Outer authority is an extraordinary thing. It is what the separation of the Ajna and the head ultimately are all about. So that they don’t have to be down here in the business of what it is to run a life, to stay secure, to stay healthy, to be in the right place, to know your direction, to find your rhythm, to have the behavior, all of the keynotes that are in here, all the things about what’s necessary in order to exist as an identity on this plane, separate, cut off and resistant. I don’t want to be that; I want to be something else—that’s the mind. I wouldn’t do that. What makes you think I have to do that? I can do anything that I like. That’s the mind, cut off, resistant.

The moment that you enter into this process of living out your Strategy and Authority, what you’re beginning to do is you’re beginning to bring your mental system, that is, your passenger, to a place of recognition, a place of recognition that they are not needed for these basic functions on the mundane plane. That they are not needed for these decision making processes of navigation on the mundane plane. And if they’re not needed for that, there must be something for them.

We do not know what it is to have a liberated mind. And what I mean by liberated mind is a mind that is freed from its mundane concerns, a mind that is not caught up with “I have to figure out what I need to do.” This is not what mind is about. And the moment that you really see the circuit board you see it.

It’s totally disconnected from the life itself. It’s a floating observer, floating above all of it and in its folly as not-self pretending that it actually knows what the hell is going on. And of course, we well know, any basic understanding of Human Design will tell you that the not-self—you look at those open centers or the missing bridges or whatever the case may be, and that not-self creates the priorities for that mind, distorts it, strips it of its cognitive potential, totally turns around what is its motivation and leaves the being lost.

The fact that the homogenized world is all made up of these lost beings, they’re all lost together. They don’t think they’re lost at all in most cases. You have to be quite sensitive to actually get to a point of understanding that something’s wrong. And yet, the most important thing to understand about this resistance is that if you see it mechanically you also understand something else. This resistance is very, very important.

It’s not meant to be a resistance that gives the mind an opportunity to dominate the form. It’s a resistance that’s meant to point the mind away from the form and point it out through the trajectory and the view that it has, pointed out at the world that it’s intended to experience so that the passenger consciousness can experience that uniquely and offer that as awareness, that perhaps it is inspiring for the other, perhaps it is interesting for the other. And this is a mind that can only operate at this level when it does not have an agenda. Again, you see it in the mechanics and you see right away mind is not meant to be involved in the day-to-day operation of the vehicle. It is not. It really is a passenger.

~ Ra Uru Hu