The Manifestor Child

RA URU HU : Energy Children

I begin with looking at Type and Children, what it was like for you as a child, your type, and what that meant for you in your upbringing, and what your knowledge of type can mean for your own children.

That is, we’re going to focus on childhood. We’re going to focus on type and childhood. And we’re going to begin with the energy types. Energy Types are a vast majority on this planet. Somewhere between 75 and 80% of all humanity are energy types. The energy type has the possibility to be able to operate according to its strategy on a moment-by-moment basis. In Human Design when we talk about Energy Types, what we’re really referring to is two basic processes. The majority process is called generating, and of course this is all the Generators that we have on the planet. Now, generating is something that is rooted in the sacral center, and out of the sacral center its power comes from response.

The other energy type is manifesting, and of course this is embodied in the Manifestors. Manifestors are not here to respond. Manifestors are here to initiate. So we have these two energy types. When a Manifestor child comes into the world, it’s a standard joke of mine, that the mother looks down at this newborn and immediately goes, “Uh oh.” It’s something to understand. When more than 90% of humanity is here to respond in one way or another, this minority, the Manifestor child, who has the ability to act on its own, that automatically its aura is sensed as, well, for the mother, this is a child that one has to control. This is a child that one has to manage. Every single type has a theme. And every single one of us begins our deep conditioning process to the not self when we are children. And that the vast majority of humanity is not self and raise their children in that way. In fact, practically all children are raised to be Manifestors with the exception of Manifestors! Manifestors are trained to be Generators, are trained to be responding energy types when of course that is not their nature. And each type has a fundamental theme. The theme of the Manifestor is anger. Anger. This is an angry child. This is a child when it is controlled, that it’s going to be angry. And of course one of the things that come immediately from the anger of manifesting children is the fact that they receive more punishment than other children. And whether that punishment is psychic or physical, is not the point. The point is that they are always meeting resistance.

Now, only Manifestors have two themes of strategy, one for childhood and one for adulthood. And it’s so important to recognize that if you have a Manifestor child, that the most important thing that you can teach this child is to ask – to ask permission. You see, the Manifestor child, when it wakes up in the morning and it’s a beautiful day will open the door and just go. And you know what happens. When it returns, it’s in trouble. It did not ask permission and that whole controlling aura phenomena is immediately in play. And of course the child gets restricted, and the child becomes even angrier.

The thing about Manifestors is that if they’re not fortunate when they’re children, it’s very difficult for them to accept and live their strategy as adults. So the Manifestor child needs to learn to ask permission and to not be unreasonably denied. If it’s a beautiful day and it’s okay, let the child go out and play if it asks permission. In this way, the Manifestor begins its training, begins to see that despite the fact that it has the power to act on its own, it needs it needs to pay deep, deep attention to the other, and its impact on the other. And by asking permission, it will discover that rather than meeting resistance, it will be given the opportunity to express its natural potential.