We are a Binary Consciousness

Ra Uru Hu

The advantage that is derived from the revelation of the mechanics that each
and every one of us has a specific strategy and that strategy is directly associ-
ated with our type and our authority. And that it gives us an opportunity in
this life to do the one thing that really matterswhich is to make decisions
correctly as ourselves. At the moment that we are making decisions correctly
as ourselves, then we are operating in a world that is there for us, a world
where we can truly fulfill our potential.

Eliminate resistance
All of that is about the experiment of honoring your strategy, trying it out,
seeing the difference. The difference really is a matter of resistance. When
you make decisions correctly as yourself, what youre doing is youre elimi-
nating resistance. And in eliminating resistance, obviously not only do you
move more cleanly along your fractal line, along your geometry in this life,
but you also save yourself an enormous amount of physical and psychic ener-
gy. That physical and psychic energy thats drained away by resistance limits
the potential that you can have in this life.
Today I want to look at another basic in Human Design. Its a basic that leads
to a place of deep philosophical questioning. Its about the nature of the way
in which we are structured as a binary. When youre looking at your chart,
what you really see is that there is a lot of information thats black, and
theres a lot of information thats red. Our tendency is to look at the synthesis
of that. That is, to look into the body graph and to see the way in which were
defined in order to understand our type and our strategy, to find our authority.
The black
However, theres something very important to grasp about us. First of all, we
are a binary. On one side we have personality information, the personality da-
ta thats in black. One of the things to recognize about it is its what you have
access to. Its very important. In other words, when youre looking at the
body graph, when youre looking at the information on the right, every single
one of those activationseach and every one of those gates, their lines, their
themesthis is something that you can relate to, this is something that you
can recognize as yourself because you have conscious access to it. Everything
you see in black youre always experiencing. You have the ability to experi-
ence it immediately. So its in the black that you identify your nature. I have
done thousands and thousands of individual readings and whenever anyone
would sit down beside me the first thing that was obvious was that the person
that they think they are, are only those aspects in black.
The red
Now, when we look at the design information, the design information in red,
this is the unconscious. We have many different kinds of terms for the uncon-
scious. In the context of Human Design what were referring to as uncon-
scious are those aspects of our nature, the genetic imprinting, the differentia-
tion that is us that we have no access to, no conscious access to. Now, that is
really something. Think about it. Yes, you look at all the information on the
right, its in black and you say, ok I can identify with of all of this, this is who
I think I am. And yet, there is exactly the same amount of information in
terms of quantity of input data thats on the left-hand side thats in red that
you have no conscious access to that you do not think of as you.
Most human beings wander around on this plane with about one third of the
potential recognition of what it is to be them in this life. Because its not
simply a matter that half is missing. All of that is synthesized into the body
graph, and the body graph is another level. Youre only identifying with
whats conscious. If you look at your design and you only identify with the
conscious, for example, youre going to have situations where you have a
channel defined, that one gate at one end is from the personality and the gate
at the other end is from the design, its not like you identify with that whole
channel, you dont. Who you think you are is the gate thats in black. What-
ever happens through that channel is being brought to you by an unseen force
that you dont really understand. Why is it always happening to me?
One of the things that we tell people about the nature of their design is that as
they mature in this life, as they age, basically what happens is that through
their interaction with others, they begin to see that others see them in a specif-
ic way and they begin to accept it. In other words, if you have an emotional
system in which the access to it is unconscious then you, as a person, dont
really see yourself as emotional because you dont identify with it. And yet,
over the years you experience being very emotional with others, and they
have a perspective on you that says you are an emotional person. You eventu-
ally come to accept that as a trait, as something thats a part of you yet you
dont really identify with it directly. Its just something that happens.
A choice-less process
One of the bases of Human Design is understanding that this is a choice-less
process. It is exceeding difficult for most human beings to grasp that all of
this is out of their hands. You know, there are so many people today in the
world that are telling you that there are certain things about you that you can
fix. Well, thats very nice, and Im sure that they make a fine living. But its
something to really understand about your unconscious, there isnt anything
that you can fix. The fact that you discover that other people see you as emo-
tional doesnt mean you have conscious access to your emotional system, nor
are you able to deal with it in that sense.
Strategy compensates for ignorance
Everything about the beauty of strategy is that strategy compensates for igno-
rance. Oh, and so it should. How difficult it would be to always try to be
aware of how your unconscious is operating when you dont have access to it;
when you cannot, in that sense, have the illusion that youre controlling it be-
cause you dont. The magic is that the vehicle is an integrated system; that is,
our vehicle, our bodies, are an integrated system. That the conscious and the
unconscious, the personality and design, are integrated through the power of
the monopole to bring it all together in an illusion of separateness, and to cre-
ate out of that the illusion of a whole being.
And yet, we know that that whole being, for the passenger of that whole be-
ing, its not possible to understand all of it. It isnt. I have watched students of
mine over many, many years go deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and
deeper into the knowledge, and in going deeper into the knowledge having a
profound understanding of their own mechanics. Yet, in the end that does not
bring awaken-ness. Nor does it bring the intellectual capacity to control.
Knowledge, as Ive said many times, is not power. It is information. When
you take the information of your strategy and you apply it, it does not matter
whether or not you have conscious access to your design information. It
doesnt matter that there is an illusion that you have of who you think you are.
That despite the limitations of all of that, you can operate correctly if you fol-
low the strategy, because the strategy speaks for the integrated synthetic
whole.
The bodygraph is a map
Whenever youre looking at your design, remember that the body graph is a
map. And you can always see that the conscious is the road and the uncon-
scious is the tunnel. Look at your configuration; look at the way in which it
works. The tendency, when you first come to Design, is that you see a defined
center connected to another one through definition, and your concern is about
what that means as a whole. Now, obviously that is important. But what is
very important is for you to look carefully at the way in which that bridging is
madeis the bridge a road, is the bridge a tunnel, or is it half and half. Its
going to change the way in which you experience the phenomena. In the end,
we are helpless, truly. Yet, we can be correct. And we can be correct because
the solution is so very simple. Honor your strategy. This is the whole story.
And in doing so, you can live wholeness, and out of that discover the beauty
and the value of all of those inherited traits that you see in your own design.