Chapter One

Super Powers

One essential effort of a stable institution is that it must suppress and hide the existence of superpowers in its members. Because of these efforts, almost all of the members in a society perceive the power of an institution as being far greater than their own. One of the old, well-known maxims of the ruling classes is that the masses must not be allowed to find the powers that reside within them. Only the ruling elect or the institution must be perceived to hold the controlling power. The masses must be taught that they are weak, helpless and must obey. Only when this occurs can the masses be taught to become civilized and follow societal law.

The world's great religious teachers agreed that the masses first must master and be subject to the laws of society. However, once they had mastered social interactions then they might find the existence of a superpower deep within themselves and use that inner power to further transform and change their entire world. The early religious teachings explained how you could find freedom from the limiting and false teachings of institutions and find self-determinacy. Institutions, in seeking power over the masses, subverted these teachings of an inner individual superpower by stating that: 1) The teachers were saying that the power was contained in an institution and the 'you' was a collective you and did not mean you as an individual. 2) Since they had the power and not you as an individual, they could interpret what the original teachings meant. 3) They or the collective you, as an institution, were able to overcome and protect you from those other 'false' institutions. 4) You must bow and be subject to the power of the institution.

Modern science, which has declared itself outside of the religious debates, has nonetheless contributed heavily to the concept that you do not have an inner power and that you should be subject to institutions. Modern materialistic science negates creditable knowledge coming forth solely from inspired religious leaders as well as the existence of any inner superpower within individuals. In comparison with the religious statements above, science promotes the following questionable teachings: 1) Only science can write or define absolute law. 2) Any power or energy must be tangible and therefore described by the written laws of science. 3) The authority of science cannot be questioned since the power of science is believed to be approaching that of the god of religions and some assert that it may someday even create life. 4) Science is an institution and an accredited arm of academia (and government).

This modern stance of science is, however, very much at odds with the beginning of science that began with the recognition of three supernatural and non-tangible powers called Law, Energy and Life (as described later). These three powers comprise the creative and sustaining force of all that exists or will ever exist.

Despite the efforts of science and religion, some individuals do rise above the limitations and false beliefs imposed by society and discover that they can, in fact, become whatever they really dedicate themselves to. They can do the nearly impossible in times of crisis. They can create new approaches, methods and solutions to problems. They can lead others into new worlds. They are even capable of finding the mythical ecstasy of life. Since these individuals are instrumental in making a better society, neither science nor religion can directly or forcibly oppose them if society is to advance. Historically however, the creative individuals remain at the fringes of social acceptability without direct support.

Before they become fully developed and controlled by institutions, children are obvious examples of the existence of some fundamental superpowers that almost everyone can perceive. It is the manifesting of the inner powers of childhood that enables children to rise above the animal world and to start to become civilized and subject to institutions. To more fully appreciate this miracle of childhood, consider studying children other than your own, such as observing a foreign child able to speak Russian or Greek within a year. When children learn to do abstract reasoning and create wild imaginary games it further points to some deep inner creative power. Each family can be seen as producing children with the family's language, beliefs, life styles, expressions and thinking within an incredibly short period of time.

The pursuit of an inner power can therefore begin with the question, why is it that you as an adult cannot change your self with many months of effort while a child can quickly obtain an even greater change in a matter of days?

You may well answer this question with the assertion that children must have a special energy or power that you have lost over the years. Then another question is, how can some exceptional adults find an energy to do even greater feats than children such as changing themselves, their world, and those around them? It seems obvious that if you wish to change yourself and your world, you will require some of this special energy that you once had as a child. With this revived fundamental power you will also require additional power that is directed toward some specific task as will be discussed.

This book will identify the energy and power to change as being supernormal forces that arise from supernatural sources. The meanings of supernatural and supernormal powers have been vastly distorted over the recent years with the modern view that neither of these powers actually exists. The modern world in its attachment to everything being materialistic and everyone being equal must deny these hidden and special powers. Charlatans who falsely claim to be able to violate the laws of physics or nature are also contributing to the disbelief in supernatural powers. Science is perhaps the greatest source of doubt in the supernatural since science attempts (falsely) to state that science does not include the supernatural. Despite this overt denial, this chapter will continue to prove that supernatural and supernormal forces do, in fact, exist and are supportable by science and personal experience.

First consider the term supernormal. 'Super' means 'above' and supernormal is defined as any action that is above the normal. Statistics demonstrates that any physical trait can be characterized by a 'normal' distribution curve that gives the numbers of people possessing a particular magnitude of that trait. Such a statistical curve can be consulted to find, for instance, what percentage of people can throw a rock a particular distance. The average distance that a rock can be thrown is then easily found by finding what distance has the most numbers of people associated with it. Some people throw farther than this and some throw less. As you count people throwing farther and farther from the average, the numbers of people decrease until perhaps only one can throw a particular rock 1000 feet and only one cannot throw the rock any further than 3 feet. The people who throw the rock the farthest are therefore super-normal or very far above the normal while the three foot throw is sub-normal. Modern statistics tends to define average characteristics as being those held by 70% of the population with 15% above and below the average. The level of being supernormal would constitute the upper level of the above average. Early religions generally pushed the limit for supernormality to one in a thousand or even one in ten thousand or that those who mastered or manifested the religious teachings were very peculiar or special people. The important criterion about being supernormal is that it can be expected, and although rare, is attainable, such as with practice or demand.

Supernatural powers, on the other hand, are above the supernormal powers and have a source that cannot be measured by any known methods. Consider the two supernatural forces of 'Energy' and 'Life'. Only when they become manifest can they be evidenced. Life and Energy are abstract and cannot be perceived in their 'natural' or non-manifested state. Neither Energy nor Life can be created or isolated in any laboratory. Life and Energy cannot be described other than by pointing to their results.

This book will add one more criteria to the description of supernatural powers and that is that once they are manifested, they cannot have violated any law of nature. In other words, something is not created out of nothing and the appearance of the product of the supernatural power must be fully explained and fit fully into the current world. This definition eliminates such things as levitation, instant cures, or production of gold or objects from the air. It does include however, the limited changing of your future, union with other minds and actions, and creating such things as new concepts, machines, designs, health, expressions and social interactions.

Supernatural power sources must lie outside of the normal physical world yet are capable of changing the physical world in such a way that the results can be measured. There is no way, for instance, of telling how much energy is in a can of some fluid nor of measuring how much creativity some person is capable of, other than by measuring how well the fluid burns or evaluating the produced creations of a person. Supernatural powers lie outside of the awareness of the physical world, yet the results of the manifesting power physically change the world and can be measured. Supernatural powers are potential powers only and when manifested belong to the physical world.

Perhaps the original concept of supernatural power can be understood by looking back into the ancient world when the cause of rain and the budding of new leaves in spring was not known. To the ancients, the cause was supernatural since they had no way of observing, measuring or studying these primal powers. The effects of these supernatural powers was however, very real and manifest. One typical method of controlling these powers was to assign a supernatural god with controlling powers living in a supernatural place. The bridge between the real world and the supernatural world could then be bridged with the beginning of religion with its worship and ritual.

In attempting to distance itself from any religion or priesthood, science denied the god concept and at the same time threw out any consideration for the non-explainable or non-measurable. Science was to be concerned only with physical reality. Science has however, steadily explained the various powers that the ancients called supernatural powers of the gods. At the present time it may be considered that there are only three basic supernatural powers left unexplained which are Energy, Life, and Law. (Law will be equated to creation and creativity later , but for the moment can be considered to be the law of nature.)

Physics is still worshiping a god called Energy with many scientists believing that they write Law. Biology likewise has made no inroads on defining the god of Life or the life force. None of the sciences know the source or even the full manifesting of these three powers, where they stay nor what they are, or how to measure them. These three powers are supernatural, mystical, and spiritual . They are certainly not physical elements. Energy, for instance, is very strange in that it can take many different forms from being heat and light, to motion, sound and electricity. No one knows what 'pure' Energy looks like or how to measure it. It can only be tabulated when it changes its form as for instance from a chemical form in a can of gasoline into fire.

Similarly what is the Life force? It, too, is only evidenced when it manifests into some physical form. Life force is hidden and only evidenced with new growth. Science observes how a plant will reach for and change its own future as it pushes forth new growth to reach for sunlight yet science cannot explain or measure the power behind this amazing and supernatural power to change the future. Similarly, humans use the Life force to change their own future as they reach for new worlds. You cannot however, point to any one plant or individual and state how, what and when it will change in the future.

There is a sense of reverence about the word Law that points to a supernatural power that is non-manifested, mysterious and mystical. Modern interpretation of Law is generally applied to something that is written that states what is or what should be. To religion, Law was given to certain prophets who wrote it all down, and to science, it was written by researchers who wrestled the truth from nature. Both religion and science worship the written law and hold it as inviolate. To both, access to the source of law is only gained within the sacred halls of academia or the priesthood and any pronouncements upon it must be approved by the governing institution. Law is therefore generally not supernatural but rather the institutionally approved physical writings of individuals.

Supernatural Law is however, something that directs what is and what will happen and is not a mere description of what does or did happen. Law is the source of the written laws and is behind everything that is in physical existence as will be elaborated upon in Chapter Eleven.

Creativity is almost synonymous with Law in that it is also supernatural and can become the source of new Law. Religion gives an accurate and logical description of this relationship in such statements that a god created Law. Science has no explanation as to the source of either Law, Energy or Life, yet has demonstrated that science is capable of creating new Law through its physical and mental creations that changes the entire world, as for example, the birth control pill and the transistor. Science in this sense is acting as did the ancient god of the Bible. Similarly, some individuals can so alter their lives, that there can be no question that somehow they changed the original Law governing their life. This change must be equated with some inner creative and miraculous power. As will be discussed later, you can bring the intangible and unseen creative power into your daily life such that you are able to go beyond your limited training and skills and produce the unexpected.

The next important consideration is the source of Law. To religions, the source of Law or the governing rules of the universe is from the power of God or from Creation. Scientists seldom discuss the source of Law, but if they were to attempt to do so, they would probably define it as do the religions as coming forth from some creative force. In both cases, creation is something that took place in the dim past before the existence of anything.

Creativity is however, still manifest in the modern world as new concepts, devices and viewpoints come forth from some hidden source. This coming forth from some inner hidden source has been called 'knowing'. The word knowing has lost much of its original meaning with the modern rejection of supernatural and supernormal powers. Knowing has erroneously come to mean the same as having wisdom in the same manner as a computer or an encyclopedia. The word knowing was derived from the same root as Gnosis in Greek or Jnana in Sanskrit that means to comprehend something in suddenness and completeness without learning. With this definition Knowing is the same as expressing Truth.

The supernatural aspect of knowing has suffered a long history of suppression. The early religious sects, such as the Gnostics, who practiced supernatural knowing or gnosis, were persecuted and killed as possessing powers or Truth that only government or religion should possess. Any government or institution must claim to have more power and knowledge than its members. Kingdoms in the past, for example, were ruled by kings who had the 'Divine Right of Kings' and because of this right could not be questioned nor could anyone else claim to have this right.

There is another form of the supernatural that is of main interest in this book and that is the power that can change future events. As an example, consider the old practice of 'giving your word'. Word, in this case, implied a supernatural power that would control what would take place in the future. The person who gave their word could be trusted to produce what the word described. There is a phrase in the New Testament that is taken from the earlier Indian Vedas that states that in the beginning was the Word and that everything was made by the Word. This concept of Word or the description of what will be is still extant in the modern world. This is evidenced primarily in success stories, and is typified by some children from the ghetto who give their word to themselves or others that they will obtain some goal in life and then go on to achieve it. If asked about how they could make such a promise, they will generally specify that they knew and could see their own created future.

Changing, defining or creating the future certainly requires a unique type of energy to supply the power to make a change as will be discussed in Chapter Four, and the results are seldom instantaneous nor clearly perceived before they occur. The intention or dedication seems to be able to only give a direction to an outcome, but never specific results. The results are, however, spectacular and seemingly miraculous when observed over a long period of time. One conclusion as to the supernatural power of changing the future is that it is a weak power that requires a continuous exertion over a long period of time to become effective. Chapter Thirteen discusses this subject in greater detail and cites some interesting supportive scientific research.

Now back to supernormal powers. They are quite obvious and observable in comparison to supernatural powers. You know of people who demonstrate supernormal powers by standing well above their peers or by having a control over their life, family, work, recreation and religious experiences that those around them cannot find. Abraham Maslow called these people self-actualized . These people are those creative individuals who change their world and the people within their world. They improve the world with their life and many leave an indelible mark long after their passage from the world.

In general, the supernormal is evidenced by exceptional people meeting some strong need. Meeting a strong need is however, preceded by a strong commitment or dedication to improving life before they do the spectacular or supernormal. As an example, a person who suddenly dashes into an unfamiliar burning building and rescues a child in the flames and smoke has had to have a certain level of physical and mental capabilities as well as a strong dedication to others long before the rescue. These individuals can be described as knowing life and others in that they go beyond the normal social level of caring or doing their social duty and instead see the supernormal forces of life. Supernormal events do not happen to those who are not prepared, cannot see what is required, or are unwilling to work or to trust in their own developed future.

Supernormal occurrences do happen to those who expect the supernatural to guide them in their daily life and do not attempt to judge their every action. This is exemplified by a favorite verse of the author that states that an individual can set the direction of their path through life, but supernatural forces or the Divine controls the steps.

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