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 this critical question: Is Human Design — especially the interpretation of one’s life purpose through the Incarnation Cross — a help or a limitation? Does Human Design give us security, or does it prevent us from opening ourselves to life in its spontaneity? Perhaps we don’t need a system at all if we trust that life naturally leads us in the direction of our authentic unfolding.
The Human Design book “The Book of Destinies”
The book The Book of Destinies – Discover Your Purpose by Chetan Parkin and Carola Eastwood* describes 192 Incarnation Crosses that are said to provide insight into a person’s life purpose. These crosses are said to influence our nature from birth. Although I see this Human Design book as a valuable source of inspiration, the question remains:
Do we really need a predefined meaning of life? Or is this search rather an expression of our mistrust in 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
The therapist Oliver Ruppert* has a clear opinion: A meaning of life prescribed from the outside is not necessary. What matters more is to experience life sensually, rather than submitting it to some greater destiny. The constant search for a “useful” life can even make us sad, because it often means subordinating ourselves to the purposes of others. Instead: just allow yourself to be useless for once. Enjoy life in its fullness.
“There is no mental interpretation of the whole.” – Jean Baudrillard
My conclusion: between structure and freedom
I won’t throw the Human Design Book of Destinies* — just as little as my other Human Design books. I value the wisdom that Human Design brings. But especially in my coaching work, I consciously ask questions that are directed at a person’s inner world — without relying on any system. Because one of the most important premises in coaching is this:
The solution already lies within each individual.
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