The Adventure of Seeking the Unknown
Genoa Bliven - The Adventure of Seeking the Unknown
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[Adventure is inconvenience, rightly considered. - Andrea's Uncle Stanley]
“All of what we say about Human Design is only an invitation for the person to explore their own priorities and the assumption that they're in the [LYD] class is because they're in the process of waking up, and they really feel strongly that there must be some way that their life works.
There's this intuitive sense that people have that, and it's based on experiences, I think that they've had that at certain points, they get into the zone where things begin to work, and they have this experience of things kind of falling into place for them. And they feel this way that the resistance lessens. They have this experience.
And then they take a certain turn of the road, or they get distracted from it in a certain way, and then they're kicked out of that zone, and they're suddenly in another place where things really aren't working very easily for them, and every move that they make seems to be increasing resistance.
And this is an important experience, and one that people remember so when they see something in the newspaper, or they go to a gathering or a health fair or something, and one says something like you have your own authority, or you have your own way of making decisions, it reminds them of this in the zone experience, and there, therefore, they come to the group, they come to the class, for this reason.
And it's true, people do have these experiences. It really is true. And I think it's pretty honest for us to say that Human Design seems to point in the direction of being able to get back into the zone more reliably, and yet, the person needs to find that themselves.
So we toss them certain information that interestingly brings them into connection with this. I think that much I think it's a reasonable thing to say this is a real experience, and yes, how that happens is kind of a mystery, but it does happen.
I think the whole thing is a mystery, actually. I think that's really my core point here is it’s a mystery.
We don't know where it came from. We don't know how it got here, the guy who told us about it, we don't know very much about him. He was incredibly good at remaining a mystery. He wanted Human Design to be a mystery.
Every time he interpreted it for other people, he was kind of going against this primary instinct that he had that if it remained a mystery, then other people would investigate it.
Every time you have an answer, it shuts you off from the mystery. The whole point of Human Design is that it asks you the right questions, and the right questions are the ones that only you can answer.
Is based on that kind of acceptance of the mystery, of accepting the unknown. People are so anxious to eliminate the unknown, and yet it's only through the unknown that we get to experience the energy and to find our way within the energy.
Yeah, I mean, and if we were to identify the primary results of what we call conditioning. I think it would be this that conditioning wants us, and therefore we [our Notself] want to eliminate the unknown from our lives, which is exactly the opposite of what gets us into the zone. It's a very different thing.
So on the one hand, you have the possibility of having an answer to every question, which is, what religion does - have a belief system that answers every question, and what experiment does, what science does is it acknowledges and accepts the unknown, realizes that we have very inadequate theories as to how, how things work, seeking, always, seeking the unknown above the theory.
And by doing that, we embark on a path that is incredibly exciting, very disturbing for our sense or our need for security, but is really an adventure, and I think that we need adventure more than we need security. Although if you observe people's behavior, you might doubt that.
I observe my own, you know.. There's this conflict. There's a tension.
You see … where are the priorities?
Is your priority, adventure? Is your priority to become the hero in your own story? Or is your priority to kind of melt into the woodwork and have a very safe and controlled life?
I think every LYD student really needs to ask themselves this question, because when you look at the Human Design map, you're actually looking at a distillation of probably the most significant occult information that has ever come become available to human beings.
If you want a comfortable life, you better just put it down and forget about it, because it's an invitation to a real adventure. You know, this is, you know, Bilbo Baggins, you know, sitting smoke, smoking his pipe in the Shire. And all of a sudden, you know, Gandalf shows up and puts a mark on his door. And the next thing you know, a bunch of dwarves show up, rolling his plates down the hall.
So every time we give or define these priorities, or we say you have this authority, or even that you have this strategy, and this strategy is a priority, it's very important to realize to not take these suppositions or not take these theories that we have about your design to be true, and we're so, I think, conditioned to take things that way.
We need to overturn that conditioning at the very outset.
And so when somebody comes to a class or to a reading, that usually, well, I've often said it, you know, one of the most amazing things about one of the most distinct things… One of the most amazing things about authority is how anxious people are to give it away.
And you assume that when a person is coming to a reading or coming to a class, they're at least very vulnerable to doing that. And I think that that needs to be spoken about immediately, immediately. I think that's the first thing to say.
Of course, I'm the teacher of this class. This puts me in a position of authority in a way you know this, this is a very vulnerable situation, and the reason why I'm teaching this course is exactly the opposite of that, to give this authority back as soon as possible. and give you a way of taking that authority back.”