Inner and Outer Authority

Authority
Written By Gloria Krausse

But anyway, Authority is something that, first of all, needs to be seen in perspective. That is, when we’re talking about Authority, we’re talking about what we call Inner Authority. In Human Design, we talk about two different kinds of authorities. That is, Outer Authority and Inner Authority. Outer Authority is the rightful domain of the mind. In other words, for the mind, the ability of the mind to be able to process data and at the same time to be able to share that, to be able to empower, to be able to support, whatever language you want to use, to be able to offer mind as Outer Authority in the same way as I do for you, as an example. But Outer Authority is not about anything having to do with the inner process or the inner decision-making process. It is simply Outer Authority. It is simply the by-product of the potential of self-reflected consciousness.

Inner Authority is something else. Inner Authority is the Authority to make decisions for the life. This is an Inner Authority. When we think about mind and Inner Authority, and we think about the being, if we look up here and we look at the openness that is there, just think about this as mind for a moment.

Image of a projector bodygraph of the human desing system

The Head and Ajna Centres

Here in the Head Centre, we have the Personality Crystal, and here in the Ajna, we have the Design Crystal. Basically, what we have are the two components within us that are receiving neutrino information. We are a binary crystal consciousness.

The Inner Authority here is the Emotional Authority (Sola Plexus Centre)

Now, the Design Crystal consciousness is about the vehicle in the form principle we know. And the Personality Crystal consciousness is what ends up being what we call the mind. And of course, one of the dilemmas we have is that we are so used to seeing things in mono terms. We see ourselves through the power of the mind to distort our perception and the possibility that we may be, in fact, a dual consciousness. You don’t exactly get that feeling. It seems like we have this mind, and it’s the mind that is in charge. Of course, one of the great steps you take in this process of understanding that this is a dualist construct is to see that inner Authority is when the Design Crystal consciousness is in charge. Outer Authority is for the Personality Crystal consciousness.

- Ra Uru Hu (Design Concepts)

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