Attitudes

When dealing with super powers, many different attitudes and frames of mind can be created, both among individuals with powers, and those without.

If you were to come to possess super powers, and were completely comfortable with them, you might become altruistic, and use your abilities to help out as many people as possible. The people you help could be greatly inspired by your heroic efforts, and improve their lives and the lives of others.

Another possibility is that you discover you have abilities that are frightening and seem beyond your control. Maybe they've caused various negative situations to develop in your life, and you just wish they'd go away. If that were the case, you'd likely experience denial. However, someone else who knows about your abilities and feels left out could settle into a jealous mindset. They might truly believe they're deserving, and that your having powers (and not them) is simply unfair. Their jealousy would likely go hand in hand with feelings of entitlement.

If instead of denial you were to focus on the fear and insecurity caused by your out-of-control abilities, you might find someone else without powers who has incredible compassion for your situation. That person might do whatever they can to help you learn and gain more control in your life.

If you were to alternatively cross over to the dark side and indulge in megalomania, you'd likely experience a tremendous desire for power. Your actions then would likely cause fear and insecurity throughout the citizenry.

Playing things low-key, you might just your powers completely hidden and focus on secrecy, not out of denial or fear, but to protect your identity and the lives of those close to you. People without powers might wonder about your abilities, and whether or not they exist. Your secrecy might breed confusion in others, and even wild conspiracy theories.

So you see, having super powers can produce tremendous ripples in the fabric of society, and greatly impact the way we all behave.

How To Get Super Powers - There Are Many Potential Ways

How can you get super powers? Let's examine the possibilities. First off, you could be born with them, and have them from birth. You'd grow up each day learning more and more about how to control and best use your special abilities.

You could also be born with latent, or dormant super powers. Then at some point, you wake up one day and discover that you've got a special talent that very few others have.

Maybe you just haven't found your power yet. Maybe every one has a power or possibly even powers that they are born with, and can only be unlocked during puberty when the body undergoes immense changes, or during life or death situations, when the bodies natural fight or flight responces activate. Now let's assume that none of that is true. Then perhaps with advanced technology, you could manipulate your genetic code, and gain powers that way.

You could also manipulate your physical body using technology. Maybe you replace some parts with robotic counterparts that are far more powerful, like stronger arms and legs, or a heart that can pump enough blood to make you run faster and longer than everyone else.

Nanotechnology could be used to tweak existing muscles and tissues. You could rework all your muscle fibers and bones, making them far denser and more powerful than normal, giving you super strength.

Technology could also theoretically be used to alter your mental capacities, increasing your intelligence, and perhaps giving you telepathic, precognitive, or telekinetic abilities.

Intensely stressful situations, like combat in a war, could as well trigger a change in you whereby you suddenly gain control over your five senses, and can see, smell, touch, taste, and hear with far more clarity, accuracy, and detail than before. And now some possibilities with out assuming everyone has them, or that technology could give us powers.

Humanity could reach a moment of transcendence, and everyone could wake up to a psychic network, a collective, in which we are all telepathic, and can draw upon the collective consciousness at any moment in time. You'd have instant access to all current human knowledge, making you and everyone else effectively omniscient.

You could go to a school for psychic training and learn to unlock secret powers that we all possess.

You could devote your life to spiritual pursuits, and at some point if you're lucky achieve an ascended state of being, at which point various super powers come into your possession.
There could be a limit put on humanity that will be lifted in the near future, at which point a select few people will be able to fly, read minds, etc. After that, the rest of humanity will discover that abilities exist.

Real Life Examples - Super Powers In Action

There are many examples of real life super powers in action. Usually the situations in which super abilities manifest themselves include extraordinary circumstances. This is why you don't hear people casually talking about how their eight-year-old lifted a car the other day for no special reason. However, you do hear about the time the eight-year-old was trapped under a car, and his mother was able to lift it high enough that he could escape. Tales like these are real, and are more common than you might think.

To Lift A Car

The story of a protective family member suddenly wielding incredible strength in an emergency situation is nothing new. Throughout history, human beings have always been able to call upon reserves of super human strength in the direst of situations. Adrenaline and desire combine to produce incredible results, using regular muscles that ordinarily don't perform quite so remarkably. The human body, mind, and spirit are amazingly resilient, and can unlock tremendous hidden potential in the midst of disaster.

The Psychic Bonds Of Family

Psychic phenomena have also been reported to occur in connection with tragedy. Maybe you've heard a story similar to this one: There were two sisters, twins, and one was in a car accident. Can you guess what happened? Miles away, safe at home, the other twin "knew" something had happened to her sister. This too isn't unusual, as close family members seem to share a psychic bond. A mother and her child can sometimes experience this connection, and so can a husband and wife. Bonds forged between people have the potential to be far greater than just skin-deep.

I Know Who's There

Maybe you've personally experienced a common phenomenon that many others have. Can you remember a time when you knew who was calling or who was at the door, not by using caller I.D., logic, or memory, but through some other means? Sure! Many of us have done that. While clairvoyant abilities remain to be completely verified, definite possibility exists that we all have them. We just haven't mastered them yet.

What Comes Next

You've probably heard this story. Before Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, he had dreamed that he was attending someone's funeral. He wandered around and tried to find out who had died. Finally, he found out. It was him. In the context of history, we can see that Lincoln's dream foreshadowed his death. There have been many other accounts throughout history in which someone feels a tremendous sense of dread just before the death of a loved one, or before their own loss of life.

Conclusion

Obviously, all these abilities have the potential to help us communicate and survive, and it makes perfect sense that helpful abilities will be lasting ones. Perhaps we are still evolving, and ahead of us lies an incredible future packed with fantastic feats and amazing talents. Let's hope.

Super Power Catalogue - Likely Attainable Vs. Not So Likely

This is just a few of the most widely known super powers, organized according to their likelihood of being achieved or becoming viable in the near future. Their viability is based more on historical accounts and less on scientific proof, since most of these abilities have yet to satisfy the most skeptical disbelievers.

More Promising: Precognition, Clairvoyance, Telepathy, Telekinesis, Retrocognition, Rapid Learning, Rapid Healing, Super Strength, Manipulation, Super Endurance,Animal Mind Control, Unnoticabilitiy , Weather Control.

Less Promising: Super Speed, Shape Shifting, Matter Penetration, Self-Division and Reunification, Body Swap, Energy Leeching, Human Mind Control.

You might recognize some of the less promising powers from various works of fiction. They're fantastic to explore and see utilized, but do seem to have a larger gap separating them from reality than the ones above. However, it seems likely that science could help to bridge that gap.

Perhaps a network of weather control machines will one day exist. Maybe a body swap could be possible through the use of completely prosthetic bodies. Such incredible possibilities exist within science and technology that it seems folly to write off certain abilities as, "Never gonna happen." For the time being, though, some abilities seem to hold more potential for use in the near future than others.