| Sources - PHS Certification Year 1 by Ra Uru Hu (2005) & Radical Transformations (2010)

Listening again to PHS material on Determination from Ra, so good to get a more nuanced grasp of our determination compared to more general lectures, those have changed so much about my experience of it and guidance around it 🤓

Note : there is some repetition, I didn’t choose to make sure info was only there once but rather collected all pieces that described each Determination it appears.

Basics from Radical transformations :

“And everything about the 2nd Color diet is that the 2nd Color diet is extremely rigid in the way in which it needs to eat regularly; the same thing day after day. We go from the cave person with their one thing at a time to the gatherer that basically is going out there and is collecting the local goodies.

Eat Local Produce

It‘s very important, by the way, if you‘re 2nd Color to eat as much local produce as you can, what comes from the area that you're living in. Imported goods, ultimate- ly, foodstuffs are not necessarily going to be particularly healthy. The most impor- tant thing, you can see this in a 2 baby—the 2 baby, you‘ve got a spoonful of some- thing, if it's the open kind of baby it will immediately open its mouth and let the spoon in. And if it doesn't like it, it will spit it out.

You are Here to be Discerning

The closed baby won't even let you put the spoon in its mouth because it knows before it even gets there that it doesn't want to have anything to do with that. Of course, we know what mothers do, unfortunately, it‘s not their fault, what they do in these circumstances, because they‘re saying, look, baby, this is healthy, this is good for you, open your mouth, and eventually they find ways of stuffing it in there.”

More nuances from PHS Analysis :

“So let's take a look at brain function and taking in and think about taste in terms of you know, what, what, what is the, what it's really about, we have this open closed phenomenon, and everything about being open is so is so important at the mental level. In other words, for brain function, this is a way of you know, the two has two sides to it. One what it takes in transforms it, and in the deepest possible sense. And yet at the same time, what it takes in can be so dangerous in that sense. And so, taste is an open closed system, it is an open closed system. And that is something very, very important to understand.

It is open in terms of what it takes in it is closed in terms of its external environment. In other words, one of the things to see about second color determination in the externalized world is that it is, you know, closed off from the external in the external world is closed off. And that's very, very important for these barriers are necessary in that sense, in the external environment, and it is the tendency, you know, we're dealing with binaries, after all, and it's so important to see that everything about taste, is that the vehicle itself needs to experiment with what goes in and needs to avoid the experimentation on the outside, on the outside.

So, when we're dealing with taste, we're dealing with something that's very interesting, it is about building barriers and breaking barriers, and you can be open on the outside, but external or closed. On the inside, you know, there was all these binaries that are working here. And it's all about barriers. Now, the most important thing is to understand that in terms of what you take into the vehicle, that everything is a discernment process. In other words, that it's not about this thing or that thing is the perfect thing. It is, try this and see, try this and see, try this and see. In other words, it is a developmental process in order to establish what the barriers are actually going to be.”

“And one of the things to see so clearly about about taste is that one has to submit too many things that aren't correct in order to find what is correct, which is just an interesting way of looking at the way in which this determination operates. In other words, for example, if you have a second color child, the second color baby, just because it likes a particular applesauce, you know, doesn't mean that you should just stay with that, in other words, that that child needs a number of options, it's very important for them, particularly at an early stage in their development, to be able to go through the taste selective process, and then to be able to wean it down and put up barriers against what isn't correct for it. And you'll see that a second color determination, baby will very quickly indicate to you that they don't want to repeat of this thing or that thing, but they will be very, very open to the test. I mean, even if they go through a number that they don't like, you'll see they're still going to be open to the test, it's very much about what they are. And then that refining process, in a sense takes place at the outside world, this is much more barriers that are pre structured, that need to be broken down ultimately.”

[about Sound transference]

“think about what the transference is, when you know, the transference really shows you how the physical body can be so distorted. I mean, so distorted. You know, instead of, you know, being open to what you're taking in there [from the sounds around you] is this narrowness to a specific frequency, and you're not going to let anything else in in that sense, you know, that the body isn't going to get what it needs, it isn't going to get the spectrum that's necessary, it's not going to be able to align itself to what is correct for it and put up barriers to what isn't correct for it, it just won't happen.

You know, and this, the whole thing about the nature of transference anyway, and of course, at the mundane level, you know, you get somebody who thinks that, you know, the mantra is going to make a difference in their life, or, you know, playing Mozart is going to soothe them… when, in fact, it's only going to make them sick.

You know, it's not the sound, and that's going to make the difference in their life. And it's not the sound, it's going to make them feel better.

I mean, it's amazing how many people have second color determination, who think that listening to music is healing for them. I mean, that's about as insane as you get. But in fact, that's true. And what's so astonishing about that is, if you take that to the extreme, and I do have, at times this absurd sense of humor. And, you know, it turns some of the greatest composers of all time into destroyers bodies, you know, there's, there's sweet Mozart rolling in his grave, you know, because you've got all these second color determined beings, you know, who think that listening to Mozart is is going to make them feel better. And all they're doing is homogenizing their form and losing their potential for differentiation. And you know, the transference is something that is enormously powerful and distorting the vehicle.” [this is not just about music. He also mentions some place else “sound therapy” being most probably invented by 2nd color people obsessed with their transference]

“I talked about sampling, different tastes, you know, different qualities going in until there is a natural alignment to what is the you know, however you want to describe it, what's your favorite, what's the one you like the best, whatever the case may be. However, what's really important to grasp is that the openness is actually a way of becoming close. And it's so interesting. In other words, in the second color brain function, it cannot for a long period of time be multi exposed. In other words, I would be unhealthy for it. So you can see that an awful lot of people have second color determination who are transferred over to sound, they end up with a differentiated intake spread, I shouldn't use that word because it will confuse, you know, they'll take in a lot of things, they will never have truly honed down that taste because the whole thing about being open is so that you can figure out what to be close to. It's almost like the immune system itself.”

“In dealing with 2nd color determination with the child, though, there are very, very obvious things that are necessary. I mean, one of the things that I notice is that, you know, this, there tends to be a homogenized tendency in in children to orient to only certain things. And I think a lot of that isthe transference to the five, and I think it's the transferred 5 that distorts all of that there's no real growth process. In other words, there they are closed instead of being open. Because there's a natural tendency to be closed, the barriers are necessary.

The other thing is that in terms of the vehicle, and it's elimination of resistance, you can see that it seeks out being closed in the external world. In other words, you know, where we derive at the second line resonance and talking about line where we get the theme thematic we call hermit. In other words, you know, what we're looking at here is that the closed off environment is a healthy environment to begin with.

And you can see that both the opened and the closed have have ultimately different goals in a sense, you know, the open is there to determine what needs to be closed off. But closed is there a waiting for what will in essence, you know, gain access and open it up slowly. So you have the two sides of the coin.

And it means for example, that these these babies, [he seems to switch here to Close taste babies] these children, they need to have a very protected environment. For example, in the first three and a half years,all of the synaptic development takes place in the brain, as a matter of fact, there's an enormous rush of brain development in there, by the time that children get to three or three and a half years old, there is a cutback in other words, you know, synaptic routes that had been opened up, get closed off, because they don't turn out to be viable in that sense for the the ongoing development.

It's essential for these children as an example that, you know, for the development of their brain function, you know, how important is variety for them, to be given opportunities for various tastes. And of course, I'm not just talking about variety of dishes or, or types of food as much as I'm talking about archetypes of tastes. And again, that's something that we'll go into later when we look at all these things in chains.

But you know, whether whether it's going to be sweet or bitter or sour or whatever, it's really much more than that kind of categorization, but it's very important for those children to have all of the possibilities in order to be able to discern, differentiate, say “No, I don't want those or this one”. And of course, it's not so much that they are, you know, the only way that they can react that way at that point in their life is that it's a natural body thing to like this and not that and so forth.

The other thing is that at the external level how important it is for those babies to be protected. I mean, protected, you know it the exact opposite of, you know, the fifth color baby whose low frequency right environment, you know, take them out into the great outdoors, take them to the park, you know, let them hear the birds chirping and blah, blah, blah, that's the worst possible thing. For the second color determination baby that needs to be really sheltered, you know, they go out in a carriage that's bulletproof and has screens and you know, all that kind of stuff, I mean, really protected until they are ready in that sense to take in the world bit by bit.

So, to really see what that means that at the very earliest age, this is… I don't want to put it in the wrong terminology, a tragedy because it sounds like a Shakespearean drama. But nonetheless, it whenever I look at things at this level, there's a there's a shudder that goes through me because I think about, you know, these zillions of babies that are on the planet that are going to have a second color determination and, you know, there, they are not going to be necessarily given the advantages they need in order to differentiate, they will not have the closed environment, that's very important for them, and they will not have the openness and variety.”

“And it's so easy to transfer this knowledge to a mother, it's so easy to say to her look, let your child decide what it likes. So make sure that it has a cross section of things to sample, don't just settle on, you know, this kind of applesauce, you know, buy a couple of different brands, you know, this kind of things, different different tastes, different things, and through the range of that taste is not a difficult thing for a mother to comply with.

And on the other side [closed taste], the protectiveness that's necessary for the child, but not at the point of excluding the potential of opening, you know, and for the mother to simply understand those simple ways of dealing with its child.”

“Now, what the open means is that the open means that they are open to most, but not everything. Most, but not everything. In other words, this is not open to any anything that they can take into their vehicle. In other words, there is a discernment process in the open, what is important about the open is that the open is here to try something once. Very important.

In other words, that, you know, the proper internal process for the open fixing, is that you try things once and once is enough to know whether you ever want to do that again or not. And in this way, the two builds up, its, you know, its palette, its painter's palette of different things that it enjoys, that it enjoys the taste of, but that's a selective process. And I think in many ways, it can be done almost Well, you know, it's like tasting things, tasting tests and things like that, but it is a process that they cannot, you know, you cannot know immediately you cannot say to them, well, you should only this, this and that, because this isn't the way they work.

See, if they were operating correctly, from the moment that they came into the world, you know, there would have been a diversity that would have been offered to them. And their choice and refusals would have been respected. You know, if you have a baby, you know what that's like, you know, you want it to eat, it's whatever it's squash, prunes, or God knows what concoctions you know, when there's the baby sticking its tongue out and and doesn't want it and is spitting. And, you know, if this is an open 2, this is great, because all it's saying is “okay, okay, you don't like it alright, you won't get any more that, you know, let's try something else”. And so there is an exploring process that has to take place with the open 2.

Let's say you have the close to now the close 2 is something else, that is the close 2 the needs to be aligned to one thing or one theme. And it's a very different process. In other words, that you cannot, in that sense, ask them to experiment, you can't, what you can do is find out what they do allow in. In other words, what they have allowed in as not self, in other words, and then begin a process of trying to see through whatever their authority is to clarify whether that is of value to them.“

[Closed] “There are things that when you taste them, if you don‘t like them you take them out of your diet forever. This is the secret of closed. You need to find those things, for example, they‘re basic things, people who like sweet, and there are people who like sour, people who like salty, whatever the case may be. But one of the things about closed beings is that ultimately they are really closed off to everything except that which is really their taste.

[…]

Now, it doesn‘t mean that you can‘t have a little bit of the other things that are in there. But the reality is, for example, let‘s say that you‘re somebody where the theme is salt. When we get to the tonal level we‘re going to see where the differences arise. Let‘s say that this is somebody who the main theme for them that is going to be of real benefit in terms of their brain function is going to be a salty diet. It‘s essential that that is the main taste for them, even though they might on occasion have a little of this or that or whatever. But it is the saltiness that will be of value to them.

By the way, there are many people who transfer to this and it is incredibly unhealthy for them. In other words, they put too much salt into their system and it‘s a real problem. Of course, there are many people who have this configuration who can‘t take salt into their system and suffer problems because of it. So, here we‘re going to see that this is a very interesting area to deal with. We‘re going to see that there are many, many different therapeutic things, many different ways in which we‘re going to have to work to find where the real area is.

In your own process, you have to look at your diet, what you‘ve been eating, particularly in the last years, and look very carefully for the taste that you enjoy the most, and the taste particularly that you don‘t like. Those taste qualities that you don‘t like, you need to eliminate them from your diet.”

Here to be rigid

“it's about being as rigid as possible. as possible. You know, I think that there's only a few exceptions I've looked by the way I see the only really extremes, for example, are in dealing with the second color internal fixing, for example, second color internal fixes the open and closed.

So, you know, when you're dealing with that, for example, a child comes into the world and they have the closed, you know, they're going to be deeply resistant to just about anything, you know, these are the kinds of kids that will only eat, I don't know, chocolate on bread, or whatever the case may be. But they will be resistant to everything. The open side is about being open and to rejection. In other words, being open to various things, and rejecting those things that don't work. But there is rigidity, once one is established, what is the fixed.

In other words, let me give you an example. Let's say that you're somebody that likes to have toast and coffee in the morning toast and coffee with milk in the morning. And in order for you to have toast and coffee with milk in the morning. And in order for that to be healthy for you, you're going to have to have toast and coffee in the morning, every morning. But more than that, it has to be the same brand of coffee, it has to be the same maker of the bread, it has to be heated at the same temperature. In other words, it can get with the 2, it can become very radical.”