The July 25, 2003 Letter

The “Misrepresentation” Letter and the Erasure Mechanism

On the morning of July 25, 2003, Ra Uru Hu circulated an email to every certified Human Design practitioner worldwide. The subject line was “Misrepresentation.” The letter named three people: Zeno Dickson, Chaitanyo Taschler, and Eleanor Haspel-Portner.

The letter is preserved in Chaitanyo Taschler’s archive at humandesignsystem.com and is quoted in the public record by multiple parties. Its operative passage:

“Jovian Archive does not in any way support these individuals nor does it recognize any of their teaching. The IHDS (International Human Design Schools) does not recognize them or any of their students. Any IHDS registered professional publicly listed with these organizations has until September 1, 2003 to end their association. After this date, to protect the general public from confusion, professionals listed with these organizations will be removed from the IHDS official register of Human Design professionals.”

— Ra Uru Hu, “Misrepresentation” letter, July 25, 2003

Three documentary features of this letter bear on the institutional record:

First, the letter refers to the IHDS as “International Human Design Schools” — plural — consistent with the plural national-schools structure documented in Section 3 of the public record. The singular “International Human Design School” came later; the domain ihdschool.com was not registered until June 16, 2010.

Second, the mechanism described — removal from the official register of Human Design professionals — was not a legal remedy. The 1993 contract Ra had drafted and signed in Zeno and Chaitanyo’s Taos kitchen named them his exclusive U.S. representatives. That contract was not terminated by the 2003 letter; it was not suspended; no legal proceeding is in the public record. What was effected was an administrative erasure: removal of names from a directory.

Third, the deadline imposed — six weeks, September 1, 2003 — functioned as a loyalty test. Practitioners who had trained through New Sun Services America and who wished to remain in the institutional directory had to publicly disassociate from their teachers. The mechanism was social and economic rather than legal.

Interpretation The 2003 letter established a pattern of institutional response that recurred in 2010 against Ilse Sendler and Human Design Austria (see Section 3 of the public record), and in 2015–2016 against German-speaking professionals who declined to sign contracts with the IHDS-recognized entity HD Services. In each case, the mechanism was administrative erasure rather than legal termination: contracts remained in force while institutional recognition was withdrawn.