GMTBook Announcement: The Definitive Book of Human Design, The Science of Differentiation
Hello Everyone,
A few years ago Ra asked me to write a mainstream Human Design book for release to the general public; a book accurately and correctly codifying The Human Design System. Working on this project with Ra was an incredibly meaningful experience for me. I had hoped to show him the final product in Toronto in April, 2011, at the Human Design event, but sadly he passed away a month before the event. The book then took on a new meaning for me as it turned into not only a collaborative project with Ra, but also a tribute to this great man. The book is my gift to him for all he has done for me, for us, for humanity.
It has been no small task to take a body of knowledge like this and condense it in a book that covers the main aspects of the foundation of Human Design. There were many moments when this project felt overwhelming and too difficult and I wondered if it would ever get done. So, it is with great humility, and I must admit, some trepidation, that I share this book with all of you. I hope it meets with your approval. My wish is that this book is helpful and useful to both the avid Human Design student as a resource, and to those that are new to this system wishing to learn about this amazing body of knowledge and take their personal journey into self-discovery.
And, from the bottom of my heart, I owe a very special thank you to Donna Garlinghouse and Bethi Black - they worked tirelessly and selflessly to help bring this book into reality. Manifesting Generators rock! Thank you ladies.
The book can be purchased through Human Design Publishing at www.humandesignpublishing.com
Enjoy and Love Yourself, Lynda
And here is the official book announcement:
Book Announcement: “The Definitive Book of Human Design”
The Human Design Systems’ newest publication is now available for purchase.
The Definitive Book of Human Design, The Science of Differentiation, by Lynda Bunnell, Director of the International Human Design School, and Ra Uru Hu, Founder of The Human Design System, is a definitive collection of the knowledge in one volume. Based on Ra’s work, and with his approval and cooperation, this book is both a reference guide for Human Design students, professionals and enthusiasts, and a step-by step introduction for newcomers as they enter into their own experiment with these practical and life transforming tools.
The Human Design System is a precise map and user guide that gives us access to how we are each genetically and uniquely designed to engage with the world, and how our own inner guidance system for decision-making operates. Never before have we been able to see so clearly the conscious and unconscious parts of ourselves, the true aspects that no one can take away from us, as well as the aspects of self that we have been taught or conditioned to believe are us, but are not.
The Human Design System is not a belief system. It is a concrete map to the nature of being, and a mapping of our genetic code that reveals the mechanics of our nature in such depth that it opens the door to the potential of self-love, a love of life and the love of others through true understanding and compassion.
Available for sale at Human Design Publishing, (505) 913-7139, www.humandesignpublishing.com, 444 pages, full color, for $49.95.
For more information on The Human Design System itself, or the authors, please visit www.humandesignpublishing.com, www.IHDSchool.com, and www.jovianarchive.com.
posted on March 5
Happy Valentine's Day
It seems appropriate to recognize Valentines Day since Human Design teaches self love. I remember the first email I received from Ra many many years ago and it was signed: "Love Yourself, Ra". At the time it struck me as so strange but now it feels so right. It falls right in line with "Selfish Enlightenment" which Ra was fond of saying and of course teaching.
The deconditioning process is a selfish process - or a self-first process. It reorganizes our priorities resulting in a reorganization of our life and environment. Now that I've been involved in this knowledge for so many years I recognize it when I'm around or interacting with people that don't love themselves. When you take this journey of self-love or selfish enlightenment you start to love yourself and you see what this really means. It does not mean that you become selfish in a negative way although we have been conditioned to think of selfish as being a bad thing - good/bad, who knows? But when you follow your Strategy and Authority, when you start to align yourself and your life then everything else falls into place around you. If your prior life was built on a house of cards then your life may fall apart before it falls into place but this is part of the process of becoming yourself. When you find the beauty in your life by loving yourself you naturally want others to love themselves and to follow their own Strategy and Authority. This is true love - loving others by wanting them to love themselves and be true to who they are, to be a fully expressed representation of their differentiation, of their uniqueness - even if it means hearing an answer that you don't want or one that makes you uncomfortable.
Metamorphosis is a process by which one changes through cell growth and differentiation. It takes 7 years to change all the cells in your body through the Human Design experiment of Strategy and Authority. After these 7 years you begin to see and live a life that is true to you! When you start living your true-self your relationships naturally change. You become a different person so those that want you to remain the old not-self will be uncomfortable or unhappy about the changes in you and they will no longer resonate with you, and maybe some of these people will leave. New people will come into your life as your true-self emerges. I much more prefer having true-self relationships!
Today I am going to be grateful for all the true-self relationships that I now have. And for the not-self relationships of the past that taught me about self-love!
Enjoy the day and Love Yourself!
The deconditioning process is a selfish process - or a self-first process. It reorganizes our priorities resulting in a reorganization of our life and environment. Now that I've been involved in this knowledge for so many years I recognize it when I'm around or interacting with people that don't love themselves. When you take this journey of self-love or selfish enlightenment you start to love yourself and you see what this really means. It does not mean that you become selfish in a negative way although we have been conditioned to think of selfish as being a bad thing - good/bad, who knows? But when you follow your Strategy and Authority, when you start to align yourself and your life then everything else falls into place around you. If your prior life was built on a house of cards then your life may fall apart before it falls into place but this is part of the process of becoming yourself. When you find the beauty in your life by loving yourself you naturally want others to love themselves and to follow their own Strategy and Authority. This is true love - loving others by wanting them to love themselves and be true to who they are, to be a fully expressed representation of their differentiation, of their uniqueness - even if it means hearing an answer that you don't want or one that makes you uncomfortable.
Metamorphosis is a process by which one changes through cell growth and differentiation. It takes 7 years to change all the cells in your body through the Human Design experiment of Strategy and Authority. After these 7 years you begin to see and live a life that is true to you! When you start living your true-self your relationships naturally change. You become a different person so those that want you to remain the old not-self will be uncomfortable or unhappy about the changes in you and they will no longer resonate with you, and maybe some of these people will leave. New people will come into your life as your true-self emerges. I much more prefer having true-self relationships!
Today I am going to be grateful for all the true-self relationships that I now have. And for the not-self relationships of the past that taught me about self-love!
Enjoy the day and Love Yourself!
posted on February 14
Reflections and Gratitude
The impact of Human Design around the world has been astounding. As Ra would say, Human Design is a one-person-at-a-time awakening experience. And from there it is a very personal journey of daily self-reflection through our interaction with the world using the tools of Strategy and Authority. Back in the beginning, the seeds of the creation of the International Human Design School started from this premise. Ra knew that he would need a network of schools, and an army of Human Design analysts and teachers to move this knowledge out into the world. He was a visionary, and he was right. Human Design, in one way or another, has touched thousands and thousands of people, and it continues to grow and spread throughout the world through a one-person-at-a-time communion.
The end and beginning of cycles makes me naturally reflective, and I've been reflecting on my Human Design journey since 1998. I first came to Human Design while on a trip to Spain. My traveling companion brought along some tapes for us to listen to while we drove through the beautiful countryside. I remember thinking to myself while listening to this strange sounding man, about this strange sounding thing call The Human Design System, "I can't really understand what this is! It's so foreign sounding," but I was intrigued. Little did I know at the time, just off the coast on an island named Ibiza, this system had its beginnings.
Human Design came to my life during a time when I was no longer interested in exploring the personal development/growth genre. I was bored with and tired of it, and wasn't learning anything new. When first asked, I initially said no to getting a Human Design reading. My persistent friend asked me 3 times over a course of weeks if I wanted to get a reading, and finally I said yes. Of course, at that time I was unaware of the Strategy to respond and the emotional Authority to wait, but it seemed to be playing out in this situation anyway. She is a Projector with the channel 23/43 - The Channel of Individuality, which provides guidance for a person with the 34/20 - The Channel of Charisma (which is me). I remember her saying at the time "I know you, and I know you will like this." Well, she was right.
Even though my initial reading did not make much sense to me, I was very curious, and I needed to know more. Fortunately, at that time Ra lived in America and I was able to get an in-person reading with him, take classes, and become an Analyst. Shortly after all of this he moved to Germany, and in 2001 I made the trip to take private trainings with him and also get my teacher certifications. Years later, when I was in Toronto during another private reading with Ra, he told me that he knew when he first met me that I would play a significant role in Human Design, and in getting it out into the world. Of course, back then I had no idea. My motivation in those early days was to study anything that gave my investigative mind something satisfying to latch onto, something to keep me engaged. Most other modalities bored me quickly, but Human Design continues to be just as engrossing a body of knowledge today as it was back then. And the discoveries continue to be endless.
Over the years, one response leading to another, here I am now as yet another New Year cycle starts, and this one without Ra Uru Hu. I've kept a fairly quiet public profile since his passing. Not on purpose; it was not strategically planned or anything, but looking back now, I guess I just needed time. The grieving process is mysterious.
For those of you that don't know me, I am the Director of the International Human Design School, which was originally established by Ra 1992, and in 2010 he asked me to take over and run the school. In Ra's words: "Everything about my work in Human Design is about legitimizing it as a new science; it is a science. It is not a new age fluffy educational program. In order to present it for what it is, and to establish it correctly in the world, we have to have a structured approach in the way that it is presented." It is important to me, and I know to all Human Design Directors, that the licensed schools continue to carry forward his vision and be trusted resources for the community.
This brings me back to today, the beginning of this new cycle and the start of the year celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Human Design System. Can you imagine what it must have been like 25 years ago to have this encounter with the 'Voice'? And then to pick yourself up and to somehow find a way to start speaking about it and share it with others? I will always be in awe and gratitude for what he was able to accomplish in those 25 years. I am so deeply grateful to his wife and family for giving him a loving home, with the freedom to do his Manifestor thing, so that he could truly impact humanity with something as profound as this knowledge. He was a true and unique universalizing agent - a Clarion giving us a wake-up call with the tools for surviving in this new era in which we find ourselves. Thank you Ra Uru Hu.
I found this quote from Ra just this morning as I was getting ready to send this article off for publication: "A new way is unfolding in front of us. It is not yet clear what it is. It is unclear because of the nature of Neptune as it moves along in the same trajectory (as Pluto), impacting the Experiential Way, now in the 30th gate, its first return, beginning to dissolve all of these old patterns. We will see it in time. But 2012, it is time to say good-bye to 7-centered beings."
The Human Design System is here 'now' to support us to live as ourselves in this new era of the 9-centered way of life. The 7-centered way of living is no longer viable; it is dissolving right out from under us. Human Design is here to show us how we can thrive and survive in this new age. While I am in Ibiza in April, and in keeping with the spirit and foundation of how Human Design started, I am offering foundation and advanced readings. I look forward to celebrating Human Design while meeting new and old friends. If you would like to schedule a reading with me, please drop me an email at Lynda@ihdschool.com.
I look forward to spending time with you.
The end and beginning of cycles makes me naturally reflective, and I've been reflecting on my Human Design journey since 1998. I first came to Human Design while on a trip to Spain. My traveling companion brought along some tapes for us to listen to while we drove through the beautiful countryside. I remember thinking to myself while listening to this strange sounding man, about this strange sounding thing call The Human Design System, "I can't really understand what this is! It's so foreign sounding," but I was intrigued. Little did I know at the time, just off the coast on an island named Ibiza, this system had its beginnings.
Human Design came to my life during a time when I was no longer interested in exploring the personal development/growth genre. I was bored with and tired of it, and wasn't learning anything new. When first asked, I initially said no to getting a Human Design reading. My persistent friend asked me 3 times over a course of weeks if I wanted to get a reading, and finally I said yes. Of course, at that time I was unaware of the Strategy to respond and the emotional Authority to wait, but it seemed to be playing out in this situation anyway. She is a Projector with the channel 23/43 - The Channel of Individuality, which provides guidance for a person with the 34/20 - The Channel of Charisma (which is me). I remember her saying at the time "I know you, and I know you will like this." Well, she was right.
Even though my initial reading did not make much sense to me, I was very curious, and I needed to know more. Fortunately, at that time Ra lived in America and I was able to get an in-person reading with him, take classes, and become an Analyst. Shortly after all of this he moved to Germany, and in 2001 I made the trip to take private trainings with him and also get my teacher certifications. Years later, when I was in Toronto during another private reading with Ra, he told me that he knew when he first met me that I would play a significant role in Human Design, and in getting it out into the world. Of course, back then I had no idea. My motivation in those early days was to study anything that gave my investigative mind something satisfying to latch onto, something to keep me engaged. Most other modalities bored me quickly, but Human Design continues to be just as engrossing a body of knowledge today as it was back then. And the discoveries continue to be endless.
Over the years, one response leading to another, here I am now as yet another New Year cycle starts, and this one without Ra Uru Hu. I've kept a fairly quiet public profile since his passing. Not on purpose; it was not strategically planned or anything, but looking back now, I guess I just needed time. The grieving process is mysterious.
For those of you that don't know me, I am the Director of the International Human Design School, which was originally established by Ra 1992, and in 2010 he asked me to take over and run the school. In Ra's words: "Everything about my work in Human Design is about legitimizing it as a new science; it is a science. It is not a new age fluffy educational program. In order to present it for what it is, and to establish it correctly in the world, we have to have a structured approach in the way that it is presented." It is important to me, and I know to all Human Design Directors, that the licensed schools continue to carry forward his vision and be trusted resources for the community.
This brings me back to today, the beginning of this new cycle and the start of the year celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Human Design System. Can you imagine what it must have been like 25 years ago to have this encounter with the 'Voice'? And then to pick yourself up and to somehow find a way to start speaking about it and share it with others? I will always be in awe and gratitude for what he was able to accomplish in those 25 years. I am so deeply grateful to his wife and family for giving him a loving home, with the freedom to do his Manifestor thing, so that he could truly impact humanity with something as profound as this knowledge. He was a true and unique universalizing agent - a Clarion giving us a wake-up call with the tools for surviving in this new era in which we find ourselves. Thank you Ra Uru Hu.
I found this quote from Ra just this morning as I was getting ready to send this article off for publication: "A new way is unfolding in front of us. It is not yet clear what it is. It is unclear because of the nature of Neptune as it moves along in the same trajectory (as Pluto), impacting the Experiential Way, now in the 30th gate, its first return, beginning to dissolve all of these old patterns. We will see it in time. But 2012, it is time to say good-bye to 7-centered beings."
The Human Design System is here 'now' to support us to live as ourselves in this new era of the 9-centered way of life. The 7-centered way of living is no longer viable; it is dissolving right out from under us. Human Design is here to show us how we can thrive and survive in this new age. While I am in Ibiza in April, and in keeping with the spirit and foundation of how Human Design started, I am offering foundation and advanced readings. I look forward to celebrating Human Design while meeting new and old friends. If you would like to schedule a reading with me, please drop me an email at Lynda@ihdschool.com.
I look forward to spending time with you.
posted on January 25
1995 Videos of Ra Uru Hu talking about Human Design
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 2
Part 3
posted on April 6 2011
A BodyGraph Overview - Part 1
I'm doing a chart overview over a series of blog posts so please check back now and then to view any additions about this chart. I hope you enjoy this and learn something about Human Design. :-)
This is a chart of a 3.6 Profile, Emotional Authority, Split Generator with open Head, Ajna, Throat and Heart Centers.
Just these few details tell us so much about this person. The white areas represent our lessons in life - what we are here to learn and master, and the colored in areas (defined) represent the student and how the student is designed to function and operate in the world in order for their purpose in life to unfold.
Before we can learn and master the lessons we have to establish a new relationship with these white areas. Our experience and understanding of the white areas gets very distorted from early in life, so to actually learn what we are to learn from them, we have to go through a "deconditioning process" so that we can experience these open spaces correctly - the way they were intended.
There is an interaction between what is defined and what is open and this interaction creates a third thing which is the person's holistic experience of their unique life. And from this holistic experience You are formed and shaped. You are your experiences. Each time you make a decision you have another experience and these decisions/experiences inform and shape the You and the Me. Most people don't really think much about how every decision they make shapes their life. Every decision from the small ones to the big ones - each decision is navigating us through our life, creating our relationships with people, places and things. Decisions are Everything. Making decisions as your Self is the key to allowing your Purpose, your very reason for existence on this planet to emerge.
Let's break it down by exploring the Type and Strategy first:
As a Generator the aura of this person is open and enveloping and with the Sacral Center defined (red square) they are designed to wait to respond to what comes to them. They are designed to trust that their body will tell them when something is right for them or not with a sound. The sound is a ah-huh or a unh-uh (yes or no) and it comes from the Sacral area in the body (the gut). If you listen to a toddler answer yes/no questions then you know what this sounds like. It is a very natural response without including the mind (no thinking).
Generators are not designed to initiate. They have been deeply conditioned in our societies to initiate but this goes against their true mechanical way of functioning in the the world. The result of initiating is Frustration. They can end up starting and quitting a lot of things in life and be very frustrated. Their Aura pulls to them what they need, not their mind. I often say to Generators "let go of what your mind thinks your life is supposed to look like and let life come to you and respond". Let your Aura do the work and then life becomes effortless. The doing gets done without doing.
The Authority in this design is the Solar Plexus Center. Authority is the place we use for decision making.
Solar Plexus Authority in this person works by first taking in the decision and getting a response from the Sacral and then processing the decision and response through the feelings and emotions. Emotions take time to process so for a person with Solar Plexus Authority, there is no decision in the now. Decisions happen over time through waiting out the emotional chemistry and coming to a place of clarity.
It can be very hard to wait though because the emotions tend to be impulsive and when we feel excitement and hope we jump in. Waiting for calmer waters is best. This way you give yourself time to really process the decision, find out more information, ask questions, process some more and then when you feel a sense of clarity then go for it. Emotional Authority is tricky sometimes though because emotions can never really be crystal clear - they are emotions after all and the emotional chemistry is always in motion. Be as clear as you can before you decide.
This is a chart of a 3.6 Profile, Emotional Authority, Split Generator with open Head, Ajna, Throat and Heart Centers.
Just these few details tell us so much about this person. The white areas represent our lessons in life - what we are here to learn and master, and the colored in areas (defined) represent the student and how the student is designed to function and operate in the world in order for their purpose in life to unfold.
Before we can learn and master the lessons we have to establish a new relationship with these white areas. Our experience and understanding of the white areas gets very distorted from early in life, so to actually learn what we are to learn from them, we have to go through a "deconditioning process" so that we can experience these open spaces correctly - the way they were intended.
There is an interaction between what is defined and what is open and this interaction creates a third thing which is the person's holistic experience of their unique life. And from this holistic experience You are formed and shaped. You are your experiences. Each time you make a decision you have another experience and these decisions/experiences inform and shape the You and the Me. Most people don't really think much about how every decision they make shapes their life. Every decision from the small ones to the big ones - each decision is navigating us through our life, creating our relationships with people, places and things. Decisions are Everything. Making decisions as your Self is the key to allowing your Purpose, your very reason for existence on this planet to emerge.
Let's break it down by exploring the Type and Strategy first:
As a Generator the aura of this person is open and enveloping and with the Sacral Center defined (red square) they are designed to wait to respond to what comes to them. They are designed to trust that their body will tell them when something is right for them or not with a sound. The sound is a ah-huh or a unh-uh (yes or no) and it comes from the Sacral area in the body (the gut). If you listen to a toddler answer yes/no questions then you know what this sounds like. It is a very natural response without including the mind (no thinking).
Generators are not designed to initiate. They have been deeply conditioned in our societies to initiate but this goes against their true mechanical way of functioning in the the world. The result of initiating is Frustration. They can end up starting and quitting a lot of things in life and be very frustrated. Their Aura pulls to them what they need, not their mind. I often say to Generators "let go of what your mind thinks your life is supposed to look like and let life come to you and respond". Let your Aura do the work and then life becomes effortless. The doing gets done without doing.
The Authority in this design is the Solar Plexus Center. Authority is the place we use for decision making.
Solar Plexus Authority in this person works by first taking in the decision and getting a response from the Sacral and then processing the decision and response through the feelings and emotions. Emotions take time to process so for a person with Solar Plexus Authority, there is no decision in the now. Decisions happen over time through waiting out the emotional chemistry and coming to a place of clarity.
It can be very hard to wait though because the emotions tend to be impulsive and when we feel excitement and hope we jump in. Waiting for calmer waters is best. This way you give yourself time to really process the decision, find out more information, ask questions, process some more and then when you feel a sense of clarity then go for it. Emotional Authority is tricky sometimes though because emotions can never really be crystal clear - they are emotions after all and the emotional chemistry is always in motion. Be as clear as you can before you decide.
posted on November 19 2010
