The first thing to understand about Family Penta is that it is not about the members of the family as individuals.
Family Penta is a conditioner that Ra identified as a trans-auric phenomena that the mind used to push its agenda of survival. It is the primary conditioning influence on every individual that manifests when there are three or more people involved. So recognize this conditioning influence – trans-auric – as not personal; as it is not the people themselves, it is the combination of people that matters.
The dilemma of family penta is that it is not a one to one connection. It is a group dynamic that has its own agenda and conditioning. Family penta is not looking at the individuals, not looking at how one relates to another – the family penta structure is something very different. Penta is a living thing, but it is not us. The penta is a trans-auric form that has a grip on us that is so vast and so deep, that we never escape the penta impact. We are born, live, and work in penta groups.
Parents carry a mental dilemma: how do I provide a healthy family for my child’s development? Often this idea of a healthy family is based upon their own experience, which was seldom healthy or functional programming, i.e., functional Penta. The reaction against their own birth family, the mental story of their ideal family all play into creating a heady mixture of pressure and impossible expectations. So Penta becomes a tool in recognizing and dealing with the conditioning. Remember, the conditioning is not the personal conditioning of our openness – it is more like The Program in the way it influences the family members – as it only deals with specific aspects of the family members and their designs. These are the material aspects, direction of the members, and how they are influenced.
How do we reconcile the experience of living in penta groups and our individual life? When we see and we understand the roles built into the family penta structure, and begin to deconstruct our own family penta dynamics, we have the opportunity to see what is there and what is not there. We can begin to recognize that the goal of the family penta is never personal, no matter how personal it can feel to us as parents, or from our past as children. And, we can learn how the penta draws us into its repetitive roles that have little to do with our individual correctness and Inner Authority. In this way, through our individual awareness we can begin to recognize the pull of family penta when we are actively engaged within it.
Family Practice utilizes the Penta to help families understand that the conditioning is not personal – that the only way to deal with the conditioning is to remain true to one’s self. Understand that if you accept the programming as real – then you become a tool of the conditioning. In Family Practice, we develop the tools needed to work with the family as a whole, and the experience to work as our unique selves.
Dharmen and Leela are Human Design Teachers, and have offered classes in the IHDS since 2008. They can be reached at: www.secretofbeingyou.com
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