And then we have the 43. Now, the 43 is odd. Here we have the right ear in the now and here we have the left ear over time, but we only have two ears, right? My joke about the 43 is that I like to call this the third ear. It’s my pun on the third eye, but like all good humor, it’s rooted in deep truths. In this context, technically, referring to it as the inner ear, because it’s not really an ear at all. And yet, the whole thing about being individual at the mental level is that it is incredibly acoustic. And it is incredibly acoustic on the inside, whatever that means.

It’s my joke about hearing the Voice. On the inside, I guess, this is one of the things about the acoustic nature of individuality, that there is this appearance of acoustic that takes place, these inner dialogues, these inner sounds, all of those things that are there. And the thing that is so exceptional about the 43 is that it is not attached to the acoustic domain of the mundane plane. In other words, it is not connected with the surface listening that is part of the 57 and the 22. This is listening to the inside, which isn’t necessarily connected at all to the outside. But it carries with it the deepest potential for mutation.

And because it carries the deepest potential for mutation, the great dilemma of the 43/23 is that rarely is it able to transfer that mutation. Rarely is it able to be able to explain it so that the collective doesn’t run into panic and try to deny all of that. Remember that the collective gets very upset when the world order is disturbed, it really does. And because we operate in a not-self world, nothing is more dangerous than mutative thought. And so many beings that carry a mutative inner hearing where they are in touch with something that they take in that is outside of the plane of Solomon’s domain, they’re going to have enormous difficulty putting it into the world.

I know, after all, I’m a 43/23 and I’ve spent 21 years of my life trying to explain mutation to the collective, and I see what it takes. And I see that it is not an easy task, because the world gets disturbed and the collective doesn’t like to be disturbed. What do you mean I have to sleep in my own bedroom? And it goes on and on and on. This is not the way things are supposed to be, according to the normal homogenized world, so I don’t want to hear it.

And it’s the other side of understanding something about individuality and its impact on the other—they don’t want to hear it. They don’t want to hear you. They don’t want to listen to you, because they’re protecting themselves from mutation. The husbands of women who discover Human Design, you get that visceral reaction—I don’t want to hear any of that, I don’t want to listen to any of that—fear, fear of mutation. In the beginning was the word, so to speak. This is really something to understand about the power of the acoustic. You know that from the power of my own voice, what it means to be transformed acoustically. It’s very different than if you were just reading what it is that I had said. It doesn’t carry the same power. It does not. This is a frequency and a very, very powerful frequency.

~ Ra Uru Hu