“When Projectors stop hunting for the sweet, they will find themselves.” - Ra
James Toon Jr shared:
“And another from Koen Hillewaert Quote of the day.”
Funny screenshot that relates to the lack of quotations habit I was grumping about the other day in the comments 🙃
And now this from Ra -
“As I have mentioned so many times in recent years, when I was introducing Human Design, being a 5 th line being, I always felt this guilt about the impact that my introductory lectures would have on Projectors.
Because my introductory lectures were all about understanding that you can operate out of your strategy, when in fact only for energy types is that something that can be immediate anyway.
And that the whole process is different.
The whole process of what it means to be a Projector and to deal with the auras of others, which is an absolute essential in their lives.
And how, in fact, they are designed to be conditioned without paying attention to it.
It’s one of their gifts.
I’ve always been astonished how Projectors do not recognize how deeply they have been conditioned.
It is not that they have a greater problem in removing the conditioning than a Generator, as an example, because for the Generator it is part of who they are - to recognize who they are not.
And for the Projector, who they’re not is the key to who the OTHER is [emphasis added].
They [projectors] have a very different approach to what conditioning is.
You would think if you just looked at the cold mechanics of Design and you had no deep background in it, you would look at the Projector and you would say, “These beings are going to be the most conditioned beings,” aside from the obvious of thinking that would be a Reflector.
These beings are going to be deeply conditioned because they don’t have access to generating or they don’t have access to manifesting, and so forth and so on.
You would think they would all be lost souls.
Well, they’re not.
They’re not because the conditioning does not have the same impact.
It doesn’t because of the way in which their aura focuses outward.
And in that sense repels so much of the force of the conditioning.
Like Manifestors, Projectors have a quality to them that doesn’t allow anyone else in while they’re trying to get deep inside of the other; because that’s the way they’re designed.
[Hmm, this feels worthy of further contemplation/ discussion - speaks, I think m, to the importance of the circumstances by which we find ourselves ‘deep inside’ the other. Strategy strategy strategy!]
We’re here [I assumed he was speaking to a room of student HD analysts] to look at the mental condition, the mental mechanics of the being.
In looking at the mental mechanics of any Projector, [what we get] to understand [is] that their not-self is rooted in something very fundamental and basic.
It’s rooted in the not-self thematic of their type; in other words, bitterness. And bitterness is a heavy trip. It just is.
When you think about the way in which the mind is going to make decisions based on bitterness, it is very different than the way the mind makes decisions based on frustration [frustration is the Generator Notself signature].
It’s very different.
There is an edge to the [bitterness based] decision making, an edge to it.
It’s not always a pleasant edge, either.
The not-self [Projector], ruled by bitterness …
> that it’s been overlooked,
> that it’s been unappreciated,.
This is always there at the back of the [bitter Notself projector] mind.
And it’s [the Notself projector Mind] is going to take advantage of anything that is there in the not-self [themes] to reinforce that.
In other words, decisions that are being made to turn the bitter into sweet; it’s the mind that’s making those decisions.
So, you end up with a not-self Projector, you end up with a being that’s always looking for the sweet, always. Always.
And always looking for the sweet leads to all kinds of addictions—drug addictions, alcohol addictions, sex addictions, you name it—all kinds of things, to find the sweet. They’re always looking for that sweet.
When they don’t get the sweet, because it’s all relative, and for the not-self it is never, never, never satisfying, they can’t be, because there is no sweet for the bitter Projector until they are correct.
It’s just not there.
And the illusions of sweet are delusions in their lives.
I would rather deal with a morose Projector than deal with one that’s caught in the illusion of sweetness, because it’s an illusion.
When Projectors stop hunting for the sweet, [it’s then that] they will find themselves.
It’s the great trap of the not-self Projector.
It is the thing that nails the not-self Projector to the wall.
And it means that everything that they do in this life, every relationship they have, every career, direction, you name it, all of it is looking for that one thing, to get away from the bitter, to get the sweet reward.
And it’s the mind that’s making those decisions, and it’s the mind making those decisions based on whatever the not-self happens to be, whatever its framework happens to be.
So, the first thing to keep in mind is this whole looking for the escape from bitterness.
And every Projector, every Projector deep within them, this is the deepest theme of their not-self mind.
“I have to escape bitterness. I have to find the sweet.”
~Ra Uru Hu
Photo credit - presumed to be Koen