Appendix B

The Case of Human Design Online, Inc., and Gennaro Brooks-Church

The case of Ilse Sendler and the German-speaking Human Design professional community treated in Section A is the most thoroughly documented instance of the institutional erasure mechanism, but it is not the earliest. A prior case, asymmetrically documented and shorter in its visible institutional life, concerns Human Design Online, Inc., an early online HD education and consultation entity directed by Gennaro Brooks-Church, active under that designation through at least September 2013, and visible in the post-2010 IHDS institutional record only as an absence.

B.1. The Documentary Position in September 2013

On September 25, 2013, a Dutch Human Design practitioner named Jan van den Berg compiled and circulated through the Human Design America Facebook group a 128-page community reference document titled Our Cloud Online.¹ The document was structured as a numbered index of Human Design figures, organizations, and resources active in the community at the time of compilation, with each entry identified by name and accompanied by brief contextual notes, role designations, and active URLs. The index listed more than 116 named figures by sequential number.

Entry )78 in the index reads, in relevant part: “Gennaro Brooks-Church, director Human Design Online.” The URL attached to the entry, humandesign.com/message-from-the-hdo-director, confirms that the role designation was self-attached by Brooks-Church himself, on the public-facing domain operated by HDO. The same index further lists twenty-five distinct chart readings authored by Brooks-Church and published on humandesign.com, identified in van den Berg’s compilation by reading numbers 8, 15 through 26, 39 through 42, 45, 46, and 49. This is a body of work representing substantial public HD analysis activity conducted through HDO’s institutional infrastructure in the period leading up to and through 2013.

The presence of HDO in the September 2013 community record establishes, at minimum, that the entity was operating with sufficient public visibility for an external community archivist to identify its director, list its principal URL, and catalogue its publicly distributed work product. Ilse Sendler appears in the same index at entry )85, three years after her August 2010 administrative erasure from IHDS records, retaining her position in the community-circulated documentary record despite her absence from the institutional one.

B.2. The Self-Reported Pre-1992 Relationship

In a public endorsement preserved on the LinkedIn professional networking platform, an unnamed colleague characterized Brooks-Church as having “personally knew (from childhood on) and studied with the revealer of Human Design, Robert Alan Krakower, aka: Ra Uru Hu.”² The endorsement places Brooks-Church within the small set of figures whose acquaintance with Ra predated the public emergence of the Human Design System in 1992.

The framing, childhood acquaintance plus subsequent study, locates Brooks-Church in the same documentary category as Martin Grassinger’s coalition statement reviewed in Section A.9: “I knew Ra before the HDS was in the world. Ra introduced me to the HDS at the early stages of its development.” Where Grassinger’s pre-HDS relationship to Ra is corroborated by the coalition record signed by sixteen named witnesses, Brooks-Church’s pre-1992 relationship to Ra rests on his own representation and a third-party endorsement of unknown provenance. The relationship is consistent with what is otherwise known of the pre-institutional period, Ra’s teaching activity in the late 1980s and early 1990s drew on personal acquaintances and family connections from Ibiza and earlier networks, but is not independently established.

B.3. Absence from the Post-2010 IHDS Record

The post-2010 IHDS structure under Lynda Bunnell maintains a public registry of certified Human Design professionals on its website at ihdschool.com. The registry is the formal public record of who, by IHDS designation, is recognized to teach and offer Human Design services. Gennaro Brooks-Church does not appear in this public registry.³

The absence from the public registry places Brooks-Church outside the formal institutional structure of the IHDS as it consolidated under Bunnell’s directorship from 2010 onward. He was not, in any publicly documented sense, a participant in the IHDS recognition system. No public record shows him as a signatory of the agreements that, after 2010, became the principal contractual instruments by which Human Design professionals were administratively constituted as IHDS-recognized.

B.4. The Disappearance of HDO as Institutional Entity

Human Design Online, Inc., the entity through which Brooks-Church operated the humandesign.com domain and the body of HD work documented in van den Berg’s September 2013 index, does not appear as an institutional component of the post-2010 IHDS structure. The IHDS public-facing materials do not reference HDO. The IHDS does not list HDO as an affiliated school, an authorized online platform, a predecessor entity, or a source of any of the educational assets, course materials, or domain properties that the post-2010 institutional structure subsequently maintained. HDO is, in the post-2010 IHDS institutional record, an absence.

The mechanism by which HDO ceased to operate within the public-facing infrastructure of the Human Design System has not been documented in materials available to the author. No public contractual instrument records the transfer of HDO’s assets, domain, or member relationships to Jovian Archive Corporation or the IHDS. No public communication records the dissolution of HDO as an entity. The humandesign.com domain itself, in the years following 2013, has had an ownership history that public WHOIS records partially trace but do not fully clarify.⁴

What can be established from the documentary record is the following. In September 2013, HDO was a publicly active institutional structure within the Human Design community, operating a domain that anchored substantial public HD educational and consultation activity, with Brooks-Church visibly identified in community-circulated reference materials as its director. By the time the post-2010 IHDS structure had matured, HDO had ceased to appear in the institutional record. The pre-existing institutional position and the post-2010 absence are both documentary facts. The mechanism connecting them is not.

The HDO case corroborates, with the asymmetry of documentation available to it, the pattern documented at greater length in Section A. The features of the erasure mechanism identified in Section A.11, assertion of institutional authority not grounded in enforceable instruments, withdrawal of recognition without documented contract termination, replacement of pre-existing institutional structures by post-2010 IHDS-aligned figures and entities, reliance on oral transmission of authority from Ra rather than documentary instruments, and absence of any public communication recording the dissolution or transfer of the pre-existing structures, apply to the HDO case in the form available to the documentary record. The case differs from Sendler’s principally in the asymmetry of what was preserved. Where Sendler and her coalition preserved the documentary record of their administrative erasure on a public archive at ra.uru.hu, no equivalent preservation exists for HDO. The pattern of disappearance is structurally similar; the witness who would document it is, in this case, missing.