How the system changed in other hands. A comparative reference to the lineages that grew from Ra Uru Hu’s Human Design, mapped author by author. This is a free sample of the opening; the complete reference is on Kindle Unlimited.
A note on method
This reference does one thing the existing literature does not: it sets the versions of Human Design side by side. The institution that holds the original work presents a single canon. Each independent author presents their own. No neutral, sourced map of all of them exists. This is that map.
The discipline is the same as the companion volumes. Each entry keeps separate what the public record establishes, what an author says of their own work, and what that work claims in its own terms. Sources are public and linkable. Where an author’s account of their own break from Ra is the only evidence, it is reported as their account, not as settled fact. Nothing here adjudicates whether any version is true; the aim is to show accurately what each one is, where it came from, and how it differs from the others.
A word on what this reference reproduces. Ideas, methods, and systems are not the kind of thing copyright protects, a point an Italian court made explicitly in the litigation over Human Design itself. This reference therefore summarizes and compares freely, and quotes only brief, attributed fragments of any author’s text. No author was approached for comment; the record relied on is what each has published or said publicly.
The systems at a glance
The whole field on one screen. Each row is a version of Human Design; the columns show where it stands in relation to Ra Uru Hu’s original. A few rows are shown here as a sample; the full table and the author-by-author entries continue in the book.
| System | Author / holder | Origin | Relationship to Ra | Keeps | Changes or drops |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human Design (the canon) | Ra Uru Hu; Jovian Archive, IHDS | 1987 encounter; 1992 book; 1997 Types | The source | The whole system | Defines the standard |
| Gene Keys | Richard Rudd | begun c. 2002; book 2011 | Direct student | The 64 I Ching / genetic structure | Drops BodyGraph mechanics, Types, Strategy and Authority; adds Shadow, Gift, Siddhi |
| Quantum Human Design | Karen Curry Parker | studied from 1999; built in the 2010s | Independent student | The full mechanics, intact | Renames terms in positive language; reframes purpose toward growth |
| Noble Sciences / Beyond Human Design | Eleanor Haspel-Portner | 1996 entry; 1999 study; system since 2002 | Collaborator turned dissenter | Type and the chart skeleton | Rejects the “not-self”; adds the Tree-of-Life four worlds |
| The pre-1993 root | Zeno Dickson, Chaitanyo | before the 1993 founding | The soil the canon grew from | The original teaching | Not a divergence; the root, erased from the record (see ZENO) |
The complete reference maps fifteen versions this way, then gives each one a full entry: where it came from, who its author learned from, what it keeps and changes, what it claims, how it works in practice, and where it stands today. It closes with a genealogy of who learned from whom, the fault lines that divide the field, and a reader’s guide to where each path begins.
Read the complete comparative reference on Kindle Unlimited. The companion volumes are The Voice on Ibiza (the origin) and ZENO (the erasure).