Craig MacKay trained as an electrical engineer in order to learn how to design electronic circuits. This arose from a teenage fascination with electronic schematic drawings and electronic circuits. After graduating, he still felt unclear about how the design process worked and entered the nascent field of software development. As he worked in the software area, he watched for better ways to design software.
During the early 1990’s, the two seemingly unrelated areas of object oriented software development and Concept Therapy brought out a clear understanding of the design or creative process. This was the breakthrough he was looking for. After successfully applying this new knowledge of the creative process in personal life through completing marathons and in professional life through object oriented programming, the question of what is worth creating became dominant. The questions of “What Now?”, “Who do you want to become?” and “What do you want to experience?” arose without any answers.
Studying Concept Therapy obsessively eventually lead to a type of mental breakdown manifesting as a delusional manic episode. This precipitated a marriage breakdown followed by additional manic periods and bouts of depression. An invitation to join a stable, understanding work environment provided an invaluable framework for recuperation and recovery.
During this time Craig began to use the Chinese divination tool of I Ching to gain another perspective on decisions he was considering with regards to relationships and career. This led him to connect with the Human Design System which brought a welcome explanation of why life had been so difficult to understand. Using his Human Design strategy of waiting to be invited into important situations, he tested the difference between initiating and waiting. Indeed waiting proved to reduce the resistance in daily activities and increase the acceptance of his contributions by others.
After about three and a half years of consciously experimenting with and following his Human Design strategy, a change was noted in July 2007 by the two mental health professionals monitoring Craig. Quite a lot of his mental busy–ness subsided as the issues about picking a direction in life and solving relationship difficulties were abandoned as ‘not self’ mental strategies. As he put it “There was space between my thoughts”. This paved the way to follow an invitation to live in Vancouver, B.C.
As Craig settled in to life in Vancouver, a connection to promote his Human Design readings opened up but stalled as there was an underlying misgiving as to where Human Design fit in the bigger picture of his life. In late July and early August 2008 he realized he needed a vision to integrate his activities and was inspired to use his knowledge of the creative process to ‘request’ a vision for himself.
This opened up a whole new dimension in his experiences.
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