Now very few 8-1s ever hear their own voice.  You see, we live in our mind trip.  Everybody’s in the mind trip.  On this recent tour, I did use many different teaching techniques than I usually do, and I did an introduction that was entirely informal.  It had nothing to do with teaching people about how Human Design works.  I just wanted to shock them because that’s my nature.

I started off by asking them if anybody knows where their voice comes from and of course they don’t.  They have no idea where their voice comes from.  The assumption is it’s the mind that does all that.  That’s the assumption.  You ask the average human being, the average 6 billion out there, where their voice comes from and they’ll tell you it comes from their mind, and then they feel very uncomfortable because, of course, it’s not true.  It’s just not true.  Yes, some people have a voice like me that comes from the mind, but it’s not true for everyone.  It’s a matter of your design.

So here when you’re dealing with the definition, when you’re dealing with the 8-1, you’re dealing with a channel that speaks out of the identity.  It speaks out of the identity.     Now in order for somebody to hear that voice, they have to stop trying to get their mind to speak.  And everybody is busy trying to get their mind to speak—everybody is busy trying to get their mind to speak.  They’re always writing scripts, they’re always having phantom conversations in their head, they’re always preparing.  They’re always trying to get it out the way they think they should get it out.

And then when their time comes, they babble and burble and none of it comes out the way they want and then they’re really upset and they think they have a problem with their mind.  And their mind didn’t know anything about it in the first place because it wasn’t supposed to be there.  It comes out of their identity, in this case.

~ Ra Uru Hu