Who do you know who’s a verbal gunslinger? đ
The #VerbalGunslinger (long post alert)
Btw a chart with throat connected to a motor is either a Manifestor (if sacral is white) or a Manifesting Generator (sacral is defined).
That means that everyone else who has a defined throat has this âverbal gunslingerâ thing.
Hereâs Ra -
âThe most difficult aspect to deal with in Human Design is to be a verbal gunslinger. It is the most difficult aspect. That is somebody who has the Ajna Center, or the Self, or the Spleen, connected to the Throat, and only in that sense. In other words, the Throat is activated, the Throat can be spoken out of, but there is no motor connected to it. And the other one, by the way, is the 20-10.
The thing to recognize about the verbal gunslinger is that the verbal gunslinger has a very powerful Throat Center. Thereâs no question about that. And yet the Throat Center has a dual function. And the fact that the Throat Center is constantly activated means that the Throat Center, at its own level, has an assumption of being able to act because it can initiate speech. Itâs much easier for an undefined Throat to learn that lesson than it is for a verbal gunslinger, because the natural tendency of the verbal gunslinger, because they can manifest verbally, is to do just that. And of course because they manifest verbally, they meet resistance and get punished, just like any Manifestor would, and nobody is there to really pay attention to them.
What happens is that not only do they struggle, and out of that struggle have the anxiety that goes along with that, but the real sad part about that is that their beauty that is their intelligence and their inherent gift is lostâitâs lost on deaf ears. You see the verbal gunslinger always has to wait for the opportunity to be initiated into conversation. It is their gift, that once initiated into conversation they have greater power than the ones who do the initiating. They are, after all, very powerful Throat beings.
One of the most common aspects is the verbal gunslinger as a Generator. And here you can really see the difficulty that arises. Instantaneously, itâs so simple for them to verbally set themselves up, to verbally try to manifest. âI can do that, I will do that, Iâll go there, blah, blah, blah.â And of course the frustration that they suffer from all of that. And how long it takes them to be able to wait to use their verbal power and their articulating skills to back up their response, to be the weapon, if you will, of their response, to be the carrier and armor for them from their response. So it is a difficult aspect and whenever you see that in dealing with your clients, be clear with them that thatâs an experiment thatâs going to be the most difficult for them to live out, and yet the experiment thatâs the most important for them.
When youâre dealing with a 43-23 that is a verbal gunslinger, nobody is ever going to know what the hell theyâre talking about if theyâre starting the conversationsânobody, nobody. Itâs the most bizarre babble-speak you can imagine. Nobody. Theyâre freaks, after all. The fact of the matter is that the moment you ask a 43-23, the moment you open up for them the opportunity to express their knowing as a response, as being recognized as a projected element, when theyâre invited to make their contribution, everybody pays attention, and everybody gets mutated.
I know so many people who can be so clear at the mental level and nobodyâs listening to them, nobody. This is really the saddest part, and the most bitter part of the verbal gunslingerâs life. The perversity of what it is to be a human is that the moment the verbal gunslinger doesnât have anybody listening to them because theyâre not entering into things correctly, they shout louder. Itâs like being an American in Paris. âWhereâs the bathroom?â You know?
Yeah, you figure that if you do it loud theyâll get it, because you donât know how to talk to them. See, you just get louder; the verbal gunslingers just get louder. They become screamers, and yellers. Theyâre the kind of people that everybody says, âThey shoot from the hip.â They donât shoot from the hip. They just bubble and vomit. And everybody says, âI donât know what that is. I donât know what theyâre talking about. I donât understand a word theyâre saying, doesnât make any sense to me.â
And you see, you can be brilliant, I mean brilliant. I know a lot of peopleâ particularly many people that Iâve met in my work in Europeâwhose whole lives crashed, who went down into deep, dark holes in life, to drugs and to all kinds of things, and really disappeared. Most of these people were verbal gunslingers. They gave up on themselves. They gave up on themselves and they gave up on others. âTheyâre too stupid to listen. They donât understand. Theyâre all ignorant. Theyâre dead. Theyâre not going anywhere.â
A German friend of mine, one day he was telling somebody a story and trying to turn them on to something, and they walked away, obviously not deeply impressed. Thereâs a great expression in German, itâs called âtoten hosenâ. Itâs âdead pants.â Canât get a hard-on out of that if your life depended on it; theyâre just dead. Itâs a great expression in German.
Thatâs what happens. Everybodyâs got toten hosen. Everybodyâs dead. Nobody pays attention. Nobodyâs being stimulated. Nobody understands. Nobody knows, and âIâm not going to tell them. Iâm just going to slowly die here inside with my paranoia.â So it is a difficult aspect in design.ïżŒ
Like all of these things that we look at, if we poke our fingers in any place in somebodyâs design, weâre always going to find dilemmas and things that have to be dealt with. And if we concentrate on this thing at the expense of that thing, or this or that, and thatâs what happens to people who come to design. They realize, âOh, Iâve got this kind of channel or this kind of gate,â and they get into that and they forget about that thereâs all these other things that are operating.
If youâre living out your Type, it homogenizes that whole process for you. It allows you to live each aspect that is within you correctly, and then you can move from one to the other, examining it in your process. But at the same time, youâre not going to leave your Type and the protection that it provides you in terms of your aura.
One of the great tasks for the verbal gunslinger is to take the experiment of recognizing that when their intelligence is called upon, their intelligence is always greater than what is expected of it, and thatâs deeply impressive. The freak that somebody actually asks, what comes out of that freak is so profound and deep in that moment that it can come out. Now, if they were trying to figure out what they were going to do themselves, it would all be a mess. And the same thing is true whether youâre going to try to organize people or stimulate them. Youâre only going to be able to do that by being able to live out your Type.
Now, obviously thatâs going to be different if the Throat is connected to a motor. If weâre going to have Manifestors and weâre going to have Generators, how all of that is going to actualize. But the fact of the matter is that the nature of the mind works at its best when you allow it to follow its Type as a guide. Then those things come out. And for the verbal gunslinger, itâs such an important gift to be able to manifest in language. I mean itâs a very important gift, this consistent manifestation in language. We need those gifts to be paid attention to.
Itâs essential for us to be able to grasp each of these streams that are operating at the mental level, so that the moment somebody who carries any of these definitions lives out their Type. The moment that the verbal gunslinger waits for their invitation, thatâs the moment that their real intelligence is going to be appreciated, and thatâs the moment the anxiety goes away. After all, itâs about being healthy. Itâs about getting rid of the anxiety. Imagine what itâs like to understand or know or to have made sense out of something, and nobody listens. Itâs horrible. Itâs horrible. And you put it out and you waste your breathâitâs horrible. And human beings are living with that all the time.
Thereâs no more pain than the pain thatâs racing around at the mental level, the anxiety level that humanity is operating at. And so much of that can be alleviated so easily by them simply recognizing how to honor their Type and get the respect for their intelligence that they deserve. Itâs one of those essential ingredients.
I was just thinking about schools and the way children are educated and trained and how all children are expected to be Manifestors in the classroom, as well. And how different we all are, and how different our digestive processes are, and how much mental anxiety is created in that situation.
Itâs an essential ingredient for us to see that mind is a beautiful thing and not meant to be a torment for us. Itâs meant to be a vehicle of our larger union. Itâs not meant to be occupied with all this mundane stuff. After all, itâs not tribal, itâs not about that. Itâs not about how you make a living and who you make love to and all of those things that make up the life of the bodyâit isnât about that. Itâs mostly just collective with the possibility of mutation coming in so that everything keeps evolving, but itâs about larger principles and larger issues.
We personalize our minds so much. We get very, very, very, very, very, very, serious about what we think; itâs such a joke. We have no idea of the value of our intelligence unless we bond with others. Itâs out of our bonding that our real intelligence is released. Out of understanding the mechanics of how we meet and how we bond together, you can see that there are rules in the game. If we play the mechanical rules, the verbal gunslingers will have their proper role. They will be the ones that are called upon to express those things. Theyâre the rightful expresser of those things. Theyâre intended for us to rely on them.
Where would we be without the 11.4 gate, the great teachers? We rely on them for everything from the mundane to the obscure. We cannot trust them when they are full of anxiety, and we donât listen to them when theyâre trying to tell us. Only when we begin to appreciate them, and you can only appreciate people through their design. Itâs like seeing how nice your formulas can be. In the moment you recognize their capacity, thatâs the moment you can invite them to show you how significant their contribution can be to understand how things should be organized, to recognize what truly is stimulating, to recognize truly what we need to learn, and to be able to have whatâs new explained to us. This is a marvelous capacity of mind, and so much of it is lost.
How many times verbal gunslingers come up to me and they start talking. They just come up to me and start talking. I truly do not listen to them. Sometimes I try to make an effort. It doesnât work. Itâs not that Iâm not interested in what they have to say; itâs not that I donât care about them. Itâs clear to me the moment they start with me that Iâm not really listening to them. I havenât asked for anything from them.
Now, of course, I get caught in my role as a teacher, so I end up in situations where by the very formula of being a teacher, I have people who come up to me, my students, Generators who come up to me and Projectors who come up to me. And of course, yeah, this is the whole thing about all of us recognizing the game.
Thereâs a part of me, and itâs unfortunate that Iâm not a humanitarian; one of you tribal huggie-wuggies will have to do this in the future. But if it were my nature I would have everybodyâs chart in front of me somewhere on a sheet of paper, and I would recognize the need that certain students would have to be dealt with just during the course of a program like this, because everybody goes through different things.
For me to take the time and go up to the Generators and say, âIs everything okay?â and âHow you doing?â and blah, blah, blah. And go up to the Projectors and invite them to make their comments, and see if the Reflectors arenât too disappointed in things, and of course that would be the best way of dealing with that mechanically.
The more we understand the rules, then the more we can set out the rules between each other. We are the ones that carry the torch of this knowledge. For us to be able to deal with each other here in these gatherings that weâve had, this is one of those real opportunities to play out the mechanics and to have the experiment with those that support it around you, and see how all that works.
But itâs essential to recognize that if youâre a verbal gunslinger, youâre not going to get the respect that you deserve. Itâs not about whether youâre right or wrong, okay? Itâs not about that. You see the gift isnât about coming up with right or wrong things to say, the gift is being able to say them at all. Please understand that.
Itâs essential for us to hear all of the opinions, and itâs essential for us to get as many of the ideas as possible. In other words, weâre open to all of that, and we need them. We need them for our very business of being a duality, of playing around with comparison, of being able to compare one to the other. This is how we codify our history, and this is how we substantiate our facts. But of course, itâs not about doing.
Whether something is a valid experience is something that youâre only going to know when you live it out, no matter how many people have had it before you and have written about it. And no matter what the theory says, and no matter what the opinion is, and no matter what the facts are, if you donât experiment with it yourself, you can never truly accept it absolutely. It takes the body, it takes the motors, it takes the real authority, it takes the nature of your Type to have things happen.
Disconnect from giving your mind authority. Watch the anxiety go away. Watch the medicine cabinet lose its Excedrins and Tylenols, because thatâs really what itâs all about: getting rid of that anxiety. And the other thing is that the benefit that it brings to your eyes, to your ability to see more clearly. You know, the clichĂ© we have about the nature of emotions blinding.â
-Ra Uru Hu