Richard Rudd has been a popular and lucid author on Human Design, and he recently left the constraints he felt with Ra's ideology to form his own. I like Richard, he greatly supported and encouraged me, a very kind person.

Ra says somewhere that there is nothing at all that could prevent the toxic intrusions of other auras into your undefined centres. Well I am among those who hope there might be something, so I am curious, but I also remember that Ra is emphatic in saying there is no possible protection to the undefined aura ... except forming pentas I think.

So there is one obvious way to outwit this - to have someone or some being near you, who so powerfully fills your aura with goodness, no other toxin can get in? Maybe? Portable plants and insects and small animals come to mind...

Can a crystal define a centre - and so block other input the same way a living being can? I don't think so. No Personality Crystal. Inanimate objects only have a design crystal. Then again clusters of PCs might lurk, and ... then again there is Baraka.

Now Baraka - that is another subject and Ra says that works by neutrinos reactivating the experiences stored in objects - the first example I heard him describe was that awful jail in Iraq where the americans re-enacted the same nastiness as took place in those walls before - the buildings stored the behaviour and replayed them in new people. That is Baraka. If Ra is correct then brothels and gay saunas and lover's lanes must evoke erotic feelings stored in the walls. And so on.

Crystals probably have some focussed Baraka storage ability and might be charged up psychically, possibly by intention by experienced wizards or specialised shaman? Or by accident? Does this baraka involve free flowing PCs - or do we presume that DCs influence PCs and consciousness - I feel dizzy thinking about this.

Oh my 63 is blurting away today.

Switching to my own personal experience Once in a Shamanix seminar both my wife and I and everyone in the room had incredibly accurate psychometrics from stones (pebbles) loaded with very very particular specific feelings for one week by other participants. Astounding and irrefutable empirical evidence, and easily replicated as a science experiment that silly "scientists" would never dare to try, it does not fit Cartesian wimpiness. My thoughts reeled as I touched that stone - messages seemed to be channeling through me to say, please, please, let common stones and pebbles soak away our human troubles and cleanse away all our upsetness - the idea flowed through me that they truly want vicarious conscious experiences however grotty. From this strange group empirical demonstration, and my personal hallucinations, I presume since then that silicon is somehow ... seeking consciousness? I mean, just look at the intrusions of silicon into our lives and particularly our data and communications - silicon microchips and computers and telecommunications and the internet storing all our flow of ideas. Glass windows and spectacles, drinking and eating vessels of clay, the bricks and stone and cement of our houses, rubber here and there, silicone implants ... We stare at silicon TV screens for hours, what we see often passes through glass windows and spectacles, we check our reflections in mirrors of silicon glass and silicon is after all the most common solid element on the earth's crust.

Which reminds me, Ra has said that ultimately, when we evolve and evolve from these carbon based bodies, eventually we will move to silicon based bodies. Silicon and carbon both have just 4 electrons in the outer atom "shell", they are specially placed in the atomic table you know. So I feel silicon is already tuning up to be a vehicle of consciousness.

so finally, my intuition, consistent someewhat with my logic and experience, and this is not HD at all, is that we can dump or download our toxins by intention or will into stones or crystals. And so whilst they do not actually protect us, crystals and pebbles for that matter, even glass, silicon forms are so thirsty to draw close to consciousness, perhaps they might cleanse us of the toxins faster than thin air.

Well I do not really care if that is true or a guess, my mind is not for me, I need to dance more...

Thanks for the stimulation to blurt...

nanka - I am glad you are wise to your need to be in the right company, or just be alone with some good music and find your zone, that sounds healthy for you.

You said "Also, I am very good at "reading", not analysing but feeling them which can get in the way. They either feel totally at ease and like I appreciate them for who they really are or they tend to become controlling... which I can tell as well. "

I find that I am the other way around. I am good at sensing exactly where someone is at and immediately analysing the situation that puts me in. It is then my decision how that interaction will go. I have the power to reflect (my waking state), or connect. It is only through life's experience that I can do this...trial and error..a back catalogue of disasters..inner self awareness. HD just provides another set of names for things we already knew about ourselves, but the logic of it is very appealing and easy to understand. We both have good intuition from our open centres.

This magnifying thing is so funny. Sometimes when I am in a bar out with my friends I can become the loudest person, and generally I am calm and I don't need to SHOUT! But so many of them have defined solar plexus and open throats that I just can't get a word in edgeways when they start!lol

I also write, and so I'd love to hear your poems/lyrics - maybe you should post them on the forum?

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Now this is quite an interesting topic, I was just thinking about it the other day. I am also very sensitive to colour, smell and music. I feel the need to surround myself with an environment that pleases me in all these areas. If you took me to a rock club that was very loud, with everyone dressed in black and smelling bad I would last less than 5 minutes before you would have to carry me out in bits!

I think we all possess the ability to feel the vibrations of gems and colours, but you feel it naturally and strong, so it's a skill that you can use - I wish I was better at it.

Yes, I know those people you mention who have very strong energy. I can recognise this immediately, even before I knew about HD. I can tell if it is good for me, or if they will consume me. I live by the mandate of never getting too close to people who are mad, bad or sad...and that strength of energy that comes from some people usually means that they are one of those things. I can feel if they have control (or awareness) over their actions and energies or not. Mostly they do not, so I cannot expose myself to their aura for long without losing myself.
Don't get me wrong, I am not a weak person - but my head sometimes fools my body into thinking that because I am magnifying all these emotions through my open centres - I become bigger than them, bigger ego, bigger 'not-self'. It used to be almost dangerous for me and unhealthy.

Anyway, I feel a lot better nowadays!

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Although I am no expert on HD by any stretch of the imagination, it was such a revelation to discover all my white centres (only head, ajna and throat defined) and make the connection to all the emotional drama's that have unfolded through my life and what I felt as my innability to deal with my own emotions, when in actual fact they were not my emotions at all!
I wish I had know about HD at the time, but I did know astrology and the power of crystals. I have crystals everywhere, but I don't know how they protect my white centres, but as centres are connected to chakra's I don't see there is much difference. Crystals are used to clear energies from chakra's or strengthen them, so I reckon that it is all good.

For me, time alone is the best therepy for keeping my white centres healthy. Even when I am with lots of people I am learning that I am able to deal with the onslaught of energies by simply acknowledging that it is happening and that I can experience it without taking it home. This has perhaps been the most valuable benefit I have taken from HD.

ciao for now
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