Human Design transmission by Zen Human Design

Human Design Transmission
Volume 33, number 1
January 18, 2026

Human Design transmission
 
 

- The New "Original"
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The New "Original"

Seven years ago, in January 2019, after a few years of calm, with me not being entirely sure of my HD direction and Zeno in sharp decline, I started to publish articles detailing what Human Design isn’t, namely the whole overlay added by Ra from early 1997 on. Seeing that apparently I was the only one left who actually even remembered original Human Design from before 1997 and has consistently explored and tested its premises ever since, I felt called to tell those with ears to hear in the cacophony of misinformation what Human Design has lost by succumbing to the Great Dumbing Down with the viral marketing concepts of “Type,” “Authority,” “Strategy” and “Profile,” thereby losing its integrity, sincerity and potential for awareness.

It's a shimmering mirage that has answers to everything, how to live, how to love, how to eat, how to sleep, how to be healthy, how to work, how to be successful, how to make decisions, how to educate your children, how to fulfill your destiny. It’s vaguely veiled in divine origins to hide the fact that it’s merely clever catering to a market, a market of people who are lost and desperate for answers. Beyond a few accidental nuggets, it’s all pretense, a giant construct held aloft be sheer propaganda, belief and mutual assurance. Yay! And there are seventy virgins awaiting you in heaven to screw you silly.

My repeated hints at the pre-’97 original, smothered by Ra’s pathology, did shake the fake Human Design “community” a little, but as expected, once you’ve invested in a mollifying belief, it’s hard to divest, even in the face of reality, and so the original quickly became subject of the un-original and became just as wrong-winded, arrogant, corrupted and lost, even if some of the right words are used. “Split definition manifesting generator, to wait,” anyone? The stink is overwhelming.

The reason is that nobody, with the exception of a handful of my students, bothers or dares to follow my sincerest advice that Jovianism has to be radically purged from your perception first, that the JOV-97 virus needs to be boiled out, including its breeding ground social media, before there’s hope that the original can even be seen. I know. I've been witnessing the engineering of the virus in the 1990s, its release in 1997, and its devastating effects on Human Design ever since. It’s like an alien parasite in a movie, a predator. It’s camouflaged, it’s tricky, it’s devious, it seduces. I’ve seen plenty of bright, intelligent people turn into zombies in its thrall. And of course, they don't realize that they're zombies. They think they are the real thing.

So, the raves now have a new toy to capitalize on. The “original.” Some are even offering “Zen Human Design,” without having ever talked to me. A couple of the established gurus have sent spies to try to parse what the original I’m talking about is. They think, like Ra, that Human Design is here to provide answers and they can’t wait to preempt the original hypothesis with meaning. To answer. To teach. To manipulate. They don’t understand the significance of the empirical, the art of living the question. There’s no space for awareness. No Zen.

Real Human Design doesn’t tell you how to behave. It tells you how you behave.

It’s a tool for awareness, the awareness of your self and how it gets pulled through this, your very life. You have lived your design your entire life, you never had a choice. Heaven or hell and everything in between, you are the expert. Your life experience and measure of awareness reveal what the body graph means, not the other way ‘round. You’re learning to ask the right questions instead of peddling or hankering for answers.

Zen can’t be nailed down and then passed on. It’s an individual process, dynamic, live, ongoing, a commitment, an attitude. The methodology can be taught, but not its results.

Of course, I didn’t expect my efforts of seven years to win over a lot of people. Even a cursory look at history and present will confirm that humanity always preferred ideology to reality, belief to knowledge, despite devastating consequences. But along the way, in some of the many sessions I had, I did encounter occasionally someone with the capacity to leave the Jovian trap behind and successfully commit to the experiment of examining their life experience in the light of the basic functions of the body graph. There are still few of these sincere students, but enough for me to perceive a certain density, a hint that there may be forming a group of real Friends of Zen Human Design. These are the people I want to focus on and work with them individually to help them disinfect themselves from JOV-97 and be free to enjoy the awareness that real Human Design can bring.

This prompts me to revise the legacy certification process I inherited from Zeno's and my common past. Book knowledge will no longer be enough. I want to see a dynamic growth process, solidly rooted in the basic functions and light years away from any Jovian fantasies, before I certify anyone’s understanding of Zen Human Design. Coming up!

If you want to participate in this movement, if the inkling that there’s truth solidifies, talk to me! It won't be easy and it won't be quick and, because it's about far more than mind games, it won't get approval on "social media," but the effort will be liberating.

Love
Chaitanyo

 

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"Human Design" Book Titles

I would never look for these myself, but since I buy my own books from Amazon for resale in my shop (where they are cheaper than on Amazon), Amazon’s algorithm can’t help itself but show me “alternatives” to what I bought and presents me with a flurry of new “Human Design” titles that have been emitted from the Jovian fog. I regret not having the ability to tell Amazon to filter out anything that pretends to be Human Design and it’s far from me to read any of these books, because the titles themselves are already nauseating and reveal that they are just more warts on the artificial face Human Design wears ever since Ra replaced truth and common sense with his presumptions and declared himself savior of the world. It’s all pretense, bluster, posture. Jovianism is simply 180 degrees wrong-winded.

Shayna Cornelius and Dana Stiles
Your Human Design: Discover your Unique Life Path and How to Navigate It with Purpose

If it is true that you are born with a unique design that is none of your choice, parents and siblings who are none of your choice, skin color, gender, native culture, planetary conditioning, a life span, none of your choice, with no honest idea what came before and what comes after, shouldn’t you just surrender to a purpose far larger than you can possibly grasp and certainly not manipulate, if there is even any such thing? Awareness kills the illusion that you are in charge. It’s a great relaxation.

Jenna Zoe
Human Design: The Revolutionary System That Shows You Who You Came Here to Be

There is no evidence that Human Design shows you “who you came here to be.” It is pure speculation, part of the show Ra, and then others, pulled up to boost egos, monetize the system and make it viral, promising to answer every life question anybody could ever have. That you have a graspable purpose is part of the poisonous concoction the JOV-97 virus spreads, guaranteed to lead you off center. Think about it: You are a temporary refraction of the totality, of eternity, of god. Can that refraction ever grasp totality? It’s as if one of my gut bacteria claims to know its purpose in the totality of who I am.

Erin Claire Jones
How Do You Choose: A Human Design Guide to what’s best for you at work, in love and in life

People who are afraid of making mistakes clamor for the power to choose. It’s an illusion, a fantasy in a doll house. In real life you don’t choose what you’re good at, you discover. You don’t choose love, you fall in. And you certainly don’t choose life. You were conceived, born, raised without your consent, and you will die when the time is up, regardless of your preference. The only “choice” you ever have is awareness.

Even Ra knew better, although in his delirious attemps to appropriate meaning for his "synthesis" he confused awareness with perception: His “No Choice,” modeled after a “Stop” traffic sign, was everywhere on his early presentations and publications. It faded when he realized that having no choice isn’t exactly a viral accelerant for his show.

Lara Jo
Human Re-Design

There is no need to re-design Design. The need is to eliminate the Jovian overlays and understand the original attempt at its presentation. It’s all there when you clear the fog and read between the lines superimposed by the messenger. But of course, to be able to read between the lines, you have to understand the messenger's pathology and to understand his pathology, you need to be able to read the body graph. Start by questioning the glorious channel names he gave his own definitions, present already in his "Black Book": The Brainwave, Perfected Form, Awakening, Initiation, Genius - what a guy! ... but none of them is congruent with the mechanics of the body graph! If you don't understand the mechanics of the body graph: Talk to me.

No Choice! by Ra Uru Hu, 1993 . Zen Human Design
Santa Fe, December 10, 1993

 

Real Human Design doesn’t tell you how to behave. It tells you how you behave.

 

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If it's artificial, it's not intelligence.
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