From the Left ⬅️
Master the Mechanics of Strategic Thinking, Amplify Your Cognitive Edge, and Discover Your Unique Role in Human Evolution
About
In From the Left: Strategic Cognition, Ra Uru Hu explores the cognitive architecture of the Left-oriented mind. This 5-lecture audio course, originally taught live in Spring 2009, offers an in-depth investigation into Strategic cognition and the role it plays in the evolution of human awareness. Through the Variable grid, Ra reveals the mechanics of Leftness and the unique contribution Strategic individuals are designed to bring to the evolving field of human consciousness.
An informative resource for enthusiasts, students, and professionals seeking a deeper understanding of the nuances of Leftness, this course lays out the structure, focus themes, and Variable Families of the Strategic mind. It concludes with the dilemmas found at the center of the Variable grid. Ra goes in depth about two in particular, Variables PLRDLR and PLRDRL.
In this 5-lecture audio course by Ra Uru Hu, you will:
- Learn what defines a Strategic mind and how Left orientation influences cognition and awareness
- Discover the three Strategic focus themes and how they shape our way of thinking
- Explore the Variable grid as a map for understanding your unique mental contribution
- Understand the role of the First and Second Variable Quadrants in forming cognitive style and human potential
- Comprehend the core differences between Left and Right minds—how they operate in fundamentally distinct and often contrasting ways
From the Left: Strategic Cognition explores the mechanics of the Strategic mind—how it focuses, processes, and engages with life in comparison to the passive, receptive Right. Through Ra’s clear and layered teachings, you’ll gain insight into the active nature of the Left mind and its role in shaping thought, strategy, and consciousness.
This 5 lesson course (audio + screen recording of Ra’s classroom presentation + illustrated ebook transcript) is now available for $117 (regularly $197) until April 13th. In addition, you will receive The Left: The Traps of History, a 90-minute lecture (value: $47) where Ra explains Strategic Leftness, the dominant approach that has given us an evolutionary advantage up to this point in our history.
Whether you're Left minded yourself, or simply curious, this course offers a detailed look at how focused cognition contributes to overall human awareness.
“The beauty within the context of Human Design is that we’re here to fulfill uniquely our differentiation so that we can express our unique detail, our unique outer authority. There’s something magical about focus. Focus becomes a matrix. The moment you have found your focus, you see so many things. The moment you find your focus, no matter what it is, you learn so many things about the nature of the world. It is the extraordinary thing about it. You don't miss anything out there in the diversity because you find its flavor is in your focus; the continuity that is there in the microcosm.”
Ra Uru Hu | From the Left: Strategic Cognition
Topics & Highlights
How Strategic Thinking Works
Get a clear breakdown of why Left-oriented minds prefer structure, stay active, and naturally lean toward problem-solving
Why Focus Matters
Learn how your brain filters and organizes input based on one of three core cognitive styles
Your Role in the Bigger System
See how your Variable fits into a broader matrix of human awareness—and why that matters
How to Plan Ahead Intelligently
Understand how Strategic minds are ideal for creating order, systems, and long-term thinking
Know Your Quadrant
Identify whether you're in Quadrant 1 or 2—and how that affects how you think, learn, and interact with others
Common Strategic Challenges
Pinpoint the mental roadblocks that show up in Strategic Leftness—and how to work through them without overthinking
Make Your Thinking Useful
See how your active mental process can be put to work in a way that actually contributes value to day-to-day conversations
Course Curriculum
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Lesson 1: The Structure of the Left Personality
Explore what it means to have a Left-oriented Personality Sun/Earth. Ra introduces strategic awareness, the Variable grid, and how it reveals the nature of your mind. Begin understanding your passenger consciousness and how it’s designed to perceive, process, and navigate the world through a uniquely strategic lens.
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Lesson 2: Themes of Focus
Learn the three strategic Focusing themes using the Variable map: detail orientation, deep absorption in the new, and circumstantial assessment. This lesson explains how the strategic mind conceptualizes and filters reality—laying a foundation for how Left-oriented cognition is built to focus, adapt, and respond.
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Lesson 3: Variable Family 1: The First Quadrant
Ra unpacks the most strategic quadrant of the Variable grid, showing how it prepares mental tools for a receptive future. Learn how strategic minds interact with the Right, and how this quadrant fits into the wider consciousness field through interconnected awareness and relationship development.
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Lesson 4: Variable Family 2: The Second Quadrant
This “most human” quadrant reveals a deeply personal, nonevolutionary role in our cognitive development. Ra explores how this strategic Variable family contributes to collective intelligence and how individuals with it can fully live out their uniqueness in a rapidly changing world.
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Lesson 5: The Intersection
At the center of the Variable grid are four Variables with themes of dilemma and confusion. Ra examines two (PLRDLR and PLRDRL), highlighting their built-in inner conflicts. Learn simple and effective strategies for working with these Variables—especially vital for moving beyond the Not-Self and into aligned decision making.
Bonus
1 HOUR 35 MINUTES AUDIO + EBOOK TRANSCRIPT | $47 VALUE
The Left: The Traps of History
Ra Uru Hu teaches how the Left Strategic Mind—our dominant, knowledge-driven way of learning—has shaped education, business, politics, and military establishments. This 90 minute lecture reveals how strategic thinking evolved from survival-based control and fear, and how it can now serve your unique awareness as we shift toward a more receptive, Right-oriented future.
Topics and highlights:
- How Strategic (Left) thinking helped us survive—but why it can block the new, Receptive (Right) way of seeing
- Understand how the Left Mind learns and what it naturally focuses on
- Why the Strategic Mind is essential for gaining depth, detail, and precision
LIMITED TIME OFFER
From the Left ⬅️
5-hour audio course
+ ebook transcript
+ classroom screen recordings
+ bonus lecture
Explore Strategic cognition and the focusing power of the Left mind with Ra Uru Hu
VALUE: $244 | $117 FOR A LIMITED TIME
Related Products
The following related products are also discounted, and available in combination with the featured lecture series, until Sunday:
From the Right: Receptive Cognition
5-Hour Audio Course + eBook transcript + classroom screen recordings
Explore the emerging role of Rightness with Ra Uru Hu as we move from strategic, left-oriented thinking toward a more receptive way of being. This 5 hour audio course explains how Right cognition processes information, accesses creativity, and finds purpose—while offering guidance for both Left and Right beings to navigate change and stay aligned.
Topics and highlights:
- The two types of Right-oriented Personalities and how they function
- How the Receptive Mind absorbs and processes information without focus or strategy
- The Right Personality’s role and contributive potential in evolving human consciousness
- Why healthy relationships are essential for the well-being of Right minded individuals
- A look at all Variable quadrants that carry Right-oriented cognition, including the Intersection and its challenges
REGULARLY $197 | $117 FOR A LIMITED TIME
Rave Psychology: Conditioning and the Not-Self
1-Hour Audio Course + classroom screen recording
Most people are conditioned to make decisions with the mind—through logic, pressure, or overthinking. This 1 hour lecture by Ra reveals how the mind can disrupt the body’s natural authority. Using the Not-Self Deck, explore how undefined Centers influence mental decision-making and uncover what’s truly reliable for navigating life with clarity.
Topics and highlights:
- The “Not-Self Deck” to simplify complex layers of mental decision making
- How the Ego Center creates the most pervasive Not-Self theme in humanity
- Which open Center plays the largest part in your thinking
- How you can become wise about the open Center themes in your chart
- Your greatest sources for potential wisdom
- Why PHS Dietary Regimen is the first step to a healthy brain, body, and mind
REGULARLY $47 | $37 FOR A LIMITED TIME
Purchase All 3 Products
If you’re interested in purchasing From the Left: Strategic Cognition + Bonus: The Left: The Traps of History, and both related products — From the Right: Receptive Cognition, and Rave Psychology: Conditioning and the Not-Self — they are all available to you as a package deal for $247, down from $488.
Ra Uru Hu
Your Teacher | The Human Design System’s Founder and Messenger
Ra was born Alan (Robert) Krakower in Montreal, Canada on April 9, 1948, (at 00:05 am) and spent his early years there. After he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, his career path led him into the business world as an advertising executive, magazine publisher, and media producer. The arts were important to Ra, and he expressed himself as a composer and performer throughout his life. In 1983, he left Canada to travel, eventually finding his way to the island of Ibiza, where he spent years working as a school teacher.
In January 1987, he had an unusual mystical experience followed by an encounter with “a Voice,” an intelligence far superior to anything he had ever experienced. This encounter lasted for eight days and nights during which he received a transmission of information—including what is known today as the “Human Design System.”
Ra dedicated the next 25 years of his life to the development and teaching of the System around the world. Together with his family, he lived in the United States, Germany, and for most of the time on Ibiza, Spain where he passed away in March, 2011.
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