 58 generates an energy that's going to
challenge authority because there's a Fear of Authority. But that fear of authority when it gets to
the next step, to the 48, becomes a Fear of inadequacy. It's one thing to say that the authority is
incorrect, it's another thing to see if one can actually correct it, and the fear that one's not
equipped to do so. And the fear generated by the stress of the 38 to fight, this Fear of Death,
this fear that life is without value becomes the fear of tomorrow and the very fear of survival in
the 57, magnified in becoming a possibility. And the fear of the 32, this stress generated out of
the drive of the 54 for transformation, this Fear of Failure becomes a deep Fear of the Past
when it gets to the 44. You can't separate the fuel from its stream when these fuelling energies
are fuelling binary fear systems. The Fear of Authority and the Fear of Inadequacy are the same
fear just in different ways. Because, you see, you can challenge authority all you like but if you
don't have a solution and you can't do it, the authority is going to beat you back down. And the
depression that comes with that. And if you really get to the point where you're struggling, and
life is of value, you still have to deal with the fact that there's a part of you that's terrified that it
won't be of value tomorrow because the fear of whether life is of value is the same as the fear of
tomorrow, just slightly different.
So if you have this instinctive fear of failure it's also an instinctive fear of the past. Human
beings have a lot to be afraid of from the past. And very little of it do we have access to on the
mental
plane, but at the instinctive level we have all kinds of buttons that get pushed, fear buttons that
get pushed out of instinctive memory. You know, you have a child in a crib and it sees a man in
blue walk into a room and start yelling at its mother. The child can be a year old - it can be less -
you know, fifty years later they'll be sitting in a cafe and somebody walks in dressed in blue and
everything inside of them shudders in the instinctive memory of that shock. It never goes away.
This is the power of instinct in us. That we keep on reconnecting to these ancient instinctive
warnings in us, reminding us that something like that in the past was frightening and we should
be alert and careful. So what's being established in the 54 by putting all this pressure on us to
transform is the storage of instinctive memory. It's the fuel for us to remember at the deepest
level. And it's the fuel of the nose, tongue, ear, and nose, and that's not a doctor's office. That's
the Root Centre, the 18, the 58, the 38 and the 54.
The 58 is the fuel for the tongue - it's taste, whether you like it or don't like it. And the ear in the
38 - to hear or not to hear, that is the question. And the 54 - to smell it or not to smell it. Instinct
and smell are one. Our deepest memories, our aroma memories, they're deep, deep within us.
Remember that everything that is operating here is a fuel that's designed to operate your
immune system. I mean, it's there to run your immune system. It's there to run your lymphatic
system. It is the very fuels to operate the various aspects of the lymphatic system. These little
tongues and noses and ears that are 28% of the cells of our body. Think about that. You know,
when you're looking at the gates out of the Root that are going to the Spleen, understand that
they fuel 28% of the cells in your body. That's a lot. It's disproportionate to any of the other
energy systems. That's a lot. Three gates producing the fuels for 28% of the cells in your body.
So it's very significant energy that's at work. And the lymphatic system gives us the opportunity
for primary awareness that these three gates are fuelling primary existential awareness. So this

stress that's there in the Root pointed towards the Splenic system, this is the stress that
generates the fear for survival itself.
The last thing I want to leave you with, with this side of the Root system, is the need for
exercise. It's very, very important since you're dealing with three fuels that are doing so much
work in terms of your cleansing system, that they're given the opportunity. Remember that this is
a projected aspect without a connection to the Sacral or the Throat, and as such, these
connections, though they are very healthy and of primary importance to us, it's still essential for
that energy to get out in some way. So it's very important for these people to have allies in their
life, that bring them out to get them to do their exercise, to get them to move this energy. It's
very important for this energy to generate or manifest in the world.
The fear of survival - you know, we will look at this much deeper when we get to the Splenic
Centre itself, but it's one of those things to keep in mind, it is very important for all of us to be
cognisant of how fragile our lives are. Our lives are deeply fragile and we can leave this plane at
any moment and there is nothing to protect us because it's far beyond our control. You know,
life is fragile and our awareness at that level is fragile. You know, the fuel that's going in to
pump up the Splenic system is only going create an awareness that can act in the moment.
Which means it has no staying power and in essence is weak. Your Splenic system can only tell
you things once. So the fragility of staying in the world is about paying attention. It's about
paying attention. It's about paying attention to fear. Fear is, by its very nature, healthy for us.
The more we are ready to deal with fear, the more aware we are going to become. We are
designed to deal with fear. And remember something, fear doesn't live here. Fear is just visiting
'cause that's what it does. It travels in from Libra and it says, "Hi! Here we are. A little fear for
you today." And that's the way it is. It doesn't belong to us - it's just passing through. And it's
passing through so we will filter that, and in dealing with that generate a conscious feel,
generate awareness. It's a fuel.
We've seen two types of pressure connections. We've seen the three format energies and we've
seen their significance in that they themselves will dictate energy patterns. We've looked at the
fuels of the Splenic system. And what we've seen in the fuels of the Splenic system is that we
have the beginnings of our awareness process, our deepest awareness process, our survival
awareness. But it's very different from what happens when you connect the Root Centre to the
Solarplex system because here you're dealing with real volatility. You know, you now have the
stress hormones directly connected to the Emotional motor and to the nervous system. So
you're adrenalising the nervous system. The Solarplex Centre is about nervousness as a fear
and the nervous system. And we know how powerful the Solarplex wave is, the Solarplex motor,
from hope to pain and back again, in the spiral. Don't give chemistry reasons and you'll have a
happier life. The wave goes up, the wave goes down - what to do? But now we have the
adrenalisation of that wave. When you go to the Spleen you're talking about survival, but you're
talking about survival in the context of how to stay alive in the world in terms of defending
yourself in this life, keeping alive, staying alive.
When you go over to the emotional side, you have the same process except it's about the
resources of being alive: food, primarily, sex secondary, the adrenalisation of our needs, our
passions, our desires for food and sex. This is not the stability of the format energy. You're not
going from the Root to the Sacral that has a consistent frequency and generation. This is the
adrenalisation of a wave. That's very different.
GATE 19: APPROACH - THE GATE OF WANTING
We're going to begin with the tribal pressure. Out of the nine gates of pressure, out of all twelve
gates of pressure, only two are tribal, and only two of the nine are tribal. Remember that the

main direction of the tribe, as you'll see as we work out of the Sacral Centre, is that of the ego.
This is secondary forces in that sense. They are gates that are fuelling streams: the 54 fuelling
our memory instinct system, the 19 fuelling our touch/sensitivity system. The 19/49, of course, is
a mystical channel, so called, a tribal mystical channel. And mystical in the sense that it has to
do with the nature of our resources. And the moment that you speak of resources there are
those resources that are mundane, but there are resources that are intangibles: the need for a
loving God, for example - quite an intangible.
The 19 - Approach - this Gate of Need. Needing to be wanted, wanting to be needed, needing
the right resources, looking for the right resources, flirting with various resources. Here the 19 is
the pressure to be sensitive, the pressure to be sensitive. Think about what that is as a burden
to the tribe. Is that at the root of marriage, at the root of marriage, at the root of bonded
relationships is a pressure to be sensitive. Now, that can be nice or not. It's not the pressure to
be thick-skinned. It's not the pressure to let things pass. Tribes have blood feuds that last
millennia - the slightest slight, the smallest bite, whatever. The pressure to be sensitive, and in
this pressure to be sensitive is the Fuel for Support, and everything that makes the tribe work at
that level is that energy of support. To receive the support and to be empowered by the support
to get more support. You know, that's the relationship between the 49 and the 19. The 49 knows
what to do with resources but it needs the support of the 19. And the 19 doesn't know what to
do with resources, so it's ready to support the 49 in its principles. But all that's in the wave. You
know, you can vote Democrat this time, Republican next time. You can be for the communist,
you can be against the communist. You can be a communist, capitalist. You know, it just
changes.
The principles change - they're in a wave. This Fuel for Support, you know, this is a hooking
energy. It's this "I need" and it is neediness that runs the tribe. It's all about need. And the whole
thing is that energy doesn't know what it needs. It just knows that it needs, and the
establishment of what really is there for it, what resources it's going to have, what access it will
have, what role it will play. That will come from the Solarplex system. This is just a needy fuel.
We call that need flirtation. Isn't that funny? Because that's what it looks like. That is the
externalisation of neediness. "Do you see how needy I am?" But it's also the gate of animism.
This pressure to be sensitive is also to be sensitive, that in the resources there are those that
must be sacrificed. And in that sensitivity to them is the beginning of our whole spiritual and
religious process. The 19th gate is the beginning of religion. "I need a God. We need a temple.
You have to work. And when it's built well slaughter an ox. And I'll decide who gets what and
you don't get the leg."
So that need for us, the mystical value of that need, of course, is that it leads us into a need for
something beyond ourselves and mirrors the 54 on the other side. That is the opening up of the
spiritual extension of this 19/49 to its mirror on the other side, to the 54, so that there can be an
equivalent spirituality on the material side. Remember that the Marrying Maiden fuel is a fuel for
the way we deal with each other in the community of work, whereas the 19 is the fuel where we
deal with each other in the community itself, in our relationships with each other, in our bonded
relationships with each other. The neediness, in that sense, is to know that there is enough to
eat.
So this is an essential fuel for us. It's the fuel that took us out of the trees and put us down on
the land so we would kill, because it's the fuel for killing. Need leads to killing. If you've got to
eat, you have to kill. And, of course, the other side is the gate we call Revolution. So need can
lead to revolutionary killing as we well know. All of that's here - that's why it's a mystical channel.
You know, we kill for God, we kill for Fidel, we kill for whoever we kill for in order to satisfy our
needs. When you're looking at the 19th gate as a tribal fuel you can see that there's a lot of stuff

in there that the collective and the individual would love to be able to change and can't. The
collective says, "We all need to find a way to get rid of land mines." The tribe says, "Not on my
land. I keep those bastards away this way. I don't want those smelly creatures from over there
be able to walk over on my country's territory. I mean, I have to maintain the sanctity of my tribe
and what we need. And if you try to come across we'll kill you." I mean, the tribe is heavy
business. The tribe says, "If you come in here, you're going to change our faith 'cause that's
always been the way. For all of human history, every time you win a battle you kill the men, you
rape the women, and you raise their children in your faith." I mean, this is an endless business.
Tribes know this deep in their instinctive blood. To let the foreigner in is to give up the
opportunity to maintain your way. And the very thing in that concept that we would find ugly is
the basis of religion. It says, "Stay away! We have our own God over here. You can't come in. I
mean, we have our God, and our God says 'No, no' to all those people. And we have our way of
talking to our God, and it's not your way, and we don't want your way." It's all part of being
territorial and being possessive. "My God. Our God is better than your God. We're going to burn
your golden calf."
So the spirituality that everybody thinks is so delicious, you know - I know so many people who
say, "I have the 19/49... I'm tribal and mystical. Don't shoot me, please." Because at the root of
that you have to see what the other side is. You only know how powerfully mystical death is
when you're there with death. These ancient festivals that were celebrated with the slaughtering
of animals - this is quite a thing, this living force that you're going to take its flesh in and you're
going to eat that for your sustenance. The pressure to be sensitive creates out of that our
spirituality. Out of killing comes our spirituality.
In our language we know that they're endowed with crystals of consciousness. They know that
any human being at any given time can recognise the spirit in a fellow creature. And to kill it and
take it as sustenance, there was something inside of us that could not let it just be that way, our
sensitivity. So we take the slaughtered sheep and we throw it up into the sky and we honour it,
or the bull, or whatever. We turn them into our gods and our goddesses. We build idols to them.
We slaughter them and we eat them and we praise them. We praise their spirit. Spirituality
comes out of killing - it's rooted in killing. You can make all that nice and say sacrifice. Would
anybody follow Jesus if he hadn't been nailed up? I mean, killing breeds faith. It's one of those
things that's so amusing about the tribe. Don't take that serious. The tribe's like that. I mean,
that's what the tribe is all about. "My God's better than your God. I'll kill you if you say anything
different. And the only reason that I'm like that is my God started when I started killing 'cause I
felt uncomfortable with taking life."
GATE 39: OBSTRUCTION - THE GATE OF THE PROVOCATEUR
We come now to the 39th gate. And the 39th Gate of Obstruction, which of course is an
individual gate - it's part of the Channel of Emoting since we are dealing with the Emotional
system and we're dealing with the 55th gate which is the harmonic gate. We know that in the
55th gate in the 6th line will be the mutation that will transform the opening up of Emotional
Spirit in humanity. And so the 39th gate is going to play a continued and valued role in
empowering the capacity for mutation. The 39th gate and its fuel is going to fuel the mutation
that's going to take place in the Emotional system. And it, of course, will come from the 6th line
of the 39th gate which is the line of the Troubleshooter - the capacity to be able to solve
problems. In the tribe we've seen that we have a Fuel of Neediness, and this fuels our need for
marriage and the bonding of community. It fuels our needs for resources and the establishment
of an equitable way in which those resources are distributed throughout the community. It
establishes what we call friendships, family. But in the individual process, which is different, it's
rooted in the acoustic. It's rooted in mutation, and rather than being about marriage and the

marriage bond, it's about romance. It's about tension and the building of passion. What we call
tension is released exclusively from the 39th gate. It is that form of stress. And its polarity, which
is similar, it is another form of tension that comes out of the 38th gate on the other side.
The 38th gate and the 39th are oppositions in the zodiac. And they are part of a cross that's
called the Cross of Tension. So this is a special kind of stress, is the tension that exists in the
individual process. And this tension is rooted in non-interference, that is, not being influenced.
The Gate of Obstruction here is called the pressure to emote, the pressure to emote,, the
pressure to release emotions. And the pressure to emote is the same as the pressure to eat or
not. To emote or not, to eat or not. This is why the 39th gate can be the source of all kinds of
eating disorders. The 19th gate will become depressed when it cannot find appropriate
resources for its needs. The 39th gate, the 39th gate is easily depressed when it doesn't have
the right spirit. This pressure to emote is the fuel to provoke. Everything about the individual is
about not having anyone care for them unless it's necessary. It's like my sneezing jag today. I
had about seven offers of medication. Thank you very much but go to hell! If you see me on the
ground and it appears that I'm dead and close to it, please help me then, but that's fine. But this
is the nature of individuality. The nature of individuality is, it is an insult to care for an individual
unless they need it. It's insulting.
So when a 39 provokes you and you're actually provoked, that's the wrong spirit. They don't
want you to be provoked. They want to be able to push your button and see that nothing
happens. And then they say, "Aha! This is the right spirit for me. This is love." But the moment
they can push that button and they can provoke you, it's, "Ah, this turkey. I won't have anything
to do with this." So it is a fuel that is there to push buttons, to create a tension that can be
dynamic as passion or can be barren and painful, the bottom of the moodiness wave.
Remember that the actual adrenaline system itself is not operating in such a way that's just
pumping out its fuel. It's transformed when it gets to the Solarplex system. How different it will
be when what we eat and who we love is conditioned by awareness and not just energy.
Remember that the Solarplex is not aware, and none of us will experience consistent Solarplex
awareness - it's not possible. We do not have the mutative capacity yet. Our sexuality, our
eating habits, all of these things, they're governed by a lack of awareness fuelled by very
powerful instruments - the adrenalisation of the emotional system.
So here in this individual process, this provocation to find the right spirit, to provoke the right
spirit, to provoke mutation, the 39.6 says, "I've got the energy to fuel mutation for the totality,
now, waiting." And it's very simple to see how that works 'cause it's a classic illustration. The
39.6 is the Troubleshooter. Well, think about how that works. If you've got the 39.6 and you're
the Troubleshooter and you say to somebody, "By the way, I understand what your problem is
and I can solve it," if they get angry with you and tell you to mind your own business, you've
pushed their buttons - nothing happens. But if you're the 39.6 and you say, "Hey look, I've got a
solution for you to your problem," and the other person is saying, "Yeah, what?" Not to be
provoked by the fact that somebody can solve it for you. And to solve the emotional problem is
what this mutation is all about. The 39.6 will bring this fuel to correct, to fix, to mutate, in its true
language, the way in which we experience the Spirit in the 55, the 55.6 - Selfishness - the way
we experience selfishness. You can see that in the pressure system that there are three
different individual pressures, so it's complex. In other words, individuality is the unifying force
within the body's circuitry. It goes through all the body's awareness systems. It links the whole
body. It goes through all of the centres. It's the only circuitry that does that. And, as such, it's an
integrating field.
So, in looking at the nature of pressure of the individual, you have to recognise that you're
looking at these three pressures together: that pressure to mutate that is there in the 60th

hexagram, and the pressure to struggle that's in the 38, and the pressure to provoke in the 39.
Mutation is provocation and struggle. It's always that way. You know, the collective is just
humming along in its secure little patterns. Yesterday was yesterday and tomorrow will be
tomorrow. And the tribe doesn't care. And the individual process is there provoking, pushing,
fighting, struggling, so that something new can emerge constantly.
GATE 41: DECREASE - THE GATE OF CONTRACTION
The last fuel that we look at is perhaps the most interesting because it's the fuel that fuels the
human evolutionary process. The 41st hexagram is the only initiator codon in our genetic
structure. An initiator codon is basically putting a capital letter at the beginning of each
sentence. That initiating codon is that capitalisation - it's starting a process. So in the 41st gate
what you have is that you have a literally complete spectrum of experience that can be initiated,
all the experiences that are available to a human - all of them - whatever is not new under the
sun. It's all there in the 41 waiting to be expressed at some level or another. And so in the 41st
hexagram what you have is a very, very specialised fuel. According to the Voice, when the
change comes it is literally the first gate that shatters, because it's the 41st gate that runs us
along this experiential
path which includes, by the way, life and death, the cyclical process. And the cyclical process
will be terminated. So the 41 is deeply significant. And this experiential process is that the 41 is
the root of what we call feeling, desire. This whole transition field that you get from the need of
the tribe to the passion of the individual and the desire of the collective is the desire to have the
experience, collective not personal. "I want to do it with a blonde, I want to do it standing up in a
canoe, and I want to do it at 45 miles an hour." It's just for the experience. The fact that you may
die doing that doesn't matter. And what that means is that the whole human process can be
found in this one gate, the whole experiential way.
Here it is called the pressure to feel. The feeling can only exist on the other side and the feeling
is in the wave of the Emotional system. The 41 can recognise feeling without feeling it 'cause it
fuels it. It knows what fuel gets translated as what feeling by the time it gets to the Solarplex,
what aspect of its fuel is translated at what aspect of feeling on the other side. And this pressure
to feel also fuels obsession. It fuels the deep, deep desire for the fulfilment of experience. "Must
get to the top of that mountain. Must cross that ocean." The channel is called Recognition -
design of focused energy. It's the focus in the feeling, each feeling.
The 30th gate at the other end can only process one feeling at a time anyway, and if it can't
release them, of course it becomes obsessive. These connections from the Root to either side,
to the Spleen or to the emotions, when it stands alone these people must bum the energy. And
the best way is with their body. Everything about the Root to the emotions is about food, and
you can burn those calories - it's good. What you're fuelling at the other end is your kidney and
your pancreatic systems. The whole emotional world is about kidneys. You know, go into a
house where somebody has a powerful Emotional system and you have to go to the bathroom
and pee. Well, it's true - they turn on your kidney system.
This is the Fuel of Contraction, to bring all experience to one essential aspect so there can be
one feeling that must be fulfilled. It's very powerful. It's cutting everything back so there's this
incredible burst that's possible. And the 41 will have a specific fuel. In sexual language we call
this fantasy. You know, we translate those aspects of the fuel to initiate experience as different
little fantasies. They get realised as feeling when they get to the Emotional system and become
desire in the Emotional system. The Solarplex system is about our nerves, our nervousness, the
nerve endings throughout your body, that place of tingling. And just as we have these primal
fears that are fuelled by the Root gates going to the Spleen, we have these nervous emotional

fears that are fuelled by these gates pointing towards the Solarplex. The fear that there will be
no resources for you. The nervousness that all those sheep in the field that when they get
slaughtered, you won't get a bite. The nervousness that you will not be able to find principles to
live by. The nervousness that you'll be sacrificed, rejected.
The stress of need becomes the nervousness of rejection. The stress of need leads to
nervousness over principles. When you're dealing with the individual process, the 39, it's feeling
a nervousness about the value of life. It is the mirror of the 38 on the other side - is life of value?
But it's different because it's emotional and it's about the spirit. And it's the nervousness that
when you're up that you'll go down. And it's the nervousness that when you're down that you
won't go up. And it's the nervousness that comes with being uncertain because the 55 is the
great Gate of Uncertainty, Unknowing. To be nervous about whether you can eat or not, not
whether there is food available, but whether you can even eat it. Remember, all our nervous
eating disorders are rooted in this fuel of the 39, bulimia, anorexia nervosa and all these
varieties that are around. This is also the gate that fuels fasting. I'm going to provoke you by not
eating, or gorging, out of
nervousness that you will not find the right spirit, out of nervousness that the cup is always
going to be half full or half empty.
When you come to the 41 it's initiating the basic human fear. The basic human fear is that you
will not be able to have the experience and progress. The nervousness that you will miss
something. By the way, it is the dominant fear of the Solarplex system, and you can always hear
that in people's conversations, all the time. I hear it all the time in my life. "You really missed that
party. You really missed that movie, you should see it. You missed something." This is the great
nervousness of the abstract process, that you missed having an experience and because of it
you suffer the rest of your life. "If only I had done that." Well, how nice. The fuelling of that
nervousness is the stress that comes with expectation. And that's the human way.
The human way is expectation. "If we can only get over that mountain range, we're going to find
the Promised Land." Oh, yeah. Expectation, the desire for fulfilment through experience. If I do
this, and this, and this, then I'm going to get that and when I'm going to get that it's over, I'm
finished. It doesn't work. After all, it's got a cyclical format. You only get to that and you've got to
start a new this again. But this is this deep nervousness that something's been missed. By the
way, that's not a negative because the moment that somebody says to you, "You missed," then
they go immediately to you and describing to you what you missed anyway. You know, it's not
like they say, "You missed it," and then they don't say anything to you. They say, "You missed
it," and they tell you what you missed and they're hoping that you'll feel really bad that you
weren't there with them to share it. You know, this is part of history for us. This is the way we
share information with each other. What they're really saying is, "You didn't miss anything. This
is what I got." But, of course, that's not the way it comes out in our nature. What they're really
saying is, "I got this experience. It's my job to share this with you because you didn't get this
experience. You are getting another one. What did you do? You mean, I missed that? And I was
doing this?"
I mean, what we're hear for is to be able to share all of that. Not everybody has to do
everything. And this is the nervousness. The nervousness is "Yeah, but if I did that instead of
this, everything would be so much better." And of course the this and that of your life is what you
get - it's not what you choose. And the moment you don't interfere with the this and that of your
life you don't miss anything because you can only absorb what you absorb and then your job is
to share it with somebody else. That's the collective way. "Don't do it in a canoe at 45 miles an
hour. I'm still paying. The insurance wouldn't cover it."

Everything about the 41 is significant to us in our time because we have long-term activations
that have been taking place through the 41 with Uranus and Neptune [much of the period from
February 1996 to the January 2002]. So what we have is a whole series of new experiences
and new only in the sense that it's cyclical. It's a reappearance of forms of experience that are
coming back into the world under this influence. And in Neptunian transits the 41 is particularly
important to us because it means that we're going to have a whole generation of children who
are coming into the world who are going to bring new spiritual experiences into the world or the
revitalisation of spiritual experiences through the Neptunian facility. By the way, for those of you
who like drugs, it also means that there will be new drugs which will get fancier and fancier with
Neptune and the 41, you can bet your life on that. We're going to have an array of experience
that's coming into the world in the program.
Everything is different when you deal with the Emotional system because the same rules cannot
apply. You can take this Root energy and you can pump it up to the Spleen - that's one thing.
But then again all you're doing is turning on a washing machine that's going to have a consistent
function. And you can take this Root energy and you can connect it to the Sacral and you end
up with these very, very fixed energy systems. But not so with the Emotional system, the
volatility of its wave. And what that means is that need and passion and desire must all be
subject to patience. I love saying things like that. It's so easy to say things like that, try to live
that, because that's what it's all about. Because of the nature of the Emotional system we
always have to wait for the chemistry to complete they wave before we can be clear. It means
that we cannot be taken in, in the moment, by any need or passion or desire until it's been
subject to the clarity process - emotion, waiting - difficult thing, this drive for new experience,
this drive for Spirit, this drive to fulfil the needs. "I don't want to wait." When you're a 19 and
you're hungry and the refrigerator is open, you don't want to wait. You just want to get access to
your resources. You know, everything having to do with the stability of our planetary
consciousness has to do with the education of Solarplex awareness, to understand how the
motor works. If we can't come to grips with that we're never going to find the tranquillity
necessary to be able to come to emotional consciousness. And the whole thing to see about the
nature of these fuelling systems when they get to the Solarplex is that they get chaotic. You
know, it's so easy when you're at the low end of your wave and you're a 49 to say, "All right, let's
kill the bastards and take their food so you have enough, 'cause I'm tired of trying to work this
out. And you're nicer than they are. Let's go burn their house and we take their food."
You know, revolutions always turn ugly because they have to go through the whole wave. They
start out with the hope of the oppressed, their need. And in that moment of hope they're willing
to commit themselves to any of those who say they have the resources. "I will take from the rich
and give it to you." And in that moment of hope they give their support. That's their blood. When
you give your support to the revolution, you are going to die with the revolutionaries. And when
you get to the low end after all the killing and you still don't have more than you had before and
there's still this just dull depression. And then this reoccurrence of hope that maybe it will
change, maybe next year will be a better year, and on and on and on, going up and down in the
wave.
You know, it's fascinating to watch from overseas the coverage of American politics at election
time, presidential election, this charting of the mood of the populace through these very sophis-
ticated polling systems. And you can literally watch the wave at work. I mean, literally, from one
moment to the next, the volatility of tribal sensitivity. You don't know until the day of the voting
because of that volatility in the emotional field. Anything can trigger disaster or uplift the
underdog because people are ready to respond in the emotional moment. To try to fulfil in that
moment their need, their passion, their desire; without emotional clarity it never works. The fuels

don't give us a chance to get off the horse. You've got these nine fuels and they're always active
in the world. We can never get off this stress - it's driving the world, it's driving us. It is the
momentum of our civilising process. It's what we're all about.
And the whole thing to see is because we are driven by these pressures that it's not about
looking at the pressure and saying, "Ah, give me a break,"'cause it doesn't work that way. They
are not to be interfered with. They're to be allowed to follow their mechanical process, because
in each and every one of us they are correct. They're exactly what is necessary in what is
necessary in the matrix of our genetic code. And they're not there to be turned against us. We
never miss anything, so don't worry. You get what you get and it's correct.
And the moment that you ride these fuels think of the benefits that we derive from having good
fuel. Our fuel and the quality of our fuel provides us with everything in this life. It's our fuel
station. And the moment that you're resisting the very fuels that make life possible and provide
us with the necessary facilities for our work in this life, to be the Tao. We are the expression of
Love and that's what the expression of Love does. It bounces between the Yin and the Yang.
And that's what we're doing. And these are the driving forces for us, the fuelling places for us
that keep us in the world, that keep us in the world. There's no way out. We're in. That's our job,
to be in the world. Right here, right in the stress because that's what we're for. We've got four
motors inside of us. We're designed to be energy beings, processing energy, processing fuels,
in order to give us the opportunity to be able to have the experience to be able to see life and to
be able to share it with each other.

THE SPLEEN CENTRE
INTRODUCTION
So today we're going to take a look at the Splenic Centre and the Ajna Centre and we're going
to take a look at the way they operate in our lives. After all, these are the only two centres that
are functionally aware, though we have this third potential that lies within the Solarplex system,
as we'll see tomorrow. Obviously, the Solarplex system is operating under different conditions
because the nature of its awareness is not consistent - it's buried within its motor function. So
when we're dealing with awareness, we're going to deal with it in terms of its evolutionary
movement and we're going to begin with the root of awareness in life, which is the Splenic
Centre.
All life forms are endowed with this form of consciousness, whether that be plants or animals,
reptiles or whatever. The reality is that the common ground of awareness in the world is the
Splenic system. To understand, first of all, the biological nature of the spleen is to be very clear
that the Splenic system represents our immune system - it is directly connected to our immune
system. Our immune system is very complex. The Splenic related to the splenic cell itself, to the
spleen itself, and most importantly, to the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system is an
enormous system within our bodies - 28% of all the cells in the body, more than a quarter of all
the cells in the body, are lymphatic. What that means is that your Splenic awareness has
access to every nook and cranny of your being. By being and having access to every nook and
cranny within the vehicle, it can then serve us by protecting us.
One of the easiest analogies for the lymphatic system, because it's an analogy that is related to
these three streams of awareness that operate through the spleen, is to think about your
lymphatic system as being little tongues (taste), little ears (intuition), and little noses (instinct).
So if you imagine this quarter plus cells in your body, one quarter of all the cellular material in
the body is broken up into these three different basic divisions like armies that are on alert.
You've got your nose army, your tongue army, and your ear army. What they're doing is they
are sitting there suspended in the now, ready at any moment to respond to anything that does
not fit. That's what it's about.
The keynote for the 44th gate - Alertness. The nature of the lymphatic system is that it is our
alarm and alert system, but more than that. Once the alarm has been rung, it also has the
capacity to do something about it - in other words, to clean out whatever it is that doesn't
belong. This is the second analogy for the Splenic system is the analogy of the washing
machine. In other words, what you have here is the capacity to be able to clean out the system.
Of course, the Spleen is not a motor. So you have a washing machine that's not plugged in.
Obviously, it's only going to operate if you plug it in. It needs to have access to energy in order
to be able to operate its cleansing system.
The awareness that is in the Spleen, because it is so deeply related to our immune functions,
that awareness is only there to keep us alive. When I say only, obviously, this is enormously
important. Only - in the sense that that is its sole function and it's its sole function to keep us
alive. That's what it's about. Yet, the language that it speaks is not the language of the mind.
The concerns of the Spleen are not the concerns of the mind. Herein lies a dilemma. The
dilemma is how difficult it is for humanity to trust in its intuition, its taste, its instinct. It's
extremely difficult for humanity to trust in that because it does not relate directly to any mental
process and, therefore, cannot make clear why it is responding in the way that it does. The way
the Spleen works and the way the mind works are totally different.
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The whole thing about the Splenic awareness, about existential awareness, is that existential
awareness is not something you can figure out. It is only something you can trust. It's not like
you're ever going to know why you're acting in the now the way you are. Your mind cannot
explain that, but we live in a mental plane and we're running around in our lives in our minds.
The moment that we have this deep existential recognition, as long as our mind cannot figure
out why it's having that recognition, it ignores it. The mind is twice as powerful as the Splenic
system - it's so easy for the mind to overrule the immune system. You can tell about the
weakness of the immune system and that it only has the capacity to be able to signal you once
and in the now. Think about that. It does not have the power to be able to just sit there and hold
on and keep on saying, "No. No. No. No. No." It doesn't do that - it barely gets out the first no.
If your mind doesn't understand why it's saying no - and it will not, it will only make up a reason,
it will do nothing else - then it's going to be ignored. The mind will then say to it what the mind
likes to do because the mind's about communication. "Excuse me, Mr. Spleen. Why did you say
no?" The spleen isn't involved in that anymore. It's already in the next existential moment - it's
over. It doesn't go back and say, "Excuse me. Let me check my catalogue. That no was
about..." That's the mind that does those things, that makes up reasons, that says because.
Your immune system doesn't do that. The immune system is right there - bang. Without the
ability to be able to intellectually understand the nature of what it is to have a defined Splenic
system, it's practically impossible to trust it. The mind has to accept at its own level that that
awareness operates. Of course, the only way in which you really know that is through
experience.
One of the most difficult things for me in my life was to trust my intuition. I'm designed to be a
pure intuitive, existential being. Like everybody else, I lived on the mental plane. I was one of
those people who would always say, "I knew it. I knew it. I just knew it." I would often ask
myself, "How come you don't know before?" In all of that it's just a mental trip. I did not know
where that feeling that I would have was coming from - I did not understand the mechanics of
my being. The first time I took a look at my design, I said, "I knew it." It confirmed to me
something that had been there all of my life - this ability in the now to recognise things that later,
after ignoring them, I would realise I already knew and I should have paid attention. But I didn't
trust it because my mind didn't understand it. My mind did not understand the mechanism
through which my immune system was making its decisions. The place of authority in my design
is in my Splenic system. That's where authority belongs, which means I don't really know
anything until it's happening. I can only live out what my intuition does in the moment while it's
happening. Then my mind is in a non-interference mode. "Don't interfere. Don't interfere. Don't
question the intuition." Not everybody has the capacity. I'm somebody who has the immune
system connected to the Throat connected to a motor, so my intuition manifests in everything
that I do and say.
It's very different for somebody who has a Splenic system that is connected to the Root, for
example, and there's no opportunity for that to generate or manifest. These are people who can
know things in the now and be powerless to do anything about them. You can sit in a room and
know in that moment that you're with the wrong people, but you'll have to wait until somebody
stands up before you can get up and go. That means that you have to remember your
awareness in the now. These things are only possible if you truly can see for yourself. In the
mechanic of your nature, this is something you can rely on. Then, only after experimentation,
will you be comfortable with accepting the profoundness of this awareness. It's very difficult for
us - it does not speak our mental language.
Now the immune system operates in two different ways - it's very important to understand.
Awareness begins with fear. Here we have the primary fears - these are survival fears. The

moment that you understand that the fear for survival generates awareness, it's that fear of
survival - out of that comes awareness. The fear is not bad. The fear is not the enemy. The fear
is the mechanism of awareness. To be intelligent is to be afraid - no question about that.
Everything in Design is rooted in the duality of what is fixed and what isn't fixed, what is defined
and what isn't defined, what is open and what isn't open, all of these basic polarities that exist in
the Design System.
When you're dealing with the awareness, the first thing to understand is that when you see a
chart and you see that in that chart that there is no defined awareness, no defined Splenic, no
defined Ajna, no defined Solarplex, it doesn't mean these human beings are witless. It doesn't
mean that there is no awareness in their life. It simply means that awareness is not their
authority and cannot be because it's not defined, so it's not consistent. It is never their own
awareness that they're processing. This business about what awareness means in our lives, a
lot of people are very surprised, for example, that the purest authority you may have in your life
is unaware. Remember that authority is about decision making. It's the decision-making process
for the whole totality that we call ourselves. What you can see is that you have an organisation
and you've got these nine different departments, and, depending on the kind of organisation,
different departments have final authority. It just means that there's a different place for
authority, that's all.
Somebody who has an undefined Splenic system - recognise the nature of what is undefined -
undefined is the pathway to wisdom. This is the courses that you take in life. Somebody with an
undefined Splenic Centre can have a profound recognition of how intuition works and who's got
it and who doesn't, to recognise where there is existential awareness and what existential
awareness is of value, to be able to help those who are not well in their Splenic system.
With my undefined Solarplex system, I can step into somebody's emotional aura and know right
away whether they're healthy or not and tell them. I know what is not me and I can feel them so
deeply. Somebody with an undefined Splenic system, you take somebody into your body... I
always tell people with undefined Spleens, you go into a room, you sit down and suddenly you
don't feel good. Don't panic - that's not you. That's them. All you have to do is look at them and
say, "Something the matter?" and they'll go, "How did you know?" Because you're taking it in. At
the same time, if you have an undefined Splenic system, you can never trust that intuition to be
your place of authority. Not possible. You're giving authority to every human being who
conditions your system - it's not your authority.
Don't get confused about the nature of what authority is in a design. Authority is about the final
decision making - HarryTruman's little thing: the buck stops here. We all have one of those
places inside of us where the real authority lies but it doesn't have to be awareness. We have
this big pump about how important awareness is in the chart. Awareness is in the world - the
world has a defined Splenic system. Always. It's in the world.
The two ways of looking at it - I always use the example of children and illness because it's a
very important example. You take the child who has an undefined Splenic system. That child's
always going to get sick. They're the kids that are going to get the colds and blah blah blah. It's
nothing more than the fact that they are open and vulnerable to taking in stuff from other people.
Now if they are fortunate enough, and not all children are, to have a good diet, a good home,
good care and hygiene, if they are given an opportunity to heal completely, and this is the key to
undefined Splenic systems - undefined Splenic children must be allowed to heal completely
before they are sent back out into the world again. The fact of the matter is that these children,
when they grow up, if they have proper care, if they're allowed to heal, they're incredibly healthy.
Just as I am now in my life very healthy emotionally. I don't make emotional decisions and I
know it's not me.

You learn with an undefined Splenic system what is good for you and what isn't. You learn to
recognise what foods are good for you and what isn't, what medicines, and so forth and so on.
You go through a learning process because you are vulnerable. There's a hook here - it's one of
the deepest hooks that you'll find in Design. That hook is that if you've got an undefined Splenic
system you don't feel good. There's this sense of not quite feeling right. The 'feel-good'
hormones are all being pumped by that defined Spleen. Because you don't feel good you're a
sucker for anybody that's going to hook up your Splenic system. Think about what happens. If
you have an undefined Splenic system, you are deeply sensitive. So what you're taking in from
around you, that sensitivity is by its nature not necessarily comfortable. My comment to that is,
"Well, tough." The moment that you just jump in and grab a Splenic system that's defined, what
that defined Splenic system does is it covers it all up and the undefined Splenic person loses
their capacity to be sensitive to what's around them - they don't have to, after all. Suddenly, they
feel good because their Splenic system is being defined.
It's very important for undefined Splenic people not to get lost in the need to have their Spleen
connected because that feel-good is just as dangerous for them unless they're really aware.
Who you take in in your life is dependent on where your authority is - not dependent on where
you hook, not dependent on where you connect to someone. In order to accept somebody in
your life there is a place of authority within you that says that this is correct or not - that's the
criterion - not simply getting the definition. One of the things to recognise about undefined
Splenic systems is that a meat-eating diet is not healthy for them, at least not a diet that's
concentrated on meats. It's very important for these people to have a much broader vegetarian
diet. These are people who can use homeopathic and holistic forms of medicine and they're
going to be effective on them because of the nature of their sensitivity. They are very different
physically than those who have defined Splenic systems.
By the way, if you have a defined spleen and it's not connected to the Throat, the conditions
remain the same, that is, the need to take care in terms of diet, in terms of the kind of medicines
that one uses. You are going to find that split definitions between the Splenic system and the
Throat - it's very important for them not to use heavy chemicals or heavy chemistry in their
healing process. By the way, about 80% or 90% of the illnesses on the planet would disappear if
people were living out their own nature rather than taking on the diseases of their conditioned
lives. The conditioned diseases that we get don't belong to us. Therefore, we're not well
equipped to handle them, which is why we have to import all these medicines in order to
compensate for it. We suffer for an illness and a cure which has nothing to do with ourselves
and yet we have to experience all the pain and discomfort of that process. It's much easier just
to be yourself and get what you deserve, because you're equipped to handle that then. The
defined Splenic system is different. The defined Splenic child is not going to get sick as often,
but when they do get it they get dangerously ill. Dangerously ill in the obvious sense - it's
common sense. If you have a defined Spleen, you have a strong immune system that's working.
The moment that illness really occurs, or at least comes to the surface, is at the moment that
your immune system is already overloaded. These are people who carry things around inside of
them for a long time before they finally can break through against their immune system and
come to the surface. So these are children who will get very ill, run very high temperatures -
these are the kinds of kids that when they get sick they scare the hell out of their parents. Of
course, they recover quite quickly, but they go through a very, very serious peak that can be
quite frightening - this borderline between just simply a high fever and the potential for
meningitis and these kinds of things that can happen because you have a very powerful
immune system that's been overloaded.
By their very nature, because they feel good, these people are going to pay less attention to diet
in their life. Of course, I am talking about Splenic systems that are connected to the Throat.

Splenic systems that are cut off are like undefined Spleens when it comes to their health and
when it comes to healing and medicine. The moment that you have the Splenic system
connected to the Throat, or particularly when it's connected to a motor so it's operating, you
have people who are going to ignore any obvious health standards in life. These are the people
who smoke two packages a day all their life and don't die - they laugh at everybody who's
quitting smoking. They're also the kind of people who walk through their life and you think, "My
God, these are the most incredible physical specimens I've ever seen." And then they just drop
dead in the street because their immune system has finally been totally overloaded and that's it
and they just blow out. It is not going to do any good to give these people homeopathic
medicines. These are the kind of people that their immune system is overloaded - you better
give them a load of chemistry. That's what's going to work for them to rebalance their system. It
is, hopefully I will get a chance in my schedule one day to teach a food course, to be able to see
clearly that there is no generalised rule for our health, our well-being, our diets. You can see
very clearly within the nature of someone's design exactly what is correct for them in terms of
how they are to feed themselves in this life, and what kind of healing is appropriate for them and
what will work and won't work. Not only that, but who can best deliver it. After all, one of the
most important things about an undefined Spleen.
You've heard about this man before - Martin Grassinger, this homeopath in Germany. He had
been working for many, many years in homeopathy and working with homeopathy and
astrology. He was trying to use astrology as a way to figure out correct timing for people. He
was about to quit being a homeopath - he was deeply frustrated. He recognised that he could
clearly see what the right medicine was, what people really needed, but there was this
incredible inconsistency in performance in terms of the effectiveness of giving the medicines to
people. He closed up his shop for a month and went to the island of Ibiza, where I live. He was
at a dinner party one night and he was complaining about astrology, saying that it couldn't help
him because it really just couldn't give him what he needed, which was timing. Somebody at the
dinner party, a friend of mine, said to him, "You should go see this man, blah blah blah." So he
came to see me. He was telling me after he had his reading and we talked, he was telling me
this story about a client of his - a woman who suffered from chronic depression because her
face was deeply disfigured by a very, very serious form of acne. She had never been able to get
rid of it - nothing had really worked for her. She had tried all kinds of doctors and she had tried
all kinds of stuff and nothing worked. She had finally come to see him. She had heard about him
and he knew exactly... he knew she had a problem in her pituitary system and he knew exactly
what he could do to help her. He had exactly the right medicine and it didn't do any good - this is
what clicked him out. So he went back and with the information of Design he became by the
next spring an analyst and he had this woman's chart. In this woman's chart, she had an
undefined Head, an undefined Ajna, undefined Throat. So the pituitary system, which is in the
Ajna Centre, is undefined and works inconsistently. Of course, when he would give her the
medicine and she would put that medicine into her body within the circuitry of her nature, it was
not getting to the pituitary - there was just no way. So, he opens up his ephemeris and he sees
that the Nodes of the Moon are coming to the 43-23, the Taurus-Scorpio opposition. This
connects the Ajna Centre to the Throat. So all of a sudden there's this fixed definition that's
going to be there three months. He calls her up and he said to her, "I found a new medicine. It's
wonderful. You must come." So she comes, he gives her exactly the same stuff. Three days
later it was gone - it was just gone. You see, the instrument had a way of finding its place where
it had to work. Otherwise, it doesn't work.
Think about what it's like. You have an undefined Splenic system and your doctor gives you a
medicine. You take that medicine but there's no way the energy is going to get to your spleen.
What the hell is that going to do for you? People laugh when I tell them, this year particularly, in

the coming year, in the next, I think it's 2? weeks from now I give a 2-day training for
veterinarians on the Design of mammals and my deep interest in Mammalian Design is because
it is so deeply, deeply important to the well-being of human beings.
My son, for example, has an undefined Splenic system. He's got the 38th gate in the Root. So,
we got him a dog. All of my friends know that I'm crazy about time, so when their puppies are
born, they time them. If they want me to have one, I have to know what time it was born so I can
do its chart and I can look at it. Alma is a wonderful dog and like all great house pets, she has
no fixed definition - that's why the dogs fit in so well or the pet fits in so well in your life. She has
the 28th gate, which is on the other side of the 38, the Channel of Struggle. So the moment that
I put that puppy with my son, the two of them start fighting with each other. The puppy starts
biting him and he kicks the dog. Of course, it keeps them both healthy: they both have a defined
Splenic system. My son, who has never had anything but homeopathic medicines, at the
moment he takes his medicine his dog's there. It means his spleen is working.
Understand our relationships with other forms of life on this planet are profound. This thing that
I'm going to do in Boulder, which is a real treat for me, is to reveal for the first time the nature of
the Design of plants. Think about what that means. You can germinate plants at a certain time
where they're guaranteed to have a defined Splenic system in their design. Each and every
single plant has a different attribute that leads to capacities to be able to heal and benefit us.
Yet, you don't have to kill them to be healed by them. You can just have them growing there in
your kitchen and you can just walk up to them each day and hold them in your hand and touch
them. You can't reach the aura of a plant unless you touch it. The moment of touching the aura
of that plant, you have a defined Splenic system. Plants are archetypes of perfected form of
survival. You don't have to kill it - it's living medicine. The creatures in our lives are living
medicine. They are our allies in this life for well-being. One of the things to recognise about the
nature of health is that the best medicines in the world are the plants and animals that we live
with on this planet. Literally, they can make us healthier human beings. That's quite a thing to
think about, what it is to have a living relationship with well-being.
Somebody with a defined Splenic system is somebody who can be spontaneous. The
spontaneity of the defined Splenic system is limited to its ability to either generate, to sponta-
neously generate through the Splenic connection to the Sacral or to spontaneously manifest,
whether verbally or in terms of activity by the Splenic system being connected to the Throat.
Because of the nature of this, because the Splenic system represents spontaneity in our lives,
this existential... [end of side of tape]
Remember genetic continuity. Every time you see somebody's chart and they have an
undefined Splenic system, they're either going to have defined emotions that guarantees that
they have to wait, otherwise life is going to be hell, or they're going to have all kinds of lines that
say, "Don't move. Shut up. Wait." It will be in the continuity. By the way, that is something for
you to begin to learn to see. When you look at a chart, what's not there tells you what's going to
be there in the chart. You think about that: what's not there, what's not defined is going to point
directly to what's in the defined - it's going to tell you right away. So we're dealing with a
fundamental response system that the mind, please remember - so important to remember that
- the mind doesn't understand and know anything about. It can't figure that out. Because this is
a primary survival mechanism, out of this mechanism we have seven primary fears. These
seven primary fears condition for us what really feels good in this life. To deal with and confront
and handle each of these fears, it results in a sense of well-being. Each and every one of these
fears is what survival demands of us.
When we're dealing with centres of awareness, and this includes the Solarplex Centre as part of
this evolving awareness structure, we're dealing with streams of information that move through.

This is what you learn in going through the circuitry in your advanced training. So these gates
that are there within these awareness centres are more than just awareness gates. They are
part of an ongoing process of moving awareness through the vehicle, streaming it through the
vehicle and always conditioning the energy and the manifestation by giving it the quality of
awareness. These steps we have: the fuel, the potential, the possibility, and finally the
expression that are the keynotes for the four steps of any stream. We saw when we were
looking at the root that we had the 58th gate, The Joyous, and we saw that this vital energy was
there to be able to provide the necessary fuel to challenge authority - the 18th gate. When
you're looking at streams of awareness, look at the binaries. The 18 goes with the 48. The 28
goes with the 57. The 32 goes with the 44. They're couples - they're married to each other. They
walk hand-in-hand in the awareness game. Then you have the 50. In the spring when I do Sex,
Part II, and I do the caring in our relationships, we're already seen that out of the Emotional
system and out of the 6th gate, the mirror of the 50, out of the 6th gate we have this wave
system that's generated out of the emotions - the six different waves that come up. It is this
emotional wave that we're living in.
Out of the 50th hexagram on the other side come the six different awareness frequencies.
Without the 50th gate we're not aware beings. Within the nature of the 50th gate lies collective,
individual, and tribal awareness. It is the only centre, the Spleen, because of that, that can
speak in clear aware terms for any dilemma within the human experience. It's awareness is an
awareness that is correct for the tribe, for the collective, and for the individual. So it is the only
place within the whole planetary structure for us that we have a common consistent awareness.
So we're all dealing with these fears.
THE COLLECTIVE AWARENESS STREAM OF TASTE
GATE 18: WORK ON WHAT HAS BEEN SPOILT - THE GATE OF CORRECTION
The 18th gate - Work on What Has Been Spoiled - is the Fear of Authority and the 48th gate,
where it's going to in the stream, this Stream of Taste, the 48th gate - The Well - is the Fear of
Inadequacy. They're linked to each other - the Fear of Authority and the Fear of Inadequacy. If
you cannot challenge authority, you feel inadequate. If you can successfully challenge authority,
you feel adequate. That authority isn't just simply mother, father, boss, whatever. It's any
concept. It's any opinion. It's anything. It's to challenge the authority. It's to say, "Is this really
true? Is this really the facts? Let me see the experimental data."
When we're looking at these three streams, most of you, because of the common language of
20th century psychology, you're familiar with intuition and instinct as terminologies. Taste is
something different. I want to give you a keynote for taste that might make it very simple for you.
The Stream of Taste is simply about what you like and don't like - that's all. It's what you like and
don't like in the now - that's all. Nothing more, nothing less. That's what taste is: I like it in the
now or I don't like it in the now. It's rooted in what we call judgement - it's just a matter of taste.
Of course, this like and don't like is how we codify and measure talent. "Oh, I really like that
song. Oh, I didn't like it. I really like the way she sings. I didn't like it." Everything having to do
with the logic system is inherently argumentative. It's full of nothing but argumentation. "I
think..." "No, I think..." "No, I think..." "I have the facts..." "No, I have the facts." "I have the
experimental data." "Well, so do I." "You're wrong. I'm right." "I don't like your way. I like my
way."
The 18th gate, this gate has always perked up people's ears. Remember something about
taste: taste is collective - it's not personal. The challenge to authority is not personal. This is why
this is the Oedipus/Electra gate. What happens is, whether you're male or female, the opposite
gender parent is going to have a deep impact on you - that part of it is personal. But your

challenge of authority and your fear of authority takes that personal and makes it collective. "All
men are like my father. All women are like my mother." Of course, that's not true. Nonetheless,
so the reality is what happens in the 18th gate is there's this collective need to challenge
authority. "I don't like the way my parents raised me. I'm going to challenge their authority. I
don't like the way my father treated my mother. I'm not going to let any man treat me like that. I
will challenge that authority."
One of the things you'll notice about so many 18s is that they're split definitions. If you look
carefully at their splits, you'll see that there's a yang part and a yin part. Their conflict about
challenging the opposite sex authority is always within themselves first. They are here to
challenge male authority so they live out their yangness at the expense of their yinness. Or
they're here to challenge female authority so they live out their yinness instead of their
yangness. The 18th gate, aside from that mundane sense of dissatisfaction, is actually the
beginning of the perfecting process: authority must always be challenged. No authority is free
from challenge - no authority. This is the whole thing. Authority can never be free of challenge.
Never. Never. The one thing that logic knows we have to test all the time these freaks who
come and mutate things. They mess up our patterns. So we have to keep on checking over and
over and over again to make sure it still works, it still works, it still works, it still works and it's
getting better. This challenge to authority is also a perfecting process. With an 18th gate, you
always know something. You come up to them after they've done something terrific and you pat
them on the back and you know what they say, "Yes, but..." They all do. "Yes, but... well, you
know." They could have done this and "I could have done this and this could have been better
and that could have been better and then we could have done that. Maybe we should do the
whole thing again. Yesterday, we could have done it and it didn't work out that way, and I really
think if we do it this way that tomorrow is going to be better." And on and on and on, instead of
just saying thank you: "That was really great." "Thank you." The rest of it is just this mechanical
energy that's saying, "We've got to perfect it. We've got to perfect it. We've got to perfect it." Out
of that can come all kinds of pointed fingers - at yourself, at others.
It also says something very obvious to us: we're supposed to be afraid of authority. Grab that.
We're designed to be afraid of authority - it's good for us. The authority is there. "No end to
hierarchies," says the logic system. There's always somebody above you on the ladder. There's
always authority. We always must confront it. But no authority is free from being challenged -
that's what the 18 is about. Yes, we must have authority; logic demands authority. Once we can
prove something experimentally, we can establish it authoritatively. We can say, "This is the
authority. Yes, you may still challenge it, but we have proved that this is the authority." Logic
demands that. We demand that authority. Otherwise, we couldn't end up with the logical leader.
"I have the authority to guide you into the future." So this whole business about being afraid of
authority is natural for us. We'll be respectful in our place within the hierarchy.
The second thing to recognise about the 18th gate is that it is a potential for correction but it is
not the correction itself. What the 18th gate can do is that it can look at anybody and anything in
any moment and know what's wrong. "Your shoes are dirty." Instantly know exactly what's
wrong - exactly - what needs to be corrected, what could be fixed. If the 18th gate doesn't get to
the 48th gate, you've got the classic design of a bitch - male or female - nag, nag, nag, nag,
nag. After all, the 18th gate's gift is that it can see at any moment what needs perfecting, which
is everything, always, endlessly, forever. The 18th gate without the 48th gate - they're partners
in the taste process. They are deeply linked to each other as conceptualising gates. The 48th
gate opens up the possibility of correction. The possibility of correction is to have a solution and
the fear of inadequacy - we are designed to be inadequate. I hope that makes you all feel better.
We are designed to have a fear of inadequacy. Remember, the gods designed us to be busy,
busy, busy, busy, busy - not feeling like "I don't know what to do." The 48th gate is The Well. It's

the gate of black magic, if you like those kinds of terminologies. The well is a deep, dark place.
There is no light in the well - there is just the water. You stick your head into an old well and
you'll see how dark, dark it can be. The reality is that nobody knows that the well is full unless
the water is at the surface. When the water begins to overflow there is abundance available for
everyone.
GATE 48: THE WELL - THE GATE OF DEPTH
The 48th gate, like the 36th gate (as you'll see tomorrow), these are the Gates of Deepest
Frustration. Both of them have the capacity to bring about solutions and yet they're restricted by
not having access to the Throat. The 48th gate, The Well, this Gate of Depth, this Gate of
Profundity, this is the Gate of Solutions. The 18th gate can say, "Your shoes are dirty," but it's
the 48th gate that has to say, "By the way, in the cupboard over there, there's the polish. We
have this brush over here. You go like this, like this. There's a rag." In other words, the 48th
gate comes up with the solution. That solution is like an opinion - it's no different. The only
difference is that the opinion in the mind, the 17, this is a mental constructed opinion on a
mental plane. The 48 is an existential opinion that's there and ready in the now, an existential
solution to a problem. To have an existential solution is the basis of talent. All that's missing is
the skills to manifest the solution, to bring the solution out as an experiment.
More important than that, and something so important for anyone that carries any of the
elements of this stream, is that the solutions, the experiments, what needs to be challenged,
you can only challenge those things that belong to the collective domain because this is
collective. It's my story about people who come up to me and say, "You really shouldn't smoke
so much," and my response is, "You mean nobody on earth should smoke?" Their response is,
"Yes. That's right. Nobody, nobody, nobody. It is verboten. You vill not smoke. You'll go to hell."
This is what the collective does: collective solutions do not pay any attention to the individual.
They don't care about your idiosyncrasies. The moment that an 18-48 is picking on their
partner's idiosyncrasies, this is when it becomes something that gets a terrible backlash. The
collective is argumentative. Those idiosyncrasies do not deserve that energy. It just comes out
as sour grapes. The moment that there's a real solution that has collective value, that's another
story. Again, the whole logic process is so starved for energy that the experiments that we do
do, that we do get the chance to put energy to, let's make sure that they're the best possible.
That's why people never understand this 58.2, this line called Perversion. Everybody says, "Oh,
it's a terrible line." They just don't understand what it means. The 58-2, because it projects out,
everybody sees that there's energy for experimentation. So they get hooked all the time by all
kinds of people. They end up giving their energy to all kinds of bizarre stuff because they're
designed to give their energy to experiments. So they end up giving their energy to things that
really aren't of value to the whole collective. The collective gets annoyed with them and says,
"You're perverse. Why give your energy to that when we've got all these babies starving over
here?" or whatever the case may be. The solutions have to be collective and of collective value.
Otherwise, there's nothing to say.
When the 18 and the 48 are together, the capacity to recognise what needs to be corrected and
the capacity to come up with the solution, then they sit there and you've got real frustration. If
they can't get it out to the throat - "If they'll only give me enough money, I can turn straw into
gold." This is a classic 48: "If only". "If only I get the chance to do this experiment, you'll see."
The frustration that it's so difficult. Remember the secret of secondary gates of action. These
secondary gates of action - as soon as the fuel tank is full they take control and the 16 says,
"Well, you know, you think you've got the depth but I don't want to work with that. I can't identify
with that... I can't identify with turning straw into gold. You're just crazy. That's not a solution."

The nature of inadequacy - everything about Human Design is about this whole polarity
business. The moment that you've got a gate activated in a channel, what you want to do is live
out the other side. You want to immediately abandon your position and say, "I'm going to be that
over there because that over there is more interesting." Think about the 48-16, the Channel of
Talent. You've got the Fear of Inadequacy in the 48 and you've got the Gate of Skills in the 16.
So if you have somebody who has the 16th gate, their great fear of inadequacy is that they don't
have enough depth. People with 16th gates are forever burying their noses in things. "I don't
enough. I don't enough. I don't enough." They go chasing after knowing, digging in to get the
data. If you have the 48th gate and you don't have the 16, your inadequacy is you feel that you
don't have enough skills, you don't have the right skills. What do you do? You spend all your
time trying to learn skills, instead of realising that there's someone for you who has those skills.
It's not like you have to gather them all. You just have to recognise which skills are right for you
when they come into your life. It's very different. It is essential for human beings to recognise
that the greatest fear in us is that we will not challenge the authority that is incorrect and fix it.
It's very important, this stream.
Talent is something that is inherently healthy. The connection between the Splenic system and
the Throat, this whole stream, you can't get any healthier than this stream. It's whole purpose is
to maintain the well-being of the community. But to maintain the well-being of the community by
being focused and concentrated on those authorities that must be challenged, where solutions
exist and experimentation is possible to prove that the authority is a false authority - that's what
it's for. It's not for bitching and it's not for punishing yourself. There is nothing more painful than
18 people punishing themselves: "I could have done better." Well, yes, isn't that always true if
you're a collective person? There's no end to better, best - it's endless. That's the whole
collective game. Get better and better and better and better and better. By the time you're really
good you're dead - that's the game. Then everybody remembers and says, "She was the best."
Until somebody else does it better and better and better. That's the collective process.
The thing that is so significant to understand is that the moment you take this whole business of
challenging authority out of the personal domain and you place it into the collective domain,
then it really works, then it's really efficient. Otherwise, it doesn't. You have to have the solutions
and you have to be able to experiment with those solutions in order to really fully challenge the
authority and feel adequate. By the way, that's why you have so many... the 1960s for example,
was littered with protest songs and protest plays and protest movies all coming out of this talent,
all trying to challenge the established authority through various skills. This is the whole thing
about the collective process. Don't turn this need to challenge and perfect into a condemnation
of yourself as a being. It's an important role to live out in your life, but don't spend your time
saying, "I could have... I might have... I should have..." Instead of seeing that all this system
ever says is the power that lies in the 9th gate, the power to repeat: keep on challenging that
authority. Kick them when they're down. You keep on challenging that authority until you
eliminate it or else the authority stands the test of time and you really are afraid of it because
you can't challenge it. What you think requires challenge does not and it will fail. It's not like
saying that authority is always going to be challenged and it's going to be overwhelmed. That is
not true. Obviously. But this is the whole thing - the collective being has a responsibility to the
larger community. What we're looking at is generalised ways in which we can improve our lives
as a species. There are an enormous number of political leaders who have these channels at
any given time on the planet, because they're essential. Bill Clinton is an 18-58, Helmut Kohl in
Germany is 16-48. There are all kinds of these politicians that are running around the planet
because this is essential to the collective process. This ongoing challenge to authority to
maintain the health and well-being of the community.

When somebody has a defined or undefined Splenic (it doesn't matter which) but the 18th gate
and the 48th gate are not activated, you know that that's a fear that they're going to have to deal
with most profoundly in their lives. The moment that they meet that, they're going to reflect it
twice as strongly. If you don't have the 18 and you live with somebody who does, you're going to
be twice as critical. The real collective criticism is coming out of people who don't have
activation in these places but are reflecting that out of others. It's one of those things about
seeing what you're not.
I don't have the 18-58. I have had a lot of contact with 18-58s. In the beginning, before all of this
was part of my awareness, I was enormously critical with these people. Enormously critical! I
became the king of bitches to the point where I just drove them nuts. Of course, it was them but
I didn't know that. Now in dealing with 18-58 in my life, it's actually quite amusing. I can feel
within me this need to challenge authority, which is not my design. I can feel this energy and I
can see how that is so easily turned in on oneself. It's so easy, because, you see, the role there,
the way of that is to be able to provide well-being for the community. In that moment that your
correction does not get its necessary respect and it doesn't turn into an experimentation you get
very frustrated and very angry. Then it becomes something that just sticks because you cannot
fix it. The whole key is don't get caught up in trying to correct idiosyncrasies. Be involved in the
correction and the challenge to larger authorities on the collective plane. Better to bitch about
the CIA than your partner - much more efficient and of greater value. Better to bitch about your
sewer system than your partner or your medical care system or anything else or the school
system, or whatever it may be. But the collective environment, in order to provide collective well-
being... I keep stressing the well-being because it's very important to understand that when
you're dealing with the stream - in these cases both the 16-48 and the 20-57 - that directly
connects your immune system to your throat to the thyroid, this is fundamentally healthy. Talent
is fundamentally healthy. Talent makes us feel good. You watch or participate in an event where
somebody of talent is there and it's a thrill. We love it - it makes us feel good. A great concert or
whatever the case may be. It's very important to understand that correction at that level is
supposed to make us feel good. It's supposed to make life better for us. So at the larger level,
the collective being has to be concerned about larger collective issues. Remember, you can
never treat the collective personally any more than you can treat collective sexuality personally,
because it's just for the experience. The collective logic is just for the experiment. Just for the
experiment. You see any protest movement somewhere and you see the different kinds of
forces that are gathered there that wouldn't necessarily have anything to do with each other
under any other circumstances, but they're there for the collective experiment of challenge.
We've looked at the collective process and we've looked at these collective fears. Think again
about that. We have two kinds of collective fears that are primal. We will have two kinds of
individual fears that are primal and we're going to have three kinds of tribal fears. In other
words, one of the things to see is that the tribe is also more fearful. Not only is it more
possessive, it is also more fearful. The collective fears are about the challenge to generalise
patterns, the collective patterns. The collective patterns have to be correct because if they are
not correct, we cannot be healthy in the future - that's the collective process. When we come to
the individual process, we come to something very different. When we come to this individual
stream of awareness we're dealing with what we call intuition. Intuition, being a part of the
individual process, is deeply acoustic. We have just left the little tongues of taste. Remember
the goal, if you will, of the logical collective process is to get to a point of experimentation in
which you like the results or you don't. Because taste is about liking and disliking, you like to
challenge authority and you don't like to challenge authority. Some of the best challengers of
authority don't like to do it - it's just the other side of liking to do it. When we come to the
individual process what we're going to is mutative fears, individual fears. The collective fears are

about society as a whole. The individual fear is deeply personal - it's the real opposite of the
collective. The impersonal collective - the very personal individual.
THE INDIVIDUAL STREAM OF INTUITIVE AWARENESS
GATE 28: PREPONDERANCE OF THE GREAT - THE GATE OF THE GAME PLAYER
The 28th gate and the 57th gate - the 28th gate has a lot of power. It has an interesting kind of
power. You have somebody like me who has the integration system - they are deeply selfish in
their own survival and self-absorbed in their own survival and do not care particularly about
anything other than their own survival because that is natural for them. But the moment that a
57 meets a 28, it's ready to care, if necessary, for another. The 28 has a lot of power - it brings
integration into the larger individual process. It takes away the pure self-centred concerns and
caring of the individual and they turn it into something larger. So the 28-38, which is the Channel
of Struggle, this whole business of struggle - so many people who have the Channel of Struggle
are annoyed by it. The Channel of Struggle is really very beautiful, after all. One of the basic
tenets of individual life is that - what's the saying, "Life's a bitch. It's better to be rich." We're all
out there struggling on the material plane - this is part of our lives. But more important for that,
the essence of knowing what it really is to know, and this is the purest knowing that is possible,
is the knowing that's there in the Spleen in the moment. It's pure - it's not adulterated by the
conceptualising processes and influences of the mental plane. This is a deep, pure knowing.
The whole business of this knowing is about finding out for oneself that life is of value. That's
what knowing, at its deepest level, is about. To know that life is of value, to know its worth being
in these vehicles, to know that this process is a wonderful thing and that it's exactly what we're
supposed to be doing as we chunter along in these funny little vehicles.
Because of that, the fear that we deal with in the 28 is the deepest of the primal fears. On its
surface it's called the Fear of Death. Again, the collective is designed to fear authority and to
fear inadequacy - that's the collective's design. The individual is designed to fear dying. Yes,
yes, yes. It's not like there's something wrong with us when we're concerned about the fact that
we are terminal. Life is terminal. The whole thing about the nature of the Fear of Death is that it
has nothing to do with death, which is nothing, after all. It has nothing to do with dying, which is
what most people have fears about. It has to do with whether or not that in one's life that before
death one can see that the process has really been of value, the struggle to be alive is
worthwhile. It's not the Fear of Death, it's the Fear of Living.
It's one of the great fears of the 28 - the Fear of a Useless Life, the fear of a pointless life, the
fear of a life made up of just banging one's head against the wall and others, a fear of knowing
that when you're 85 years old you're still going to leave the keys in the house after you've
walked out and you're still going to have to go back in and get them. What we have in the 28th
gate is that what lies within us is a gate of gambling and risk taking. One of the things to
recognise about fears is that fears are signposts for us in our life process - they're signposts.
The moment that you're ready to take a risk and you're a 28, you know, you know that life is not
of value to you. Instant. Instant signpost. It says, "Excuse me, this risk means that you do not
think that your life is of value right now." Period. 28s can easily kill themselves - easily. The
classic 28-6, Neptune in detriment, Self-destruction, Blaze of Glory. Eating a little too much,
going a little too fast, taking a little too much of this and a little too much of that, and going a little
too fast, and on and on, until you finally go over the edge because life is not of value. All that
struggling and all that gambling is about trying to see whether life's of value. "I'm going to take
this risk. I'm going to jump out of this airplane. Maybe it's going to make me feel so good that I
land and I'm alive that I'll recognise that it's really good to be alive. I'll take any risk to find out
that it's really good to be alive." That can get downright dangerous. This is not collective - this is
deeply personal and it's individual. It's not like somebody can come up to you and say, "Your life

is really worthwhile. I'm so glad you're here on the planet." And the 28 says, "Piss off!" It isn't
going to do them any good. This is not collective. This is not the tribe looking for support. This is
an individual - they have to know that for themselves.
Because individuals suffer from melancholy and they fill up the couches of the psychiatric world,
you can see what's going on and how they're totally distorted in that process. Individuals have to
know, and they have to know in the now that life is worthwhile. It demands that they cannot
know that unless they are totally existential and surrender. That's what individuality is all about.
It's being existential and surrendered. In that moment of being existential and surrendered, each
moment they can say, "Oh, I'm still here. Everything's OK." The thing about individuals is they
don't listen - they are deaf. That 38 on the other side of the 28 is saying, "Don't talk to me. I'm
not listening to you. I'm going to go ahead and struggle to make sure that life is worthwhile. I will
do everything in my power to know that life is worthwhile. If you get in my way, I will fight with
you. Don't try to help me, please." If you fall in love with somebody who is individual and you
see them crossing the street and there's a car coming and you reach out to pull them back, they
will never speak to you again - your relationship is over. They will look at you and say, "What the
hell are you doing? You don't think I can cross the street by myself, you fool." And the other one
is saying, "I was only trying to help. I was only trying to help." "Yeah, yeah, yeah." Individuals
have to know for themselves. There is no other way for them, which means that this is the
deepest of fears because it is rooted deep in the individual soul. Is life of value? Everybody
wants to know: "What's my purpose?" The purpose of life is life. If you don't get it, tough.
GATE 57: THE GENTLE - THE GATE OF INTUITIVE INSIGHT
When you get to the other side and you get to the 57th gate, you get to the complexity of a gate
that opens up to the whole integration system. The 57th gate is not just another awareness
gate. It is the awareness gate. It goes directly into the 57 to form the archetype of what
awareness is. The archetype of awareness is survival - the power to survive. It is the awareness
that guides our behaviour in the world. The 10-57 - Perfected Form - how to be in the world. It is
the awareness through manifestation in the Throat that gives us the capacity to know we are.
Nothing in integration is more profound. That's why it's all about individuation - the recognition
that we know we are. "I know I am." That "I know I am" is out of the Splenic system. It doesn't
belong to the mind. The mind can be anything.
The immune system, in its moment-by-moment existential reality, that awareness connected to
the Throat is saying, "I know I am. This is what it is to be human. I know I am an archetype of
survival. I know I am and I can follow my convictions and be awake in the now." It's all about the
basis of individual human expression. So this 57th gate has a great deal of power to this Gate of
The Gentle. The Chinese description of this gate is very nice. It's the cool evening breeze that
gives you pneumonia. It just kind of quietly sneaks into the room and all of a sudden you're sick
as a dog. The Gentle, the penetrating wind, this clarity - to be able to penetrate to the core, to
the centre in the now. That's its beauty and its fear; this is the Fear of Tomorrow. In the purest
language that we can give it, this is the very fear for survival. The Fear of Death and the Fear of
Survival, the Fear for Tomorrow. This is the root of intuition. It's all in the sounds. What you hear
keeps you alive. This is one of the most incredible things about individuality. Because it lives in
an acoustic world it is the acoustic world that keeps humanity healthy and alive. In order to find
out whether life is worthwhile you have to hear it in yourself, out of your own mouth, in the now.
"I love my life in the now." Oh, it can go away in the next moment but that's OK. It'll come back.
That's the way it works. It's a pulse. It's individual.
You see, everything about the 57 is that this is the awareness that empowers the G Centre. The
G Centre doesn't connect to any other awareness. The G Centre only connects to the Spleen. It
only connects through the Spleen through the Channel of Perfected Form. This is the

awareness that conditions our behaviour in the world. More than that, the 10th gate is the Gate
of Behaviour in the World - our gate of our nature in the world. More than that, at its highest
level, this is the potential of self love - not the love of the flesh, not this universal love, not the
love of humanity - the love of self. Its love of self is empowered by this "I know". In the 57, I
know the form. When the 57 and the 10 are together, you have this knowing that leads to the
Perfected Form - a design of survival. You take away perfected form from the world and you
have a dead species. You have no awareness in behaviour, just chaos.
The Fear of Tomorrow is many things. The Fear of Tomorrow is, "Can I maintain my life?" - the
archetype. "Can I maintain my perfected behaviour so I will survive? Can I be present in the now
to respond to the Throat?" It is very difficult for people who have individual aspects related to
the Spleen but don't have the 20th gate, as an example, so there's an enormous pressure on
them to be existential when, in fact, manifesting existentially is not easy.
The Gentle. In our moment-by-moment existence, what we hear is what keeps us alive.
Individuals, because they are acoustic, need to hear things. They need to hear them, both at the
concretised verbal frequency and other frequencies. The 57th gate is the Gate of the Right Ear.
It is our capacity to be able to hear in the now. Of course, I tell people if they want to hear things
in the now, put the telephone to your right ear, so you hear in the now. In this hearing in the now
there are many levels at work. There is the specific hearing of what is being directed at you, for
example, in a conversation. There is the secondary hearing which has to do with the audible
environment around you. For example, you're in a room and there's a siren going by, or
whatever the case may be. And then there's this immune system level which is below the
mental recognition of sound, the sounds that our peripheral receptivity does not take in, the
lesser sounds that are there that we actually hear but hear not in a conscious way.
All of these acoustic inputs are filtered through the Splenic individuality and they are filtered for
warnings. What they're listening to is not necessarily substance. My Splenic doesn't listen to
somebody when they're telling me something. It's my mind that's listening because we're
communicating at the mental plane, at a conceptual plane of description. So my mind has to pay
attention at that level. While my mind is communicating at that level, this Splenic system is
hearing different things. First of all, it's hearing the tone. Everything is revealed in tone -
everything. If you grow up with animals, you know that. If you just change the tone of your voice
slightly, you say the same words, "I love you," but you just change the tone, they're not
linguistic, they don't know the formula I'm expressing. They relate to me at a frequency level. If
my tone changes and I say, "I love you," (harsh tone) they're gone - they run out of the room. So
while the mind is hearing the bullshit, "I love you" - it's got all this stuff, all this communication
going on - the Splenic system is saying, "Did you hear that tone? There's something funny going
on here. Doesn't sound good to me." This is all this other level of awareness that's at work.
The moment that your existential awareness is saying to you, "Don't listen to this jerk anymore,"
while your mind is still going, "Blah blah blah," there is this confusion at the mental level: "Why
do I have this feeling?" The mind's really dumb. The mind's designed to engage in conversation.
Once it's there, it's there. "Well, OK. We're talking. Everything's cool." It's only up here on the
mental plane. It doesn't mean anything. Just because something inside of me is saying, "This
guy's a jerk. Get out of the room." And it only tells you once. This is the whole thing about the
recognition that the awareness that's at work in the Splenic system is operating so differently
from our mental program that if you don't know that this is something that you can rely on, it's
almost impossible to rely on it. Your mind is never going to be at a point where it says, "Whoa, I
really like my Spleen." Your mind just doesn't say that - it doesn't like it. "Butt out. I came after
you. You're old stuff, I'm new. This is a mental world. We're not beasts." Well, what to do?

These awareness gates operate in unison. You've got a process taking place where you're
developing a concept and you're turning that concept into a possibility for expression. Of course,
we're dealing with conceptualisation at a Splenic level, which has nothing to do with the way in
which our minds work. Realise something about the nature of the frequency of mind. Because it
operates over all time, the mental constructs that you have can be built up over days and weeks
and months and years. You can make up reasons and can take years to develop a good
package of reasons why you're life is so miserable. The Splenic system operates out of a
moment-bymoment intellectual process. There is no hold over - it's just there. You see, when it
comes to the moment of truth in your life it's only what you get in the now that will protect you
because it will keep you alive. That's what it's about. The mind can't do that. The mind cannot
save you, ever. Ever. Oh, I watched this movie 'Natural Born Killers'. That was hilarious. It was
hilarious. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in years. Absolutely hilarious. This is classic
freak business: trying to find the value of life by taking life. Really, freak business.
Of course, what happens in the 28-57 is that there are enormous risks that can be taken
because of these fears. The Fear of Tomorrow is the great fear of the world. That's the power of
the 57 is that it represents the greatest fear in the world - the Fear of Tomorrow. "Can I...? Will
I...? Is it possible...? What will happen...?"
I learned that lesson many years ago when I was young. I was always a bad boy - I think that's
evident. I got into trouble in school and my teacher told me I had to come in the morning to be
strapped. In the school system that I belonged to in Montreal in those days corporal punishment
was legal. They had straps that were about this long and about this wide and they were made of
leather and they were about this thick and they had a kind of ugly handle on them. The teacher
or the principal would stand there with this thing and you'd put your hand out and they'd whack
your hand. It hurt like hell. Normally, in those kinds of situations you get punished and within an
hour or so you get your punishment. But this was at the end of the day and there were other
things going on in the school. This guy says to me, "You have to go to the principal's office in
the morning to be strapped." So I go home at the end of the school day.
Now, I'm an existentialist - I'm a pure existentialist. I'm here to be absolutely in the now. No
other place for me to be. I went to hell and back a zillion times that night. This story about a
coward dies a thousand times, a brave man dies once. I lived that out, this incredible fear of
tomorrow. "Oh my God." I had images of my hands dissolving into silly putty and whatever. I
came up with every possible scheme one could imagine: run away from home, run away from
school, disappear, whatever, anything. I couldn't sleep. I got up at about 4 o'clock in the morning
after some kind of restless night. You get 40 minutes or an hour or whatever and I was really... I
went to school so early that morning. I was outside of the school at 7:30 in the morning before
the guys even came to open it up. I was in the principal's office before the secretaries were
there and the principal was there. I just sat there and said, "Come on, come on, come on, now.
Get it over with." I was so happy to see the son-of-a-bitch walk into that room. I said, "Here. Go
ahead. Now." Never again in my life would I fear anything again in that way. Never again in my
life would I be concerned about what's going to happen to me tomorrow, because it's a killer. It's
a killer. I was young - I don't know - 12 years old. That lesson stayed with me all of my life:
no'sense in worrying about tomorrow. Tomorrow's got its own business. Obviously, that's natural
for me because of the nature of my design to have that lesson and to learn that. At the same
time all things are part of the world. This very basis of integration, this very basic Fear of
Tomorrow, this is something that is so profound in us. I'm designed to be able to be fearless in
the now. Not everybody is. There is this enormous pain that people carry inside of them
because they are terrified about what's going to happen to them tomorrow - their jobs, their
lovers, their whole business, whatever it is. They build these enormous constructs and they
make up thousands of things that are going to happen to them. This is the great gate of

paranoia. Incredible paranoia - "Can I survive? Will I survive? What is going to happen to me?
What's my friend going to say? What's the boss going to say? What's my teacher going to say?"
Blah blah blah. On and on and on and on. "How can I pay my bills? How can I do this? How can
I get that? Where can I...?" Endless, and this is not collective. This is personal, this is individual,
this is in everybody. The thing to recognise about the nature of the Fear of Tomorrow is that
tomorrow doesn't exist. Collective people tell us that tomorrow exists - that's their business.
Abstract people are certain that there's been a past. At least, that's what they tell us. But
individuals can only know that there's right now. There's right now, there's right now, there's
right now. There isn't anything else - no tomorrow. That's the keynote for the Design of insects.
They're 20-10 creatures - no tomorrow. Everything is in the moment. Existence is only the
moment.
Of course, the only way to liberate yourself from that Fear of Tomorrow, that deep, deep, deep,
deep fear of tomorrow is the acceptance of what is now. You don't have to be an existentialist
for that. It does mean that you have to accept what your nature is. The moment that you come
to grips with your nature you're going to see what you're designed to deal with in this life. In that
lies your pathway to acceptance, because there isn't any other way. The moment that you're
accepting your own nature is the moment that you're accepting that you are helpless. The
moment that you accept that you're helpless you're as existential as the rest of us, because
that's what life is. Just because we can project into the future and remember the past doesn't
mean that they exist. They are theoretical. They are just theoretical. All they're doing is
postulating. The memory of the past - what does that mean? It doesn't mean anything. It's
relative and subjective.
There is always this question in dealing with Human Design is this question of the nature of
what it is to work with absolute knowledge. Human Design System is the mechanics of the
Maya. As such, it is an absolute within that Maya - to see the way in which the mechanism
operates. if the Human Design System and its affiliated design forms and all of these other
things are, in fact, the mechanics of the Maya, then the mechanical nature of existence is
revealed, and in that mechanical nature you have no choice but to surrender. The whole thing to
recognise is that because of the nature of Human Design, without your experimentation in your
own process, there's no verification of that truth.
The greatest relief for me as an individual, the greatest relief in my whole life as an individual,
was to understand that I was not responsible. Nothing has given me greater liberation of spirit in
my life than the recognition that I am not responsible. What I mean by that, and again these are
terminologies taken out of context, there are people in design that are designed to be
responsible or not. There are all these different possibilities in the mechanics. Because you're
responsible in design doesn't mean that was a choice - that's just your design. You're not
responsible for being a responsible person. Your design makes you responsible - it's relative.
But the greater mechanic has imposed that on you. You see, the great fear that haunts all
human beings, this great Fear about Tomorrow and what will happen, will it be all OK and all of
this other stuff, this is what feeds conditioning: the desperate attempt to be able to assuage the
fear by accepting conditioning in the hopes that that will eliminate the fear, and it doesn't. I'm
afraid of tomorrow, so I'm going to listen to what this person tells me and I'm going to try that
out. I'm afraid of tomorrow and I'm going to drive myself crazy in my mind worrying about it, and
even when it's passed, it's going to take me days to relax afterwards just to get rid of the energy
that I pumped myself up with.
The great fear exists the moment that you leave the world of what's happening and you enter
into a world in which you try to control what's going on. The moment that you accept that your
life is happening and that you're helpless in that life is the moment that you will see that those

fears are eliminated - you're not responsible. You're designed to be here in the world and
survive. You're designed for that. All human beings are. We all live in an aura together. It
doesn't matter whether you have this stuff defined or not. This is one of those things that people
get stuck on that they don't recognise. In this room there is no lack of definition in anything. If I
did a chart of all of us together here, every damn thing would be activated. That's the world -
we're never without any of these things. That means that those people who don't have the 20th
gate, and there are going to be hundreds of millions of them, they're generating a wave of fear
of tomorrow that dominates the world. They're the ones that live it out twice as strongly. They
project out this deep fear of tomorrow.
When I started with the 28th gate, I said we were looking at something different here because
we're talking about the potential mutative process. All individuality is rooted in mutation.
Mutation is possible. That fear can be transcended through mutation by simply being in the now,
helpless. That's always one of these points that I come to in my work where I realise that what
we share as information isn't what we get to live, necessarily. Knowledge is not power. There's
always this underlying motive that exists in all those who seek to learn. That underlying motive
in learning is that through that learning, one can achieve something. You can learn the Human
Design System and you can achieve that. That's accessible to anyone. But to live your Human
Design, that's another story. That's not a question of choices. That is something that happens or
it doesn't happen. The longer that you're involved with an awareness that points you in this
direction - seven years to de-condition those first seven years of your life - to re-establish who
you are as a pure being in the world. Forever, great teachers, masters, whatever you want to
call them, have been telling people, "Hey, look. It's easy. All you have to do is surrender." And
they all say, "Oh, yes, Master. How do I do that?" they say. My joke is the other way around. My
joke is you're all surrendered - you just don't know it. That's different. Human beings are
surrendered. We are God-like. All of us are surrendered. None of you have any choice, whether
you know that or not. It's simply the mechanical fact. It's not like you have to do anything to
become surrendered - you are surrendered. All that can happen is that you recognise it, that
you recognise your helplessness and you recognise in that helplessness perfection. It's the
moment that you're going to get for the first time the feedback to you - to You.
We have a design that says we have to be busy - busy, busy, busy, busy, busy. And while we
are running around we do not see anything. What we are looking for in our lives and trying to
hunt down, we do not get. It is never fulfilling. The moment that you're just receiving... we are all
called. We are all called. We have all been called upon to be aspects of the totality - all of us.
The perfection of that response in us can only come through being surrendered. Surrendered,
by the way, doesn't mean anything. This is one of those jokes: stupid before enlightenment,
stupid after enlightenment. Same life. Same life, same everything, different perspective. We're
always trying to claim that we control our process. I'm a man who doesn't make any claims. This
is old Piscean shit. It's been around so long it's unbelievable to me - that human beings have
the vanity to claim that they are responsible for what they do, that they're in charge of their lives.
These are the people who are most deeply afraid. The whole business is, "I've got to stay on top
of my life because my life is falling away from me." And they try to ride their lives instead of
being their life. That's the whole thing - you don't have to do anything to be surrendered. You
don't have to do anything - you're there. Don't interfere with your lives. Non-interference. Don't
interfere with your lives. Let it be.
You can find authority within your nature to know what is correct and not correct for you in any
situation. Just let it be what it is - don't interfere. If you're undefined mentally, don't interfere with
your life mentally. How can you do that? How can an undefined mind say, "I don't think what I
am doing is right?" It knows nothing about it - nothing, nothing. How can the undefined
emotional system say, "I'm so mad, I'm leaving"? Don't interfere with your life. Non-interference

means do not give authority to what is not you - you'll have to. Then you get to see the movie.
You watch the transits. You watch your little mechanism getting turned on and off and on and
off. Moving you through your life, connecting you to those forces that have always been
connected to you, going through a pattern drama over and over and over again. It is the history
of our being. There is nothing in all of that that belongs to us. It's what we get to experience in
our movement.
One of the deepest recognitions for me is the lack of individual karma in the world. This is the
vanity of humans: "I have my own karma. I used to be Cleopatra. It's my destiny to blah blah
blah." It's not true. It's so obvious. How can it be true? We're these designs that are very open.
Even if you activate 20 gates, if you're lucky, there are still 44 that you haven't activated. We're
living in a program that's there from the moment that we come into the world, even before we
come into the world. Now, we're constantly in the aura of others, endlessly. You want to tell me
where individual karma is in that? It doesn't exist. This is a joke. That's why Human Design is so
important at the relationship level, to understand that we have a karma that we share with
others, a geometry that we share with others. It's that mutual geometry that is uplifting for us in
our process. This energy of what we are, it's not personal. It's not personal. We're all in this
together, literally together, in an incredibly ordered hierarchical structure. We're all aspects in a
fixed pattern that's moving in space. No escape from that - none.
THE TRIBAL AWARENESS STREAM OF INSTINCT
In the third stream that runs through the Splenic system we return to the tribe. Nothing is more
significant for the tribe than the awareness that's rooted in the Splenic system because, after all,
the tribe, being so emotionally connected and not being connected to the mind, only has access
to awareness through the Splenic system. This is a key in understanding within the tribe. It is a
key of their awareness process is that the tribe operates at an instinctive level. This is no longer
the personal process of the individual and their fear of whether life is of value and whether they
can survive. It's not the collective fears that authority must be challenged and must be
challenged adequately and the fear that one may not be able to challenge them or to be
adequate enough to come up with a solution to correct them. But instinct is instinct.
Here we come to the nose, the smell. Fortunately, with my Splenic system connected to the
Throat and connected to a motor, my sniffles disappeared in a day and a half. It's always nice to
have a good immune system. Healthy piece of business, anyway. The nose - how I described
hearing to you - this level of hearing that operates at many levels. The mind listening to the
conversation but the deeper hearing that's going on underneath. When we come into the instinct
we're coming into the nose. So we're coming into the aroma world. It's vastly complex, many of
you know, this ability for human beings to be able to smell and how complex the nose is. For the
first time in scientific history they've built an artificial nose in Rome. It's just been completed in
an institute there. It's capable of synthesising 468,000 different varieties of aroma. Human
beings - we're complex creatures. This smell business - all of us know the power and the
relationship between aroma and memory. Those of you who have this connection in your life,
you wake up in the morning and you step outside and you smell something and suddenly you
have a memory. The power of aroma to be able to initiate remembrance, this is instinct. This is
a form of memory that exists in the liquid of the cells. When you cry, what you're doing is, you're
getting rid of old memories. That's what crying is. It is a washing of the instinct and its
memories, and it's the releasing of memory from your body.
When I was met by the Voice, the first thing that happened to me was that I was completely
dehydrated. All the water of my body, at least all the water... I guess some had to be left, but
even that I don't know. Anyway, there was a huge pool of water around me, so I don't know how

much they took out, but they took out my memory. That guy that walked in the door, all that stuff
that I was holding onto at the instinctive water level - washed out. Just taken right out.
GATE 32: DURATION - THE GATE OF CONTINUITY
So lying in the instinctive nature is a memory system - deep, deep, deep memory system. That
memory is related to smell - they come together. So when you come to the 32nd hexagram,
global theme that we're in, the theme of failure, here is a basic fear, Fear of Failure, and
completed in the 44 with the Fear of the Past. Tribes have a long memory. Tribes have a long
memory. It is that Fear of the past of when there was little to eat, when they had to work so hard
or when there was lots to eat and then invaders came and took it away, whatever the case may
be, there's this incredible fear of what the past was. Tribes are so different from the individual.
The individual is afraid of tomorrow and the tribe is afraid of the past.
The 32nd gate - this basic fear - the root fear here is the Fear of Failure, the failure to be able to
smell. "I smell a rat. I smell success. I smell money. The smell of victory." All of these things and
it's the material smell. "I smell a goal. I smell of riches. The stink of failure." Of course, the
nature of the 32nd gate is that in operating at that level, what it is signalling is not something
that the mind understands. You walk into a room and you pick up somebody's aroma. I'm not
talking about the obvious aroma of body odour or whatever - it's something else. It's like what a
dog smells. It's hanging in the air around them. It's what's on their clothes. It carries the aroma
of the foods that they've been eating, of the people they've been touching, of the places where
they've been living. When you meet somebody, your nose is taking in an incredible amount of
information that has nothing to do with obvious smelling. In that moment that your nose takes in
that quality, it is saying to you in the now out of the Splenic, "No, no. Not this one." The mind
doesn't understand that. The mind has no directive, cognitive way of saying, "Ah. My little
splenic nose just smelled this ZYX chromosome problem on this part of this person's immune
system over there and blah blah blah." It doesn't work that way. The mind wants to know why.
The Splenic system doesn't care about such things - it's not into reasoning. It's just responding.
"Yeah, I smell a rat. Run like hell." Think about the nature of what it is to be a 32. If you don't
honour what you smell, you fail. If you're an individual person and you're going to deal with
somebody at a personal, important level, you want to make sure that you're in a place where
your ability to hear each other and your ability to hear them is not disturbed by an overbearing
acoustic environment. It's not a good idea to have that serious conversation while someone is
blaring music and there are car's whizzing by, or whatever the case may be. The same thing is
true for the nose.
One of the first pieces of advice that I give to people who are tribally defined or activated on this
side in the instinct is to recognise that it is very important for them not to use powerful scents on
their body. I normally recommend no scent on the body, but some people feel that that is an
absolute necessity for them in their life. Because they are nose people, they do appreciate
having the aroma around, because they like it. So there are these conditions. If you're going to
use scents on your body, you have to make sure that they are very, very subtle so that they
don't interfere with your capacity to take in the aroma field around you. Remember, it's not about
what your nose directly smells consciously that you're aware of. It's not about the smell of food
cooking, or whatever the case may be. The other thing is don't get involved in tribal negotiations
and tribal stuff when the room is full of smoke or the room is full of incense or there are too
many flowers in the room or there is anything that is really going to distort your ability to sniff out
the other one. "I'm going to sniff out the problem. I'm going to smell it out." All of this terminology
of smell and money and success, and all of that, that's here. That's here. That's what it's all
about.

There's no way you can control that - you have no choice. You can't control your Spleen. You
can't tell your Spleen what to do. You can't tell it to smell this or that. You can't tell it to shut up.
You can't do anything to it. It's keeping you alive. It actually thinks the mental part is really a
useless thing, like an appendix. Why the hell do we have this thing on top? I could just be like
Bruno, my dog, and we could have a great time. I'd be in a permanent Buddha state. When
there was nothing to do, I'd go to sleep. When there was something to do, I'd just get up and
wag my tail. "Everything's great. Life is great. Let's go. What's happening?" Well, it's true.
The moment you bring in the mind you've got this, "Well, I don't know. Do I really have to do
this?" Different story. The mind is literally that - it's a toy box that's been screwed on. My father
always used to say to me, "The only thing you don't lose is your head because it's screwed on."
I tried many times but... Once they screwed this thing on, what were we going to do? Once the
toy box is operating, it's like, "Where's all that stuff coming from inside of me that keeps on
saying no? This is very disturbing. I'm not going to pay any attention to that because I know up
here, because I can see from up here. I know exactly what's going on," as their whole life falls
apart. It's magical - the Spenic Centre - it's magical. The Spleen does not touch the Ajna and it
does not connect to the Solarplex. Look - there's no connection. It's its own world. This is the
design of being alive. Of course, it is totally overwhelmed the minute it meets any of those two
forces. The moment it meets the mind, and particularly the moment it meets the emotional field,
it's so easily overwhelmed.
The 32nd gate - Duration. Duration is the most conservative of gates because it recognises that
failure is always a possibility in communal activity. It has the deepest kind of memory systems
that we carry. It remembers at a cellular level when the tribe was at the point of extinction. It
remembers all threats. It remembers how new things fall apart. Remember the relationship
between the 32 and the 54, the Marrying Maiden at the other end of the drive. The Marrying
Maiden only remembers victory: "I can do it. I did it last time. I'll do it this time." The 32 at the
other end is saying, "Hey, look, I remember when it didn't work. Give me a break." It takes a lot
to convince that nose. The other thing about that is that the 32nd gate, like the 28th gate, is rich
with self-destructive potential. The self-destructive potential that's rooted in the 32 is about the
lack of consistency, lack of continuity. Nothing is more devastating to a tribal person than to
have any kind of new things imposed upon them, where they have to change their way of life,
where they have to change their style of living, where they have to take new products into their
lives. This is very, very uncomfortable to the 32. They don't like it - they don't like lack of
stability.
You'll usually find, by the way, that when you get 32s, you usually end up with them having a 35
or a 36 so that they really are designed to get messed up by having things constantly changing
around them. In order to be able to recognise and smell out what can really be of value,
everything about the Splenic system is about a value system - everything. Each of the gates of
the Spleen, in one way or another, are concerned about values. Not simply the value of
morality, but value in the sense of what things are worth. The 28 is looking to see if there is
value in life itself. The 32 is interested in whether anything has material value or not. The 32 is
saying, "If it doesn't have material value, I'm a failure." The 28 is saying, "If it doesn't have
personal value in my life, then my life is a failure." Very similar, like the 18. All of these gates
that are running in the same patterns out of a centre, they carry similar attributes. Remember,
all seven gates of the Spleen run in order from the 46th hexagram [up] to the first hexagram in
the wheel. They all have exactly the same lower trigram - the universal fear mechanism.
GATE 44: COMING TO MEET - THE GATE OF ALERTNESS
When you get to the 44th gate, and you get to the Gate of Alertness - Coming to Meet - this is a
nose that is very, very important. What it can smell is the potential to transmit. It can smell what

can go out and it can smell what people, what egos can be controlled in order to get the
information out. Remember that everything about the instinctive stream of the tribe is about
making money. It is about our commercial and corporate cultures. It's about our business
culture. It is about how we work together in community enterprise in business. The 32nd gate is
there to know whether or not a worker is of value, how much value should be given to them, and
whether or not a product has value and how much. No sense in having a product that's
undervalued and you sell them all and you're still in the red - that's a failure. Costing and all of
these things that are part of business are all rooted in the 32. Of course, without stability in the
tribe the 32 gets depressed. It finally gets around in its conservative nature to make radios and
somebody brings in a television. "No, no, no. People don't want to watch things. They just want
to hear it. I'm afraid of failure. I'm going to wait and see how long it will last. If it lasts, then I will
get involved with it." These are not business innovators, the 32s. They're there to take
advantage of things that are long term so that they have stability and they can really know what
the value of things are. But if the circumstances around them are changing, their valuation
system doesn't work and they feel like they are a failure.
The 44th gate has a different perspective because it's people oriented. The 44th gate is one of
the Gates of the Four Ways - the 19, the 33, 24 and 44 - the Cross of the Four Ways. The way
of coming to meet is the ability to be able to recognise and to be able to handle the power of the
Ego in order to get access to its will power and its capacity to exaggerate and attract the tribe.
The 44 is the personnel manager, where the 26 is the marketing manager or the marketing
person. The gift of the 44 is the recognition of the value in another to be an ego force, yet at the
same time the ability to recognise the inferior elements in that ego force in order to be able to
control those elements. So the 44 has a gift for working with people but also the gift of being
able to be alert to what the tribe needs. The 44 is there to figure out how to deliver to the tribe
what they need. The fear of the 44 is the Fear of the Past. It's the fear of the past - it's always
afraid of the past catching up. Always. 44s are very concerned about security. They are the kind
of people who have great difficulties going out on a limb financially unless they can really, really,
really feel like it's going to work because otherwise the past frightens them, that it will catch up
with them and strip away what they've gained. The whole thing about a 44 is that the 44, like the
37, has this capacity to be able to initiate bonds. The great gift of the 44 is its ability to initiate a
bond with the tribe. By the way, we call that today advertising - that's what we call it. This is how
the 44 initiates a bond with the tribe. It creates an image for the tribe: "Got this best refrigerator
for you."
THE DEFENCE CIRCUIT - THE CHANNEL OF THE LAW
GATE 50: THE CAULDRON - THE GATE OF VALUES
The last gate is the 50th gate - the Guardian, that's its mystical name - the 50th gate. The 50th
gate is so profound that just giving it a couple of minutes doesn't really do it any good.
Nonetheless, those of you who take the Caring Course in the Spring, you'll get a good dose of
the 50th gate. Because all of the frequencies that we operate out of - awareness frequencies
come out of the 50th gate - obviously it is very significant. More than that, it is awareness that
guides the Defence Circuit. Being the awareness that guides the Defence Circuit, it's the only
awareness that contributes directly to the way in which the tribe lives its life. As such, it is very
important. The 50th gate, the Cauldron, is the Gate of Values. It is the Gate of the Tribal
Lawmaker. It's the gate that establishes what principles of care are necessary for the tribe, the
care being on the other side - the 27. It establishes with awareness in the now the principles on
which the tribe operates. All 50th gate people are here to control the nature of their relationships
with their partners, their friends, their family, whatever. They're the ones that establish the
values - what is right and what is wrong for the tribe. Because this side of the Defence Circuit is

about the nourishment of the young, in other words, the sexual side on the other side, the
reproductive side; on this side, the nourishing side, what we have is the establishment in the
50th gate of what is right and what is wrong for children. Very important - the moral conditioning
of children throughout the world. That is us because we were part of that. The moral
conditioning of children is there in the 50th gate - that's its work: when a male becomes a man,
when a female is allowed to have a mate, all these tribal laws, all these moral laws of what is
right and what is wrong and how we live with each other, in order to preserve caring. "You will
stay a virgin because I care about you and our tribe cares about you and these are the values
that are important to us."
The 50th gate has a fundamental basic fear that is the true fear of the tribe, the Great Fear of
the Tribe, the Fear of Responsibility. The 50th gate establishes the values and therefore is
responsible. This is Solomon cutting the baby in half. What to do? Since the values are being
established in the 50th gate, the first thing to recognise about the nature of our civilisation is that
our values were not created mentally. We did not sit down in conclaves and decide at the
mental level what was right and what was wrong. What is right and what is wrong is determined
existentially in the now. Period. Whenever I meet people who have the 50th gate, it is one of
those things that I always remind them of is that they can never know what is right and wrong
mentally - never. They have to wait for their existential response. They have to wait for the 50 to
say so. For example, if you have the 50th hexagram connected to the 27, what you have then is
a value generator. That's what they're doing - they're generating the values. What that means is
they have no idea what the value is. After all, this is the way the 50 is designed to be. They have
no idea what the value is unless they're asked. Mentally they'll say, "I don't like heights," for
example. "It's something that I don't like. It's not good for me, blah blah blah." Then somebody
comes up and says to them, "Would you like to climb a mountain with me?" and they go,
"Ahunh." The fact that their mind has set up a value structure means nothing - nothing. They
don't know until the awareness itself responds in the now in that moment. "Do you want to take
heroin?" "Uh-uh." Then you know, only then. This whole thing about what is right and what is
wrong for us and that's why we're afraid of responsibility. We don't know whether it's right or
wrong what we're doing. We don't know. If you put all your energy into the wrong values and
your life collapses around you, this idea that you have to be responsible for establishing the
values in the first place is a horrible feeling.
The only way in which the 50th gate is actually doing its job, which is to provide succour and
comfort by establishing legitimate principles and values for the community to live by... you know,
the cauldron is a big cooking pot. A witch's pot can feed the whole tribe, that cooking pot. To
establish the right values and those values come existentially in the now and that's it. Out of this
50th gate comes this business about being responsible. The judge that sits in the chair of the
50th gate says, "This is the law and now you're responsible for maintaining this law." That's
what it does. "Here's the law. Now you're all responsible. If you break the law, you're
responsible for your own punishment because you will get it because you're responsible
because it's up to you. Once I decide what the law is, you better know what it means to be
responsible."
Isn't it funny that the word responsibility always comes with a finger. Have you ever noticed
that? It always comes with a finger. Whenever you hear somebody using 'responsibility', they've
always got their finger in the air. I saw that finger so many times in my life. "You're
irresponsible." I have the 4.3. "You're irresponsible." I'm going, "Ha, ha, ha, ha." They're going
like this and I'm going... What to do?
The moment that you have these 50s that we need, bless their hearts, they're aware at least
and they're saying, "All right. This is right. This is wrong. This is the law. This is the way it's

going to be." They establish for us this whole business about being responsible. People get very
upset about this business of responsibility. It's about respond-ability - that's what life it. It's
respondability. It's not response-ability. We're here to respond in the world. We're designed for
that. Very good design for that. The moment that you keep in mind that there's a gate that says,
"Responsible" then you can understand that it's just a human trait. It's an aspect of what it is to
be human. It's this question of responsibility, because otherwise how can we support each
other? That's what the tribe says. "How am I going to support you if you don't support me? If I'm
going to be responsible for you, you've got to be responsible for me. We both have to be
responsible for what we're doing." This is tribe talk. This is bargain talk. "You gotta do this. I'll do
that. Hey, I'm taking responsibility. You gotta take responsibility." It's built in. It doesn't mean
anything other than it is a costume that we wear in this movie. Some people wear the costume
of being leaders and some people wear the costume of being witnesses. They are costumes.
It's like people who have a defined Ego wear the costume of will. It doesn't mean there's any
free will - it is a costume in the play. The play is everything, but the play is an evolutionary
program. I don't have any control in that.
When you're looking for terminology, go into the bodygraph and find the keynote. It's just going
to say to you, "Look, here is another aspect of what it is to be human. We're got responsible
people and we've got irresponsible people and we've got nasty people and we've got nice ones,
and on and on and on. It isn't saying that me, here, I'm not designed to be responsible - it's not
in my nature. It doesn't mean anything. It means that it's the costume that I wear. It's not like
that is a philosophical, intellectual, moral decision to be irresponsible. I was designed that way.
Some people are just designed to be responsible for the world - Atlas, you know. "I've got the
whole thing and it's heavy. It's really heavy." There are people who are like that. They're the
ones who run around saying, "Shhh. You want to help? You take this side, OK?" They want
everybody else to be responsible. It's like all the anarchists want everybody to be anarchistic.
What to do?
It's always so funny to see that all these things are just in the soup. They're just bits and pieces
in the soup. You can't turn any one of them into the Holy Grail, because it doesn't work that way.
It's just a play - it's a beautiful play. When you're surrendered in your role in the play, after all,
you don't even have to learn your lines. You don't have to remember stage direction, and these
parts are perfect. You've got the best part you can possibly have. That's the beauty of being in
the movie. It's not like... if you gave me a job to work in a film, I don't care what role you give me
- it doesn't make any difference. It's just fun to be in the role. I'd like to play good guys and bad
guys. It doesn't make any difference - it's just a movie. The moment that you see that, you get to
the point that is so special for me in the sense it is clear to me that we are all mythological and I
keep on trying to remind people that there's a way for you to get to your mythology. Your
mythology is just being here in the movie. If you look at the costume you're wearing, you can
read your mythology. Then let go and see how it works. The moment that you have an aspect in
the design that says, "Hey, you over there. You with that other stuff, you've got to be like me
over here." "Yeah sure." What am I supposed to do? Take on somebody else's responsibility
trip, somebody else's struggle trip? That's all nonsense - we already know that. We each have
exactly what is correct for us - our lovely little roles in the movie.

THE SOLARPLEX CENTRE
INTRODUCTION
We come to the Solar Plexus. It is my ongoing joke about the nature of the Solarplex is that it's
the only centre that dominates the chart, whether it is defined or not. The Solarplex Centre is
something that dominates the nature of our lives - it is literally the weather. It gets cold
sometimes. It's the emotional landscape that we live in. It's one of those things to recognise
about the nature of the Solarplex is that it is deeply complex. At the biological level it's related to
the kidneys and the pancreas - it holds a lot of water.
We have two basic aspects of the Solarplex Centre that we deal with as a centre. One is that it
is a motor. As a motor, it is a motor that is very, very specific. It is a motor to release primary
action, so it's there really to get its energy out. It is the motor of the human experiential way.
Therefore, it drives our human life and its cyclical process. It is the motor of our sexuality. So the
complexity of the Solarplex Centre as a motor is that that motor dominates the basic things of
life - making love, eating, experience. Of course, the thing about this motor is that the motor
operates in a very specific way. That is, we have a motor that operates in a wave. It operates in
a wave, and the nature of that chemistry, we interpret, we live out that wave as a wave that
goes from hope to pain and back again, over and over. This wave is moving in space and this
wave is a spiral. We go through this spiral over and over and over, moving from the loop of hope
to pain, hope to pain, because that's the motor of the Solarplex. It is very powerful, this motor.
Because it gets deep, deep, deep into us, it is the most identified with energy that we have.
Everyone thinks that authority belongs to the mind and recognises that it can be overruled by
the emotions. It is a fact that until you get to a point of emotional clarity, until you can
understand the nature of the wave, and wait, then you are caught up in the identified chaos of
that wave and its movement. And how easy it is for human beings to identify with that wave.
You go to the high end of the wave - you feel great. Whatever comes into your life is going to be
identified with through that wave - the people you meet, the situations you step into. The
lightness of the high end of the emotional wave can be something that is very delicious, and it's
contagious, after all. It is a powerful emotional instrument. In the aura, it goes into somebody
else and they climb even higher on that wave because they're mirroring it. To identify with that
position in the wave, this is folly. Wherever you see a defined Emotional Centre, wherever you
see it in anybody's chart, there's one very, very simple thing to recognise. These people will
never know the truth in the now - ever in their lives. Ever. Not possible, not possible. The only
authority in their life is their Emotional system and its wave.
So what is the truth in terms of emotional clarity? Please understand something - that to be able
to deal with the motor is not the same as being emotionally aware or Spirit consciousness that
we talk about as a mutation that is coming. This is about bringing the motor to its proper
functioning level to allow the Emotional system to be what it is without it being distorted by our
ignorance about how it works.
If you're an emotional being in the wave, what you feel about someone when you meet them
and what you will feel about that person a week later or two weeks later or three weeks later, at
the emotional level, you are going to go through your wave. If you want them when you're up,
that's understandable. They want you too because you're bringing them up along with you. If
you still want them when you're down and they still want you because you bring them down,
then you know that they're really for you. That's emotional clarity - to wait, to see through the
wave what the continuity is or not. If it's OK for them to be with you when you're up but not OK
when you're down, there is not a decision to be made there because there is no clarity there. It
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is about the consistency of response, regardless of the chemistry, regardless of the emotional
state.
It's one thing to want to be able to do work when you're up emotionally - the excitement, the
hopefulness of what it may bring. But what are you going to do, are you still going to want to do
that work when you go down at the other end? What happens to most emotional people is that
in the moment that they identify with any place in the wave as being their truth, well, it's like an
idea - it's interesting but it will not hold up. It's like being high and taking somebody into your life
and you have a moment of intimacy with them and then you wake up the next day and your
mood has changed and everything is terrible because it's not what you wanted. The emotional
motor has an enormous impact in the world.
Be clear that these waves are not simple in the sense that there's a complexity of waves. There
are six different kinds of waves as archetypes. There are more actually. They operate in
different ways but they all operate within the same law of hope to pain as a cycle. The emotional
wave in the tribe is about need. The emotional wave in the individual is about passion. The
emotional wave in the collective is about desire. Whether you're emotionally defined or
undefined, the moment you're here in the world, you're in the emotional environment. It's so
important to understand this.
Our inability to get to the Spirit consciousness is the restriction of the motor in our lives - it is
such a powerful force. Because it is a powerful force and it is not aware, it has the potential of
awareness. Understand something about the nature of so-called Spirit awareness - it's not
something we have any true experience with. It is something that not only takes place outside of
ourselves, literally, but what takes place outside of ourselves is no longer ourselves but is the
surrender of our self into something else that is a combined awareness - a melded awareness.
That melded awareness has its own function. It's like if two of us could get together and we just
sort of smashed our heads together and joined our brains for a moment, I mean, physically
really joined them, so we had access to each other's memory banks and whatever is stored in
there. Those two brains locked into each other together, they are no longer either one
something different takes place. There is a new kind of processing of consciousness. In the
wave that is released by the Emotional system, in that wave is carried the awareness potential.
It moves on the wave. What that means is that when you bring emotional beings together, in the
interactive field between their waves is where they meet. They meet outside of themselves and
they meet in a new awareness.
There is no way that we get to that until those of us who are planting this seed get people to
come to grips with the nature of the emotional motor. If you don't come to grips with the
emotional motor you can never get to the next level - you can't. By the way, we won't. All we're
doing is paving the way for the next wave that will come in that will be equipped. Their ability to
be able to have an Emotional Spirit connection is going to be limited if they do not understand
how the Solarplex system works. Eventually, those children who come into the world will have to
be educated so that they understand what that phenomenon is.
Emotions aren't bad. It's not about... the Solar Plexus is such an incredible thing. It brings us
what we consider the most delicious aspects of life. The pleasure of food and music and sex
and tribal celebration and experience and all of these things that make up what it is to be a
human being. It's our source of passion, desire and yet, at the same time, if one simply
identifies with the motor and its movement, the moment one identifies only with that, it's lost. It's
not that the Emotional system is incorrect. It's how the Emotional system operates in the world
that's incorrect. There isn't a consistent emotional clarity. This is not about controlling your
emotions. It's not about controlling them - it's about being clear. It's allowing them to go through
their full spectrum in anything: the ridiculous display of emotional nonsense to the profound

display of emotional sensitivity, whatever the case may be, it has to go through its own
movement. It's not about controlling anything. It's about recognising that if you are a Solarplex
person, decision making for you, awareness for you, consciousness for you, is something that
takes place over time. Over time... like the abstract process - it is cyclical. It takes time.
Think about the left ear - the 22nd gate. The left ear is the emotional ear - it is not the Splenic
ear. The Splenic ear, the 57, in the now, hears everything that is being said in the moment -
bang, bang. But the 22nd gate, you're on the phone with the 22nd gate, the left ear, and you're
talking to it and talking to it and talking to it and talking to it, and it puts the phone down and you
say to that person, "What was that all about?" They go, "Oh, it was just about this..." That 'this' is
one little aspect in the wave that they heard. If they're at the higher end of their wave they're
going to hear those things that appeal to the higher end of the wave. "I really like the dress you
were wearing yesterday." If they're at the low end of their wave they're going to hear the low-end
stuff and they'll miss everything else. But two days later or three days later, all of a sudden the
rest of the wave comes through and they hear the whole conversation. Then they think, "Oh,
that's what they were saying." This is the whole emotional business. It is not a limitation but it is
a different way in which awareness is operating. What it's saying is that it is necessary for a full
movement to take place in order to really be able to see clearly through that whole movement
what really is correct emotionally for the emotional being. There is no other way.
This means several things. It means you cannot give a reason for why you're going up or going
down. This is the most devastating thing that emotional people can do. Of course, at the same
time, those people who are undefined emotionally, they're conditioned that way, and, of course,
they do it even more. The moment you give a reason to where you are in your chemistry, all
you're doing is attaching yourself to whatever you're pointing at. It's not them, after all. So you
bring in this other energy into your whole process and everything becomes dependent on that
other, and it has nothing to do with them. Yet, you get locked in with them: "I feel bad because
Joe left me." Well, well, well. But there's no choice - Joe goes when he goes. You're down when
you're down. They may coincide but they don't have anything to do with each other. This is the
mystery of what the Emotional system is. It feels so intense that what we want to do is just hold
onto it in that moment of intensity and say, "Yes, this is..." It doesn't work. Yet that's where
everybody is stuck because the Emotional system has such enormous power.
First you have to take away the reasons. Taking away the reasons is not an easy thing to do.
It's not an easy thing to do. We are conditioned by the emotional environment to blame. Blame,
guilt, shame - it's because we give reasons to the wave that that exists: "I'm down because of
you. It's your fault. You're to blame. Aren't you ashamed of yourself?" "I'm up because of you. I
owe you everything." "Yeah, yeah."Just the wave, just chemistry. The second thing is to
recognise that those who are defined emotionally are now in a process of opening up this
potential of the Emotional Spirit. That means that they are learning about a new kind of
awareness. The emotional generation now - they are the evolutionary groundwork for this new
awareness. What this knowledge brings us is an understanding about something. We saw that
the Splenic awareness operates in the now, in a moment. We see that the frequency of the
mind is over all time. Over and over and over, things just rattling along. Those are the two
awarenesses that we are so familiar with, that we've been working with, that we understand
within ourselves.
But when you're dealing with the Solarplex system you're not dealing with that. You're dealing
with something different - you're dealing with wave awareness. Wave awareness is saying, "You
can't know in the now and it isn't going to take forever." It's different, then. The mind can puzzle
something forever. Read Krishnamurthi's diaries - you go nuts just thinking forever. When it
comes to Solarplex, clarity, emotional clarity, this is a wave process. What that means is that

you don't know until the wave is finished. You don't know - you have to wait to see, through the
movement of the chemistry, where your consistency is. You're an emotional person. Somebody
says to you, "Look, I have this wonderful opportunity for you, blah blah blah... (or whatever the
case may be)." No matter where that emotional being is in that moment in their wave with that
person, there's one thing that they have to recognise: there is no truth in the now for an
emotional being - ever, ever. So in that moment, to say yes is just folly - it means nothing. It's
not a real yes. It's not clear. This is not the spleen - it's the Solarplex. It's not designed to know
anything in the now. Everything is in that wave. That means that by going through that wave you
get to see all of the aspects from the different perspectives of your emotional being - this is an
education. To sense out, to feel out, the whole process as you go through your wave so that you
can be clear, that means you have to be able to say to the other, "Wait."
Emotional beings, the burden on them is to be more honest than anybody else - that's the real
burden on the emotional being. When the emotional being is feeling great they don't want to tell
the person that they're meeting, who feels great to be with them, that by tomorrow I'm going to
be the daughter of Attila, or whatever. They don't tell them. They don't say to them, "Hey, look.
I'm an emotional person. I go up and down. You may go up and down with me. If you don't like
going down with me, I don't think you should be here with me." Emotional people don't want to
do that. When they're down, really down, and they're angry and they're raging they don't want to
say to the person that they're so pissed off with, "You know, I'm just an emotional person, and
right now I'm at the low end of my wave and you're really pissing me off. But tomorrow I'm going
back up and everything will be OK." You don't do that.
When an emotional being enters into a relationship the most important thing for them is that
they have to recognise that it's not so much just whether they, when they're down, still want to
be with their partner. How about their partner? Does the partner want to be even further down
when they're there with them? It's one of those things that you have to be able to see - you have
to wait and you have to move through that wave to be clear and then whatever emotional
energy is going to be released on the planet is going to be emotional energy that is really going
to be of value. It's the right energy - it's what it's all about. It's not about changing the Emotional
system. It's not about controlling the Emotional system. It's not about punishing it. It's about
seeing that it's really beautiful - if, if, if, you can wait out the wave. I've been telling emotional
people that for 11 years. I know how difficult that is for them. It's one of the most difficult things
in the world is to be able to not - not - jump existentially, based on what your emotions tell you.
This is a joke. This is anti-health. This is the exact opposite of being healthy.
The moment that you really see that, the potential to be really clear at the emotional level, this is
very profound. It's St Augustine's law - the only reward for patience is patience. You've got to
wait. If you look, most of human designs are designs to wait. Even those designs that are
designs to do are designs to wait before they do: Manifestors have to ask permission. It's all
about waiting, anyway. I am always astonished now from my perspective now about how much
of a hurry I was in in my life - I waited for nothing. I'm an Aries so I'm real good at that!
THE TRIBAL STREAM - THE CHANNEL OF INTIMACY
GATE 6: CONFLICT - THE GATE OF FRICTION
The key to the Solarplex is in the 6th gate, like the key to the Splenic Centre is in the 50th gate.
The nature of the 6th gate - Conflict - is that it is out of this gate that the wave is generated. The
6 lines of the 6th gate is the emotional wave. By the way, there are six colours. It's a nice thing
that the beast gives us such a ride. The nature of the 6th gate is that it's our pH in the body.
Basically, what it's really doing is the 6th gate is a kind of a diaphragm for us - it is either
opening up to intimacy or closing. It is this prana, this opening/closing of the diaphragm of the 6,

that really is the nature of the emotional motor. It's out of this prana that we get the wave
generated. This is one of the great difficulties that lie within our sexuality - our sexuality is
governed by and our fertility is governed by the 6th gate and its wave process and its prana. So
you go up in the emotional chemistry, you identify with that in that moment, and then you open
up yourself to penetration. And in that moment, you open up yourself to a relationship that may
or may not be of value to you because you've opened up to it only because you're up in that
chemistry. For us to be clear in our intimate and sexual connections with other people is that the
moment that we're dealing with the emotional environment, you have to be able to wait things
out through the wave in order to be able to be clear about who belongs in your life.
I was talking about waiting. Human beings don't realise that everything comes to them. They
don't really see that life is just happening. Most of the designs that I meet, because I meet
people who have a need at that time, they're black holes and they don't know it. They're running
around thinking that they have to be stars, that they have to shine out on everything, that they
have to go and put their thing on everything instead of realising that they're black holes and
they're here to suck everything to them, and it will come. You will come. The whole thing about
the emotional being is that if the emotional being waits, its Solarplex energy is going to be used
efficiently. They're going to feel good about what they do and who they're with - that's the whole
thing. You set off a chaotic chain by not waiting, jumping at different points in the wave and all
the backlash that goes with it, because, of course, as you're jumping you're blaming. You're
making reasons and you're hooking up to this and hooking up to that.
It's like Generators, or particularly Emotional Generators - they have to wait. What else are they
going to do? Yet, they feel so helpless in their waiting. And it's a joke. They're not supposed to
be doing anything. They're designed to wait, to respond. They're designed and they're designed
to have people come to them and wait. When somebody's ready to wait for you, you know that
they're there for you at some level or another. This decision-making process, this whole
business of authority, the Emotional system has the authority in the world. After all, it doesn't
matter whether you have a defined or undefined Solarplex Centre - this is the dominant centre.
Please understand - this world, our planet, this globe, us as a species - for us our authority is
the Emotional system. It's controlling the nature of all human life on this planet. There's not a lot
of waiting going on out of that.
The 6th gate - Conflict - is the Gate of the Binder. When it's open and it takes you in and its
wave it takes you into its intimacy. Each of the lines of the 6th gate is an archetype of a different
quality of wave, emotional wave. The thing to recognise always is that in the nature of the
structure of the hexagram, the lower trigram is always going to be concerned with its own
process personalised, whereas the upper trigram is always going to be transpersonal. One of
the things to recognise about the lower trigram emotional waves is that they're very personal.
These are internally emotional beings dealing with their Emotional system on the inside. When
you're dealing with upper trigram waves, you're dealing with transpersonal Emotional systems:
the need, the passion or the desire to put that emotion across to someone else and the ability to
do so.
This is where all our children come from, which says that all of us were produced out of
ignorance. What to do? It's been like that forever. The genes have been running the show. Now
look, the moment that you can find emotional clarity is the moment that you have an opportunity
to qualify the genetic imperative. The genetic imperative is only looking for something that is
different. It really doesn't care about what's good for you or not. It cares about what's good for
the gene pool, and it doesn't even really know what's good for the gene pool other than it knows
that it has to continue the business of replication. So the moment that you have emotional clarity
you're not being hooked in that place in the wave by your genetic system. You have a chance to

be clear about who belongs in your life. This is one of the most important things about where
emotional clarity is essential. Emotionally based relationships can be chaotic and can be very
disruptive unless there is a real clarity there. What the Emotional system demands and what
seems to have disappeared is courtship - good taste of southern whatever - courtship. For
emotional people, it's the opportunity to get to know each other through the wave before they
really consummate their relationship. In that sense, it's a valuable tool.
What is clear to me is that the most important thing that you do in your life is who's there with
you. There really isn't anything else. We don't have any personal karma. So the nature of our
development and our growth, the way in which we live out the quality of our lives, is deeply
dependent on who's in our lives. This knowledge is about seeing yourself and the not-self so
that you can really be clear about who belongs in your life and who doesn't. So for the emotional
being, because they are unrestrained in their wave, there's a great deal of chaos in partnership
selection. You're down in your wave, so you accept somebody in your life that you really don't
want, but you're just down in your wave and you want company. Or you're high in your wave, so
you take somebody in, and you just take them in because you feel terrific. Of course, all that
changes the moment your wave changes. We have the vast majority of emotional relationships
established in one point in the wave. Turmoil goes on through the cycles in the relationship
because that's not a consistent place - it doesn't stay there. Unless you go through some kind of
ritual get to know each other, a way in which you can explore each other's nature without
stepping into any deeper water, the healthier it's going to be. Of course, saying that and seeing
that actually manifest in the world is another story.
Being undefined emotionally as I am, I have been dealing with emotional energy all of my life
and I am astonished by its power. I want to tell you a story. I was with my associate in Germany.
We were on our way from Berlin to Hamburg, which is actually quite a short drive and should
take only a couple of hours or so and it's a very straightforward piece of business. We had
decided to go through the east because I have a great deal of fun looking at East German
architecture which I consider the most hilarious comedy in the world. Nonetheless, we go driving
through East Berlin and we have to take some sort of funny highway to get onto the highway
that gets us to where we're going. I'm undefined emotionally but I've been going through various
transits, long term transits that are connecting up my Emotional system. At that time it was the
19th gate being defined, which it is again. I have the 49, so I have this complete emotional
process going on in me.
We're driving along and at some point both JUrgen and I lose it. You know what that's like -
you're driving the car and all of a sudden you don't remember that you've been driving for a
certain amount of time. It's just like you've gone out somewhere. We both went out, basically, at
the same time. About 30 or 40 miles later, we realised that the only signs that we see were to
Rostock, which is way in the north. So, you can't get off these highways. We had to drive
another 25 miles to get to a place where we could turn around.
So we're driving and trying to figure out how to get off this highway. I'm an existentialist - I'm
deeply accepting in my nature. It doesn't really matter to me what happens - It never has. It just
doesn't matter. Those are not the kind of things that upset me. This business about you took the
wrong turn and now we're going to be late, we have students waiting, and blah blah blah. I don't
care about these things. No choice. Yet, there I am in this car driving in the wrong direction,
going north, realising that it's going to take all that time to come all the way back, and I can feel
this emotional energy building in me and I'm getting really annoyed. I can feel it. While I'm
feeling this emotional energy inside, my mind is watching this and my mind is saying, "Oh, oh,
look at that." My consciousness says, "No choice, OK? Makes no difference. Doesn't matter."
This mechanism is going rrrrrrrmmmmm...

Of course, my associate has the 22, so he was taking my sudden emotional definition and
bringing it all the way to the throat. I was taking in his emotional connection as well. I'm just
watching this movie. I'm just sitting there and watching how I was getting angry. It was incredible
to watch that. So we finally get to a place where we could turn around, and we turned around
and we're heading back, and I can feel as we're going back that I had hit the peak of my
annoyance. I could feel that moment where I hit the peak. Then, slowly that wave was starting to
move down.
When we finally got on the main highway again and headed in the right direction, it was gone.
Wisdom is where you're not defined you can know the other. This is the great wisdom of an
undefined centre. Where you are not defined you can know the other. I'm not an emotional
person but because I am open emotionally, I can see the other in that experience. That was a
very, very profound experience for me.
My awareness said, "This all doesn't matter. It's OK. I'm cool. It's all right. I don't mind these
things." This emotional chemistry, all by itself, pays no damn attention whatsoever to my
awareness. I'm awake. I'm looking inside of my body and there's this thing going
wwwwwhhhhh... It's not me. What it did was that it deeply, deeply enriched my empathy for the
emotional being. No matter where they are in the wave, when they get it, you still have to wait
for the wave to finish. It didn't matter that none of that was important to me. I couldn't get rid of
that energy until we were on the right road going in the right direction and it was gone. It didn't
matter how aware I was. This is the power of the Emotional system. The thing to see is that
unless you honour its wave there's nothing to do. You have to just let the wave work. You have
to be the one that rides that wave - you surf it. You watch its movie so that you can be clear in
going through that process.
(Ra shows a chart.)
If you take a look at this illustration of the zodiac, it's rather interesting because you can see this
real pile up in Aquarius and Pisces of all of these emotional gates. Of course, this is a very, very
important thing to see symbolically. We're moving from a Piscean to an Aquarian Age. We're
moving from the Piscean Emotional system that we all think of as the weeping bride and we're
going into the Aquarian Emotional system which is totally different, where the potential for Spirit
consciousness exists. This is our movement backwards into the Aquarian Age. It's very
important to see that we have in our Emotional system these two forces that are at work - the
Piscean force at work but also this Aquarian force. These are the two levels of the Solarplex that
we're working with. The underlying mutative capacity that's going to open up the Aquarian
aspect of emotions and the ongoing process of dealing with the Piscean nature of emotions,
deep in that.
I have four different ways that I can have my Emotional system connected. All four of those
ways are in that group between Aquarius and Pisces. Every calendar year when the Sun and
Mercury and Venus go through there I'd have a terrible time, and I always wondered why those
months of the year were always so awful for me. It was because they kept on making me
emotional.
THE TRIBAL AWARENESS STREAM OF SENSITIVITY
GATE 49: REVOLUTION - THE GATE OF PRINCIPLES
The tribe - sensitivity. In dealing with the nature of the tribe, we saw that the tribe is all about
need. The principles for the tribe in terms of what they need, those principles are in the 49th
gate - Revolution. Revolution is the gate of not simply our principles but, in being the gate of our
principles, it's the gate that rejects or accepts. Now, of course, this is an emotional gate. In our

sexuality, this is a gate of marriage and divorce. Now think about that - the nature of our
principles in our communities. In other words, the 49th gate is the gate that is going to
emotionally decide what resources are necessary and who gets them. When you're high in your
wave everybody can have something. When you're low in your wave that's another story. The
whole thing about acceptance and rejection - I have only one gate activated in the Solarplex and
it's this gate, the 49th gate. I have it unconscious. So the moment you turn on my Emotional
system I either accept you or reject you - it's dependent on your wave. If you step into my aura
and you're in the low end of your wave, you turn on my rejection button. If you step into my aura
and you're at the high end of your wave, you turn on my acceptance button. That's just the way
the 49 works. So imagine that the revolutions that we have had, all of these great upheavals in
our cultures and societies have been rooted in this 49th gate. It's just an emotional gate and it's
just going up and down in the wave.
You will find, for example, a lot of butchers have the 49th gate. People who have killed animals
have the 49th gate. It's the gate of the sacrificer and the sacrificed. After all, it is also a mystical
gate. It's in the 49th gate that Abraham put his child on a stone. It's on the 49th gate that the
blood of the lamb was smeared on the doors - it's a ritual gate of slaughter. The tribe is rooted in
killing to be able to survive, right up through the Hunter/Huntress all through the whole game.
So there are two sides to it. There is the mystical ritual sacrifice - Christ on the cross. There is
the pragmatic sacrifice - the slaughtering of animals in order to be able to feed the tribe. If the
49s can't wait for emotional clarity, we do not know what principle to accept or reject. We do not
know - how can we? Of course, the fact that the Emotional system is going to go through a
mutation and the emotional awareness is going to eventually emerge, obviously at some point,
this 49th gate is going to find some kind of healthy structure to it. But it is deeply volatile and it's
at the core of why the tribe will seem mad. The Yugoslavians' civil war, for example, or what
was going on in eastern Africa, in Burundi, and these kinds of things. You can see that the tribe
will go mad with killing when threatened. Of course, the nature of that is something that can
change in time.
But it's frightening to think about it. You see, I've seen it in microcosm in my own life how violent
I could be in rejection. I don't necessarily mean physically violent, but violence has many
colours. To see how ignorant that rejection is in the wave. Somebody like me who is undefined
emotionally who will rise twice as much on the emotional wave as those who are delivering that
kind of rejection, that kind of power behind that, is devastating. It's ignorant and being
conditioned by that wave. It's devastated relationships that I have.
Of course, this is an active aspect that is alive in the world. It's operating in emotional ignorance.
If there's anywhere that we need clarity, it's in the tribe and particularly in the 49th gate. All of
our political foundations are there. All of our social foundations are there. If you read through the
49th lines, it sounds like a political agenda listing. The fact is that that is just simply going up
and down ignorantly without any kind of clarity. The whole thing to see is that the 49th gate can
always know what principle is proper if they wait for their own wave process to see whether they
accept that principle when they're up and when they're down - that's all. Then they can be clear,
because if they do not have that consistency, if they cannot accept that principle when they're
up and down, then they know that that principle is not for them - that's all. If they jump to a truth
in the wave, there is no truth in the now for anyone who is emotional. So there is no true
principle for the tribe in the now - you can't. You have to wait to see the continuity.
In this stream that runs through the Solarplex system, we have the stream of sensitivity and this
is a stream of touch. This sensitivity - to go through the wave with sensitivity - this is what's
called being psychic. The moment you don't identify with any place in the wave is the moment
your sensitivity opens you up to what you get to take in from the whole wave. The Solarplex

pathway towards awareness in many ways is much deeper and more profound than either of
the other two that preceded it. What can be grasped in the now, in the moment, is saving our
lives, but it's not profound - it's just there. The mind goes on for all time, so conventionally just
becomes confused. There is no completion for the mind.
When you get to the Solarplex system you do have completion. You do have a set process for
taking in the complete spectrum of something - not just a flash. That's why that moment in the
wave is so unhealthy - that's not what it's about. You're denying the depth of the emotional
clarity that's possible. If you don't make up a reason, if you don't identify with any place in the
wave, what you get is the sensitivity to be able to take in all the components. Emotional people
see differently and hear differently than other people. They get a composite image that's built up
over the whole length of the wave. It gives them a different vision. They get a composite buildup
of information that they hear in the wave. Eventually they get a complete story. Only when
emotional people begin to recognise how deep they are, by going through this process and
waiting, because that's the training wheels for emotional awareness: to learn how to be clear
first, to be master of the motor.
GATE 37: THE FAMILY - THE GATE OF FRIENDSHIP
The 49th gate will establish the principle and it will establish that principle in terms of what
resources are necessary for the tribe. After all, the only way in which the tribe gets access to
any real resources is when they get to the Ego and finally to the Throat. At the 49th gate, though
it is deeply mystical and has a great deal of power because it sets up what resources and who
are accepted and rejected, it's the 37 that has to hold whatever is there together. This is the
Gate of Friendship, Family. Do not forget that we're dealing with emotions, and we're dealing
with a dualistic system. The moment that you're dealing with a dualistic system, this Gate of
Family is the Gate of No Family. This Gate of Friendship is the Denial of Friendship. Instead of
the hand going out it's the hand pulled back. It depends on the principle and it depends on the
principle on the wave. The same thing is true of the 37. The 37 symbolically is the mouth. "I
need to put things in here, you know." The moment that you see symbolically that the 37 is the
mouth you know what it's looking for in the 40. It says to the 40, "Excuse me, you deliver, don't
you?"
The 37th gate, because it is the possibility to release emotional clarity, there's this eternal joke
about the Ego Circuit - you've got two streams of awareness and instead of ending up in the
Throat they get dumped off into the Ego and the Ego is not aware. The 37th gate is looking for
that Ego on the other end, and within the 37th gate lies the capacity to generate the bargain
that's based on the principles. We need certain resources, we know who deserves them, and
the 37th says, "Hey, look, you over there. I'm going to massage you, OK? After I've massaged
you and I've made you feel really good, because you've got a nice ego now, you go out and
feed this mouth. OK?" That's the principle.
Whenever you're dealing with the tribe and you're dealing with the way in which it operates in
the world, so much of it's information is communicated through touch. We saw that in the
sexuality - the importance of touching as part of the tribal bond. The tribe has, from the sexual
standpoint, no connection to the throat - it is limited to the tactile. One of the things that is true
about somebody who is emotional through the tribe or through tribal activation is that they
cannot really judge the wave correctly unless they are making contact physically. In other
words, you have somebody who wants you to do something with them and you're meeting with
them. You're in their aura, you can have physical contact with them, smell them and all those
things that are tribal, and you're an emotional person and you know you have to check it out in
your wave. It's not the kind of thing where you say to them, "Call me in a week and I'll tell you."
It's, "Call me in a week and we'll set up an appointment to meet each other." So much about

what is understood in the tribe comes through touching. The emotional consistency is going to
be rooted in the kind of vibration you get back from touching them. If you're an emotional person
and a tribal emotional person, how somebody feels to you at any given moment when you touch
them is dependent upon where you are in your wave - how sensitive or not you are going to be
or whether you're going to be oversensitive or not.
When we talk about the need for emotional clarity, and what we can do about that, you can also
have to see (as we'll look at) that each of these streams has a different kind of process in their
waiting. Tribal emotional waiting is about waiting in order to make physical contact again. Does
it feel the same way to touch them again? This is one of those things - I have the 40, so I'm very
much aware of the nature of tribal touch and how clearly 37s are different to me at different
times in their wave. 37s love to hug - they're great huggers! They can hug you one day without
anything happening in the nature of your relationship; three days later is a totally different
physical being. This is different because the wave is different. It's one of those things to
recognise that within the tribal nature. It's not just about saying, "Well, I don't know yet." It's
really about saying, "I don't know yet but next time when we meet physically again I'm going to
be able to have a better idea because I'm going to be able to make physical contact and then I
can tune in to how I feel about it emotionally through that touch." That's one of the keys to
friendship is to be clear through the touch. If you can't feel comfortable touching somebody, they
can never be your friend - they just can't. It's all about sensitivity - you have to be able to touch
them. So the rules of the game here emotionally are different.
THE COLLECTIVE AWARENESS STREAM OF FEELINGS
So we move along with our look at the Solarplex Centre. We come to the collective aspect. We'll
leave the individual aspect for last so we can look at this mutative process. We come to what is
known as the Stream of Feelings. Again, I want to really stress to you the profound relationship
between what we call the Sensing Circuit and the Solarplex system. Everything about the
Sensing Circuit, everything about the Sensing Circuit, is conditioned by the Solarplex system -
everything. It's very important to understand that - about what the abstract process actually is.
When you look at the Sensing Circuit standing by itself you'll notice, of course, that it's not
connected to the Splenic system. It involves the Ajna Centre, but we know that the mind doesn't
rule the life. So the Sensing Circuit is ruled by and dominated by the Solarplex Centre.
When we come to this particular stream, this Stream of Feeling, what we're dealing with is
something that is purely experiential and its purely emotional motor. Think about that. When
you're looking at the 41, 30, 36, 35, you're looking at those gates. What you're looking at are
four gates that will never be emotionally aware. There is no capacity within any of these four
gates for emotional awareness. They are the four prime motor gates, in that sense. Basically,
it's actually the 30 and the 36 that do all that, but as part of this stream the others are involved.
In other words, it's the 30 and the 36 that will never experience, because they're not designed
to, they will not experience the Emotional Spirit.
These are motor functions, pure motor functions. What's to be seen in that is that there is no
Spirit awareness built into the human experiential way. Think about that. What we know about
the collective is that the collective is based on what is and what has been - that's the collective.
The collective has everything figured out because it's all underneath Solomon's sun - nothing
new. Everything's gut instinct. The only thing that disturbs them is mutation because mutation
changes the rules. The human way has been based on this motor power that you find in the
36th gate and the 30th gate. It is this motor power without any connection to an eventual
Emotional Spirit that is driving the human experiential process. Our experiential process does
not have built into it access to Spirit consciousness. That will be a mutation and it will come from
the individual aspect.

GATE 30: THE CLINGING FIRE - THE GATE OF RECOGNITION OF FEELINGS
When you are dealing with this Stream of Feelings, you're dealing with the driving force of what
it is to be a human being. We saw that when we were looking at the Root Centre and we were
looking at the 41st gate, that the 41st gate is an initiator codon. It is the only initiating codon. In
other words, it really begins every process. Built in within the fuel of the 41st gate is the capacity
to fuel any kind of feeling. It is feelings that drive the world. This is the great business of
progress. So the 30th gate carries a very special function. It isn't caught up in being ready to
change into something else and become an awareness gate. It is busy being a motor gate in the
wave. The 30th gate here, if you look at it on the graph, you'll see that the 30th gate is the last
gate in Aquarius. In terms of our movement towards the Age of Aquarius, as we move towards
the end of our Piscean era, when we do enter into the Age of Aquarius we are going to enter
into the 30th hexagram - The Clinging Fire, The Clinging Fire. It's like pictures of people running
with napalm on their body - The Clinging Fire - it doesn't let go. It's a motor function. What that
clinging fire produces is something that we call a feeling. It's the name that we give to that
chemistry. What it's actually producing is a feeling and that feeling is fuelled by something we
call desire - the desire to feel, and the desire that comes out of feeling. This is the clinging fire.
It is quite a meditation to just contemplate the six lines of the 30th hexagram. The 30th
hexagram carries within it keys to the emotional experience of life. The moment that we get into
the 30 we get into this potential to be able to feel, and with this potential to be able to feel and
recognise something about the nature of the feeling - the feeling itself is singular. This is the
whole thing about the 30th gate and why it can become obsessed is that what it receives is a
fuel for one feeling. Until that one feeling is satisfied, fulfilled, that one feeling stays there and
holds on and becomes an obsession. It is out of that feeling, that one feeling being established,
is the desire to be able to fulfil the feeling.
So human life is about desire. You've got all these spiritual people running around saying,
"Desire - don't desire anything. Don't desire thy neighbour's cow. Don't covet." Well, being
human is being desirous - that's just the way it is. It's not aware and never will be. What to do?
As a matter of fact, we enjoy it, this blind desire, we think of it as being quite something simply
because we project on it in our mental frame and dress it up with all kinds of costumes that it's
not. But nonetheless, the moment you have this connection and the moment you have this
hook-up to the 30, what you have is this very, very powerful emotional feeling, and this feeling
that's generating this desire to fulfil it is caught in the wave. It's not just a feeling. Think about
what emotional clarity will teach you. That one feeling has the complete perspective to it - it's
not just what one feels in that moment. The Solar Plexus is not existential. It's the nature of how
that feeling moves through its wave.
You see, you have desire. When you're at the high end of your wave you're full of hope. You're
full of hope that you're going to be able to consummate that desire so that you can get rid of it,
so that you can have a new one. This is the human way. If you can't get rid of it, you get really
annoyed. You start burning, I mean burning - everything starts burning inside. You go down in
your wave and you get depressed and you're full of pain: "I can't live out my desire. I cannot fulfil
my feeling. I will never get to have that experience." Then they go back up on the wave. If
nothing's happened in between, they go through the same thing. All of a sudden it's "Yeah, but
maybe it can happen. Maybe it will happen." It's just a motor.
Because the experiential way can never be truly aware, it also states that the Stream of
Feelings is the only stream that's designed to be exactly emotionally clear. Because this is a
motor stream, emotional clarity is about handling the motor, handling the wave. No reasons.
Don't identify with a single point. Go through the experience. Reflect. Be aware. That emotional
clarity is geared towards the Stream of Feelings. Emotional clarity in the other streams is more

difficult because there is another aspect of budding awareness that changes how it works.
Emotional clarity becomes absolutely essential when you're dealing with the four gates of this
stream to be really clear. Remember, the undefined Emotional system has to obey the same
rules. It's going to be in and out of the emotional environment anyway. There is only one law for
an undefined Emotional system - the emotions can never have authority - that's all. The
undefined emotional being who recognises that is going to be healthy. Here in this stream,
because this is the Experiential Stream, this is the thing that leads to crisis. The next step after
the 30 is crisis.
GATE 36: THE DARKENING OF THE LIGHT - THE GATE OF CRISIS
Think about the magic of the 36-6. The 36 and the 6 are exactly opposite each other in the
zodiac. It's out of the 6th gate that the wave structure of the motor is established. The 36th gate
is its polarity in the wheel. This is the pure motor energy of the 36. In the 30 this channel is the
Channel of Recognition. It is the design of focused energy - this very, very, very focused feeling.
When you look at the bodygraph there are so many mysteries in the bodygraph, mysteries only
in the sense that they open up as you get to see them. Always look at the polarities that you see
- the mirrors that you see. Think about the 18-58. The 18-58 is the mirror of the 41-30 - they are
mirrors to each other. The 18-58 is about logical judgement. It is about challenging authority.
When you go to the other side what you have is abstract judgement. That's what a feeling is.
That feeling is there to challenge experience - to challenge oneself, not the other. So people
who are full of desire can suffer greatly because it is their inner challenge. Remember that this
is collective; it is not personal. It's the challenge to have that experience and not be denied that
experience. It does not have the pure existential awareness of the 18. It has the wave clarity of
the 30. That means that judgement in the now is correct for the Spleen but judgement in the
wave is the only way for the Emotional system. To recognise through the wave the 41st gate is
the initiating codon. This is the Gate of Hunger - hunger.
One of the things to recognise about the Experiential Stream is that it's all driven by hunger - the
hunger to see new vistas, the hunger for new experiences, the hunger for new things to taste, to
feel, to hear - it's a hunger. The moment that that hunger gets to the 30th gate that hunger is
something that starts gnawing at you. The 4th line of the 30 - Burnout - if you look very carefully
at that line you will see that one of the fixing aspects of that line is Pluto, and Pluto hasn't been
there in a very long time - it doesn't exist anymore. Burnout is just about guaranteed. We're in a
burnout time - getting burnt out by not being about to fulfil one's need for experience, being
burnt out by having chaotic experience.
This whole experiential way, again, is not about controlling it or denying it. It is simply about
being clear in what experiences to enter into. You can't know until you've gone through the
wave - it's not possible. You're not going to fulfil that hunger. You're not going to have a sense
of fulfilling that hunger until you get to the Throat - until you have the experience. It's either
going to leave a sweet taste in your mouth or a sour taste in your mouth when it's over. But
you've had the experience and then you can get rid of that feeling so that another one can
come. This is the whole business. You're hungry and you eat but you've got to shit. You're going
to be hungry again. There's nothing you can do about that. You're just stuck in that. That is the
spiral of the experiential way.
The 36th gate has a very special connection to the motor process. It's the 36th gate that runs
the whole motor non-aware system. That's why it's the Gate of Crisis and Inexperience. That's
what it's doing - it's not aware. It's pure motor. It is The Darkening of the Light. There is no light
in there. This is pure motor. I mentioned to you its relationship to the 48th gate. These two gates
are Gates of Great Frustration. The 48th gate is capable of a spontaneous solution but lacks
access to the Throat to experiment. It's frustrated that they can resolve a dilemma and have no

way to do so for the benefit of the collective. The 36th gate says, "I'm equipped and I'm ready
for this experience, but I need access to the Throat to be able to do it. I am deeply frustrated
that I can't because I'm ready." They are both Gates of Inexperience. After all, the spontaneous
solution can blow up in experimentation, just as much as the spontaneous experience can blow
up because they don't know what's going on until they get to the other side and it actually
comes out. So this access of the 6-36, you're going to see this a lot. This is an opposition in the
zodiac. So you are going to see a lot of people who have the 6-36. The thing to recognise
immediately about these people is that they keep us rolling along on our experiential pathway.
Where would we be without them running the roller coaster? That's what they do. That 36th
gate is pumping us through saying, "We gotta get it. We gotta get it. Have to fulfil my desire.
Have to fulfil my desire."
We come to The Darkening of the Light. The thing about the 36 is that this 36 has the capacity
to float just above the surface of the water, always ready to dive in. That's the nature of the 36.
It's there waiting for its moment to just dive in. That's its form of profundity - it's mirror to the well
at the other end. The well is just deep and it fills up to the surface. When it is full and overflows
it's available. The 36 is shallow. It is above the surface and then penetrates into the deep to find
its experience. They're mirrors of each other. Both of these are forms of collective solution. The
logic says, "We must be deep and profound and the well must be full to overflowing," which is
why we live in an age of technological overflow - we're beginning to overflow. This is the logical
way. Fill the well until it's overflowing and then everyone has access. The experiential way says,
"Let me dive deep. Let me just dive in to find out what the experience is like." By going into the
deep, one isn't on familiar ground anymore and you don't know what's going to happen because
it is not your experience.
Sexually, this is a Gate of Penetration. This is about the need to simply have sex for the
experience itself. It is a generalised experiential gate and, please remember, it is collective. You
cannot take this personally - it's never personal. It's always about the experience. It tells you
something about the nature of what desire is: you never really desire another person - you
desire the experience you can have with that person. Desire is tricky. Desire is not personal.
Desire is about the experience - it is always about the experience. That's why you get so many
people who are devastated in relationships that have been rooted in desire. In the desire
relationship you are not there for the person - you're there for the experience. Well, folks, that's
the human way - it's not personal. We're just here for the experience. Do you understand? Don't
take it personally. We're just here for the experience - it's the human way. It's exactly what it's
saying. Being a human being is not something you should take personally. Don't. It's just for the
experience - nothing else.
This 36th gate - the Gate of Crisis - please understand the nature of this word. Crisis is not
inherently bad, obviously. I guess it should be obvious. Crisis is a possibility of transition. All
transition is crisis-oriented. How can it not be? If you go from inexperience to experience, there
is always going to be that moment of crisis, whether it is tiny and insignificant or major. The
moment that you're above the surface and you dive into the deep you're not on familiar ground.
There are things that you're going to have to deal with that you were not prepared for. That's
why it's called the Gate of Crisis - it's the Gate of Inexperience, inexperience in the transition to
the change, inexperience in the movement towards the completion of the desire. Desire is one
thing when it's in the 30, but it's a whole different cookie when it's in the 36. When it's in the 30,
the energy is simply focused on the feeling itself, that is, the fantasy and the energy of
stimulating the Emotional system so that it gets hooked on its feelings. "I have this feeling that I
should have this kind of experience...," whatever it turns up to be as language.

When you get to the 36 you get to something else. The 36 is not caught up with the feeling
anymore. It's the desire for the experience now. It's being concretised into a 'no other way to go
but have it' situation. The 35-36 has more impact on the world than just about any other
channel, with the probable exception of the 45-21. The 35-36 is running our whole cycle. The
Channel of Transitoriness -Jack of All Trades, Master of None. The whole thing about the
abstract process is that its richness is rooted in non-repetition. That's why there's an enormous
pressure on the desire system to fulfil desire but also an enormous shock that's always
accompanying that, because the moment that the desire has been fulfilled there must be a new
desire to take its place.
Talent - again the mirror. The 16th gate is the Gate of Skills - to be able to release the logical
solution as an experiment, to manifest the logical solution as an experiment or not. The 35th
gate is there to manifest the abstract experience or not. That is also a skill gate. The power of
the 35 is that the 35 is there to be able to say, "I'm full. Been there. Done that. Leave me alone."
So this Channel of Transitoriness is a channel of transitoriness about the way the human way is
operating in this wave from hope to pain and back again. You're hopeful that you're going to be
able to dive down into the deep and then you go through the pain of not being able to dive down
into the deep - all of that going up and down in the wave. If the 36 is not aware, they'll dive down
for any opportunity they're given - that's all they're looking for. They're just a motor seeking out
the experience. Remember, this is one of the main manifesting ways of humanity - to move
through this stream from the 36 to the 35 to keep on churning out experience in life. Without
emotional clarity, you don't get the desire you can fulfil - very simple. You see, desire is meant
to be fulfilled - that's progress. It's built into us to fulfil our desires. The pain that so many human
beings have is that they don't know what to desire because they're caught up in the wave at any
given place in the wave. Any experience that one is ready to enter into as an emotional being
has to be qualified by that waiting for the wave to be clear that that's truly your experience. Then
you can fulfil that desire. You won't get to the end of the desire and say, "This was not for me."
You won't have the attendant crisis that goes with that for you or for whomever else you're doing
that with.
The other thing to recognise about the nature of the collective - the collective is designed to
share. That's its keynote. You don't go into crisis alone - you take somebody with you. It's the
nice part of the collective: "Come on, let's share this crisis. Let's do this together." This business
about non-repetition is very important. Logical talent: repetition, and focus; abstract talent: no
repetition, and cycles. If you're emotionally clear, you will have the correct desire cycles of your
life - you just will. You will go through these processes of experience and you will get to fulfil
those desires because they belong to you.
The great curse that is carried in this stream is the human curse of expectation. The moment
that 30 clicks in, "Oh, if I can live out this feeling and have that experience, I'm going to get to
that point in my progress." This is a burning wheel to get on: "If I do this and this and this and
this, I will get that." You get there and you're depressed as hell because you have to do this and
this and this and this to get there. Then you get there and you're depressed as hell. Or, you say,
"I'm going to do this and this and that," and it never happens. It's all about expectation. That's
what desire is. Desire is all about how you create the illusion or delusion of what you think an
experience is going to bring you. Most of the time it's the excitement about what you think the
experience is going to bring you is much more rewarding than the experience itself. There are
so many things that you can just put out in the feeling zone and say, "Hey, well, yeah. Do I
actually do that?" It seems exciting. However, it's the whole thing about being clear and
recognising that this is a pure, pure motor stream and the only way that you're going to have the
correct experiences, the only way that you're going to be able to live out the proper cycle, which

means you must go from one desire to the next, one experience to the next, but not get stuck in
trying to live out the same experience - this is illness.
When the desire gets stuck and you cannot fulfil the experience you cannot complete the cycle.
You get stuck in the desire. You get stuck in the obsession for the experience. You can even get
stuck in repeating the experience over and over and over again. That only happens if you're
emotionally entering into a desire that is not clear. The reality is that the Emotional system will
honour anyone that knows how to handle it. After all, all of these centres, all of their functions,
they're not here to work against us. It's our lack of education that turns them into forces that
dominate us instead of simply being forces that are of us. The moment you have an experiential
being who's qualifying experience through patience by waiting out their wave, these are people
who are going to have the experience and it's correct.
Let's say that you have someone that gets into a conversation with somebody with an 11th gate
who says to them, "You know, you should really try fire-walking. It's the best thing that I've ever
done. It's a fantastic thing. It's a really good idea for you to see whether or not you really have
courage, blah blah blahs" whatever the case may be. You take somebody who has an
experiential process and they hook into that at the 30th gate. In that moment there is a feeling
initiated in them that begins this desire that perhaps this could be an interesting experience to
walk on fire. But in that moment, depending on where they are, there is no truth for them in that
moment. There is no capacity for them, in that moment, for them to say, "Ah, yes, I am going to
do this. It's my desire to do this. I feel like doing that." All they can do is take it in in that moment
and recognise how they're experiencing it coming into themselves. Are they excited by the
idea? Are they not? But make no decision. In the moment of hearing it, you may be emotionally
in, let's say, a down place and it doesn't sound like an interesting idea at all. But don't shut that
out - you don't know the truth in the moment. A couple of days later in a different place in your
wave it will come back into you because that's the way the abstract mind and hearing works. It's
all in waves. It will come back into you and you'll think, "Hey, maybe that's an interesting thing to
do."
You have to wait until you go through the whole wave because once it's gone through the whole
wave, then you can set the desire. It's for you then. If that person goes through their whole
wave, over a period of time thinking about this process of "Is this an experience I want - to walk
on fire?" If they discover, whether they're up or down, there remains something inside of them
that they are interested in doing as an experience, then you know, at the end of that process, it's
OK. Go ahead and do it - it will be correct for them. They will not burn themselves. They will
have an exhilarating experience because they were clear emotionally - experientially
emotionally clear that this is something for them to do. All it takes is patience and
understanding.
Remember, we're in a mental game. If you understand how this Emotional system works, it will
help you to live with your Emotional system, to recognise that its real strength comes from
taking the whole wave experience because that's the depth about how it see things. It needs to
break everything up into all of its little parts through the mood spectrum in orderto really be able
to calibrate what that whole thing is. It's deep. Then you get the experiences that are for you.
When you get the experiences that are for you, when you get to the end, you can let go of them.
That's the experiential way. You can let go of them. You can reflect on it. You've done it. You've
seen it. You've been there. You know it. Somebody wants to know from you - you can tell them
and share it with them - but you can go on to the next desire. That's the human way, but if it's
done with clarity the impact on society is beneficial - we don't have chaotic experiences.
Please understand - those people who are going to carry this experiential energy, they're going
to bring people who don't have those gates into the experience. They're not doing it alone - this

is collective. Most of these experiences we would call social experiences. They almost
invariably involve somebody else in their process in which only through somebody else could
they fulfil their experience. The goal is to be able to be clear in your experiences so that by the
time you reach your mid-life point, and experiential prana intake has come to an end, you're at
that point where you have not repeated, because you've had the correct spectrum of your
experience that you can then begin to breathe that out and share it with others: "Been there.
Done that. Let me tell you about it. I've done my experiential business."
If you're not clear, you're always going to get trapped in these places of obsession where your
desire does not get fulfilled. This is the deep dilemma of the experiential wave, because most
people have that who are experiential. They get caught up in desires that they cannot fulfil
because they've entered into that feeling based on a place in the wave rather than the clarity of
the whole wave. It destabilises the desire field. There is nothing wrong with desire. What is
correct for you to desire, if that's your design. It has an enormous impact on the world. It brings
us change, transition. It brings us all these things. It changes our way of life. It brings us a sense
of completion. It's the moment that we're full. This is the real thing: to take the desire, to have
the desire, to fulfil the desire, to feel full in that desire, and then to be ready for the next thing.
Good luck.
THE INDIVIDUAL AWARENESS STREAM OF EMOTING
In the middle - Individuality. The Stream of Emoting - this individual quality - it is the most
emotional of all the streams. Understand why it is the most emotional of all the streams.
Individuals, by their very design, are designed to be melancholic in their chemistry or they're
designed in their chemistry to experience what is called melancholy - that is, all individuals
suffer from happy/sad syndrome in their life. This is something that is connected deeply in the
emotional individual to their wave. In other words, the melancholy and the emotional wave work
in harmony. What you have is deeply emotionalised happiness and deeply emotionalised
sadness. So you have emotional melancholy and it's adrenalised emotional melancholy, so it
can be very powerful.
The 39-55 is the most emotional of all the channels. It carries with it the most dynamic chemistry
of all the channels. Of course, the entry into the Splenic system is the entry via the 55th gate -
Abundance. The 55th gate is the gate where in the 6th line we will have the mutation that will
begin the process of emotional awareness on the planet. Now mutations, by their very nature,
take place in circuitry of individuality. What we're going to have is a deep emotional mutation -
so very different in this stream from what we just looked at because the Stream of Feelings is
purely motor. The melancholic emotional field of the individual is so emotional because there is
constantly this tension between the emotional motor on the surface and the potential for
Emotional Spirit that has been there for thousands of years now.
It's 2,000 years plus that the Solar Plexus has been in this evolutionary process. There is a
great deal of pressure in the individual Emotional system. That pressure, by the way, is
generally released through music. One of the things to see about music is music is very close to
being what Emotional Spirit is, very close in the wave. To establish a frequency in which others
can come in on that frequency and lose themselves in coming in on that frequency. Of course,
everything having to do with individuality has to do with acoustic phenomena. It is very, very,
very important for individual emotional people to have music in their lives - it is essential for
them.
The other thing about this stream is that it has an unusual function in that it represents our
respiratory system - our breathing system, our pranic system, it's the inside of us that's outside
going all the way down into our internal system. Because it has to do with the breath, it also

means that one of the most important therapeutic processes for emotional individuals is breath
therapy. Very, very few people know how to breathe. Practically no one who is emotional
breathes properly unless they have been trained. The Emotional system, because it operates in
the wave, changes the nature of the breathing all the time. Constantly, the chemistry is
impacting on the prana. For people who get involved with individuals, who get involved with
breath work or breath therapy, because they are made conscious of their own breathing system,
their own prana, they get to a point where they can recognise in their prana changing that
they're wave is changing, have another relationship, another way, in which to be able to hook
into, or recognise, or watch, their wave and work within themselves.
The other thing is that the emotional nature of the individual is evident in their tone. It's one of
those things for individuals to recognise their own sound. Somebody comes up to you and says,
"Hi, how are you?" and you go, "Yeah, yeah, I'm fine (down-sounding voice)."To be aware of
your tone - it's telling you something instantaneously. By the way, if you have a parent who is
individual emotionally, you know that already, because you could always tell when not to do
anything wrong because you knew by their tone of voice that if you did anything, they'd kill you.
So you leave that out. The tone tells you a lot.
The 39-55 - anything having to do with the Emotional system has to do with food, has to do with
sex. We saw that in the tribal Emotional system that food was a matter of resources. In other
words, sheep in the pasture so you know that you can butcher them when you are hungry.
When we look at the collective abstract process the experiential way, this is about, "What is
there to eat? I'll eat ants. I'll eat snakes. I'll eat monkey brains. What is there to eat?" That's the
human way. But when you come to the individual, it's whether you want to eat or not: "Why
bother to eat?" The great fasters of the world come out of individuals. "Why bother to eat if life
isn't going to be of value?" Parallels: if you look at the individual logic feeling to the Spleen, you
get this 28-38, this Channel of Struggle, and we saw that the fear of death is rooted in the 28, is
the fear that we will find that life is not of value for us. Well, there's something else in that
parallel to that 55. This is fear of death in another way - that life has no Spirit. It doesn't matter
whether life is good or not. It's the fear that there is no Spirit in life. It's the fear that there is no
real Spirit in humanity.
GATE 55: ABUNDANCE - THE GATE OF SPIRIT
Abundance - it's strictly a matter of perspective. It's the whole thing about the 55th gate. It's the
Gate of Being Fickle. Life's good, life is bad. Today I'm happy, tomorrow I'm sad. Right now I'm
happy, in five minutes I could be sad. I could go back and forth all the time, as fast as you like.
The thing to recognise about the 55 is that it's got the biggest peak and it's got the lowest valley.
It's like Death Valley to Mount Everest - you've got the whole spectrum of emotional capacity. In
that sense, we are dealing with something that is deeply volatile. Think about what's really
underlying it. What's really underlying it is that the 55th gate is only going to generate its mood
swings when it doesn't see Spirit in the world or in itself. After all, this is the gate where the Spirit
is going to awaken. So it's like the 55 saying, "Why do I have to be alive now because if I come
into the world in a hundred years, I could really feel the Spirit? What value can it possibly have
for me to be here now with this horrible motor pounding over the top and I can't find the Spirit?"
Because it's about whether you eat or you don't eat, the 39-55 has all of these things: it has
bulimias, it has anorexia nervosas, and it has all of these things.
The whole thing about the 55 and the only way in which one can deal with it - because
remember the 55 is all about the cup that is half empty and the cup that is half full - is if you
don't give a reason... Reasons, reasons, reasons get you into so much trouble. If you don't
make up a reason, then you can find the Spirit. That's the whole thing about the 55 - as long as
it's making up a reason, as long as it's identifying with why it's down or why it's up, as long as it's

attaching something to it. Remember, it's not just your typical emotional wave, it's an
emotionalised melancholy at work. You can get very sick people with this - emotionally sick
people with all kinds of problems because of it. All of that is rooted in the reason making. The
whole thing about individuals is they're not here to be influenced.
One of the most important things for individuals is to stay away from people when they're sad.
It's very, very important to stay away from people when they're sad. Melancholy is personal - it's
personal. No individual business is personal. The only time a melancholic emotional person gets
into trouble is when, instead of letting it be personal - it's their melancholy, it's their state - they
blame somebody else in their life. They push all of that stuff out on the wave. The whole thing
for the emotional individual is that they always have to wait for the happy/sad quotient: "You
make me happy. That's why I'm with you. You make me sad but I still want to be with you." If
you can't get through the happy/sad quotient, it isn't going to work. The other thing - very, very
important for individuals, I tell them this all the time because it's a nice trick - is that if you really
need to find out if somebody belongs in your life, listen to their music. If you don't like their
music, they're not going to be good sexual partners. They're not going to be good friends,
they're not going to be good business partners, because the frequency doesn't work - there's no
harmony in that.
All individuals that are emotional have to obey one law: don't do anything unless you're in the
mood. Nothing, unless you're in the mood - most important. This has to do with children, partic-
ularly. One of the worst things for an individual is to eat when they're not in the mood, to be
regulated as to when they eat. Of course, most of us are conditioned by the collective to be
controlled in our eating patterns: "It's dinner time. It's six o'clock. Everybody sit down," or
whatever the case may be. It's very important for individuals, particularly emotional individuals,
not to be conditioned in terms of the timing. Eat when you're in the mood. If you're not in the
mood, don't eat. It's very important for individuals. Remember that this whole stream from the 12
all the way down to the 39 is about your whole digestive tract as well. It's all about gas and
intestines and all of this process. It's one of those things for you to see that if you're too excited,
for example, it's not a good time to eat. If you're down in your wave and you're depressed, it's
not a good time to eat. Eat when you're in the mood to eat and don't be conditioned by other
people who say, "Oh, dear. You really must eat now."
GATE 22: GRACE - THE GATE OF OPENNESS
The movement from the 55 to the 22 - you come into the individual process of being able to
spread mutation. This is the nature of the 12-22. It's a way to infect people with the mutated
virus. The 12-22 is the Channel of Openness or a Channel of Being Closed. It's a social being
or it's an anti-social being. The Gate of Grace, all of this duality, the Gate of Grace is also the
Gate of Disgrace. The 22nd gate is here to listen - that's its gift. It listens in the wave - that's its
way. So that means that the 22nd gate, which is the left ear, is hearing things but it doesn't
recognise everything that it's heard at once. Those of you who put the telephone to your left ear
- pay attention now. What happens is that while you're listening, you don't recognise in the
moment everything that you just took in over the phone. The rest of it will come, but later. So
don't just off the phone and say, "That son-of-a-bitch said..." because two days later you might
remember the rest of it that included the good parts. It just so happened that when you were
listening to it you were in a bad mood, so you just heard the bad parts.
The 22 doesn't listen the way that others listen - it listens in the wave. Think about what that
means. That's the whole business for the individual. The individual is the outsider. Now it's a
joke because they're also the insider - that's another story. What the individual is there to do - all
individual aspects are there to bring mutation, but the tribe and the collective are always going
to be suspicious of the individual. As a matter of fact, it is difficult for the individual just to get

their foot in the door with the collective or with the tribe. The individual is limited in their capacity
to be able to explain themselves, to be able to express their knowing. There is something much
more important than that for the individual. By their very nature, individuals are not welcome -
it's OK to be seen but not brought in. They're different and one does not know what to do with
them. The key for the individual is not their knowing but the delivery system. How do we get the
knowing into the collective and the tribe?
The collective has no [specific] social channels; every collective channel is social. The tribe has
two very deep social channels in the 59-6 and the 40-37. There is only this one specific social
dynamic available to the individual - it's rooted in the 22. The gift of the 12 is the gift to be able
to articulate the knowing. That's its gift - to be able to explain in clear language what the
knowing is - the archetype of being the prophet. But the 22nd gate conditions whether or not the
12th gate is going to be stoned to death or not. The 22nd gate conditions whether others are
going to listen or not, depending on where it is in its wave. If you're a 12-22 and you have the
capacity to be able to articulate the individual knowing and you're at the low end of your wave,
you're just as likely to be a disgrace as anything else or be in disgrace. If the individual doesn't
go out with the right mood, somebody usually punches them in the head - not interested in this.
So the Spirit is something that is absolutely essential for the movement and mutation that
changes our nature, that is, our genetic path, our evolutionary path. It requires grace. There is
no possibility for mutation without grace. That's just a code word for listening. It's a code word
for listening over time. Mutation doesn't pass into the right ear - it goes into the left ear. It goes
into the left ear because the mutation takes place over time. When I do a reading, and I always
have people on my right side, always, because I talk into their left ear because I want them to
take in the information over time. Not just swallow it all in the now, but put in bits and pieces of
information so that over the days and weeks that follow, different pieces of information will come
up within them - mechanics, after all. But it says something very special about what is required
for the individual in order for the individual to be able to have an impact on the collective, on the
tribe. They have to have the right spirit. That right spirit is what we call, at the mundane level,
being in the mood. When the individual is in the mood others are more likely to listen. When the
individual is not in the mood it doesn't work.
A lot of complex individuality in anybody's design is going to restrict how successful they are
going to be in being able to work with others. You have people who are ruled by their
moodiness and they're ruled by their melancholy. So they have to have a certain freedom to be
able to act when the mood is right.
Everything having to do with the social nature of the 22nd gate is about creating the capacity in
strangers to listen to a stranger - that's what the gift is. The gift is to establish a spirit that
transcends whether you're collective or tribal or whatever. That's why in this stream we're going
to have this incredible mutation in which not does only the Spirit at the mundane level cross
these various barriers, but we are going to have a Spirit awareness that's always going to
transcend those barriers - there will be no such thing in that way. Outside of the form where the
awareness will meet, there is no collective, individual or tribe - it's transcended. That's what
Spirit is there to do.
Given the right spirit it is always possible for the individual to have the opportunity to be heard
out - that's all. Lend me your ears, to be heard out - that's all. And to be allowed to leave with
their shirt on their back - that's all. Whatever will be, will be. The individual fails the moment they
go out when they're not in the mood - it just doesn't work. It is, after all, the emotional wave. It is,
after all, the chemistry.

Think about what that's like to be somebody who is as deeply emotional as an individual
emotional being and you're not in the mood and your cup is half empty and you feel like shit and
you go and try to get a job. What do you think that person on the other side is going to feel like?
They are going to say, "My God, get this dark cloud out of here! You're depressing me." They
lose all their power. It's the easiest thing in the world for the individual to be alienated. Stand
back.
Just because this is a social channel doesn't mean that it's a touchy-feely channel - it's not. It's
not - it's about words: "Hi, I see you." It's the wave - it's not the hub. It's not making love. It's not
those other things. It's about being able to get a hearing.
All individuals cry for a hearing. You fill a room with 43-23s and you'll see what that's like.
They're all screaming for a hearing: "I know. I know. I know. I know. I know." That's all the
individual is ever asking for. They're asking for somebody to hear their "I know". Now, of course,
50% of the time, what to do?Just because you say, "I know" doesn't mean "You know I know."
What you know is knowing - it's just a mechanism. Of course, the individual is protected in that
mechanism if they have the right spirit. Then you walk away saying, "I don't know what they
were talking about but they're OK. They're nice people. They're a little crazy but, you know..." If
you don't know what you're talking about and you don't have the right spirit, they don't treat you
nice. They say that you're really off and you don't know what's going on and you're really a
danger to yourself and blah blah blah.
So this whole business about what Spirit is all about is that at the level that we can deal with
Emotional Spirit now, only now, is what we have to see is that Emotional Spirit is something that
we can take care of as long as we can accept that it's a mood swing process. If you allow
yourself to go out on the mood when it's up, and come home on the mood when it's gone,
everything's great. The 22nd gate is pointed at a Gate of Aloneness. The 12th gate is a Gate of
Aloneness. It's saying, "Hey, yeah, OK. But let's wait until we've got the right spirit or otherwise
you're going to kill us."
These two gates in the Throat, the 35 and the 12, are two Gates of Primary Action. How
different they are from each other. The pure motor of experience. Hey, it's exciting. Then this
whole emoting process that runs through the individuality. These two gates are under enormous
pressure. Wherever you see the 12th gate or the 35th gate, you really have to recognise that. If
you have that in your design, you have to really look at that clearly and see that you're dealing
with gates that are under enormous pressure. That pressure is that they are the ones that
control the manifesting of the emotional wave. In other words, whether that emotional wave is
going to lead to activity. They are both conditional gates. The 35 can say, "I feel, and usually
like, a change but I don't have to have a change." The 12th gate says, "I know I can try if I'm in
the mood."
For emotional individual children, it's very difficult for parents to have emotional children
because to have an emotional individual child means that you truly have to let them alone - you
have to leave them alone. You have to allow them to eat when they eat and eat what they like. If
they don't feel like going to school because they're not in the mood, they don't have to go. All of
these things are difficult for parents with emotional individual children. Yet, at the same time, if
you honour what that is, if you honour their mood, then you are going to have children who are
going to be healthy emotionally because they get to live out what is correct for them. When
they're in the mood, it is right for them to do things. When they're not in the mood, they're right.
It all comes back on them.
The whole thing about individual melancholy is that when one is sad, it is best to be alone. This
is the trick with sadness. Sadness is personal creativity/opportunity. Alone. Alone. Emotional

sadness is always an opportunity for creativity. Alone. By alone I don't just mean physically
alone. I mean that the sadness is not connected to someone - you're not making up a reason for
it. It means that you just experienced the chemistry. The chemistry is beautiful. Sadness is
something that can be deeply, deeply beautiful. It doesn't have to become depression. That's
what identification does. Identification will easily turn sadness into depression. Remember that
in the individual process, depression can always become chronic because it can mutate.
The individual has a different way in which it has to live out its wave. Remember how the tribe
had to wait to touch a next time. The individual always has to wait to go through their aloneness
in sadness to come out to the other side to the happiness wave in order to go back into their
process. Only when they go from happy to sad can they see the real continuity of anything - of
anything.
The gift of the individual is that the individual, when they're in the mood, can go out in the world,
but the rest of the time they should be not seen nor heard. Disappear. I'm an archetype of that. I
go out in the world, I do my public business. Any chance I have, I disappear into the privacy of
what it is to be alone in individuality. This is the whole way to deal with that emotional nature, is
the purity of aloneness to wash the sadness out. When the sadness is washed out then there
comes this burst of energy when you get to the other side of the wave. The Emotional system of
the individual - the hope end of the wave is about being happy. There's this rising up of
happiness where you have this building up in your arc moving up, this sense of feeling good and
going out then and so productive.
There's one thing that the emotional individual must always keep in mind. It's a last rule for
them, that is, familiarity breeds contempt. As an individual, the longer you stay in somebody's
aura, the more they are going to try to make you become collective or tribal. Individuals are
interesting when you first take them in - we're always ready for mutation. After that, it's like the
little country village. The travelling salesman comes to town and falls in love with one of the
country girls. That's OK. They'll allow him to come into the tribe. It's all right that he's different
and he comes from a different place and he talks a little bit funny. The moment that he comes
into that tribe he has to give all that shit up. He's going to have to be like everybody else in the
tribe and he's going to have to do what everybody else in the tribe does. He's going to have to
learn all of the old tribal stuff. Of course, the individual in that situation is overwhelmed. Often,
they give up their individuality, they give up their knowing. Then they suffer deeply in their mood
swings because they're not seen for who they are anymore. They're simply being locked in by
the other forces.
This rule of familiarity breeds contempt says a lot about what the individual process - timely
contact and withdrawal based on mood. Then the emotional individual will feel very good in the
world and will have very good contacts in the world, healthy ones. They will have their impact. In
order to be able to transmit knowing, everyone who has any gate in any of the individuality,
you're carrying within you a potential for mutative knowing. In order to bring new material into
the world you need every possible advantage you can take. You have to have the best possible
mood and the best articulation and anything you can, quality-wise, to take advantage of getting
a mutation into the world. That's the secret of the moods.
Of course, that presents a lot of problems in the day-to-day reality of the world. If you're working
for XYZ Corporation and you're an individual, emotional, melancholic being, and you call up and
say, "I'm not in the mood today. I'm not coming," they fire you. One of the things that I tell
individuals is that it is very important for them, particularly emotional individuals, never to belong
to an organisation that would have them as a member. That's a Groucho Marx line. Don't belong
to any organisation that would have you as a member. However, you can work for that
organisation if you are absolutely and totally independent. In your independent contract with

whoever the XYZ Corporation is, you state explicitly, "I don't work when I'm not in the mood. If
you don't like it, find somebody else, but you're never going to make as much money as you will
with me, because when I'm in the mood, I'm hot. When I'm not in the mood, I'm not. So don't be
foolish now. Don't work me like a mule. Just accept the fact that I know when to go out and I will
produce."
That's the whole thing about knowing yourself. Emotional people have to be honest with others -
it's a big step. Of course, it's a big step only once you understand how it works, obviously. But it
changes your relationship with the outside world. You're letting them know up front what's
cooking. The moment that the individual emotional person takes their responsibility for material
into their own lives, "I always have to be independent," they say. In that moment, then they can
live out their proper process. They can go out into the world when they're in the mood and not
when they're not and be healthy in that. Anything that structures you in polarities is saying to
you that one isn't more valuable than the other. It's saying that they're two halves of a process.
Being in the mood and going out into the world is based on not being in the mood and being in
your own world. Otherwise, you don't have the richness and the depth to go back out when the
wave goes up. It's not to be seen as this over here is negative and this over here is positive. It's
not like that - they're the same thing.
When I go down in my melancholy, I go into a different kind of space. When I come out of that
space I always bring something with me. It enriches my life and this is the thing about moods.
Moods require that you are independent enough to control when you go out into the world or
not. You decide out of those moods whether it's time to eat or not, to love or not, to play or not.
It's all moods. Everything about understanding the Emotional system is just by seeing how the
mechanic works - that's all. Every single one of these emotional mechanics are still based on
the same thing: you're still going to have to wait for the wave before you're going to be able to
make any decision anyway. These are just nuances of that.

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THE CROSS OF THE SPHINX

GATE 2: THE RECEPTIVE - THE GATE OF HIGHER KNOWING

GATE 1: THE CREATIVE - THE GATE OF SELF-EXPRESSION

GATE 7: THE ARMY - THE GATE OF THE ROLE OF THE SELF

GATE 13: THE FELLOWSHIP OF MAN - THE GATE OF THE LISTENER

THE CROSS OF THE VESSEL OF LOVE

GATE 15: MODESTY - THE GATE OF EXTREMES

GATE 25: INNOCENCE - THE GATE OF THE SPIRIT OF THE SELF