In reflecting on Lao Tzu, the thing that was interesting about him is that he had absolutely no faith in human beings. He had no faith in terms of what human beings and their minds were doing. Basically, he wanted everybody to give up the business of being not-self human and return to the natural order because that's what he saw the beings around him were outside of. It's obviously in some ways very primitive and simplistic, and I think that most people tend to interpret him as trying to guide them to correctness—those aphorisms about it's clever to know somebody else, but it's enlightened to know yourself, and stuff like that. This idea that this was kind of laying out the possibilities of how you could become a correct being. That's part and parcel of the myth that surrounds him.

But for me, he saw the darkness of the seven centered being and the darkness is the mind. He saw that the mind in its interference was distorting the natural order. One of his most beautiful comments is about the nature of victory in war: How can one celebrate such a horrendous thing? He was very, very aware that the seven centered being was dangerous and was capable of great evil and was, in so many ways, mindless; it endeared him to me. There was no way that such a limited Outer Authority could impact his kind.

If you read the works of Lao Tzu, read the negative instead of the positive and you will see what happened to us. I have had this experience in doing the Variable Program, where it is so extraordinary to see that there is a natural order for us, a natural order that cannot be achieved. That possibility is long lost, but there is an underlying natural order of place and orientation, and there is a capacity for humanity to be in harmony with the natural world. In fact, that is what Strategy and Authority is. At its deepest, most mystical level, it is placing you into that harmony with the world around you, a harmony within the Maia.

So he was very aware of the madness of the seven centered way of life. One of the things that I often talk about is how we are still chained to seven centered consciousness, how we're still chained to seven centered moralities, religions, philosophies, all of which were deeply rooted in the strategic Left. And the thing to understand about the emergence of this strategic seven centered being is that it created this dense, dense homogenized world. If I look back and I look at the contribution of the seven centered being, it brought homogenization, it brought the destruction of true self.

Excerpt from the new release: Dark Matter or the Dream of Lao Tzu | RC8.7

Ra Uru Hu was the Human Design System’s founder and messenger. Ra dedicated 25 years of his life to the development and teaching of the System around the world until he passed away in 2011.