The Mystical Way...

“When you look at this mystical way, what you see is that once you get beyond the bridge everything becomes individual. And this leads us to the theme of mutation and magic.

When you look at a Human Design BodyGraph, there is nothing more common than the potential of individuality. There are three individual circuits: integration, the individual circuit, and the centering circuit.

Individuality as circuitry touches every single center in the system. It’s connected to all of the awarenesses. Individuality is the bedrock upon which the BodyGraph is built.

Individuality carries with it a very specific chemistry. It is the chemistry of mutation. So when you go to the format energy of the individual process, you go to the 3/60 between the Root and the Sacral Center and you get to the channel of Mutation, the very heart and soul of what the creative process is about. The creative process is about the sensitivity to non-homogenized frequencies. In other words, it is a built-in sensitivity to what is not part of the common plane.

What makes individuality so difficult is that it does not conform to the standards that have been established the moment mutation is evident, because mutation creates distinct difference.

More than that, mutation is a very complex process because in order for it to be viable in a human, the way that it operates is that it can only operate chemically. And when we are looking at the individual of any kind, any individual activation, what we’re looking at is a chemistry that is mutative. It doesn’t mean it’s mutating all the time. And it’s also something to understand about all aspects of individuality, that it represents two concepts: planing, this is the way in which the individual emotional wave works, the individual emotional wave planes; it floats along in a very narrow band with the potential of being able to peak either upwards into giddiness or downwards into depression. So one thing to understand about the chemistry is that it brings a kind of ‘evening out’.

The other thing that the chemistry brings is uncertainty. Without mutation there is no knowing. And all individuality, no matter where you find it in the BodyGraph, is related to knowing. It’s all about the knowing process, as anything in the logic system or anything in the abstract system is about logic or abstract. That knowing is there as a potential all over the body, and it’s a potential to know what’s new. It is that potential to mutate.

So there is this uncertainty because there is this planing. And while you’re planing there is nothing new, nothing at all; only the potential that it may be there. And then there are these moments in which that frequency shifts, it peaks one way or another. And as a chemistry that can be recognized in another human being as moods.

Individuality by its very nature is moody. It’s moody because this is the actual quality of the chemistry. And the moodiness is there in the plane, no matter what. The moodiness is in the uncertainty, no matter what. But in those moments of peaking, the moods shift. Again, they can shift upwards or they can shift downwards.

It’s a fascinating thing about individual moodiness. The best way to describe the chemistry is to describe it as melancholy, or sadness. It is something that every creative person truly understands that sadness, or at least the aura of sadness, that quality of sadness, that all individuality recognises that sadness is a call to the creative process. If there is no creative process to be called to, then it’s a fall into the embrace of the chemistry as depression. And melancholy as depression, if it becomes the plane itself, is something that can last a whole lifetime.

Yet, everything about individuality is that it is this very potential for mutation that provides us with the potential to stay alive and continue to flourish as a species. In other words, it is the way in which we avoid stasis and destruction, the way in which we keep on moving forward. And of course, physically there is a whole history of mutation in humanity that is part of what we call our larger evolutionary process. And there have been extraordinary mutations all along the line, beginning with standing erect and the development of the neo-cortex, the dropping of the larynx, and endless numbers of mutations that have taken place along the way, that have opened up the potential of our quality of self-reflected consciousness.

But there’s something else: creativity is truly receptivity. This is one of the great ironies. I am so aware of that as a writer of music.

Or, if I would phrase that correctly, I’m aware of that as somebody who is written by music because it does not originate in me.

It is simply something that moves through and filters out that way, and I can be very romantic and call it the muse. But the reality is that it’s a particular serendipity at a particular moment, when certain information moving through at that moment becomes music. It has nothing to do with creativity in the way in which it’s used in the common domain: that is a creative person because they are acting out creativity. It is in fact an incredible receptivity.

When I look at art, for example, for me the great artist is the most receptive, this special gift of being able to filter the muse. This is what we all are as agents. We are agents, endowed with our crystals of consciousness filtering the neutrino stream. And through the aspect within the matrix that we call individuality is the possibility to filter the neutrino stream, so that it comes out either as a creative act or as a mystical experience.”