The School of Superpowers (SOS) was founded on May 26, 2023, with the mission of contributing to humanity's evolution.

Some might consider it a haphazard undertaking with no clear return on investment.

I was understandably dealing with many obstacles. Some were real to me: “What can one really do to impact the world significantly towards human progress?”.

Others I considered trivial such as one’s individual resistance to personal transformation all the while agreeing that it would make the world a better place.

After a year, I was shocked, but not surprised, to see how much humans tended to identify more with pain, suffering and deception then trust, collaboration and love.

We guard our hearts against love, sharpening our minds to defend egos from vulnerability.

Our wounds run deep and our sensitivity to pain is high.

We feel lonely yet we choose to be alone.

We choose to dig into the other one’s faults and easily bypass our own flagrant imperfections.

We decide and accept a life where mistrust and self-centeredness are pre-requisites for success.

Why do we choose darkness when we can choose light?

Maybe because many of us are tired of wishful thinking that invariably leads down the path of disillusion and disappointment.

Maybe many of us are tired of getting burned and wounded in the same wound.

Many choose to let go of all illusions and resort to the mode of survival:

Kill or be killed…. 

It revolves around humanity's first contact with an alien civilization and the challenges that arise. The theory explores the lengths to which a civilization might go to ensure its

own survival, even if it means harming others….

Before receiving the call, I thought we were completely undertaken by science fiction and lived in a world where we were all conditioned to simply destroy the other.

That our fears would continue to inform us to attack first before getting attacked.

That our egos would continue to fiercely defend itself against our personal insecurities by creating a world where others are “never good enough” and where we remained always the righteous underdogs.

Where selfishness ate selflessness for breakfast.

Where “tough skinned’ was being confused for a highly rated skill instead of a coping mechanism gone rogue and malevolently integrated into our personalities.

Before this call I was desperately looking for the light which had been hard to see through the fog of the collective unconsciousness that surrounded me.

As I celebrate 1 year of the School of Superpowers, I was waking up to the desolation and sadness of the world as it was.

To be okay to live in a scarce world where mediocrity was the highest level of our personal achievements.

Maybe I was being dramatic...

When I received the call, I was shocked. Unexpected phone call, from a non-habitual caller who needed someone to listen to their story.

So I listened and I listened… A story of deception, torment, abuse and feeling trapped. She felt like a victim, even though she resisted that label.

In an impossible situation, with her back against the wall and limited resources, her heart still yearned for a life centered on peace.

Her desire to graduate from her current circumstances seemed strong but was it enough to overcome her circumstances?

Her renewed strength and personal understanding although admirable, might just not be enough to pull her out of the familiar chaos.

She was being swallowed whole by the shadows of her past, disguised as new.

 

 Other than listening and sharing these feelings of despair, I wasn’t sure what was the best response.

I asked God because I simply didn’t know.

What am I to make of this? What would be the best outcome for her and humanity?

Then I listened...

Once I was done sharing the message, she went into a peaceful silence.

"Out of everyone I told," she said, "you're the only one who didn't suggest violent retaliation as self-defense. In the real world, it might even be justified."

She thanked me profusely and expressed how this message shifted her whole perspective and gave her a new reality to contemplate.

Maybe she could now make a different choice and maybe this will lead her to the new reality she had been preparing herself for for the past few months from her shedding and life restructurings.

I couldn’t stop to notice how she emphasized that I was the ONLY one who suggested something other than violence and counterattack.

Have you ever heard of divergent genetics theory?

To put it simply, let’s say that a specific species lived on an island.

For some reason, the island gets separated in two distinct islands with no more ways of communicating.

It is said that over a period of time, these two populations, although initially from the same species, would become so different from one another, through the process of making consistently different choices, that their inherent nature would change.

They would never be able to reproduce again and would become two very distinct species.

Maybe the message was as much for her as it was for me.

Maybe it was a reminder of why the SOS existed in the first place.

I will continue to make the choice that points towards the light.

I needed to remember that we are all wounded…but remember, as Rumi says, the wound is where the light enters you.

Tell me ... where are you wounded?

Happy 1st year Anniversary the SOS!