22. The Manifestor (Part 1)

In this episode, we begin our exploration of the Manifestor type, which is the only type designed to initiate in Human Design. Making up roughly 9% of the population, Manifestors are here to bring new impulses into form, to start movements, and to catalyze energetic change in the world.

Kelsey dives into the mechanics that define a Manifestor and the experience of carrying a closed, repelling aura that is designed to move independently through life. This conversation redefines what it means to be powerful and create impact, not through constant doing, but through honoring rest, urges, and the natural rhythm of initiation.

What's Discussed in this Episode:

• Understanding the Manifestor’s closed, repelling aura: what it means and how it protects autonomy
• Why Manifestors are not here to respond or be influenced, but to impact
• The energetic mechanics of initiation vs. response
• Aura mechanics and the evolutionary role of Manifestors in a Generator-dominated world
• How Manifestors influence the collective through their urges and timing
• The relationship between Manifestors and life force energy
• Unnaturalness of informing as the Manifestor's Strategy

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Episode Transcript

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The Auric function formanifestors is not about carrying
life force, but ratherinitiating life force. Essentially,
manifestors bring the impulse,and in bringing the impulse, manifestors
create ripples in the pond ofthe Maya that life force then responds
to and initiation, which isnot response, happens from an internal

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urge. The process of energymoving up and towards the throat
to be expended is a verydifferent type of energy usage. Then
the sacral energy happens inthese spurts which are usually in
human design referred to asurges and urges come from inside
of the body, not response.

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This episode of the LivingYour Desig Podcast is part one of
my lecture on the ManifestorType. Stay tuned for the rest of
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In this section on theManifestor we are going to talk about
the mechanics of what makes aManifestor based on center definition,
which is being a non sacralwith a motor to the throat. We'll
Talk about the aura of themanifestor closed and repelling the
manifestor strategy to informthe manifestor's signature. We'll
discuss what is even is peace,as well as the not self theme what

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is anger and what are themechanics around peace and anger
for the manifestor. We willtalk about again my conceptualization
of the vehicle's fundamentalprerogative, which for the manifestor
is to initiate. And withinthis we will look at the natural
state of rest for manifestors.And then the urges that come through

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as the exception to thatdefault state. And woven throughout
will be many other conceptsclarifying aspects of these as well
as in addition to thesetopics, a review of manifestors.
So these are the aura typebasics that we've already visited.

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Manifestors make up about 9%of the population have a closed and
repelling aura. Sometimesyou'll hear people describe the manifestor
aura as pushing or impactingor magnetic. Magnetic as in there's
two sides to a magnet. Onemagnetizes and one repels. Manifestors

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experiment with the strategyof informing manifestors experience
themes of peace and anger. Andmanifestors can have three authorities.
We have emotional manifestors,splenic manifestors and ego manifestors.
And again, the mechanics of amanifesto always have an undefined
sacral. And one or more of thenon sacral motors connected by channel

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to the throat also doesn'thave to be a direct line to the throat.
Any of the three motors can beconnected by way of the spleen or
the G, or both the spleen andthe G. It doesn't have to be one
of these direct channels ofmotor to the throat. So let's revisit
these two components mechanicsfor a manifestor as an aura type

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come from two qualifiers. One,manifestors are non sacral, right?
If they had the sacraldefinition, they would be a generator
and having motor to throatdefinition. We talked a significant
amount about manifestinggenerators within the generator lecture
because manifesting generatorsare generator types. But we'll talk

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a little bit more aboutmanifesting generators in order to
compare and contrast theexperiences that manifestors and
manifesting generators as thetwo beings that have consistent motor
to throat definition. We'lltalk about what the manifestor and
the manifesting generator havein common and we'll revisit what
they don't have in commonbecause of the mangen's sacral definition.

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So beginning with the first ofthose two qualifiers being non sacral,
the manifester is the first ofthe three non sacral types that we
are diving into. Let's talkabout being non sacral. Again, let's
revisit it. The sacral centeris the most powerful motor center
in the body. It is the sourceof vitality, creative life force
and sexual energy. It is theonly motor center which provides

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the consistent andunconditional fuel that makes one
available for life. In otherwords, the sacral is the body's power
source. In the last lecturefor the Generator, we reviewed the
qualities, the experience ofhaving a defined sacral center. And
now let's revisit from ourearlier lectures on the motor centers,

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what we discussed about theexperience of having an undefined
sacral center. So we alreadyknow this pretty well by this point.
It makes you a quote nonsacral. You're in the 30% of the
population that is aprojector, manifestor or reflector.
It means you have a life forcethat is inconsistent. Non sacrals
borrow and and amplify sacralenergy from others. Borrow is not

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the best word because it's notactually taking away. The sacral
being doesn't have to give uptheir sacral energy, right? But we
temporarily experience sacralenergy through the amplification
of it from others and or inthe transits in alignment with our
strategy and authority. Theundefined sacral person is not designed
for regular or consistentexpenditure of energy. Rather, instead,

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and especially this is thecase with the manifestor, inconsistent
bursts of energy for nonsacrals. Your body does not experience
satisfaction at theexpenditure of energy, nor does it
cue you when you are doneexpending. Energy. Response mode,
which is typically fueled bythe sacral, will be exhausting for
the non sacral types. Energyor non energy types, because those

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people, those beings, theseauras, do not have consistent energy
for response. Therefore, beingnon sacral means you are not consistently
available for life. However,life force exists within all of us.
All of our definition is lifeforce, right? Any channel that you
have is life force. Any gatethat you have is the potential for

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life force. The sacral,though, is the power source for that
life force to be powered up,to be active, to be energized. We
talked in the Generatorlecture about how because the sacral
center is so powerful, itseffect on the entirety of the aura
is so immense. And this is whyall sacredly defined beings have

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a aura that is at least tosome extent very similar in that
it is open and envelopingbecause of the energy coming from
that sacral. That means thatthe absence of definition in the
sacral center is also going tohave an immense effect on the aura
of the Non sacral types, alltypes experience life force generators

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are the carriers of this lifeforce and that is their auric function.
But all of the other threetypes have an auric function that
has to do with the lack ofthat open and enveloping aura, the
lack of that ability torespond for life. And it's not lack,
right? This is the correctdesign, the correct functionality
for the other types is thatthere is not consistency for being

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available to life. There isnot consistent energy to fuel your
life force. There's a morelimited capacity for sharing your
life force. If you are a nonsacral and you share your life force
in a way that has to do withyour experience of amplifying the
sacral motor. And each of thenon sacral types, the way that I

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conceive of it is guide lifeforce in their own way. So as we
go through the aura types ofthe manifestor, the projector and
the reflector, we'll look atwhat is the unique way that the manifestor
type, for instance, in thislecture, has an effect, has impact
on the life force of theplanet. The second part of these

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two qualities that make amanifestor a manifester, we have
being non sacral. And nowlet's get into having motor to throat
definition. So revisiting thethroat center. Some of this we've
looked at before. The throatis the manifestation center of the
body graph. Remember, allroads lead to Rome roam being the
throat center, head and ajnacircuitry and definition is moving

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to the throat to be expressedexternally. And everything below
the throat, the G, the ego,the sacral, the spleen, the solar
plexus and the root, thepressure, the awareness, the resonance
from those centers, the energyfrom those centers is moving up to
the throat to be expressed.And the throat center is the release
valve for all of that. Thethroat deals with communication,

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self expression, manifestationand all interaction with the exterior
world through verbalizationand externalizing. The throat is
where the pressure that beginsat the head and the root is eventually
released for those who have adefined throat center. And so this
is gonna be the case for allmanifestors. Although defined does

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not mean motorized. So we'lllook at that distinction in a moment.
But as a reminder foreveryone, with a defined throat center,
you have a consistent way ofusing your voice, expressing, acting
and externalizing a consistentway of operating through the functionality
of this manifestation centerof the release valve. Depending on
the centers and channelsconnected to the throat, people with

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a defined throat have acertain things to express consistently.
Although you may always feelable to talk and express, you don't
always need to. It's easy todo too much with a defined throat
because so much energy isalways moving towards your throat.
The narratives of not self inyour undefined centers are going
to try to hijack thatexpression capacity that you have.

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And defined throat centerpeople will use strategy and authority
to determine when and what toexternalize. Now a motorized throat
is something different thatwe've touched on. But let's look
at it a little more closely.Everybody who has a defined throat
has a consistent way of usingtheir voice, expressing, acting and
externalizing. But if yourthroat is defined through a connection

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to any of the motor centers,or if any of your motor centers have
a connective circuitry thateventually gets to the throat and
out in the definition, thenthis expression, this consistency
of expression consistently haspower as well. It's an impacting
expression. It's literally anenergized expression that pushes

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because it's powerful, itpulls energy from inside of your
body and pushes that out intothe world. The throat is the manifestation
center. So again,manifestation in human design is
not about dreaming things intoreality. Manifestation in human design
is the mechanical function ofenergy, power moving from the throat,

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from the internal world,through the throat into the external
world and actuallymanipulating, changing, pushing the
Maya, pushing the the externalworld. Manifestors move the Maya
with their impact. That's aphrase that I first heard from John
Martin, a long time humandesign experimenter and teacher.

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He's a 6:2 splenic projector.He talks about how in his like main
manifestor lecture, which youcan easily find online if you want,
he talks about how manifestersare the only type that actually move
the Maya. They move the energyin the external world. And that is
a result of this mechanic ofhaving motor to the throat. It's
also a result though. So forthe manifesting generators you have

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this powerful impactingexpression capacity. But the manifesting
generators have an envelopingaura, not a pushing, impacting, close
repelling aura. So the pushingof the Maya is happening to an extent
that is very different in themanifester body than in the manifesting

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generator body. Because themanifesting generator body has impact.
The language, the use of thethroat has energetic impact. But
on an auric level, which is amore significant level than center
and channel definition. Theshape and the function of the aura
shows up in a much moresignificant way than than the aspects
of the aura. Minute aspects ofthe aura in any type that carry the

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frequency of the channels andthe center definition. Manifestors
are non sacral so manifestorsare not consistently available to
respond to life. The Auricfunction of the manifestor is not
about carrying life force, butrather initiating. Manifestors create
ripples in the pond of theMaya that lifeforce then responds

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to. So while what's happening,what's coming through the throat
in both the manifester and themanifesting generator is motorized
and has fuel to it. Themanifesting generator aura is open
and enveloping, so it'sactually moving around what's happening
in the Maya. It hugs it andenvelops. And the manifester aura

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is pushing and repelling. Soit's actually moving the Maya. So
there is a distinction there.And this is connected to manifestors
being non sacrals. So we'vetalked about this already, but let's
revisit it now in the contextof this impacting aura. Because of
the throat motorization,Manifestors are non sacrals. They

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are not consistently availableto respond to life. Manifestors are
the only non sacral energytype projectors and reflectors are
considered to be non energytypes in that their Auric function
has nothing to do with theexpenditure of energy. Manifestors
function does have to do withthe expenditure of energy. Manifesting

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is expending energy throughthe throat. It's initiating through
the throat by pushing energythrough the throat. Maybe pushing's
not the greatest word here.That's not what it feels like for
me as a manifester. It feelslike just allowing energy that's
already there to come up andout through my throat. But as I allow
for that to happen, I'messentially taken over with energy

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that moves through my bodyfrom my motor centers up to my throat
and out. And then from thereit pushes, it moves the Maya. But
because we are non sacrals,even though our auric function has
to do entirely with our motordefinition and our motor to throat
definition, we do not haveconsistent availability for life.
So therefore we don't haveavailability to respond and we don't

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have these, this energy movingup and out of the throat consistently.
It's inconsistent. The motorcenters that manifestor manifestors
have operate inconsistently.They do not operate all day every
day, which can be the case fora generator. The Auric function for
manifestors is not aboutcarrying life force, but rather initiating

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initiating life force.Essentially, manifestors bring the
impulse. And in bringing theimpulse, manifestors create ripples
in the pond of the Maya thatlife force then responds to. And
initiation, which is notresponse, happens from an internal
urge. So manifestinggenerators and pure generators are

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consistently expending Energyand the energy that manifesting generators
and pure generators use isbeing consistently powered up by
the sacral, which againoperates in this yes or no response,
which happens as a result oftouching energy outside of it. It's
a very different type ofenergy usage for the manifestor in

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that yes, it is inconsistent.That's a big part of being non sacral.
But also the process of energymoving up and towards the throat
to be expended is a verydifferent type of energy usage than
the sacral. Energy happens inthese spurts, which are usually in
human design, referred to asurges. And urges come from inside

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of the body, not response. Thesacral center operates in responding
to the outside world. Theother centers moving to the throat,
which is the mechanics of themanifestor, happen from this internal
cue that then moves up throughthe body and out of the throat, kind
of summing this up. Themechanics for the manifesto as an
aura type come from being nonsacral, which means inconsistent

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energy, inconsistentavailability for life with an auric
function that affects,impacts, filters and guides life
force in a specific way. Andhaving motor to the throat definition,
which means manifestorsmanifest energy through the portal
of the throat center, theclosed and repelling aura. This is
what we're going to talk aboutnext. This idea of not being consistently

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available to respond to lifeand having an Auric function that
is about taking energy frominside and manifesting it outside
through these urges. And thefunctionality of the closed aura
is about protecting thatprocess, protecting the limited energy
of the manifestor. Manifestersare the only type with a closed aura.

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The closed aura of themanifestor is designed to protect
the manifestor from having toengage with outside forces. The manifester
does not have the energy nonsacral to deal with outside forces
not available to respond. Nordoes the manifester have the genetic

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imperative to engage with theoutside world. The manifestor is
designed to be moved by theseinternal cues. And the closed aura
protects us from the externalforces so that we can be driven,
we can stay connected to theseinternal cues. The closed aura serves
to support the manifestorsneed to follow their own authority

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and timing, both in thesecues, which are initiation, but also
in rest. And it pushesobstacles out of the way, preventing
interference from the outsideworld. The auras not only close,
it also repels, which is aword that most manifesters tend to
feel away about when firstlearning about their aura. And there

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are people who will try tolike, kind of pretty up that language.
The example that I shared onone of the first slides of this unit
about the aura Being kind oflike a magnet, it repels on one side
and magnetizes on the other.I'm still kind of playing with that
because, you know, the. Theaura itself does repel. But I think

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that when a manifester'sinitiation is correct for someone,
it. It feels different. Iwouldn't. I don't think that it feels
magnifying in the same waythat a generator aura does, or generator
aura literally pulls thingstowards it. Manifestor aura doesn't
pull things towards it. Butwhen a manifester initiates, when
a manifestor creates spacethrough repelling, for some people,

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that spaciousness that'screated is something that calls to
them. It's something that theywant to experience. They want to
be in the space that theManifestor creates when it pushes
its aura, when it pushes withits aura. Because that space that
the manifester is pushing,repelling aura creates, is space
in some cases for newpossibility, and sometimes that is

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new possibility that othertypes want to be invited into or
want to respond to, or want tobe initiated by. So this repelling
part of the aura, it happensin order to make space around it
for the Manifestor to movefreely and independently. Everywhere
you go, there's generatorenergy coming in to hug, right? If

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70% of the population aregenerators and the sacral, the defined
sacral, creates an open,expanding, enveloping aura, then
anywhere a Manifester goes,where there are people, they're going
to come into these open andenveloping auras that are swarming
everywhere, wanting to reachout and touch it. And for the Manifester,

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that in most cases isn't goingto feel very good, because the Manifester
just wants to move at its ownpace. And I'm not talking about the
mind of the manifester, I'mnot talking about the believed preferences
of the manifester. I'm talkingabout on an energetic level, a bioenergetic
field around the Manifesto,the aura is pushing repelling energy

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away from it so that it can befree again from these outside forces.
This space and pushing alsocreates aura level impacting through
the Manifesto's initiations.The manifester aura has to push because
again, limited energy. Themanifester aura is designed to make
impact, but does not have theconsistent power of the sacral center

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to keep impacting. So part ofthe reason why the Manifester is
so impacting, why theManifester's aura pushes, is because
we only have the urge, we onlyhave the moment of the urge to make
the impact, and then thatenergy goes away, and then it's time
to rest. It's time to moveback to that default of rest. There's
not like with a manifestinggenerator, for example. Manifesting

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generators can make impact,but then they have the sacral motor
to continue to curate theenergy around them with their impact,
with their language. Themanifester with the closed aura without
the defined sacral does nothave that consistency. So when the
manifestor moves, when themanifestor initiates, all the impact
happens, right then it's likea big, big bang of impact. And then

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the manifestor, the. The selfmanifestor, the correct manifesto
will retreat, will go back tothe default state of rest. The manifestor's
aura is closed, as in is notdesigned to be penetrated or to be
in response, but rather tohonor cues from inside of the aura
and to resist all else. Here'sa quote from Ra, who reminder was

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a manifestor himself. Themanifester's aura is closed and repelling.
Think about that. A closedaura is the exact opposite of the
generators. The generator hasan open, enveloping aura. The manifestor
has a closed, repelling aura.As a matter of fact, as you approach
a manifestor, the impact ofhis or her aura is that your aura

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compresses. Auras have aprana, a life, a breath. They're
not fixed. They expand andcontract. And the moment that you
meet a manifestor, your auracontracts. So that's a part of the
repelling that happens whengenerators bump into each other.
It's like, I don't know,squishy's the word that just came

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to mind. I don't know thatit's actually squishy, but it's like
there's a give. There's agive. When a generator bumps into
each other, when the majorityof the population bumps into each
other, there's a giveaway.When those same auras bump into a
manifester, there's not agive. You hit this brick wall energetically.
And so it makes sense, it'snot personal that the aura of others

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contract when it hits themanifestors, however, and we'll.
We'll be feeling into thistheme as we continue to explore the
experience of the manifestorthrough strategy, through authority,
through conditioning, throughpeace and anger. But I'll mention
now that that experience ofhaving an aura that repels, that

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other people experiencecontraction around is isolating.
It's isolating for themanifestor. And typically the conditioning
for the manifester is aroundbeing conditioned to try to distort
that mechanical absolute, totry to stop oneself from having an
aura that pushes and repelsbecause it feels ostracizing because

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it can threaten people,because it. It is isolating, because
it gives this sense of I don'tbelong. Because when the generators
are walking around bumpinginto each other and there's a give
in their auras and then theyhit a manifestor, that manifestor
feels different. Andoftentimes that manifestor doesn't
feel safe. The manifestor hasa aura that historically has a predatory,

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a potentially predatory angleto it. And generators feel that.
They feel that closed offness.And it can really feel like a threat.
It repels. So a little bitmore on the closed aura here. I found
this. There's a lot of humandesign Facebook groups. I don't spend
much time there, but I wasdoing a wider search a while back

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as I was seeking to moredeeply understand mechanically, like,
what is it that closes theManifestor aura? Which I guess this
is an okay moment to mentionthat the mechanics of the generator
form are so simple becausethey are so based on one center.
And the sacral center itself,its mechanics are very simple. As

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we get into the mechanics ofall the other aura types and we ask
questions like why is themanifestor's aura closed and repelling?
Why is the projector's aurapenetrating and absorbing? Why is
the reflector's aura samplinglike Teflon? We can understand the
why when we understand thefunction of those aura types. But

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seeing clearly the shape andfeel of the aura becomes a little
bit less simple because it'snot coming from one simple center
mechanic. That's been mythought process as I've questioned
through my open head andundefined aja and played with the
ideas of how do we arrive tothese aura shapes? Where do they

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come from? I have landedthrough a lot of consideration and
some research on that. The whyis not as simple with the non sacral
types as it is mechanicallyclear and simple with the generator.
But in my process of arrivingto that understanding, I found this.
And I liked it. It's just apretty succinct explanation. Another

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explanation of why theManifestor aura is closed. So I don't
know who runs this page, butit was just posted from whatever
like admin account runs thispage. The human design zone. Manifestor's
aura is closed preciselybecause they are the only people
on the planet who did not cometo succumb to influence. They came

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to impact. It is closed sothat you would not get through to
them with your advices as acreature with a dependent aura. So
this is coming from the sameexcerpt here. This person added in
parentheses yes, everyoneexcept Manifestors has an aura that
is dependent on externalfactors. An aura that functions in

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a way that everything that iscorrect for it will, one way or another,
come from the outside world.So this is about 90% of human population.
Noting the variations inpercentages, what RA taught has changed
because the configuration ofplanets that define centers and thus
offer type in human design hasshifted in the past 40 years since

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Ra first started teachinghuman design. 35. 40 years. And so
at first it was always 8%manifestors. Now sometimes it's closer
to 10. If we look at theactual calculations based on the
transits that we know havehappened. I digress. So this idea
here. The Manifestors are theonly people on the planet who did
not come to succumb toinfluence. Succumb to influence.

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This is not a negativeconnotation. This is literally the
design of the other threetypes. They are literally designed
to engage with and beinfluenced by other people on the
planet or outside influence, Ishould say, because reflectors are
more designed to be influencedby transits. But that's a topic for

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later. But the Manifester isthe only one of the four aura types
who. Our aura is literally notmeant to engage with outside influences,
at least on an Auric functionlevel. So Manifestors have openness,
right? Manifestors receiveconditioning, deal with the not self
in our undefined centers. Weexperience our movies through our

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openness based on transits andinterpersonal conditioning, similarly
to how every other type does.But our Auric function has nothing
to do with being conditioned,with taking in or touching energy
outside of us the way that itdoes for all other three types. The
basic Auric function of theManifestor is not meant to be influenced

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externally. It comes fromthese internal cues. We live on the
generator planet. Think aboutit. Nothing in the nature of Planet
Earth functions in initiation.Any plant grows in response to water
and the sun, animalpopulations change and migrate in
response to weather conditionsand insects, etc. The manifestor's
aura is closed because it isthe only mechanical opportunity to

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initiate an influence in thisworld. And then they go on to say,
Heard about the butterflyeffect. The butterfly is a manifestor,
of course. Such an aura willrepel everything that comes to it.
I'll talk more about thebutterfly effect on another slide.
Getting into the Manifestorstrategy. Informing. Informing is

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not a mechanical strategy. Asmentioned in the intro to type section.
Typically strategy for theother types is a mechanical thing
that the body already does.And by quote, using our strategy
for projectors, reflectors andgenerators especially, it's really
not that we're using thestrategy so much as that we have

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the strategy in mind in orderto surrender to watching how the
body already moves. But thisis not the case for the manifestor.
RA called it a fake strategy.Alaq has called it artificial. I've
heard RA in recording say it'smade up. Don't tell anyone, but it's
made up. Manifestors are theonly aura type whose function, whose

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auric function does notrequire. The Other is not here to
succumb to influence, butrather to influence. And in fact
the manifesto needs to beprotected from the Other in order
to influence and not beinfluenced. Informing is essentially
a way of dealing with theOther that minimizes resistance.

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So we'll break this down abit. Here is a quote from RA on this
idea of the manifestorstrategy of informing being unnatural.
Strategy is an incrediblething. It gives us a technique, an
ability through seeing themechanics, to navigate correctly
in the illusion. That is whatstrategy is about. We have to teach

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manifestors this strategybecause it isn't natural for them.
Strategy for manifestors is away to protect manifestors from themselves
and to protect everyone elsefrom them. Manifestor children must
be taught to ask permission astheir strategy. This is how they
avoid being punished for whatthey do. This is how they get along
in their environment andintegrate with others. The adult

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strategy for a manifester isto inform, which is a great freedom
for the manifester who leavesthe parental household and no longer
will ever want to ask anyoneor anything for permission. Yet at
the same time, if adultmanifestors are going to be able
to integrate into society, ifthey're going to be able to have
any kind of social dynamic intheir lives, manifestors are going

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to have to learn how toinform. Otherwise it's going to be
very difficult. We're going totalk more about informing. I'll share
a bit about my personalexperience with it as a manifestor,
but I want to note two morethings in regards to this. So RA
says that with Manifestochildren they need to be taught to
ask for permission. I have notspent much time, I mean I do have

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Manifesto children in mylives, but I have not spent significant
time with them because they'reout of town family and I do observe
some of my friends manifesterchildren mostly online. So I, I'm
just clarifying that to say,like I haven't had much personal
experimentation with this, butI, I do personally there's very,

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very little that I tend topoke at when it comes to things Ross
said. Usually if I Don't agreewith it. I just kind of let it go
and, and imagine that I willunderstand it from a different angle,
another at another point. Butas a manifester I just, I feel a
little repelled by the idea, Isuppose, that kids should ask for

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permission. I'm going to addnuance to this and kind of walk it
back after I say it. But forme it's been a challenge to decondition
my tendency to ask forpermission. I have been very conditioned,
or I should say myconditioning often takes on the shape
of me asking for permissionrather than informing. So I'm just

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have a curiosity around why weteach manifester kids to ask for
permission when that ispotentially the crux of their not
self as an adult. As an adult,asking for permission can often feel
like trying to get theexternal world to corroborate with

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our internal cues, which isn'thow it works. It's not mechanically
correct for manifestors. Iprobably wouldn't have included this
if I didn't have a manifesterfriend who has two manifester kids
and has voiced multiple timesthat she does not agree with the
idea of teaching manifestorkids to ask for permission either.

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She teaches her kids toinform. Now when I think about this
again, I'm not a mother. Ihaven't done much work with kids,
young kids at least. When Ithink about how could manifest your
children inform in a way thatallows for the parent to still have

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an authority to the degree ofkeeping the child safe, keeping the
child alive, because that's anecessary aspect for parent child
relationships, right? Or forauthority figure, external authority
figure child relationships.And when I imagine what it what might
feel most correct for amanifestor kid, which I have once

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been in a way that does notnegate the necessity of having parental
parameters, I think about itbeing informing in a flavor that
has preferences tied into it.So for example, instead of saying
can I go outside informing theparent I'd like to go outside. And

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the child understanding thatthe parent is going to be able to
respond in a way or informback perhaps if they're a manifestor
in a way that honors the urgethat the kid is having, but also
honors the necessity of theparental role in the situation. So

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this is extra. I certainly donot have any qualifications or much
experience to be able to speakwith a confident external authority
on manifester kids because Ihave not worked with them, but I
have been one and I have grownup feeling like it is very difficult
to get out of the habit ofasking for permission disconnected

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from the kid idea. But comingback to the idea of informing being
a strategy to protect, protectothers from manifestors. Alak, one
of my teachers who is also amanifester emotional manifestor,
he one there was a time thathe talked about what informing was
from this lens of manifestorsbeing the predator. There was difficult

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for me to hear at first, butover time I sat with it and it, I
and I watched it and itstarted to feel very true to me.
It was true to my mechanicalexperience. Alak says that manifestors
are the predator. And becauseof the closed aura, because other
types bump up against theclosed aura the and feel that it's

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different. The other typeshave a sense of I can't control this
thing, I can't predict thisthing and this thing is going to
impact me. So informing forthe manifester is a practical way
of letting people know. Andthese are a locks words coming up
here. Yes, I'm the predator,yes I could eat you, but don't worry,
I've already had my lunchtoday. So yeah, I just wanted to

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share that anecdote. It's likethe, the other types can feel into
each other who's safe for me,who's not. And it's not that that's
completely out the door whenit comes to manifestors because other
types still have theirstrategy and their authority to help
them guide correct engagementwith a manifestor for them. But because
you know, a lot of the worldisn't operating according to strategy

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and authority. When a lot ofpeople hit that closed manifestor
aura, there's just anautomatic threat because the not
self world wants to controleverything and manifestors cannot
be controlled. And people feelthat when they bump up into the manifester.
And so the manifester makesthings a little bit easier for themselves

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and alleviates the resistanceand the feeling of threat that others
might have from them thatmight then turn into resistance.
And trying to control themanifestor by saying this is what's
happening, it puts everyone atease. I'm going to do this now, I'm
going to move in thisdirection tomorrow I'm going over
here. Letting people knowwhat's happening inside your closed

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aura so they have a heads up.This is the direction my aura is
about to be pushing in, helpsto put them at ease, which helps
them to then humanize themanifestor because they can't feel
the human inside of themanifestor the same way they can
feel the human inside of thetypes that give a little, right?
The generator and even theprojector and projectors have their

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own version of ostracization.But projectors and generators can
certainly connect orally verydeeply. Projectors and projectors
can connect orally verydeeply. Generators and generators
have the give. So when we'reTalking about the 90% of the world
that is projectors andgenerators, when they hit up a manifestor,
not only does it feeldifferent, but it also can feel like

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a threat. So informing is away to put everyone at ease, which
in my experience just allowsfor more ease of flow all around.
So if informing is not themechanical strategy, what then would
be the mechanical strategy?Right. And so we know informing is
the strategy for manifestors.It is the strategy and it is the
strategy on, you know, kind ofa learned mental plane. We have literally

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Ross strategized through hisown experience as a manifestor. What
do I have to do to alleviateresistance? But that's a different
use of the word strategy thanthe way that strategy shows up for
the other aura types. So justrevisiting the definition of strategy
that I offered in thegenerator lecture that applies to
the other three aura types.Strategy is the way of your vehicle,

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form or body asterisk. Exceptfor the manifestor. Except for the
manifestor, Strategy isactually not mentally strategical.
It's the most organic, simplepractice. And you, you, as in your
mind, your personality, aren'tactually doing it. Your body does
it. Your mind tries tointerfere according to your undefined
center conditioning. Followingyour strategy is really just a tool

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to help you gain awarenessthat this is what your body already
does so that you can surrenderto it. Strategy helps you to watch
the quote problems rather thanto engage with them or get locked
into them. Now, except for themanifesto. Right? So the reason I'm
asking this question, if weknow the strategy for the manifestor
is to inform, and that is thepractical strategy that helps us

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stay in our signature ofpeace, which is true, but it's not
actually the organic way ofthe body like it is for the other
types. As a manifestor, it hasbeen fruitful for me to explore the
question of what then is theorganic way of my body? If it's not
informing, because it's notinforming is a coping mechanism,
then what is it? Andmechanically, the function of the

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manifester is to initiate itis this non sacral, this inconsistent
motor to throat pushing ofenergy, expressing of energy, literal
manifestation, which in humandesign means initiation. I also like
to play with different ideas,like I have different ones come to
mind that I'll play with forlittle bits at a time. These are

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some of the ones that I'veplayed with. I like to play with
these ideas for ways ofengaging with my Auric function,
or I guess watching my Auricfunction, calling in, honing allowing
my Auric function that aren'tbased on my interaction with the
other. Because the strategy ofinforming for manifestors is based
on my interaction with theother, which for the manifester is

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not even about my Auricimperative, right? So manifestors,
even our, our strategy has todo with dealing with other people's
reactions to us and dealingwith other people's discomfort with
our aura. And as an aura typethat is not here to be influenced
by the other, it kind of bugsme that my strategy is about keeping

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others at ease, right? And Ithink that is mechanically, it makes
sense mechanically, that thatwould kind of bug me, right? So as
a manifesto, I want to knowwhat's this, what's the strategy
that I can surrender to justfor myself, just for watching my
own aura move and surrenderingto the way that my own energy and
my Auric function plays out.So here are some of the ones that

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I've played with. Simply havefun, do what I want. And I think
that works quite well. Soinviting other manifestors to play
with that. I also like theidea of wait for the urge, right?
Because everybody else'sstrategy has a wait in front of it,
a wait to respond, wait forthe invitation for projectors, wait
a lunar cycle for reflectors.And for the manifestor, there is

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a lot of waiting. Thereactually is a lot of waiting as we
have inconsistent urges thatcome from our motor centers. They're
not always turned on. I havetalked about a little already and
I have another slide on this,that the default state for manifestors
is rest manifestors as allnon. As is the case for all non sacrals,

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the default state is to be atrest. And a manifestor moves when
an urge comes, interrupts thatrest, and moves the manifester into
action, into initiation. Sothere is actually quite a bit of
waiting in the manifestorexperience. So I've played with the
idea of waiting for the urgeas a strategy as well. I think maybe
it's not as important of athing for manifestors as the idea

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of wait to respond or wait forthe invitation, for example, because
for the other types, they areconditioned to initiate and manifestors
do initiate. So we don'treally have to like tell ourselves
to wait for the urgent, butthen we get conditioned to think
we have to be available torespond all of the time to overly
value invitations that comefrom others. When invitations that

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come from others and thingsthat we respond to as manifestors,
they're always going tocompromise the sanctity and integrity
of the actual urge movingthrough us. Because the correct functionality
for a manifesto is to fromnothing uninfluenced by the outside
forces, be moved internally.Right? And so I have found it useful
to think of this idea of waitfor the urge, because similarly to

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how a generator like it canbehoove a generator to practice just
stopping so that they canrelax into the experience they're
having and see what the sacralwants to respond to in this moment,
rather than moving fromundefined root pressure conditioning
or whatever the conditioningis, it can behoove a generator to
just sit still, still for amoment and see what is my sacral

(48:19):
actually wanting to respond toright now. I think similarly for
a manifester, it can be usefulto stop moving from a place of conditioning,
which is often that nonsacral, not knowing when enough is
enough stuff, so that we canjust relax, let all that extra energy
get out of our bodies, attuneto our own frequency, and then wait

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until we just naturally movehelps me to honor my natural state
of rest as a non sacral. Andanother thing that I have played
with and that I tend to keepin mind as a strategy for me that's
not necessarily about puttingothers at ease, is to relate, connect
and respond in my own time andon my own terms. So it's not that

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like I can't respond to textmessages, or I can't respond to social
media comments, or I can'taccept invitations to hang out with
friends, or invitations forcertain work collaborations. But
if I give myself the time towait for the urge in how I relate,
respond, connect to others, totheir invitations, to the way they

(49:24):
speak to me, then I givemyself the opportunity to enter that
connection, that relationship,that collaboration, whatever it is,
in a mechanically correct way.Because I allowed myself to do it
when I got the urge for it andhow I got the urge to it. So in my
own time and on my own terms,that's been really useful for me

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because for quite a while inmy deconditioning, there was a phase
where I was like very aware ofhow uncomfortable response felt for
me. And it feels like it wasjust a necessary part of my process
and. But I did get a bitdogmatic about it, like, oh, if I
didn't initiate it, then itwon't feel good for me, There's a

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truth to that. But if I takeoff the pressure to respond or not
respond and I Just give thingsspace, kind of just consider everything
as information. If I don'tmove reactively right, then it gives
me the opportunity to justhave all the information move through
my life, inside my closed auraand see perhaps I will move towards

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these things on my own terms.But let's talk about informing because
it is our strategy and it ishugely important in keeping our peace.
Informing is not demanding. Idid not experience this, but apparently
many manifestors go through aphase where they learn about informing
and they just start makingdemands. Informing is not demanding.
Informing protects ourautonomy as manifestors. And autonomy

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is deeply important andcrucial to the manifestor mechanic.
In informing protects ourautonomy, again, by letting people
know this is what's happeningso that they feel at ease, so that
they don't try to interferewith it. But our informing is not
meant to compromise otherpeople's autonomy. Other people have
their own strategy, their ownresponse, their own authority, their

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own process. People are notsupposed to just bend at the pushing
aura of the manifester, right?The manifester informs. This is what's
happening. We create theripple in the pond, but then all
the energy around all thewater in the pond is going to respond
in a way that is correct forthem or not respond in a way that
is correct for them. Soinforming is not demanding. Informing

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is letting people in on what'sabout to happen because they don't
know. Most manifestors do notrealize how much of a closed book
we are because it's not aconscious decision to be closed off
as a manifester. In fact,there are many cases in which manifestors
probably wish that we weren'tclosed off because then we wouldn't

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have to inform and we wouldn'tha. We wouldn't move through the
world making impactaccidentally all the time. You know,
it's sometimes it's exhaustingto have an impact that is constantly
pushing and moving thingsbecause people are reacting everywhere
in our wake and that createsmore things for us to deal with,
right? So we don't realizemanifestors were very just like in

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our own lane, in this closedbubble, like after our peace, in
our own process, we're themost independent of all of the types
and we take for granted thatthat's the case. We don't realize
our impact on others becauseothers do not impact us the way that
we impact them. So it's likeimpossible for us to conceive of

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the extent to which people areimpacted by us and our impact is
unpredictable to them. Soinforming is a courtesy that we offer
to let people in on what'sabout to happen to them. And I bring
up this idea of courtesy, Ithink, with two things in mind. One,
what I've already talkedabout, which is helping to put other

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people at ease, which in turnsupports us and allows us to be more
at ease. But I also bring upthe word courtesy for this other
reason, which is this mightsound a little more like pinchy than
I mean for it to sound.Welcome to listening to a manifestor
talk. But we don't oweinforming to anyone. As a manifester,

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it's a courtesy. It's not ourmechanical strategy. It doesn't always
feel correct for us. It takesenergy that we might not actually
have. You know, sometimes Ifind myself informing and it's part
of an urge, but that's notalways the case. Sometimes I do not
want to be in process withanyone. I don't have energy for that.
And I still inform as acourtesy because I want the people

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in my life to be at easearound me. I want to pay people the
courtesy of letting peopleknow what's about to happen. Coming
back to this idea of what'sabout to happen, this is going to
be different based on themanifestor's authority. Whether they're
an ego manifestor, splenicmanifester, or emotional manifestor,
the feel and the timing ofthis will be different. But generally

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speaking, manifestors, we'renot any more in control of what's
happening than the othertypes. It's just that we get the
cue from inside whileeverybody else gets the cue or the
invitation or whatever it isfrom outside. So when we're letting
people know what's gonnahappen, we're not saying this feeds
into, not demanding. We're notsaying, I want this to happen. You
know, we're saying, oh, it.This seems to be what's happening.

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Oh, I am going over here.We're just kind of narrating. That's
how it feels to me, just kindof like narrating my process as I
go. Informing is anacknowledgment of both our impact
and our closeness. So thiscourtesy that manifestors can pay
to others of informing them isan acknowledgement that, hey, I know
I have impact. I know that theway I move through the world affects

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those around me in a biggerway than the way some of the other
aura types move through theworld. And it's an acknowledgement
that you can't read thatright. And so if you're a manifester,
fresh to the system, you mightnot be ready to acknowledge your
impact and your closenessbecause again, inside of this bubble,
behind this brick wall, insideof this closed aura, we don't realize

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the level of our impact and wedon't realize that we're closed.
So if it doesn't resonate withyou right now, then don't inform.
You know, again, it's acourtesy. When you start to see the
mechanics of your closed andrepelling aura, then when you. Then
you'll start to notice itmight be useful to the people around
me and thus to myself for meto offer this courtesy. So don't

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respond, manifestors to mytalking about informing. You inform
on your own terms if and whenthe urge arises for you to start
playing with it andexperimenting with it. Informing
is a way to put others atease, which allows them to consider
or remember the manifestor'shumanity. You'll hear oftentimes
manifestors talk about, orpeople talk about how inside of this

(56:09):
closed aura, we're verysensitive. Manifestors are sensitive
beings who as children tendedto be. I'm getting emotional thinking
about it, talking about it aschildren tended to be ostracized
because of our closeness,because of the threat that we posed,
parents trying to control us,punishing us more, more harshly than

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other children were punished,teachers doing the same, authority
figures, peers doing the same.Part of the anger for manifestors
comes from, I guess, one wayto phrase it. The way it's showing
up for me in this moment islike feeling like I have to advocate
for my humanity. But I spentquite a bit of time in my deconditioning

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there, like, feeling kind ofvictimized by that. And eventually,
as I watched the mechanics, asI observed other manifestors in the
way that they felt to me, as Iconsidered in retrospect, the way
that people in my life haveloved me and felt threatened by me,
or loved me or felt threatenedby me, I've been able to watch the
mechanics of this withoutfeeling victimized by it. I've been

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able to come to a place whereI see that my instinct to feel that
I need to advocate for myhumanity is not anyone's fault. It's
mechanically what happens thatmy aura pushes. And I don't have
to blame anyone or takepersonally that that happens. But
what I can do to put others atease is just let people know, hey,

(57:35):
I'm not going to hurt you.This is what's happening. Hey, I'm
open to this. I'm moving inthis direction. Here's what I'm about
to do. You can maybe comealong or you can politely move out
of the way. Because this iswhat's happening and I don't want
to hurt you. I don't want tosteamroll you. But I'm doing this
because this is where mybody's moving me. You're getting
the manifester download froman emotional manifester, so there's
a lot of emotions wound up init. I see it from many different

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places depending on where I amin my emotional process. And overall,
the clarity I have on all ofthis has a lot of depth and a lot
of dimensions to it as anemotional manifestor.
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