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The 36 Channels
A channel connects two gates and with them two centers. When both gates are activated, the channel is defined.
Channel 1-8: The Channel of InspirationThis channel links creative power with leading the way. It stands for going ahead in your own way and, by doing so, giving others a direction.Channel 2-14: The Beat (Keeper of Keys)This channel is considered a source of transforming creative power. The life energy from the Sacral drives the self and can give it direction.Channel 3-60: The Channel of MutationWith this channel, change and new beginnings are the path to personal growth.Channel 4-63: Logic (A Design of Mental Balance with Doubt)This channel embodies logical thinking. It weighs probabilities and thinks connections through step by step.Channel 5-15: The Channel of RhythmThis channel is about your own sense of time and your personal rhythm, meaning the inner knowing of when the timing is right.Channel 6-59: The Channel of FertilityThis channel is about bonding, intimacy and fertility: it carries the energy that closeness grows out of.Channel 7-31: The Channel of the AlphaThis is the channel of leadership: it leads with logic and structure toward a future that can be foreseen.Channel 9-52: The Channel of ConcentrationThis channel is about focusing your attention on one thing, with concentration and determination.Channel 10-20: The Channel of AwakeningThis channel is about being fully yourself in the moment: a commitment to who you are, rather than to some goal you would first have to reach.Channel 10-34: The Channel of ExplorationThis channel is about following your own convictions and turning self-love into action.Channel 10-57: The Channel of Perfected FormThis channel links the love of life to the intuition of the Spleen, meaning to survival and being present in the moment.Channel 11-56: The Channel of CuriosityHere, curiosity and the search for meaning meet the need to share what you find.Channel 12-22: The Channel of OpennessThis channel stands for felt openness in how you connect with others, for passion, and for bringing your feelings out into the world.Channel 13-33: The Prodigal (Design of a Witness)This is the channel of the witness: what you experience and take in, you collect and process, and later pass on as experience.Channel 16-48: The Wavelength (Design of Talent)This channel carries talent and mastery that grow through steady practice.Channel 17-62: The Channel of Acceptance (A Design of Organization)This channel stands for organization: putting facts and details into logical order and making them understandable to others.Channel 18-58: The Channel of Judgment (Design of Insatiability)Here, what isn't right is what you notice first, with the aim of making it better: judgment and correction.Channel 19-49: The Channel of Synthesis (A Design of Being Sensitive)This is the channel of sensitivity, with a keen sense of the feelings and needs of others.Channel 20-34: The Channel of CharismaHere, perception and impulse push straight into action; that is the drive of this channel.Channel 20-57: The Channel of the Brainwave (Penetrating Awareness)This channel stands for penetrating, intuitive perception in the now. Your perception keeps running in the background: it checks your surroundings for safety, and your hearing listens for what rings true.Channel 21-45: The Channel of Money (Design of the Materialist)This channel revolves around money, possessions and means, and the responsibility for them; it stands for how you deal with material things and resources.Channel 23-43: The Channel of StructuringThis channel stands for an insight that is entirely your own, one that reorders your picture of the world and wants to be spoken.Channel 24-61: The Channel of Awareness (Design of a Thinker)This is a kind of thinking that chases after an inner truth and wants to grasp it with the mind.Channel 25-51: The Channel of Initiation (Design of Needing to Be First)This channel stands for initiation. It is about the courage to step into something new and the wish to be the first one out in front.Channel 26-44: The Channel of Surrender (A Design of a Transmitter)This channel is about transmission: bringing ideas, products and causes to people.Channel 27-50: The Channel of Preservation (A Design of Custodianship)This channel is about care and preservation: it stands for nourishing, protecting and providing for others.Channel 28-38: The Channel of Struggle (The Search for Meaning)This channel stands for endurance and for putting yourself on the line for what feels meaningful to you, even when you meet resistance.Channel 29-46: The Channel of DiscoveryThis channel stands for giving yourself fully to experiences; it is considered the channel of succeeding through devotion.Channel 30-41: The Channel of Recognition (A Design of Focused Energy)This channel carries a felt vision and a longing for a better future. The teaching speaks of a hunger for experience and change, and of a primal urge toward new experience.Channel 32-54: The Channel of TransformationThis channel embodies ambition and the need to grow and change. It connects Gate 32, which stands for continuity, with Gate 54, which carries the drive to rise.Channel 34-57: The Channel of Power (Design of an Archetype)This channel is about power that acts in the now: life force from the Sacral, guided by intuition, in the moment.Channel 35-36: The Channel of Transitoriness (A Jack of All Trades)This channel embodies the desire to experience as much as possible and to keep moving on to something new.Channel 37-40: The Channel of CommunityThis channel is about community, loyalty and fair dealings with one another, like a part looking for a whole.Channel 39-55: The Channel of Emotion (Design of Moodiness)Strong feelings, shifting moods and emotional depth: that is one way to describe this channel.Channel 42-53: The Channel of MaturationThis channel embodies growth in cycles: maturity comes when you move through a cycle all the way to the end.Channel 47-64: The Channel of AbstractionThis channel embodies abstract thinking that searches for the meaning of what has been experienced.