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My brief Commentary on The Reflector by Lynda Bunnell (Definitive Book)

as seen on facebook here:
https://www.facebook.com/generatoroflove/posts/pfbid034X3yKmGi4cvoWoofeTYdABh5e6MwgMyEQzi859wQPy8vq6RSTo7Vuxqo6v41aeFBl

And now ask a few Reflectors how much of this writing is magical thinking or simply wishful thinking? How much is (f)actual…

btw the text is a direct copy of ‘The Definitive Book’ which without DreamRave Variables and Cosmology is not so definitive, but read some of these descriptions in the quote above, and then consider duality, because the text clearly does not.

Like this one: “Reflectors are here to enliven and lift up the energy of others.”
that is wishful thinking, and most only ever written by non-Reflectors.

Can you imagine the newbie Reflector coming into a group of HD people, and they don’t enliven or lift up their energy. This innocent Reflector will be called not-self. And Reflectors have been already called this, because of these nonsensical descriptions.

And then there is a few ‘ifs” in there too, pre-conditions to be met, or else. And those ifs and the causality (if this then that, results), are simply magical thinking. It does not exist, and there is no proof for any of that.

I wrote about some of these Reflector fantasies here before: https://www.mcha.nl/2015/07/29/moonblog-58-4-focusing/

Another one
“Reflectors can be so attuned to the transit program that they can also measure other’s attunement to it. They sense who is living authentically, or who has been conditioned by the transit field and become a victim of it. The more people allow their lives to be conditioned by the transits, the farther away they are from fulfilling their unique potential.”

a multi-parter: “Reflectors can be so attuned to the transit program that they can also measure other’s attunement to it.”

I don’t think so, how… whut, I mean, come on !

“They sense who is living authentically”

absolutely impossible, duality and differentiation make this impossible for me to gauge yours, ever, period.

“or who has been conditioned by the transit field”

how can one NOT be conditioned? It does not exist

“and become a victim of it.”

Sure

“The more people allow their lives to be conditioned by the transits, the farther away they are from fulfilling their unique potential.”

fucking bullshit because you can not escape conditioning. Everyone is all the time conditioned by it, but the effect of it, even if yes you are an active filtering agent of everything, aka one plusone, you plus whatever is happening, makes for a perceived experience. The effect of oneplusone is not a mathematical formula. HD is not math.

To pretend HD is math, makes it into a religion.

You can only not live accordingly (to the conditioning of the Transits), however, even this is not a given, at all, far from it.

But and, what then, has the attunement with the program to do with anything? ‘attunement with the program’ is this not the exact same as living according to the conditioning? What is this attunement and what is it for Reflectors, or about them, it makes no sense. And then others do this too, so why does it matter that Reflectors can measure your attunement? (which we can not) It is vague and gibberish.

All this makes HD into a religion, filled with rituals of do’s and don’ts

And then there is the 4% of 4%, ones Trajectory, (and no choice) determines whether or not you live according to your HD, or not. Which is fine, Duality (and differentiation) once more. To vilify the not-self, or even/also some effects of mechanics we have no control over is just plain ridiculous.

The text is very long, and I have limited energy, maybe some other time I find the energy to comment on the whole thing (or if someone initiates me into it)

Environment is a frequency, not a place

Environment is a frequency, not a place (it is not atomic) and thus it does not ‘look like’ anything.

Human Design describes a few mechanics as a context, but you cognize it, with the Tone of your Environment.

However, it is also a domino, so if you do not live your S&A, to even apply your PHS, the Color frequency between your Design Crystal and Magnetic Monopole is off. To live your Design, to apply PHS and Environment is what helps stabilize this frequency.

And after a little while of implementing the PHS (Color is how you digest life, Tone is how you cognize what to digest) only then will you even be able to cognize the next step, Environment.

Else you can show up there, in aura, but the Color frequency is not yet stabilized, so garbage in, garbage out, the Magnetic Monopole (Driver) is not in tune with what is going on and thus you can not get onto -your- Trajectory.

It will be a ride, just not for you or about you and possibly more difficult to experience.

Once that Color frequency is stabilized on the Design side through both PHS and Environment, do we cross over to the other side, where the Color frequency can not be stabilized (see-saw between this&that), to Perspective and View, to see (finally) what we are here to see, so we can become properly Motivated, to arrive at our Outer Authority, for others. Not before.

So, Live Your Design (Type, Strategy, Authority) first, to even get to PHS, to then get to, Environment, so you can get onto your Trajectory, to get to See, to get to be Motivated, is the story Human Design shares.

Feeding your brain with the right frequencies (since it is not just food) helps grow your capacity to cognize that correct frequency, for you.

Kitchens, is a glossary term, to phrase it, to give it some form of words. Kitchens are places (frequencies) of production and changing things into other things. Alchemy

Markets, are places of interaction, of buying/selling goods, exchanging services.

Valleys, are the lowest point, where data/the river flows, people interact and share stories (data), a market can be in a valley, in a city.

Wet could be a jeans factory or a (fluids) testing facility, dry could be a library or research laboratory. It is not a single/singular place with a faucet and a sink and a cooker.

All 12 Environments could all be in one single restaurant, each corner a different function, a different frequency.

Natural Shores, outside looking in, movement, observed.
Artificial shores, inside looking out, passive, observer, etc etc etc

Sieg C2 lathe first time use

Wheel mod source: https://www.printables.com/model/639220-minimill-downfeed-handwheel-mod

Sieg C2 lathe carriage lock

Fender Tube Amp Combos

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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
2025 June 14

Meteors and Satellite Trails over the Limay River
Image Credit & CopyrightMartín Moliné

Explanation: What are all those streaks in the sky? A galaxy, many satellite trails, and a few meteors. First, far in the distance, the majestic band of our Milky Way Galaxy runs down the left. Mirroring it on the right are several parallel trails of Earth-orbiting Starlink satellites. Many fainter satellite trails also crisscross the image. The two short and bright streaks are meteors — likely members of the annual Eta Aquariids meteor shower. The planet Venus shines on the lower right. Venus and the satellites shine by reflected sunlight. The featured picture is a composite of exposures all taken in a few hours on May 4 over the Limay River in Argentina.

Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250614.html

We’re gonna need a montage (Montage!)

Ooh, it takes a montage (Montage!)

Tailstock alignment

mis-aligned

 

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Banana scale (metric) for size 😃

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No Kissing

“I pursued Lena for four years to no effect. I fixed her computer, I ate onion rings because she liked them, I pulled out my funniest remarks, I underplayed how much I wanted her. Nothing worked.

Then she and I had a chance to spend a weekend together. She made it clear that no form of sexual contact was okay. I wasn’t allowed to hold her hand, to hug her, to give her a kiss on the cheek—nothing. Every time the urge to show affection arose, I had to not act. Instead, I noticed my thoughts. And this is what I saw: that I used all those techniques to make women like me. All that weekend, instead of feeling like I was repressing myself, I noticed that those simple physical actions actually dissipated the loving, fun, sexy sensations I was feeling. Without the usual outlet, those feelings just kept running through my body. At the end of this totally platonic weekend, I had never been more blissed out and full of love!

The key moment when I stopped seeking her love was, to say the least, a huge relief. My whole body relaxed. I simply couldn’t make myself believe that I needed a relationship with her, or with anyone else, to be happy. I stopped feeling pulled outside myself, I stopped reaching for happiness where it didn’t and couldn’t exist. I just stopped doing what I had been doing my whole life. As a result, I felt stable and honest and complete for the first time.

I stopped seeking this woman’s love, and I apologized for all the ways I tried to get her to agree with my thought that we should be a couple. I genuinely—and I was shocked by this—had no desire to be with her in a committed relationship, and I felt content with the fact that I loved a woman who didn’t want to be with me that way. Well, the great ironic punch line to the story is that the moment I stopped seeking her love and approval, when I could no longer find a reason to be with her (or anyone else, for that matter), she looked at me and thought, “The freedom that I’ve always wanted—I can find it with Steven. Oh, and he’s pretty cuter And she leaned over and kissed me.

Now, four years later, we’ve been married for a year. And our actual relationship is much better than the one was imagining for all those years.”

Source: I Need Your Love—Is That True? by Byron Katie

I remember thinking

-Mark: “I remember thinking oh I should say something but what I actually ended up doing was being like nah it’ll be fine it’ll work itself out SPO done that too many times right and so we sweep we sweep it under the carpet and eventually you trip on the pile that’s under the carpet and what I realized through that was like my avoidance of conflict was not altruistic it was not I thought it was like oh I’m doing a good thing

now really unconsciously what I’m doing is avoiding conflict because conflict can lead to a fracturing attachment a fracturing connection but what it’s present in as is like oh I’m going to avoid these they can’t handle the truth they’re too reactive they won’t be able to hear this that’s not love first off if you are not sharing what you truly feel someone doesn’t get to truly know you so you never really get fully known in your relationships and then you feel like you don’t feel fully loved but you haven’t actually brought the full version of yourself there

which is really because we’re afraid of being rejected but what happens in the a fear of bringing our full selves to the relationship and thereby not doing it for fear of rejection is we live in the very embodiment of rejection and so my prayer for everybody is to say lay Truth at the table because if you lay Truth at the table the system starts to orient around truth now most of us develop our adaptive strategies things like being really intuitive and having being great very gregarious being great at sales

these are all superpowers when they’re harnessed but before that they’re manipulation and that sounds like a a criticism or a negative word but the behavior itself needs to be called out for what it is it’s it’s a shadow behavior and it’s operating from a place of fear and when you don’t tell someone the truth because you don’t think they can handle it one you get to live the story two you also get to blame them for not having the capacity for being able to hold what you want to share and three they never get to become the person who can hold it

so we end up recreating our very Rel the very relational Dynamics we’re trying to avoid and I’d say on top of all this is that we are not experiencing love in those circumstances and we’re not experiencing Freedom you know I think about how often we pursue everything we love when we leave relationships we all of a sudden pursue our dreams and I’m like why wouldn’t we actually make the relationship the place that truth gets honored and if we Place truth ahead of staying together

now at least now we’re really cooking because that’s actually the way that relationships truly Thrive is that they say I’m going to tell you the truth and I’m not going to protect you from your feelings because I’m sure that’s probably happened in your life I trust that you can hold this and there’s a deeper bond that gets created from that because look at our society this is a micro and a meta we’re placing feelings ahead of reality we’re placing feelings ahead of Truth and I can tell you right now that that is that’s just a giant trauma response that’s masquerading as altruism and it’s bulshit”

-Adam: “and it’s not sustainable and in fact many of us grew up in well many of us grew up in families that were not sustainable and we learn skills in an unsustainable system which we then carry out into the world so the only thing we know how to build is unsustainable relationships”

-Andrey: “and we actually talked about this extensively throughout many of our videos and many of our podcast interviews and there’s a found found issue here and and foundational issue is really trust mixed with control right I do not trust you to be able to process this and I choose to control the narrative to control the relationship in a way that makes me feel safe in a way that makes me feel safe Myself by controlling your reaction upon me”

MoonBlog 33.6 Disassociation

“They [Zeno & Chaitanyo] operate with human design before Ra’s own contribution to hd.”

Everyone knows HD only through Ra, Zeno and Chaitanyo included. However they claim or market their more pure/original version, it never really is.
These modes to do and wait, where did they originate from, is also unknown.

Something I noticed (With Z&C but also others) is, however you learn HD now, is how you will stick to it. But whenever anything new is discovered or more deeply elaborated on (like Variables came to the forefront much much later) many people simply ignore the new information. It seems the human psyche is having a blockage there. En masse, across humanity as a whole.

But then the new/deeper stuff gets (ego)sold as if it was Ra being wrong or false. And telling/selling Ra being wrong or false, (ego)sells so much better than a simple deepening or elaboration does. People like drama and opposition more, than anything/everything else.

The Black Book is older than Zeno meeting/training HD.
From the Book of Letters (white book) is a good second book when it comes to ‘old school HD’.

Reading ‘Ra’s Work 2020’ and ‘Ra’s Agenda 2016’ gives an overview of the history of HD being taught. Those 2 overviews are made by Jan van den Berg.

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Builty TonexOneController

links:
https://github.com/Builty/TonexOneController
https://www.waveshare.com/esp32-s3-touch-lcd-1.69.htm
https://makerworld.com/en/models/1015745-1-69-oled-for-tonex-case
https://www.tinytronics.nl/en/power/voltage-converters/buck-(step-down)-converters/dc-dc-ajustable-step-down-buck-converter-lm2596-3a
https://www.tinytronics.nl/en/cables-and-connectors/connectors/screw-terminals/dc-jack-female-5.5mm-to-terminal-block
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Breaking in new motorcycle tyres

Your motorcycle or scooter tyres have reached a point where they need to be replaced. Once you’ve fitted your brand new tyres, all you have to do is get on the road. But not just any old way! Your new tyres need a break-in period without which the risk of a fall is possible. How to break in new motorcycle tyres? Read our tips to get you through this phase without any problems.

Why do new tyres need to be broken in?
The manufacture of tyres involves the use of moulds that give them the exact shape defined at the time of their design. When it comes to demoulding, it is necessary to use products that allow the tyre to be removed. As these products tend to leave a thin film of a shiny appearance on the tyre, it is important to take some precautions when riding until this film has completely gone.

What can happen if this break-in phase is not taken into account?
Some people have had this happen to them: after getting on their motorcycles with brand new tyres from the dealer, they quickly picked up speed, turned at too wide an angle and ended up in a horizontal position on the road…

Regardless of the brand of tyres you buy, care should be taken when they are new so that you can use them to their full potential once the break-in period is over.

What you should not do?
We will explain in a moment how to proceed to a smooth break-in. But let’s start with an important recommendation: do not use abrasive products to rub the surface of the tyre in the hope of removing the film more quickly. Doing so could cause irreversible damage to your tyre. There is only one way to successfully break in a tyre and that’s what we explain below.

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The truth about absolutely neutral and linear boosters

“We’ve all been there: playing that perfect song, 16 bars before the solo, in love with the sound, 8 bars before the solo, still in love with that sound, preparing the foot to hit the booster pedal so that everyone can hear you solo with that incredible tone. Your 40 seconds of fame start now! Unfortunately the sound isn’t louder, but rather muddy and undefined, or the top-end is harsh and you’ve lost all the depth in the low frequencies. So what happened? While you’ve landed here, reading this blog entry, others have gone to a forum to write: “My current boost pedal lacks transparency! I need an absolutely clean linear boost, which doesn’t add or suck highs and just increases the volume for my solo!“.

The replies are mostly the same: “Use the ultra linear YXZ!“, “Pedal ZXY is the best clean one!“, “TS9 is the way to go!“, “You need a volume pedal!“ and “I use an equaliser! IMHO the best!“. Believe me – I see these posts all the time and you probably have as well. So, who is right? Nobody? Everyone? Unfortunately there’s no answer to satisfy the poor guy… I think he’s simply asking the wrong question. Ok, ok, ok, … lets sort this out and consider the topic in all its aspects.

There are 3 points: -technical aspects, -signal interaction of the gear used, -hearing and listening habits

“Technical aspects sounds boring!“
Yes, absolutely. We want to make music, right? But what if I told you that if you had an absolutely clean & linear boost, you probably wouldn’t like using it with a valve amp? It isn’t hard to build something like that, but it won’t be the ultimate weapon for every amplifier or for every situation. Depending on your amplifier and the gear you are using, there’d be a high chance the sound would be harsh in the highs or muddy in the low end. Why? This has something to do with the architecture of your valve guitar amp and the behaviour of the valves. Virtually no guitar amps have a linear frequency response and depending on the amplitude of the incoming signal, the amp’s signal is more or less distorted but never linear. So perhaps we should reconsider the term “linear boost“. I’ll give you an example:

“Damaged eggs don’t sound fine!“
Imagine you have a bucket. This is your amplifier. I give you a few eggs, which are your signal. You put the eggs in the bucket, which is now half-full. You put the lid on the bucket. Perfect. You want a louder signal? You want a boost? No problem. I give you a few more eggs and you put them carefully into the bucket. Still fine, no eggs are damaged, although the bucket is full to the brim. The lid only just fits, but you again want more boost. You remove the lid, I give you more eggs and you press the lid onto the bucket so it closes. You can imagine what just happened. The result is that a few eggs are damaged or broken. Your amplifier is distorting, because it can’t process the signal anymore in the way you wanted it to. Imagine you have a high gain amp and it’s already feeding-back. What you actually have is a bucket full of scrambled eggs and now you put more eggs in it. Good luck with that! Do you remember the start of this post? The scenario where you tried to boost the sound of the solo? You had put too many eggs in a bucket which was already full. That’s what happened. The result was damaged eggs. And damaged eggs usually don’t sound good. Which brings me to the next topic: interaction.

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Michelin Road 6

Front: 110/80 R 19 M/C 59H F TL/TT Rear: 150/70 R 17 M/C 69H R TL/TT

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