The Science Of Differentiation, a.k.a. Human Design, is a subject few have heard of.
Yet, for those who have, it's been nothing short of life-changing in ways beyond description.
As the intersection of between astrology, the I Ching, Kabbalah, chakra system, neutrino science, and genetics, Human Design is a bottomless well of wisdom with unparalleled transformative potential for those dipping their toes in.
While I've grazed upon the subject in various posts, it's felt as though a proper introduction of how I came into the study and my perspectives on it has been overdue. Having recently shared a bit with 
So, starting with his questions here for context, here we go...
Having been through a cult before and a bunch of other things, my alarm bells are ringing a bit at the moment.
Basically I want to know from you, why this method means so much to you and how it's helped you in your life.
Any site that asks me to pay for truth has alarm bells ringing for me immediately regardless.
So prove me wrong on this one! I want to hear your thoughts and considerations..
When did you get involved with this stuff? Where were you in your life? And why did you go searching? Or was it offered but another friend?
I have come to the firm resolve that outside truth that tells me I need it to know who I am, is not truth. Because all the truth I need is within and can be accessed through observation, discipline and meditation. I've been burned by the fire before and it was all because I did not trust myself. I went looking for power in a dark dimension and found a lunatic to 'program' me. It's been years coming out of that experience and developing my own identity. So you can understand my skepticism.
Excellent questions. And, a balanced dose of skepticism is always healthy.
Also fascinating to observe the response, it being understandable from a 6/2 - also my profile - where we typically go through alot of crazy experience prior to our Saturn Return (especially in twenties), coming into our second phase of life from age 27-48 with some potential to be a bit cynical as a result. T’was different types of experiences for myself, though have found the premise to be shockingly accurate.
When did you get involved with this stuff? Where were you in your life? And why did you go searching? Or was it offered but another friend?
I first heard of Human Design about 4 or 5 years ago, but didn’t have the receptors open to begin taking it in until January 2017 when speaking more with an acquaintence who's incredibly knowledgable in it.
I’d been into the I Ching and astrology for nearly a decade, absolutely LOVING both. So when it finally came time I was able to proceed into HD, I was like a kid in a candy store, as it’s essentially the convergence of both which provides a ridiculously powerful lens refining the articulation of the precise dynamics of the human experience as we progress through the dimensions of space & time in this hologenetic program called “life.”
If interested in a bit more detail on that perspective, these couple highly-relevant pieces, written prior to getting into Human Design, go further:
Esoteric Exploration: Why Astrology...?
The Wisdom Of The I Ching: An Alchemical Map Into The Precise Order Of The Universe...
So, anyways... where I was at January 2017: burnt out and exhausted from lusting after success, trying to prove myself, living largely based on conditioning I didn’t even recognize as such.
That time was a peak in one regards, as crypto was its all-time high and I’d just become a millionaire - but the youthful ambition I had defined myself by for 15 years was due for a crash.
I really wasn’t searching for anything at all at that point. Most of my twenties had been spent searching as a hardcore self-help junkie, exploring every dimension of personal development, spirituality, new age stuff, metaphysics, psychology, etc. That search sorta concluded around 2014 while living in Bali and was into a bunch of esoteric study and activational work with Cory Herter, developer of ImmortalityOS - transitioning from a search to integration, activation, and recalibration.
(That was interesting, as the form it took might also be questioned by some as to whether there was an almost cult-like element to it. Though, it proved an intimate experience in distinguishing the distinction between what might be a natural phenomena of group organization amongst niches gathered around common spiritual or intellectual interests that could potentially get corrupted with egoistic influences and degrade into cults, OR remain stable and adherent to natural law serving individual sovereignty through a healthy community.)
So, there was no search in progress. But, I had a shitload of experience that when I finally did start getting into Human Design, I could see it’s accuracy. Unlike belief systems where many may commonly overlay a framework on top of their experience to filter it so it conforms, it was similar to when I had my very first numerology reading at 23 - putting into detailed language aspects of my entire life experience that I’d previously been unable to pin down. As well, it provided a framework in which many of the other teachings made sense at a higher meta-level, clarifying greater context in which to see where & when they fit...
Despite all the platitudes and dogmas I’d encountered throughout personal development that were posed as one-size-fits-all truths, the SCIENCE of Human Design provided an incredible precise blueprint - which I’d already been discovering parts of through both the I Ching and astrology - to more clearly see where specifically the different aspects of elements propagated in personal development fit into their appropriate places at specific points, for certain people, at certain times. Perhaps almost something like a hybrid ontological hierarchy expressed in mathematical architecture, fusing the ancient esoteric encyclopedias with the diligence of modern psychology.
Any site that asks me to pay for truth has alarm bells ringing for me immediately regardless.
I view it like this:
First off, the core of what anyone might actually NEED to know from/about Human Design is all available upfront, free of charge.
Strategy & Authority are really the essential fundamentals. The immense depth beyond that is totally optional, and it’s NOT for everybody.
For those who do feel it is correct to go deeper, it’s like any other investment in an education. You get what you pay for. Not only with money, but time & energy.
There is plenty of learning anyone can do for free these days. But the quality of paid education is typically very different. For one, because you’re paying for access to masters who’ve invested their lives in the cultivation of a specialty. Secondly, because it’s a different dynamic when we actually VALUE the education we commit to monetarily.
For example: I’ve watched a TON of music production and audio engineering tutorials on YouTube for free. Though I also recently subscribed to Mix With The Masters for $319/year - and it’s a very apparent difference as to what the value is. Even though I’ve learnt ALOT of excellent stuff for free, it’s an entirely different calibre/level to have direct access to watching THE top pros in the game walk through their processes.
Likewise, I’ve come across alot of GREAT free Human Design stuff; though the investments I’ve made over the last year in both courses and consultations have been WELL worth it (for me, at this particular time in my life) as they’ve enabled priceless insight into specifically where I’ve been misdirecting my energies and systematic confirmation of where I have had my successes by playing to exact aspects in my chart’s definition and am likely to find/create the greatest peace & satisfaction by adhering those boundaries.
So prove me wrong on this one!
One of the absolute BIGGEST insights that came was understanding the shadow/not-self side of my open heart center = I’ve got nothing to prove. So I’m not even gonna try here. Lol.
Though for YEARS, I had been striving to. Hence, the self-help junkie phase, trying to improve myself; the extreme ambition, an attempt to compensate for a deep sense of conflict with self-valuation. And to have it identified in such a clear-cut systematic way... game changer.
While the entire personal development world had been glorifying "motivation," as an essential ingredient for success, like a one-size-fits-all magic pill, the foundational lessons of understanding the mechanics of how Open Centers in a person's design function is like a flawless diagnostic model to assess the location of one's blind spots - and in my case, shining light into those shadows I'd fallen into by following others' "proven success strategies." Not to mention my other open centers...
Open Head… distractability. Yep.
Open Ajna… trying to seek or prove certainty. Yep.
Open Spleen… holding onto things for too long. Yep. Ideas, projects, relationship, ways of thinking & being.
Alot of these things, on the surface, might’ve been able to be approached conceptually from other angles as I’d encountered them in personal development. Though there’s a completely different transformational power of awareness to understand them not just conceptually at an intellectual level, but in a greater structured, scientific context of the actual energetic dynamics.
Example: we are vibrational beings. Yeah, we’ve all heard that incredibly-vague statement, whether from Abraham Hicks or elsewhere. Yet, HD dives into the precise dynamics of what specific frequency bands we are individually wired to transmit through our definition and receive through our openness - which specific function, traits & strengths are consistent and reliable, and where we have the tendencies to amplify & distort through the openness when not operating with objective awareness.
Practical application: It’d have been interesting to have understood all this years earlier, before my marriage had self-imploded - as this particular aspect alone enabled me to see specifically where we kept slipping into negative feedback loops as she amplified & distorted my energy when I was out of alignment through her open G center, and I’d correspondingly amplify & distort her reactions through my open Heart/Ego/Will center. Still, even though we had been better able to manage that dynamic the more aware I became, there were still other challenging aspects such as my Body/Unconscious Sun in Gate 21 of Contol being compromised with her full 21-45 channel, or her compromised Gate 14 of Prosperity in her unconscious Uranus - neither of which were fun to experience. Just a couple brief examples of where/how it’s provided me greater clarity in relationship dynamics.
Having been through a cult before and a bunch of other things, my alarm bells are ringing a bit at the moment.
As I reading about the cult experience, I wondered if that guy had Gate 26 defined - Gate Of The Trickster. I’d guess so. Having had experience with the shadow side of those energies, it’d be understandable to be weary; and you may recognize it because Ra, the guy who brought in Human Design, also had Gate 26 defined - as does Cory. Though, there are alot of different ways any energy can manifest...
There’s a spinoff of Human Design called the Gene Keys - that others might view as having an even more cult-ish characteristic to it if looking at the community the founder has formed beyond the book, which itself might simply be looked at as a different translation of the I Ching - slightly more poetic, and updated for modern times. One distinguishing factor of the Gene Keys is how each hexagram/gate is broken down into a Shadow, Gift, and Siddhi. (I’ve contemplated how this may likely be interlinked with the low, high, and gammified brainwave states learned via Cory.) My guess is that the cult leader you had experience with had that Gate 26 of the Trickster defined, though playing out the shadow side. Meanwhile, those playing the higher octaves of the energy may still possess the same salesmanship qualities and charisma of the crazy cult leader, though utilize it with a greater degree of wisdom and maturity.
And with that Trickster energy, there is the question of how much of what they speak is fully concrete, objective Truth - versus a certain quantum perceptual trick of providing reflections, like the finger pointing at the moon, of the truth that is in us the whole time. Cuz it’s ALL in our genetic code. And perhaps at some level, those outside us - whether Tricksters providing reflections, or others broadcasting through a unique combination of the other 63 gates and their further refinements - are merely conduits for those frequencies to be received for us to experience the wisdom available in those frequency bands where we’re open, ultimately activating the full spectrum of our genetic code as we move through the experience of it ALL - both in this lifetime through our exposure, and other lifetimes where we may experience being on the opposite end of those broadcasts.
I've been burned by the fire before and it was all because I did not trust myself. I went looking for power in a dark dimension and found a lunatic to 'program' me.
As it might be becoming apparent by now, Human Design is NOT about programming at all. (Though of course, there's probably not any cult that'd admit if it was.) On the contrary, the entrance comes with an invitation into a 7-year deconditioning experiment.
No truths given. Merely information presented to try on and experiment with for oneself - namely, a highly-detailed map to decipher the frequency coding of the conditioning/programming we’ve taken on since birth through our openness, and the foundational pointers of determining one’s fundamental Strategy & Authority to experiment with - which with great consistency, provides a platform to distinguish where we may be tempted to operate from unconscious conditioning versus the body’s wisdom & truth.
One’s Human Design chart is merely a snapshot/map of their specific frequency. Not one imposed because anyone says so, but the genetic mapping which when one coming into an understanding of, is like, “yeah, that’s totally me. Always has been. And I’ve never been able to articulate anywhere near as precisely detailed.”
With such awareness comes a transformation process as we attune more to our natural self, observing the susceptibility to where we’ve been conditioned and may amplify & distort through our openness, and what is defined within us that we can consistently rely upon. The result of which: living our Strategy & Authority correctly and experiencing Peace rather than Anger as a Manifestor, Satisfaction rather than Frustration as a Generator, Success rather than Bitterness as a Projector, or Surprise rather than Disappointment as a Reflector.
No payment for anything necessary. No subscription to any belief systems. Merely an experimentation with Strategy & Authority if a correct response. Which, it may not be for everybody.
One other huge game-changer for myself: understanding my Emotional Authority.
Meaning: waiting for the emotional waves to complete before making decisions.
Nearly all of us have grown up with subconscious programming that we are to make decisions from the mind. Recipe for disaster. To do so is to allow one’s life to be dictated by conditioning - and with 70% of the population being Generators, has led to a whole lotta frustration, as is the predictable outcome - given these are simply mechanics.
While there are personal development and new age philosophies that hint at some of the wisdom of emotion as a guidance system, most are still one step removed from the full power as they do not distinguish the critical importance of waiting for clarity. (And there are critical distinctions between other counsel which may suggest to "follow your gut instinct" - a means of inner authority which is correct for someone with a Sacral Authority.)
The amount of times I committed myself to something while riding a high of elation, only to crash and be completely unable to sustain the effort to see it through… OMG. Or equally as destructive, coming to conclusions while at an emotional low.
The more I grasped this single, simple idea and observed it as I went about my life, the more obvious it was how powerful and undebatable it was.
The process of self-awareness developed through taking inventory of when my mind was wanting to make decisions from emotional highs or lows, or when I was tempted to rush things (doubly so as a Manifesting Generator) before letting the emotional extremes pass to wait for the clarity… the more in tune with my body and its guidance I became.
The greater consciousness of where in the larger emotional/time waves I was at, the more clear it has become when appropriate to paddle out, where to position myself, and which waves to ride.
The result: way less energy burnt trying to paddle out and catch the wrong waves, far greater ease & grace in catching the appropriate waves, and far more enjoyable rides on the waves that do align.
And adding in the refined distinctions of the dynamic of my defined 12-22... oh yeah. Having been tempted to criticize myself for what might almost seem frequent "bi-polar" swings, there was an immense sense of relief in having the dynamic identified as merely a natural phenomenon occuring as simply being in the mood, or not. The actionable wisdom on the other side of that self-awareness: simply waiting until being in the mood to do something, rather than dictatorially forcing myself when not as per conventional motivational dogma - which never worked and only amplified anger and frustration as pushing against my natural body energy cycles. Massive game-change.
And then the flip side of my Emotional Authority… the Strategy. As a Generator, Waiting To Respond. And doing so based on the sacral, “uh huh” or “uh uh” response.
I’d been so engrained in the habit of trying to make decisions with my mind, it was a completely different world turning to my body for the guidance offered through such a basic litmus test. (And almost a bit shocking to discover that the body would often choose differently than the mind - yet consistently, to options that brought satisfaction & peace instead of anger & frustration.)
In hindsight and all honesty:
The biggest cult I had been a part of, completely oblivious to it, was the whole self-help / personal development movement.
Only once discovering the actual dynamics of the human energetic system as articulated in the framework of Type and Open Centers, was it blatantly apparent that the movement's dogma is one highly based in a Manifestor Strategy of INITIATION - which is actually only suited to work for approximately 12% of people. Or to get even more refined, fit for Manifestors also with a Defined Heart/Ego/Will Center.
"Plan and go after your goals. Choose what you want and hustle to make it happen. Push to succeed at whatever you decide to do. Etc, etc, etc."
Granted this is a mindset not exclusive to the motivational segment of self-help / personal development, but a foundational program in much of our capitalistic society as well.
Yet, it's a strategy that repeatedly not only fails to work for the majority of the population - given the majority are not wired for it, nor can rewire themselves to conform - but one that leads to incredible amounts of frustration and burnout.
And that is where I had arrived to after over a decade of hustling ambitiously, trying to prove myself by setting all these big goals, initiating projects, falling flat on my face again and again because I was trying to initiate from my mind and push things to completion that were never correct for me and I lacked the defined willpower to drive through to success.
Yet, having been SO engrained by countless gurus and society preaching that this was the ONLY way to EVER succeed, I fell into the trap of thinking there was something wrong if I couldn't do it. Nowhere before EVER had I encountered ANYONE offering counsel so contradictory to the conventional narrative, as that of "wait to respond" and "wait out the emotional waves for clarity."
Yet, when looking back to take inventory of my life experiences, that is exactly what WORKED for me.
Case in point: Steemit.
Seeds had been planted to get into Bitcoin and blockchain... and I waited (unknowingly) until the time was correct. Then, I prepared myself accordingly with study, not knowing what exact opportunities were on the horizon. And when Steemit showed up, I waited a bit until the clarity came in the undeniable instinct: do it. 18 months later - after 15 years struggling by trying to Initiate, make decisions from the mind, "follow my gut," pushing myself into hustling fuelled from brief motivational highs until crashing repeatedly - I was a millionaire.
Granted, I still hadn't discovered Human Design yet, so I actually had no clue what I was doing that were the roots of the success. And I let my mind and greed take over the decisions, ended up losing 97% of everything. BUT, when I finally did get into Human Design and forked out $500 for a Profit Potential Analysis with Laveena Archers, one of the top teachers/coaches in the field... HOLY FUCK. She pinpointed with mindblowing precision EXACTLY what I had done correctly with the whole Steemit chapter - which strengths I was playing, what topics I was speaking to, which elements of the project/movement/community's needs I'd been adding value to, how my positioning was correct for me in the larger movement of technological and cultural innovation.
And over the course of coming to an intimate experiential observation of Strategy & Authority at play in my everyday life, my sensitivity to my body's energy levels as direct feedback of whether I was operating correctly or not increased such that I could more quickly and easily recognize where I was attempting to function from all that old conditioning of pushing & initiating - which only led to frustration, anger, and burnout - or easing into a harmonious flow with life, experiencing greater peace & satisfaction.
Nothing in Human Design told me WHO I AM, so much as the well-laid out blueprints of the architecture provided a map of what lay in my blindspots - exactly which shadows and traps I've been most susceptible to falling into and specifically where I've experience the greatest degrees of conditioning due to the amplification & distortion occuring in my openness. Despite EVERYTHING I've learned from such a wide range of fields and teachers, despite all the meditation and self-reflection and work with plant medicines done over the years, I would not likely have seen or gotten ANY of this without the feedback mechanism available via consciousness of the framework offered through the structure and language available through Human Design - which again, is merely an intersection of perspectives/wisdom of the astrological arts/sciences, the I Ching, Kabbalah, chakra system, neutrino science, and genetics.
Of course, these esoteric sciences are not typically for a majority of people. 4% maybe.
Though once seeing these codes of the matrix at play, it's no wonder why we have mass epidemics of addiction, anxiety, depression, and all sorts of mental-emotional-physical-spiritual disease on this planet as people are predictably operating from near-mathematically-ordered conditioning according to the irrefutable mechanics of the system rather than functioning correctly as their bodies are individually genetically wired to.
And then there's the whole other dimension of global time cycles... for example, with the transition from our current Cross Of Planning to the Cross Of The Sleeping Phoenix in 2027 - an energetic shift that's felt apparent my whole life as I observed the erosion of institutional paradigms, yet was unable to properly grasp or explain it...
But it's like Terence McKenna's metaphor:
Just as the periodic table of elements breaks down all matter into a minimum of base constituent building blocks, so the I Ching maps out 64 distinct elemental phases of TIME - equally as organized into explicit structure as the nature of chemistry, physics, mathematics, and biology. And with the overlay of astrology, Kabbalah, etc and the detailed architecture unveiled through their enclyclopedias of knowledge brought to the table, the degree of exactitude in identifying the scope of energetic influences playing out at any particular point in the spectrum of the time dimension... it's fucking mindblowing.
Even if one were to approach the wisdom of Human Design from that angle alone, forgetting about the applications to one's personal life, the map of our evolutionary development progression as both species and societies is unparallelled. And what that has done for me, personally: an increased sense of peace and confidence in the midst of what seems an otherwise completely chaotic world, seeing the bigger picture of where we are, why things are the way they are, and where we're going - along with the revival of a childlike curiosity and satisfaction in observing the movie unfold in all it's divine perfection.
With Human Design, there is no single leader or head organization.
Ra might have downloaded the original template to seed the growth of the system, though part of what’s made it so fascinating to learn is taking in a breadth of unique perspectives from various individuals each living their own design correctly, speaking from their differentiated frequency. Far from merely parroting/regurgitating the same information, there have been thousands of teachers, coaches, students, artists, and people from all walks of life who’ve collaborated in a richly diversified dialogue of collective exploration - each bringing something fascinating to the table through their own unique experience and voice of wisdom expressed in their one-of-a-kind outer authority.
And like any other science, Human Design - The Science Of Human Differentiation - is not merely about the study of the science itself, but it's application. The education in the system itself is merely preparation for the experimentation. The foundational knowledge of the mechanics, only the starting point for observing the profoundly intricate structure of The Program - the larger universal experience, as we might observe from the position of spirit housed in a biological vehicle - and increasing the degree to which we may harmoniously flow through its time cycles with great awareness of their detailed nature.
While Jovian Archive might be the primary enterprise that carries on to sell the majority of programs Ra taught himself, and the International Human Design School may have chapters worldwide licensing many to teach the foundational courses, there are countless people who've ran with it to offer their own unique and custom-tailored programs. Example: the BG5 Institute which focuses on applications in the business & entrepreneurials, providing training for coaches, consultants, and individuals interested in understanding the unique Profit Potentials as defined in their design.
With so many people offering courses and consulting, with so many different references, I personally found it tough to navigate through the maze without a clear linear-path. Not all teachers equal. Each has their own style. Some, I didn't resonate with at all - and hence, part of the reason why I wasn't able to get into it until later, when I came across a few whose voices I vibed with. Even Ra, the granddaddy himself, I couldn't click with until several months into my journey, after I'd become more fluent in the basics and then able to follow along with more of the advanced stuff he taught, focused into more niche topics.
And when stumbling into the masters and hearing some of their unique takes on thing at the correct timing, who are living & speaking the full embodiment of their clear, undistorted frequency after a full 7-year cycle of deconditioning and immersive study... man. That is a true treat. For myself, it's been Leann Wolff, Laveena Archers, and Elad Sky, whose random sharings and reports on the times have been orgasmically-mindblowing in all the best ways with their depth of insight and wisdom that's a completely different level than anything found in the personal development realm from gurus whose intent is to gain followers and sell books/courses, or even the "spiritual" domains where so much of the content is predictably superficial and regurgitated.
That all said, my particular way of describing might not at all resonate with you - though others' would. Much of what I've spoke of here is more in my unique lens of what Human Design is and offers, which may be very different from how others would define it. And given I have no interest in learning the entire system well enough to teach or coach others in, there are many others who've committed to it as their main focus which could surely offer a far "better" explanation of everything that might click with a much greater number of people than these perspectives here.
And to wrap up, finally...
Why do I feel Human Design is so important?
We're in the midst of major global transformation.
In the midst of all these changes - from economic to the prospect of new plagues, social revolutions, and all sorts of cultural turmoil - those operating from conditioning (which came from an era that has passed) are going to be like lemmings walking off a cliff.
We simply cannot make decisions based on past programming and realistically expect to survive and/or thrive in a new world. It ain't gonna happen.
The ONLY route to success is operating correctly according to your own Strategy & Authority with eyes wide open to the actual dynamics of the system we're working in, tuned in to the energy of the times, and adapting in real-time following the innate wisdom of your uniquely coded genetic blueprint.
Looking to governments to save us is a pretty shoddy option. Expecting "gurus" selling us "guaranteed" formulas with their own financial interest at heart, seeking to be told what to do to adapt is just as dicey a prospect.
The waves are amping up. Tsunamis are incoming. More than ever, it's critical to learn how to surf.
Meaning: how to read the waves. Knowing where to position ourselves to steer cleer of getting tummeled and when & where to paddle in.
Just as not all of us are born to be scientists, not everybody need know the intricacies of the entire Human Design system. Though at the least, a basic understanding of one's Strategy & Authority provides a major advantage in accelerating potent self-awareness to more harmonious navigate the way through this maze of life as it gets increasingly complex in the face of accelerating change.
Though for the curious, the deeper one goes, the more fascinating it all becomes...
If interested, get your free Human Design chart here
(And should any be interested to get their chart but don't have your exact birth time, comment below and I'll help ya sort something out...)
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