This register lists the principal publicly accessible sources the book rests on, grouped by kind. It is a reader’s guide, not an exhaustive bibliography; specific citations appear in the footnotes to each chapter. The discipline described in the Note on Sources governs throughout: the load-bearing evidence is public and checkable, and where a claim rests on a single interested witness or on material that cannot be independently verified, the footnotes say so.
The founder’s own works and recordings
Ra Uru Hu, The Human Design System (“the Black Book”), New Sun Services Ibiza, copyright 1991 (generally given as 1992): the first publication of the system, including the Rave Charts, the Rave I Ching, and the Juxtaposition Unified Theory.
Ra Uru Hu and Lynda Bunnell, The Definitive Book of Human Design: The Science of Differentiation, HDC Publishing, 2011: the system’s principal reference work.
Recorded lectures, interviews, and seminars, circa 1993 to 2010, including the introductory “set lecture” delivered across many cities; the “Gray Courses” given in the German-speaking countries (the earliest surviving transcript from Munich, December 1995); the “Rat’s Tales” autobiographical recordings; the interview conducted by his son Loki; the late “last physical tour” basic trainings; the “Mystic Monologues” and Rave Cosmology materials; and the lecture “Neo-Narcissism.” These are catalogued, with quotations and placement notes, in the book’s source records. Each quotation was verified against the recording.
The system’s institutional publications and pages
Jovian Archive (jovianarchive.com), the official site of the rights-holder, including the founder’s biography, the terms and conditions asserting exclusive worldwide rights, and the system’s self-descriptions; myBodyGraph (mybodygraph.com); the International Human Design School (ihdschool.com); the BG5 Business Institute (bg5businessinstitute.com); Human Design America (humandesignamerica.com).
The founding network’s own records
The German Human Design community history and obituary pages (humandesignsystem.de), establishing the founding roles and chart-rights of Jürgen Saupe, the software of Erik Memmert, and the early organizing of the German-speaking network; New SunWare (newsunware.com), publisher of the original software; the first-person account of the American founders (humandesignsystem.com); the Human Design Austria archive associated with Ilse Sendler, which preserved the contracts, the founder’s 2008 email, and the 2010 licensing letter.
Court, trademark, and corporate records
Tribunale di Firenze, Sezione Imprese, R.G. 2756/2020 (cron. 944/2020), decided June 3, 2020, before Judge Niccolò Calvani: the copyright ruling. United States Patent and Trademark Office records for the applications on “The Human Design System” (serial 98217560, filed 2023, abandoned 2024; and the earlier 2004 application, abandoned 2006), for the design marks on the mandala-and-BodyGraph image (serials 78500739 and 88009411), and for the 2025 composite registrations (serials 97606650 and 97639098), via the Trademark Status and Document Retrieval system. Corporate-registry records for Jovian Archive Media Pte. Ltd. (Singapore) and Jovian Archive Media Inc. (Ontario/California).
Public databases and biographical records
Astro-Databank (astro.com/astro-databank), the public astrological database cataloguing the founder, including the researcher’s notes on the birth-time variants and the Quebec registry; the Montreal newspaper record (a 1969 marriage announcement, a 1971 university convocation notice, a 1973 job-appointment notice) and the 2011 death notice.
Books and published works drawn on or discussed
Richard Wilhelm and Cary F. Baynes, The I Ching, or Book of Changes (Bollingen, 1950); Martin Schönberger, The I Ching and the Genetic Code: The Hidden Key to Life (1973); Chetan Parkyn, Human Design: Discover the Person You Were Born to Be (HarperCollins, 2009); Jonah Dempcy, The Human Design Cult (2025); Eleanor Haspel-Portner, Marvin Portner, and Ra Uru Hu, The Science of Human Design (Noble Sciences, 2025); Jan van den Berg, Ra Uru Hu: His Story & Efforts (2024) and related compilations; Don C. Andrews, Chilling Out in Ibiza (2019).
Academic, skeptical, and press notice
J. R. Hustwit, “Human Design” and transreligious synthesis, Open Theology (2016); a 2021 article in a Swiss journal of gynecological endocrinology treating the system as a counseling instrument; “Human Design,” Wikipedia, and the skeptical reference literature (including Robert Carroll’s Skeptic’s Dictionary); Steve Rhodes on the founder’s prophecies; Kindred Spirit (2000); Vice and lifestyle-press trend coverage; Chetan Parkyn, “Blacklisted,” Osho News (2015).
The companion volume
ZENO: Zeno Dickson and the Erasure of Human Design’s Teachers (2026), the companion institutional history, where several facts established at length in this book are documented in full, and through which the underlying public sources can be traced.