Documentary biography · A. R. Sayer

The Voice on Ibiza

The Life of Ra Uru Hu and the Making of Human Design

In January 1987, on a hillside on Ibiza, a bankrupt Canadian advertising man said a Voice spoke to him for eight days and dictated a complete system of self-knowledge. Millions of people now generate the chart that came out of that room.

The Voice on Ibiza is the first documentary biography of Ra Uru Hu, born Alan Robert Krakower: the Montreal childhood and the black-walled house in Toronto, the morning he walked away from his life, the island that took him in, the eight days as he told them, and the quarter century in which a destitute teacher built a worldwide system. It follows the record into the courts, trademark files, newsletters, and witness accounts that show what happened to that system after he died.

Assembled entirely from sources a reader can check, the book keeps four things strictly apart: what the public record establishes, what Ra said of himself, what the system claims in its own terms, and what named witnesses testify. It is neither devotion nor debunking. The reader meets the whole man and draws the conclusions.

Companion volume to ZENO: Zeno Dickson and the Erasure of Human Design’s Teachers and Divergence: The Schools and Systems of Human Design, Compared.

Excerpt

He told the story rarely, and never as proof. By his own account, given years afterward in a recorded talk, the thing that happened to him on Ibiza in the first weeks of 1987 was best understood as a story about madness, because it was not normal, not even by the standards of how revelation is supposed to arrive. The history of revelation, he said, is full of a certain sweetness; his own experience had none of it. His natural skepticism had made it easy, for years, to say nothing. There was no evidence, only the telling. He asked that it be taken that way, as a story and nothing more. What follows is that story as he told it, rendered in the third person and reported strictly as his account, not as a verified event.

By the time it began he was, on his own description, already living wild and already, by any ordinary measure, mad. He had walked away from his life in Canada in 1983, the advertising man and his family and his enterprise left behind in a single morning, and had drifted to the island and then to its margins. He was alone in a process he did not try to understand. He had assumed he was simply losing his mind at midlife, and the surprising thing, he said, was that madness was entertaining, the most interesting thing that had ever happened to him: a breaking-down, a deconstruction, a stepping-away from everything he had been.

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Contents

1. Prologue The Eight Days
2. A note on method
3. Chapter One The Montreal Record
4. Chapter Two A Working Life
5. Interlude The Island
6. Chapter Three Arrival on Ibiza
7. Chapter Four January 1987
8. Chapter Five From Experience to System
9. Chapter Six Saupe and the Black Book
10. Interlude The Seekers
11. Chapter Seven The Transmission to America
12. Interlude The Set Lecture
13. Chapter Eight The Architecture
14. Interlude The Sources of the System
15. Chapter Nine The Institutions
16. Interlude The European Network
17. Interlude The Marketplace
18. Chapter Ten The Record of Dispute
19. Chapter Eleven The Witnesses
20. Chapter Twelve Ibiza, 2011
21. Chapter Thirteen Consolidation
22. Chapter Fourteen What the Record Contests
23. Afterword The System After the Man

With a timeline, a cast of characters, and a note on sources listing the primary documents.

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Format	Paperback (6 × 9 in) and eBook
Pages	228
Words	About 73,300
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Imprint	Archive House

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