The Knowing Circuit of the Individual Circuit Group

This stream gives deeply intuitive knowing that helps a person find unusual and often correct solutions in any situation. Its key qualities are mutative knowing (the altering of reality), the empowering of those around them, unpredictability, and, along with all of this, melancholy. Such a person is necessary to the world — they are the most vivid example of how the uniqueness of a single individual can transform the collective unconscious. An inimitable personality who is forever pursuing their own ideals, and who, in doing so, draws other people to them. A kind of beacon of the power of Individuality, shining brightly amid the drabness and sameness of the human world.

The role of those who carry definition in the Knowing Circuit lies in finding their strength by living out their own nature. They also empower others by setting an individual example of their own uniqueness. And their unique way of life requires an audience in order to bring mutative change into the world. They must be seen and recognized in their uniqueness.

As the name of the circuit suggests, this inspired, intuitive knowing — present in every moment along with the passionate or melancholic movement of the emotional wave — takes the form of a mutative influence on others through the thoughts and behavior of the individual. This is what makes the unpredictability, creativity, and uniqueness of the Individual’s knowing so inspiring in every moment of time. Individuality has no interest in perfecting things, mastering skills, or organizing anything whatsoever: these are all themes of the Collective. Individuality is the birth of something entirely new, carrying the potential for transformation both for the Individual themselves and for everyone around them.

The nature of Individual knowing is such that it suddenly comes and goes: either it is there, or it is not. This knowing can be an answer or a correct direction. For an Individual mutation to take hold, and for its significance and applicability to become clear, time must pass. The capacity for mutation inherent in all the channels and gates of the Individual Circuit Group depends on the on/off pulse of sudden awareness. Mutation works in a pulse that cannot be controlled and cannot be foreseen. The fixed timing of the conservative Collective Circuit and the hierarchical nature of the Tribal Circuit protect them from uncontrollable mutation. And both of these groups are compelled to look to the Individual as the leading force of change and transformation, the force that helps them avoid getting stuck and keep moving forward in the evolutionary process. Yet this energy of the new, which leads the Collective and the Tribal into change, is kept under watch and remains open to criticism. This is why the ability of Individuals to explain their knowing is so essential.

Individuals are often admired for their otherness and envied for the attention they receive. Their path is vulnerable, deeply personal, and at times full of loneliness. What is more, Individuals may never even come to know that they are making anyone stronger at all.

The Centering Circuit from the Individual Group

This stream gives a feeling of inner wholeness, the fullness of one’s personal “self,” and an unshakable confidence in one’s words and actions. A person with an overwhelming number of activations in this stream almost always does only what is correct for them personally. Other people’s opinions hold no interest — only their own desires and convictions matter. This egocentric stance motivates and inspires others by example, prompting them to follow their own dreams as well.

The Centering Circuit is one of the two small but important circuits of the BodyGraph. The 10–34 Channel transforms the way a person lives in the world, while on the other side, the 25–51 Channel transforms the way a person benefits from the world they live in. The Centering Circuit is focused on the G Center, specifically on identity and one’s direction. It is concentrated on empowering people in their love for themselves and in following their own unique path in life by trusting their Sacral Response. Simply by doing what is correct for them, they inspire and empower others to be themselves.

People who are healthy and authentic within are able to inspire everyone. Only a centered, integrated “self” has the power, through its own example of living, to bring mutation to the Collective and the Tribal. Without a continuous process of mutation on different levels, there would be no evolution. People with definition in the Centering Circuit — if they are unable to be a driver of healthy change in others’ behavior — often sink into melancholy and loneliness. However, if they allow their Strategy to ground and align them within their own unique design, they can become a profound and empowering example of self-love and of a full, individual, authentic life.

You may notice that this circuit has no awareness centers — no Head, no Throat, and no Root Center. This circuit is entirely centered in responding to life.

Survival of the Individual

This family of energies within a person is a concentrated drive for the individual to survive and to secure their own future. It is a somewhat different form of self-centeredness than that of the Individual Circuit. To see the whole picture, let us talk about that circuit first. The Individual Circuit, for all its self-sufficiency, is compelled to perform and to believe in its own image solely in order to be attractive to others—a kind of role model, a figure to be admired. Always and everywhere it remains deeply alone, but only so as not to be knocked off its own wave and, by riding that wave, to draw the attention of others more strongly, to gain authority, and thereby to empower those around it with its individuality.

And now about the Integration Circuit itself: such a person uses individualism and self-sufficiency as tools for their own survival and success. The Integration Circuit holds one of the key conditions for securing the future of the human species: “if you want to continue the line, you must secure a reliable existence for yourself.” And even this seemingly selfish person is simply an agent of nature’s will. They care only about their own good, yet in reality they make an enormous contribution to the development of the entire species.

A person who carries most of their activations in the Integration Circuit does not stop to think about how they affect others or what they might teach them. They have no interest in interpersonal interaction; they go their own way, occasionally crossing paths with others, and part without any sentiment from everyone they happen to meet. There is a certain mystical power in this: by not dwelling on who they will meet the future with or who they spent the past with, such a person is more able than others to stay in the present moment. To live here and now.

Of all the channels, this is the most complex system. It joins together four channels that form the structure of the BodyGraph like a spine, and it creates the key defense mechanism of the form. Integration is the core component of the process of individuation—the process that sets us apart from others. Without it, we might never have been able to differentiate ourselves from our ancient ancestors. The Channel of Integration feeds humanity’s evolutionary process within every individual, including the active and full expression of our form’s life force.

With the superkey of self-empowerment, the Channel of Integration is wholly absorbed in self-preservation and in strengthening individual nature, expression, knowing, direction/identity, and one’s own behavior. The survival of the individual and the motivation to express one’s uniqueness are the foundation for securing the survival of the Tribe and the Collective in the process of mutation.

The natural basic reflexes built into Integration convince us that we can trust the life held within us when it is empowered by response (Gate 34) through correct behavior (Gate 10), grounded in intuition (Gate 57), and expressed in the present (Gate 20). Using the keys of the Channel of Integration, we can see how this wholeness says: “By loving myself and listening to my intuition in the present, I grow stronger.” Or: “Through response and intuitively correct behavior, I survive in any circumstances of the present.” People with definition in the Channel of Integration look after their own empowerment and emphatically express their self-reliance and self-confidence, accepting another’s guidance only with difficulty. Their right to express their independence must be respected.

The Understanding Circuit of the Collective Group

This stream describes a person with well-developed logic and cognitive abilities. Such a person treats the lessons of the past and accumulated experience as a means of reaching some goal in the future. Like a scientist, this person has a well-developed sense of skepticism, critical thinking, and doubt. They are willing to repeat and dig into a question of interest again and again in order to be sure that the means and methods being used actually work.

The theme of the Understanding Circuit is a logical, cold, yet appealing rationality, grounded in pattern recognition through a focus on details — analyzing processes and formulas and challenging whatever does not work. Logic makes it possible to predict, with a certain degree of reliability, what can be expected from the future after one action or another.

Understanding comes with time. It requires material support, discipline, and the development of skills in order to improve and lock in a pattern, or to perfect an ability, a plan, or a formula. Logic needs both resources (which usually come from the outside — not from the circuit itself) and practice in order to unlock its potential and make its contribution, part of which is to lead humanity into a safe future. When logic is freed from conditioning, it is able to share the formulas and hypotheses of the Understanding Circuit, along with its perspectives and its doubts about the future.

Unlike its mirror — the abstract and empirical Sensing Circuit — the logic of the Understanding Circuit does not come into contact with the heat and passion of the Solar Plexus. The Understanding Circuit belongs to the cold part of the BodyGraph, although the stability of logic does bring a deep satisfaction that is not available to the empirical side. When we witness that “one plus one equals two” and that such a pattern is reliable, a collective joy arises. When logic works, it is a pleasure comparable to finding the last piece of a puzzle, and that is the appealing side of logic for the Collective.

The Sensing Circuit of the Collective Group

This stream deals with the process of empirical knowing, of gathering experience. A person with an overwhelming number of activations in the Sensing Circuit is driven not so much by a hunger to find a working pattern and results as by the very process of coming to know something. This doesn’t necessarily have to be tied to making improvements — it can simply be life experiments, trying this thing or that. Such a person looks at their mistakes without much distress, finding in them merely ways that don’t work. An innovator who has no use for conservatism and who, at every convenient opportunity, seeks to do familiar things in unfamiliar ways. With the right attitude toward their life experiments, they become a true treasury of mistakes and successes, drawing lessons from everything that happens to them.

The Abstract Sensing Circuit, to which an abstract empirical process corresponds. Here we share emotional and spiritual human experience. Such is humanity’s empirical path — a joyful, but at times risky, ride through an endless succession of opportunities to explore, gather, and share the experience of being. If we enter each new experience with purity and clarity, we feel a deep sense of self-realization, we live a healthy life, and we feel at home in the world. In a larger sense, life itself will be realized through us, and our reflections on the events that have happened will become valuable lessons for everyone else.

Logic is built around theories and rules that establish harmony in society, but the Abstract holds that artificial limitations suppress the experience humanity needs in order to develop. Logic carries a need for refinement. The Abstract, by contrast, is motivated by the completion of cycles — first one experience must be finished, and only then can it move on to the next. Logic is incapable of manifesting, whereas for the Abstract process it is possible. However, what the Abstract manifests is subject to the emotional wave, with its movement from longed-for anticipation toward disappointment and boredom. Both ends of the wave successfully drive humanity toward progress, toward new horizons.

The Understanding Circuit has constant access to the Splenic awareness of survival and to Logic, with its process of testing evidence and then sharing the patterns that refine our future. This process is usually associated with the sciences. The Sensing Circuit, in turn, is focused on the desire for experience (often with a sexual undertone) that fosters emotional growth and the development of relationships. Experience doesn’t have to make sense, but it must be independent and be shared with others from beginning to end. The Abstract process is connected with fields such as anthropology and literature. From Logic’s point of view, the Abstract empirical path is something chaotic and superfluous.

The Sensing Circuit does not include the Spleen, which could have provided stability and security to the Abstract process. Experience rests on a groundless emotional desire to do something new and exciting together with others. When nothing changes, boredom and restlessness set in. Crisis is one of the ways to force something to change. This is what makes the Abstract Circuit the most “human” of all the processes. Reflecting on experience is the most powerful Collective force driving the evolution of life on the planet. Without this force, we would never have developed into the conscious, differentiated, and complex beings that we are.

Reflecting on past Collective experience becomes the milestones of our history. People with definition in the Sensing Circuit are genetically programmed to become a treasury of wisdom, and they cannot grasp the meaning of life until it actually happens. This is our unique human capacity to choose, to remember, and to put forward historical perspectives for consideration. We select the part of lived experience that we deem valuable. It is the art of condensing and clearly articulating the past in ways that can be shared in the moment and that illuminate the future. Every perspective, every lesson learned, adds a line to the script along which the drama of life continues to unfold. Retelling human history greatly accelerates our process of learning, and no child should have to start from a blank slate.

The Protection Circuit of the Tribal Group

This stream carries the idea directly tied to the continuation of the species, the conception of children, and the shaping of our species’ gene pool. For a person like this, one thing is clear: nothing has any meaning without the birth of new members of humanity. All the knowledge and experience a civilization has gathered is mere dust that will scatter on the winds of time when the last human being passes away. All that will remain are books with no one left to read them, and the ruins of a once-glorious species. The task of the Protection Circuit is to protect the human tribe from extinction, to bring forth new members of society, passing on the endless relay of life. Such a person is devoted to caring for offspring and continuing the species.

The Protection Circuit consists of the Channel of Mating (reproduction) and the Channel of Preservation (caring for what we have produced). The visual image of a cradle, which the Protection Circuit forms in the BodyGraph, is a fitting metaphor for its reproducing and nurturing role in sustaining humanity’s future through the birth and preservation of life on the planet. The genetic program of the Protection Circuit gave rise to the theory of the “selfish gene” that preserves the continuity of our species. Yet quite often this can manifest at the expense of our personal lives. Nothing drives humanity so powerfully as the genetic imperative to produce more, embedded in the Channel of Mating (59-6). The emotional wave that partly amplifies this imperative is still not conscious, and in its blindness it can sow chaos.

Children are the result of an unstable emotional mechanism for sustaining life on the planet. The Channel of Preservation (27-50) grounds the survival of the Tribe in Splenic awareness with a sober reminder that we are responsible for nurturing and preserving what the emotional and empirical Channel of Mating has created or generated. In this way, offspring will reach maturity and will in turn be able to give more, keeping the gene pool viable so that our bioform can continue to evolve. This is the Tribe’s main contribution to evolving consciousness. No other circuit or circuit group carries this genetic imperative, nor is any equipped, as the Tribe is, to nurture what has been created.

The Ego Circuit of the Tribal Group

This stream is the backbone of the tribe. A person like this supports and develops the practical, material world. He doesn’t dream of conquering peaks, of being first, of surpassing other people. What he needs is a roof over his head and the chance to live a stable, steady life. Such a person can feel the joy of life only when his home life is settled and secure, when nothing threatens his everyday reality. This is also about two destinies sharing a single life path, when a person who belongs to the Ego Circuit is in a relationship and is certain that with this chosen partner he is ready to carry on the family line. “Show me what we’ll eat, where we’ll live and raise our children, give me what I need for overall stability, and then we’ll talk about our future.” Practicality geared toward the survival of the tribe.

The Ego Circuit protectively surrounds the Defense Circuit. Understanding the power of material and communal support, through which the Ego Circuit feeds the processes of reproduction and nurturing within the Defense Circuit, gives us a clearer picture of the nature and scale of the Tribe’s contribution to our evolution.

On its own, the Ego Circuit has neither a defined Sacral, with its capacity to generate life, nor any connection to the mental awareness of the Ajna Center. The main center of the Ego Circuit is the Heart, or Ego Center. The central focus of this circuit’s five channels is the willpower of the Ego — namely, the will to go out into the world, provide for one’s needs, and earn one’s rest.

Through the Ego Circuit we can trace the development of two philosophically opposing points of view, which begin in the Root Center and meet in the Tribal heart of the Ego Center. Each approach defines one of the two forces of Tribal support. We live out both the spiritual dimension of communal life, with the family at its core — made up of different generations and grounded in the traditional hierarchy of blood kinship — and the ambition and materialism of enterprise. It is within this circuit that the mystical and mysterious is cultivated on one side, and the material and worldly on the other. The Ego Circuit is also where we find the pragmatism of capitalism and the ideals of socialism and communism.

Together, these two paths point to an underlying truth that waits to be revealed within the Ego Circuit — spirit hidden within worldly life. Living fully in accordance with our true nature, in every moment of our earthly lives, becomes a magical process that quietly reveals our connection to spirit and to the totality of all that is.