Reflection of the week
This week I would like to share some reflections on the 13th gate in the G center. The 13 gate will be present in the neutrino weather of this coming week. It is also Bob Marley’s incarnation sun; in the subscription part of this newsletter, we’re having a closer look at his design.
The 13th gate imbues our individuality, our Higher Self, with its openness in interaction. It is referred to as the Gate of “The Listener”. True listening requires forgetting ourselves and involves our whole being. It is not just an acoustic endeavor. When we are too self-conscious, or preoccupied with our own thoughts, we hinder our ability to truly listen.
As the hexagram points out, listening is a life-long process. It requires us to be empathic, aware that mistakes are part of life. In listening, we must also learn not to lose ourselves in the other but ‘be there’ in a way that is practical, trusting that listening reinforces our interconnectedness.
The heading talks about “universal ideas and values inspiring human cooperation.” The work of Yuval Harari allowed me to understand this as the “web of meaning” into which we are all born. In a nutshell, it represents the framework of conditioning we inherit from our ancestors, the past into which we are born. It should also be noted that humanity struggles considerably with conceiving of itself as one family, so the “human cooperation” the heading talks about is still a shallow reality.
What happens when we approach the 13th gate with the mind…
Our unique life spark is an expression of Love in Movement. In the G Centre, the mind identifies with concepts of self and gets entangled in representations of love and yearnings for direction.
Here the mind fixes what the heading refers to as “universal ideas and values in an ordered framework.” The mind confines and conditions the openness of our Being in interaction with others. It measures it against a framework of specific ideas and values, not universal ones. It puts in place and holds onto specific “webs of meaning” that restrict our capacity to truly listen. Listening requires a non-judgmental stance and that can only be offered through being a witness, a choiceless consciousness, not through the mind. When the Sensing Circuit is approached through the mind, history repeats and the evolution of consciousness stagnates.
If we do not want to stay stuck in repeating the past, we are invited to witness our attachments in the present and break free from social, cultural and personal conditionings. That is when the doors to human cooperation open.
What happens when awareness enters…
Listening is about awareness and brings us in touch with our individuality, our uniqueness.
The hexagram points to the inspiration of humanistic cooperation thanks to the ordering of universal ideas and values in a framework. Human Design is such an ordering and framework because it orders our individual potential and inspires our door to awareness.
Here are some words of Osho that remind us of the wonder of listening:
“The object is irrelevant. Only the subjectivity is relevant. Whether listening to me, or listening to a flute player, or listening to the birds in the morning, or sitting by the side of a waterfall and listening to it, the same experience can happen. It happens not from what you listen to, it happens because you listen. Just listening gives you a total silence; in deep listening, you disappear. The whole art is how to listen.”
(Osho, Come Follow to you, Vol 3, Ch10, Q2)
The neutrino weather
This week’s neutrino weather carries a potential for false propaganda being upheld in order to accentuate an individual stance based on the aggrandizement of the ego while immature as far as the universal ideas and values that can bind us together as a species. While we can see the program taking shape and form around us, we can also sail neutrino oceans with awareness.
Some Reflections on Bob Marley’s Design
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