Witnesses · Devoted, at a stated distance
Alokanand Diaz
The system’s Spanish voice: translator of the Black Book into Spanish, and a collaborator of some seventeen years.
Relationship to the founder
Diaz met the founder by chance at a coffee terrace in San Juan, Ibiza, in the early 1990s, every table full except the founder’s, and sat down. “Very soon, I realized, ‘This guy knows something.’” He took out a bank loan to translate the Black Book into Spanish, the second translator in this history to go into debt for the system’s first instruments, and worked beside the founder for some seventeen years.
What they say
His first reading opened with “Everything in your life turns around patterns”; the founder told the compulsive meditator across the table that “meditation is not good for you,” and instructed him to “stop struggling with your mind. Struggle with your body… If you really want to change something, then do something. Don’t discuss.”
The chart the founder read from had been calculated an hour wrong; only after Diaz had given his own first thirty readings did the founder correct it, with the words “I have a surprise for you. You are a doer.” A system staking everything on the exactness of the birth moment had launched its Spanish translator on a chart an hour off, and the founder shrugged it right.
He drew the line that defines the founder’s intimacies: “I never spoke about Ra like he was my friend… A friend is the one thing I never allowed him to be.” And he is the Spanish side’s witness to the rupture years: “Around 2000, Ra suddenly disappeared from Ibiza and popped up in America. He did not say a word to anyone.” The reconciliation, when it came, was wordless too: at a teacher training back in San Juan, “as I came in the door, he stood up, walked towards me, and hugged me. All my grudges were gone.” (Recorded interviews, Human Design Collective Podcast, 2020, parts one and two.)
How the account is weighed
Interest: Devoted, at a stated distance A devoted long-term collaborator who nonetheless kept, and names, a deliberate distance. His hour-wrong chart is carried in his own telling and sits, unresolved, beside the system’s claim that the birth moment must be exact; the book records the coincidence without adjudicating it.
Sources
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