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Post Types

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Please be aware that as this site is now open to user-generated content, we must all adhere to the same guidelines held by sites like Wikipedia. No information is to be copied directly unless being quoted and sourced. Please write things in your own words.

Adding And Updating Site Pages

When you don't have an account, or aren't logged in, you'll be able to see pages and information on RealSuperPowers.com, but you won't be able to add to them.

When you are logged in, most pages will present you with a few extra features, allowing you to add and update site pages. For example, you should hopefully see this:

and this:

The Edit link allows you to update the content on the page you're currently viewing. The Add Child Page link allows you to create an entirely new page, under the page you are viewing.

When you are editing a page, or creating a new page, you have the option of deciding which parent page to file it under:

In the previous picture, "Getting Started" is one level under "Super Powers -- The Real Ones." Beneath "Getting Started" is "Posting Guidelines."

So "Super Powers -- The Real Ones" is the parent page to "Getting Started."

"Getting Started" is the child page to "Super Powers -- The Real Ones."

And "Posting Guidelines" is child to "Getting Started."

"Introduction" is the 2nd child page to "Super Powers -- The Real Ones," after "Getting Started."

From time to time while logged in, you may see this:

If you click on one of these links, you'll be taken to a page where you can add a brand new page to the site.

If you were writing a new page on a previously unmentioned super power, say Time Travel, you might decide to file that under the parent page of "More Powers." That way, anybody visiting the "More Powers" page will see in Navigation that "Time Travel" is a subpage. It is always best to pick a relevant parent page.

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, maybe during your teen years, you wake up one day and discover that you've got a special talent that very few others have.

Let's think about how you'd get a super power if you weren't born with one, and didn't have one waiting to manifest. So you've got no powers, biologically speaking. 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 theoretically be used to alter your mental capacities, increasing your intelligence, and perhaps giving you telepathic, precognitive, or telekinetic abilities.

Aliens from outer space could recruit you for a special mission, and unlock a secret power that is normally hidden and unused. Or they could endow you with special abilities that are perfectly normal to them.

Someone from the future could give you a magic elixir that gives you a unique ability.

A cosmic storm could sweep across the earth and irradiate you with a special ray that causes you to develop super powers.

Intensely stressful situations, like combat in a war, could 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.

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.

You could upload your consciousness into a cybernetic body, effectively giving you the power of potential immortality. However, you'd bar any biological possibilities for ascending, should you consider that possible.

You could use nanotechnology to continually repair your cells and tissues, effectively giving you the power of biological immortality. At some point, a normal cell can no longer divide, and without a workaround solution, you'd likely die at around 120 years of age. However, cancer cells can divide indefinitely, and if that ability were to be harnessed and replicated where necessary in normal cells, you could theoretically go on living forever.

Existence in the afterlife may include super powers in everyone.

If the universe were really a simulation as depicted in "The Matrix," and you woke up to that fact, you might be able to become practically omnipotent.

Maybe we've all got them, but there's 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 them, the rest of humanity will discover the abilities that were formerly off-limits. Super powers for everyone!

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

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

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.

Akrit Jaswal -- Child Prodigy, Child Surgeon

Name: Akrit Jaswal

Super Power: Advance Intelligence

Nationality: Indian

Born April 23, 1993, Jaswal never attended medical school, and yet in his native country of India, he is widely known as a physician. When he was very young, instead of starting with crawling, he skipped right to learning how to walk. At the age of 10 months, he said his first words. By age 4 he was reading Shakespeare. When he was 7, he met an 8-year-old girl whose fingers had been burnt as a baby and fused together. He performed an operation to separate her fingers -- that same year. Today he pursues degrees in botany, chemistry and zoology at Punjab University, Chandigarh, India, making him India's youngest university student. He hopes to one day attend Harvard.

Jaswal's main field of emphasis is medicine, and he has mastered many disciplines through his practice of studying for one hour each day. He says concentration is successful to success in any endeavor, no matter what type. An IQ test he took yielded a score of 146. The top bar is usually set (nowadays) at 200.

Not everything is golden for Jaswal, however. He has said being so intellectually gifted and so young in India has been cause for his future plans to bear an incredible weight of responsibility. He has been told that he must do something great with his life, and has made it known that he doesn't always feel positive about having his life predetermined in such a way.

One of Jaswal's goals is a cure for cancer. His current path toward that end deals with oral gene therapy.

The following videos are parts 1 - 5 of a program called "Extraordinary People" featuring Akrit Jaswal:

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Part Three:

Part Four:

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Edgar Cayce - Omnisciently Spoke In His Sleep

Name: Edgar Cayce
(pronounced "Casey")

Super Power: Clairvoyance (sporadic omniscience)

Nationality: American

Born: March 18, 1877

Died: January 3, 1945

Edgar Cayce was a self-proclaimed psychic who could enter a trance-like state in which he could produce a helpful answer to most any question. He would lie down and close his eyes, and a visitor would ask a question. He'd respond, and his answers were usually remarkably intelligent and helpful. This was surprising, given that he wasn't highly educated. The eighth grade, which in his time was like modern high-school in level of instruction, was his highest degree of scholastic achievement.

When Cayce would wake up after a session, he'd have no memory of what he'd said. Someone who was there while he was in a state of trance would need to tell him what information he'd revealed in order for him to know.

Cayce specialized primarily in diagnosing and treating diseases. His treatments weren't physically administered by him. Rather, he'd tell an ailing individual or a friend of theirs the steps that needed to be taken in order for the person to make a sufficient recovery.

He could diagnose and prescribe for someone whether they were there in person or not. If he was told their name and location, even if they were miles away, he had no trouble investigating their ailment. A few of his treatments called for a technique or medicinal combination that at the time seemed odd, but would later become widely accepted as a modern practice.

One of Cayce's successful treatments was given to a girl named Aime Dietrich. She was developmentally disabled, and plagued by seizures. Doctors had determined she would never recover from her condition. The treatments Cayce suggested allowed her to return to normal health.

Besides physical, mental and spiritual health, the areas in which Cayce's talents were channeled included business advice, dream interpretation, astrology, reincarnation, and Atlantis. While some of Cayce's concepts coincided with New Age ideas, they predated them.

The business advice Cayce gave often didn't pan out, but some believe this has to do with the selfish motivations of those requesting such advice.

Cayce's readings where physically strenuous, and often exhausted him while draining him emotionally. Four years after he had stopped giving readings, on January 2, 1945, he had a stroke, and died the following day.

Cayce's readings weren't always correct, but his sons and others theorize that the intentions of a person asking for advice, as well as many other variables, had a hand in determining whether or not the information given would be accurate. However, his readings were remarkably consistent with each other over the more than forty years during which he gave them.

From 1901 to 1944, Cayce gave over 22,000 readings. From 1923 onward, the readings were written and preserved. Of all Cayce's reading, only 14,000 exist on record.

Cayce believed ESP abilities are a natural side-effect of spiritual growth.

Tens of thousands of people have become students of Edgar Cayce, studying his life and works. Many are located in the U.S. and Canada, but there are also Edgar Cayce Centers in 25 other countries. Cayce is promoted primarily by the Association for Research and Enlightenment, which was established in 1931 by Cayce and his supporters, and is located in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Nina Kulagina - A Russian Woman With Apparent Psychokinetic Abilities

Full Name: Ninel Sergeyevna Kulagina

Possible Powers: Magnetism; Telekinesis/Psychokinesis; Fingertip Vision

Alias: Nelya Mikhailova

Nationality: Soviet

Born: 1926

Died: 1990

Found to have an intense magnetic field surrounding her, as well as powerful brain waves, Nina Kulagina spent a good amount of time under close observation, as she is reported to have been able to move small objects without touching them. She also demonstrated the power to manipulate cells and organs. During one observation, she was able to alter the beating of a frog's heart, first increasing the heart rate, then slowing it, and finally stopping it.

The following video is only one selection from the many, many studies done to try to define and explore Kulagina's abilities and sources thereof.

Below is a video showing mostly the same footage, but with some extra shots, and narration focusing on psychokinesis (PK). Although the narrator communicates support and acceptance of Kulagina's talents, there are many skeptics who refuse to believe there was not some sort of trickery involved. You be the judge.

Qigong Master Jo

Name: Qigong Master Jo

Super Powers: Pyrokinesis (Channeling Heat Through His Hands), Personal Gravity Displacement

Growing up in China half a century ago, Master Jo studied Kung Fu at age 7. At age 16, he learned the healing art of Qigong, pronounced "Chee-Gong."

Before channeling heat, he dampens a piece of tin foil and wraps it in a paper towel. Then he puts it on a patient's back and waves his hands over it. About a minute later, steam begins to rise. An infrared camera has shown that when Master Jo focuses on creating as much heat as possible, the tin foil and paper towel reach 202 °F. That's just under water's boiling point.

His abilities have been documented on video. If you watch when he heats up the paper towel, you can see the palm of his right hand turn white in infrared. This can be seen from 4:32 to 4:40. It appears that he is channeling energy from that hand, through the air, to the paper towel and tin foil, held in his left hand.

Original People Like You - Friends Of The Site With Special Abilities

This page features the original list of real accounts of people just like you who've gotten in touch with us and graciously agreed to share their stories.

You can also search the updated People Like You page.

Name	Power(s)
Connor	Personal Energy Manipulation, Energy Gathering from Organics
Nate	Dream Linking and (Subconscious) Persuasion
David	(Conscious) Persuasion
Chris	Energy Gathering from Power Cells And The Sun
Amrita	Dream Precognition
Jimmy	Possible Thermal Absorption
Alexander (a.k.a. Zealiot)	Jinx Effect, Pyrokinesis, Possible Telekinesis
Hayden	Consious Precognition, Global Awareness
Jordan	Telepathy, Energy Absorption, Object Charging And Teleportation
Guy, Abel, Dana and Cedric	Healing Factor, Energy Gathering And Manipulation, Super Strength, Manipulation of Wind, Water and Earth, Visions, Cryptography
Anonymous	Speed Learning, Interpersonal Behavior Prediction
Jacques (a.k.a. Jugan)	Precognition, Energy Summoning
Anonymous	Weather Manipulation
Aj (a.k.a. ajs84)	Absorbing Other People's Feelings and Thoughts
Seth (a.k.a. Sethey)	Precognition
Matt	Empath Abilities, Power Mimicry
Xangi Zangiai	Bone Hardening, Healing, Rage, Gravity Displacement, Strength, Mental Rapidity, Speed, Psionics, Flexibility, Endurance, Bio-Electric Energy Absorption, Super Senses, Resistance To Fire/Electricity/Lasers
Evan (a.k.a. Unknown)	Precognition, Super Strength, Super Durability, Muscle Mimicry, Possible Pyrokinesis, Healing
Brendan	Comprehensive Extrasensory Perception (ESP): (Telepathy, Precognition, Retrocognition, Mind Control, Clairvoyance [incl. the power to find anyone], Empath Abilities), Thermal Control, Rapid Learning, Super High Jumps, Solar Absorption, Heat Sensing, Possible Time Travel, Potential Midas Touch, Technopathy, Super Strength, Super Speed, Jinx
Ian	Super Strength
Nicholas	Precognition, Wind Manipulation
Brad	Interpersonal Telekinesis/Physical Manipulation
Vincent	Telekinesis
Mitko	Super Speed
Leonard	Possible Precognition
Leon	Precognition (Dreaming/Waking), Foretelling of Illness
T.R.	Telekinesis, Teleportation, Possible Technopathy, Precognition, Weather Manipulation, Telepathy, Communicating With The Dead, Visits With Aliens
Firestarter1, "Maria," Drake	Pyrokinesis / Summoning Electricity / Making Nightmares Real
Anonymous	Long-Distance Empathic Abilities, Precognition, Aura Viewing
Metalirax	Sonic Scream, Clairvoyance
Shannon	Precognition
Puzzles84 and a Friend	Intuitive Understanding / Biological Manipulation
Carl	Expanded Reach
Bad Wolf (a.k.a. Slechte Wolf) and Family	Dream Precognition, Channeling Heat Into The Hands, Absorbing The Pain Of Others, Feeling Things From A Distance / Killing Plants (Without Touching Them) / Locating Any Item / Gaining Trust
John	Triggering Love, Directing An Inanimate Object Through Space
Conlin	Intuitive Understanding
Jessica	Telepathy
Jynx	Jinx Effect, Intuitive Reading of People, Strong Hearing, Battery Manipulation, Viewing Auras, Odd Effect On Machines, Intuitive Sense of Danger, Empathic Abilities, General "Knowing," Precognition
Oliver	Intuitive Empathy, Telekinesis
Jack (and his friend Jagnethist93)	Duplication of Inanimate Objects, Energy In Hands
Megan	Control Over The Wind
Anonymous	Empath Abilities, Imposing Emotions On Others
Lodeane	Control Over The Wind
Christian (a.k.a. Crimzon1324)	Absorbing Sunlight, Energy Healing, Hearing Electricity
Peter	Precognition While In Trance

Clairvoyance - Knowing Without Knowing How

Clairvoyance entails knowing about a person, place, thing, or event without using the ordinary five senses to gather that information. If you had the ability to do this, you could be called a clairvoyant. Clairvoyance is typically used to describe knowledge of the present, rather than that of the past or future.

Some explanations for purported instances of clairvoyance have been written off as simply being caused by memories of subtle legitimate sensory stimuli. For example, you are in a crowded room, and everyone around you is talking. A stranger comes up, and you correctly guess his name is, "Henry RandomName III." You could be said to be utilizing clairvoyance to gather that information, but you may have also overheard him introduce himself earlier. While that information might not have manifested itself consciously, (i.e., you didn't actually remember hearing his name being said,) it may have been absorbed subconsciously, and was later called upon and intuitively known by you.

There are also many instances in which no other explanation exists as to how certain pieces of information were gathered, and so clairvoyance is assumed.

Despite the potential for being connected, clairvoyance and telepathy can be easily distinguished, at least in definition. Clairvoyance differs from telepathy in that a telepath would gain information from the mind of another individual, whereas a clairvoyant gathers information from some other source, without the aid of mind-reading.

Some people believe clairvoyance, telepathy, retrocognition, precognition, speaking with the dead (mediumship), and all other abilities to gather information in a non-sensory way are all variations on a theme. That is, they all arise from a single, deeper process.

Clairvoyance has many branches of use and technique, one specific of which is remote viewing, the process used by the Stargate Program from the 1970's to the 1990's.

One common claim of an instance of clairvoyance, which has been made by many people for many years, is the event of seeing or imagining a loved one just after their death, but before learning about their having passed on.

Before his death, Abraham Lincoln is said to have dreamt he was at someone's funeral. As the dream progressed, he came to learn that the funeral was his own.

A rare, and yet far more powerful and demonstrative case of clairvoyance has occurred in more than one person. The person is usually not (apparently) above average intelligence. However, upon going to "sleep," and entering a sort of trance-like state, they are able to speak as if fully educated, and even diagnose diseases in others, while presenting cures that have been shown to be highly effective. Victor Race was able to achieve this sort of sleeping clairvoyance in the 1780's, and a more well-known individual by the name of Edgar Cayce made a career out of it in the 20th century.

Precognition - Knowing The Future

Precognition Defined
Precognition Fiction
Precognition Non-Fiction
Steps You Can Take
Test Yourself

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Precognition Defined

Precognition can be described as knowledge of events before they transpire.
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Precognition Fiction

There have been many fictional instances of precognition in which a character has the burden of --

   psychically knowing the future while helpless to change it;

   psychically knowing the future and being able to change it, while each slight alteration creates a new obstacle;

   knowing the future due to travel from the future.

Knowing the future doesn't necessarily have to be a burden, but is often described as such. These stories are intriguing, but what is more intriguing is that precognition has also been reported as fact.
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Precognition Non-Fiction

There are a variety of ways in which people could possibly gather future knowledge. One important way is through dreams. Dreams foreshadowing future events, and later, the occurrences of the events themselves, have prompted many to wonder at the powers of the mind. Abraham Lincoln was reported to have experienced a dream shortly before his assassination in which he was attending a funeral. Later in the dream, he discovered that the funeral was his own.

Old writings, particularly those of Nostradamus, have been shown to contain details regarding events far off in the future. Many believe the Bible truly foreshadows the destiny of mankind.

Many athletes have used the technique of visualization to enhance their performances. Studies have shown that those who visualize performing a technique or maneuver or experiencing a certain situation before actually doing so typically outperform those who did not use visualization. Some athletes have reported times when, during a game, everything seemed to occur exactly as they had imagined it.

A more down to earth example has to do with receiving a call on the telephone. Most people can recall a time when for whatever reason, they knew exactly who was calling, without any outside information whatsoever.

All of this relates to the utilization of deeper levels of the mind. When we are awake, our brains output electricity in the form of Beta waves. These can appear on readouts to be sharp and arrhythmic. However, when we daydream, we usually sink into a slightly lower level known as Alpha. These waves appear rhythmic and smooth. At lower-energy levels, the brain is thought to actually be more powerful. People who have repeatedly practiced going to Alpha or beyond have reported distinct occurrences of precognition. If this is true, then precognition can both be learned and taught.
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Steps You Can Take

One step that might inch you closer to being precognition-capable is daily meditation.

For the logic-inclined, practicing logical thinking, and simply learning, can greatly improve your prediction rates regarding the future. When you are in a situation that has to do with something you are an expert on, it can almost seem too easy to predict the likely outcome. George Santayana said, "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." The more you know, the greater your chances of knowing what will be.
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Test Yourself

You can take our Zener Card Test for precognitive abilities and find out about your psychic potential!
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Rapid Learning And Advanced Intelligence - At And Beyond The Level Of Einstein

Rapid learning already exists in society, but only rarely does it occur to such an extent that it might be considered a super power. Gifted children learn more quickly, more broadly, and more deeply than non-gifted children. However, there are variances among gifted children as well, although standardized tests have difficulty separating a super genius from a "plain" genius.

Many people have sought and continue to seek ways to increase and surpass the current levels of intelligence present in society. One proposed method is a brain-machine interface, which would allow a human to access data stored electronically, rather than biologically. We are currently in the early steps toward achieving this goal, though much progress remains to be made.

Another proposed method of enhancing individual intelligence deals with our genes. If you're born a genius, then you're set. If you're born of average intelligence, then you still have a ways to go. So why not start off a genius? In order to achieve this on more than just a random basis, genetic manipulation has been proposed. If we could tweak the genes of our children, we could theoretically make them smarter. However, many ethical issues arise when dealing with genetic manipulation, and invariably one must question whether humanity was "meant" to pursue that field of inquiry. Perhaps to do so would be dangerously close to playing God.

A less scientifically-demanding, and yet still effective method of increasing the collective intelligence of future generations is the use of eugenics, or selective breeding. This too has many ethical considerations that must be weighed, as it involves controlling reproduction and dictating who is fit to have children. Under the strictest guidelines, humans would be bred like racehorses, with the best and brightest mated to each other, and the average folks not permitted to have children. However, there is a great shortcoming to this method, in addition to removing fundamental human freedoms. When you pick and choose the traits you "need" and discard those you don't, you might leave yourself unprepared to handle a sudden plague or other threat, which could have been otherwise counteracted by a certain trait that went overlooked. The eugenics method is far more complex than it would seem at first glance.

One theory of intelligence sees the brain as a sort of grouping of components, which separately perform independent functions, and together create a conscious, thinking individual. If you were able to connect your brain to someone else's, your thinking power would more than double. Each of you could draw on the unused brain power of the other to solve problems that individually you could not. You could also share memories and ideas, and think more quickly than usual. Imagine if you added a third person to your group. With all three minds connected, your collective intelligence would be phenomenal! What if you could make a group with more than three people? How about three hundred? How about three billion?

Believe it or not, some people believe humanity is collectively evolving into a higher state of being, in which we are all interconnected mentally. If that were the case, and intelligence truly is additive, the collective intelligence of the entire planet would be unimaginable. It is theorized that if we ever do reach this state, which is called a noosphere, our individual personalities would not be lost, but rather heightened. At the same time, we could each draw on all information known to everyone on earth, meaning we'd all know everything!

Another idea concerning making people smarter deals with artificial intelligence. If a computer were to become self-aware, it could theoretically reprogram itself to continually upgrade its own intelligence, until it reached a point where it would be so smart it could be called ultraintelligent. At this point it could invent technologies that we at present can only dream of. This point in time is called the "technological singularity." After this moment, humans will apparently not be able to adequately contribute to the development of new technologies, as the new intelligence will far surpass our ideas and speed of thought. Many people believe a technological singularity is fast approaching, and so are taking steps toward preparation. If this ultraintelligence were benevolent, perhaps it could develop human-machine interfaces and allow us to share its intellectual capacities. Then we, too, would become ultraintelligent. Hopefully it wouldn't enslave all of mankind…

It's also possible that a computer could never outthink a human, simply due to some overlooked biological quality we possess. If that were the case, perhaps a conscious computer could exist, but we'd always be one step ahead. Or maybe ultraintelligent computers are on the horizon, but a separate form of ultraintelligence will be discovered in humanity, which will allow us equal or greater footing and control.

Retrocognition - Knowing The Past

Retrocognition, or postcognition, is the ability to look into the past. Information is transferred from an event or object in the past to a person in the present with retrocognitive abilities. Current science is unable to determine the precise means of informational transference.

Two separate types of retrocognition are past life regression and psychometry. Psychometry is the ability to learn about an individual through direct physical contact with one of their possessions. Past life regression entails remembering events that took place in a previous lifetime. Reincarnation is a prerequisite. If Bill could remember events from a former lifetime, when he was called John, then Bill would be the reincarnation of John.

The term "retrocognition" was invented by Frederic William Henry Myers, who lived from 1843 to 1901, and was the lead founder of the Society for Psychical Research.

Super Speed - Faster Than Ever

Super Speed Defined
Super Speed Fiction
Super Speed Non-Fiction
Steps You Can Take

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Super Speed Defined

Super speed can be described as the ability to physically move and execute various actions far more quickly than the average person.
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Super Speed Fiction

Various theories are tied to the effects of super speed. In one school of thought, those individuals physiologically unequipped to deal with the rigors and forces inflicted upon their body while utilizing super speed will incur ligament and/or tendon micro tears and similar injuries that also appear in the bodies of veteran professional athletes, especially football players.

Another theory posits that when an ordinary human gains super speed, his or her mind is unequipped to process sensory input at an effective rate when moving at or beyond a certain speed. Inevitably, mistakes are made, including but not limited to tripping and running into things at a dangerous and potentially fatal rate.

A third possibility in the world of super speed, and the most "positive" of those presented thus far, explains super speed relative to time distortion. Instead of the individual moving faster but thinking and reacting at a usual rate, the individual senses the ambient world moving more slowly. Thus, there is no risk of encountering a situation and not being mentally capable to handle it when experiencing this type of super speed. Such moments of mental time distortion have been reported by various normal humans in exceptional and often emergency circumstances, especially when machines have been involved. Certain drivers have reported that just before a crash, time seemed to slow down for them, although they could not move quickly enough to alter their course sufficiently. An individual possessing this level of super speed would be able to both mentally slow time down and physically adapt so as to "catch up" to the newly heightened temporal perception.

Another version of the time distortion school of thought entails the individual not slowing time down in his or her mind, but actually bending time around him or herself, effectively slowing time down in reality, while maintaining his or her current rate. In an extreme version of this, the individual actually stops time, and therefore begins moving at an infinite rate, although to him or her, it doesn't seem that fast at all. As in the previous example, there is usually no risk of movement overtaking mind, and an added benefit provided by the "actual" time distortion is the absence of the accumulation of micro tears along tendons and ligaments, as well as similar injuries.

An individual already possessing extraordinary physical resilience or regeneration, or mental acuity and speed far sharper than usual would likely not encounter the full range of low-level super speed issues. An individual operating on a higher time distortion level would also have less of this to worry about.
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Super Speed Non-Fiction

The fastest reported ground speed by a human being on foot, allegedly without the aid of performance-enhancing drugs or technology, is upwards of 37 kilometers per hour.

While the use of drugs has been a topic of great intensity, substances such as steroids would be a highly ineffective means at attaining super speed. This is mainly because the gains they offer in performance can be considered to be by a certain standard small. They may produce results on the "regular" level, because in the world of competitive sports, every little bit helps. Shaving a few fractions of a second off your time in an event by using steroids can mean earning the gold instead of the silver (illegally), but such an increase in speed is of little importance when confronted with super speed. In the world of superpowers, steroids essentially offer an advantage of zero.

One possible way to legitimately achieve super speed would be to use technology integrated with human physiology to consistently and powerfully stimulate the adrenal glands. Additionally, muscular efficiency could be improved with technology capable of making modifications at a molecular level. However, there would likely be upper limitations connected with the way in which the human body is engineered. Granted, the gains in speed theoretically could be immense, but it is unlikely that this kind of improvement could approach the greater limits of fictional super speed, which occur at and beyond the speed of light.
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Steps You Can Take

The healthier you are, the faster you can move without hurting yourself. Get adequate rest, stay hydrated, eat a majority of wholesome foods, and exercise regularly. If your goal is to run faster, run more. Be careful not to overstress yourself. Start slowly and work your way up. If something doesn't feel right, don't force it. Exercise on a bike, even a stationary one, can help with sprinting, and using an elliptical rather than pounding the pavement will reduce the strain on your joints. Remember to stretch, and keep in mind that muscles grow when you rest, not when you exercise.

If you want to be faster at something in particular, you might want to try overlearning. This is a concept under which one continues to reinforce material even after it is learned well, so as to ultimately reach a point where he or she can recall it or put it to use with a minimum of focus. Essentially, it all comes down to the old saying, "Practice makes perfect."
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Telekinesis and Psychokinesis - Mind Over Matter

Telekinesis is the ability to influence things using your mind and nothing else. You can use telekinesis to move objects, but you can also use it to manipulate time, space, and energy. Telekinesis can also be used to distort material items, and has been cited as the power used to manipulate random number generators.

The term telekinesis originated in 1890 with Alexander N. Aksakof, a Russian researcher who specialized in psychic phenomena. Telekinesis is also referred to as psychokinesis, which originated in 1914 with the book, On The Cosmic Relations, by Henry Holt, an American author. J. B. Rhine, the American parapsychologist, was a friend of Holt's, and began using the term in 1934.

Telekinesis was first used as a means to explain the movement of objects by ghosts, spirits, and the like. Later, when it was theorized that living human beings might actually be exerting the influence instead of deceased individuals, the term psychokinesis came into use. Psychokinesis differs from the original telekinesis in that telekinesis usually stipulated a spiritual setting or event, like the channeling of the dead, whereas psychokinesis could occur anywhere.

Professional parapsychologists prefer psychokinesis as a term, and some would like remove telekinesis from modern usage. However, popular culture has made telekinesis the more popular term to denote instances of mind over matter. Some cite its similarity to words like telepathy and teleportation.

Recently, telekinesis has again been established as one specific area of psychokinesis, and is used to cover only instances of moving stationary objects, as opposed to influencing time or causing spacial distortions. This was included as part of the Teleportation Physics Study done by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in 2004.

For the most part, some would consider both telekinesis and psychokinesis interchangeable, but this recent development would mean that psychokinesis can be used as the more all-encompassing term, whereas telekinesis relates only to its pop culture usage (i.e., moving objects through no physical means).

Various people have claimed to possess telekinetic abilities, among them Nina Kulagina. Although there are videos showing her make use of her abilities, many remain skeptical.

Telepathy - The Ability To Read Someone's Mind

Telepathy is the ability to transfer thoughts or feelings from the mind of one individual to that of another (or between groups of people), without using the ordinary five senses. If you were telepathic, you would be able to read someone else's mind. Telepathy serves as a means of communication when information is prevented from other methods of travel due to physical obstacles, distance, or time.

Telepathy was formerly termed, "thought-transference," until Frederick W. H. Myers renamed it in 1882. Genuine telepathy differs from acts of mentalism in that no trick or illusion is necessary to produce results. However, skeptics are still doubtful of the existence of genuine telepathic abilities, especially given that no experiment has produced continually verifiable results time after time.

Various testing methods have been implemented to check for telepathic abilities in individuals. Among them are the Zener card test and the Ganzfeld experiment. Zener cards have special symbols on them, and while one subject looks at a card, the other tries to telepathically receive the symbol, which is unknown to them. The Ganzfeld experiment requires someone receiving information to maintain total sensory deprivation, while the other transmits from a separate location.

Two specific classes of telepathy focus on the amount of time between the information's point of origin and its receipt by a telepath. Latent telepathy, formerly "deferred telepathy," entails a delay between the points at which information is sent and received. Precognitive telepathy, on the other hand, covers cases in which the telepath receives information from the sender's future mind. Essentially, a precognitive telepath would know what you were going to think before you thought it.

One form of telepathy that is actively being "created" is cyber-telepathy, which has come to be called "techlepathy." Techlepathy is telepathy brought about through technological means, in which humans can connect to computers and to each other. Some people truly believe that humanity will someday be connected in just such a way.

Transvection

Transvection is the supernatural act of levitating, floating or more specifically flying through the air. While levitation and magical flight can equate to acts of stage magic or astral projection through the use of psychoactive entheogens, transvection usually refers to the experience of bodily movement in defiance of gravitational laws.

Witches in medieval Europe were frequently depicted flying up chimneys and in the air by means of broomsticks, various wild animals, or even during acts of sexual intercourse; however the consensus of modern Neo-Pagans[citation needed] is that these images remotely alluded to the practice of entheogen use, either for folk shamanic purposes surviving from the stone age, or perhaps even as a form of recreational drug use.

There is some pre-Christian evidence of transvection in Norse Shamanism that correlates with reports of flying and levitation in many early shamanic and mystical traditions around the globe.

Flying saints and Hindu and Buddhist mystical practitioners known as Siddhis and Iddhis are known for acts of spontaneous levitation, reported during times of intense or particular religious or meditative devotion. Though this is not to be confused with Indian street performers, famous for climbing ropes that go nowhere and other kinds of stage magic adapted to street performance.
(wikipedia: Transvection(flying); 2008)

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transvection_(flying)

Alpha Thinking

The beauty of this ability is that we all do it naturally, and with practice, we can learn to harness its awesome power.

Alpha Thinking is a technique that involves learning to reach a dreamlike state at will, while maintaining conscious direction over your thoughts. Peopl