Circuits

KEYNOTE: EMPOWERMENT

Individual Circuit Group

CHANNELS:

61 - 24 AWARENESS A thinker

22 - 12 OPENNESS A social being

43 - 23 STRUCTURING Individuality

60 - 3 MUTATION Energy which initiates and fluctuates, Pulse

38 - 28 STRUGGLE Stubbornness

14 - 2 BEAT The keeper of keys

57 - 20 THE BRAIN WAVE Penetrating awareness

1-8 INSPIRATION The creative role model

39 - 55 EMOTING Moodiness

The role of those with definition in the Knowing Circuit is to be empowered to live as themselves. They empower others by being an individual example of uniqueness. Their way of re-ordering life, reflected in their lifestyle, requires an audience as this is how they bring mutation into the world. They need to be observed and to be recognized for their uniqueness.

As the name of the circuit implies, it is the inspired and intuitive knowing of each moment, in combination with the passionate or melancholic moodiness of the emotional wave, that forms or shapes the mutative impact the Individual's thoughts and behavior have on the rest of us. This combination is what makes the Individual's unpredictable, creative and unique moment by moment knowing empowering. Individuality is not about perfecting, mastering or organizing something. That is the Collective's contribution. Individuality is about birthing something totally new with the potential to transform both the Individual and the world around him.

The nature ofIndividual knowing is that it comes and goes; it's there and it's not there. Individuals don't know until they know. This knowing might be the answer, the right direction, or it might not. For Individual mutation to take hold universally, its value and validity must be tested over time. The power to mutate, which is common to all channels and gates in the Individual Group Circuit, is dependent on the on/off timing of this sudden knowing. Mutation operates in a pulse that cannot be controlled or anticipated. The fixed timing ofthe conservative Collective Circuit, and the hierarchical nature of the Tribal Circuit, keeps those circuit groups from engaging the inspiration or mutation of the moment on their own. Both groups are obliged to look to the Individual as a guiding force for change and transformation, helping them to avoid stasis and promoting their evolutionary progress. This energy of the new, however, leads the Collective and the Tribe to place Individual knowing under careful scrutiny, and leaves it open to criticism, which is why it is essential for all Individuals to be able to explain themselves.

Individuals are often admired for their difference and envied for the attention they receive. Their path is a vulnerable, truly personal, and sometimes lonely one however, and Individuals may never know that they have empowered someone else.

KEYNOTE: EMPOWERMENT

Individual Circuit Group

CHANNELS:

34 - 10 EXPLORATION Following one's convictions

51 - 25 INITIATION Needing to befirst

The Centering Circuit is one oftwo smaller but important minor circuits in the BodyGraph. Channel 34-10 transforms the way in which one lives in the world while the other side, Channel 51-25, transforms the way in which one takes advantage of the world we live in. The Centering Circuit is centered on the G Center and the identity and direction of the self It is focused on empowering people to love themselves, and to follow their own unique path in life by living according to their Sacral's response. Simply by doing what is correct for them, these beings inspire and empower others to be themselves.

People who are healthy and authentic on the inside are able to inspire the world around them to be healthy. Only the centered, integrated self, through its living example, has the power to bring mutation to the Collective and the Tribe. Without ongoing mutation there can be no evolution on any level. Those with definition in the Centering Circuit who are not able to be a force for healthy change in others' behavior will often become melancholic and lonely. If, however, they let their Strategy firmly align and ground them within their unique design, they can be a profound and empowering example ofselflove and the fully-individuated, authentic life.

You will notice that there are no awareness centers present in this circuit, nor the Head, Throat or Root Centers. This circuit is completely about being centered as a response to life.

SUPER KEYNOTE: SELF-EMPOWERMENT

CHANNELS

34-57 POWER An archetype

57-10 PERFECTED FORM Survival

10-20 AWAKENING Commitment to higherprinciples

34-20 CHARISMA Where awareness must become deed

The Integration Channel stands on its own alongside the three main circuit groups in the infrastructure of the BodyGraph; it is the most complex system of all the channels. This group of four channels, which forms a backbone-like structure in the BodyGraph, serves as the key defense mechanism ofthe form. Integration is the core component ofthe individuation process, the process ofdistinguishing ourselffrom others. Without it, we could not have differentiated from our primate ancestors. The Integration Channel fuels the evolutionary process of humanity person by person, and contains the full, active expression ofthe life force ofthe form.

With a super keynote of'self-empowerment,' the Integration Channel is focused entirely on selfpreservation and empowering the individual nature, expression, knowing, direction/identity and behavior ofthe self The survival ofthe Individual, and the drive to be unique, is essential to ensuring the survival ofthe Tribe and the Collective through mutation.

The natural primal reflexes built into Integration assure us that we can trust the life that lies within us when it is empowered by response (Gate 34), guided by intuition (Gate 57), directed by the correct behavior (Gate 10) and manifested in the now (Gate 20). When expressed as a unit, using Integration's keynotes by channel, it says, "I love myself and I empower myself by listening to my intuition in the now." Or, "Through response I am intuitively equipped with the right behavior to survive any circumstance in the now." Those with definition in the Integration Channel are concerned with self-empowerment, and express themselves with a notable self-sufficiency and self-assuredness that neither looks to nor easily accepts direction from others. They should be allowed and encouraged to be self-sufficient.

KEYNOTE: SHARING

Collective Circuit Group

CHANNELS:

63 - 4 LOGIC Mental ease mixed with doubt

17 - 62 ACCEPTANCE An organizational being

58 - 18 JUDGMENT Insatiability

48 - 16 THE WAVELENGTH Talent

52 - 9 CONCENTRATION Determination

5 - 15 RHYTHM Being in theflow

7 - 31 THE ALPHA For ''good'' or "bad", a design of leadership

The Understanding Circuit's theme is logic, a cool-headed but seductive intelligence rooted in the recognition of patterns through concentration on the details. It analyzes processes or formulas, and challenges what isn't working. This logic allows one to predict, with a certain reliability, what can be expected in the future from this or that course of action.

Understanding takes place over time. It requires financial support, disciplined repetition, and the development of techniques or skills in order to refine and concretize a pattern, or to master and perfect an aptitude, a plan or a formula. Together with resources often obtained from outside the circuit, logic requires practice to reach its potential and make its contribution, part ofwhich is to lead humanity safely into the future. As long as logic is free from conditioning, it can be used to share the Understanding Circuit's formulized hypotheses, its perspectives and projected doubts about the future, in deeply influential ways.

Unlike its mirror, the abstract and experiential Sensing Circuit, the Understanding Circuit's logic has no connection to the warmth and passion of the Solar Plexus. The Understanding Circuit is often referred to as the cool side ofthe chart, although logic's stability brings a deep satisfaction not available to the experiential side. There is collective joy when we can see that one plus one always equals two, and that the pattern is reliable. When logic works, it is as pleasurable as putting that last piece of a puzzle into place, which is part ofthe seduction logic holds for the Collective.

Collective Circuit Group

CHANNELS:

64 - 47 ABSTRACTION Mental activity mixed with clarity

53 - 42 MATURATION Balanced development

29 - 46 DISCOVERY Succeeding where A Searcher others fail

11 - 56 CURIOSITY A Searcher

41 - 30 RECOGNITION Focused energy

13 - 33 THE PRODIGAL A Witness

36 - 35 TRANSITORINESS A 'Jack ofall trades"

Logic's dance partner in the Collective Circuit Group is the Sensing (abstract) Circuit.The Sensing Circuit is keyed to the abstract experiential process.Through it we encounter and reflect upon life, and share the emotional and spiritual realm of human experience. This is the human experiential way; a joyful but sometimes perilous journey through life's endless progression of opportunities to explore, collect and share the experiences of being alive. If we can enter each new experience cleanly and clearly, we feel a deep sense of accomplishment, live life well, and feel at home in the world. In a greater sense, life will be well lived through us, and our reflections on our experiences will become valuable lessons for others.

Logic is built around theories and rules for establishing harmony in community, but the Abstract says that arbitrary restrictions can stifle the experience that is so essential to humanity's evolution. Logic is motivated by the need to master; the Abstract is motivated by cycles of accomplishment, which means it is important to complete something so one can move on to the next. Logic cannot manifest while the Abstract can. What the Abstract manifests, however, is subject to the emotional wave and its movement from the expectations ofdesire to the stasis ofdisappointment and boredom. Both ends of the wave succeed in driving humanity to progress toward the next new thing.

The Understanding Circuit has constant access to Splenic survival awareness, and to Logic with its process of testing, proving and then sharing patterns that enhance our future. This is a process commonly associated with the Sciences. The Sensing Circuit, however, is focused on the desire for experiences (often with sexual overtones) that promote emotional/relational growth and development. The experience doesn't have to make sense, but it does need to be substantive, and something that can be shared with another person from beginning to end. The Abstract process is associated with fields of study such as anthropology or literature. From Logic's point of view, the Abstract experiential way is a messy and unnecessary process.

The Sensing Circuit does not have the Spleen to provide stability and safety for the Abstract process. Experience is based precariously on the emotional desire to do something new and exciting with another person. When things don't change, boredom and restlessness set in. Creating a crisis is one way to get things moving again. This is what makes Abstract circuitry the most human of all processes. Reflecting upon experience is the Collective's most potent force for evolving life on the planet. Without this force, we would not have evolved into the consciously aware, differentiated and complex human beings we have become.

The Collective's reflections on past experience become the foundations of our history. People with definition in the Sensing Circuit cannot make sense oflife while it is happening, but are genetically programmed to become storehouses of wisdom. It's our uniquely human capacity to select, to remember and to bring forward historical perspectives. We choose what we deem to be of value from what has been. It is an art to be able to condense and articulate the past in ways that can be shared in the moment and illuminate the future. Each perspective, each lesson learned, adds a line to the script from which life's drama continues to unfold. The retelling of human history greatly speeds up our learning process because no child has to begin from scratch when it enters the world.

KEYNOTE: SUPPORT

Tribal Circuit Group

CHANNELS:

59 - 6 MATING Focused on reproduction

27 - 50 PRESERVATION Custodianship

The Defense Circuit is comprised of the Channel of Intimacy (reproduction) and the Channel of Preservation (taking care of what we have produced). The visual image of a cradle that the Defense Circuit forms in the BodyGraph is an apt metaphor for its generative and nurturing role in ensuring humanity's future through the creation and preservation oflife on the planet. The Defense Circuit's genetic program, described as the origin ofthe theory ofthe selfish gene, promotes the continuation of our species. It often does so, however, at the expense ofour personal life. Nothing drives humanity like the Channel ofIntimacy's (59-6) genetic imperative to make more. The emotional wave that in part powers this imperative is not yet aware, and in its blindness can leave chaos in its wake.

Children are one by-product ofthis unstable emotional mechanism for perpetuating life on the planet. The Channel of Preservation (27-50) grounds the Tribe's survival in Splenic awareness, with the sobering reminder that we are responsible for nurturing and preserving that which the emotional/ experiential Channel ofIntimacy has created or generated. In this way, offspring will reach adulthood and can in turn produce more, keeping the gene pool viable so that our bio-form can keep going.This is the Tribe's major contribution to evolving consciousness; no other circuit or circuit group carries this genetic imperative or is equipped to nurture what it creates like the Tribe.

Tribal Circuit Group

CHANNELS:

54 - 32 TRANSFORMATION Being driven

44 - 26 SURRENDER A transmitter

19 - 49 SYNTHESIS Sensitivity

37 - 40 COMMUNITY A part seeking a whole

21 - 45 MONEY A materialist

The Ego Circuit protectively surrounds the Defense Circuit. Understanding the material and communal forces of support with which the Ego Circuit sustains the fertile and nurturing processes of the Defense Circuit, gives us a clearer sense of the nature and scope of the Tribe's contribution to our evolution.

On its own, the Ego Circuit has no defined Sacral or life-generating capacity, nor does it have any connection to mental awareness (Ajna Center). The Ego Circuit's hub is the Heart or Ego Center. The central focus of this circuit's five channels is the Ego's willpower, namely the will to go out into the world and provide for its own in exchange for deserved rest.

Through the Ego Circuit, we can follow the development oftwo philosophically divergent points ofview that begin in the Root and meet in the Tribal heart (Ego Center). Each view defines one oftwo forces ofTribal support. We experience the spiritual dimension of communal life, with the core unit ofthe Tribe the inter-generational family that is traditionally a hierarchical blood-bond relationship, as well as the ambition and materialism of the entrepreneur. It is in this circuit that the mysteries of the mystical are cultivated alongside the essentially material and mundane. The Ego Circuit is also where we find the pragmatism of capitalism, and the ideals of socialism and communalism.

Together, these two views point to an underlying truth waiting to be discovered in the Ego Circuit - spirit is hidden in the mundane. Living fully as our authentic selves, in each moment of our mundane lives, becomes a beautiful process that quietly reveals our connection to spirit, and the totality of all that is.