Then at the bottom are nine terms describing this person. From these numbers, a chart is returned with dozens of apparently random numbers: thirteen each in two columns marked with astrology-style symbols, and the rest scatted over the silhouette of a human body overlaid with a diagram of squares and triangles interconnected with all kinds of lines. I invented a fictional person and played with all the variables to create lots of such charts, and found that only the birth date and time and time zone make any difference. You input your name, birth date and time (to the nearest one minute), and time zone of your birth. The fundamental of Human Design is a chart called the Rave BodyGraph, which you can create for yourself for the cost of an email address to receive the chart. And there's certainly nothing anywhere to be found within Human Design that indicates an adept would be able to pass a first year college quiz on quantum mechanics. Although Krakower's Human Design books and materials are filled with symbols and fonts and art that are reminiscent of the eastern systems, and his writings include abridgments of many of their basic tenets, I found no connection between his numerology and any of the many others out there. In a spot-on example of this, Krakower (publishing and selling as Ra Uru Hu) stated that his Human Design system is a combination of the I Ching, chakras, astrology, Kabbalah, and of course, quantum physics - added later after Deepak Chopra made misuse of the term a cornerstone of the New Age industry. Western esotericism, by that time thoroughly rebranded as the New Age movement, is a counterculture trend that commercializes a rejection of rationalism and science in favor of abbreviated, caricatured versions of various ancient eastern mysticism traditions.
This may have been an effort to lend his writing credibility among its potential customer base after all, the modern western esotericism movement had been sweeping the United States for more than 20 years, as it continues to today. Krakower began writing self-published books describing his method, inexplicably using the pseudonym Ra Uru Hu. (If this isn't a compelling foundation for a method of life guidance, I don't know what is.) He described his trip as a visitation by a high intelligence that he called The Voice, who spent that week imparting to him all of the knowledge that constitutes Human Design. Krakower described a trip that lasted eight days and nights, while in a room with his dog Barley Baker on the island of Ibiza. In a nutshell, Human Design is yet another of the countless versions of numerology, this one invented in 1987 by Canadian Alan Krakower, a psychedelic enthusiast, while he was in Spain. Human Design borrows from just about anything and everything in the New Age movement that's trendy and that sells well and the result is a blueprint for living that's guaranteed to spread like wildfire through fashionable suburban populations. At least, that's a promise of Human Design - part horoscope, part fortune cookie, and part yoga. Today we're going to seek out guidance in the form of a blueprint we can follow to tell us everything we need to know about ourselves to live our best lives.