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The 6 Circuits & the Integration Superchannel

Every one of the 36 channels belongs to a circuit: a larger current with its own theme and its own audience. Three families (Individual, Tribal, and Collective), six circuits between them. The remaining four channels form the Integration Superchannel instead: not a circuit, however often it gets called one.

01 / 7 Individual

Individual Knowing

Spontaneous, mutative insight that arrives ahead of logic and is trusted before it can be explained.

02 / 7 Individual

Individual Centering

Two channels, one job: self-love as the force behind both initiation and lived conviction.

03 / 7 Tribal

Tribal Ego

Willpower spent on the group's material world: resources, bargains, and the deals that keep community solvent.

04 / 7 Tribal

Tribal Defense

Caretaking and intimate bonding: the tribe's own immune system, protecting and perpetuating the group.

05 / 7 Collective

Collective Sensing (Abstract)

Teaching the wider world through lived experience: curiosity, story, and the meaning found by going through it.

Collective Understanding (Logic)

Teaching the wider world through analysis: pattern, process, and the logic that corrects how something works.

07 / 7 Superchannel

Integration

Self-contained survival and empowerment, answering to no group: four channels, woven from four gates, standing apart from the three circuit groups, and not a circuit itself.

Not sure where to start? Every page here lists its channels; see the 36 Channels for the mechanics of each one, or get your free chart to see which of these you actually carry.

Each circuit also carries its own pressure about time. For logic's punctuality, abstract's early expectation, individual's right now, and tribal's timelessness, read Human Design Time Pressures.

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