Who is to be believed, honest friend, I can tell you: Believe life; it teaches better than speakers and books. – Wilhelm Busch
Human Design: A framework for more orientation?
In a highly complex world, we often look for structure in order to gain security. Systems such as Human Design provide orientation and help us to better understand our own identity. Many people hope that human design will provide answers to life’s big questions, especially in uncertain phases of life or when choosing a career. But how helpful are these answers really? Do we really understand our identity or do we identify with something we only seem to be?
Vitality or limitation by Human Design?
I keep asking myself the critical question: Is Human Design – especially the interpretation of the life task via the incarnation cross – a help or a restriction? Does Human Design give us security, or does it prevent us from opening up to life in all its spontaneity? Perhaps there is no need for a system if we trust that life will naturally lead us in a direction of natural unfolding.
The Human Design book “The Book of Destinies”
The Book of Destinies: Discover the Life You Were Born to Live by Chetan Parkin and Carola Eastwood* describes 192 incarnation crosses that are supposed to provide information about a person’s destiny. These crosses influence our being from birth. Although I see this Human Design book as a valuable source of inspiration, the question remains: do we need a defined purpose in life at all? Or is this search rather an expression of our mistrust of life itself?
Questions you can ask yourself:
– What sense does it make for me to ask about the meaning of life?
– Is the meaning of life given to me from the outside?
– Is life itself perhaps the highest purpose?
– Is a purpose in life necessary to live a fulfilled life?
Science vs. the question of meaning
From a scientific point of view, the question of the meaning of life is irrelevant. Science describes and explains phenomena without assigning meaning to them. However, every scientific process requires a subjective observer. Therefore, science can never be completely objective.
An alternative view: Live sensually, not sensibly
Therapist Oliver Ruppert* has a clear opinion: it is not necessary to display a meaning to life from the outside. It is more important to experience life sensually instead of subjecting it to a greater purpose. The constant search for a “useful” life can even make you sad, because it often means submitting to the purposes of others. Instead: Just make yourself useless! Enjoy life in its fullness.
“There is no mental interpretation of the whole.” – Jean Baudrillard
My conclusion: between structure and freedom
I will not throw The Book of Destinies* in the garbage can, just like my other Human Design books. I appreciate the wisdom that Human Design brings. But in my coaching sessions in particular, I consciously ask questions that focus on people’s inner world – without consulting a system. Because one of the most important premises in coaching is that the solution already lies within each person.
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