The deeper that I went on these dual tracks (Design & Personality Crystals), the more I began to understand something about what Human Design is predicated on. It's predicated on transformation of the form. No transformation of the form, no transformation of the consciousness. No transformation of the form, no potential for awareness. No transformation of the form, you can kiss concepts like enlightenment goodbye—because everything about what it is for us to be here begins with these vehicles.

They're the gift, after all. This is an incredible evolved mechanism—what it is capable of is absolutely astonishing. And when you think about the billions and billions of things that are going on in your body right now, billions of things going on, all this incredible activity and all of this stuff is coordinated, and we actually seem to be able to be here, solid, cute, looking at the world.

We have no idea how all this stuff works. We take it all for granted. We have been so ignorant about how profound this mechanism really is. That at its very worst, in the Not-Self in the homogenized world with all of these diseased bodies running around, it still manages somehow to continue to function. They're incredible vehicles.

The Brain

And this box up here, this thing, wow. All of this that we experience as existence is a byproduct of this box. I would love to be able to take each of your Personality Crystals and dump it in a fish, a nice fish, pretty if you like. But oh, boy, would you recognize something right away: “I don't want to be a fish!”.

We have this incredible mechanism. As a matter of fact, it's so incredible that we live in a hallucination. We live in this incredible hallucination that this is existence. And it's all a byproduct of the box. Now, if you mess up the box, you’ve got a problem. If I take two needles, and I stick them up your nostrils, and I go to about this point here, and I wiggle, you can be Buddha. It's called a frontal lobotomy. It's true. You sit all day, you don't care. No longer trapped in the form; free.

Intelligence

It's just a box, it's like intelligence. I have to admit something. I was given this knowledge, and it looks like you don't have to be a rocket scientist to transform your life. It looks like it's really straightforward, all you’ve got to do is try it. I've met a lot of intelligent people and I realize that the way in which we look at intelligence is directly related to the homogenized concept of what intelligence is—because people get to a point, and they can't go any further.

It doesn't matter how smart they are, and it doesn't matter that they seem to think that they grasp a concept. There's a ring-past-not that they just cannot go beyond, there is a limitation. And the limitation isn't in the software, it's in the hardware.

Take one of these incredible modern computer programs where you have to have 85,000 gigabytes just to put it in your computer, one of these programs. And give me a 1992 PC and let me put this program in that PC, and let's see what happens. Nothing; nothing happens. The PC says, “I surrender.”

We have this hardware, and as long as this hardware doesn't operate correctly, no matter how sophisticated our software is, the Personality Crystal, it doesn't make any difference. If you're going to change anything about existence, you change your body.

This is what PHS is about. Primary Health System is about understanding that this is not about health and the concept of somebody's sick and they go to a doctor. It's primary. It is there to set the foundation of well-being in your life; preventive health care, so to speak.

When you think about the form principle, you have to understand that there is no average. There is no “do it this way because Harry or Jane does it this way.” Every single one of us is unique. Every single one of us has a unique way to differentiate, a unique way in which our form is there to support our unique process.

Ra Uru Hu was the Human Design System’s founder and messenger. Ra dedicated 25 years of his life to the development and teaching of the System around the world until he passed away in 2011.